2012 republican presidential nominee III: can romney get santorum out of his hair?

another book deal? a spot next to him on the couch?

a spot next to him on the moon

veep

I don't get it. Her own political standing has all but vanished, and she's jumped on board with someone who looks to be headed for oblivion himself. As an expression of her own consuming resentment over her fall from the party's good graces, it makes sense, but otherwise, not at all.

My read: she waited until a candidate began to emerge who was gaining the majority of the tea party's support -- and now Gingrich has emerged as their guy. It doesn't matter atm whether he wins the nomination or not. She needed to show she was on the same wavelength with the people who buy her books, who watch her on Fox, who put bread on her table and fill up her bank account.

how did u guys get SO CYNICAL

We learned it from YOU!!! (Or Morbs, I forget)

If she has indeed given up on the idea of ever holding elective office again--especially the delusion of the presidency--then Aimless's interpretation makes sense. I was working from the assumption she hadn't, that she was moving around chess pieces in her head. (Okay, Snakes and Ladders.)

I'm pretty sure she's aware enough to know that if Romney/Paul/Santorum get the nom she won't be brought along for anything.

We learned it from YOU!!! (Or Morbs, I forget)

― nickn, Friday, January 27, 2012 7:28 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i learned it by watching you dad or mom or someone i cant remember so fn high damn

i kinda thought santorum would be more up palin's alley, so to speak? i suppose she's more aligned with newt temperamentally (and opportunistically), but still.

obama's a much more coherent debater than any of these dudes and if he really wants to make romney squirm w/ health care it won't be hard
― iatee, Friday, 27 January 2012 03:06 (Yesterday) Permalink

all obama really needs to say is (w/r/t to romneycare), "i agreed with romney 1.0, romney 2.0 clearly has some bugs."

i kinda thought santorum would be more up palin's alley, so to speak?

GAH

^^ irl lol

all obama really needs to say is (w/r/t to romneycare), "i agreed with romney 1.0, romney 2.0 clearly has some bugs."

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, January 27, 2012 7:30 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

or something like, "mitt, i know you can't say this because you can't anger parts of your own party, but you had a good idea going there with what you did in massachusetts."

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/424020_10100968014952083_1223579_62575855_20596660_n.jpg

Newt and Callista at Auschwitz.

http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/4f1f25ee6bb3f73325000037/newt-gingrich-callisata-gingrich.jpg

this makes me think about how there's probably a lot of people who have done this. What a strange impulse.

Uh, wtf

i can smell the pixels

THEY'RE SMILING.

Nice look under the hood on Dole's Newt ambush:

http://www.tnr.com/blog/timothy-noah/100111/doles-sweet-revenge

Pretty creepy how neither of them casts a shadow

No surprise:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/01/romney_opens_up_big_lead.php?ref=fpblg.

What I find maddening is the way that the lagging national polls follow every twist and turn of the state polls faithfully. Gingrich's lead has widened to 10 points nationally, but you know that'll swing majorly back the other way as soon Romney wins Florida (much as Gingrich benefited nationally at other times). Maybe I'm misremembering, but I don't recall these wild national swings for the Democrats in 2008; it was Hillary maintaining a national lead (or a virtual tie) for a long time, and her support falling away only after Obama became inevitable. I mean, if you're living in a state that doesn't have its primary till March, and you're for Gingrich or Romney on Tuesday, and then you immediately change your mind three days later because of results out of South Carolina or Florida, that's weird.

people are reeeeeally dumb

that a deep hard won insight for sure but on the other hand a big part of why we see this phenomenon is because a lot of the primary process is abt electability, so voters are receiving info abt electability and changing their preference based on that, its sort of tautological but sort of makes sense too

@BorowitzReport Gingrich's campaign in Florida seems to be dying, so I expect him to leave it soon

Ouch...

a lot of the primary process is abt electability

This is a recent phenonmenon. Believe it or not, there was a time when a candidate's positions on the issues of the day mattered more to voters than this strange notion of 'electability'. I think it's a side effect of the current polarization, where voters have been led to view the election of a president of the 'opposite' party as an apocalyptic catastrophe.

Of course, George W. Bush's administration did lend some color of legitimacy to this pov.

w/e grandpa *plays fruit ninja*

Barely two years later, after having been chosen Time magazine's Man of the Year, Gingrich had plummeted in public esteem to where, in a CBS-New York Times poll, just 14 percent of voters had favorable personal feelings toward the speaker.

This prompted an apocryphal Washington exchange between a perplexed Gingrich and Dole. "Why do people take such an instant dislike to me?" asked a perplexed Gingrich, to whom Dole bluntly explained: "Because it saves them time."

http://www.creators.com/opinion/mark-shields/newt-rewrites-his-reagan-connection.html

Wow, that might be the greatest of all Dole zings.

Dole for Zingmaster General

Dole-blooooded

damn

key word is apocryphal -- but major props to dole if he did say that

Remember Dole's famous remark on spotting Carter, Ford, and Nixon at the Reagan White House for Anwar Sadat's funeral? "See no evil, hear no evil, and evil."

haha

Unfortunately, found this in the comments:

Call me suspicious but this purported quote is a verbatim quote from a line in M*A*S*H* wherein Frank Burns plays Gingrich and Trapper John plays Dole. Since that season of MASH predated this supposed exchange by more than 20 years, I smell a rat.
Comment: #3
Posted by: Francis Strazzeri
Wed Jan 25, 2012 8:11 PM

And sure enough: http://sharetv.org/shows/mash/episodes/287300.

if the legend becomes fact, post the legend to ILX

i think newt wouldn't be self-aware enough to ask that question

All comedy is theft. Still a good line for the recall and presence of mind. Liking Dole more and more. (Wouldn't vote for him.)

everything that happens already happened in M*A*S*H, no big whoop

mash is the ur-document of reality iirc

Oh dear.

But this commentary might be worse:

I will freely admit right up front that I don’t have a big background in the appreciation and enjoyment of rap music. I found the early work of Sugar Hill Gang interesting, and I recall enjoying the fusion experiment of Run DMC teaming up with Aerosmith for a remake of Walk This Way. During football season – as a perpetually disappointed Jets fan – I occasionally play their fan rap tune, Putcher Arms Out! But beyond that, like too many of my generation I’m sure, I mostly find rap music an exercise in self control reminding me not to throw anything at the car parked near my house with the doors rattling off from the base line.

But even with this admittedly limited knowledge, this particular tune strikes me as perhaps carrying a bit less of the old “street cred” than some of the more mainstream urban classics. Even if I weren’t looking at a picture of the “rap artists” involved, I’m guessing that it might bring some questions to mind. This doesn’t – at least to my untrained ear – sound like rap music as much as it invokes what a couple of alligator Polo shirt wearing kids from a gated community in Florida might think rap music would sound like.

But, as I said, I’m hardly the needed subject matter expert to judge.

"base line"

'BY JAZZ SHAW' hes a jazz guy, clearly

http://i.imgur.com/zw4ew.png

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_01/the_value_of_the_aca035066.php

Santorum's daughter who has a pre-existing genetic condition benefits from the Obama health care law rule change re genetic conditions and not being cut off from insurance, but of course Santorum will not acknowledge that

Is this still going on?

Newt's new thing is that he's being "carpet-bombed" by Romney. Heard him say that three or four times yesterday morning.

http://cinemafanatic.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/apocalypse_now_robert_duvall.jpg

u guys are getting better, greeting Cain's trolldorsement w/ stony silence