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

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

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While Newt sat out the Viet Nam war he remembers that term. But yep, Romney is clearly outspending Newt's sugar daddy Sheldon Adelson in Florida

maybe romney literally carpetbombed newt, i wouldnt put it past him tbh

should prob hide out on the moon for a while until things blow over

Romney's Mormon tithing versus Obama on charitable donations...Surprise surprise--conservative W. Post columnist Kathleen Parker uses data in an innacuarate way...Commenters to below posting discuss backstory--Obama income over the years, etc.

Parker is clearly suggesting that Romney gave 42 percent of his income to charity. But that 42 percent figure comes from her Washington Post colleague Jennifer Rubin, and represents the amount the Romneys estimate they will pay in 2011 in charity and federal, state, and local taxes. Obviously, Mitt Romney did have to "give away" the money he paid in taxes, unless he wanted to violate the law. In 2011, the Romneys estimate they gave 19.2 percent of adjusted gross income to charity.

In comparing the 42 percent figure to "Obama, who gave away 1 percent to charity," Parker is linking the percentage of their income the Romneys paid in taxes and charitable contributions in 2011 to the percentage the Obamas gave to charity from 2000-2004 - a true apples-to-oranges evaluation. (In 2010 -- the most recent year for which the Obamas have released their tax returns -- the Obamas donated 14.2 percent of their income before tax deductions and exemptions to charity.)

In fact, the Obamas spent a larger percentage of their income on taxes and charity in 2010 than the Romneys did in either 2010 or in 2011.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201201290004

wonder how much of Romney's tithing went to supporting prop 8?

I wonder how many thousands of Florida republicans will change their minds again today.

I do kinda love how all this non-stop polling is demonstrating how fickle voters can be. "eh, I guess I'll vote for this guy today!"

Especially Florida voters. I will never not be bitter about their flightiness and inability to read a ballot.

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, no friend of the establishment, took the opposite view over the weekend on Fox News. She accused the establishment of trying to “crucify” Gingrich and said it is far too soon to call a halt to the debate and the vetting of the candidates. “If for no other reason, rage against the machine, vote for Newt,” Palin said.

Especially Florida voters. I will never not be bitter about their flightiness and inability to read a ballot.

George W. Bush's people agree!

rage against the machine, vote for Newt

http://i.imgur.com/Taonv.jpg

lmao

rage, rage, against the dying of the machine.

Now that Newt is cratering in FL, all the life has ebbed from this thread.

:(

i feel betrayed

where r the lolz

if u make a leap in the polls via being a dick in debates KEEP BEING A DICK IN DEBATES

god newt

I can promise you guys I'll still be a dick

I guess some people just don't have what it takes when it really comes down to it, coach

newt is such a dicktease

Appropos of nothing, in ancient Rome, the punishment for someone who killed their father was to be sewn into a leather bag with a dog, a snake, a rooster, and a monkey, and the bag was thrown into the river Tiber. Makes me think of this year's republican primary voters for some reason.

ha they had fun w/that one

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hahaha

wonder how they chose the dog, snake, rooster and monkey? probably just the ones that shit all over the place or something. Or maybe the ones that dramatically murdered their father.

i wonder how much subtle encouragement of father-killing went on

Newt will continue being a dick, no worries. He has sworn to soldier on dickishly throughout the spring and summer.

im skeptical

soldier on dickishly throughout the spring and summer

This pledge is standard operating procedure. He'll bail out whenever he feels like he doesn't stand a chance (probably after Super Tuesday) and that what he stands to gain personally has reached a stasis (not easy to say when - but probably about the same time).

Now that Newt is cratering in FL, all the life has ebbed from this thread. ― Aimless

I guess I'm biased as I really enjoy a good political bloodbath. And during this campaign, I've come to loathe Romney almost as much as his Republican peers do. ― Andrew Sullivan

Whenever Newt struggles, a national malaise begins to take hold.

gingrich opened a window a crack in SC but he just doesn't have the support to knock romney off. he's also dragging his own totally obvious baggage uphill.

there's some grim humor in drudge and the rest of the pro-mitt conservative media flogging gingrich's "anti-reagan" business. afaik gingrich is one of the only 80s ultras who attacked reagan from the right on soviet relations to still be working in politics. but i'm not sure. disloyalty to ronaldus magnus = liberalism, these days. it wasn't always so! i wonder if newt has tried to gingerly explain as much to floridians, i've kind of tuned the whole shitshow out tbh

Dude, it's rightwing authoritarianism; submission and obedience to righteous Authority is paramount, and all other principles are a far distant second. Questioning your elders or the leader(as appointed by God, natch) is an abomination. Not completely kowtowing to whatever the established orthodoxy or totemic/iconic figures will get you cast out.

It's a simplistic, deliberately infantilized thought process beaten into the heads of RWA followers; never question Daddy, and all future Daddies must prove their hardcore bona fides to what we think Daddy was. Questioning is not allowed, even when you were far more extreme in an area that Daddy ran on.

You get the idea.

Again, John Dean's _Conservatives without Conscience_ goes into great detail explaining how all this works and Bob Altenmeyer's research on the subject.

this is amazing, you have to admit

i knewt it wouldn't last :-/

LOL

maybe newt should've run with this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptism_for_the_dead#Criticism_of_vicarious_baptism_of_Jewish_Nazi_Victims

(Romney's admitted to participating in post-mortem baptisms)

small piece of bizarreness for your entertainments: THE SWORD OF CHANG

marco rubio got a sword from jeb bush:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/01/30/the_sword_of_chang.html

After you became the first Cuban-American speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, in 2006, your mentor, Jeb Bush, presented you with a sword. What was that about?

Chang is a mythical conservative warrior. From time to time, if there’s a big issue going on, you’d see Jeb say, “I’m going to unleash Chang.” He gave me the sword of Chang.

From which mythology does this conservative warrior hail?

I think it’s a Jeb Bush creation.

the gainesville sun tried to explain it at the time:

http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050918/COLUMNS/50917061/1096/editorials

''Chang is a mystical warrior. Chang is somebody who believes in conservative principles, believes in entrepreneurial capitalism, believes in moral values that underpin a free society.

''I rely on Chang with great regularity in my public life. He has been by my side and sometimes I let him down. But Chang, this mystical warrior, has never let me down.''

Bush then unsheathed a golden sword and gave it to Rubio as a gift.

''I'm going to bestow to you the sword of a great conservative warrior,'' he said, as the crowd roared.

The crowd, however, could be excused for not understanding Bush's enigmatic foray into the realm of Eastern mysticism.

We're here to help.

In a 1989 Washington Post article on the politics of tennis, former President George Bush was quoted as threatening to ''unleash Chang'' as a means of intimidating other players.

The saying was apparently quite popular with Gov. Bush's father, and referred to a legendary warrior named Chang who was called upon to settle political disputes in Chinese dynasties of yore.

... but this is probably wrong. Brad DeLong commented at the time, too. it was a dumb joke from his CIA squish father

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/10/unleash_chiang_.html

When George H. W. Bush in the 1970s and 1980s threatened to "unleash Chang" on his tennis opponents, he was referring to China's onetime strongman and thereafter Taiwan's dictator Chiang Kaishek, leader of the Nationalist Party, the man who had largely reunified China in the 1920s with his army's "Northern Expedition," lost the Chinese Civil War to Mao Zedong's Chinese Communist Party, and then taken refuge with his Guomindang party cadres on Taiwan. After the start of the Korean War, the American 7th Fleet protected Chiang (and Taiwan) from Mao's People's Liberation Army.

Republican wingnuts, however, pretended that the 7th Fleet actually protected Mao's Communists (who had, after all, won the Chinese Civil War) from Chiang's Nationalists (who had, after all, lost it) by keeping Chiang Kaishek leashed. They periodically called for the U.S. to "unleash Chiang Kaishek"--so that Chiang, you see, could invade and conquer the Chinese mainland.

When George H. W. Bush, playing tennis (and losing) in the 1970s and 1980s, would threaten to "unleash Chiang," he was mocking the right-wing nuts of his generation.

But George H. W. Bush's sons--even the smart one, Jeb--never got the joke. They, you see, didn't know enough about world history or even the history of the Republican Party to know who Chiang Kaishek was, or what "Unleash Chiang!" meant. Hence Jeb Bush's explanation that twentieth-century Chinese nationalist, socialist, general, and dictator Chiang Kaishek was a "mystical warrior... who believes in conservative principles, believes in entrepreneurial capitalism, believes in moral values that underpin a free society."

"Chang" is also not too far from "Chango," the santeria goddess in the form of St. Barbara, who carries a sword.

Community better jump on this.