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

"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.

St. Barbara

HMMMMMMM

does Chango wear a string of pearls?

she has a halo that Ronnie Reagan lent her.

Some right-wing columnists coalescing around Romney:

Then there is the CW notion that Mitt Romney is so reviled he can’t pull the party together and will have to lurch to the right to get the approval of Romney haters. But guess what? The Romney haters on the right are more plentiful in the blogs than in the electorate. National polls have consistently shown that Romney’s disapproval and “wouldn’t support him in the general election” numbers are lower than those of other candidates.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/conventional-wisdoms-gaffes/2012/01/31/gIQASB9meQ_blog.html

and Hewitt's take:

Mitt Romney will beat Barack Obama because a majority of the country already knows that the president is an epic failure at his job, and a thin-skinned, self-absorbed ideologue to boot.

All the noise about Romney's wealth and the nonsense about his "effective tax rate" won't make a lick of difference to a voter afraid of losing his or her job or fearing for their children's future.

All the left's harrumphing about Bain just isn't going matter to a country desperate for competence and character, discipline and the values of hard work, thrift and sacrifice.

Examiner Columnist Hugh Hewitt is a law professor at Chapman University Law School and a nationally syndicated radio talk show host who blogs daily at HughHewitt.com.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2012/01/why-gop-primaries-didnt-matter-1952-1980-and-2012/2148226

a thin-skinned, self-absorbed ideologue

took me a second to realize he was talking about Obama and not Romney.

From which mythology does this conservative warrior hail?

I think it’s a Jeb Bush creation.

*furious clapping*

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/skelman/images/Unleashing%20change%20cover%20-%20kelman_0001.jpg

Hewitt has been a Mitt groupie since 2007.

^^^^ should be the tagline of his column.

jennifer rubin likewise

http://whyromney.com/data/images/hewitt.jpg

If you click you get a screensave of Romney's cock.

Looks like Mr Kelman knows a good technique to take a nasty fall.

""""effective tax rate""""

Kelman book cover looks like updated Bioshock imagery

The Florida primary is almost over, guys! The anti-Gingrich ads will stop!

do you think newt will endorse romney eventually?

They all do, even Hillary.

I was going to say the same thing, but did Ted Kennedy officially endorse Carter in 1980? I know there was that famous moment at the convention where he basically ducked Carter onstage during the big Kumbaya finale. And Hillary waited about as long as humanly possible.

Actually, that's not quite true. It took her forever to throw in the towel, but as soon as she did, I think she might have endorsed simultaneously.

Gingrich is getting buried. On the bright side, I (Jonathan Karl) asked Newt Gingrich how much longer the battle for the Republican nomination will go on. He told me “six or eight months” and then added: “unless Romney drops out earlier.”

As folks like Pareene have stated for a year: Newt's run is essentially a book tour. Why would he ever want to stop now?

I think he has a shot at coming out of this the palin of 2012 - like, if he manages to be 'the tea party candidate who didn't win' then he'd be leaving the race in a position of influence.

Too jowly to be nu palin.

(xpost) Isn't that sort of how he came into the race, though, at least symbolically--as a party eminence with some stature and influence, no real chance of winning, whose candidacy was mostly based upon nostalgia for 1994? But whatever pretend stature and influence he came into the race with has basically unraveled publically--almost everyone who worked with him hates him. This seems like a last stand.

kathrynlopez ann romney trending on twitter, as she should be. good lady.10 minutes ago

why drop out with zings unzung

8.22 pm. Only one percent of the voters were African-American. 16 percent of Floridians are black. This is a party with almost no African-Americans in it.

YOU DON'T SAY

Sullivan's outrage at its most wildly displaced:

Let me just say right now: this speech is the most dishonest, manipulative, disgusting series of lies I've heard in a very long time. And its core premise: that the president hates this country, whereas Romney believes in it. As I said: disgusting. I'm with Newt on this.

Huh? It was a generic I-just-won-a-big-primary speech. Can't he see Romney winking?

"Newt"

I want a "I'm with Newt on this" T-shirt.

romney fathered trig palin iirc

Wildly misplaced...his outrage wasn't forced to flee its homeland.

Wow, was Gingrich's speech ever loopy. Between being inaugurated and all the parties later that night, he's going to duck out for a few hours and sign about 10 things immediately into law. He's going to be exhausted.

i'm sure one of u guys will take care of biz & President Rubio will be invading Havana on the 21st.

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/funny-pictures-im-a-pwofessional-gwump-i-take-my-job-vewy-sewious.jpg

100% returns from FL:

Romney --- 46.4%
Gingrich --- 31.9%
Santorum - 13.4%
Paul --------- 7.0%

(shuffles off stage wearing bunny slippers)

v curious how much of santorum's vote would go to newt if he dropped out.

Romney still less than #50 /talkingpoints

I know it gets tricky for Newt but there's a lot to go. He'll hang in there as long as he can pull in the funds. Thankfully for him, the media has been carpetbombing the airwaves about the staggering difference in money/negative ads between him and Newt so nobody else int he country will be fooled by such salacious and ungentlemanly behaviour.

@fakedansavage Santorum demonstrates his ability to stir audiences to new depths. pic.twitter.com/r8HxcX6K
31 Jan

http://www.balloon-juice.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Akg_EfcCIAEhZ28.jpg

i'm sure newt has the petulance to keep going forever, but

a) how long will sheldon adelson continue to fund a hopeless cause?

b) does callista?

the title of this thread makes me nostalgic

hoping gingrich makes it to the convention just to non-violently re-enact this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjzKiEs_pHI

Newt should sail into Tampa Bay in colonial garb

lmao at that santorum pic

is that girl handing Santorum a chunk of mango?