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

Gingristapo tactics?

weren't Reagan's poll numbers in the toilet by '88 from Iran-contra etc?

dukakis had a huge lead at the beginning of the campaign lol

http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0309/images/life/dukakis.jpg

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyodeekXZQ1qzzg70o1_500.jpg

http://www.achievement.org/achievers/bus0/large/bus0-029.jpg

nice socks bro

yeah, always seemed to me Reagan fatigue is the only reason a pathetic campaigner like Dukakis did even that "well" in November.

that newt pic is amazing but how it looks like hes contemplating the watermark takes it to the next level

god Reagan's hair was always perfect.

Reagan's poll numbers.

eh Clinton gets a similar "benefit" from hindsight

i like how that angle lets you see underneath gorbachev's combover.

and by angle i mean penis

Reagan's last two Gallup job approval ratings before he left office were 57% in mid-November and 63% in December 1988.

The highest job approval rating of the Reagan administration was 68% -- reached twice, in May 1981 and as previously indicated, in May 1986. As noted, the low point was 35% in January 1983.

Both in and out of office, Reagan was always well-liked by the American public -- based on ratings measuring the public's personal opinion rather than its assessment of his job performance. Between 1984 and 1988, Gallup consistently found more than 6 in 10 Americans holding a favorable view of Reagan, including a substantial 81% in October 1986. Even during the 1982 recession, when only about 4 in 10 Americans approved of the job Reagan was doing as president, 6 in 10 Americans rated him on the positive end of a 10-point rating scale. In Gallup's most recent measure of favorability about Reagan, taken in January 2001, 74% of Americans had a favorable opinion of him, and only 23% were unfavorable.

Americans' perceptions of Reagan's presidency have risen considerably in recent years. His average approval rating for 1988, his last full year as president, was 53% -- identical to the average for the entire eight years of his presidency. Yet, when Americans were asked in 2002 to state whether they approved or disapproved of the way Reagan handled his presidency, retrospectively, 73% approved.

This increase in retrospective approval didn't occur at once. Three Gallup ratings in 1990, 1992, and 1993 showed Reagan's job approval rating in the 50% to 54% range -- little different from the average while he was in office. Reagan publicly announced that he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease in 1994, and it's possible that the sympathy and concern his condition has elicited over the last decade are in part responsible for the elevated retrospective job approval ratings he has received since.

OK, so the Iran dip came in '87

Romney "not concerned about the very poor"

can't make this shit up

I'm concerned about the very heart of America, the 90-95 percent of Americans who right now are struggling.

lol 95% of the country cannot be middle class that just doesnt make any sense

Yeah, the speech functions of this robot are not very well engineered, are they?

yes but 90-95 percent of Americans consider themselves middle class

http://pixel.nymag.com/content/dam/slideshows/2012/01/florida-primary-christpher-anderson/_MG_4889.jpg

together we will break the power of Big Poor

^^^Newt's fourth wife?

goole r u newts fourth wife

pareene Alex Pareene
In Mitt's defense "not concerned about" is better than "obsessed with punishing"
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romney had a new debate coach, Brett O'Donnell, formerly Liberty University

http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/sarahposner/5621/romney%27s_debate_coach_and_his_religion_answer/

here's his web bio:

http://odacommunications.com/Meet_Brett_O_Donnell.html

he's been busy this campaign season already:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-candidate-whisperer-the-man-behind-michele-bachmann/2011/09/21/gIQARXgEmK_story.html

i am not his wife so much as his wifey

ty for clarifying

btw i want to be a political svengali how to i get this job

CITIZEN

YO GOD AND POSSE

YOU ARE...

?

lag00n you need to say shit like this:

Liberty was a door for O'Donnell to the political world; he's moved on from college students to politicians on the national stage. He worked for the 2004 Bush/Cheney campaign, and now has his own consulting firm. He admitted to Chafetz that he's a "Christian ideologue" (Chafetz's term), but "would I work for a candidate who isn't a Christian, somebody with the same core principles as mine? Sure. Mitt Romney for example; he's a Mormon, but our beliefs are similar. I'd work for an atheist if he shared my values." Although I doubt even he could persuade an atheist to say the country was founded on "Judeo-Christian values.

I'd work for an atheist if he shared my values.

only a matter of time now

who do i talk to abt setting up direct deposit

at this time i feel i should encourage you to pray on it

man this is a terrible job wtf!

yes but 90-95 percent of Americans consider themselves middle class

really, why tell them they're wrong?

found a picture of Newt Gingrich with Jane Fonda. Let's swift boat his azz!

http://p.twimg.com/AklWi0tCIAAwoE7.jpg:large

(SI_Vault one of my favorite tweeters.)

yah thats a great account 4 sure

guys

http://f.cl.ly/items/2c070m3a1b1S080Y2B2s/zzzzz.jpg

yes but 90-95 percent of Americans consider themselves middle class

95% is two standard deviations off the mean, so yeah it is possible that most ppl are making about the same amount. ...this is where the 99% meme comes from!

granted what "middle class" actually means well...

i take yr standard deviations and raise you marginal utility, a good reason rich people shouldnt have all the money is because it isnt doing them any good, where as even a measly additional standard deviation from the mean would represent a huge quality of life increase and even gasp a class power up to a poor person

As covers go, this is some new kind of bad.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4ttQGoQHihk/TyQcdlNHNqI/AAAAAAABPqY/fmdF_U6Rfck/s1600/NewsweekNipple.jpg

lol is that real

you should probably accustom yourself to the fact that newsweek is trolling everyone

Karl Lagerfeld running amok would be more poetic.

(It's real.)

such is the future of media

you should probably accustom yourself to the fact that newsweek is trolling everyone

― mookieproof, Wednesday, February 1, 2012 9:02 PM (40 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sage words

On that Newsweek cover, which one is wielding the Sword of Chang?

important question