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

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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...

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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

Ricky Santorum:

http://us.cdn3.123rf.com/168nwm/imahe/imahe1110/imahe111000088/11083433-a-funny-cartoon-gladiator-about-to-attack-with-his-sword-and-shield.jpg

Gingrich criticizes the Romney statement about the poor because it's...divisive?

Newt: "There's no Red America and Blue America--we're just one nation, Newtonia, indivisible with liberty and justice for all."

on the moon

Where are the follow-ups to Romney on how the plans he is endorsing for Medicare, Medicaid will not keep that safety net intact for those poor people he does not want to think about?

all this Gotcha stuff about standard Mitt palaver that just happens to come out extra-badly on one occasion is beyond pathetic. It's like a motherfucking spelling bee.

and i won spelling bees, so I'm allowed to say so.

It's more than one occasion. But I see that I interpreted wrong. Conservatives are noting that Romney should be talking about these folks getting jobs, not taking money from the rest of us to stay on the safety net.

Senator DeMint from South Carolina:
I would say I’m worried about the poor because many are trapped in dependency, they need a good job; they don’t need to be on social welfare programs….

http://www.rollcall.com/news/demint_calls_on_romney_to_reframe_comments_on_poor-212035-1.html

I won a 3rd grade spelling bee

yeah re that DeMint shit; whether you believe him or not, Mitt was doing a stock speech that includes "fixing any holes in the safety net" which is well to the "left" of his co-clowns rhetorically.

I would say I’m worried about the poor because many are trapped in dependency, they need a good job; they don’t need to be on social welfare programs….

George W. H. Bush said he was for full employment but that's just not how the labor market works and unitl it does, this shit is either just stupid or essentially racist and sanctimoniously moralistic.

Aren't nets supposed to have holes?

Shockingly, I agree with Morbs. I actually read that bungled Mitt quote as perhaps foreshadowing his long-awaited move towards the center, now that he's feeling a bit more confident after trouncing Newt in FL. Even paying lip-service to "safety nets" is alarmingly moderate for a GOP primary candidate.

Kicking Mitt for saying "I don't care about the very poor" is lame. He was basically saying what every major party candidate has said for ages, "I'm worried about the 'middle class' not about the very rich or the very poor". It's essentially right-minded class warfare and he fucked up his delivery pretty badly but once they get the programming right, he'll be able to deliver these lines better even in sleep mode.

I think everyone knows that but it's fun to kick him anyway, and additional fun to see right-wingers kick him on it for different reasons. Question for DeMint or anyone:Why didn't Reagan and the Bushes and the various Congresses succeed in getting more folks out of the safety net (or do conservatives insist they have been making progress with their methods)?

but once they get the programming right, he'll be able to deliver these lines better even in sleep mode.

they've been programming him for, what, 5 years now?

mitts never gonna get it, his os cannot be upgraded

Agree with Morbius. As much as I'm enjoying the fallout from Romney's comment, it's just inartful political posturing meant to show how much he cares about the middle class. No more, no less. But I agree with all the commentary yesterday--some of it from the right--that said the major message of what Romney said is how inept he can be at rudimentary politics.

Essentially, being for full employment is also being against the middle class; to get anywhere near there you'd need to get rid of unions, minimum wage laws and any protections for wage earners up to and including max working hours, barring child labor, etc... Everybody has tried it over history and it still didn't work. It's typical bagger crack smoking. They want history to be as simple, digestible and suited to their lazy self-regard as it was (to them) in the 4th grade.

xp yeah but it's nice to see that middle class pandering is getting less traction these days!

Full employment was historically a communist rallying cry, wasn't it?

I mean it seems like the only way it could ever happen when all employment is state-mandated and state-provided.

well there is the economics term full employment which means i think roughly whats the minimum % of unemployed people at any one time thats possible all things considered, its around 4% iirc