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

Well, yes.

"You're so close to your son-in-law!"

Evangelical Christians have no problems with gay people who are celibate

In fact they get extra brownie points for carrying that heavy cross of homosexuality and avoiding the temptations!

I think it's plausible! Or at least I think / fear it's plausible that it's true - that in 2012 the President being on the other team and black gives the GOP license to unleash a cacophony of dog whistles and smears knowing that 50% more shit will stick with a lot of the voters. And that the incumbent being a white guy would be worth 10% in the polls.

Whether the Democrats would consider this plausible is another thing, of course.

xp - "Republicans fall in line behind their candidates no matter what" has taken a hell of a kicking so far this election.

In fact they get extra brownie points for carrying that heavy cross of homosexuality and avoiding the temptations!

― Frobisher (Viceroy), Monday, February 6, 2012 11:21 AM (6 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

when youre feeling gay its important to do things to take yr mid off it like go to the park or get out and stretch yr legs a little at a rest stop maybe splash some water on yr face in a public restroom

Except not is Perlstein's point. The primaries are rough, but lets see the polling after Romney locks up the nom. xp

xp - "Republicans fall in line behind their candidates no matter what" has taken a hell of a kicking so far this election.

yeah I've always been skeptical of this narrative, it's built on v. few historical examples

like, just fyi, but the backlash against Romney and whether that proverb is still true is what the article is about

"Republicans fall in line behind their candidates no matter what" has taken a hell of a kicking so far this election.

There's no election for 9 months yet; all this shit is predestination thinly camouflaged by a few random church socials with ballots.

falling in line/not falling in line is a crude binary, every election there are differing levels of voter enthusiasm that play a part in determining the election

xp it seemed to be mostly about "Did you know we used to hate Catholics?", in a "I read the other book for the book report" style.

romney fired his hotshot liberty U debate coach

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/72433.html

the commentary that the rest of romney's team was 'jealous' seems pretty stupid to me

http://news.yahoo.com/romney-debate-coach-fired-being-too-good-job-184700169.html

i wonder if they just feel like the debate parts of this season are p much done

growing up in a southern baptist church i was definitely indoctrinated with the whole mormonism = pseudo christian cult line of thinking. but i guess 'the enemy of enemy' is especially potent when the 'enemy' is zomg liberal secularism and your new found friend (the mormon church at-large, if not yet Romney specifically) has deep pockets and growing acceptance/ political capital. it's equal parts hilarious and aggravating watching trolls like Hagee et al bed down with conservative Jews, Catholics and Mormons

but not Bill Keller by god
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTMmP-QQzoc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9yxcbljlrc

Did we miss this one? http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-odd-couple-romney-vs-gingrich-20120130

this was news/fresh lolz to me:
In New Hampshire just a week before, Romney had tried to do the campaign-cliché thing and kiss a baby – only to have protesters shout at him, repeatedly, "Are you going to fire the baby? Are you going to fire the baby? Are you going to fire the baby?"

lmao

Here's the baby getting the bad news. You can tell that she's wondering how she's going to put food on the table for her parents.

http://images.smh.com.au/2012/01/11/2885273/729-romney-child-420x0.jpg

just imagine if he did drink.

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/m6uF6uwZCMK699p8cmBYqw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD02MTI7cT04NTt3PTQwNA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/18def5e09ff34c03060f6a706700b51f.jpg

does his flag pin have a flag pin?

Gets some points back for not wearing cuff links.

i can't kiss a baby i'm running for president for pete's sake

I've never read any Matt Taibbi before - has he always been channelling Hunter S Thompson quite so blatantly? Not that I'm complaining, it's high quality stuff.

yes always

He doesn't loathe Obama as much as HST loathed Humphrey; RS readers would rebel.

matt taibbi is a horrible writer who often knows v little of what hes writing abt but i appreciate him for pointing out the obvs big picture stuff that many are too 'polite' to, like that the finainal industry is a parasite

jho do you think chris hitchens was a good writer y/n?

i always appreciate your absolutist literary verdicts

ha hitchens is p you know complicated, I had a post in his rip thread where iI m/l made my case, but in short he's imho an obvs a v accomplished stylist, not a great thinker, and is limited in his scope of expression by being an intolerable pompous ass

yeah i p much agreed with that post but also i don't get the accomplished stylist thing but i am probably blinded by dislike.

ha just read something where hes bodying someone u h8

i don't know if we hate anyone in common!

oh there was one not that long ago tryin to remember, it was v satisfying

the mamet book?

ha ok here u go http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/books/review/book-review-the-secret-knowledge-by-david-mamet.html

lolxp

haha oh shit am i about to become a hitchens-ite? i'm going in.

p easy target to tbh

matt taibbi is a horrible writer who often knows v little of what hes writing abt but i appreciate him for pointing out the obvs big picture stuff that many are too 'polite' to, like that the finainal industry is a parasite

idk, i thought Griftopia was pretty great. it could be that he screwed up a lot of what he was writing about and I'm just not educated enough to notice it but some of the chapters were pretty dense with information alongside his characteristic stone-cold bludgeonings

just realized who you were, lag∞n!

i can never keep track. anyway i was about to post you on the ilx milk carton thread!

ha hi! I am luna its great to be back yall

anyway im no taibbi scholar I just find every time im reading him he makes a lot of assertions that make me go 'o rly based on what dude' - also i can just not stand the histrionic ott style, dont like thompson either tho so yrmv

some of his stuff is better and some is lazier

okay that mamet piece was satisfying and, i suppose, well-written. i feel sort of deflated now.

lols at one of his points of agreement with mamet being the hypocrisy of feminists during the clinton-lewinsky scandal and also at christopher hitchens calling someone who is not christopher hitchens "pointlessly aggressive," but okay.

ha well yes he cannot stop being christopher hitchens

tho tbf I guess he has now

basically agree w/ ice tho have only read the rs articles

tabbai is a polemicist in the age of technocrats, if only there were a way to combine the two

http://prospect.org/article/errors-matt-taibbi
http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2009/12/12/195422/blame-obama-first

I mean I support the existence of taibbi for mass fb-friendly goldman sachs vilifying, I think 'readability' matters, but he doesn't seem to be the guy to go to for higher-level analysis

tabbai is a polemicist in the age of technocrats, if only there were a way to combine the two

krugman

ha yes he did come to mind

as yglesias points out some of taibbis views are m/l conventional ignorance, which is really too bad, cause I would love for him to rail against our disfunctional governmental structures AND bash goldman