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

matt taibbi is a horrible writer who often knows v little of what hes writing abt

ok waht

You can't separate style and thought but if I'm generous and ignore his at times hysterical prose I find I've learned quite a bit about credit default swaps and securitization, not to mention his work covering Congress in the mid 2000s and Russia before then.

lots of people write about credit default swaps and securitization and as far as pop-friendly-explanations of that stuff michael lewis is prob a better dude to go to

you gotta pay for michael lewis's stuff tho

yeah I dont think taibbi is off tm all the time but ive seen enough fudging in his work to basically not trust him at this point

Examples of mistakes? No snark, just curious.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/quantitative-easing-the-hidden-government-subsidy-for-banks-20101115

There are so many things about QE that are crazy, but there’s one thing that I’d like to point out in particular. Yes, this is a huge money-printing program with potentially disastrous inflationary consequences. And yes, the influx of all this money could easily distort markets and prices far beyond the extreme distortions we’ve already been dealing with (commodities prices shot through the roof after this latest QE round was announced).

this link I posted upthread is just errors in one piece http://prospect.org/article/errors-matt-taibbi as for the stuff ive caught personally lol I dont remember

fwiw i have been talking shit on matt taibbi for like five years now

there are left- and right-wing lines of criticism about finance and wall st, they aren't really compatible at a certain pt, my cursory reading is that taibbi can kind of flatter both

i do give him props for one lil moment i caught tho: being interviewed on the "alyona show" she kept bringing up some kind of total upheaval 3rd party insurgency type of response to how badly people hate wall st, and he was like "yeah don't get your hopes up about that"

One of the great mysteries of our time: "Anybody have a theory about why women don’t like Gingrich?"

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/02/02/newt_gingrich_s_woman_problem_.html

to be totally crude and sexist, it's because Romney is halfway handsome in a plutocratic robot way, whereas Newt looks like a slimy water-headed baby.

yeah I agree it's just too hard to come up w/ a reason why women wouldn't like gingrich other than 'he's not hot enough'

Romney's hair in 2007 was awesome.

c'mon now Newt's bagged THREE wives and Mittens only got one! it's obvious who the babe magnet is amirite

xp

"and Mittens only got one"

that we know about.

no, jk. that's bigoted towards Mormons. i'm sure he only has one wife.

At the risk of sounding sexist, I think women are better at reading emotional cues and Mitt seems like a genuinely doting husband, whereas Newt seems like the kind of jerk who'd leave his dirty dishes in the sink.

'i'm a grandiose thinker, i don't have time to wash that.'

washing dishes is fundamentally the most outrageous chore in the history of this country

'i'm a grandiose thinker, i don't have time to wash that.'

^^^ irl lol

yeah you guys are getting pretty close to solving the mystery of why the guy who divorced his cancer-stricken wife to be with his mistress is not doing well among women

As someone who believes Obama is still going to have a very tough re-election--and still expects the lead to change a number of times before November--I'm hoping for as many of these stories as possible:

http://money.cnn.com/2012/02/06/pf/romney_kids_trust/index.htm?iid=Lead

wait, i think i need a hint. is it bc of evolutionary psychology? xp

gingrich's support is now is cratering with everyone irl so divining 'women' as subset is sort of pointless i think

dark lil secret abt elections is all these groups political experts love to slice and dice declare key tend to move m/l in unison

Meanwhile, memories:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/bachmann-i-was-the-perfect-candidate/2012/02/06/gIQA30wTuQ_blog.html

HUNT: You are remaining above the fray. But you sat in, in almost a dozen debates with these people. You have a feel for them. Let me ask you this. Who is the more conservative of these four candidates left?

BACHMANN: I was. I was the perfect candidate.

HUNT: Right, so who’s the second -

BACHMANN: When I — when I went out there, and so, you know —

HUNT: Who’s the second most conservative?

BACHMANN: America had their chance with the perfect candidate.

hahaha I know I shouldnt be surprised by this and yet

In a way, I agree with her.

mitt needs to bring this look back

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/1ttRnYjiE7XKtmLC9YUaxw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD0zOTA7cT04NTt3PTI3OA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/152/2012/02/05/vromney-07-jpg_035528.jpg

Michael Medved: For the seventh consecutive election, the next president will either be a privileged son or a man with no relationship with his biological father.

Thanks for reminding me!

what the fuck

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a7/ScattergoriesBox.jpg

Mitt clinches endorsement from yet another washed-up, discredited loser party hack

at least none of them wrote a book about what a lousy movie Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible is

xxp

Michael Medved: For the seventh consecutive election, the next president will either be a privileged son or a man with no relationship with his biological father.

Which was Bob Dole supposed to be?

bob dole exists outside of biology

Wau at that Romney tux pic.

http://www.bandstores.co.uk/prodimages/Bryan%20Ferry%20-%20Another%20Time%20Another%20Place.jpg

Mormon This

ha

lol

BACHMANN: America had their chance with the perfect candidate.

god this is beautiful, it is gonna be boomed from the skies on judgement day

medved is awful

but astonishingly eagle-eyed

also bird-brained

rich dad, deadbeat dad

to be totally crude and sexist, it's because Romney is halfway handsome in a plutocratic robot way, whereas Newt looks like a slimy water-headed baby.

― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, February 6, 2012 3:44 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

uh

Which was Bob Dole supposed to be?

Was actually wondering about W.

well he, Gore and Kerry were privileged, of course.

Joke based on the Oliver Stone film, where he and H.W. didn't have much of a relationship.

oh yeah. didn't see that one.