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

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man Santorum surging ... this is the lolziest GOP primary ever

Wolcott weighs in on Santorum's C-list:

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2012/01/Rick-Santorum-The-Grate-White-Hope

But Santorum said Wednesday that his campaign would compete hard in Michigan on Feb. 28 and in the March 6 “Super Tuesday” states. He said his campaign raised about $250,000 online Tuesday night but insisted that funding alone was not the key to the race.

this is a pathetic amount - is Santorum the only one without major financial backing?

yes

that's what santorum needs a CUMbomb

They had a graphic on CNN last night about how much ad money each campaign has spent so far. Romney's margin was ungodly--something like $23 million to five or six million for the next guy. This makes his current problems even more embarrassing.

money can only do so much

Money can't buy you love.

romney spent nothing on the airwaves in these three states

romney spent plenty on south carolina tho

Money changes everything. Unless you're Mitt Romney.

(True about these three states; I think Santorum spent the most in Minnesota, where Gingrich spent exactly zero dollars.)

this factoid comes ultimately from a politico church piece

http://www.politico.com/morningscore/0212/morningscore528.html

ABSENCE OF COMMERCIALS HELPED DOOM ROMNEY: For the first time in any of the early contests, Romney and his affiliated super PAC did not blanket the airwaves with ads. It may not be the only reason Romney won some of his races, but it certainly was a big one — and it helped in a paid media state like Florida.

im sure romney thought w/e santorums not gonna win all three no one will care move onto super tuesday

he coulda done better w/ ads, maybe even won colorado, but those other margins aren't things you can buy w/ ads

these were all non-binding on the delegates so more likely Romney just didn't give a fuck and figures he either a) doesn't need those delegates or b) can pick them up later in some kind of deal

primaries almost never abt the delegates

right

mitt romney is not doing any math

*sigh*

The poll shows that 53 percent of self-identified liberal Democrats — and 67 percent of moderate or conservative Democrats — support keeping Guantanamo Bay open, even though it emerged as a symbol of the post-Sept. 11 national security policies of George W. Bush, which many liberals bitterly opposed.

oops wrong thread

*sigh*

that's what santorum needs a CUMbomb

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oh no fucking way

He's either doing what we think or miming sticking a knife into his campaign.

Santorum describes his plan to criminalize spilling of seed.

Funny you mention that...

he's saying that he really feels something in his gut

(the "something" is anal froth)

The previously mentioned Leon Wolf at RedState begins to realize something about all the candidates.

Also from there, this bit:

Mitt Romney, I’ve come to sincerely believe, considers those not from his own rather isolated Cheyenne Village to be something else. It explains how he could even accidently articulate the fact that he doesn’t worry about the very poor. He’s willing to be nice to people like myself, but it’s not like he’ll any more use for me after Election Day than he would for a prophylactic after an act of sexual intercourse.

Romney in bad need of a "Checkers speech"

yup, time 2 take the dog off the top of the car

and someone who they want to mount Pickett’s Charge with

Telling at several levels

awkward, inconclusive insertion of Bill James/baseball sabermetrics in there, but hey. xxxxp

hoo boy, yeah

xp re: pickett

poor Mittens, he's so doomed

re-iterating my plea to rename this thread "needs more booing"

Shakey this really does seem like your first election

(morbs, are you as much of an asshole IRL as you are here? if not, why not?)

(he is def. not, although i've not particularly provoked him, either)

So even George Will sees through Romney's foreign policy bluster

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-need-more-than-rhetoric-on-defense/2012/02/07/gIQA5SF1zQ_story.html?hpid=z2

am, let's wait and see if Bam landslides Mitt b4 we decide if I'm an asshole for thinking calling an election 9 months in advance is premature, mmmmkay?

and the answer is: Opinions differ.

lol morbs havent you been calling the primary for mitt for months

There's a big difference between being an asshole and being the asshole you want to see in the world.

j0e, that's different; that's fixed. The Corporatist World Series is not.

rightwing American Enterprise VP on Santorum's attempts to appeal to blue-collar factory workers, when many of those blue collar folks are now working as truck drivers or in a Wallmart

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/290450/two-decades-too-late-henry-olsen?pg=2

am, let's wait and see if Bam landslides Mitt b4 we decide if I'm an asshole for thinking calling an election 9 months in advance is premature, mmmmkay?

lol I called it over like a year and a half ago, do keep up

poor Mittens, he's so doomed

In other words, the party has become so partisan and irrational that, in order to win the primary, you have to lose the general. Sure, shit could happen in the intervening months, but if played well, if Greece doesn't sink Europe, if the adminsitration stays ahead of Bibi and Khamenei, they have a better chance of winning in November than anybody in the GOP does. This reminds me of CA.

They're chasing old white ppl, ppl too old to reproduce anymore and whose kids probably think they're dicks for hating women/gay/black/latino ppl.

if the adminsitration stays ahead of Bibi and Khamenei

For re-election purposes, a hot war in the middle east would not hurt Obama, unless he looked weak. Fortunately, no POTUS with an intact air force needs to look weak, and they all have learned that lesson.

^^^