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

*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

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz2zp42VeG1qa2rino1_400.gif

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.

^^^

The flap over the Komen organization really surprised me, in a good way.

And Bohener's going on about the contraception issue? I just don't get these guys.

They're chasing old white ppl...

This is a broad brush imo. I have several friends in their 30s who are conservatives for varying reasons, some social but more small business owners who buy into the whole "unfettered free market" angle.

In other words, ppl who haven't learned anything from the last several centuries. Imho, the regs that fcuk small businesses are less federal than local. I will gladly argue economic policy minutiae w/anyone but if you're the type to get off the couch and vote to 'protect marriage', you're a dying breed 'cause it's a dumb and (excuse me, Newt) fundamentally indefensible position to take in anything but a theocracy

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.

the problem isn't that he'd look weak, the problem is that a hot war in the middle east might jeopardize our slowly recovering economy enough to elect romney

You always knew he'd be a kingmaker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1TT7gt5F0w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L0H_w9kBx8

do we have a thread for the israel/iran shit? b/c man that freaks me out.

give Israel to World: "Suck It." a try

Santorum now leading national GOP polls.

crazy. linx?

Where did you get that from? Gallup still has Romney far in front nationally.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2012/02/rick-santorum-gallup-tracking-poll-mitt-romney-/1

https://twitter.com/#!/ppppolls/status/167775351718686720

v. interesting. were those gallup polls including lagging data?

Okay--I'm still working on Standard Internet Time. I have to get me one of those Twitter machines. (I believe the Gallup included one day of post-Missouri/Minnesota/Colorado polling.)

I'm not even sure santorum wouldn't be a stronger candidate for the gop at this point

PPP also said the lead is much bigger for Santorum if you remove Newt.

fivethirtyeight Nate Silver
Reverse engineering the Gallup tracking poll, looks like Wed.'s results were about Romney 32, Santorum 32, Gingrich 16.
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He's more personable than Romney, Gingrich too (though not as entertaining). But surely his rigidity on a whole bunch of social issues would lose half the country immediately.

oh yeah he's a pretty terrible candidate too, but at least republicans will vote for him.