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

quoting Bfast@Tiffanys the Sanitized Film is bad enough, but slandering Liz Taylor? get some help, clemenza.

Because you're a Dr., I will take this under advisement.

Yeah, no, sorry, screw John Ziegler forever.

http://johnziegler.com/editorials_details.asp?editorial=165

here the aforementioned PPP poll:
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2012/02/santorum-surges-into-the-lead.html

38% to 23%

'Only 48% of voters say they're solidly committed to their current candidate choice, while 52% say they're open to changing their minds.' this far into the game is pretty amazing

In the midst of chaos, recriminations, and self-doubt

are you accusing sarah palin of self-doubt?

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/02/11/rachel-maddow-uncovered-the-secret-ron-paul-strategy

Rachel Maddow floated a theory that Ron Paul is urging his supporters to stay late at caucuses so that they can vote themselves in as delegates. Once they've become delegates, they can cast their vote for Ron Paul, against the will of the people who voted in their caucuses. A major Ron Paul adviser confirmed that this is the Ron Paul strategy

Ron Paul strategy: take your right hand and spread its fingers widely and evenly apart. Raise it gently, perpendicular to your face, placing the tip of your right thumb upon the tip of your nose. Waggle fingers, as you extend tongue from your mouth.

are you accusing sarah palin of self-doubt?

No, I meant the party. Just got home--I want to see if I can track down some video from her speech. Whatever she said, she won't make much news tonight.

Breitbart seemed coked out of his gourd.

whatever he's snorting is aging him remarkably fast. isn't he like 40?

behaaaaaaaaave.

Breitbart seemed coked out of his gourd.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, February 12, 2012 2:20 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm told people could smell the whiskey on his breath on the A's in behaaaaaaaaaaaaaaave yourself

hes one messed up dude

it's just his brain chemistry/personality I think. I had the good fortune to be behind him at an airline ticket counter once, he was going off on the person checking his baggage. all smiles in the security line as he becomes aware that the person behind him (me) saw him a few minutes ago drunk on rage right in front of his kids. idk he could be drinking round the clock but I think he's just an angry, angry person & that his politics are a convenient place to monetize that.

i am reminded that elizabeth taylor was at one time SET UP

Watercooler joke of the week will be:

A liberal, a moderate, and a conservative walk into a bar.
Bartender says, "Mitt! What can I get ya?"

http://image.jeuxvideo.com/images/gb/a/aup1gb0b.jpg

Her WTF joke (all credit where credit is due: a good one, I'd say) goes back to the State of the Union, but I like the little addendum she added yesterday: “He says he has a jobs plan now, a jobs plan to ‘win the future.’ WTF, I know...And I’m the idiot.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkEQ-cMO7pw

thank u so much cpac!

Clouds so swift, rain fallin' in
Gonna see a movie called Gunga Din
Pack up your money, pull up your tent McGuinn
She ain't goin' nowhere.

The WTF is at 11:47 or so. Right before she defends the poor suffering defense industry and oil companies.

http://chzgifs.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/funny-gifs-politics.gif

your national gop front runner ladies and gentlemen

he looks like he's providing a tutorial

"now, you will occasionally want to vary your grip a bit, like so..."

this is what we call abstinence education

Amazing numbers out of Michigan:

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/santorum-15-points-over-romney-michigan/372376

But: this about the eighth re-run of this movie. Gingrich was way up in Florida right after SC, and that lasted about a week. Romney will now go about trying to crush Santorum. And it is his home state (or one of about three, it seems). So I'm not optimistic. But I am hoping. A Romney loss in Michigan would be dramatic.

going negative on gingrich presumably works better than going negative on santorum tho, like all you have to do to make a gingrich attack ad is read his wikipedia bio outloud

if romney loses michigan he becomes the underdog for the nom, I think

nah. Santorum can't raise money. there's no way he gets the nomination.

What I'm hoping, yes, and a sentiment I've read elsewhere today. (xpost)

if Romney can't win his semi-home state by throwing money at it, I don't see why he'd be a favorite many other places. for better or worse losing Michigan would be the type of slap in the face that he couldn't buy his way out of.

XXpost, I mean--that Gingrich was a much easier target for Romney than Santorum will be. I still can't see Santorum winning the nomination--i.e., I still have a hard time imagining the Republicans sending him into a general. They'd be conceding the election.

I genuinely don't think romney's a stronger gen election candidate anymore

I just want to see maximum chaos for Romney, and see him have to box himself in a thousand different ways, on the way to winning the nomination.

I've wondered that too. And wondered if, at some point, Obama's side will start to wonder the same thing.

yeah, clemenza, you've got nothing to fear anymore. Romney's damaged, probably beyond repair.

going negative on gingrich presumably works better than going negative on santorum tho, like all you have to do to make a gingrich attack ad is read his wikipedia bio outloud

― iatee, Monday, February 13, 2012 6:29 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

LOL DUDE i just wrote this then got distracted by a gchat and when i went to post it this was the first xp

santorum isnt nearly as vulnerable to attacks a gingrich who you can just basically read his wikipedia page and you have a tv comercial, and i dont think romney has any real homestate advantage in michigan, he lived there when he was a kid his dad was governor before many voters were born, but obvs romneys $$$ gives him an advantage

I'll probably be the last guy on here still expecting a close election. I tend to think things are never as good or as bad as they seem, and as hopelessly inept as Romney appears right now, he's at low ebb, and I've got to believe he'll have better days. Also, the expectations for continued economic recovery have been so solidified in the past few weeks, all it will take is one semi-bad month to change that dynamic. The one thing I think I've learned about markets and such the past couple of years is that everyone goes into complete panic at the first sign of bad news.

haha want to start a wikipedia based political consulting firm w/ me jho

romney's not at his low ebb, people have learned who he is and nobody likes him. there's no reason to think they will learn something else about him and suddenly like him.

haha want to start a wikipedia based political consulting firm w/ me jho

― iatee, Monday, February 13, 2012 6:47 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

unbeatable strat

Instead of "America the Beautiful," he might start singing that Nicki Minaj song from last night. People might suddenly take a liking to him then.

Jho? Am I missing a pre-username change reference again?

I think in the pre-dubya republican party romney would have been a pretty strong national candidate if he sold himself the way he did in MA.

at this point he is john kerry if democrats actually hated john kerry (they didn't, he was boring but fine) and also if instead of 'flip-flopping' on the iraq war, literally every single thing he said was something you could produce a youtube video w/ him saying the opposite. also he was part of a cult. gop had to close their eyes and go w/ it, but they're not, and they're forcing him so far to the right that he has no breathing room in the general. at least some people like santorum and he's consistent. being an actual crazy conservative is gonna get you further than being a pretend crazy conservative.

Gingrich is staying in, but if he hypothetically dropped out tomorrow, one thing I'm not convinced of is that most of his support would go to Santorum. Logically it should, but (leaving aside Paul for a minute) that would really clarify the options for Republicans: that's it--we either send this guy or this guy into the general. I could actually see Santorum falling back if that were to happen.

i think santorum would prob get 'more than half' of gingriches support, based on nothing

super lolzy that GOP nom is coming down to a Papist and a Mormon

I think it prob depends on the state. Gingrich drops out and Santorum easily gets most of his support in the south, at the very least.

He should, but it does sometimes feel like the insanity of the past few months has simply been the Republican electorate (rather creatively and entertainingly) doing everything it can to postpone that dreaded moment when it has no choice but to settle on Romney. Getting down to two people (plus Paul) might speed that along.

The south, yes.

I can't believe Mitt's down in Michigan. I could have been persuaded that he would've taken it in the general election.