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

hey if you guys read Slate, or P4reene today, you'd know Santorum has three delegates.

why keep the rosary beads from clicking?

its cool most of the delegates havent been awarded yet

if sarah emerges at the convention and publicly tries to sway delegates to throw their support to her that will be maybe the most beautiful thing ever

I completely understand that this is a fantasyland dream that won't be happening. But Palin's words the other day suggest that she may in fact be living that dream:

“People who start screaming that a brokered convention is the worst thing that could happen to the G.O.P., they have an agenda,” Ms. Palin said in an interview. “They have their own personal or political reasons, their own candidate who they would like to see protected away from a brokered convention.”

She added: “That’s part of competition, part of the process and it may happen.”

*prays furiously*

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/down-in-michigan-polls-romney-needs-to-find-his-base/

I found Romney's base--they're congregating in Michigan as we speak.

http://brightgreenscotland.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/robot_army.jpg

And in Arizona. And all across the land.

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this thread is bringing lols today, thanks 2 you all

More or less the point I was trying to make yesterday (from TNR):

The best indication that the Santorum surge could turn out to be fleeting came on the same day as his startling national survey results, when the annual presidential straw poll at the American Conservative Union’s CPAC conference was won by none other than Mitt Romney. Even as the CPAC audience cheered Santorum’s culture-war zingers, the secret-ballot went to Mitt. Conservatives may talk like they want another Barry Goldwater, but in their hearts, they’d settle for another Richard Nixon.

I'd amend "hearts" to "brains."

yeah but that straw poll is totally meaningless, ron paul won it last time iirc

xpost So, in their hearts you know there's smarts?

Yeah, "brains" is an overstatement. Brains by default--as in, any vote for Romney will never be a vote of the heart.

Frum goes on to quote Grover as follows:

We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don’t need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go. We want the Ryan budget. … We just need a president to sign this stuff. We don’t need someone to think it up or design it.

I...haven't been able to get past that quote since I read it. For a lot of reasons.

They don't really want an executive branch, do they? Or a judicial branch, as we've already seen.

meh, if only libs felt the same way about You Know Who

Bernie Sanders?

I keep hearing about them rationalizing their lack of a good Pres candidate by saying they're going to conentrate on Congress; one of the most unpopular Congresses in US history.

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another one

oops wrong c&p

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/santorum-is-tied-with-romney-in-new-poll/

nate silver's model has him at 80% chance in michigan

!

http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/files/2011/12/George_Romney_and_Mitt_1964.png

George Romney Pointing At Things

i have no sense of the scale of that model car in the bottom of that pic

There are some tiny people walking to the right of it, I think?

that was ford's plan for the automobile of the future

to be driven by the enormously bloated people of the future

they overshot by a bit, but still pretty good forward thinking

slightly modified, it became the Ford Excursion

"One day, son, the people of this great land will not vote for you because some dumb idiot has more charisma than you"

re: CPAC straw poll. Romney was bussing in people to vote for him...the same way Ron Paul won it for the last few years. It isn't representative of anything.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2012/02/14/National-Politics/Images/Romney_2012_0f3fb.jpg

He looks kind of like current day Morrissey in that picture.

Can we just vote for Ferris Freemont yet?

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ringleader of the tormentors

in my head I can't stop comparing this to eli manning winning the super bowl again

yah it was a good analogy for sure

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the first of the gang to die

I'm sorry. I had to enhance.

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The last of the famous international playboys

http://images.politico.com/global/2012/02/120207_santorum_church_ap_3.jpg

Everyday is Like Sunday

http://www.nndb.com/people/487/000024415/gingrich-port.jpg

girlfriend in a coma

haha didn't we already do this

I remember making the joke 'willard it was really nothing'

http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/us/esq-01-tim-pawlenty-cpac-021411-lg.jpg

last night i dreamt somebody loved me

http://www.exposemittromney.com/image/askromney.jpg

'I started something I couldn't finish'

'I started something I couldn't finish'

shouldn't this really caption a Pawlenty pic

nobody's done bachmann yet, just too misogynist

well no, it's just "the queen is dead" is too obvious