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

ugh

what is it with pyramid schemes

hahaha oooh god the Mormon-Melaleuca rainbow connection is something I forgot about but I'm glad loudmouthed VanderSloot is there to remind people just how corrupt that shit is.

You'd think if you were pulling a pyramid-scheme scam abusing coreligionists trust in each-other you'd want to keep a low profile...

Ken Lay never kept a low profile, and he ran a business as corrupt as any you might care to name.

eh ken lay isnt that bad. if he had picked rich kinder to be ceo instead of skilling he'd be a. richer and b. alive

Being richer and dead isn't all that

omg i caved in and let my landlady bring me to "meet a friend of hers with some interesting opportunities" once and it ended up being a maleluca pitch along with this lady showing me photocopies of her first ten paychecks

i knew what i was getting in to but i was behind on my rent that month like a scumbag so i agreed to go so i could stay on her good side

i told her i'd consider ordering some products, took a catalog and never spoke of it ever again

and after that you always paid the rent on time amirite

could be worse gr80, at least it wasn't Scientology!

i think she's deep in to alex jones-- ive heard her blasting his show before

just last week i was walking out of the laundry room and she asked me "hey gr80 do you use maleluca products?" and i died inside, suddenly horrified that she had totally forgotten how she had already brought me to dinner w/ her friend a year or two ago.

it turned out she was just trying to figure out who was using her laundry detergent w/o telling her

hell no lady, i wash my clothes with All™ like an AMERICAN

Just more stuff that people say, especially during a lull, but if Romney were to lose Michigan, the greedy murmur of little men will grow louder.

Didn't look at the image closely enough: more of Mitt staring into the abyss and the abyss looking back at him.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/images/International/gty_mitt_romney_george_poster_nt_120224_wblog.jpg

that's his dad, right?

Yes. The more I learn about him, he seems like he might have been everything his son isn't.

Jeb is not gonna go for that under these circumstances.

his dad, who did no winning

Initially read that as "who did no whining," and I thought yeah, another big difference.

Romney's dad won three (re-elected twice as governor), lost one (the '68 nomination). And he was great on civil rights.

aint no one talking abt being being governor, romney1 set the gold standard for primary collapse

Master strategist at work: “Something tells me, that if the upcoming election could be decided on social issues, the Republicans could win that in a landslide, because we are on the right side of the culture war,” Limbaugh told listeners on Thursday. “The problem is, we’re scared to death of it. The Republican establishment wants no part of it.”

I'd add a bit of context to Romney's '68 loss. He was out in front by 10 points at one point, but that was Nov. 66, which is so far out I'd hardly even count that; he was already 11 points behind Nixon by Jan. '67. So his collapse, to me, took him from second to out of the race, which isn't all that unprecedented. Also, the biggest contributing factor was him saying something truthful about Vietnam. If Romney the son loses this one, I'll be majorly surprised if it's because he steps up and says something truthful.

"You're all assholes."

romney1 had all the juice going in and couldnt put it together, read a good piece recently speculating present day romneys pandering ways are a reaction to watching his dad get his hand slapped over talking out of turn re vietnam

That was a good piece. W. obviously had the shadow of H.W. close behind the whole way (Iraq, taxes). Disillusioned Democrats are awaiting Malia's first administration.

ha

Keep a-'goin.

You know, this might be the thing that prompts Romney into being not a robot:

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-santorum-mocks-romney-on-olympics-turnaround-20120218,0,2967261.story

Could make him angry, for sure.

http://angryrobotzombie.com/images/robot.png

In a mocking tone, Santorum said that Romney “heroically bailed out the Salt Lake Olympic Games -- by heroically going to Congress and asking them to bail out the Salt Lake Olympic Games. In an earmark!”

haah

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/us/politics/santorum-criticizes-education-system-and-obama.html?hp

For the first 150 years, most presidents home-schooled their children at the White House, he said. “Where did they come up that public education and bigger education bureaucracies was the rule in America? Parents educated their children, because it’s their responsibility to educate their children.”

obviously every single family in the united states has the same resources at their disposal as does the president of the united states!

“I believe in what Rick Santorum is preaching,” retired nurse Nancy Montell said after the speech. “It’s God, family and country, and we need desperately to return to our values. I believe in my guns and my religion, and I pray that he gets into office.”

lmao @ "I believe in my guns" before religion

I know it's a reference to the Obama "clinging to guns and religion" thing but still

as long as she's just praying him into office and not voting i guess that's ok.

as long as she's just praying him into office and not voting i guess that's ok.

― wmlynch, Sunday, February 19, 2012 2:00 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is not a bad tactic to encourage. "hello evangelicals. you _could_ vote today, but wouldn't it be even more effective to stay at home and pray _really hard_?"

"let the angels get this one"

Long may he rule the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHaMqHh5NZ4

His true spiritual antecedents:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H5rqaEzYcY

Just change it to "(I Live For) Cars and Trees."

"the trees are the right height" I think his sentence generator went on the fritz

Romney's now almost tied with Santorum in Michigan. He's been working his magic.

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

I can't even tell you how many Romney commercials have been airing. He's been bombarding the entire state with his ads and phone calls.

You're in Michigan? From what I've read, these ones haven't been relentlessly negative like his Gingrich ads in Florida. Maybe they've finally clued into how much cost was attached to that (Romney's own negatives shot up after Florida).

http://suwanee.patch.com/articles/santorum-seeks-votes-in-cumming

tick, VG

Well. That's the year settled, then.

well

You're in Michigan? From what I've read, these ones haven't been relentlessly negative like his Gingrich ads in Florida. Maybe they've finally clued into how much cost was attached to that (Romney's own negatives shot up after Florida).

Yes, I am. The Romney ones have been negative on Obama, but not other candidates -- they have been mostly how he would "fix" the economy. The Santorum ones I've seen have been very negative on Romney.

xposts Cumming, GA has a population of 5,430 and a church large enough to hold 2,300 plus a 1,000 "overflow room." Wow.

Now that Romney's catching up, and (xpost) managing to keep his hands clean while doing so, it's the ideal time to...send out Donald Trump to start attacking Santorum!

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/donald-trump-hitting-the-michigan-airwaves-for-mitt-romney/

man all these gop attacks on contraception and reproductive rights in general are so fn retrograde its astounding, i mean youre against pre natal testing http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/18/10444238-santorum-says-obama-looks-down-on-disabled-encouraging-more-abortions for real, id be depressed abt it if it wasnt such obvious electoral suicide, next maybe they can get together a big border fence push or try to eliminate medicare again or w/e

Love this:

In 1992, facing furors over both Gennifer Flowers and his Vietnam draft record, Clinton begged New Hampshire voters for a second chance telling them, “I’ll be with you until the last dog dies.” If Romney tried to turn on the charisma in an effort to morph into the Comeback Kid, it would come out as something wooden like: “Well, gosh. I will be with you using the job-creation skills that I learned in the private sector until we get Seamus off the car roof.”

http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/100866/caucuses-primary-election-party-nomination

this 'dog of the roof' shit is legit the lamest line of political characterization this election

eh it sticks for a reason imo, same w/edwards haircut