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

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

otm the stupidest shit catches on in the popular imagination in a way that technical details about private equity don't 'invented the internet' etc.

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

Contraception has been a huge issue with the right for a long time so going after that issue didn't really shock me, but prenatal testing encourages abortion, really? That seems so out of left field.

haha i dunno the dog on the roof thing cracks me up

esp the way gail collins just runs it into the ground

Contraception has been a huge issue with the right for a long time so going after that issue didn't really shock me, but prenatal testing encourages abortion, really? That seems so out of left field.

― Nicole, Monday, February 20, 2012 1:08 PM (1 second ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol santorum just believes himself to be on a roll is whats happening probably, its p fascinating to see a true believer operating in this sphere where usually only hardened cynics soar

It was the "using the job-creation skills that I learned in the private sector" part that I loved--although I do think it's pretty lousy what Romney did. Seamus even has his own Wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamus_%28dog%29

not defending that tnr line specifically

yah imo dog on roof, $400 haircut, inventing the internet, jeremiah wright etc are all true in their own way

like the Astroturf in Clinton's truck

Jeremiah Wright was the first undeniable clue that Obama is a pig

i almost want to ask you what you mean by that

it's important to highlight how clueless most people are, there are def people out there who don't know much more bout romney than the dog thing

it's called the democratic process

By which I assume you mean that he cut him loose rather than defend him till the bitter end. Let's relitigate this, that'll be fun.

i thought obama handled it beautifully and further more i think hes perfect

the Wright 'affair' I mean obv, as in throwing him under the campaign bus

the jeremiah wright thing made me v. suspicious of obama being a politician, but there was already some evidence of that elsewhere, such as him being an elected official.

yes yr record is well know, Senator Batman

xp

if only we could find someone in politics who wasn't in politics and also didn't become political once they became a politician. that is my dream.

'dog on the roof' plays into the 'romneybot' story very nicely

you would put a robot dog on the roof, wouldn't you

What he did to Wright was cutthroat politics at his best, and I even hesitate to say "cutthroat" as I'm sure he called Wright and explained they couldn't be seen in public again. I'm sure they're AIM buddies.

*its best

wright didnt quite get the message iirc, was publicly sad a couple times

For what it's worth, Obama only disowned (or whatever word you want to use) Wright when Wright re-emerged and held that loopy press conference. Weeks had passed where Obama didn't do what lots of people were insisting he had to do.

theories like Alfred's always make me think of the SNL sketch where Reagan was a ruthless policy wonk behind closed doors