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

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

The Wright nonsense was inflated by reporters too illiterate to have read any of Obama's books.

I honestly thought this was a joke at first:

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/santorum-spokesperson-refers-to-obamas-radical-islamic-policies

I suspect she'll be writing headlines for ESPN any day now.

i.e. it's obvious that Obama didn't believe a word of Wright's rants.

i almost want to ask you what you mean by that
― lag∞n, Monday, February 20, 2012 12:14 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha no you don't

Sorry if it's been mentioned, but this nation has been lolling hard at this:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/dutch-outraged-over-santorums-euthanasia-clai

Don't take the "outraged" too literally btw, I've not heard one single person being "outraged" over lol Santorum. It's been a topic of great amusement here tbh.

Trying to imagine the Dutch being outraged over anything.

I can imagine the Dutch being outraged over speed skating pretty easily

- bogarting

- muslims

- flooding

- foot splinters
- rusty windmills

look, it was a hair-trigger reaction I had and posted. don't suspend me or anything.

- when people confuse your country w/ belgium

look, it was a hair-trigger reaction I had and posted. don't suspend me or anything.

bring out the carbonite!!

Kinda sub-par joeks guys, I'm disappointed.

Bush was the last president who portrayed us as a stoner prostitute-seeing people that was a province of Denmark though, so it's nice to get some lolworthy rightwing attention again