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

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

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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

the american right-wing hate the french a lot more than the dutch

In some parts of the U.S., they're called "Democracy Apples".

Yes, but that's also because the French are somewhat of a factor in world politics, the Dutch aren't and usually - whoever the persidetn is - blindly follow the White House. But with things like this we do lol, the exaggerated "OMG Holland is some Sodom and Gomorra hell" rhetoric.

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bike lanes are actually a much bigger threat to the american way of life than baguettes, the gop just doesn't know that much about holland

by threat to our way of life I mean threat to our shitty way of life

It's because you have no respect for bikers is why it's a bigger danger tbh

i notice the santorum staffer who referred to obama's radical islamic tendencies also used the phrase 'global warmists' - is this a thing now?

She used to be a television reporter in my home town. She was Michelle Bachman's press person before this.

Can someone provide a brief precis on this Keystone kerfuffle? I wanna call bullshit every time some Republican talking head brings it up because I know they're twisting the facts of the matter, but I'm having a hard time articulating exactly what the facts are.

http://www.accessnorthga.com/detail.php?n=245894

OMFG. That headline just about made me laugh myself to death.

“We need to build those foundational institutions of the church,” he said. “Defend the church, defend the family, defend the non-profit community, defend them against a government that wants to weaken them.”

Does Rick think he's running to become Pope?

OMFG. That headline just about made me laugh myself to death.

I'm trying to be mature about this, but I'm also resigned to any headline about the former senator from Pennsylvania making me go back to being an 11-year-old.

And it continues to at least the first paragraph!

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum spoke to an overflow audience . . .

from 2008

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/santorum-satan-systematically-destroying-america

Santorum is like running a Chick gospel tract for president.

Let me save clemenza the trouble:

http://www-static.weddingbee.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/16/church-.jpg

Santorum is like running a Chick gospel tract for president.

― Ham House showdown (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, February 21, 2012 11:58 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this.

http://theweek.com/article/index/224625/the-old-white-voters-picking-the-gop-nominee-by-the-numbers

9:
States that have held GOP caucuses or primaries so far

28 million:
Registered voters of all parties in those nine states

3 million:
Voters who have participated in these nine Republican contests

89:
Percent of registered voters who have not voted in the GOP contests

63.7:
Percent of U.S. population that is white

88:
Percent of U.S. population that was white in 1900

99:
Percent of 2012 Iowa caucusgoers who were white

89:
Percent of Iowans who are white

98:
Percent of South Carolina primary voters who were white

66:
Percent of South Carolina residents who are white

66:
Percent of South Carolina primary voters who were evangelical Christians

72:
Percent of South Carolina primary voters who were 45 or older

3:
Percent of Nevada's registered voters who participated in the state's Feb. 4 caucuses

5:
Percent of Nevada caucusgoers who were Latino

26:
Percent of Nevadans who are Latino

14:
Percent of Florida GOP primary voters who were Latino

23:
Percent of Floridians who are Latino

78:
Percent of Florida primary voters who were 45 or older

59:
Percent of Florida voters in the 2008 general election who were 45 or older

47:
Percent of GOP voters nationwide who are happy with their candidates, according to a PPP poll earlier this month

73:
Percent of Democrats who are happy with President Obama as their candidate

there's nothing wrong w/ old white people picking the candidate for the old white people party

Can someone provide a brief precis on this Keystone kerfuffle? I wanna call bullshit every time some Republican talking head brings it up because I know they're twisting the facts of the matter, but I'm having a hard time articulating exactly what the facts are.

― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, February 20, 2012 9:32 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well the 100k jobs thing is total bullshit. I think it's like... 1000 jobs? I would ask them to explain how in the hell the building of one pipeline would create 100,000 jobs.

99,000 of those jobs are prospective oil spill cleanup jobs

http://unicornbooty.com/blog/2012/02/21/omg-a-rick-santorum-portrait-made-entirely-of-gay-porn-nsfw-ish/

HILARIOUS

Take your protein pills and put your helmets on: after a one-month layoff, the 73rd Republican debate happens tonight. There's still so much left to talk about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C5Az-239uM