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

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.

xp

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

(xpost) Phil, thanks for those stats. Intuitively I knew that's what's going on, but those help me keep things in perspective when the whole Republican primary starts skeeving me out uncontrollably.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rick-santorum-cries-nazi/2012/02/21/gIQAjyw4RR_story.html

Don't usually think W. Post writer Dana Millbank has much to offer, but this is kinda interesting

His frequent tendency to go from zero to Nazi over ordinary political disagreements

lolled

I think he's missing the fact that while Iran is eminently containable, climate change is the issue where future generations will wonder why there were negationists.

And the simple answer from historians: none so blind as those who will not see.

http://www.ocrpl.org/?p=103

Santorum on whether Obama is a "sincere, liberal Christian":

part of his response (I think this is from 2008)

But is there such thing as a sincere liberal Christian, which says that we basically take this document and re-write it ourselves? Is that really Christian? That’s a bigger question for me. And the answer is, no, it’s not. I don’t think there is such a thing. To take what is plainly written and say that I don’t agree with that, therefore, I don’t have to pay attention to it, means you’re not what you say you are. You’re a liberal something, but you’re not a Christian. That’s sort of how I look at it.

but Santorum's a filthy papist, why should we listen to him

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_02/more_on_santorums_religious_an035555.php#

santorum better be sporting ashes during the debate tonight

the existence of articles bashing santorum should be proof that the media isn't liberal

My guess is that most of tonight's debate will be everyone going after Santorum over all the wingnut stuff he's been saying the past week or two. Not that he doesn't deserve it, but I'd much rather it be Santorum going after Romney over all the phony stuff he's been saying lately--the auto bailout, "severely" conservative, I love trees, etc., etc. Probably nobody'll go near the first one, though, because that would be admitting the bailout worked.

i love how the implication of his judgment there is that pretty much no protestants are christians. since when are catholics 'bible-believing' anyway??

QUESTION: You haven’t spoken so much about McCain’s religious condition. Could you shed some light on McCain’s religious views?

ANSWER: Yeah. I don’t think he has any.

I really need to stop reading anything about this guy.

no ashes

why does ricky hate jesus

what is even going on, this feels out of control

Gingrich has been sucking up to Romney all night--he wants Santorum out.

Highlights so far: 1) Romney (mis)quotes George Costanza--is there anyone less George-like than Romney? 2) First questioner is Gilbert from Gilbert; 3) Gingrich casually mentions some task force he wants to get going that will be headed up by Rick Perry. Well played, Newt.

I thought Santorum was much better during that Romneycare skirmish. Awkward at first in that he forced it into the conversation, but his Dukakis line was great; Romney was so slimy in throwing in Arlen Specter, and Santorum's explanation was politically lucid.

some task force he wants to get going that will be headed up by Rick Perry

charged w/ remembering which cabinet seats perry wants to eliminate?

Romney's answer to the final question (what's the biggest misconception about you?) was awful. Straightforward question, Paul and Gingrich basically addressed it, and it was the perfect time for him to self-effacingly address the idea that he's a little lacking in spontaneity. He instead launches into programmatic drivel, and when John King breaks in to redirect him, he gets snippy: "You get to ask the questions you want, I get to give the answers I want." Made me cringe. (Unfortunately, Santorum followed by doing the exact same thing.)

Everyone on CNN is saying Romney was strong tonight and Santorum wasn't. Disagree with at least the first half of that. What is obvious is that the crowd was bussed in by Romney.

intrade seems to have given him a bump

@pattonoswalt "Big-gest mis-con-cep-tion? Define mis-con-cep-tion. Arming laser eyes. ARMING LASER EYES!" -- Mitt Romney #tweetthepress
22 minutes ago

Probably a Rorschach test as to how you felt about Romney in the first place. He was constantly reminding me of why I find him creepier all the time. And I genuinely liked Santorum's explanation of why he endorsed Arlen Specter in 2004, something he got booed for.

Nice line from Dave Wiegel: "(Paul) reiterates his ad's claim that Rick Santorum is 'a fake.' Santorum tugs his sleeve and says 'I'm real!' There is no cut to Romney, as he processes what it might mean to be real."

Something else I hated about Romney tonight: throwing Santorum's 2008 endorsement of Romney back in his face. Probably politically smart, but slimy. I mean, Romney knows how this works--he endorsed McCain in 2008 after they spent months despising each other, now McCain endorses him, etc., etc. You endorse whoever's politically expedient at the moment. And then they're forgotten about.

Maybe, but Santorum's whole deal is toeing a very purist line. He's the driven snow, he brooks no compromise, right's right & wrong's wrong and he's the last man willing to tell the truth, etc. So Romney's not so slimy to sort of expose that that's a pose on Santorum's part, which it really is; part of what makes him a fascinating figure is how appealing that pose is to him, how much he wants to strike it - to my mind in a way that's deeper than "maybe this will help me win."