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

Have to rethink that first line.

so is there like a real chance santorum could get the nomination now? (sorry don't follow closely and thread is so long)

sounds like he's fading somewhat; n8-ag has michigan leaning romney now, at least

Santorum will not get the nomination

he had a rough but not totally unimaginable path to victory if he took michigan, but it's a lot harder to imagine him winning w/o that bump. that said, how many times has romney 'sealed this up' by now? who knows.

Santorum has no delegates. Romney at least has Florida.

delegates don't matter at this point

is there a good article that explains how the GOP convention rules work and have worked in the recent past??

delegates will matter at the convention! probably for the first time in a long while!

most of the states Santorum's won are non-binding, meaning the delegates can cast their vote for someone else if they get lobbied hard enough/bribed/arm-twisted

right, which means they will go to romney

ah sorry I see we are not really in disagreement here

I don't buy the "Santorum has no delegates" line. He's won some states. If he wins enough states he'll get the nomination.

I don't see some scenario where he has slightly more non-binding delegates than Romney but Romney convinces them to come over. He'll either win a bunch of states and Romney will collapse or he'll lose some states and Romney will run away with the nomination.

Mitch Daniels will become the nominee before Santorum.

All you realists with your facts and your charts and your delegate counts. You just don't know what it is to dream.

http://images.sympatico.ca/images/Feeds/cbc_v3/CBC_Topstories_V3/hi-santorum-852-ap02162912_450x450.jpg

"I drive a Mustang and a Chevy pick-up truck. Ann drives a couple of Cadillacs, actually. And I used to have a Dodge truck, so I used to have all three covered."

Cut him some slack; he was just quoting Otis Redding from "Tramp."

Calling Z S! Please get a Romney 2012 poster in here and make Mitt's Michigan problem magically disappear.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dTx99R9KXDU/TBw9JhObiLI/AAAAAAAAAk0/rRD8QoB74Ws/s400/kiss-alive-back.jpg

question from gail collins:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/opinion/collins-republican-truth-or-dare.html?hp

Is it true that Romney told people in Michigan that their trees were just the right height?

Yes, he was trying to butter them up. He also said “I love cars!” This is yet another example of Mitt’s common touch. In Ohio recently, he told a long story about going to a friend’s wedding, taking some nail polish and writing on the soles of the groom-to-be’s shoes so that when he knelt at the altar, the congregation could read HELP.

This anecdote raises several questions. A) Do you think it actually happened? And B) If you found out it was true, would that make you like Romney more, or less?

Dude is really starting to seem genuinely unsettling.

tbh i think the tree height line was kinda weirdly perfect, as a line, it's the kind of thing you can imagine your grandfather saying when he talks about how he lived in a town all his life & the big city never made any sense to him, he liked it here just fine, & i guess that's what they were shooting for, like with him quoting george costanza to catch the regular-schlubby-guy-watching-seinfeld-on-the-couch common man zeigeist. that romney obviously destroyed it by sounding like a robot who had appraised and optimised the surrounding wetlands for optimum tree height is poignant & hilarious in itself, but i really like "the trees are the right height", it's romantic, just in this instance in a miscalculatedly focus-grouped way.

i really have no problem with his observation and opinion, but yeah, i think schlump's comment is otm.

tbf, when i was in australia, i advised my s.o. that most of the trees seemed really wrong, they did not have the correct proportions or growth patterns.

I get this weird, panicky Peter Finch vibe from Romney.

I think Newt, though, has offered the all-time great butter-up line, when he proclaimed (incorrectly, natch) that you can't put a gun rack in a Chevy Volt. That's one perfect red meat patty for the animals to chew on.

Yeah, but then this happened, although the people inclined to eat that line up will neither see it nor care.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK0ieX9mHr4

"How d'ya all feel?! I was talking to somebody backstage before, and they were tellin’ me there’s a lot of you people there that like the height of the trees in Michigan!”

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Mitt's mistake is he isn't courting the hip hop vote.

tbf, when i was in australia, i advised my s.o. that most of the trees seemed really wrong, they did not have the correct proportions or growth patterns.

the last time i was in california, the trees were in fact the wrong height

Now that I'm comfortable assuming he won't win, I really want Mitt to get this nomination so we can get more clueless references to his wealth, i.e. his wife's many cadillacs. Rather hear that shit for a couple months than Santorum's religious war.

I also feel that trees are the right height in Michigan. They're all wrong and Dr Seuss-y in California, I can promise you.

trees are just the wrong trees everywhere but california

u mad

trees mostly seem okay to me, no matter where i am. maybe the product of growing up in lots of different places...

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"The light doesn't scatter quite right in the rest of the country."

Lord, liar or lunatic wasn't a convincing argument when I was 8 and I was a believer.

people who get onto that argument are utterly convinced that they've got the trump to end all trumps

See also Wager, Pascal's

http://nymag.com/news/features/gop-primary-heilemann-2012-3/

NY mag's big "state of GOP primary" piece is alright, but doesn't mention ron paul ONCE. Obvious Santorum appeasing religious evangelicals is a bigger hurdle for Romney, but Paul keeping the fiscal evangelicals from settling for him is also keeping him from getting a larger slice of voters.

Kind of hilarious they put a photo of him in there but never thought to at least briefly acknowledge the guy's continued presence in the race.

Kelefa Sanneh

lol @ the hipster photo of him

Ron Paul abt. to go onstage at the Bowery Ballroom, opening for The New Pornographers

RON PAUL & THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY AT WEBSTER HALL (NSFW)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/02/25/rick-santorums-despicable-and-hurtful-health-care-lie/

With the Republican presidential nomination still up in the air, the possibility of a brokered convention is looking increasingly likely. Under the party’s rules, the delegates won by Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and the others in the primaries and caucuses are obligated to vote for their assigned candidate only on the first ballot. If no candidate wins the required number of votes, the delegates can throw their support to anyone. There’s speculation that party insiders, unhappy with the current field, might float the candidacy of someone not now in the race, like New Jersey Governor Chris Christie or Jeb Bush.

While Christie and Bush might be fine candidates, perhaps the Republicans should consider a more inspired and game-changing pick: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

Oh goodie! Let's have a candidate for President who has never been elected to public office, who is notorious for his reluctance to speak in public, and who failed to disclose about half a million dollars of payments to his wife from a right wing think tank. As Adam Winkler says, this 'just makes good sense'.

wait was that article real?

The article was meant to be taken seriously, but it appears to be little more than a desperate attempt by the writer to avoid cranking out a stupidly derivative column, which attempt ended up being highly original, but pathetically moronic.

LOL - Clarence Thomas is known as a recluse even AMONG his fellow Justices... not a group of people who tend to get out much.

He'd probably start doing his weekly addresses over the radio, guy's obsesessed with "old-timey" stuff... Or he'd have scroll closed with the presidential seal (in red wax) that is sent to the press secretary, who then reads the statement over the radio

...And its just a concurrence of whatever the Speaker of the House said that week.

He'd probably start doing his weekly addresses over the radio, guy's obsesessed with "old-timey" stuff...

I'll ask my abuela whether her husband put pubes in her Pepsi.

Then again, most people thought an inexperienced African-American often mistaken for a Muslim could never defeat presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton, much less be elected president.

"often mistaken for a muslim" such wit tina brown sure knows how to pick em!

from the same website: "mitt romney knows what he's doing" by lee siegel