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

I can't believe I had never heard of Santorum's hardcore commie cousins.

Matt Taibbi on the primaries as the natural end result of the paranoid resentment psychodrama of the last few decades:

No, it was while watching the debates last night that it finally hit me: This is justice. What we have here are chickens coming home to roost. It's as if all of the American public's bad habits and perverse obsessions are all coming back to haunt Republican voters in this race: The lack of attention span, the constant demand for instant gratification, the abject hunger for negativity, the utter lack of backbone or constancy (we change our loyalties at the drop of a hat, all it takes is a clever TV ad): these things are all major factors in the spiraling Republican disaster.

http://m.rollingstone.com/?redirurl=/politics/blogs/taibblog/arizona-debate-conservative-chickens-come-home-to-roost-20120223

lol taibbi goes brooks on us

brooks would have cited "a recent study"

lol taibbi goes brooks on us

http://netrightdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/David-Brooks.jpeg

"What should shame the GOP is how an increasing reliance on what I call the Waffle House vote over the Starbucks constituency is an example of what David Langford, a professor at Wharton, calls the narcissism of spoiled cream"

rofl

I missed that Ron Paul quote he references - that's some crazy head-in-the-sand shit.

idqg how intrade 'works' but 20% is absurdly high for this

http://www.intrade.com/v4/markets/contract/?contractId=756901

if you have some money lying around, this is an easy return i think

the rules of that trade do say

"If the Presidential nominee is not decided after the first round of delegate voting at the party convention the convention will be considered "brokered" (i.e. it takes multiple rounds of voting by party delegates to decide the nominee)."

but even that seems like dreaming imo

shorting things is very expensive on intrade

huh well fuck that!

basically you have to put up 80 cents to the dollar to short a contract that's at 20.

that sentence might have well read 'my cat's breath smells like cat food', good thing I quit my job at goldman sachs counting money weeks ago

haha this is not high finance this is an internet game basically

I would like to short dr. morbius's lent commitment

haha

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I think our Michigan forecast might literally show a tie.

It's probably even the right height.

it's crazy what a big difference santorum winning by 1% and losing by 1% can make in this race in partic

Kid Rock giving a concert for Romney is on the news right now & it may be the grossest thing I have ever seen.

All of these young earnest preppy (Mormon?) bros fist pumping and holding lighters aloft for Kid Rock and Mitt.

Newt must be suffering about this. Suffering!

http://i.imgur.com/uEG4X.png

disclaimer: all polling recorded previous to kid rock event

RICK ROMNEY IN A LANDSLIDE GOP #1 YEAH

man, this is all too hilarious. congrats on a hard fought campaign, Mitt Santorum.

I'm slowly learning to temper my excitement over such chaotic scenarios--Romney keeps weaseling his way off of life support.

Yes, if by "weaseling" you mean spending $4 or $5 million. But, by many political definitions, spending big money = life support.

plus all this time Obama for America hasn't had to spend any money to improve O's favorables; the jobs numbers are doing all the work

hence this goofy primary being so delightful

I don't know what I mean, Aimless. I'm just getting a 24-hour head start on being mad.

In NewtWorld:

"We are not going to fix Afghanistan. It is not possible. These are people who have spent several thousand years hating foreigners. And what we have done by staying is become the new foreigners. This is a real problem. And there are some problems where you have to say, 'You know, you are going to have to figure out how to live your own miserable life because you clearly don't want to learn from me how to be unmiserable.' And that is what you are going to see happen."

Obama spent about as much as Romney last month, iirc, though he had much more saved.

Romney got a grilling from the rocker for more than an hour, campaign aides said. Would he help the state of Michigan? Romney said he would. Would he help the city of Detroit? Kid Rock himself had just committed to help raise a $1 million for the struggling city’s symphony. Romney said yes. And the singer born with the name Bob Ritchie pressed Romney about how he would support U.S. service members as president.

Romney left without an answer about the performance. The next day, he received an email: Kid Rock was in.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/romney-woos-kid-rock-landing-rocker-rapper-and-born-free-for-last-rally-before-mich-vote/2012/02/27/gIQA21v0eR_story.html

I think that he makes some pretty good music and I like listening to his music,” Romney told Detroit radio station WXYT when he was asked if Kid Rock portrays values that people should emulate.

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2012-02/228022340-27181154.jpg

MY NAME IS MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT

ROOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM (ney)

no reason to doubt that Romney has anything but the best interests of Detroit in his heart...

http://www.mofopolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/mitt-romney.jpg

Yeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh
Pass that bottle around
Got the rock from Detroit
Soul from Motown

http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/election-2012/Images/Romney_2012_0edde.jpg?uuid=nEA4KlRIEeGeGcVfMLX9BQ

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh
They call me cowboy, I'm the singer in black
So throw a finger in the air and let me see where you're at

http://www.themachoresponse.com/crackMC/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/mitt-romney-hair-gop-debate.jpg

I like AC/DC and ZZ Top
Bocephus, Beasties and the kings of rock
Skynyrd, Segar, Limp, Korn, the Stones
David Allen Coe and no show Jones

actually, maybe Rock and Mitt could swap notes on the whole "desperate attempt to appeal to everyone in the room" thing....

http://images.politico.com/global/2012/01/120124_romney_sotuprebuttal_ap_328.jpg

All you bastards at the I.R.S.
For the crooked cops and the cluttered desks
For the shots of Jack and the caps of meth
Half pints of love and a fifth of stress

i heard romney is taking juan atkins along to DJ his campaign events in michigan. is this true?

Poll: Romney vs. U.S. President in Superman II

remember when kid rock was a failed white rapper whose only media presence any more was a mocking piece in Grand Royal?

http://bigpondmusic.com/images/AlbumCoverArt/477/XXL/Grits-Sandwiches-For-Breakfast.jpg

Maybe this is the music Romney enjoys listening to?

http://www.topspinmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Screen-shot-2011-05-18-at-10.50.01-AM.png

okay i'll stop posting kid rock related material for the night

the rap pack otm

In NewtWorld:

"We are not going to fix Afghanistan. It is not possible. These are people who have spent several thousand years hating foreigners. And what we have done by staying is become the new foreigners. This is a real problem. And there are some problems where you have to say, 'You know, you are going to have to figure out how to live your own miserable life because you clearly don't want to learn from me how to be unmiserable.' And that is what you are going to see happen."

he is the living worst