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

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

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.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.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.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.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.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.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.

recycling his 'honey, i want a divorce' speech

i can imagine him uttering those words to his cancer-ridden soon-to-be-ex-wife xps

kid rock's music is fucking horrible but God bless him for helping a struggling symphony orchestra imo

well he did it on the condition that they can only play symphonies he wrote

the world has been desperately crying out for a symphonic version of "Bawitdaba"

Kid Rock's "Symphony No. 1 (In Memoriam, Joe C., 2000)"

haha I totally forgot about joe c

Sheryl Crow will really get to show off her coloratura in that

kid rock's music is fucking horrible but God bless him for helping a struggling symphony orchestra imo

The DSO has been having a lot of financial troubles, so I can't hate on him for that. But I wish you could all see that Romney rally, it was so strange.

nicole are you voting for santorum tonight??

I've been thinking about it, but my knee is screwed up right now to the point where I can barely walk/stand on it so it will depend on whether I will feel up to standing in line.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/romney-im-not-willing-to-light-my-hair

It's very easy to excite the base with incendiary comments. We've seen throughout the campaign if you're willing to say really outrageous things that are accusative, attacking of President Obama, that you're going to jump up in the polls. I'm not willing to light my hair on fire to try and get support. I am who I am.

u wish it was easy 4 U MITT lol burn

I think that he makes some pretty good music and I like listening to his music,” Romney told Detroit radio station...

I guess that's marginally better than "I don't follow music as closely as some people, but I'm friends with many of the label moguls."

lol

he might be trying to overwhelm us w/ so many gaffes that no single gaffe can catch fire

it feels like he has run 4 john kerry campaigns at this point

"I especially love Joe C--he's just the right height."

(I realize I'll burn in hell for that.)

lmao

I guess that's marginally better than "I don't follow music as closely as some people, but I'm friends with many of the label moguls."

real life lol

"I appreciate the opportunity to be here and to discuss obviously the number one issue in this campaign and the number one issue here in the state of Michigan, which is the health and state of our economy and what we can do in Washington, D.C., I would put it, to create an atmosphere for our economy to grow, the private sector to grow.

Here in Michigan, you've been through a lot of tough times. I knew she was a snitch so I cut off her tongue. Got happy with the trigger, now I'm on the run. An assassin! We all know that, and it's exciting to see the resurgence of the auto industry here. But over the last four years, Michigan's lost over 140,000 jobs; 250,000 people from Michigan have left the workforce and the unemployment rate is, unfortunately, still higher than the national average. So if you were to ask the question 'Are you better off now than you were four years ago?', for too many people in this state, the answer would still be, 'Wicked clown, wicked clown, wicked clown, wicked clown.' Don't fuck with me.

I'm going to lay out very quickly my economic plan. And you're going to hear this and you're going to say, 'Well, that's pretty similar to other economic plans' that you've heard from Republicans. Let me do that first, and then let me tell you how we're just a little different from some of the others in this race and how we approach the issue of creating an opportunity where everyone in America can rise.

My father was a priest, cold blooded, he's dead. Hypocrite, he was a bigot, so I cut off his head. Poured on the holy water, 'Bless the dead' is what I said. And heard the demons screaming as his body bled. I also believe in reducing the size of government. That's key. You can't just cut taxes and reduce as a result ... revenues to the federal government without creating a balance by reducing the size of government. And that's important, too -- to remove the regulatory burden from the people of this country.

Now I know you folks here in Michigan have been hearing some things on the television from one of my opponents that I am a big spender. You will find that fairly surprising to the folks who are my colleagues and any objective look at my spending record when I was in Congress, and there was one done just yesterday by the Weekly Standard. Went into my trailer, I filled up the glass. Before she took a sip I had my dick in her ass.
I banged it, and banged it, the shit was absurd! Like she was Sporty Spice, and I was some fuckin' nerd. Wicked clown, wicked clown, wicked clown, wicked clown.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is a hostile world, and we need to make sure that we are relying upon ourselves and that means we need to create a marketplace where we can compete with everybody around the world. No advantages, just a level playing field. Wicked clown, wicked clown. Wicked clown, wicked clown. Don't fuck with me."
--Rick Santorum, speech to the Detroit Economic Club, 2/18/12

Oh man, where's a magic typewriter when you really need one?

serious question here:
is the outcome of the republican primaries essentially moot? does it matter who wins?
this is the party that got George W Bush elected. twice. couldn't they just nominate, say, a block of wood and proceed to do that thing they do - where they just attack attack attack and say whatever they want about their block of wood regardless of how laughably false it may be?

i guess, it seems to me like what decides U.S. elections is essentially the democratic candidate's ability to deflect the mud being hurled at him throughout the campaign. the republican candidate can be Bush, Romney or a block of wood for all it matters.

how off base am i here?

this is not the party that got george w bush elected, this is the party that exists after george w bush got elected. it actually matters a lot who serves as the face of the gop righ now.

where they just attack attack attack and say whatever they want about their block of wood regardless of how laughably false it may be?

I think they'll continue this m.o., but the difference this year is that the cracks in the party facade are really starting to show. In previous elections, they could attack-attack-attack and pretend that it was a position of strength; now it's more revealed as a position of batshit insanity and desperation. (c.f. Taibbi from last week)