2012 republican presidential nominee IV: NEEDS MORE BOOING

The columnist looks like a regular Applebee's patron.

Man, fuck large swaths of Mississippi and Alabama.

I found a foreign patsy willing to marry me. I didn't even have to pay her!!

Still a US citizen though so I can vote against these fuckers from afar

Whatever, GWB was equally craven and stupid as either of those people and he was President for 8 years. A lot of people said they'd leave the country; I actually did

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, March 14, 2012 8:25 AM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You also had a woman waiting for you in other lands, iirc. (kudos)

xp lol

Ah, see, so you're still paying US taxes. etc. Us folks with wives and anchor babies here, we have to be judicious about threats to leave the country. Which is why I leave it to Palin as my low-bar.

If Palin ever becomes president, I'm hereby threatening to move to your country--that's something I'd just have to experience up close.

oh you will when she invades

She's already famously declared that she can see Vancouver from her window--she's had her eye on us all along.

Large swaths of GOP voters in Alabama and Miss want a ban on interracial marriages.

<iateebait>just your friendly reminder that large swaths of the south totally suck*

*aerosmith addendum: large swaths of lots of places totally suck, not everyone in the south sucks, blah blah blah

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/sarah-palin/9094048/Sarah-Palin-believed-Queen-was-in-charge-of-British-forces-in-Iraq.html

I somehow missed this Palin item

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/03/mitt-romney-delegates-hawaii-samoa.html

His wins in the deep South were nice and all, but last night didn't actually bring Rick Santorum any closer to the GOP presidential nomination that ostensibly remains his goal. That's because long after the East Coast Lamestream Media had gone to sleep, because they are lame, Mitt Romney easily won the caucuses in Hawaii and American Samoa (which consisted of about 70 Republicans meeting at a local bar). Combined with the proportionally-allocated delegates he took from losses in Mississippi and Alabama, Romney ended the night, according to an AP count, with at least 41 delegates to Santorum's 35, Newt Gingrich's 24, and Ron Paul's ... one.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hFS8CII05CE2QkGRjjypVY8y71nw?docId=f7422364fe2a47f0b661273d51537843

PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (AP) — What do you get when 50 or so Republicans gather in a restaurant-bar? In American Samoa, you get a presidential caucus.

The U.S. territory, located about 2,300 miles (3,700 kilometers) south of Hawaii, gets its chance Tuesday to participate in the presidential selection process.

It's a decidedly local affair. Republicans will meet at Toa Bar & Grill.

They will choose delegates to the Republican National Convention in August and vote on a presidential candidate. The six delegates picked at the caucus will join three American Samoa "superdelegates" at the convention.

Only registered Republicans can vote in the caucus, and that's why so few attend. It's rare in American Samoa for anyone to officially register as a Republican or Democrat because local elected officials don't run on party lines.

In 2008, the nine delegates backed Arizona Sen. John McCain, who went on to win the Republican nomination.

Amata Radewagen, a Republican National Committeewoman and superdelegate, said Mitt Romney has "quite a bit of support" among local Republicans.

Last weekend, Romney captured all 18 delegates at caucuses in two other U.S. possessions in the Pacific — Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.

Like American Samoa, residents of those islands are U.S. citizens but are not allowed to vote in the presidential election in November.

Y'all were worried about polls. Here's one:

Mitt Romney has retaken a significant lead nationally in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, even as he has fallen further behind Barack Obama in a general election matchup. Moreover, Obama’s own job approval rating has reached 50% for the first time since last May, shortly after the killing of Osama bin Laden.

The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted March 7-11 among 1,503 adults, including 1,188 registered voters and 538 Republican and Republican-leaning voters, finds that Romney leads Rick Santorum, 33% to 24%, in the GOP nomination contest. A month ago, the two men were in a virtual tie (28% Romney, 30% Santorum).

But both GOP frontrunners are running well behind Barack Obama in general election matchups. Among all voters, Obama leads Romney by 12 points (54% to 42%) and Santorum by 18 points (57% to 39%). Obama’s advantage among women voters, while largely unchanged from a month ago, remains substantial – 20 points over Romney and 26 points over Santorum.

Clearly Obama needs to kill Osama Bin Laden again, maybe around August.

would be funny if Obama just killed Mitt/Santorum with a dronestrike

Mitt Romney not entirely clear on what presidents can and can't do.

During the interview with KSDK, he presented his plan for fixing everything: drill for more oil, get rid of the Affordable Care Act, and, most important of all: "Planned Parenthood? We're gonna get rid of that." He knows a doctor who will help, a few towns over. No one will have to know. It's safe.

With that proclamation, Romney's made a complete 180 degree turn from where he said he stood on Planned Parenthood a decade ago. As a candidate for Massachusetts governor, he filled out a Planned Parenthood-sponsored candidate survey attesting that he believed in using Medicaid funds to help poor women get abortions and increased availability of emergency contraception, and that he wasn't against a state law mandating that employer-sponsored health care plans cover the cost of contraception.

50% approval not bad at all for an economy in the shitbin

I was just coming to this thread to to post that, fuck this guy with a rusty pitchfork. xp

"Look, nobody else knows what a bill of attainder is, why should I?"

The combo of flip-flopping, pandering to religious extremists, and medical health misogyny should be all over the media this fall.

I do think it odd that apparently hardcore conservatives see through Mitt's pandering, but apparently buy into Newt's just as audacious red meat tossing. I'd blame it on the Mormon thing, but Newt's religious allegiance ain't exactly rock solid itself, which in some ways is even more suspicious.

Newt eats grits.

*aerosmith addendum: large swaths of lots of places totally suck, not everyone in the south sucks, blah blah blah

Picking the stupidest state in the union to represent THE SOUTH not entirely fair. How about if Miss. represented America?

Just speaking from personal experience, over the years i've seen the increase in interracial marriages whenever I visit Georgian exurbs.

How about if we picked the three or four or five stupidest states in the Union? Would that be a broad enough sample?

http://pleated-jeans.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/The-United-States-of-Shame.png

daaaaaamn Oklahoma

Again, this drilling at home for more oil thing, it's just so dumb. Have any of these candidates address the fact that the oil would be on a world market, not simply pumped from the gulf straight into a big barrel that says "USA ONLY" on it?

If Michigan is the worst at unemployment, does that mean they're actually good at unemployment? Is Ohio worst at being the nerdiest state, or is it the nerdiest state? Does Alaska have a lot of suicides, or not a lot of suicides? Too many unanswered questions with this map.

how is that odd? first, plenty of 'hardcore conservatives' of different kinds are not feeling gingrich either; rick santorum did win two contests last night. second, the base of a party tends to sort itself along a spectrum *given the range of candidates on offer*. mitt romney's slice of support was well to the right of john mccain's in 08, remember. romney is picking up the "left" of the GOP in the present moment.

or, really, what about 'hardcore liberals' and the razor-thin differences between obama and clinton in 08? who can't see through what, really?

Well, Clinton was a master triangulator. Obama hasn't worked too hard on that front, not as much as Clinton. But Newt has clearly crafted himself into something totally different for this campaign. A self-professed intellectual running as an intellectual, a government lifer running as an insurgent, a compulsive adulterer running as a family values candidate, etc.

xpost Not only have they not addressed that re: oil drilling, they also have not addressed the fact that a) domestic oil production has gone up under Obama b) domestic oil production won't change a thing in a sort run and c) no matter where we drill, oil remains finite.

i think those numbers are a few weeks old, no?

xpost referring to obama vs. whoever poll

Like, as Alfred (I think?) has pointed out, Obama in practice hasn't exactly been too different than what was actually promised. Not a lot of rope a dope, though it feels that way, given how much people projected onto him.

I don't even know where I'm xposting to. It's a hail mary xpost.

Those "worst" rankings were from ... last year?

http://pleated-jeans.com/2011/01/24/the-united-states-of-shame-chart/

Picking the stupidest state in the union to represent THE SOUTH not entirely fair. How about if Miss. represented America?

Kansas gave Santorum 51%, MS gave him 33. Just sayin.

I boggled at Maine's average SAT score until I remembered that they are now out of 2400, not 1600

color me libertarian here but what exactly does the idaho one mean

apparently hardcore conservatives see through Mitt's pandering, but apparently buy into Newt's just as audacious red meat tossing.

newt is a much more convincing avatar of hatred for the other

mitt doing some of this stuff is like listening to my mom swear

My friend was just visiting Kansas, and she left very impressed. She returned to her husband and basically said, you know, I could imagine living there. So he reminded her that they teach creationism, and she was all, oh yeah, fuck that state.

12. Idaho – lowest level of Congressional clout

http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/roll_call_rocky_mountain_states_still_at_bottom_of_congressional_clout_list/C559/L559/

teaching evolution has been declared unconstitutional

public schools in kansas-like places just don't teach anything, that's their workaround

ha i mean teaching creation

in public schools obv

kansas-like places

KANSAS SHE SAID IS THE NAME OF THE STAAAR

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTQYwXUZnW9MdoiDvzcDUk2CyL4RXrg8vWMwF-eU6D8cmP-94JrNQ

re: that purported Obama poll drop

CBS/NYT — March 7-11 — 41%

Bloomberg — March 8-11 — 48%

Ipsos/Reuters — March 8-11 — 50%

ABC/WaPo — March 7-10 — 46%

Pew — March 7-11 — 50%

Gallup — March 10-12 — 47%

Rasmussen — March 11-13 — 47%

Why is Delaware worst at abortion and what does it have to do with DC?

Hadn't considered this, but it makes sense:

http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-stump/101695/romneys-other-southern-problem-hooah

Fred Thompson's greatest hit:

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