right, Alfred, that's my point
― Euler, Monday, 16 April 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
Romney/Maturo Jr '12
― an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Monday, 16 April 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
xpost
yes, please. I figured by using it in the stupidest situations we can get it out of the running
― mh, Monday, 16 April 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
Hologram Tupac is the obvious answer
― Jilly Boel and the Eltones (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 16 April 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
that kind of calculation betrays a lack of understanding of the (lack of) solidarity of the USA Latino community...which means it's likely just how the Romney camp is thinking
exactly! i don't think they'll do it because it IS the smart thing to do, they'll do it because they THINK its the smart thing to do.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 16 April 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
if this was a poll I'd vote Paul Ryan. he plays to the economy theme and has social con bona-fides over Christie who's squishy on guns and gays
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Monday, 16 April 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
can we not use the adjective "squishy" to describe Christie on anything
― an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Monday, 16 April 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
Christie squishy on gays, film at 11
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 16 April 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
how about gelatinous
― Jilly Boel and the Eltones (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 16 April 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
how bout Wellesian?
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 April 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
jeezus, and it's only 4 months til the pick is made
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 April 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
Hmm, maybe he'll pick the person in charge of helping him pick the right person?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 April 2012 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry, I don't know which current politics thread is the right one, but does anyone else get the impression that all or most of Mitt's battles have been fought for him? I'm never been impressed by the guy on the stump or stage - too much frenzied stammering, unconvincing line readings, poor turns of phrases and avoidable gaffes - but I wonder if all will simply get worse now that the spotlight is his and his alone, let alone once compared with Obama, who thrives on all those rhetorical fronts.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 April 2012 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
Ohio senator Portman maybe not
http://www.ontheissues.org/oh/rob_portman.htm
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/10/the-portman-bubble.html
National Journal’s Major Garrett flatly declared that Portman will get the nod, in part because he and Romney have a “genuine rapport.” Garrett acknowledged the downside:
“Portman’s a bore, and their ticket would be boredom squared, or squares squared; he offers nothing to women voters or Latino voters; he carries the taint of Bush-Cheney policies; and he’s not conservative enough for the Tea Party. To one degree or another, these are all valid complaints. But Romney has the same perceived ‘flaws’ and he’s going to win the nomination.”
The Portman boomlet picked up momentum when Politico ran this headline: “Rob Portman tops veepstakes.” The evidence for this? “The name on the lips of most GOP strategists is Ohio senator and former George W. Bush administration official Rob Portman.”
Newsweek’s own Paul Begala was nothing if not definitive:
“You heard it here first: Mitt Romney is going to select Rob Portman, the junior senator from Ohio, to be his running mate…I’m betting that Romney’s choice will reflect who he is: a bloodless technocrat who wants to double down on trickle down.”
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 April 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
"Newsweek's Paul Begala."
― clemenza, Monday, 16 April 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
offers nothing to women voters or Latino voters
New GOP slogan.
― Advanced Uncle Meat recovery system (Dan Peterson), Monday, 16 April 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
to continue the Hillary 2008: Needs More Kahlua theme from the other head
http://cdn.theatlanticwire.com/img/upload/2012/04/16/RTR30SAA/large.jpg
― Jilly Boel and the Eltones (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 16 April 2012 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
not true, Newt will offer marriage and/or yard work to both
xp
― Euler, Monday, 16 April 2012 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
GIS for Portman suggests I search for Kelly Ayotte
― boxall, Monday, 16 April 2012 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
I like the two gay staffers behind HRC already wondering which hotel room they're going back to
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 April 2012 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
what is HRC holding?
― goole, Monday, 16 April 2012 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
She's gonna flick a bottle cap at somebody.
― Advanced Uncle Meat recovery system (Dan Peterson), Monday, 16 April 2012 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
a popper
― it's smdh time in America (will), Monday, 16 April 2012 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
missing a comma
what, is HRC holding?
― an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Monday, 16 April 2012 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
The SOS doesn't have all the nuclear codes, right? These photos are starting to make me nervous.
― clemenza, Monday, 16 April 2012 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
After a few drinks Clinton is known to chuck D batteries at staffers. [citation needed]
― goole, Monday, 16 April 2012 22:13 (twelve years ago) link
lol, these photos are making me wish I'd gone to college with HR because she'd fit right into my peer group
― an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Monday, 16 April 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
don't believe the hype
― Euler, Monday, 16 April 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
how low can she go?!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 April 2012 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
CNN just went through this--all the usual names plus, because Romney's supposedly losing women so badly, Condoleezza Rice. Meanwhile, Ralph Reed, who's been creeping me out for two decades, says that Romney needs more unscripted moments, so people get to know him better. Hasn't every one of Romney's self-inflicted wounds the past few months been an unscripted moment?
― clemenza, Monday, 16 April 2012 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
hush, let Ralph have his illusions
― Aimless, Monday, 16 April 2012 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
I'm gonna go with Christine O'Donnell.
― Harried Ice Craw (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 16 April 2012 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
For a split second I thought she was aiming for a dartboard across a crowded bar.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 16 April 2012 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
Lord Jesus, I know You are disappointed in me and that my prayers do not ascend to Your great throne. But hear, O Lord, the words of your servant, Deric W. Haircare. He is a good man, and his idea has much lol to recommend it. Christine O'Donnell, Lord. ttyl w/b
― same old song and placenta (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 16 April 2012 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
rubio's incredibly lukewarm (=overtly unimpressed) endorsements of romney probably mean he's out, no?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 16 April 2012 23:55 (twelve years ago) link
mitt's not afraid of the witch
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/13/odonnell-and-romney.html
― it's smdh time in America (will), Monday, 16 April 2012 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
"i mean, i wish it had been somebody else -- but anybody on the republican ticket will be better than obama" is what he said on the TV IIRC.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 16 April 2012 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
Rubio, a protege of Jeb Bush's, surely can read the tea leaves as assiduously as Madison did Gibbon: both look towards 2016.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 April 2012 23:57 (twelve years ago) link
nah 2012 is actually prob a more winnable election than 2016
― iatee, Monday, 16 April 2012 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
The candidate with no incumbent will be less for grabs than the one with an incumbent?
― mh, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
Sean Hannity agrees.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
the gop will still be in basically the same shape it is today, prob worse + the economy will be better + lotsa strong dem candidates
― iatee, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
haha how are we defining "strong"? I see a landscape in which "centrism" will triumph over honesty about economics.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
It was ever thus -- I just don't know what there is to look forward to in 2016 besides better Nicki Minaj records.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
"strong" = "capable of winning a national election"
― iatee, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
imo fuck centrism, just look like you make sense and hope that the tea party/weirdo social conservatives/regional wackos continue to keep looking extra crazy and push your platform
― mh, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
what's the platform?
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
Dems have tread water for years. Tea Party crazies make it easier for Dems to score Halperin-esque "tactical" victories.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 00:08 (twelve years ago) link
well I never said "a solidly left-wing politician is going to win the presidency" but the 2008 and 2012 gop primaries were not aberrations, they're the new norm.
― iatee, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
guys
Mitt Romney running mate speculation thread
not "revisit overarching theories of how the political process works" thread
sincerely, Thread Cop
― same old song and placenta (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
#3 on that frum list was my first thought when i saw the pick -- the most obvious-seeming answer to the who is this for question, right? it's not really for "the base" cuz the base hates obama so much that romney shouldn't have to worry about them; it's not really for "swing voters" because this isn't the guy to get them; but the kochs of the country, the ultrariches with their heads stuffed full of rand, love this guy (the natl review had a hilarious piece where they said ryan was just the kind of brilliant analytical "uber-competent thinker" romney would have hired at bain; he's a ceo's idea of a genius) and w romney's numbers slipping i thought maybe he was hoping for a huge cash injection from a newly enthusiastic plutocracy. who knows tho right.
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 11 August 2012 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
anagram fun - "Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan" -> "Immoral Ayn Rand-type nut"
― (500) Days of Sodom (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 11 August 2012 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
awesome!
― Simon H., Saturday, 11 August 2012 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
the most obvious-seeming answer to the who is this for question, right?
Duh, it's for the good of the country, and, by extension, the good of the whole world.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 11 August 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
http://swampland.time.com/2013/11/02/the-hunt-for-pufferfish/
Based on their junk-food-saturated vetting diet, they called their undertaking Project Goldfish (after the crackers)—ultimately giving each of the VP finalists an aquatic code name. Myers’ plan was to have Project Goldfish completed by Memorial Day. In April she presented Romney with a list of two dozen names, which he whittled down to 11: Kelly Ayotte, John Cornyn, Chris Christie, Mitch Daniels, Bill Frist, Mike Huckabee, Bob McDonnell, Tim Pawlenty, Rob Portman, Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan.Within a month, the vetters had assembled preliminary research books on the 11, which Romney perused and then rendered his short list: Christie (Pufferfish), Pawlenty (Lakefish), Portman (Filet o Fish), Rubio (Pescado) and Ryan (Fishconsin).
Within a month, the vetters had assembled preliminary research books on the 11, which Romney perused and then rendered his short list: Christie (Pufferfish), Pawlenty (Lakefish), Portman (Filet o Fish), Rubio (Pescado) and Ryan (Fishconsin).
― Bailey (Collins) Lover (Eazy), Sunday, 3 November 2013 20:33 (ten years ago) link
huck
http://datxvsvmsae0p.cloudfront.net/sw56586001.jpg
― |citation needed| (will), Sunday, 3 November 2013 20:46 (ten years ago) link
should've selected gov. pufferfish.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Sunday, 3 November 2013 20:48 (ten years ago) link