2012 republican presidential nominee IV: NEEDS MORE BOOING

see that's one of those felicitous stylistic touches of which good reporting is made.

It's not that Obama is black, it's that I don't like his policies. Also, he's black.

I've got lots of friends who are black. I have no problem with them. And I'd have no problem with Obama, if he were one of the good ones.

Oh, Alabama.

alabamanatin forever

I want to make sure you understand it's not because he's black, because when you hear how nonsensical my reasons for not liking him are, you might conclude it is because he's black. Which would be wrong, like I'm telling you.

If I had a problem with black people, then I would not have considered voting for Herman Cain had all the white candidates dropped out.

Romney: Poppy Bush II?

IT'S NOT THAT HE'S MORMON

As the editorial documents well, H.W./Romney parallels are all over the place. The big one that's missing for Romney is a Reagan in the background providing cover.

Grits, ladies and gentlemen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=G6Xzs93ucDQ

Meantime, Nelson laugh!

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/73807.html

Mitt Romney’s money machine is sending a message to the Washington establishment: Help.

GOP operatives thought it would cost Romney around $50 million to secure the nomination, but coming off a bruising few months and with a slog still ahead, some say it could cost much closer to $75 million.

Romney has put out a rallying cry to his supporters in Congress, asking them to kick in cash and get their best donors on board, too. He asked the 80 Republican lawmakers who have endorsed him to raise $10,000 each for a fundraiser at the end of the month in Washington. By law, they can personally contribute $2,000 from their reelection committees; the rest would need to come from their supporters.

mitt mitt mitt whatre we gonna do w/u

you think it wd be cheaper to lean on the santorum & gingrich money people and tell them to lay off? i don't get this world tho

"we don't all have to waste our money here to figure out what we already know, do we?"

Actually, I don't see why Romney simply didn't fire Santorum and Gingrich weeks ago. He's that good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=G6Xzs93ucDQ

love this guy

Is that where he's talking about how much he likes to eat cereal? I saw that on CNN yesterday--what an endlessly entertaining guy.

great headline on CNN today: "Napping Newt Forgot Why He Was At Event"

hope fred willard gets to play mitt in the biopic

wha happened?: mitt romney and the road to 2012

Somehow this endless process never stops bringing the lolz

great headline on CNN today: "Napping Newt Forgot Why He Was At Event"

― the late great, Friday, March 9, 2012 11:17 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm kinda thinking about donating to newt's campaign, hell just keep it rolling into 2013, 2014, this is too much fun to stop

Because you wanted to know:

The former gov’s campaign posted a list of “what Mitt listens to on the road” through Spotify on Facebook on Friday. Here’s the 19 song playlist:

“I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow” by The Soggy Bottom Boys

“Read my Mind” by The Killers

“December, 1963 [Oh, What a Night]" by Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons

“Ring of Fire”

“Somebody Told Me” by the Killers

“The MTA (The Boston Subway Song)” by The Kingston Trio

“Good Vibrations” by The Beach Boys

“Desperado” by Clint Black

“Crying” by Roy Orbison

“Only You” by Commodores

“Runaway” by Del Shannon

“It’s Your Love” by Tim McGraw

“As Good as I Once Was” by Toby Keith

“Born Free” by Kid Rock

“Over the Rainbow” by Willie Nelson

“Stardust”

“In Dreams” by Roy Orbison

“Somebody Like You” by Keith Urban

“All-American Girl” by Carrie Underwood

"I was watching Blue Velvet and I got thinking about Roy Orbison..."

Also LOL Killers.

i believe that Romney likes the Killers

ha I wonder if the killers thing is mormonism related? it has to be right

for sure. what's the guy's name? brandon flowers?

"No you idiot I said I liked Wayland Flowers and Madame!"

Killers are from Las Vegas, so maybe.

no brandon flowers is def mormon, prob the most successful mormon musician since donny and marie

mormon party mix = donny and marie, the killers, low

Oh yeah I guess you are right:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2011/10/17/brandon_flowers_of_the_killers_i_m_a_mormon.html

Maybe Mormons have their own version of Canadian content laws, and since Flowers is the only thing going right now, they all have to listen to him.

Well somebody told me
You had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last year\
I disapprove of this
greatly

if he's into that stardust willie nelson album i wish him well in life

Huh, apparently Gladys Knight converted to LDS in the '90s.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/the-tina-fey-effect/2012/03/09/gIQAwmjO1R_blog.html?wprss=rss_ezra-klein

I am 100% willing to believe this is true,

that is unreal

Looks more correlative than causal

well I'd be interested to read that paper but I think people really underestimate how many low-information voters got their impression of sarah palin from lol clips they can on the internet

they saw on the internet*

I am totally cool w/ tina fey deserving a footnote in history books

large number of people really do think she said "I can see Russia from my house!"

hitchens is a dumbfuck but I def think tina fey played a pretty decent role in solidifying palin's public image - more people watch snl+youtube than tv news. there were def people who thought that palin actually said "I can see russia from my house."

― iatee, Tuesday, September 22, 2009 11:36 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

in before science

to be fair, this isn't much better:

As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border.

re her foreign policy experience

Looks more correlative than causal

yeah, i mean, from individual to individual there's probably a lot of variation, but i'm leery of the the authors' willingness to attribute causation as a general explanation. it might simply be that a lot of those republicans who were more favorably inclined towards palin were less willing to watch fey's parody.

or less likely to watch SNL in general (i.e., olds, cranks, angrys)

The grits clip posted above is not the cereal clip I heard yesterday. Brace yourself: this is an angry, militant Romney that you've never encountered before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvY4KKk964A