2012 republican presidential nominee IV: NEEDS MORE BOOING

he seems really unwell.

like, he might die soon.

He looks like he is dying.

"A vote for Romney is a vote for my healthcare...wait."

that's a bold pattern on his shirt

ha that was my first and only thought

it makes an impression

is he wearing a cheesecloth

The Republicans’ war on TelePrompters is an example of why many in the party are wary about the GOP nomination fight extending all the way through June. Attacking TelePrompters might be a winning strategy (or at least part of one) in a Republican primary race but’s it hard to imagine any swing voters this November being persuaded by that line of attack.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/republicans-war-on-the-teleprompter--and-its-limits/2012/03/12/gIQAjuMV7R_blog.html?hpid=z2

the whole teleprompter meme is so hilarious and lame

but I thought the GOP loved Reagan!

Does that mean they want cue cards instead? Or a speech to be memorised? I just don't get it. If politics is to progress in helping the people, we need more Rick Perry moments but during important speeches, god dammit!?

I am declaring war on... oh shit... one of those countries. I forgot which one. If only we invented some sort of way for me to read the speech instead of just trying to remember. The country we are going to invade is... well it starts with an I. Israel? Fuck it, that sounds foreign enough. I am declaring war on Israel.

I've posted this before, but: could've used a teleprompter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WEdrdoz8Z4

(Still love when he momentarily turns into the Penguin at the 19-second mark.)

My impression of the teleprompter rumpus is that it's a specific dig at Obama ("He ain't so smart - he just reads his speeches off a teleprompter.")

Because, for Republican base voters, it epitomizes everything they dislike about President Obama. It reveals that “he’s all show,” explained Curt Anderson, a Republican media consultant who did work for Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s presidential bid but is now unaffiliated in the race. “All hat, no cattle.”

Added Rob Stutzman, a California-based Republican consultant: “Obama took the TelePrompter to a new level of absurdity when he reached the White House. It seemed he couldn’t even greet a little league team without the Prompter in place.”

In short: The use of a Prompter gets at authenticity, which should be the watch word for all politicians in the coming election. These days voters tend to believe that all politicians are telling them what they want to hear. For Republicans, Obama’s use of the TelePrompter is the height of inauthenticity — reading words written for him by someone else from an electronic device.

looooooool

Speaking of Perry, this is great--less for the fantasy that naming someone in advance will help Gingrich, more for the someone he settles on:

http://www.salon.com/2012/03/12/ah_the_old_v_p_trick/

("Preliminary 'what-if' conversation" deserves its own acronym. "Romney and Santorum engage in secret PWICs over potential non-existence of Easter Bunny.")

Everything about the GOP makes me think of George Clooney in Out of Sight: "This is the dumbest fuckin' shakedown in the history of dumb shakedowns."

How could we all be so callous? Happy 65th, Mitt! (At home, with the trees.)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/shakespeares_sister/shakes4/1-23-12-Mitt-Romney_full_600.jpg

pretty surprised that Silver has Romney ahead of Santorum in MS and AL. Gingrich, too, but that's a little less surprising.

those aren't his trees!!

Although Mitt reserves a special place in his heart for the trees of Michigan, he has promised to restore all of America's trees to the greatness they once enjoyed before President Obama declared his War on Trees four years ago.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oyZ-qVSfGLc/SWvUTrAjSII/AAAAAAAABTg/uF6mKOjyvRs/S220/Flo.jpg

Reportedly making robocalls for Romney in the south.

"Kiss my Mitt!"

anyone making those teleprompter jokes should be forced to watch obama answering questions at the republican congressional conference

Yeah, it's such a bad fit between meme and reality - would put Obama way up there in terms of presidents who can say something coherent without a teleprompter. But - gotcha - the more intelligent and on-point he is without his precious prompters, the more he's a Harvard egghead out of touch with jus' plain folks!

it's as if they have no memory of that republican who was in power for eight years recently

I was gonna say

Is there any coverage of this anywhere that doesn't have the tone of "Jesus effing Christ this is never going to end"? Everyone just seems exhausted.

Sullivan still tries to transform every primary day into Romney's moment of truth. Elsewhere, pretty much.

From the "First as Tragedy, Then as Farce" Dep't.:

Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, was fielding a friendly question about star quarterback Peyton Manning, who was cut from the Indianapolis Colts last week. He said he hoped Manning would not picked up by his hometown team, the New England Patriots.

And that's when he stepped in it.

"I got a lot of good friends – the owner of the Miami Dolphins and the New York Jets, both owners are friends of mine," he said on a syndicated radio program hosted by Paul Finebaum.

xpost -- It's been great fun watching the usual suspects at RedState etc. move from being "THIS WILL BE THE ULTIMATE BATTLE TO DEFEAT THE EVIL SOCIALIST" to a savage torpor whimpering and muttering.

But now with gas prices rising, and Obama's poll numbers momentarily down, the right-wingers seem renewed in spirit

If Romney had a sense of humor at all I would think he's just messing with us now...

But now with gas prices rising, and Obama's poll numbers momentarily down, the right-wingers seem renewed in spirit

Philip Klein over at the Washington Examiner (ergo, another right wing type) took that on board and basically said "My fellow political travellers don't know shit about economics and commodities; I would ask them to stop acting like fools."

x-post re Romney and owner friends-- if, but does not appear that way. Amazing.

The passion:

I view Rick Santorum as the most conservative candidate in the Republican presidential primary. I have chosen not to publicly endorse a candidate. I believe a vote is a personal decision that should be based on a voter’s values and principles, not on someone else’s opinion. After being asked who I would vote for, I responded that I had personally chosen to vote for Rick Santorum. The Republican primary features a strong pool of candidates, and I will fully support the Republican nominee chosen by the people.

The voter in question happens to be the governor of Alabama.

I believe a vote is a personal decision that should be based on a voter’s values and principles, not on someone else’s opinion

how does this even make sense

meanwhile The Corner seems enervated lately

well my votes are all based on the opinion of the Gov of Alabama so...

Question

By Kathryn Jean Lopez
March 13, 2012 11:54 A.M.

Why did Michael Steele go on Bill Maher’s show Friday night, when Maher so viciously attacks Republican women?

And why, when he was there, during the kind of high-minded discussion of misogyny you might expect there, did Steele not bother to defend the Virginia ultrasound bill against Maher’s mischaracterization?

But I return to the main question. Why, former chairman of the RNC, would you go on that show?

Would Republican men please stop credentialing that show?

Here's a beaut:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/293254/romney-santorum-vp-he-doesnt-have-fiscal-conservative-chops-katrina-trinko

What have we done, to deserve candidates like these

What've we, what've we, what've we done to deserve candidates like this?

(Even though I'm not part of the we.)

Here's a beaut:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/293254/romney-santorum-vp-he-doesnt-have-fiscal-conservative-chops-katrina-trinko

wait is there such a thing as a "fiscal conservative to the left"?

There is now!

We got this
We got this
My fiscal conservative is to my right

he did it again mitt mitt mitt http://gawker.com/5892855/today-in-mitt-romney-trying-to-relate-to-voters-ive-got-a-lot-of-good-friends-who-own-nfl-teams

just over here flexing my fiscal conservative chops