2012 republican presidential nominee IV: NEEDS MORE BOOING

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

xp 2012 republican presidential nominee IV: NEEDS MORE BOOING

x-post -
Attacking Bill Maher's attitude towards women seems to quite the right-wing meme these days. I have now seen a couple of folks say in response to criticisms of Rush, etc., but what about Bill Maher. None of the Republican candidates have used it yet though.

oops cp

Bill Maher defended Rush's recent statements iirc

they can both go die in a fire imho

"what about the roots?"

maher didnt defend rushes statements so much as be all he apologized lets move on ok but w/e yes he is horrible

Found this piece interesting:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/03/11/david-frum-mike-huckabee-brings-on-rush-limbaugh-s-decline.html?obref=obinsite

On one of the old Republican threads I said I didn't mind Huckabee, but didn't get much agreement.

Celebrity apologies sound nothing like honest apologies, so defending a celebrity apology as perfectly adequate just underlines what a sleazeball you must be.

Maher's comments are about as bad as loathsome as you would expect

interesting article clemenza - the stuff about why some of Limbaugh's advertisers were willing to bolt this time around was illuminating

lol, given a choice between Limbaugh and Huckabee, yes I am going to pick Huckabee 100% of the time

this doesn't actually mean I like Huckabee

Huck filled in after Paul Harvey officially died and I was none too impressed.

Seems like Republican Radio will have its choice between Gomer and Gozer. I know who I'd pick if I was an even angrier white male.

lol, given a choice between Limbaugh and Huckabee, yes I am going to pick Huckabee 100% of the time

Limbaugh can't play a bass solo to save his life

If Huck opens his new radio show with a live performance of him jamming on "My City Was Gone", then I'll take back every mean thing I've ever said about that hound dog-looking motherfucker.

huckabee has got the carson daly my-diet-has-made-me-look-like-death thing going on.

Repeating myself again, but the thing Huckabee did that I liked was defend Obama in 2008 during the Wright pile-on--he had (from his perspective) every reason not to, and I don't think it was an insignificant gesture. I don't want to overstate his case, though. I can't remember specifics, but there was some incident earlier this year, or maybe last year, where he took the predictably easy way out.