2012 republican presidential nominee IV: NEEDS MORE BOOING

'the bill'

Sarah Palin has a chance, and if you don't think so, you give voters way too much credit.

lol pp

nah even the crazy people are sick of sarah palin

no matter who the voters are, sarah palin doesn't stand a chance bc she lacks the discipline, intelligence, etc, to mount a presidential campaign. she just couldn't make it throughout the entire run

looooool

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also everyone h8s her

except me

Palin cannot attract any of the moderate voters she would need to win. She can blather to the base all she wants, but so can Newt.

GOP might have thought they had something with Nikki Haley for a minute there, but no.

Don't drag intelligence into this.

someone as crazy as sarah palin who had decent handlers coulda won this year

i think the lesson of the mccain campaign is that there aren't handlers good enough to handle sarah

yah handlers are overrated, you need a candidate who wants to be handled, even then you end up w/romney

how exactly do you run a campaign for someone determined to take everything in their line of vision with the grace and charm of an aggressive toddler?

agressive toddler '12

well you can't really, which is why none of the crazies were able to ride their momentum longer than 3 minutes xp

This Etch-a-Sketch nonsense is exactly why politics is so dull.

"Need to shake things up first and then change things by only going left-right, left-right, left-right…"

just own it, mitt. own it.

If we can get Santorum talking about using the Konami Code I would consider it a great victory.

loooool pp

"Need to shake things up first and then change things by only going left-right, left-right, left-right…"

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

Song's amazing...apologies for the video, which I hadn't looked at.

haha, did you even see the screen cap?

It's okay, this is the republican thread after all.

oh lord, clemenza. It gets much worse.

^^^ suggested new thread title

I got through 30 seconds...my heart sank. I see now there are other "Shombalor" videos I could have gone with.

what the hell is wrong with you

Moderators encouraged to substitute:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9xnqMZQltA

DJP: sincere apologies. Posting at work, not screening beforehand, etc.

Read through the GOP budget yesterday as printed in the Times. Only at the very end of the article did they point out that they want to reform corporate taxes so only money made in the US is taxed, which has to be the stupidest idea ever. Wouldn't that basically encourage and speed up outsourcing everything that hasn't already been outsourced?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e08JikyZrjY

http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t2#/video/politics/2012/03/23/sot-santorum-stick-with-obama.cnn

here's an interesting strategy; tell your party not to vote for your nominee unless it's you

can't believe that etch a sketch thing is a thing

whoa so Tebow drew #KONY on Romney's Etch-A-Sketch?

waht

I am become meme

I'm waiting for Romney to turn the Etch-a-Sketch gaffe on its head and throw back Operation at Obama.

http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/operation-board-game.jpg

I agree we should stop electing dopey doctors who engage in goofy games as president.

The fascination with gaffes is a symptom of the poor state of the discourse in national news media, no question, but as gaffes go, you have to admit this one is a beaut. It's succinct, vivid, pithy and it creates the precise mental image that Romney's critics would like to paint of him.

I remember when Mondale came up with that line about "where's the beef" when Gary Hart was gaining momentum in the early primaries, so he turned it into the theme of his whole campaign. Talk about a fucking eedjit. That line was fresh for about two minutes. This whole etch-a-sketch nonsense is about on a par.

I'm somewhere in the middle of the two previous posts. Yes, they're silly--especially when they come from campaign staff, and not the candidate--and this one will be long forgotten by November. (Anyone remember Samantha Powers Hillary comment from early in 2008? Or the Obama guy who said something crassly political about NAFTA?) But I also agree with o. nate that this one was made to order. I do think it's "newsworthy," within reason.

What are you trying to say? That Santorum and Gingrich don't have good political instincts??? xp

It's true the impact is diluted since it wasn't said by Romney himself. Although its still damning because it seems to offer a glimpse into the thinking in Romney's inner circle.

the thing about etch a sketch thing is that it's a beautiful, succinct visual metaphor for what everybody already kind of thinks about romney. it'll make for some great campaign ads. an adman couldn't have come up with anything better.

I remember when Mondale came up with that line about "where's the beef" when Gary Hart was gaining momentum in the early primaries, so he turned it into the theme of his whole campaign. Talk about a fucking eedjit. That line was fresh for about two minutes. This whole etch-a-sketch nonsense is about on a par.

I was just becoming conscious of politics when this happened; what a fantastic way to disillusion the young.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/294317/reagan-romney-larry-kudlow

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

Yeah, jeez, serious fanfic writing going on there (also note no discussion whatsoever of social issues, which is presumably the main area where Romney's non-supporters see him as "not a real conservative").

I couldn't find the clip I really wanted, where Linus says "I never thought it was such a bad little tree. It's not bad at all, really. Maybe it just needs a little love." Kudlow: "I never thought he was such a bad little conservative. He's not bad at all, really. Maybe he just needs a little love."

Did I miss something? Is there an Etch a Sketch running for President now?