2012 GOP Presidential Campaign -- "This individual's going to accuse me of an affair for an extended period of time."

haha, i like this description of rick perry by romney's chief campaign strategist in today's hilariously titled NYT mag article, Building a Better Mitt Romney-bot:

to Stevens, Rick Perry brings to mind the townies in the early scenes of “The Deer Hunter” who go loping into Vietnam expecting to kick butt

exactly

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/kgnL5Py4tj6n.oEMCdKs8A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/thecutline/greta-cain.jpg

is the one on the right Greta in blackface

the one on the right is Greta in mustacheface

that hat looks stupid.

I actually thought GVS was pretty good on CNN through the O.J. trial. That was the first I'd ever seen her; I don't get Fox News, so I've never seen her since. I take it she's typically awful.

Most cable news personalities I know chiefly through their impressionists on SNL.

I mainly know her from her episode of Space Ghost Coast 2 Coast

this is the definitive Greta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpvPizuq4-Y

god mitt romney at 46.7% is really, really tempting

I actually did pretty well on intrade last election. I remember it being a pain in the ass to get money on, like you have to send a check or something?

rick perry at 2.1% is also an okay gamble

yeah mitt is value. I wish I had money on there.

yeah I was right the only way you can get money on from the US is by sending a check or a bank wire. fuck it.

I know u guyz love Alex Cockburn:

Not since the robber baron Henry Flagler blazed a path through Florida in the 19th century with his railroad has there been so triumphant a progress through the Sunshine state as Newt’s, fittingly so, since Florida is stuffed with hucksters. Newt a staggering 41 per cent, Romney 17, the sample being 600, questioned by the Florida Times Union....

Like another college lecturer, Barack Obama, Gingrich is a glib fellow. Unlike Perry, he’s got several answers to everything. He can take any side of a question. His past is disreputable in so many egregious ways that it is hard to see how the big Republican donors would want to invest substantial money in his campaign, except perhaps as insurance. His campaign organization is an utter mess. It’s surely a better than even bet that IEDs of scandal await detonation along his campaign trail.

But he’s not Mitt Romney. This year, that’s aooarently a game changer. If Newt goes down, the Republicans will be left with the next in line in the polls – namely Ron Paul. Trouble is, Paul really does have principles, starting with a refusal to endorse torture, assassinations, abuses to the Constitution, including endless wars. That puts him out of the picture.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/12/02/suddenly-it%E2%80%99s-newt/

feeling some actual schaudenfreude at the personal fallout of Cain's campaign tbh

dude thought he would just sell a lot of books/make a lot of $$$/get to be a celebrity instead he gets to be a laughingstock with a ruined marriage

I was thinking about this and I think if ron paul were more rand paul-esque (ie crazy libertarian but still willing to toe the line when it mattered) he absolutely have a shot

he would absolutely*

for some reason many (most?) Republicans have a deep animosity for Ron Paul. I find it really strange. Maybe they just hate all his superfans?

as Cockburn sez: Trouble is, Paul really does have principles, starting with a refusal to endorse torture, assassinations, abuses to the Constitution, including endless wars.

also he's too weaselly. GOP likes manly men.

GOP's refusal to embrace ron paul:

• he's too weaselly
• he's too libertarian for their taste (which, when you think about it, suggests that there's limits to the extremism of the modern GOP, but perhaps has as much to do with what libertarianism means for paul's view of foreign policy and projection of american military power)

Not since the robber baron Henry Flagler blazed a path through Florida in the 19th century with his railroad has there been so triumphant a progress through the Sunshine state as Newt’s

We love hyperbole!

all the H's: hucksters, hyperbole, Heat, Hialeah.

I didn't know anyone north of Broward had heard of Hialeah.

Hell, I had and I'm out here.

I've heard of it, but I'm a U.S. population geek.

I think with Paul too there's the whole young people/the internet/non-traditional conservatives love him and I think that's a sign that there must be something up with the guy and he won't "defend true conservatism" or whatever the fuck these people want the party daddy to do XP

98% of Libertarianism is just privilege-protection in disguise, and the other 2% is bugfuck crazy, imo

greatest news of the week: DONALD TRUMP will moderate an upcoming GOP primary debate.

yeah there's that too but I don't think this things wig out too many GOP caucus-goers. XP

@michelleinbklyn Michelle Goldberg -- "I really think they feel I have a wonderful personality and they like me so much," says Trump of the GOP candidates. livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/updates/2356

lol @ jaymc

Good god they're setting themselves up from some The Apprentice like mockery.

As if they haven't already.

also he's too weaselly. GOP likes manly men.

eh

hw and w were both pretty weaselly

"Santorum...you're fired"

^^ unintentionally hilarious

haaa

can one ill-conceived debate expose, for the nation, how much of a circus sideshow the GOP has become?

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/jon-huntsman-skip-presidential-debate-moderated-donald-trump-201000365.html

"We look forward to watching Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich suck up to Trump with a big bowl of popcorn," Huntsman spokesman Tim Miller told Yahoo News.

"has become"

haaaaa

oh, well, mr. trump, i do have lingering questions about whether "the president" is a natural-born u.s. citizen. he looks kenyan to me.

https://twitter.com/davidfolkenflik/statuses/142704178077245440

OMG! It is a reality show! RT @DylanByers TRUMP: "I will be probably endorsing somebody right after the debates."

Responding to that, someone at HotAir:

He said “debates” — plural — not “debate,” so he’s not necessarily saying that the Newsmax event alone will decide his endorsement. But check the calendar. The Newsmax debate is the very last one before Iowa; by endorsing soon afterward, it’ll look as if the candidates’ performance at that event was determinative to him.

hw and w were both pretty weaselly

W was a drunk, baseball playing, plane crashing redneck from Texas. and a born-again Xtian. all GOP rightwing male checkboxes checked.

nobody liked GHWB, he was coasting on Reagan's coattails and the fact that Dukakis was a liberal midget.

I would lol of Trump endorsed Huntsman

I know about Hialeah bcz of the horsetrack, and I am always intentionally hialeahrious, you simp.

i would lol if trump endorses newt and trashes romney as a weaselly flip-flopper.

or maybe he'll find them all unsuitable and . . .

http://static7.businessinsider.com/image/4d90f3b1ccd1d54260570000/lewis-black-trump-2012.jpg

. . . oh that would be good.

candidates vie for the trump bump