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
― Z S, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/kgnL5Py4tj6n.oEMCdKs8A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/thecutline/greta-cain.jpg
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
is the one on the right Greta in blackface
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
the one on the right is Greta in mustacheface
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
that hat looks stupid.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 December 2011 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
Most cable news personalities I know chiefly through their impressionists on SNL.
― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
I mainly know her from her episode of Space Ghost Coast 2 Coast
― William (C), Friday, 2 December 2011 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
this is the definitive Greta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpvPizuq4-Y
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
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
― iatee, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
yeah mitt is value. I wish I had money on there.
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― iatee, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
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/
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
feeling some actual schaudenfreude at the personal fallout of Cain's campaign tbh
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
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
― iatee, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
also he's too weaselly. GOP likes manly men.
GOP's refusal to embrace ron paul:
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 December 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
all the H's: hucksters, hyperbole, Heat, Hialeah.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't know anyone north of Broward had heard of Hialeah.
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
Hell, I had and I'm out here.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
I've heard of it, but I'm a U.S. population geek.
― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
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
― clay, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
98% of Libertarianism is just privilege-protection in disguise, and the other 2% is bugfuck crazy, imo
― William (C), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
greatest news of the week: DONALD TRUMP will moderate an upcoming GOP primary debate.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 December 2011 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
yeah there's that too but I don't think this things wig out too many GOP caucus-goers. XP
― clay, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
@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
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 December 2011 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ jaymc
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
Good god they're setting themselves up from some The Apprentice like mockery.
As if they haven't already.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
eh
hw and w were both pretty weaselly
― iatee, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
"Santorum...you're fired"
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
^^ unintentionally hilarious
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
haaa
― iatee, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
can one ill-conceived debate expose, for the nation, how much of a circus sideshow the GOP has become?
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 December 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
"has become"
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
haaaaa
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 December 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
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."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
I would lol of Trump endorsed Huntsman
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
I know about Hialeah bcz of the horsetrack, and I am always intentionally hialeahrious, you simp.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
i would lol if trump endorses newt and trashes romney as a weaselly flip-flopper.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 December 2011 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 December 2011 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
candidates vie for the trump bump
― Never translate German (schlump), Friday, 2 December 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link