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

This new Ron Paul ad is so Axe Body Spray:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXCZVmQ74OA

just coming here to post that. i love this ad!, at least until we actually hear ron paul, whose voice doesn't match the tenor of the ad.

well, it's over. really no point in having this sham of a primary season. bring on the general.

Perfect. Chuck Colson's endorsement to follow.

All this special pleading for Huntsman all of sudden--Sullivan's linked to five or six pieces, most improbably/laughably Erick Erickson--have these people come to the conclusion that Romney can't win the nomination, or are they starting to think Romney can't win the general?

are they starting to think

why start now, amirite?

Newt says Pelosi's threat is a "a fundamental violation of the rules of the House." You got that? Not just a violation, but a fundamental violation. In the Newtonian cosmology, that's bad--real bad.

(CNN commentator says Gingrich is cagily picking a fight with the Republican base's second--maybe even first--most hated Democrat.)

meanwhile, whooop here it is (donald trump on the TODAY show).

Newt Gingrich is the only potential candidate set to attend the debate

lol

"But in this case, this guy really is! This guy is different than you have experienced before."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Dgl9acPZo

oh, this is tooooooooo good (romney speaks french, for two-minutes; GOP base will loooooove that).

release this, unadorned, as an ad in every red state.

Irony aside, some of the rest of that Iowa speech is reasonably astute analysis.

everytime i see huntsman speaking chinese i just like him more :-/

yes yes. please, everyone, post the "romney speaks french" video everywhere you can.

donald trump interviewed by chuck todd, from this morning.

okay romney 'speaks french' in the same sense that dubya 'speaks spanish'

what's weird is before now I assumed mormons were all really good w/ language cause they attempted a hardcore immersion thing when abroad, but apparently huntsman speaks intro-chinese too

to be fair, mandarin is much harder

Govenor Romney parle français très bon.

no doubt - I could never learn chinese - but huntsman gets a 'fluent in chinese!' in every article about him when there's a lot of evidence to the contrary

oh for real? I guess I just assume that Chinese is so hard that seeing a non native speaker demonstrating any aptitude is p impressive

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2011/10/is_jon_huntsman_fluent_in_chinese_.html

oh, this is tooooooooo good (romney speaks french, for two-minutes; GOP base will loooooove that).

― Daniel, Esq., Monday, December 5, 2011 6:36 PM (2 hours ago)

this is incredble

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2011/10/is_jon_huntsman_fluent_in_chinese_.html

― iatee, Monday, December 5, 2011 7:37 PM (1 hour ago)

jeez this is brutal! he's pretty good for a white dude imo

you speak mandarin? that article's comments make it seem like it's possible the author is kinda full of shit too.

where's dayo

"jeez this is brutal! he's pretty good for a white dude imo"

don't you mean "pretty fly for a white guy"?

Todd

Todd, I know you're keeping it realness but you don't need to sign all your posts. Pretty much no one does it here...

you speak mandarin? that article's comments make it seem like it's possible the author is kinda full of shit too.

― iatee, Monday, December 5, 2011 11:15 PM (31 minutes ago)

ha no but i mean, no he's not "fluent" but like, it seems like he can carry a conversation somewhat

there don't seem to be any examples of that tho. I think he'd like to give the impression that he could just chat w/ a chinese politician without a translator instead of like, being able to say "hi my name is mr. huntsman"

Todd, I know you're keeping it realness but you don't need to sign all your posts. Pretty much no one does it here...

― Mordy, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 04:42 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

rip big jim swells

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K8CGeC2M_U ha ha what a lil chiller

more Romney lolz

man this is gonna be one of the funniest campaign's ever if Newt pulls off the upset in the primaries

CNN commentator says Gingrich is cagily picking a fight with the Republican base's second--maybe even first--most hated Democrat

Not only that - by picking a fight, Newt also creates the impression that Democrats are afraid of him. Why else would they hint that they have damaging secrets?

yes, I smell a Nixonian attempt to play the victim. Stupid tactic by Pelosi, as far as it matters.

Pelosi's not stupid. she'll let this go until the time is right.

boosting newt's popularity among republicans is not a stupid tactic

I would say that is...a very not stupid tactic?

Right, maybe it's some kind of intellectual jiu-jitsu and Pelosi wants people to think she's afraid of Newt. Wheels within wheels.

It's not that complicated!

Right, maybe it's some kind of intellectual jiu-jitsu and Pelosi wants people to think she's afraid of Newt. Wheels within wheels.

maybe she just wants newt to win the nomination bc she thinks he'll be easier to beat than romney

it's not even subtext. she literally says that. "lol i hope newt wins the nom bc he'll be easy to beat"

But if she really wanted him to win, why would she say she has damaging secrets about him? Unless she wants people to think that she doesn't want him to win.

which will be a bigger lol when the Dow crashes next summer and Newt is prez, eh?

(just schadening the ultimate ILX rotisserie politics freude)

xp

she wants to foster resentment...that's the emotion the gop is built on

omigod we're in a semiotics course.

http://media.thestate.com/smedia/2011/05/13/18/111-The_Daily_Edit_05.14.110052.standalone.prod_affiliate.74.jpg

lol Alfred

“I like Barney Frank’s quote the best, where he said ‘I never thought I’d live such a good life that I would see Newt Gingrich be the nominee of the Republican party,’” Pelosi said in an exclusive interview Friday. “That quote I think spoke for a lot of us.”

Pelosi didn’t go into detail about Gingrich’s past transgressions, but she tipped her hand. “One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich,” Pelosi said. “I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff.”

Pressed for more detail she wouldn’t go further.

“Not right here,” Pelosi joked. “When the time’s right.”

i think this is meant to be entertaining

Newt paid a $300K fine and was reprimanded by the House (the only time in history a Speaker has been reprimanded) for misuing campaign finds. Add to that his Freddie Mac lobbying and he'll look exactly like the 'inside-the-Beltway' operator the base professes to loathe.