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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?

clemenza, Monday, 5 December 2011 22:52 (twelve years ago) link

are they starting to think

why start now, amirite?

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 5 December 2011 23:09 (twelve years ago) link

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.)

clemenza, Monday, 5 December 2011 23:10 (twelve years ago) link

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

Daniel, Esq., Monday, 5 December 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link

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

lol

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 5 December 2011 23:20 (twelve years ago) link

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

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

clemenza, Monday, 5 December 2011 23:35 (twelve years ago) link

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

Daniel, Esq., Monday, 5 December 2011 23:36 (twelve years ago) link

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

Daniel, Esq., Monday, 5 December 2011 23:37 (twelve years ago) link

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

clemenza, Monday, 5 December 2011 23:39 (twelve years ago) link

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

river wolf, Monday, 5 December 2011 23:41 (twelve years ago) link

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

Daniel, Esq., Monday, 5 December 2011 23:46 (twelve years ago) link

donald trump interviewed by chuck todd, from this morning.

Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 6 December 2011 00:12 (twelve years ago) link

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

iatee, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 00:28 (twelve years ago) link

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

iatee, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 00:29 (twelve years ago) link

to be fair, mandarin is much harder

q: are we not bel biv men? a: we are bel biv devo (m bison), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 00:30 (twelve years ago) link

Govenor Romney parle français très bon.

Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 6 December 2011 00:31 (twelve years ago) link

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

iatee, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 00:32 (twelve years ago) link

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

river wolf, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 00:35 (twelve years ago) link

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

k3vin k., Tuesday, 6 December 2011 02:10 (twelve years ago) link

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

k3vin k., Tuesday, 6 December 2011 02:24 (twelve years ago) link

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

iatee, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 04:15 (twelve years ago) link

where's dayo

iatee, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 04:16 (twelve years ago) link

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

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

Todd

realness, just realness, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 04:41 (twelve years ago) link

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 (twelve years ago) link

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

k3vin k., Tuesday, 6 December 2011 04:47 (twelve years ago) link

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"

iatee, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 04:50 (twelve years ago) link

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

big popppa hoy, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 07:17 (twelve years ago) link

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

Never translate German (schlump), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link

more Romney lolz

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

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link

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?

o. nate, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link

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

Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link

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

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link

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

iatee, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link

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

iatee, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link

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

o. nate, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 18:04 (twelve years ago) link

It's not that complicated!

Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link

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

Mordy, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link

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

Mordy, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link

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.

o. nate, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link

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

Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link

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

iatee, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link

omigod we're in a semiotics course.

Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link

lol Alfred

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link

“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

slandblox goole, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link

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.

M. White, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link

I'm sure there's plenty other things to add to that pile

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link

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.

― o. nate, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 18:10 (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

Because you learn to build something good up before you use it? TV shows don't throw out all their storylines within the first couple episodes - they build to the reveal to make it seem more important and/or hilarious. And when it comes to Newt, it should be pronounced HI-Larious.

big popppa hoy, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link

honestly tho, newt has like 8 things on public record that could have taken down a politician

on the one hand I don't doubt that there are more, otoh what would it take to be 'shocking'? maybe he killed a dude

iatee, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 18:54 (twelve years ago) link


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