(sorry, it's a question to anyone; i just know that alfred strongly believes it's a foregone conclusion that romney will win the GOP nomination).
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 4 December 2011 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
I showed my students a Godard clip on Friday. We're very big on the cyber-learning up here.
― clemenza, Sunday, 4 December 2011 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
There's this neediness to Romney that's quite unappealing. Newt's a blowhard completely comfortable with himself.
― clemenza, Sunday, 4 December 2011 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
and there's your media moment for tomorrow.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 4 December 2011 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
ha ha ha (nervously) "I DON'T MEAN TO BE INSULTING"
He got through it--clumsily, but I can't see that he hurt himself in any way. (Or helped, which is good.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 4 December 2011 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
Perry's just so funny. "Back...in their home district thing."
― clemenza, Sunday, 4 December 2011 02:48 (twelve years ago) link
Me and 500 GOP g-men. Besides, you guys are the only ones part of the claque that watched Romney's one less than semi-pro interview last week.
― Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 4 December 2011 02:49 (twelve years ago) link
LOLGOP Pete Nicely -- Republicans, I'm so scared of this super smart Newt guy. PLEASE DON'T NOMINATE HIM.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 4 December 2011 02:52 (twelve years ago) link
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
Romney's one less than semi-pro interview last week
now two, btw, if you combine interview and debate performances.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 4 December 2011 03:06 (twelve years ago) link
continuing evidence of mitt's meltdown.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 4 December 2011 03:09 (twelve years ago) link
Daniel, an honest question: why do you want Obama to win? Why are you so invested in a weak primary challenge?
― Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 4 December 2011 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
sigh
― iatee, Sunday, 4 December 2011 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
that deserves a good answer, which i'll try to give a little later. for now, i'll say that, if we have to have a GOP president, i much prefer romney to others in the GOP field, but that's weak praise.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 4 December 2011 03:25 (twelve years ago) link
yeah RAH RAH RAH GO MITT YES WE CAN
― Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 4 December 2011 03:25 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 4 December 2011 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://0.tqn.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/C/i/2/romney-clown.jpg
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 4 December 2011 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
@Shoq -- The quality of these debates has really plunged since Herman Cain left the race.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 4 December 2011 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
Huh, I was basically assuming that everyone here apart from Morbius was Team Obama.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 4 December 2011 11:44 (twelve years ago) link
Tongues are deeply piercing cheeks here.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 December 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
You know the Groucho Marx line.
― Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 4 December 2011 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
"Once I shot a bunch of incompetent elephants in my pajamas."
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 December 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
I think it was something like "A spectre is haunting Europe"
― JmC (step hen faps), Sunday, 4 December 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
"Once I shot a bunch of incompetent elephants in my pajamas."― Ned Raggett, Sunday, December 4, 2011 8:27 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, December 4, 2011 8:27 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink
hahahaha
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 4 December 2011 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
Prediction: whoever gets the GOP nomination will get, at the very least, 48% of the votes cast. Good luck, USA.
― Aimless, Sunday, 4 December 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
the GOP nominee should get at least 48% of the vote. romney would. gingrich likely wouldn't. the other non-romneys likely wouldn't, either.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 4 December 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
A TOP CAIN ADVISER tells us the former candidate plans to endorse in the next few weeks – certainly this month, in order to affect the Iowa caucuses – and is most likely to go GINGRICH. They have a personal relationship that goes back to Gingrich’s days as Speaker, a much longer relationship than Cain has with any of the others. And they disagree on few issues. Cain can offer some Iowa organization and his power as a surrogate in the African-American community (including churches), a weakness for the GOP.
from politico
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 4 December 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
They have a personal relationship that goes back to Gingrich’s days as Speaker, a much longer relationship than Cain has with any of the others.
so uh, little mental math here, i'd say that's about a...13-year relationship
― k3vin k., Sunday, 4 December 2011 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
In return for his endorsement, Cain demands Michael Steele's old job as chairman of the Republican Party. "I think I can bring more party discipline to the post than even Mr. Steele did," Cain said, jauntily pronouncing the word as: 'part-TAY'.
― Aimless, Sunday, 4 December 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
A couple of the Sunday shows pointed out that Gingrich missed the filing deadline for Missouri. If you look at the schedule, I don't know if that means he missed the primary deadline (no delegates) or the caucus deadline (delegates), or if you can win the second without taking part in the first.
http://www.2012presidentialelectionnews.com/2012-republican-primary-schedule/
You're running for president, for pete's sake--get it together.
― clemenza, Sunday, 4 December 2011 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
amaturish. that's the kind of impression that can hurt gingrich.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 4 December 2011 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
Idea #3: get on the ballot.
― clemenza, Sunday, 4 December 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
Give Newt (Newt!) a break. As you may recall the man's entire campaign staff quit en masse last summer. Missouri just got lost in the sauce.
― Aimless, Sunday, 4 December 2011 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
For Pete's sake.
― Aimless, Sunday, 4 December 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
It is mind boggling to me that Newt Gingrich is somehow shaking out as the front runner.
― earlnash, Monday, 5 December 2011 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
solid front-runner, at the moment. up by a big margin in iowa, and has 50% of the GOP support in florida. mind-boggling.
so it could go like this: gingrich takes iowa, romney takes NH, then someone takes south-carolina, which sets that someone up for the south . . .
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 5 December 2011 00:41 (twelve years ago) link
if it's gingrich/romney then there's no way gingrich doesn't take SC, imo. i would imagine that's the part of the country most uncomfortable with mitt and newt's a southerner.
― clay, Monday, 5 December 2011 01:01 (twelve years ago) link
i imagine it will prob go gingrich in iowa, romney in nh, gingrich in sc, then gingrich cleaning up with a few romney states here and there unless something major changes between here and the primaries.
― furnace mane, Monday, 5 December 2011 01:04 (twelve years ago) link
One thing that will help Romney is that there's a lot more proportioning of delegates this year, which'll prevent Gingrich jumping out to too big a lead out of Iowa/NH/SC/Florida. I think they were worried about a Palin candidacy at the time the changes were made.
― clemenza, Monday, 5 December 2011 01:23 (twelve years ago) link
i imagine it will prob go gingrich in iowa, romney in nh, gingrich in sc, then gingrich cleaning up with a few romney states here and there unless something major changes between here and the primaries.― furnace mane, Sunday, December 4, 2011
― furnace mane, Sunday, December 4, 2011
lol, first prediction of the GINGRICH JUGGERNAUT
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 5 December 2011 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
Newt Gingrich's campaign really from here on out has to be like a zombie movie, you are just waiting for something undead to come out and attack. That guy is so crooked and has been wheeling and dealing for so long - any day something could come out and derail him. Then again, the guy also likes the sound of his own voice and could end up shooting himself in the head with his mouth.
I'd have to think that this year more than any other a viable middle of the road independent candidate could come in and try to split the difference and maybe pull it off. Question is there really any political figure with the cash and without their own problems to even give something like that a shot (probably not).
― earlnash, Monday, 5 December 2011 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
Another worrisome sign for us riding the Newt wave. They had Tom Coburn on Meet the Press this morning, and he didn't duck when asked if he could support Gingrich for the nomination (I think the question was actually if he could support him for president, but it amounts to the same thing in the end): no.
― clemenza, Monday, 5 December 2011 01:39 (twelve years ago) link
lol. in some ways, that benefits gingrich (unless coburn is a tea-party favorite; i'm too bleary-eyed from a work project to remember).
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 5 December 2011 01:42 (twelve years ago) link
Possibly, I don't know. Here's the clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uPkZwRFqxg
― clemenza, Monday, 5 December 2011 01:45 (twelve years ago) link
Fox, I mean. Coburn seems to have joined a Pearl Jam cover band.
― clemenza, Monday, 5 December 2011 01:47 (twelve years ago) link
― earlnash, Sunday, December 4, 2011 5:33 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark
they're there, and they're just avoiding this election like the herpes outbreak it is.
― furnace mane, Monday, 5 December 2011 01:47 (twelve years ago) link
there there
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 5 December 2011 01:48 (twelve years ago) link
has anyone posted about cain's pokemon speech
― good webinar (ha ha I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 5 December 2011 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/69700.html
Herman Cain quoted from Pokemon in a speech suspending his presidential campaign Saturday.
“I believe these words came from the Pokemon movie,” Cain said. “Life can be a challenge. Life can seem impossible. It’s never easy when there’s so much on the line. But you and I can make a difference. There’s a mission just for you and me.”
He continued: “Just look inside and you will find just what you can do.”
In previous speeches, Cain has attributed the quotation to “a poet.”
― good webinar (ha ha I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 5 December 2011 02:12 (twelve years ago) link