Fear and loathing in the salt mines (enjoy the comments):
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/12/09/second-look-at-a-brokered-convention/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 December 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
Let’s face it: the Republican primary field is exceptionally, historically weak. If it would be possible to draft Palin, Ryan, Jindal, Daniels or maybe even Christie, I’d support a brokered convention. I frankly don’t care if Palin, Daniels, and Christie have ‘family reasons’. Military families of deployed service members suffer a great deal more than unfair and unflattering media attention, yet those service members still deploy. Time to put country first. Time to man or woman up and be the patriot you claim to be.troyriser_gopftw on December 9, 2011
troyriser_gopftw on December 9, 2011
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 December 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
WOMAN UP
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 9 December 2011 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
talkin to you Jindal
lol
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 9 December 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
would love it if Bobby got in the ring for realz
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 9 December 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
like an MMA-type ring?
against sarah palin, maybe?
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 9 December 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
Okay imagining Bobby Jindal covering G'n'R's "Get in the Ring" has me deeply entertained.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 December 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
I dunno what this is, but if it's like a WWF ring then yes
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 9 December 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
lol. hope palin's entrance music is that black-sabbath song that bevis and butthead always rock-out to.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 9 December 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
Jindal seems like the type who would go crazy and bite an ear off a motherfucker
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 9 December 2011 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/another-oops-rick-perry-misstates-number-of-supreme-court-justices/
― k3vin k., Friday, 9 December 2011 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
bah. palin would make jindal tap 10 straight times.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 9 December 2011 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
Perhaps the elephant in the room is that the GOP is intellectually bankrupt and that they have been selling snake oil to their constituents for so long that they (the constituents) want looniness, hence the weakness of the slate.
― M. White, Friday, 9 December 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
Also, we need to pray really hard that Perry remains in this race as long as is possible.
interestingly, it didn't have to be this way. they didn't have to retreat to bankrupt neo-hooverism. in the 2008 campaign, mccain actually rolled-out housing relief policies that were to the left of obama, in many ways (essentially i think he proposed gov't money directly to troubled homeowners, but i can't recall for sure). and in the battle over the stimulus bill, the GOP could have offered its own stimulus proposal, prioritizing its preferred goals. instead, it went another way.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 9 December 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
why? He's not even funny anymore.
xpost
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 9 December 2011 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
Neither the GOP or McCain had any intention of following a Hooverist path; they were desperate! Anything, anything that stucks!
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 9 December 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
and sticks too
yeah, perry's a downer at this point. and he's holding back our newt.
so are those other bastards, too (bachmann santorum overdrive).
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 9 December 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
Anything, anything that stucks!
new GOP slogan.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 9 December 2011 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
Because he's actually depressing their base across the board
― M. White, Friday, 9 December 2011 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
Perry is a non-factor and will likely drop out soon.
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 9 December 2011 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
good. more votes for newt!
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 9 December 2011 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
This is a weird one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po-Gr9tzYlU
Who put it out? I don't see any campaign-affiliated ID towards the end. A preemptive attack ad against attack ads--creative. If it helps box in Mitt, I love it.
― clemenza, Friday, 9 December 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
You know what'd be extra great? Romney doesn't win, decides to stick it to the party that hates him so much by running as an independent. (No, I'm not serious. If he were to lose and manage not to burn too many bridges, he'd cash in somehow.)
― clemenza, Friday, 9 December 2011 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
you know what'd be extra great? romney wins the gop nomination, and donald trump decides to stick it to the nominee that he hates so much by running as an independent
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 9 December 2011 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
you know what would be best? if romney wins the gop nomination and palin, trump, cain, santorum, perry and gingrich all decide individually to run as independents creating half a dozen religious/political sects demanding that their personal messiah/politician lead our country to salvation
― Mordy, Friday, 9 December 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
and then the bear comes in
― OH NOES, Friday, 9 December 2011 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
russia?
― Mordy, Friday, 9 December 2011 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
Fozzie.
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 9 December 2011 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/89/89enude.phtml
― OH NOES, Friday, 9 December 2011 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
I was hoping Dan meant a big, hairy gay dude
― M. White, Friday, 9 December 2011 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
that's kinda what John Bolton is...?
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 9 December 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
Andrew Sullivan can't legally run for President, though
― OH NOES, Friday, 9 December 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
Man, Fozzie for Presinedt does have a ring to it, though
― M. White, Friday, 9 December 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
IRAQA WAKKA WAKKA
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 9 December 2011 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
Muppet Sec of State?
― M. White, Friday, 9 December 2011 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
man does no one else remember that SNL skit, for real? ;_;
― OH NOES, Friday, 9 December 2011 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
Eurythmics were the musical guests!
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 9 December 2011 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
god they probably played "Don't Ask Me Why."
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 9 December 2011 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
Beating up on foreigner's accents/speech patterns is best left to the intimacy of your own grow room.
Protip: 'beat' sounds exactly like cock in French
― M. White, Friday, 9 December 2011 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
Newt comin with the red meat
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 9 December 2011 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
Can someone please kidnap Newt until at least Florida has voted? It can only help.
― clemenza, Friday, 9 December 2011 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
That is sub-par cretinism coming from 'Professor' Gingrich. Are Austrians an invented ppl? It's typical Likudnik BS designed to legitimize kicking out the Arabs from Israel altogether and it ignores the nuance of regional identity in favor of a brand of pan-Arabism that even Arabs haven't really had any faith in for over thirty years. The man is a pandering ditz with dangerous delusions of adequacy.
― M. White, Friday, 9 December 2011 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/21-reasons-newt-gingrich-wont-be-the-republican-nominee-for-president/2011/08/25/gIQA9m5kiO_blog.html
Stop bringing me down. I like this better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDMhlvbOFaM&ob=av2e
― clemenza, Friday, 9 December 2011 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
Ezra Klein's reasoning is too reasonable to apply to this year's Republican base. He says, fundamentally, that Gingrich is an unstable clown. So? Cain recently was polling above 25%, when no other Republican candidate was polling that high. That sort of discounts the "he's an unstable clown" argument down to size.
― Aimless, Saturday, 10 December 2011 01:23 (twelve years ago) link
Hope you're right--Ezra Klein as Frank Grimes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx7njOYco2A&feature=related
― clemenza, Saturday, 10 December 2011 01:31 (twelve years ago) link
An apt analogy.
― Aimless, Saturday, 10 December 2011 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
The Candidate Formerly Known as the Guy Who Had Trouble Counting to Three (now negotiating Counting to One):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3v3caTWDig
― clemenza, Saturday, 10 December 2011 02:28 (twelve years ago) link