Cain held an impromptu (and rather chaotic, it looked like) press conference in New Hampshire last night, and the last question was about Ginger White. He answered by saying something like, "Let me address that: 9-9-9 is the solution to our country's economic woes..." 9-9-9 is now shorthand for "I refuse to talk about that."
― clemenza, Thursday, 1 December 2011 12:55 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know if Robertson matters much anymore in the nomination process...20 years ago, he could have moved mountains. Maybe he still has influence behind the scenes--no idea.
― clemenza, Thursday, 1 December 2011 12:56 (twelve years ago) link
Hold on, Herman Cain has been carrying on with a woman called Ginger White? Interracial relationship perchance?
― Tony Hart land (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Thursday, 1 December 2011 12:58 (twelve years ago) link
Happy face/sad face.
http://www.bittenandbound.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Ginger-White-claims-13-year-affair-with-Herman-Cain.jpg
― clemenza, Thursday, 1 December 2011 13:04 (twelve years ago) link
i love herman cain more than ever.
Q: how would you handle a nuclear crisis between pakistan and india?A: 999 is the solution to our country's economic woes.
Q: what do you propose in place of obamacare?A: 999 is the solution to our country's woes.
Q: would you allow the trigger to go forward against DOD programs?A: 999 is the solution.
Q: how do you spell "xylophone"?A: 999 we're doing fine.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 1 December 2011 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
Insane roffles to be had over at this hyperwinger blog:
http://theothermccain.com/
Guy's always been a tool but he's been a Cain freak forever and now he's deep ending big time. Just scroll through the past few days. Meantime this one's not about Cain but it is about how wonderful he himself is.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 December 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
So glad that under a Bachmann presidency we'll pull our embassy from Iran.
― M. White, Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
god those guys are all such whiners. and they bitch at each other all the time. like on a personal level. i'll never quite understand it.
xp
― slandblox goole, Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
Many bald men fighting over a comb.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
is that a koan?
― Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
lololol did she actually say this? she did, didn't she.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
xpost -- I wish I could be all these clowns' zen master, then I could tell them to shut up and contemplate their navel, leave the room, lock the door and turn off the a/c.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
http://theothermccain.com/2011/10/06/major-national-gathering-of-conservative-bloggers-will-include-everyone-but-me/
lol cry moar
― slandblox goole, Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
talk to this one then:
Missing the 60sDecember 1, 2011 11:18 A.M.By Mona Charen
The always engaging Michael Barone theorizes that Mitt Romney sounds corny because he “missed the Sixties.” Is that a bad thing? He was married and had two small children to care for in the 60s. No time to occupy anything, smoke pot, or have casual sex. I can live with that in a potential president. Don’t you wish everyone had missed the 60s?
― Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
I'm fine with Mona missing the '10s, really.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
I'm glad Herman's Hermits didn't miss the '60s. They wrote some excellent songs.
― clemenza, Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
mitt is older than i thought!
― slandblox goole, Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
Sounds like Herman is anything but a hermit, yknowhatimsayin'
― Tony Hart land (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I always forget how old mitt is, he looks good for his age
― iatee, Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
you may have irrevocably damaged your credibility here.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
Romney's first kid wasn't born until 1970.
― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
It's the magic undergarments. xps
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
Herman gets around - more of a Beach Boys kinda dude
― M. White, Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
It's Mona's kind of hogwash culture war neurosis coupled with a complete disregard for any kind of facts or fact-checking that makes me wonder whether these voters have, like, sleep apnea or overexposure to lead that has killed off too many brain cells.
― M. White, Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
If you don't love "Must to Avoid" or "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter," well, I don't what to say.
How to keep this secret from Republican voters? "If you're on the DNC/Obama email lists, you notice that the other team doesn't bother attacking Newt. This isn't complicated. They worry about Romney. They don't worry about facing Gingrich."
― clemenza, Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
Is Mike Love a Herman Cain kinda dude tho?
Where is that Show Me Pictures Of Mike Love With Weirdoes thread when yo need it?
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/02/06/article-0-0D11A9BD000005DC-910_634x449.jpg
― Tony Hart land (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
"No milk today-y/ My love has gone away" (xp)
― Tony Hart land (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
really wish you guys were on our current overlords' asses this much.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry--I'm throwing down the gauntlet here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1vqgTiu3Iw
― clemenza, Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
rleisenman : 12/01/11 11:30If we were electing a president to avoid casual sex and pot smoking, Mr. Romney would be at the top of my list. Personally, I have some other presidential goals.
― Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
(Great clip) (xp)
― Tony Hart land (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
ok now you guys be telling me how old romney actually is, not disproving the theory that he is a genuine robot
― big popppa hoy, Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
zero smoking and drinking and having sex only 5 times in your life does wonders
― iatee, Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
that 'other mccain' blog and it's discussion of intellectuals led me to this dude:
http://www.stephenhicks.org/
who wrote this:
The names of the postmodern vanguard are now familiar:Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard, andRichard Rorty. They are its leading strategists. They set thedirection of the movement and provide it with its most potent tools.The vanguard is aided by other familiar and often infamous names:Stanley Fish and Frank Lentricchia in literary and legal criticism,Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin in feminist legalcriticism, Jacques Lacan in psychology, Robert Venturi and AndreasHuyssen in architectural criticism, and Luce Irigaray in the criticismof science.Members of this elite group set the direction and tone for thepostmodern intellectual world.
wtfffffff
― slandblox goole, Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
madisonian : 12/01/11 11:33No, Mona, I do not, especially not the musicians who had the good sense to listen to the Delta and Chicago blues men, and gave their interpretation back to us. (I just wish the band named for a blimp had the virtue to credit those from whom they actually stole, so the blues artists could reap the benefits of their good writing.)
Beyond music, I'm glad we have the example of the 60's to forever serve as living proof of the mayhem and misery that hedonism causes.
That is an invaluable living example of the evils of socialist thought.
I would not trade it in for a thing.
What I wish for, though, is for the 60's generation to either embrace what this country stands for, leave for other places if they cannot, or to hurry up and chunk into the clay already.
― Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
i'm stealing "chunk into the clay"
― big popppa hoy, Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
"zeppelin rules. kill the longhairs."
― slandblox goole, Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
interesting polling about romney and gingrich and 'electability' and the primaries.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
newt's short-term numbers and long-term numbers are not gonna be the same thing
― iatee, Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
well, i think i agree. but there's a decent possibility that he'll hold this together, for five reasons: (a) there isn't much time, for him to screw-up or for the anti-romney crowd to back someone else; (b) the anti-romney crowd probably now sees there are no other viable choices (the others have now all disqualified themselves or have no chance); (c) gingrich has "angry, resentful white" dog-whistle messaging down to a near-science; (d) gingrich's flaws are pretty well-known; (e) gingrich can speak coherently and discuss policy; (e) romney's numbers aren't going in the right direction, and the heat will continue being turned up on him, too.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
also: newt is much more fun than romney.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not saying that w/r/t him not getting the nom (it's also true w/r/t that) but rather 'he might be more nationally electable if the election were held today, but prob not even gonna be the case a month from now and absolutely not the case nov 2012.
― iatee, Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
when I think about newt I'm reminded of that simpsons episode whwere mr. burns survives because he has every disease known to man and they all cancel each other out in some equilibrium. that's newt and scandals. where do you even start?
― iatee, Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
oh, i wouldn't be so happy over newt if i thought that he would be a more formidable adversary in the general-election.
on the other hand, i also see that romney's not very good at retail politics or one-on-one interviews. they bring out -- and reinforce -- all his worst qualities.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
I'm glad we have the example of the 60's to forever serve as living proof of the mayhem and misery that hedonism causes.
Ha ha, this is such an empty, strawman trope. We ARE the 60's now and hedonism and socialism aren't all that related imho.
― M. White, Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
Man, can you imagine Newt as President? Foreign leaders would be staying away in dorves to avoid getting lectured, probably about their own countries.
― M. White, Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
droves, rather
Wow--that electability poll (even though I agree it's very much a case of illusion vs. reality; in the long run, surely Romney's more electable) could really present problems for Romeny. Like Sullivan says, at this point it's like his last argument to Republican voters. Saying he'd govern more rationally probably wouldn't get him very far.
― clemenza, Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
xp: thought you meant dwarves
― OH NOES, Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
I'd take that poll cum grano salis. If Newt ends up candidate he very much risks talking down to a large portion of the electorate and alienating them.
― M. White, Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link