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

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.

So glad that under a Bachmann presidency we'll pull our embassy from Iran.

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

Many bald men fighting over a comb.

is that a koan?

So glad that under a Bachmann presidency we'll pull our embassy from Iran.

lololol did she actually say this? she did, didn't she.

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.

http://theothermccain.com/2011/10/06/major-national-gathering-of-conservative-bloggers-will-include-everyone-but-me/

lol cry moar

talk to this one then:

Missing the 60s
December 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?

I'm fine with Mona missing the '10s, really.

I'm glad Herman's Hermits didn't miss the '60s. They wrote some excellent songs.

mitt is older than i thought!

Sounds like Herman is anything but a hermit, yknowhatimsayin'

yeah I always forget how old mitt is, he looks good for his age

I'm glad Herman's Hermits didn't miss the '60s. They wrote some excellent songs.

you may have irrevocably damaged your credibility here.

Romney's first kid wasn't born until 1970.

It's the magic undergarments. xps

Herman gets around - more of a Beach Boys kinda dude

Romney's first kid wasn't born until 1970.

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.

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."

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

"No milk today-y/ My love has gone away" (xp)

really wish you guys were on our current overlords' asses this much.

Sorry--I'm throwing down the gauntlet here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1vqgTiu3Iw

rleisenman : 12/01/11 11:30
If 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.

(Great clip) (xp)

ok now you guys be telling me how old romney actually is, not disproving the theory that he is a genuine robot

zero smoking and drinking and having sex only 5 times in your life does wonders

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, and
Richard Rorty. They are its leading strategists. They set the
direction 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 legal
criticism, Jacques Lacan in psychology, Robert Venturi and Andreas
Huyssen in architectural criticism, and Luce Irigaray in the criticism
of science.
Members of this elite group set the direction and tone for the
postmodern intellectual world.

wtfffffff

madisonian : 12/01/11 11:33
No, 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.

i'm stealing "chunk into the clay"

"zeppelin rules. kill the longhairs."

interesting polling about romney and gingrich and 'electability' and the primaries.

newt's short-term numbers and long-term numbers are not gonna be the same thing

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.

also: newt is much more fun than romney.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Man, can you imagine Newt as President? Foreign leaders would be staying away in dorves to avoid getting lectured, probably about their own countries.

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.

xp: thought you meant dwarves

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.

yeah any 'electability' poll at this point means nothing

xp: thought you meant dwarves

Old spelling of Dover, maybe? Quiet town and if Newt shows up you can slip over to France.

i'm not usually one to rest on the common wisdom of the american people, but newt gingrich is a haphazard knowitall blowhard self-aggrandizing asshole and this is clear with any exposure to him. it's basically his supposed strength, even. the whole country knew it a decade ago and they will un-forget real quick.

i don't think it's possible for him to sustain an actual campaign. i'm not even talking about his relationship to potential voters or the public (though that star will fade too), i'm talking about, like, being on a bus with people for weeks at a stretch. he can't do it and won't. yeah yeah romney is a creepy robot or whatever, but newt gingrich is a fucking jerk with a bejewelled skeksi for a wife. there is just no way. come on.

i give this another two weeks before it starts to fall apart. i should head to intrade...

newt gingrich is a fucking jerk with a bejewelled skeksi for a wife

this is fucking beautiful

Also on Sullivan today:

http://dailydish.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451c45669e2015393d91226970b-popup

As a Canadian, I'm very proud. But I'm also mystified as to how Chile was left off.