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

romney's real pitch is to look to his left, look to his right on the GOP debate dias, then turn to the voters and say, "oh, you can't vote for any of these guys, you know this."

if gingrich can prevent romney from doing that, gingrich has a really good chance. but that remains to be seen, as gingrich can also be a clown.

If Boehner really hates Gingrich as much as that article suggests, then one interesting what-if game concerns how Gingrich becoming the front-runner might change the calculus among House Republicans - i.e., between playing ball with Obama on economic stimulus, and thereby helping their own re-election prospects, vs. stonewalling the stimulus and thereby helping the prospective nominee but opening themselves up to criticism in the fall. Maybe it's just coincidence, but Boehner is suddenly sounding more reasonable about the possibility of a payroll cut.

It's worked wonderfully in my marriage

Great way to squelch the rumors that your husband's gay.

Boehner and Obama would have negotiated long ago if not for the Tea Party; he worries about his votes back home.

The more I think about it, the more I'm inclined to think that the party elite will suggest to the wingnuts that Newt is NOT a good pick or, that failing, will smear the heck out of him.

but it's been happening already!

and to every not-Romney

the key is largely timing. newt is the last not-romney. it's newt or nothing.

(cue rick santorum weeping silently)

Huntsman must be FURIOUS behind closed doors, lol

he is angrily listening to "Frownland" RIGHT NOW

It's not really a matter of the Party Elite, such as it is, suggesting things to the base, which won't listen to it anyway. All the satraps can do is withhold funding and watch as the unprepared, oafish Bachmanns, Perrys, Cains, and Gingrichs demonstrate their unworthiness for the nomination.

bite your tounge rick santorum never weeps he cries lightning and spits broken-glass

gingrich is less likely to totally screw-up.

he could -- he is, after all, a clown -- but he's the kind of clown that's appealed to the GOP base for a while now, and this particular GOP base is even more receptive to his reactionary vibe. and he is not mitt romney, so he has that going for him, too.

You guys are stuck with Romney.

did you renounce your citizenship or something?

I don't know why I misread "reactionary vibe" so badly

I guess that would be more appropriate for Santorum

You guys are stuck with Romney.

i am stuck with romney, and romney's stuck with me

(sung to the tune of the band-aid brand commercial)

did you renounce your citizenship or something?

― dr. strongo, Thursday, December 1, 2011 4:08 PM

there are by my count 247 members of the Politico editorial staff that are Communists.

Re: Huntsman. Seems so odd to me that a former governor of fucking UTAH is seen as such a liberal wuss by the Tea Party wingnuts.

now, THIS IS MORE LIKE IT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7kog1CjzcY&feature=player_embedded

please note, DNC and GOP rivals: this is how to attack mitt romney.

and there is so -- so -- much more.

I love how that interview takes place in a warehouse, like they're about to unpack some crates or make a drug deal or something

are they sitting in the middle of a costco

it isn't a warehouse. it's mitt romney's secret chamber, where they keep his magic sarcophagus.

Meanwhile one last one from that Other McCain dude in terms of self-regard:

http://theothermccain.com/2011/12/01/ace-of-spades-really-hates-ron-paul-endorses-re-election-of-barack-obama/

And back to the usual fun.

feasting nightly on the blood of hourly laborers

xpost...i think.

Is Huntsman hampered by being LDS, too? There's a lot of ambiguity about them in this country.

You guys are stuck with Obamney.

Huntsman is more hampered by most ppl not knowing anything about him

OH A UNITY-TICKET GOOD IDEA.

I'm sure being LDS doesn't help Huntsman. Since being LDS is considered one of Romney's liabilities, it doesn't help you position yourself as a not-Romney if you have the same liability. But I don't think a non-LDS Huntsman would have done appreciably better, all else being equal. I just think that running as the most moderate Republican was not a winning strategy this year.

He's not really a moderate, the rest of them are just plain loony.

"Because when I tendered my resignation, nobody asked me to stay."

Paul goes after Gingrich, Huntsman goes after Romney--do Romney and Gingrich plan to go after each other at any point? (I know I should recognize the acronym, but what is LDS?)

Latter Day Saints, aka Mormon

so much drama in the LDS

I just think that running as the most moderate Republican was not a winning strategy this year.

I also think that his refusal to pander to the extremes infuriates the small sense of empowerment the tea partiers feel they've wrested from the Party.

i want to thank m. white for the xpost that prevented me from continuing on custos-style with matt's joke

sorry

no, you saved us all

Otoh, the psychology of Mormon vampires kind of cracks me up.

I also think that his refusal to pander to the extremes infuriates the small sense of empowerment the tea partiers feel they've wrested from the Party.

Yeah, the non-Tea-Party vote has been sewn up by Romney, and Huntsman has never even tried to court the Tea Party vote.

"what's Gingrich's fundraising lookin like?" is a more pertinent question than "what does Rassmussen say?"

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, December 1, 2011 8:23 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink

McCain had no money and then he won a couple primaries and it flew in. If Newt's lead in Iowa and Florida holds up you'll see the money come in fast.

McCain was that election's chump -- born to lose. All the Wall Street dough went to the other guy.

I mean, Cain was one thing. But Newt polling at 47% in Florida is a big deal. Yes, he might/should/probably will be torn down at some point. But we're five weeks away from Iowa and the current storyline is Mitt looking unhinged in a room full of juice bottles.

now Wall Street's confused.

McCain's campaign was 1.5m in debt at the end of 2007. after those primary wins in january, he ended up raising 75m in the first three months of 2008.

People will get in line behind Gingrich if he notches up primary wins.

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