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

"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.

http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/gingrichflier-440x570.jpg

But we're five weeks away from Iowa and the current storyline is Mitt looking unhinged in a room full of juice bottles.

and a week ago it was "this individual's going to accuse me of an affair for an extended period of time"

GOP hopeful Newt Gingrich defended his stance against certain child labor laws during a campaign stop in Iowa Thursday, saying that children born into poverty aren’t accustomed to working unless it involves crime.

“Really poor children, in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works so they have no habit of showing up on Monday,” Gingrich claimed.

“They have no habit of staying all day, they have no habit of I do this and you give me cash unless it is illegal,” he added.

keep talkin Newt!

Plus w/o child labor laws we won't need to employ the illegals! Picking in the fields is a lot easier when you're three or feet tall so it's actually a humanitarian gesture.

http://images.politico.com/global/news/111201_romney_time_cover_400.jpg

because youre just not insane enough mittens

Good job, Newt--this will really keep the momentum going:

GINGRICH: “They are not going to be the nominee. I don’t have to go around and point out the inconsistencies of people who are not going to be the nominee. They are not going to be the nominee.”

TAPPER: “You are going to be the nominee?”

GINGRICH: “I’m going to be the nominee.”

So maybe this will play out like the Larry Sanders episode where Hank gets to guest-host.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aPqhFUvo8E

man this is going to be awesome

seriously try watching this without repeatedly, aloud just hollering OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RenwNhL1Te0

why did no-one mention interracial marriage laws, here

oh man "they abide by the same laws as everyone else, they can marry a man or a woman" lololololol

hoping for a knock-down fight between romney and gingrich -- nasty, brutish and personal.

haven't we seen this already between Romney and Cain, Romney and Perry, Romney and Bachmann? What more can you want?

I can't believe Herman Cain's got his lawyer on Piers Morgan doing damage control. Would seem to be a little late--unless it's damage control meant for Mrs. Cain. ("I know Herman Cain...Everyone knows Herman Cain--except Mrs. Herman Cain.")

Even better--the guy's just ridiculous.

haven't we seen this already between Romney and Cain, Romney and Perry, Romney and Bachmann? What more can you want?

― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, December 2, 2011 1:55 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

I don't think anyone has come close to the venom and viciousness of attack that McCain, Thompson et al. mustered against Mitt in '08.

Perry's attacks were hapless.

haven't we seen this already between Romney and Cain, Romney and Perry, Romney and Bachmann? What more can you want?

all those "attacks" were hamfisted, bungled, or relatively congenial.

these two, however, have the skills to be really nasty to each other.

Everything's been exceptionally mild so far. Except for Perry's shrill Hail Mary over the Mitt's illegals, there's been basically nothing until these Paul and Huntsman ads of the past two days.

Take out "the"--I haven't started calling him "the Mitt," promise.

Pretty clever reader comment from TPM: Newt Gingrich + Mitt Romney = Knute Romney, All-American.

lmbo @ bachmann getting pwned by high school girls.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/mitt-romney-drops-bombshell-past-201641043.html

a Dean scream from Donny Osmond

You're supposed to smoke cigarettes, Mitt, not eat them

Perry did 10 minutes of what basically amounted to "Aw, shucks" on Leno last night. He's back to calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme, so I guess he's thrown in the towel.

lol, newt gingrich would turn white-house into an 'ideas factory'

Idea #1: Please shut up immediately until after the Iowa caucus!

Idea No. 2: all illegal immigrants must move to detroit, which will be otherwise emptied and turned into an internment camp, while we convene citizen counsels for individual "stay-or-go" trials for each one.

jonathan capehart is right: these comments by newt gingrich are really despicable. but i don't think they'll hurt him with base GOP voters.

An ideas factory, staffed w/ children

newt gingrich would turn white house into a "chocolate factory"

I'm seeing rumblings already that various socon types in Iowa are moving towards Santorum, but of course.

eventually all socons end up immersing themselves in santorum

for those who think romney is a really formidable general-election opponent, it's bad news for the non-romneys to keep splitting the not-romney vote. so now -- for many reasons -- i especially hate santorum.

What the fuck, Newt, don't you know that being an ideas factory is not a legitimate function of government?