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.
― clemenza, Friday, 2 December 2011 02:14 (twelve years ago) link
Take out "the"--I haven't started calling him "the Mitt," promise.
― clemenza, Friday, 2 December 2011 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
Pretty clever reader comment from TPM: Newt Gingrich + Mitt Romney = Knute Romney, All-American.
― clemenza, Friday, 2 December 2011 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
lmbo @ bachmann getting pwned by high school girls.
― big popppa hoy, Friday, 2 December 2011 06:07 (twelve years ago) link
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/mitt-romney-drops-bombshell-past-201641043.html
― furnace mane, Friday, 2 December 2011 08:51 (twelve years ago) link
a Dean scream from Donny Osmond
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 December 2011 12:32 (twelve years ago) link
You're supposed to smoke cigarettes, Mitt, not eat them
― Tony Hart land (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Friday, 2 December 2011 12:39 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Friday, 2 December 2011 12:45 (twelve years ago) link
lol, newt gingrich would turn white-house into an 'ideas factory'
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 December 2011 13:05 (twelve years ago) link
Idea #1: Please shut up immediately until after the Iowa caucus!
― clemenza, Friday, 2 December 2011 13:09 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 December 2011 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 December 2011 13:16 (twelve years ago) link
An ideas factory, staffed w/ children
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 2 December 2011 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
newt gingrich would turn white house into a "chocolate factory"
― Hunt3r, Friday, 2 December 2011 14:01 (twelve years ago) link
I'm seeing rumblings already that various socon types in Iowa are moving towards Santorum, but of course.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 December 2011 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
eventually all socons end up immersing themselves in santorum
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 December 2011 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
What the fuck, Newt, don't you know that being an ideas factory is not a legitimate function of government?
― William (C), Friday, 2 December 2011 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
I'm in panic mode today. It occurs to me that I'm rooting for a guy who's...a tad undisciplined. (I think it's funny beyond words that Newt thinks that congress right now is a good operational match for an "idea-factory" president.)
― clemenza, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
Interesting post:
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/12/newts-appeal.html
Suggests that part of Newt's appeal is his gift for highfalutin language and the snarky jab. Conservatives delight at the thought of Newt taking the professorial Obama down a peg.
― o. nate, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
Clips of Gingrich explaining why and how poor children can replace janitors will take him down a peg.
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
Newt's flameout is going to be spectacular
*MJpopcorn.gif*
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
not with the base, i'll bet.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 December 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
Indies decide elections, and in the general election Gingrich will collapse.
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
in a general-election v. obama? oh, gingrich will be crushed.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 December 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
You see, I think he's just so focussed on job creation and what's going to get America moving again, he sometimes gets ahead of himself.
― clemenza, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
The ideas flow freely.
― clemenza, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
Gingrich: The New Bob Dole
― Aimless, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
^^^
can't imagine a lot of women flocking to Newtie's campaign, for ex.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
Now there's a guy who I bet is not a big Newt fan. (xpost)
― clemenza, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
You've got to check this awesome list:
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/11/fundamentally-newt-gingrichs-favorite-word.html
― clemenza, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
ezraklein Ezra Klein -- Buy buy buy RT @DavMicRot: Steady downward trend for Romney finally pushes him below 50% yhoo.it/tM3wrZ
BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BYE BYE
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 December 2011 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
For all my heartfelt Newt-love, this does say a lot: I wouldn't even consider putting down anything more than fifty on him.
― clemenza, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
I'm fundamentally nervous every time he speaks.
― clemenza, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
fundamentally out of touch with the reality of the real world
d/n plz
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
Hmm...
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
not going to hurt him.
look, i don't think newt gingrich will win the nomination. i still think romney will. but it's a slight feeling, and i wouldn't be surprised to see gincrich win. to me, it will be a function of two things: (a) does newt -- like the anti-romneys before him -- implode; and (b) will the other non-romneys drop out of the race in time for it to become a clean "romney v. non-romney" choice. if things fall into place, gingrich can win the nomination, and the timing for a non-romney to gain crucial momentum is better now than it has been in months (i.e., less time for newt to screw it up before he hits a key state -- south carolina -- where romney likely isn't that strong).
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 December 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
“He can be a historic president,” Graham adds. “If he has matured as a person and is, for lack of a better word, calmed down, I think he could really motivate the country to do big things.”
lol
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
^^ That's pretty gentle, as NRO attacks go. The Tom Coburn quote, calling him a whipped dog who cowered before Clinton, is a nice touch.
― Aimless, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
for Lindsay to be more insulting would be unladylike
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
haha, i like this description of rick perry by romney's chief campaign strategist in today's hilariously titled NYT mag article, Building a Better Mitt Romney-bot:
to Stevens, Rick Perry brings to mind the townies in the early scenes of “The Deer Hunter” who go loping into Vietnam expecting to kick butt
exactly
― Z S, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/kgnL5Py4tj6n.oEMCdKs8A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/thecutline/greta-cain.jpg
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
is the one on the right Greta in blackface
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
the one on the right is Greta in mustacheface
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
that hat looks stupid.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 2 December 2011 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
I actually thought GVS was pretty good on CNN through the O.J. trial. That was the first I'd ever seen her; I don't get Fox News, so I've never seen her since. I take it she's typically awful.
― clemenza, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
Most cable news personalities I know chiefly through their impressionists on SNL.
― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
I mainly know her from her episode of Space Ghost Coast 2 Coast
― William (C), Friday, 2 December 2011 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
this is the definitive Greta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpvPizuq4-Y
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
god mitt romney at 46.7% is really, really tempting
I actually did pretty well on intrade last election. I remember it being a pain in the ass to get money on, like you have to send a check or something?
rick perry at 2.1% is also an okay gamble
― iatee, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link