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

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?

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.)

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.

Clips of Gingrich explaining why and how poor children can replace janitors will take him down a peg.

Newt's flameout is going to be spectacular

*MJpopcorn.gif*

Clips of Gingrich explaining why and how poor children can replace janitors will take him down a peg.

not with the base, i'll bet.

Indies decide elections, and in the general election Gingrich will collapse.

in a general-election v. obama? oh, gingrich will be crushed.

Clips of Gingrich explaining why and how poor children can replace janitors will take him down a peg.

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.

The ideas flow freely.

Gingrich: The New Bob Dole

Indies decide elections, and in the general election Gingrich will collapse.

^^^

can't imagine a lot of women flocking to Newtie's campaign, for ex.

Now there's a guy who I bet is not a big Newt fan. (xpost)

You've got to check this awesome list:

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/11/fundamentally-newt-gingrichs-favorite-word.html

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

For all my heartfelt Newt-love, this does say a lot: I wouldn't even consider putting down anything more than fifty on him.

I'm fundamentally nervous every time he speaks.

fundamentally out of touch with the reality of the real world

d/n plz

Hmm...

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).

“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

^^ 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.

for Lindsay to be more insulting would be unladylike

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

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/kgnL5Py4tj6n.oEMCdKs8A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/thecutline/greta-cain.jpg

is the one on the right Greta in blackface

the one on the right is Greta in mustacheface

that hat looks stupid.

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.

Most cable news personalities I know chiefly through their impressionists on SNL.

I mainly know her from her episode of Space Ghost Coast 2 Coast

this is the definitive Greta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpvPizuq4-Y

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

yeah mitt is value. I wish I had money on there.