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

Paul now #2 in Iowa:

Newt Gingrich - 25% (+18)
Ron Paul - 18% (+6)
Mitt Romney - 16% (-6)
Herman Cain - 8% (-15)
Michele Bachmann - 8% (+0)
Rick Perry - 6% (-1)
Rick Santorum - 6% (+1)
Jon Huntsman - 2% (+1)

if that riddler look-a-like would end his doomed campaign, newt would open an even bigger gap against robot-mitt romney.

paul has a ceiling

ron paul stumbling on the issue of how he'd actually implement his radical, crazy program.

but ultimately, he gave an intellectually coherent -- if unsatisfying -- answer.

i used to believe that newt had a ceiling too...

Man, I hope this whole thing is just one big trap Huckabee's set for Mitt.

"RON PAUL, IF YOU WERE A TREE, WHAT KIND OF A TREE WOULD YOU BE?"

wtf, ron paul, what about ANN F----G RAND?

blown opportunity, IMO. atlas shrugged.

i figured he would recommend ann rand over the bible.

"I'm a tree...not a person anymore, a tree...I just want to make sure I've got the question right"--forgot, he's out.

i am already ready to say mitt romney has collapsed in this forum.

Mitt's eating up the clock!

that was a totally awkward opening by romney.

now back on longwinded message.

i figured he would recommend ann rand over the bible.

― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, December 3, 2011 9:29 PM (3 minutes ago)

haha idk if this was intentional on your part but if you ever want to troll a libertarian, refer to her as "ann rand"

"it's AYN!"

ppl should just call her alisa rosenbaum

"i'm so sorry i didn't pronounce alisa's made up name correctly"

serious question, largely to alfred: what's happening to romney? something is different, and worse, about him lately. not sure if it's the forums he's been in, maybe he's rattled by gingrich, maybe he's tired, not sure. but he doesn't sound like the confident, resolute guy that he needs to be to win the GOP nomination.

i mean, the uneasiness in romney is on display tonight.

(sorry, it's a question to anyone; i just know that alfred strongly believes it's a foregone conclusion that romney will win the GOP nomination).

I showed my students a Godard clip on Friday. We're very big on the cyber-learning up here.

There's this neediness to Romney that's quite unappealing. Newt's a blowhard completely comfortable with himself.

and there's your media moment for tomorrow.

ha ha ha (nervously) "I DON'T MEAN TO BE INSULTING"

He got through it--clumsily, but I can't see that he hurt himself in any way. (Or helped, which is good.)

Perry's just so funny. "Back...in their home district thing."

(sorry, it's a question to anyone; i just know that alfred strongly believes it's a foregone conclusion that romney will win the GOP nomination).

Me and 500 GOP g-men. Besides, you guys are the only ones part of the claque that watched Romney's one less than semi-pro interview last week.

LOLGOP Pete Nicely -- Republicans, I'm so scared of this super smart Newt guy. PLEASE DON'T NOMINATE HIM.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

Romney's one less than semi-pro interview last week

now two, btw, if you combine interview and debate performances.

continuing evidence of mitt's meltdown.

Daniel, an honest question: why do you want Obama to win? Why are you so invested in a weak primary challenge?

sigh

that deserves a good answer, which i'll try to give a little later. for now, i'll say that, if we have to have a GOP president, i much prefer romney to others in the GOP field, but that's weak praise.

yeah RAH RAH RAH GO MITT YES WE CAN

lol

http://0.tqn.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/C/i/2/romney-clown.jpg

@Shoq -- The quality of these debates has really plunged since Herman Cain left the race.

lol

Huh, I was basically assuming that everyone here apart from Morbius was Team Obama.

Tongues are deeply piercing cheeks here.

Huh, I was basically assuming that everyone here apart from Morbius was Team Obama.

You know the Groucho Marx line.

"Once I shot a bunch of incompetent elephants in my pajamas."

I think it was something like "A spectre is haunting Europe"

"Once I shot a bunch of incompetent elephants in my pajamas."

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, December 4, 2011 8:27 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink

hahahaha

Prediction: whoever gets the GOP nomination will get, at the very least, 48% of the votes cast. Good luck, USA.

the GOP nominee should get at least 48% of the vote. romney would. gingrich likely wouldn't. the other non-romneys likely wouldn't, either.

A TOP CAIN ADVISER tells us the former candidate plans to endorse in the next few weeks – certainly this month, in order to affect the Iowa caucuses – and is most likely to go GINGRICH. They have a personal relationship that goes back to Gingrich’s days as Speaker, a much longer relationship than Cain has with any of the others. And they disagree on few issues. Cain can offer some Iowa organization and his power as a surrogate in the African-American community (including churches), a weakness for the GOP.

from politico

They have a personal relationship that goes back to Gingrich’s days as Speaker, a much longer relationship than Cain has with any of the others.

so uh, little mental math here, i'd say that's about a...13-year relationship

In return for his endorsement, Cain demands Michael Steele's old job as chairman of the Republican Party. "I think I can bring more party discipline to the post than even Mr. Steele did," Cain said, jauntily pronouncing the word as: 'part-TAY'.

A couple of the Sunday shows pointed out that Gingrich missed the filing deadline for Missouri. If you look at the schedule, I don't know if that means he missed the primary deadline (no delegates) or the caucus deadline (delegates), or if you can win the second without taking part in the first.

http://www.2012presidentialelectionnews.com/2012-republican-primary-schedule/

You're running for president, for pete's sake--get it together.

amaturish. that's the kind of impression that can hurt gingrich.

Idea #3: get on the ballot.