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

I wish Newt had included a brief shot of a hundred or so eight-year-olds in that ad, rowing away Ben Hur-style. (No embedding.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXh1tW16V-8

this Newt thing still seems to be a spasm of irrelevance to me, but his miraculous nomination would produce the most vomitorious level of Bamlove from liberal invertebrates imaginable.

and from liberals with backbones, too!

Offered a choice between eating gruel or excreta, I will choose gruel and think myself lucky. On the whole, though, I'd prefer my own cooking to either.

I'm talking about ppl who will pass off gruel as gravy, nectar, or manna.

Manna tasted like whatever the eater wanted it to taste like, so in your case I suspect even Manna would taste like gruel.

Manna Mah Nah

scriptural lesser-of-shit-sandwichism, about time

i mean i know you could say this about any potential candidate given the lolfest this has been, but is palin regretting her decision right now?

and what has happened to bachman? she still hasn't officially imploded yet, right?

Bachmann imploded almost instantaneously; she was done when she went on her HPV vaccine conspiracy rant

(calling all of her Republican rivals Socialists is merely icing on the fallen cake that is her campaign)

I think perry and even huntsman are more realistic candidates than gingrich. I'm beginning to think gingrich could take down romney but I refuse to believe he could win the nom.

I am confident gingrich could take down gingrich, and it seems possible that the romney-bot has already taken down romney. Stand by for the Huntsman juggernaut and Perry's miraculous resurrection.

i believe, in my heart, that the GOP nomination will be decided by an intense game of "rock, paper, scissors" between the remaining candidates at the convention.

Huntsman would definitely have a good shot in a general, but I just can't see him coming from 1% to win the nomination. It seems so incredibly improbable, and not improbable in the way Gingrich's ascension has been--i.e., someone who actually once was a Republican hero, and whose worst rhetorical excesses sort of match up well with the Tea Party.

it's improbable because Huntsman is not entirely insane

really the person who has to be the angriest about what's going on with the Republican polls is Santorum

improbable because the entire GOP race is a search for the "one" to challenge romney, and huntsman is too close to romney -- in demeanor, reasonableness, moderate opinions, religion, and so forth -- to be suitable.

no, someone like newt, who embodies and gives voice to the anger, fear and resentment on the right, is the right guy for that job.

I'll bet he's frothing right now. xpost

santorum's at fault for his failure to gain traction. he doesn't seem presidential. it's an issue of demeanor and gravitas.

but maybe if he started wearing a ronald reagan mask at all campaign appearances . . .

really the person who has to be the angriest about what's going on with the Republican polls is Santorum

― OH NOES, Monday, December 5, 2011 2:25 PM (2 minutes ago)

I'll bet he's frothing right now. xpost

― JmC (step hen faps), Monday, December 5, 2011 2:27 PM (8 seconds ago)

Hoping for postcampaign stories about trails of anger-trashed hotel rooms in IA and NH.

it's hard to know what huntsman really expects or expected, he came out of the gate insulting the GOP base

santorum's a social moralist in an economic moralist world. this election isn't gonna be about buttsex, so,

xp The base is anti-Beefheart across the board.

there's been a boomlet in the commentariat of "huntsman is really pretty right wing" with a side of "how is the press so convinced he's a republican liberal despite this??" and the answer is because that's how he portrayed himself! duhhh

also his last boss was obama

Sullivan posted this today:

"One time we were having sex, and I was looking up at the ceiling, thinking about, 'What am I going to buy at the grocery store tomorrow? What am I going to do with my kids tomorrow?'" - Ginger White on The Hermanator Experience.

And Herman? "9....9.....NINE! NINE! NINE! NINE!!!!!!!"

xpost -- And it really comes down to that.

Base: "WE NEED SOMEONE WHO SHARES OUR LOATHING."

Huntsman: "What's the point of that?"

Base: "F.U."

Lather rinse repeat

and despite all this, I still find him getting the nominee more realistic than double-digit poll lead gingrich

also his last boss was obama

― iatee, Monday, December 5, 2011 8:33 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

the morbius post writes itself

people pay good money to have well-connected 'centrist' whiners around, i think huntsman is in it for the (long-term) money as much as cain or anybody was

This sums up Huntsman's prospects quite well (and some more encouraging news for Newt dreamers):

http://www.gallup.com/poll/151325/Republicans-Gingrich-Romney-Acceptable-Nominees.aspx

nah I don't buy that, dude's father is a billionaire, he doesn't need CNN airtime appearance money or bookdeals

i'm thinking more of that former-senator uberlobbyist type of circuit, not that kind of thing.

eh that's still chump change

(for someone w/ a billionaire dad)

but...the power!!!

http://northstarchronicle.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/tom-daschle-fashion-icon.jpg

I am going to have nightmares about those glasses.

after obamacare those will be the only glasses permitted

they need to have wipers on em

Daschle needs to go full-on steempunk

This new Ron Paul ad is so Axe Body Spray:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXCZVmQ74OA

just coming here to post that. i love this ad!, at least until we actually hear ron paul, whose voice doesn't match the tenor of the ad.

well, it's over. really no point in having this sham of a primary season. bring on the general.

Perfect. Chuck Colson's endorsement to follow.

All this special pleading for Huntsman all of sudden--Sullivan's linked to five or six pieces, most improbably/laughably Erick Erickson--have these people come to the conclusion that Romney can't win the nomination, or are they starting to think Romney can't win the general?

are they starting to think

why start now, amirite?

Newt says Pelosi's threat is a "a fundamental violation of the rules of the House." You got that? Not just a violation, but a fundamental violation. In the Newtonian cosmology, that's bad--real bad.

(CNN commentator says Gingrich is cagily picking a fight with the Republican base's second--maybe even first--most hated Democrat.)

meanwhile, whooop here it is (donald trump on the TODAY show).

Newt Gingrich is the only potential candidate set to attend the debate

lol

"But in this case, this guy really is! This guy is different than you have experienced before."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Dgl9acPZo