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

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

oh, this is tooooooooo good (romney speaks french, for two-minutes; GOP base will loooooove that).

release this, unadorned, as an ad in every red state.

Irony aside, some of the rest of that Iowa speech is reasonably astute analysis.

everytime i see huntsman speaking chinese i just like him more :-/

yes yes. please, everyone, post the "romney speaks french" video everywhere you can.

donald trump interviewed by chuck todd, from this morning.

okay romney 'speaks french' in the same sense that dubya 'speaks spanish'

what's weird is before now I assumed mormons were all really good w/ language cause they attempted a hardcore immersion thing when abroad, but apparently huntsman speaks intro-chinese too

to be fair, mandarin is much harder

Govenor Romney parle français très bon.

no doubt - I could never learn chinese - but huntsman gets a 'fluent in chinese!' in every article about him when there's a lot of evidence to the contrary

oh for real? I guess I just assume that Chinese is so hard that seeing a non native speaker demonstrating any aptitude is p impressive

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2011/10/is_jon_huntsman_fluent_in_chinese_.html

oh, this is tooooooooo good (romney speaks french, for two-minutes; GOP base will loooooove that).

― Daniel, Esq., Monday, December 5, 2011 6:36 PM (2 hours ago)

this is incredble

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2011/10/is_jon_huntsman_fluent_in_chinese_.html

― iatee, Monday, December 5, 2011 7:37 PM (1 hour ago)

jeez this is brutal! he's pretty good for a white dude imo

you speak mandarin? that article's comments make it seem like it's possible the author is kinda full of shit too.

where's dayo