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

but the base doesn't mind if he sounds harsh or cruel! You're right though.

i am still clinging to the notion that newt's erratic assholishness and lack of organization will ruin him and romney's immense amount of money, inside support, and robot will to be a perfect candidate will last through all of it.

but the crazy surge this close to a primary is pretty wild i must say. he could fuck it up in a month, sure.

maybe there's some kind of "crazy shit bradley effect" where GOP caucus-goers talk winger game to pollsters but won't want to go all-out on the day of.

base loves harsh/cruel. independents/"swing voters" do not. ergo Newt is doomed.

the other problem is that Newt can ONLY play harsh/cruel. unlike Dubya, who could muster tearful repentance, macho bluster, and simple-minded sympathy in equal measure, Newt only has one setting: scorn.

yeah, that recent softspoken "morning in america" commercial of his is so hysterically out of character

and there's the other major problem with Gingrich, money

nlike Dubya, who could muster tearful repentance, macho bluster, and simple-minded sympathy in equal measure

You sure you don't mean Rod Steiger?

little known fact: Dubya travelled back in time to play the role of Jud in the screen adaptation of Oklahoma!

Congressional Ethics Committee's investigative report on Gingrich released

Looks like this was discussed upthread, but I don't get Pelosi's logic--why sabotage the guy you want to win? Unless, as some of you suggested, she thinks this will rally Republicans around Gingrich.

she probably isn't playing three-dimensional chess and enjoyed the opportunity to lol at gingrich

I wish somebody would start a game of three-dimensional chess with Perry. I think that would be fun.

why sabotage the guy you want to win? Unless, as some of you suggested, she thinks this will rally Republicans around Gingrich.

Dems don't have a lot of muscle to flex in GOP primaries. this won't sabotage him. it will have the simultaneous effects of a) probably motivating the base (who hates Pelosi) and will see any attacks from her as vindication of Newt's threat and b) it will act as a harbinger of things to come for independents/swing voters who may only be starting to pay attention to Gingrich. win/win for the Dems.

let's keep in mind that like .01% of the american voting population are aware that this event happened

That's like four-dimensional chess...I'm two dimensions behind, but I like it. (xpost)

Hooray! Wait...:

"A lot of people agree with me and find it amazing," Trump said of the eligibility controversy. "It's miraculous how this birth certificate just appeared."

He said many people have questioned the birth certificate's authenticity.

"It's strange that after years all of a sudden it appears," Trump mused. "How come there are no records his mother ever was in the hospital?"

He noted there are records of other births in the Hawaii hospital at the time.

"There's no record of Obama or his mother," he said.

Trump added that members of Obama's own family have pointed to different hospitals in Hawaii as being his birth location, and his grandmother reportedly made statements linking his birth to Kenya.

"I have real questions (about Obama's eligibility)," he said.

I think it might just mean that in the end the base will be depressed. They'll end up with Mittens after all the others have flamed out and all their enthusiasm has been spent

Huntsman walks back climate change stance. that's cute... he thinks he's going to get to go to the ball when Newt shits the bed

(and hell he just might. so that'll show me)

eh I can imagine that newt is seen as 'the brains' by some people, and he definitely does his best to promote that image. he drops big words, references history pretty often, etc. etc.

He even has a bona fide Ph.D.!

it's not inconceivable w/ the dynamics of this race. I mean I don't expect him to get the nom, but if you woulda asked any of us "will cain or gingrich at any point be the frontrunners" some months ago, we woulda laughed. he's trending up on intrade, at 8% atm.

xp

Looks like this was discussed upthread, but I don't get Pelosi's logic--why sabotage the guy you want to win? Unless, as some of you suggested, she thinks this will rally Republicans around Gingrich.

Remember when the GOP fervently prayed that Dean would be the nominee around this time in 2003?

bad hair day? trump is having a bad face day

http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/1206-gingrich-trump-meeting/11161698-1-eng-US/1206-GINGRICH-TRUMP-MEETING_full_380.jpg

egged on by trump, gingrich will spout something so outrageous that his frontrunner status gets sabotaged. if this debate acutally takes place.

― the deli llama,

lol @ yo name

if this debate acutally takes place.

this debate will not take place.

yeah. it's really gingrich's "my dinner with donald" campaign event.

but i love the possibility that, if romney wins the nomination, trump will consider a third-party campaign.

can he have another book ready to promote by then?

wait, of course he can.

he writes his books on the back of restaurant napkins.

"book"

BOOK

it's amazing how there is such a concept as a "frontrunner" when nobody's voted, except with dollars

i have voted w/ lols

Romney's officially out of the Donald debate: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/12/06/us/politics/AP-US-Romney-Trump-Debate.html?hp

J Long
: 12/06/11 15:40

The point that some of y'all are missing w/ regard to what Walsh said (and by some of y'all...I mean the people who give credence to not attacking Obama personally) is that it is extremely hard to attack Obama without fully illuminating what exactly he is (an Alinsky disciple who has very different desires for America than our mostly conservative citizenry does). The GOP will have to attack him for the truth to get any traction because the media will suppress, deflect and attack any gently proffered information.

fuck u prettyboy jason long

Justin* lol

who?

A sage.

it's amazing how there is such a concept as a "frontrunner" when nobody's voted, except with dollars

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, December 6, 2011 3:49 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

you're right, why won't they give gary johnson his time in the limelight?!?!?!?!?!

This is good (from Salon):

Gingrich, who’d agree to sit down for a day-long “Lincoln-Douglas-style debate” with a Teddy Ruxpin doll, is selling himself as a candidate based in large part on his ability to talk. Republicans think Obama talked his way into the White House, mesmerizing voters with his fancy words and soothing tone. And certain conservatives are itching for Gingrich to face Obama in a talking contest. They think Gingrich would destroy him. And they base this impression on the sight of Gingrich dominating interviews with morons like Glenn Beck.

totally true about gingrich's appeal. but also the fact that gingrich seems to embody/channel right-wing anger in a way romney doesn't. romney says the right things, but that's not enough. the right is ANGRY. they want BLOOD.

Indies don't. I don't know what Dems want.

We want Newt!

(Even if we're Canadian liberals.)

legalized weed!

xp

Indies don't.

indies aren't deciding the GOP primary race.

It's hard to know when you mean primaries and general election.