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

I've posted stupid derogatory things which get approved and intelligent ones that don't, so good luck!

<i>stunned by this, tho it was true -- to some extent -- in the immediate shadow of election day</i>

Yes--McCain turned gracious the last week, when it was pretty clear he was going to lose. There was at least a month before that of people shouting out disgusting stuff at rallies without any reaction from McCain or Palin, both of whom would excuse such stuff with a) Bush got just as bad, and b) it was only a tiny percentage of the people there--both true, and so what? The idea that he was this beacon of integrity all the way through is preposterous.

risible, even

there was a famous moment of a woman at a Q&A starting to say something about "that arab" and mccain grabbing the mic back and chiding her!

i have no idea what was in the man's heart but he did not ride that particular tiger very well, whether it was conscience or incompetence or some sense of strategy who knows.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_prsrr3FvvGA/TMm5lNy2MII/AAAAAAAAAA0/ccc67PLZlO0/s1600/Snagglepuss.jpg

"Risible even!"

How's this for a speculation: if Newt still leads after Super Tuesday, the very fact that he might be able to grab the most powerful job in the world will temporarily sober him enough that he'll curb his mouth until the election, allowing the powerful rightwing media machine to project a new public image for him that is more presidential and acceptable to MOR independents. He'll lay low, play along, keep on message like a good lad, and only blow up in January of 2013.

are you hard

I just can't see Newt being able to do that

there was a famous moment of a woman at a Q&A starting to say something about "that arab" and mccain grabbing the mic back and chiding her!

yeah this was in the last month of the campaign or so. woman said something about her not being sure if Obama was an American and maybe he was a muslim and McCain took the mic away from her and said "no, that's not true."

I just can't see Newt being able to do that

yeah. I mean what are you basing this scenario on - when megalomaniacs get a taste of power they get MORE megalomaniacal, not less

Snagglepuss A+

I love that American and Muslim are mutually exclusive to that oaf.

um no we all love Snagglepuss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up7lApgjW-Q

Re: newt. When the toad feels the arrival of spring, he cannot help but engorge himself with air and croak, eh?

Three months after Super Tuesday, and a week before the Republican convention, Newt's handlers allow him to conduct a three-minute press conference:

http://nikijay.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/9877148551e445a308517127bb43f0ec-image-276x300.jpg

various reiterations of mccain's laziness at turning righteous itt are v otm - it frustrates me to occasionally hear him lauded for his good conduct when he let that shit run on for a long time, & corrected the woman in the crowd when it had got ridiculous & was a sensible political move to stand up against.

offering to suspend the campaign didn't get the traction he wanted and then the economy went haywire and his base just totally lost their shit and he was as clueless as anyone on what to say to them.

It reminds me of Alfred's statement to his parents about Huckabee

later that same day, mccain sternly disabused an elderly woman of her notion that barack obama was made of titanium, with a robot brain controlled by the ghost of joseph stalin.

a sensible response!

mccain didn't say shit himself cause he had sarah fucking palin ffs

I'm still w/Sullivan in thinking that not adequately vetting his Veep basically cancelled any seriousness he might have claimed. It was a really dumb move.

He was never serious, just old.

sarah fucking palin

"that's my name, don't wear it out"

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C5fsqBNluRQ/TffBsv8pI0I/AAAAAAAAEl4/0mJUILL2df0/s1600/11Sarah-Palin.jpg

It's okay for Sully to believe it because he's a nominal conservative.

she signs it that way, like ice motherfucking cube
xp

I dont get the 'no personal attacks on obama in 2008'. what was all that bullshit about his pastor we had to hear about for like 6 fucking months?

The equivalent of swift-boating, grandson to red-baiting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PAJNntoRgA&feature=youtu.be

what is up with that guy?

gay+drunk

there's something wrong with this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate christmas

omg

he's at .7% on intrade right now...that's a pretty decent gamble.

... who said our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas

I mean, the stores certainly seem to be encouraging the celebration of everything

It's the War On Christmas all over again! Will this horror never end?

but our kids can't openly celebrate christmas

LOL, this reminds me of ppl who misrepresent the 1st Amendment

Sully linked to this:

Rick Perry opposes the swift and meaningful U.S. responses to human rights abuses of LGBT persons abroad. And he would never ever engage International Organizations in the fight against LGBT discrimination. Again, Perry sympathies with the abuser, not the victim.

Ideologically, it’s difficult to conceptualize a greater enemy to gay people. Santorum, perhaps. But never has there ever been in modern times a President who held the level of personal animosity that Rick Perry has for you. Not Eisenhower, not Nixon, not Johnson, not Reagan, and neither Bush. It is inconceivable that Perry could have the personal gay friendships of Reagan, the gay appointments of the Bushes, and certainly not the supportive views of Carter, Clinton, Ford, or Obama. None of the other credible GOP candidates, Romney, Gingrich, or even Bachmann would be worse.

We very seldom use the term “hate” to categorize a politicians views. It seldom is accurate. But I concur with Jim completely: Rick Perry hates you. Deeply.

re: that video, man what a prick

Apt metaphor.

I think open celebration of Christmas is appalling. I would, perhaps, sign on to a don't-ask-don't-tell policy with regards to the celebration of Christmas.

just how awful do you want to be while you stroll up a hill in a jacket we can all relate to, what an asshole. i feel like the particular field of misrepresenting positions in ads & debates is its own little corridor of human awfulness

the day after he's sworn in for his second term, pres. obama will sign two executive order, banning christmas celebrations -- anywhere -- and outlawing christianity -- everywhere. it is written in the stars.

Sad Erick Erickson is sad. (Keep in mind that for all his apparently heartfelt blather this is a guy who seems to use his Christianity as a get-out-of-jail-free/'we're all bad and I confess this every week at church!' card when he calls people goatfuckers on Twitter so if anything he should be sympathetic to Newt, really.)

And by the way DARK HORSE.

In all honesty and candor and recognizing we all fall short of the glory of God, I do not know that I can support a man who is on his third wife having cheated on his two prior wives. It is very much more the adultery than the marriages. Many of my friends have marriages that do not work out.

lol @ the pining for Jeb Bush btw

The chatter about potential new entrants include former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, businessman Donald Trump, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint.

lol strong candidates here.

but i like the jeb bush idea!

the idea that the nation as a whole is not completely soured on the Bush family is hilarious

what about mark sanford? he only cheated on one wife

but Romney cheated on a movement!