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

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pls make that one gif

it's not mine, it's a tumblr thing going around

and unfortunately putting it together into one gif is way more of an effort than it should be (involves breaking each gif into it's individual frames, arranging them into a single consolidated image, lining up timing, etc), and i'm drunk

fuck i thought u assembled them with like...magic

i do, but i'm only lev 7. perry gif is like lev 17

tumblr is killing the long-form gif with their stupid image size rules

i believe that out of the 7 billion people on earth, i may be in the top 3 of the people who most strongly believe that!

also, facebook is killing the gif, period, by not supporting it

also, facebook is killing the gif, period, by not supporting it

― Z S, Thursday, 8 December 2011 06:16 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

how the shit this is still true bemuses me. even google+, rip, could do this right!

I'm counting on this to be awesome:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70060.html

When Romney starts attacking--I can't see that he has much choice at this point--part of me wants the crowd to turn on him mercilessly, which would probably inhibit him the rest of the way, and part wants the two of them to tear each other to shreds. I expect many cutaways to the rest of the candidates looking bored and/or disgusted, or waving their hands "I'm here too, you know"-style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEeA7BdjteM&feature=related

I had no idea that Michelle Bachmann was my mom:

BACHMANN: People do find out [in my book] that I did not get asked to my senior prom.
HANNITY: Well, neither did I. And nobody would go with me.
BACHMANN: Well, in my time, girls didn't ask boys to prom. If you didn't get asked, you didn't go.
HANNITY: Yeah, well let me tell you, I have a 13-year-old son. Those days have changed big time.
BACHMANN: And our girls are not allowed to do that in our house. They have to wait for the boy to call.

Hannity has a thirteen year old kid, eh? I hope the rest of his teenage years consist of giving his dad the world's worst ulcer.

BACHMANN: People do find out [in my book] that I did not get asked to my senior prom.
HANNITY: Well, neither did I. And nobody would go with me.

TAKE THE HINT

gop nominee for 2044: the child of hannity & bachmann jrs

eh, depending on how the teen years go, that child could be the nominee for the Green Party

Re the "referendum on Clinton" crack: a fun poll of the general electorate would be to name a job Newt has previously held. You sports fans always forget that politics of the past is all a blur to the majority.

yeah sometimes I wonder what % of people can even tell you what the speaker of the house is

"is that a subwoofer"

kinda

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The fantastical repurposing of reality:

http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=16219

tpm finds a reason to run this photo

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why is perry always smiling so much? that's not his appeal, when he had any appeal. he needs to grimmace, like he's ready to jump into a car full of commies and tear off their shoulderblades.

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He looks less...medicated, for sure.

nice man ring

Josten's, I assume

He looks like he's in the midst of rhyming off three great truths, and as he reveals the first one, he's very focused.

Breaking news:

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I expect damn few of them look like the one pictured there.

kobe -- howard -- paul

v.

bron -- wade -- bosh -- battier

advantage heat, obv., since we also have EDDY CURRY

they'd make a hell of a cabinet.

oh, i see what i did there.

to be fair, kobe, paul, howard, wade, bron, and bosh would make a better, smarter slate of presidential candidates than what the GOP has now.

I just figured Newt Fever had finally caused you to flip out.

"He seemed fine till Newt caught up in New Hampshire, then he just rambled on about basketball for the rest of the campaign."

Root for Newt

Newtonium: Enriching America

newt is actually being traded to the hoston rockets as part of this chris paul-to-la lakers deal, so . . .

Frum agrees with me re: Gingrich's biggest problem being his inability to work within his own party

The most important thing to remember about Newt Gingrich is that his colleagues in the House of Representatives effectively fired him as their leader even before the impeachment crisis, shifting power instead into the more competent hands of Tom DeLay. It was Tom DeLay who ran the caucus while Newt Gingrich was traveling the country giving speeches about Total Quality Management and the Struggle for Western Civilization.

Gingrich was not pushed aside by his caucus for any of the offenses listed above. He was pushed aside because he plunged the caucus into chaos, because he lost fights that he himself had chosen, because he could not control his mouth, because he wanted to be a star more than he wanted to get things done. There’s a reason Gingrich is fascinated by management gurus: he needs the help.

Basically, I don't disagree with anything negative that's being said about Gingrich right now--I'm quite sure it's all true, and a lot worse than that. I'm just not sure anymore if it's going to matter in terms of the nomination. Something has propelled him to where he is right now, and I don't think you can just say that he's an anti-Romney vessel anymore; there's more to it than that. Of the explanations offered upthread, the one that makes the most sense to me is that he's the guy who (in the eyes of Republicans) is finally going to put Obama in his place--who's going to talk circles around him in the debates, who'll hiss the proper amount of contempt, who'll (fundamentally) put him in his place. Republican voters don't know Morbius, so they're going with Newt. He may implode, he may not.

what's propelled him is that the other non-romney's are stupid, embarrassing clowns.

and as Morbz would say, no votes have been cast. there's a lot more to getting a nomination than being out front in polls.

Well, sure. But leading in three of the first four states is a good place to be on Dec. 8.

<i>what's propelled him is that the other non-romney's are stupid, embarrassing clowns.</i>

I don't think it's that straightforward. That gave him an opening, sure, but none of the previous non-Romneys got close to where he is today. I think there's something deeper that's come to the surface, like there was with Palin or Nixon.

Gingrich / Paul 2012: Drop the Newt-Ron bomb!

Quayle yesterday, John Sununu (Sr.) today--Romney's really raiding the Crossfire-era closet for surrogates. Expecting Liddy Dole, Ralph Reed, Richard Thornburgh, and Al D'Amato any day now.

http://www.nhpr.org/post/romney-sics-sununu-gingrich

politico ran a story this evening that newt's rise has really taken romney off-guard, and forced him to go on offense at a time (and in a way) he didn't want to.

What Romney really wanted was stroll through the primaries, with no serious challengers.