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

Besides, there ain't no white knights waiting out there for the draft.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Sarah_Palin_Germany_3_Cropped_Lightened.JPG/170px-Sarah_Palin_Germany_3_Cropped_Lightened.JPG

Oh wait.

1) there are no candidates out there with that drawing power. if there were, they would have run already
2) if they enter late they have 0% of the already awarded delegates, so they would need 95% of the remaining delegates to secure a majority for the nomination. otherwise they just muddy the field even worse and the end result is a brokered convention.

i would, that person doesn't exist

― slandblox goole, Friday, December 9, 2011 2:23 PM (41 minutes ago)

silver says he'd put the % of this happening at 5-10, which i don't really see either

there are no candidates out there with that drawing power. if there were, they would have run already

make it happen GOP.

http://www.thefastertimes.com/files/2010/11/Jeb-Bush.JPG.jpg

Kristol throws out wild stuff almost every Sunday, then just ploughs ahead with something new a few weeks or few months later as if it never happened. You'd think he'd love Gingrich.

I'm quite sure Palin is dreaming the dream furiously. I'd be happy with Gingrich as the next-most-entertaining/next-most-erratic after her.

I'd be happy with Gingrich as the next-most-entertaining/next-most-erratic after her.

read this as "next most erotic," and got sick a little.

Man, I'm lucky I didn't pick that post for a Freudian slip.

gingrich-palin fanfic

oh that ^^^^^ idea is horrible.

The 22nd amendment:

Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.

The way I read this, GW Bush could run for Vice President, with Jeb at the top of the ticket!

President Newt will deal with that amendment in due course.

The way I read this, GW Bush could run for Vice President, with Jeb at the top of the ticket!

well, then jeb's VP could be . . . oh, i don't know

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KxT3bZCpsqw/SOlij2VAmoI/AAAAAAAACho/ibVig12dRCk/s400/cheney.jpg

anyone else, i guess.

Chris Moody @Chris_Moody -- RT @seanhannity Trump's Debate for the candidates is a go!

hell yeah

it's good to know that, in america -- where we value freedom, toughness, and rugged individualism -- a blowhard, imbecile millionaire can still host a debate even if almost all the candidates don't show up.

re: Michele Bachman:

"She came up to see me four times. She would call me and ask me for advice," Trump said. "She said if she wins, she would like to think about me for the vice presidency. Most importantly, I did a two-hour phone call for her with her people. ... And after all that, she announced she was not going to do the debate. It's called loyalty. How do you do that? It's amazing to me."

Trump event is gonna be cancelled now, c'mon

yeah, love that bachmann quote.

donald trump is an amazing windbag. and such a real-estate guy: all bluster, all the time. really an embarrassment to the GOP. he (and, truthfully, "candidates" like herman cain) lower the party by using its machinery as a personal platform. i've never seen anything quite like it.

Fear and loathing in the salt mines (enjoy the comments):

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/12/09/second-look-at-a-brokered-convention/

Let’s face it: the Republican primary field is exceptionally, historically weak. If it would be possible to draft Palin, Ryan, Jindal, Daniels or maybe even Christie, I’d support a brokered convention. I frankly don’t care if Palin, Daniels, and Christie have ‘family reasons’. Military families of deployed service members suffer a great deal more than unfair and unflattering media attention, yet those service members still deploy. Time to put country first. Time to man or woman up and be the patriot you claim to be.

troyriser_gopftw on December 9, 2011

WOMAN UP

talkin to you Jindal

lol

would love it if Bobby got in the ring for realz

like an MMA-type ring?

against sarah palin, maybe?

Okay imagining Bobby Jindal covering G'n'R's "Get in the Ring" has me deeply entertained.

like an MMA-type ring?

I dunno what this is, but if it's like a WWF ring then yes

lol. hope palin's entrance music is that black-sabbath song that bevis and butthead always rock-out to.

Jindal seems like the type who would go crazy and bite an ear off a motherfucker

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/another-oops-rick-perry-misstates-number-of-supreme-court-justices/

bah. palin would make jindal tap 10 straight times.

Perhaps the elephant in the room is that the GOP is intellectually bankrupt and that they have been selling snake oil to their constituents for so long that they (the constituents) want looniness, hence the weakness of the slate.

Also, we need to pray really hard that Perry remains in this race as long as is possible.

interestingly, it didn't have to be this way. they didn't have to retreat to bankrupt neo-hooverism. in the 2008 campaign, mccain actually rolled-out housing relief policies that were to the left of obama, in many ways (essentially i think he proposed gov't money directly to troubled homeowners, but i can't recall for sure). and in the battle over the stimulus bill, the GOP could have offered its own stimulus proposal, prioritizing its preferred goals. instead, it went another way.

why? He's not even funny anymore.

xpost

Neither the GOP or McCain had any intention of following a Hooverist path; they were desperate! Anything, anything that stucks!

and sticks too

yeah, perry's a downer at this point. and he's holding back our newt.

so are those other bastards, too (bachmann santorum overdrive).

Anything, anything that stucks!

new GOP slogan.

why? He's not even funny anymore.

Because he's actually depressing their base across the board

Perry is a non-factor and will likely drop out soon.

good. more votes for newt!

This is a weird one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po-Gr9tzYlU

Who put it out? I don't see any campaign-affiliated ID towards the end. A preemptive attack ad against attack ads--creative. If it helps box in Mitt, I love it.

You know what'd be extra great? Romney doesn't win, decides to stick it to the party that hates him so much by running as an independent. (No, I'm not serious. If he were to lose and manage not to burn too many bridges, he'd cash in somehow.)

you know what'd be extra great? romney wins the gop nomination, and donald trump decides to stick it to the nominee that he hates so much by running as an independent

you know what would be best? if romney wins the gop nomination and palin, trump, cain, santorum, perry and gingrich all decide individually to run as independents creating half a dozen religious/political sects demanding that their personal messiah/politician lead our country to salvation

and then the bear comes in

russia?

Fozzie.

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/89/89enude.phtml

I was hoping Dan meant a big, hairy gay dude