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

Not an executive order?! What's the point of being POTUS if you can't just ban gabbnebb?

banning gabbneb = constitutional amendment

I thought a two-thirds majority already insisted on ILE for this...?

in what world, even one where Ron Paul was 56 instead of 76, would the GOP bankrollers permit him to take the nomination?

What's the point of being POTUS if you can't just choose gabbneb's new tattoo?

http://cdn.trendhunterstatic.com/thumbs/barcode-tattoos.jpeg

Tasteful

http://www.history.com/images/media/slideshow/remembering-the-holocaust/holocaust-tattoo.jpg

Sensenbrenner opposes "large posterior"

I read that this morning. What exactly should she be saying? By all means be a tub o'lard like Sensenbrenner? Also, commenting on FLOTUS's ass is probably nagl.

so Sensenbrenner says you're fat / well I ain't down with that

this idea that right wingers have that Michelle Obama is fat is so bizarre. Really a good case study in delusion.

Not that she's fat -- she's a hypocrite for telling us to exercise while eating at Circus Burger or whatever.

that's not hypocritical

Nothing wrong with a little exercise, she's planted a white house garden, etc etc

I'm just deliverin' the news.

guys real board is back up

i like this place better

guys real board is back up

at 3:51AM friday, 12.23.11, this appears to be a dirty lie.

The universe is fading in and out atm.

oh my God Ron Paul got pwn3d so hard

http://www.mrdestructo.com/2011/12/game-over-scans-of-over-50-ron-paul.html

all it took is the media/other candidates focusing on him a little.

anyone see the recent CNN interview where he walked off the set, after the interviewer wouldn't just accept paul's explanation about his newsletters? i want to see it!

BTW, mitt romney's new slogan for the primaries: "well, there's no one left but me now."

anyone see the recent CNN interview where he walked off the set, after the interviewer wouldn't just accept paul's explanation about his newsletters? i want to see it!

right here: http://www.wtam.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=104668&article=9539082

wow. he's very cranky for a guy whose newsletters aligned him with the ugliest strains of american racism.

never thought he'd be a crank

haha, yeah. i am shocked, shocked.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/24/politics/gop-virginia-primary/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

lol these dudes are hopeless morons

I agree with Pareene's take that guys like gingrinch don't give a shit about getting elected, they're just on a well-covered book tour.

i think i am more willing to believe gingrich is egocentric & delusional - so thinks he could, might be president - more than that he is cynical (at least wrt using it as a boost)

yeah me too

fuckin lol

ya living in VA with a dem organizer right now is mega lol i assure u

"We will work with the Republican Party of Virginia to pursue an aggressive write-in campaign to make sure that all the voters of Virginia are able to vote for the candidate of their choice."

all <10,000 of them

write-ins are illegal in VA primary elections

Thank you, Newt, for making my lolidays

for those interested in politics/nat'l affairs and are on twitter, i strongly encourage you to read the "ron paul newsletter" (rp_newsletter) feed. real quotes from ron paul's newsletters. eye-opening if you haven't carefully reviewed his poisonous newsletters.

example below, in reverse order:

Ron Paul Newsletter @RP_Newsletter -- But Al, the Statue of Liberty? Next time, hold that demonstration at a food stamp bureau or a crack house.

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Ron Paul Newsletter @RP_Newsletter -- Hmmm. I hate to agree with the Rev. Al, but maybe a name change is in order. Welfaria? Zooville? Rapetown? Dirtburg? Lazyopolis?

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Ron Paul Newsletter @RP_Newsletter -- ...demanding that New York be renamed Martin Luther King City "to reclaim it for our people."

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Ron Paul Newsletter @RP_Newsletter -- A mob of black demonstrators, led by the "Rev." Al Sharpton, occupied & closed the Statue of Liberty recently...

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Ron Paul Newsletter @RP_Newsletter -- (headline) KING CITY?

I would rep for renaming New York City "Dirtburg" if we get to rename the Jets the Dirtburgers.

if i can get a cap that says DIRT JETS or DIRT BURG JETS on it i will go to the ballot for this proposal

lol huffington post

Ron Paul Reportedly Refused To Use Gay Man's Bathroom

lol at ron paul getting battered around by the press.

it's almost as though he has some shameful ideas in his past that are coming back to haunt him!

best news regarding ron paul's fall -- btw, ron paul is not a serious candidate -- is that, perhaps relatedly, gingrich is getting an uptick in iowa (538 poll) and maybe elsewhere.

btw, ron paul is not a serious candidate

hm?

he's a fringe candidate. the only reason he's gotten any traction at all is because he hasn't been taken seriously enough to be a target. now that he's being attacked, his support will erode back to his preexisting base of libertarians.

i will say this: he has had a disproportionate impact on the modern GOP than his support (or his ideas) warrant. i think it's because, in the wake of obama's election, the gop was searching for a counter-narrative. it could have gone a number of different ways (e.g., toward mccain's housing proposals; a GOP-flavored stimulus), but it went for a hardcore anti-gov't stance, which in many ways mirrors paul's views.

Ron Paul is the only legitimate conservative candidate. Any Republican who dismisses him isn't a conservative.

conservatism doesn't equal libertarianism.

Never said it did! But this iteration of the GOP upholds a version of federal power so restricted that Paul is the only one who's made a career out of espousing those views.

that's true (and basically the point i was making above).

interesting theory that ron paul's 2012 run is really just laying the groundwork for a more serious run by his son, rand, in 2020.

that's not really the theory. it's a theory that that'll be the only meaningful legacy of the run, but not that ron paul is running just to set up his son

Barely related: I've been reading that book on the '60 election I mentioned a while back, and I just got to the part where Adlai Stevenson said that he found Paul (the Apostle, I presume) appealing and Peale (Norman Vincent, who questioned the idea of a Catholic president) appalling. I think I would have liked Stevenson, but I'm not sure how anyone came to the conclusion that he was someone who'd beat Eisenhower.