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

= enjoys politics...Guilty as charged, as I've said many times.

as opposed to making a reference to a 1876 election

― iatee, Wednesday, December 28, 2011 4:01 PM

I don't understand your problem with Rutherfraud Hayes.

u act like you're ashamed of it. embrace ur inner clemenza. enjoy politics w/ pride xp

You replaced him when he was banned. To be fair, though, he "crunches data" and such.

― Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, December 28, 2011 4:00 PM (1 minute ago)

he blends it actually

lol that took me a second

Here I am during a march last year we held in honour of Mark Halperin:

http://www.pridemarch.com.au/images/lead%20banner%202011.JPG

lol

well this is touching

how is perry transformed

“I really started giving some thought about the issue of rape and incest,” Mr. Perry told a local pastor who had questioned whether he had changed his position on the issue. “Some powerful stories in that DVD.”

that kind of personnel move look like a huge admission of weakness, esp if there is no immediate health- or scandal-related reason to get rid of biden

Correct. Won't happen absent the latter.

I like this clemenza fellow and his support for my boyfriend, Mark Halperin.

“I really started giving some thought about the issue of rape and incest,” Mr. Perry told a local pastor who had questioned whether he had changed his position on the issue. “Some powerful stories in that DVD.”

ha my friend went to a fire safety training day & the guy concluded by intoning "I've seen some powerful fires ...... on video".

I think it will still be a very close race, because enthusiasm for Obama among liberals is rather tepid also.

Sure, but that's relative to whether it's support for him against Romney or against one of the more monstrous candidates, right? Romney's current attempts to slap on some monster make-up aside.

The “Aspergians have sex” story

actually i was surprised by the comments under this breathtakingly hateful NRO post. most were aghast at the poster's condescending attitude toward aspies - or in heather mcd's awful neologism "syndroids." reliably a couple trolls like jenna let rip, another d-bag compared the autism epidemic to global warming lol/smh.

the corner has become totally dominated by trolling and appears to be un-moderated or edited these days.

i mean, jesus, even for a right-wing website that post was just monstrously insensitive. you'd think a bunch of professional christians like the nro editors would exercise a little uh empathy for people struggling w/autism.

For relaxing times...make it Santorum time.

Not on the couch, dammit!

RT @CNNExpress: @OccupyCaucus vowed to obstruct Paul's Iowa office until RP promises to not close the EPA. #OccupyCaucus #RonPaul #iowacaucus

RP genocidal killer of Americans in the name of 'liberty'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=V4matEbGCBg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=V4matEbGCBg

f it

lol

is this shit even legal? http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2011/dec/29/tdmain01-va-gop-will-require-loyalty-oath-in-presi-ar-1573870

http://www.fangraphs.com/not/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/1245036228_41fab64009_o-229x300.jpghttp://www.fangraphs.com/not/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/RonPaulAstros-228x300.jpg

What a goofnugget.

is this shit even legal?

Primary elections for nominations within political parties are considered to be an internal affair of the party, so they have a much lower legal threshhold for pulling stupid shit like that. Think of the VA republicans as a bunch of shriners or masons and it becomes clearer just how idiotic their party rules can get without breaking any laws.

i keep seeing things like 'iowa is a caucus not a primary, so anything is possible". can someone explain to me what is different about a caucus (compared to what, a regular primary?) that makes this so?

In a primary election, the results are compiled statewide, so statistically speaking the local variations are smoothed out. As I understand it, with caucuses, each local caucus is a statistical unit, so local quirks and variations are preserved.

Another weirdness of caucuses is that attending a caucus requires a greater commitment of time and energy than going to a polling place, voting, and then going home. You have to come, then stay to the bitter end if you want to be sure of the outcome.

Don't people also advocate for candidates at caucuses before the vote takes place?

I'm from a primary-holding state, so I'm sort of vague on all the odd bits about how to caucus.

primary is just a straight ballot vote; most GOP primaries are winner-take-all but that may have changed in a few places.

caucuses are more like a big meeting. people physically get together in a big room (a high school gym generally) and, at the appointed time, bunch together with the other supporters of their first choice.

if there aren't enough people in a bunch, at that time, to meet the lower threshold %, then all those people have to choose someone else, and after another half-hour or so resort themselves for another count (or go home i guess). and that's where the unpollable combo of secondary & tertiary preferences combined with local relationships and just lucky charisma or whatev comes into play.

i dunno what those lower % thresholds are btw. 5? 15? in small communities or if there is low turnout, there's plenty of room to game this shit because the margins are so wacky. it's also why organization matters, a network of folks to just be at these places and hopefully yak their way thru the night. and also why long-duration enthusiasms like ron paul's core of fanatics can have a big effect over flash-in-the-pan polling leads like newt gingrich's.

idk how many rounds they go through either. probably when there are no more candidacies left below the margin. we could probably go to wikipedia or sth right?

Surely sometimes the second or third choice for a voter whose first choice becomes unavailable is: fuck this, I'm leaving.

This was taken at last year's Democratic caucus in Nevada. Look's quite bizarre.

http://www.american-buddha.com/aeyes29d.jpg

Yeah the caucus really seems to favor pauls campaign

is the pledge legally binding & enforcable, bc i think the best way to treat such a thing would be writing SURE DO! XOXO on the dotted line & then vote for the assholest as planned

lol my mom is a longtime democrat with no real 'extreme' or unorthodox or even notably leftist beliefs, but has a bizarre taste for single-digit outlier candidates.

i asked her in 08 if she was gonna caucus and she said she really liked joe biden (i know, right?) (i was fishing for her take on hrc vs obama vs born in a meal). so i was like, uh ok, who's your second choice then? "bill richardson".

then i recalled back in 88 when she had talked a whole crew of old people from the home she managed to go caucus for... bruce babbitt.

no real point to this story other than: caucuses are kind of fucked up and nobody ever explains wtf happens at them until like the night of.

Given what the pledge 'requires', it could not be legally binding. It is just a load of hokum.

"I promise to vote for the Republican nominee for President of the United States whether or not, in the intervening time between the primary and the national election, it is determined that he is a 'Manchurian' salafist candidate, a socialist, the author of the 'texts from Bennet' or a 34 year old Guatemalan drug runner."

ha rand paul: "it must be frustrating for Newt, to see something he feels he's entitled to slipping away"

"I do hope he enjoyed that cruise to the Greek isles."

(xpost) Ditto those of us who were hoping for a train-wreck of a Republican nomination process. We feel it slipping away, and it's very frustrating.

What could be more of a train-wreck than the inevitable Bob Dole-ization of the 2012 Republican candidate?

Newt-ization would have been preferable.

Bob Dole still thinks Bob Dole had a lot to offer the American people. Bob Dole resents the implication he was a stiff.

Bob Dole was actually funny at times. He's still a loser.

I remember getting really drunk one night not long after the '96 election and referring to myself as Bob Dole for a good part of the evening. ("Bob Dole can't keep his head up.") Just looked at his Wikipedia page--he turned 88 this year. I actually used to find him very funny.

Btw, via a perusal of the longest booms (as opposed to rece/depre-ssions in American history; the longest under one President? Clinton.