OK, we need a primary thread in this here sandbox.
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, November 28, 2011 5:35 PM
so be it.
please media, leave herman cain alone. stop being mean.
poor hermie
Herman’s dead—he sleeps with the fishes. We have to start planning strategy for Newt, Daniel, some way to Newtralize his Newtness long enough for him to get past Iowa.
from politics thread:
I don’t know...effective, but too early, looks panicky. And in a poor economy, I think the flip-flop strategy will cause massive shrugging. I also suspect, as unfair as it may be, that for a number of voters, Democratic flip-flopper (i.e., Kerry) = weak, spineless, but Republican flip-flopper = pragmatic, has no choice but to head-fake all the wingnuts.
― clemenza, Monday, November 28, 2011 5:34 PM (20 minutes ago)
I think it’s a mistake to group all ‘flip-floppers’ (barf) together. in a lot of ways ‘spineless’ vs. ‘pragmatic’ is actually pretty accurate when it comes to kerry vs. romney!
I don’t think the flip-flop tag (or swift boats) lost kerry the election, but otoh I think it stuck because he couldn’t sell a better narrative. he wasn’t aiming for ‘pragmatist’ (after the primaries at least). romney might, but the question is more whether that’s gonna sell to the base than to swing-voters. even after he gets the nomination, he can’t step too far to the left w/ the currenct gop.
my motto: LET NEWT SURGE
btw, robert reich tweets this prediction about the general-election:
@RBReich
Robert Reich 2012 race: Romney/Rubio vs. Obama/Clinton.
Anyone want to give a Britisher the low-down?
Where I was:
No-one actually likes Romney so they tried-
Texan who is rubbish at public speaking
Pizza guy who is an awesome meme
-so I guess it is because to Romney? Or did Cain recover some how?
‘because to Romney’? my inability to type properly added to being able to smell fried onions all day makes me wonder whether these are early warnings i’m having a stroke.
no now it’s the speaker of the house from the 90s
everyone sorta hates him but he’s ‘smarter’ than the other guys who aren’t romney
and he has so much ugly shit on his resume that it all sorta cancels out for now
romney v. gingrich.
if gingrich falls, romney v. perry.
if perry falls, romney v. cain.
if cain falls, romney v. bachmann.
if bachmann falls, romney v. sant— oh, never mind.
if bachmann falls, look for jeb bush to emerge from behind the curtain at the GOP convention.
lol at how much the gop are publicly not backing the guy who will eventually be their candidate. just give up and give it to him and use these 5 years to build a proper dude.
everyone sorta hates him but he’s ‘smarter’ than the other guys who aren’t romney
setting a high bar here.
how far down the list until jesse ventura has a chance?
he’s right below santorum.
figuratively.
considering that this cheerleader pyramid began w/ donald trump, jesse venture prob could have had his moment in the sun if he had wanted it
Oh, I want Newt big-time, believe me—that’s why I want him to stay out of his own way.
It is amazing to watch Cain (on CNN right now). He reminds me so much of when a quiet, credible student will tell me that some other student—maybe somebody who lies with great regularity, who’s in trouble all the time—is doing something wrong. “Why are you doing this?” “I’m not.” “Oh—*****, who never says two words, just decided to make this up for no reason?” “Yes.”
cain should really draw from that funny-or-die skit. he should compile a list of each-and-every adult women in the U.S. who has never accused him of harassment or an extra-marital affair, and then insist on reading it — top-to-bottom — the next time a journalist mentions the accusations.
this has the added bonus of taking up a lot of time. he could make it even better by saying “999!” between each name.
999 as in the emergancy telephone number? oh wait that is 911 in america. 999% percent?
999 is the best economic plan for the 99%, as proven by science, 99 out of 100 times.
By the way, I think Gingrich’s immigration bombshell in the last debate was (besides amounting to basic decency) political genius. I don’t think it’ll cost him much—he’ll either win Iowa or he won’t, regardless—but it would be a huge advantage if he ever got to a general, and it goes a long way towards getting the media on his side.
he’ll either win Iowa or he won’t
i will wager $1,000,000,000,000 that this is true.
I don’t think it’ll cost him much
it will definitely cost him if he keeps it up
he’s already begun defending himself against it, e.g., his silly “citizen counsels will decide which undocumented-persons will stay and which undocumented-persons will go” proposal.
yeah for sure, this is not a free lunch
That’s about how much he got from Freddie Mac, right? What I mean is his immigration stand won’t ultimately decide whether he wins or not...I don’t think so; if he sticks with it, what he loses on the one hand from the heartless-bastard side of the party, he gains on the other by contrasting himself with Romney’s equivocation. (Just saw him on CNN, and he repeated almost verbatim what he said at the debate: that you just can’t rip apart families who’ve been here 25 years.)
what he loses on the one hand from the heartless-bastard side of the party,
this is the only side of the party
or, at the very least it’s the only side of the party that votes in primaries
well, i think gingrich can innoculate himself on the issue to some extent, at least vis-a-vis romney.
newt and rove are smart enough to know that you can’t win elections on racism forever, but that ‘heartless-bastard side of the party’ is aka ‘the gop base’
You gotta have some faith in people. (I learned that from Mariel Hemingway in *Manhattan*.)
(speaking of good material for the next round of “romney flip-flop” ads)
okay, 61 calls from cain to this new accuser.
sadly, she is going to be dragged thru the mud. there’s already stories circulating about how she is in financial distress and has faced evictions and bankrupcies over the past 20 years.
she shld blame herself for not being rich iirc
“Rather, this appears to be an accusation of private, alleged consensual conduct between adults—a subject matter which is not a proper subject of inquiry by the media or the public. No individual, whether a private citizen, a candidate for public office or a public official, should be questioned about his or her private sexual life.”
lol
It’s too bad no one seems to use the word ‘bloviator’ any more. It would be a perfect fit for His Newtness.
i love how whenever you see a picture of herman cain now it’s capturing him in the middle of some denial, joining the scene in media res while he fans the flames of a new allegation. he’s always defensively poised, half-impatient half-indignant
u r addicts. someone tell Newt.
surely Obama is on the heartless bastard side of the Dems, no?
surely.
my 10 year-old daughter just said herman cain should compose a song to respond to the allegations of infidelity.
he does have a marvelous singing voice.
I already joined Newt’s 2016 street team.
also Ditka is gonna be vp, you heard it here first
I was hoping that a Google search of “Newt’s Street Team” would return some really cool images, but no luck.
oooh i saw a recent picture of the mean street posse the other day. if it weren’t for joey abs looking exactly the same, i’d have had no idea it was them though.
(picture has been saved for future ‘seeing ‘taker in a pet shop: hal(o)l of fame wrestlers pictures thread’, no need to blow my load herre)
cain is going to drop out of the race very soon. watch for it.
Gingrich already trying to re-establish how much he hates Mexicans lol
English as the “official language”, support for draconian anti-immigration state laws etc
“He is not thinking of dropping out of the race,” Gordon added. “He is simply reassessing the state of the campaign. We intend to be full speed ahead.”
Yeah, he’ll be out by Thursday, at the latest.
u guyz are a Roman Colosseum crowd
it’s true I love a good Christian disemboweling
not really i’m sad about it
herman cain brings the lolz
I wish he would stick around.
don’t worry.
where the presidential campaign ends, the FOX news talk-show begins.
no one cares about Herman Cain the Pundit, come on now
Yeah, Huckabee as host is way less fun than Huckabee as candidate (although I could see deriving some pleasure out of a Palin interview show).
Huckabee’s show is hilariously bad
no one cares about Herman Cain the Pundit, come on now
probably right. this makes me sad. don’t quit, herman cain.
no one cares about Herman Cain the Pundit, come on now
I care. I care deeply.
I would need to confer with the experts and generals and advisors before making a decision about whether I care or not
we can care about this more thoroughly over dinner later
(truthfully i think the polling shows about 50% of cain’s supporters list romney as their second choice, so in fact, cain dropping out might help romney. but whatevs.)
Pundit Cain will happen because the reactionaries need more black faces. It is part of their strategy of shock and awe.
Michael Steele has sold out to MSNBC, so Fox needs a Cain.
lol even Keyes went to MSNBC for his show
black Republicans know what’s up, y’all
I haven’t watched afternoon news in a while. Is Sharpton’s show still on the air at MSNBC?
i actually like michael steele a lot, the few times i’ve seen him on MSNBC.
When you go from Eisenhower to Nixon to Reagan to W. to Palin to Bachmann to Perry to Cain to Newt, it must be difficult to believe in evolution
lol
Yeah, Steele is a very reasonable fellow...which makes me wonder why he was ever the RNC chairman. Still, puppet Steele >>>>> real Steele.
xp stealing that for fb
What’s the quote from?
how about when you go from FDR to Stevenson to JFK to Humphrey to Carter to Clinton to Bam
Obama’s totally better than Clinton imho
and Dean was dumb as a stump.
Newt’s Coup de Grace
It is beginning to look likely that Cain will soon bow out of the race. There are only so many lies a man can tell in public, and his previous lies keep requiring him to tell more. Only Palin gets away with that kind of thing. Currently, Cain is at 15 percent. Give much of that to Gingrich—as has been happening so far—and Newt becomes the immediate front-runner, with support in the 40 percent range to Romney’s ceiling of 25. That changes the whole dynamic.
Meanwhile, Romney is faltering:
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There are 13 places PPP has polled the Republican race in October or November where it also did a poll sometime between January and March. In those places Romney’s net favorability has dropped by an average of 15 points over the course of the year.
On average Romney’s favorability with primary voters was 54/25 in these 13 places at the begininng of the year. Now it’s only 50/35. His problem is partially that his positives have gone down but more than that it’s that as his name recognition has increased, most folks moving off the fence have gone into the negative column.
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I felt the wind behind Romney disappear in the last debate, and re-emerge behind Gingrich. Now Newt gets the Cain Bounce. And Romney may drift lower. No one likes him. And the more they see him, the less they love.
newt the inevitable.
let’s hope they form a ticket:
NEWTMITT
Idle speculation on CNN last night: that Romney will try to enlist Huckabee to give him a boost in Iowa, maybe even offer him VP, even though they both supposedly despise each other. Wouldn’t be the first time that happened.
a poem, for tuesday:
huckabee
will not be
romney’s VP.
lol
(Cain) said. “I’ve got a major speech tonight at Hillsdale College on national security and foreign policy, and I will deliver it with vim, vigor, and enthusiasm.“
of course he will.
hillsdale college will pack the hall with impressionable single ladies.
a President Cain would at least make it clear that the prez don’t run shit.
(not that the current guy isnt making that point rather splendidly)
Sure he does – he runs the legal department that hires the elves who write memos authorizing assassinations abroad, drone attacks, and other cool stuff.
ALSO HE CALLED FOR THE CREATION OF A COFFEE MUG WITH HIS BIRTH-CERTIFICATE ACROSS THE BACK OF IT.
visionary.
Republican mash-up: “I’ve got a major speech tonight at Hillsdale College on national security and foreign policy, and I will deliver it with vim, vigor, and...vim, vigor, and...I’m sorry, I’ve forgotten.”
Is Perry really that dumb, or is he just a terrible public speaker?
yes
he just told a group of college students to vote for him if they’re 21 before the election.
voting age is 18.
shameful ignorance of the Constitution
I will deliver it with vim, vigor, and enthusiasm. No brio?! No pizzazz?! No zip?!
I am disappointed.
from FDR to Stevenson to JFK to Humphrey to Carter to Clinton to Bam
No love for Truman and LBJ?
“No pizzazz?!”
Joke writes itself for Herman.
shameful ignorance of the Constitution
When the 26th amdmt passed he was 21
They do things differently in Texas.
Texas: We do things differently
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.
The only way I can imagine Twitter being even vaguely interesting would be if in every tweet, you had to refer to yourself as Bob Dole.
The upcoming Iowa caucuses make Bob Dole fresh and interesting again.
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.
All Catholic blue-blazer-wearers. I think I actually flirted with Babbitt too for ’88 (the preteen-neb primary was a big deal that year); Gore was too conservative and hadn’t yet showed his enviro side. Paul Simon became my favorite after Hart dropped out.
Nice bow ties
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/12/kelly-clarkson-endorses-ron-paul-on-twitter.html
Kelly Clarkson may be a country star in denial, but last night on Twitter, she proudly declared herself to be a Republican backing the man who may triumph next month in the Iowa caucuses. “I love Ron Paul,” she wrote. “I liked him a lot during the last republican nomination and no one gave him a chance. If he wins the nomination for the Republican party in 2012 he’s got my vote.” Though her endorsement prompted fellow chanteuse Michelle Branch to also out herself as a Paul fan, Clarkson’s followers quickly brought up the controversy surrounding Paul’s recently unearthed newsletter statements, and the singer clarified, “I have never heard that he’s a racist? I definitely don’t agree with racism, that’s ignorant ... I love all people and could care less if you like men or women. I have never heard that Ron Paul is a racist or homophobe?” Ultimately, wrote Clarkson, “I do not support racism. I support gay rights, straight rights, women’s rights, men’s rights, white/black/purple/orange rights. I like Ron Paul because he believes in less government and letting the people (all of us) make the decisions and mold our country. That is all.” Justin Guarini, care to weigh in?
Orange ppl can fuck right off
i see a purple motherfucker and i going straight for my .357
i’m
I keep wondering if there is someone out there that is going to run as a 3rd party canidate, as this seems like a year where someone could actually get some traction.
I’m not sure if Perot doesn’t run in 96 that Bob Dole would have won. Clinton might have still won, but it would have been way closer.
can’t think of a viable 3rd party candidate other than Paul, and even then I think he’d struggle for money.
MSNBC Alert Thread?
Politics nerds might be interested in checking out Howard Fineman in jeans right now. His suit stuck at the dry cleaners?
Goodbye to any residual like I had for Kelly Clarkson. For not just the politics, but the dumb.
pop star is a dipshit, news at 11
I keep wondering if there is someone out there that is going to run as a 3rd party canidate, as this seems like a year where someone could actually get some traction.
I’m not sure if Perot doesn’t run in 96 that Bob Dole would have won. Clinton might have still won, but it would have been way closer.
― earlnash, Thursday, December 29, 2011 5:35 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
Meanwhile a surprising number of commenters agree with John J. Miller’s 2012 predictions.
I’m on board with the Tigers winning the World Series
The choice of “centrist Republicans”:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/27/vote-obama-centrist-republican
haha — I was waiting for someone to post it. I didn’t want to be typecast.
2 bad the cult of Paul is more about exalting Him than any purported libertarian ideology, or i guess Gary Johnson could gain some third party traction once Mitt’s inevitability becomes apparent to even the most die hard.
(that is assuming Paul doesn’t go for a third party run. and for some reason i just don’t think he will)
he won’t. gary johnson or, god forbid, buddy roemer could get some traction if not for the cult of paulsonality.
“Dead Skunk“‘s a thousand times better, but right off the wire:
whatever point he’s trying to make is undermined by presence of ukelele
i hope paul wins in iowa (have no idea how actually plausible this is) and then makes the gop beg him not to crush their dreams with a third-party run; i also hope he goes after obama’s drones in an actual debate so that we can watch all the others try to change the subject before they’re forced to heap too much death-fetishist praise on the kenyan commie.
^one of Mitt’s sons telling reporters that his dad doesn’t have to release his tax returns until President Obama releases his birth certificate and school transcripts.
um wait, not reporters. senior citizen group apparently.
Wolf Blitzer was pressing Romney on the tax returns the other day. I don’t get quite why he’s dodging. If there were something unseemly there, that’s going to come out in time anyway; if it’s just that he’s obscenely rich, well, that can’t be news by now, can it? Looking like you’re hiding something always looks bad, and comments like his son’s ain’t going to help.
eh I think he’s just dodging ‘people talk about how rich he is’
There’s a difference between people sorta knowing he’s rich and people knowing an exact dollar amount to put on that idea. If he’s worth over $50 million, it’s going to turn off a lot of voters.
I’m picturing Romney and his wife getting busted as they pull a Morty Seinfeld, walking into Denny’s at 6:00 p.m., an hour after the early-bird special.
ha probly a repost but new to me
Wolf Blitzer was pressing Romney on the tax returns the other day. I don’t get quite why he’s dodging. If there were something unseemly there, that’s going to come out in time anyway; if it’s just that he’s obscenely rich, well, that can’t be news by now, can it?
Timing
This’ll be everywhere today:
The echo of Hillary in New Hampshire is...well, not that he deserves as much, but I’ll resist easy shots.
I still think—assuming monstrously-rich is the story of Romney’s tax returns—that the best timing is to get it out there now. (Money at that level is an abstraction to me, but I’m guessing he’s worth much more than 50 million.) Is there a point at which a candidate is legally obligated to release his or her returns?
No legal obligation, iirc. It has become a cherished tradition in over the decades and if Romney flouts it, he’ll get constant shit about it from journos.
A plausible explanation—it’s not so his wealth, but how little he pays in taxes on that wealth.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/12/whats_the_deal_with_romneys_taxes.php?ref=fpblg
“so much”
makes sense
I still think—assuming monstrously-rich is the story of Romney’s tax returns—that the best timing is to get it out there now.
I think the best timing is probably not right before the caucus that could potentially deliver him the nomination. A better time is probably some time during the dead season between the nomination fight and the general, preferably when as few as possible people are paying attention.
This’ll be everywhere today: (youtube link)
Just want to mention that I’m probably not the only one here with images off and no inclination to click on youtube links without some indication of what I’m getting into. Cliffs would be helpful on posts like this.
Gingrich is really into “brain science.” You know, because he’s so smart. Which will help him, you know, destroy Obama in the debates. That smart smart Obama.
This’ll be everywhere today:
http://www.youtube.com/v/Lb9hisd60bE&fs=1&hl=en
The echo of Hillary in New Hampshire is...well, not that he deserves as much, but I’ll resist easy shots.
I still think—assuming monstrously-rich is the story of Romney’s tax returns—that the best timing is to get it out there now. (Money at that level is an abstraction to me, but I’m guessing he’s worth much more than 50 million.) Is there a point at which a candidate is legally obligated to release his or her returns?
― clemenza, Friday, December 30, 2011 3:39 PM (32 minutes ago)
how touching, kinda surprised he didn’t kick her to the curb when she became sick like he did with his first wife
Cliffs would be helpful on posts like this.
Gingrich, talking about his mother, got choked up like Hillary in New Hampshire four years ago.
Donna Brazile was just on CNN talking about Romney and his tax returns—it’s not his wealth, she said, it’s a question of how much he’s paying in taxes. So: she’s either keeping tabs on this thread, or—can’t be true—there’s some co-ordination of talking points going on.
Follow-up:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/12/us/politics/12romney.html
The article’s from 2007, but I’m going to hazard a wild guess that he’s done okay the past four years.
Santorum thrives in Iowa
brb, getting this tattooed on my torso in gothic script
aaaaaaaahahahahaha
Palin’s turn is worth it for the very carefully placed “whatever” and “gripin’.”
That Santorum family picture just kills me every time it comes back around.
It looks like a still picture out of Arrested Development.
Mom- “this is just not going to fly”
Daughter 1- “dad is so lame”
Son—“man I am so high”
Daughter 2- “please lord destroy this world”
guy in balcony running sound “wtf did he really say that?”
his wife’s mouth is an overlooked treasure in that photo that i’ve lately come to appreciate
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/12/ron-pauls-abortion-problem.html
But in signing the pledge, Paul may have ended up doing himself nearly as much harm as good. Alone among the signatories, Paul appended a “clarifying statement” in which he reiterates his opposition to banning abortion on the federal level.
who says he’s not prepared to be president? he’s already issuing signing statements
remember how I once said I didn’t know many Ron Paul supporters irl amongst my friends?
i was wrong :(.
i’m a little tired of hearing the whole debate ‘if we didn’t have to pay taxes, we’d be able to afford health care“
Greenwald on progressives’ Paul/Obama “evil evil evil” fallacy:
http://www.salon.com/2011/12/31/progressives_and_the_ron_paul_fallacies/singleton/
Ron Paul’s abortion position:
...he supports federal action to define life as beginning at conception, but doesn’t want to ban abortion at the federal level, saying that it should be left to the states.
This position is just weird. His fealty to state’s rights borders could more accurately be termed fellatio.
the idea that abortion should be a state decision is fucking horseshit. shouldn’t be anybody’s decision.
just will make the current conditions where it’s hard to get em in the midwest even more difficult when huge pockets of territory ban it
i gave this one a good go, but Greenwald is so fucking asinine. how many times does he have to repeat his premise that you can support an individual candidate’s stance w/out endorsing the candidate? he has no evidence that you cannot do so, so he’s really tilting at windmills here.
check it out: i agree w/ ron paul’s policy of ending the war on drugs
i do not endorse ron paul for president.
holy shit, someone call up Greenwald and tell him!
yeah for fuck’s sake I agree with a lot of his platforms (and disagree with a lot of others)...wow mindblowing greenwald!
so, no diff from Bam
youre oversimplifying his central point.
or misidentifying it really. (He’s just pointing out that others have SAID he has endorsed Huntsman or Paul when he has not)
hes just pointing out that people are holding him to the same standard he always holds them to, the crazy enraged ninny
imagine glenn greenwald not understanding really simple things http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2011/12/ron-paul-not-civil-libertarian-last.html
cool that Katrina vanden Heuvel supports ron paul’s race war platform
that’s actually an excellent essay by gg there, if you can deal with his breathless style, which I can’t always. it’s in some ways an expansion of that yglesias post i linked yesterday: that a paul nomination might actually be the best scenario for liberals because it’ll both push Obama (presumably) to the left on these issues and all but ensure his re-election in a general
greenwald was caught up in an idiotic twitter beef yesterday, which tangentially involved a poster here too. his coldness and seeming aversion to social norms is one of he reasons i vastly prefer him when he’s writing about law/policy rather than “politics”, but still he’s spot on in that essay
to clarify it was gg who was being idiotic, not the beef itself
The thing I loathe most about election season is reflected in the central fallacy that drives progressive discussion the minute “Ron Paul” is mentioned. As soon as his candidacy is discussed, progressives will reflexively point to a slew of positions he holds that are anathema to liberalism and odious in their own right and then say: how can you support someone who holds this awful, destructive position?
He needs to stop making assertions that are clearly based on his own anecdotal evidence (or worse, just shit he imagined). Ron Paul has more liberal support than any other Republican candidate, and any cap on that support is due to the very distinctions GG is spelling out. Dude who supports going back to the gold standard is never going to get wide cross-party support no matter how great he may be on other issues.
yeah i also hate his meta columns: the audience for columns like this are like the twelve fellow journos he beefs with on twitter
I thought Greenwald would kick it on New Year’s Day, lying on the grass in sandals with his boyfriend.
that photograph still haunts my dreams
aw
The dog on the left is “Addington,” his boo’s is “Russert.”
cool cargo shorts
the very same people who in 2004 wildly cheered John Kerry
Oh yes, who cold forget Kerrymania? Everyone was putting JK pictures in their trapper keepers, women were pissing their pants when he spoke at the Iowa County Fair. It was a crazy time for sure.
spent all of 2008 mocking John McCain’s wealthy life courtesy of his millionaire heiress wife and will spend 2012 depicting Mitt Romney’s wealth as proof of his insularity
Yes, democrats kept a laser-like focus on this one issue for all of 2008.
That combat experience is an important presidential trait was insisted upon in 2004 by the very same people who vehemently denied it in 2008, and vice-versa.
lol this totally did not happen.
I think the main slogan for Kerry’s campaign might as well have been “You should see the OTHER guy”...
I kinda feel like gg’s columns become much better when you imagine him saying, “or whatever you know what I mean,” after every assertion.
lol he likes ron paul lol
I am sure this has been discussed before but wow his bf should be out of his league no?
esp considering gg’s personality
but but he is famous blogger!
I caught the last 10 minutes of Gingrich’s press conference today—New Year’s or no New Year’s, attention must be paid to the gossipy horserace—and it was encouraging for anyone still living the train-wreck dream. He’s not going to win, but it does appear ready to go down in flames. There was a great moment where his inner Nixon got the better of him: acknowledging that Romney’s ad-barrage had driven him down to low double-digits, he fairly hissed that “If I’d spent three-and-half million dollars going after Romney, he’d be down to 3%.”
it = he
I am sure this has been discussed before but wow his bf should be out of his league no?
esp considering gg’s personality
I know, right? Otoh, this picture should give all single people hope because if GG can pull a hot piece like that, theoretically anyone can.
Given the concerns I have for some of the Republican field’s focus thus far, I must implore the candidates to do something that sounds self-promoting, but whatever. Candidates, please turn to Chapter Three of “Going Rogue” and read what it takes for our country to step toward energy independence. Note the lesson I share in the same chapter about taking on the “elite,” the crony capitalists and the permanent political establishment to get a job done.
The “but whatever” is the touch that spins this straw into gold.
I am sure this has been discussed before but wow his bf should be out of his league no?
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gonna miss you on ilx gman