I’ve heard of it, but I’m a U.S. population geek.
I think with Paul too there’s the whole young people/the internet/non-traditional conservatives love him and I think that’s a sign that there must be something up with the guy and he won’t “defend true conservatism” or whatever the fuck these people want the party daddy to do XP
98% of Libertarianism is just privilege-protection in disguise, and the other 2% is bugfuck crazy, imo
greatest news of the week: DONALD TRUMP will moderate an upcoming GOP primary debate.
yeah there’s that too but I don’t think this things wig out too many GOP caucus-goers. XP
@michelleinbklyn Michelle Goldberg — “I really think they feel I have a wonderful personality and they like me so much,” says Trump of the GOP candidates. livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/updates/2356
lol @ jaymc
Good god they’re setting themselves up from some The Apprentice like mockery.
As if they haven’t already.
also he’s too weaselly. GOP likes manly men.
eh
hw and w were both pretty weaselly
“Santorum...you’re fired”
^^ unintentionally hilarious
haaa
can one ill-conceived debate expose, for the nation, how much of a circus sideshow the GOP has become?
“We look forward to watching Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich suck up to Trump with a big bowl of popcorn,” Huntsman spokesman Tim Miller told Yahoo News.
“has become”
haaaaa
oh, well, mr. trump, i do have lingering questions about whether “the president” is a natural-born u.s. citizen. he looks kenyan to me.
https://twitter.com/davidfolkenflik/statuses/142704178077245440
OMG! It is a reality show! RT @DylanByers TRUMP: “I will be probably endorsing somebody right after the debates.”
Responding to that, someone at HotAir:
He said “debates” — plural — not “debate,” so he’s not necessarily saying that the Newsmax event alone will decide his endorsement. But check the calendar. The Newsmax debate is the very last one before Iowa; by endorsing soon afterward, it’ll look as if the candidates’ performance at that event was determinative to him.
hw and w were both pretty weaselly
W was a drunk, baseball playing, plane crashing redneck from Texas. and a born-again Xtian. all GOP rightwing male checkboxes checked.
nobody liked GHWB, he was coasting on Reagan’s coattails and the fact that Dukakis was a liberal midget.
I would lol of Trump endorsed Huntsman
I know about Hialeah bcz of the horsetrack, and I am always intentionally hialeahrious, you simp.
i would lol if trump endorses newt and trashes romney as a weaselly flip-flopper.
or maybe he’ll find them all unsuitable and . . .
. . . oh that would be good.
candidates vie for the trump bump
I don’t know why but that gave me the mental image of Trump putting on his toupee over a Bump-It
Trump’s idea 2 moderate a debate is absurd. I hope all GOP candidates turn him down. It’s a campaign; not a TV show.
Ari Fleischer wondering why it can’t be like the pure and untelevised campaigns of 2000, I guess.
W was a drunk, baseball playing, plane crashing redneck from Texas. and a born-again Xtian. all GOP rightwing male checkboxes checked.
/ ivy league cheerleader and draft dodger. I’m sure Ron Paul could be sold as a ‘real man’ w/ the right media team. to start w/ he’s actually from Texas. maybe he could put on some muscle,
I’m sure Ron Paul could be sold as a ‘real man’ w/ the right media team. to start w/ he’s actually from Texas. maybe he could put on some muscle
this can work for chris bosh, not ron paul.
the GOP doesn’t want someone who looks like the riddler. they want a daddy. a man. a man’s man.
a man’s man’s man.
CNN just had a Republican focus group holding court on Gingrich and Romney. Major surprise: they don’t trust either one of them. This is good news for...Gary Johnson?
FOR RICKY SANTORUM
candidates vie for the trump bump
― Never translate German (schlump), Friday, December 2, 2011 4:20 PM (1 hour ago)
Lumps Stump for Trump Bump
says Crump
:-D
My hope is they all turn down Trump and he uses that hour or however long to say, ‘they dont care about telling the american public their principles; so i guess i am the only man here worth voting for’ and throws his wighat back in the race as the last non-mittens.
George Will hates Gingrich, and thinks Romney would be Thomas Dewey to Obama’s Truman. So he gets behind Rick Perry (admitting his wife is on the payroll) and—this is really odd—Huntsman.
The thing I find so odd about Will’s endorsement of Huntsman has less to do with how conservative Huntsman may or may not be than seeing someone of Will’s—I’ll say visibility rather than stature so Alfred’s head doesn’t explode—so publically backing a lost cause.
Probably a smart move (and probably a non-story), but I don’t know—if Romney flinches at Gingrich, what would a primary voter think about how ready he is for Obama?
I’d hold off for a few hours; deep discounts imminent.
Bizarre and sad.
TheOnion The Onion
Rumors Of Extramarital Affair End Campaign Of Presidential Candidate Who Didn’t Know China Has Nuclear Weapons onion.com/uPcRCC
10 minutes ago
I’m not getting anything at cainsolutions.com—I hope someone thought to register the name.
Holding out this endorsement carrot is really weird. He’s surely too toxic to warrant anything in return, so it’s hard to know what that is beyond an ego thing. I’m not sure why anyone would court him at this point, but I suppose they all will.
it’s “the”
Excellent—we the people are ready to enlist.
rip herm dawg you were funneh, ‘black walnut’
Erick Erickson reveals what it all means:
Dropping out now will be viewed by a great many as an admission against interests that Herman Cain did have a 13 year affair.
But let’s be real clear here. Herman Cain did not get wiped out by an affair or allegations of sexual harassment, frivolous or otherwise. He got wiped out because those allegations threw him off his game and then he kept stumbling through attacks on his 999 plan, his foreign policy issues, and his campaign staff generally beclowning themselves with allegations, retracted allegations, and retracted retractions of allegations, etc.
A lot of people will see this as a sign that amateurs cannot run for office. Perhaps. I actually see it more as another failure of the professional political class. I’ll have more thoughts on that later.
And such deep thoughts they will be, I’m sure.
I’ll have more thoughts on that later.
As a dog returns to its vomit, etc etc
“off his game”
“soon Cain will be forgotten.”
Never Forget!
Cain Chooses Plan B, Aborts Campaign
lol
hahaha
Herman Cain’s plan B: audition for the role of Uncle Enzo in the film version of Neil Stephenson’s Snow Crash
Meantime it’s not that I want to laugh at stupid people but well...
Is this
the new
?
“SACRED HONOR”
tho honestly, after bunting and barbecue and blaring pop music; a sign-up sheet for volunteers; herman cain golf shirts going for $50; and policy pamphlets for free, i can almost understand why the faithful that went to see cain today thought he might stay in the race.
they didn’t realize that his campaign has always been a front for an elaborate book-tour.
no on account of sad cain girl not dressing to match her doll
I expect I will have to offer grief counseling to all my grade 6 students on Monday.
to me, too!
i am v sad about this.
I know this isn’t easy. Anything worthwhile—President Newt—never is.
lol we’re gonna have a president whose first name is newt.
HEY
December 3, 2011 Mike Huckabee Presidential Forum — 8pm ET on Fox News
Location: Fox News Headquarters in New York City
Sponsor: Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and Fox News
Participants: Romney, Perry, Bachmann, Gingrich, Santorum, Paul all confirmed. Cain, Huntsman unconfirmed.
man it would be so great if cain rushed the stage.
maybe mark block could pretend to hold him back as cain tried to reassert himself as the GOP’s number-one-guy.
Choppy video, but the audio’s fine:
No one’s supposed to “mention or attack other candidates.” What’s the point?!
yeah this format will be terrible.
no direct engagement between candidates
questioners who are really relentlessly promoting themselves (n.1)
questioners who are not professional examiners.
____________________________
(n.1) and, as pam bondi’s opening monologue shows, are also dummies.
(sorry, they are professional examiners; not professional journalists.)
already, this is a disgusting orgy of self-promotion.
wow i didn’t know pam bondi was this awkwardly dense.
I don’t know what to make of this thing. That’s a relatively (in this context) tough beginning for Gingrich; maybe, in light of how much Huckabee despised Romney in ’08, they’ll go really hard at Romney.
newt’s doing fine. two of these AG are bumbling and self-aggrandizing, and the other already unloaded his best question.
actually gingrich is doing well, and hitting on themes that the base will love (and coming-off as electable).
but now . . . the crazy judicial issues arise.
prediction: newt will do much better than romney in this format.
My feed’s terrible. I feel like I’ve got Grandmaster Flash cutting up the audio. Hearing Newt say “I want to put them in jail” is not good.
i don’t think that’s what he said.
look, this format is awful, largely because of who is asking the questions. but for what it is, i think gingrich did very well. this plays to his strengths. he didn’t say anything to disqualify him, he sounded conservative and coherent, and i think that will be the post-debate takeaway for him.
but grab your popcorn, cause crazy and romney are coming up next!
I want them to draw blood from Romney. I want them to break his kneecaps.
i understand why fox viewers think gingrich is intelligent bc compared to these examiners he is clearly much brighter. or as Sullivan said earlier today, he’s what stupid people imagine smart people are like.
eh, i think you’re undercrediting him. but he clearly overcredits himself, so . . .
ANNNNNNND, here’s ricky.
the problem with santorum is that he comes off like a petulent teenager.
LOLGOP Pete Nicely — If this felt any less important, I’d think I was watching Glenn Beck TV. #HuckForum
haha.
“The President was dealing with an insurrection.” That’s exactly like when Democrats tried the “The President was dealing with an erection” defense.
eh, i think you’re undercrediting him
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oh, i misread your post. sorry.
also, i’m itching for a gingrich/obama general election, so . . . i’m bias.
“Values that undermine—excuse me, undergird our country...”—great!
why does ken whatshisnamevirginiaguy so anti-santorum?
why does pam bondi sound so dumb?
why is ken whats...
santorum could gain some momentum if he could calm down and not bite into questions so badly. he’s a missed opportunity for the GOP, but his moment is gone.
LOLGOP Pete Nicely — Rick Santorum is like your friend’s friend you’re interviewing for the job as a favor.
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LOLGOP Pete Nicely — Looking at these state Attorney Generals compared to Rick Santorum makes you realize that these candidates are the best the GOP can do. #sad
lol
Hey, Santorum just made reference to his opponents. I cry foul.
sounds like they’re saving mitt romney for last. lol.
at this point, no-one is taking perry serious. sad!
I came for the Newt, I stayed for the Mitt.
“Boots on the ground”—think I hate that almost as much as “game-changer.”
“at the end of the day” it’s just a cliche.
Josh Marshall agrees with you, Daniel: “Newt’s campaign made sure to send ‘Good Newt’ tonight, pretty cool and polished, making good reference to his knowledge of the workings of the federal government without seeming pompous. I think if you’re a Republican looking to be reassured that Newt’s got his feet on the ground and himself under control, you probably think he’s doing pretty well.”
i actually am 70% of “newt’s campaign.” the remaining 30% are child-laborers who work for tiffany’s.