ManateeGag: The music for the next GOP debate should be the battle music from Amok Time.


yakity sax?

ManateeGag: The music for the next GOP debate should be the battle music from Amok Time.

Fabulous! Marcus Bachmann has the most fetching T'Pring outfit.

ManateeGag: The music for the next GOP debate should be Springtime for Hitler the battle music from Amok Time.

coco ebert: Kind of a shrewish metaphor, no? I'm no fan of Bachmann but jeez...

Also, I still think Republicans will coalesce around Romney in the end. Perry is just too batsh*t. Not all Republican voters are teabaggers.

...and not all teabaggers are republican.

ManateeGag: The music for the next GOP debate should be the battle music from Amok Time.

It's been years since medical school, so remind me. Disemboweling in your species, fatal or non-fatal?

coco ebert: Kind of a shrewish metaphor, no? I'm no fan of Bachmann but jeez...

Also, I still think Republicans will coalesce around Romney in the end. Perry is just too batsh*t. Not all Republican voters are teabaggers.

Well, certainly not ALL are, but I think the GOP has been pretty effectively distilled down to them.

The Name: ManateeGag: The music for the next GOP debate should be the Soviet National Anthem minus the choirSpringtime for Hitler the battle music from Amok Time.

But Romney's team believes that Republicans want, above all, a nominee who can beat President Obama.

Romney is the steady, clean-cut guy who waits patiently while you flirt with other candidates - hoping you'll realize they're not right for you. He's the guy you settle for.

The question is: Are Republicans willing to settle in 2012?

The Tea Party was willing to accept the United States defaulting in the name of ideological purity. What makes you think they're going to bring less fervor to the primaries?

What the average GOP primary voter might look like.

/hot

Romney's "Hide in the corner and wait for everyone to self distruct" strategy isn't going to work forever. He's getting hammered hard by Perry in the polls now, and even if Perry is destroyed or destroys himself, Republicans are going to be loathe to put Romney back in the lead.

Pinner: coco ebert: Kind of a shrewish metaphor, no? I'm no fan of Bachmann but jeez...

Also, I still think Republicans will coalesce around Romney in the end. Perry is just too batsh*t. Not all Republican voters are teabaggers.

...and not all teabaggers are republican.

They just vote that way.

Car_Ramrod: But Romney's team believes that Republicans want, above all, a nominee who can beat President Obama.

Romney is the steady, clean-cut guy who waits patiently while you flirt with other candidates - hoping you'll realize they're not right for you. He's the guy you settle for.

The question is: Are Republicans willing to settle in 2012?

The Tea Party was willing to accept the United States defaulting in the name of ideological purity. What makes you think they're going to bring less fervor to the primaries?

And if they lose the primaries, what makes anyone think the Tea Party will accept that?

I think there is a serious chance that Bachmann or Palin will go for a third party run if there isn't a sufficiently Tea Partyish candidate on the Republican ticket.

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Romney

Also, Bachmann's candidacy is sputtering and failing hard and fast. If Palin doesn't jump into the race next weekend, Romney is going to have to pull up his big kid pampers and do the dirty work himself.

...the liberal media...

LOL Marc Thiessen
/what a tube.

Philip Francis Queeg: I think there is a serious chance that Bachmann or Palin will go for a third party run if there isn't a sufficiently Tea Partyish candidate on the Republican ticket.

Nah. Palin knows that her best chance is to get into the GOP race -because no one else would ever take her. As for Bachmann, she's too much of an establishment Republican to make a bold move like that. Batshiat farking insane, but still establishment.

Car_Ramrod: But Romney's team believes that Republicans want, above all, a nominee who can beat President Obama.

Romney is the steady, clean-cut guy who waits patiently while you flirt with other candidates - hoping you'll realize they're not right for you. He's the guy you settle for.

The question is: Are Republicans willing to settle in 2012?

The Tea Party was willing to accept the United States defaulting in the name of ideological purity. What makes you think they're going to bring less fervor to the primaries?

You can't win the Republican nomination right now without Tea Party support or evangelical support. Perry gets both. Romney gets neither. The only thing he wins on is the "electability" argument, and I don't think Republican primary voters are interested in that right now. They want ideological purity.

"Those who came to power riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside"

/Hopefully not obscure.
// If Michelle Bachmann is that tough, she may well be the 2012 GOP nominee.

Romney/Bachmann 2012


Come on, it's perfect for the Republicans.
At the lead, an empty suit that will keep the money flowing; and then the Tea Party poster child who will shore up the base votes that might be lost with a Mormon in the hot seat.

Pinner: coco ebert: Kind of a shrewish metaphor, no? I'm no fan of Bachmann but jeez...

Also, I still think Republicans will coalesce around Romney in the end. Perry is just too batsh*t. Not all Republican voters are teabaggers.

...and not all teabaggers are republican.

Indeed. Some of them are so far right they think even the republicans are socialists. Spoken like a true Fark Independent ^tm

Philip Francis Queeg: Car_Ramrod: But Romney's team believes that Republicans want, above all, a nominee who can beat President Obama.

Romney is the steady, clean-cut guy who waits patiently while you flirt with other candidates - hoping you'll realize they're not right for you. He's the guy you settle for.

The question is: Are Republicans willing to settle in 2012?

The Tea Party was willing to accept the United States defaulting in the name of ideological purity. What makes you think they're going to bring less fervor to the primaries?

And if they lose the primaries, what makes anyone think the Tea Party will accept that?

I think there is a serious chance that Bachmann or Palin will go for a third party run if there isn't a sufficiently Tea Partyish candidate on the Republican ticket.

I really hope they do. A new AP poll shows Tea Party favorability below that of Democrats in Congress, but above Republicans in Congress. I'm not totally confident in Obama winning 2012, but a third party run would absolutely ensure his win. It would be fantastic.

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ManateeGag: The music for the next GOP debate should be the battle music from Amok Time.

thanks for this, now i'll be whistling it all night

Bill_Wick's_Friend: ManateeGag: The music for the next GOP debate should be the battle music from Amok Time.

Fabulous! Marcus Bachmann has the most fetching T'Pring outfit.

also hilarious


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Uncle_Sam's_Titties: bring out.. the ahn-whoon

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The Name: Philip Francis Queeg: I think there is a serious chance that Bachmann or Palin will go for a third party run if there isn't a sufficiently Tea Partyish candidate on the Republican ticket.

Nah. Palin knows that her best chance is to get into the GOP race -because no one else would ever take her. As for Bachmann, she's too much of an establishment Republican to make a bold move like that. Batshiat farking insane, but still establishment.

I do not see a strong 3rd party run from the right on the basis of not being Tea Partyish enough. I do see a strong 3rd party run from the right due to Mormonism in the event of a Romny or Huntsman win.

Car_Ramrod:

The Tea Party was willing to accept the United States defaulting in the name of ideological purity.

Yes, you are exactly right. Had the budget not passed there would have been no money at all to make our debt payments of $26B which would have triggered a default.

Yes, that is exactly what would have happened. The treasury has absolutely no money at all, nor does it collect any money at all.

Philip Francis Queeg:
I think there is a serious chance that Bachmann or Palin will go for a third party run if there isn't a sufficiently Tea Partyish candidate on the Republican ticket.

My bet is they essentially give the McCain/Palin combo another go, but turned precisely on its head. Not like they've got much of a chance versus an incumbent with a consistent record, they might as well go for the hail mary with a slight spin of respectability to try to keep it on track.

Basically, my dollar is on Some Nutball/Romney 2012 as the losing team in Obama's inevitable but not-particularly-landslidey victory.

tenpoundsofcheese: Yes, you are exactly right. Had the budget not passed there would have been no money at all to make our debt payments of $26B which would have triggered a default.

facepalm

tenpoundsofcheese: Car_Ramrod:

The Tea Party was willing to accept the United States defaulting in the name of ideological purity.

Yes, you are exactly right. Had the budget not passed there would have been no money at all to make our debt payments of $26B which would have triggered a default.

Yes, that is exactly what would have happened. The treasury has absolutely no money at all, nor does it collect any money at all.

Yes, some random twit on the internet knows more about the country's finances than actual economists.

You make your bed with the social conservative/evangelicals, you have to live with them.

Perry/Bachmann 2012 .... Romney is dreaming

Philip Francis Queeg: Car_Ramrod: But Romney's team believes that Republicans want, above all, a nominee who can beat President Obama.

Romney is the steady, clean-cut guy who waits patiently while you flirt with other candidates - hoping you'll realize they're not right for you. He's the guy you settle for.

The question is: Are Republicans willing to settle in 2012?

The Tea Party was willing to accept the United States defaulting in the name of ideological purity. What makes you think they're going to bring less fervor to the primaries?

And if they lose the primaries, what makes anyone think the Tea Party will accept that?

I think there is a serious chance that Bachmann or Palin will go for a third party run if there isn't a sufficiently Tea Partyish candidate on the Republican ticket.

I think Palin is actually posturing for a 3d party run the GOP nominates any candidate who isn't a practicing Fundamentalist Christian.

I used to think Perry was going to win but know I have doubts too many of his positions are unelectable and people are realizing it.

He is trying to change his "I hate social security and want to get rid of it!" stance

And pretend it's "Social Security is in trouble and we must destroy it to fix it!!!"

It's funny how the media doesn't see that is what he is doing.

spongeboob: My two cents if Palin does not get the Vice Presidents slot again she runs as a Third Party candidate.

I doubt it. but that would be awesome!

Romney is toast. The best evidence is his 2008 convention speech, which had enough red meat in it to satisfy a vegan.

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