Since the GOP debates commenced, Gingrich has steadily crept back into double digits in most polls, based on something surprising: ideas. He has little money, he has few ground troops, he has unleashed no attack ads, but he has answered questions clearly, forthrightly, and knowledgeably.

I don't think we're talking about the same Gingrich.

It's going to be Romney.

Come on.

I mean look at him. He's the anti-Obama.

Wilford Brimley is running for president?

They are just pandering to their base.

whidbey: It's going to be Romney.

Come on.

I mean look at him. He's the anti-Obama.

Plus he's the only one of them who looks the least bit presidential

vernonFL: Romney: Tortures dogs

Gingrich: Divorced wife with cancer to marry a younger woman, later divorced her for a younger woman.

Cain: Serial rapist

Santorum: Believes blastocysts have more rights than gay adults.

Bachmann: Tortures gays

Ron Paul: Named his son after Ayn Rand.

Huntsman: RINO

Forgot Perry: Probably racist, makes Cain look like a Rhodes scholar

Somacandra: That might be the case except that you've got a perfectly qualified, articulate, experienced candidate who's been a governor and ambassador as well as working at Commerce. He's there but your fellow Republicans don't seem to want him. I don't think its the lack of a credible candidate. I hope you guys come to your senses and at least give him a serious look.

Yeah but he's a f*cking REPUBLICAN. With ties to REAGAN policies. BUSH I policies...UTAH Policies...the WTO fer chrissakes...

/meh

Obama's screwups have him on his knees, his willing to cave to the GOP has him say "You go first" to appear fair. The GOP takes the swing and hits themselves in the back of their own head.

Screw 2004, this is entertainment.

Among their top presidential candidates, one is as electrifying as oatmeal, another is mired in a scandal, and the third is having to deny he was drunk/high during a major speech. Maybe it IS for the GOP time to panic

It might be except for one thing: the guy they're running against is Obama.

CPennypacker: whidbey: It's going to be Romney.

Come on.

I mean look at him. He's the anti-Obama.

Plus he's the only one of them who looks the least bit presidential

Plus, it's like playing Plinko with him.


Hates Gay / Loves Gays / Hates Abortion / Loves Abortion / Hates Healthcare Reform / Loves Healthcare Reform

Where will the puck fall on Nov. 2012!?!?!

coeyagi: CPennypacker: whidbey: It's going to be Romney.

Come on.

I mean look at him. He's the anti-Obama.

Plus he's the only one of them who looks the least bit presidential

Plus, it's like playing Plinko with him.


Hates Gay / Loves Gays / Hates Abortion / Loves Abortion / Hates Healthcare Reform / Loves Healthcare Reform

Where will the puck fall on Nov. 2012!?!?!

I heard if you vote for him right after he took a position you like, he is locked in

Fingers crossed.

jjorsett: Among their top presidential candidates, one is as electrifying as oatmeal, another is mired in a scandal, and the third is having to deny he was drunk/high during a major speech. Maybe it IS for the GOP time to panic

It might be except for one thing: the guy they're running against is Obama.

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1/10. Trying - It's what we did before we decided we didn't need to™

The GOP doesn't have to panic because they exist as part of our black & white political party system. For most members of the two major political parties, voting for the worst possible candidate of their party is more palatable than voting for the best possible candidate of the other.

jjorsett: DERP

Why do you keep posting that stupid picture?

whidbey: jjorsett: DERP

Why do you keep posting that stupid picture?

What's behind Obama anyway? Some image of a Lovecraftian horror?

WizardofToast: whidbey: jjorsett: DERP

Why do you keep posting that stupid picture?

What's behind Obama anyway? Some image of a Lovecraftian horror?

Kind of reminds me of that guy in the dog suit from the Shining...

whidbey: jjorsett: DERP

Why do you keep posting that stupid picture?

He made it for 7th grade collage day.

"Look at this, proof that Obama is a poopoohead president!"

dletter: Link (new window)

If the GOP could only convince the "Generic Republican" to run!

I'd vote for Generic Republican. Really strong on family values.

Huntsman will be ready to roll in 2016.
He'll go in with the low double digit support in the beginning, get the air time that he deserves from the MSM and get into the healthy 28%-33% support he'll need for the nomination.
Good luck beating that.

dletter: Link (new window)

If the GOP could only convince the "Generic Republican" to run!

Yeah but the numbers would plummet once GR opens his big fat GOP yap and starts the derpfest...

Pinner: Huntsman will be ready to roll in 2016.
He'll go in with the low double digit support in the beginning, get the air time that he deserves from the MSM and get into the healthy 28%-33% support he'll need for the nomination.
Good luck beating that.

Optimism. You have a lot of it.

whidbey: jjorsett: DERP

Why do you keep posting that stupid picture?

He's a Freeper.

The GOP is a business first, and a political body second. Their main focus is on money and personal enrichment. A Democrat in the white house is one of their best marketing tools to sell their canned outrage to their customers. They don't want to try too hard and accidentally win the presidency though, but if they don't try hard enough, they'll lose a lot of their customers. It's a bloody tightrope.

vernonFL: Romney: Tortures dogs

Gingrich: Divorced wife with cancer to marry a younger woman, later divorced her for a younger woman.

Cain: Serial rapist

Santorum: Believes blastocysts have more rights than gay adults.

Bachmann: Tortures gays

Ron Paul: Named his son after Ayn Rand.

Huntsman: RINO

Speaking as a Republican, I can't believe you'd put a vile RINO on that list of fine candidates. Have no you shame?

/Well, ex-republican.
//I got better.

WizardofToast: whidbey: jjorsett: DERP

Why do you keep posting that stupid picture?

What's behind Obama anyway? Some image of a Lovecraftian horror?

It's Bas-Relief Hitler. Also known as "Generic Republican".

WizardofToast: Pinner: Huntsman will be ready to roll in 2016.
He'll go in with the low double digit support in the beginning, get the air time that he deserves from the MSM and get into the healthy 28%-33% support he'll need for the nomination.
Good luck beating that.

Optimism. You have a lot of it.

Print this post and put it in an envelope marked "do not open till Nov 1, 2015"

What bothers me is that somehow a President should be "electrifying", as if they're auditioning for "X Factor" instead of being tapped to run the friggin' country.

Somacandra: That might be the case except that you've got a perfectly qualified, articulate, experienced candidate who's been a governor and ambassador as well as working at Commerce. He's there but your fellow Republicans don't seem to want him. I don't think its the lack of a credible candidate. I hope you guys come to your senses and at least give him a serious look.

For what it's worth, I agree with you, in that he really is the best the GOP is putting forth, and even he's a bit on the derpy side for a moderate Republican.

However, it's not that "your fellow Republicans" don't want him, it's that "your loud, well-funded, extremist right-wing nutjobs running the Republican party like it's a religious cult" don't want him - he doesn't fit in well because he's not hitting all the right talking points and code words. Even if he managed to weave his way out of the morass the top four candidates are creating for the GOP, Huntsman would then be decimated in a contest with Obama.

That could discourage a man, and the GOP doesn't want to lose him. So, if you're the GOP, you make sure this guy stays in the race, so he can be billed as "a Presidential candidate", winnow him out during the primary, and keep his skill set in an advisory capacity while you throw the derpy morons jockeying for "GOP Attention Whore" to the media wolves. The GOP has already washed their hands of the Presidential nomination - any of these derpy morons is good enough to lose to Obama, and they know it. They would rather throw one or more of the derpy morons under the bus than lose Huntsman.

Or, at least, that's what I would do if I had to deal with this particular field of candidates - one can only polish a turd so much, after all, and so my best bet would be to throw the eager derpy morons to the wolves, keep the useful folks, and regroup for 2014's Congressional Cock-up.

GAT_00: A pandering POS who has a history of doing something actually good and is haunted by it, a restaurant owner/lobbyist who thinks that's enough to know how to run the country, a guy who's whole campaign depends on hating gays, a "family values" man who's divorced two wives by cheating on them with the next wife, a woman who thinks gays and liberals have destroyed America, and a guy who thinks everything will be perfect without any regulation.

Yeah, that sums up the GOP.

That one detail gets left out too often.

vernonFL: Ron Paul: Named his son after Ayn Rand.

Wow. Every day I learn something new about why I should totally detest the man. And his offspring.