Good thing none of the other republican candidates are using this campaign just to make money and gain the national spotlight.

right?

Mr. No Jeans is right!

Frum, Robertson and Will, telling their peeps to STFU and get a clue. Win.

mikemoto: George Will also sang the praises of Rick Perry back in August and stated that it was "extremely smart" of him to hold that poorly attended payer rally in Houston right before launching his campaign.

Nice slip.

tomasso: Will has also written very harsh words about Gingrich:

"Gingrich, however, embodies the vanity and rapacity that make modern Washington repulsive."

Last I read, Will was championing Jon Huntsman.

"Between Ron Paul's isolationism and the faintly variant bellicosities of the other six candidates stands Huntsman's conservative foreign policy, skeptically nuanced about America's need or ability to control many distant developments."

so the media is trying to marginalize all the other candidates just by giving them attention until they pop and leave the only one left as Hunstman!

Hey! He's an entrepreneurial charlatan who appears to be planning to embezzle matchings funds provided to serious candidates by funneling them into book sales to his campaign which will then dump them wherever it's convienent.

If that doesn't make him a worthy, and bootstrappy GOP candidate I don't know what does. Maybe he could kill an ob/gyn but that seems a little extreme.

And was Will saying this a month ago?

Calling out a fraud *after* they've been outed doesn't take a whole lot of precognition. But thanks for carrying the water for your team.

The worst thing about George Will is he knows the Republican party has gone to hell, but he's got to pay the bills.

Tickle Mittens: Hey! He's an entrepreneurial charlatan who appears to be planning to embezzle matchings funds provided to serious candidates by funneling them into book sales to his campaign which will then dump them wherever it's convienent.

If that doesn't make him a worthy, and bootstrappy GOP candidate I don't know what does. Maybe he could kill an ob/gyn but that seems a little extreme.

If kills a very specific ob/gyn, he could get back in 2nd place.

MisterLoki: The worst thing about George Will / David Frum / Pat Robertson / hundreds of other pundits is they know the Republican party has gone to hell, but they've got to pay the bills.

FTFY

coeyagi: Tickle Mittens: Hey! He's an entrepreneurial charlatan who appears to be planning to embezzle matchings funds provided to serious candidates by funneling them into book sales to his campaign which will then dump them wherever it's convienent.

If that doesn't make him a worthy, and bootstrappy GOP candidate I don't know what does. Maybe he could kill an ob/gyn but that seems a little extreme.

If kills a very specific ob/gyn, he could get back in 2nd place.

Pretty sure the guy who delivered Obama retired... moved his witch-doctor practice to South Africa.

I'll just leave this here:

America's candidates: In defense of the political entrepreneur (new window)

Thought: Could modern American politics have invented a whole new entrepreneurial venture, the candidate for public office who knows full well he doesn't have a prayer of being elected, but runs simply to elevate his profile and thereby sell more product, be that pizza or books or speaking gigs, or the Mother of All Easy Jobs, the coveted television commentary niche?

George Will is full of it. Herman Cain's candidacy was not all about selling books. FFS, do you know how many white wimmins there are in Iowa and New Hampshire?

You sir, are no William F. Buckley.

Tickle Mittens: coeyagi: Tickle Mittens: Hey! He's an entrepreneurial charlatan who appears to be planning to embezzle matchings funds provided to serious candidates by funneling them into book sales to his campaign which will then dump them wherever it's convienent.

If that doesn't make him a worthy, and bootstrappy GOP candidate I don't know what does. Maybe he could kill an ob/gyn but that seems a little extreme.

If kills a very specific ob/gyn, he could get back in 2nd place.

Pretty sure the guy who delivered Obama retired... moved his witch-doctor practice to South Africa.

Not sure what Obama's OB/Gyn witch doctor has to do with the republican race, but thanks for attempting a joke that was way off.

//RON PAUL

To be fair, Will does sometimes say sensible, intelligent things. In the modern GOP that makes you a filthy liberal soshiluzt.

the opposite of charity is justice: And was Will saying this a month ago?

Calling out a fraud *after* they've been outed doesn't take a whole lot of precognition. But thanks for carrying the water for your team.

Fark, I don't remember the exact quote but when Cain was still just starting to RISE he said something that basically boiled down to, "selling my book is more important than answering your questions." This is not news, this is history.

No, the interesting thing that ISN'T obvious to everyone but the deluded is that Herman Cain may have been propped up by the Koch Brothers are part of a media campaign for an eventual regressive "Fair Tax" Bill that shifts more of the burden onto the peasant class.

Fista-Phobia: You sir, are no William F. Buckley.

William G Buckley



//obscure?

coeyagi: Tickle Mittens: coeyagi: Tickle Mittens: Hey! He's an entrepreneurial charlatan who appears to be planning to embezzle matchings funds provided to serious candidates by funneling them into book sales to his campaign which will then dump them wherever it's convienent.

If that doesn't make him a worthy, and bootstrappy GOP candidate I don't know what does. Maybe he could kill an ob/gyn but that seems a little extreme.

If kills a very specific ob/gyn, he could get back in 2nd place.

Pretty sure the guy who delivered Obama retired... moved his witch-doctor practice to South Africa.

Not sure what Obama's OB/Gyn witch doctor has to do with the republican race, but thanks for attempting a joke that was way off.

//RON PAUL

All of them save Huntsman pander to birthers

coeyagi: Fista-Phobia: You sir, are no William F. Buckley.

William G Buckley

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//obscure?


R.I.P. River Swimmer

Tickle Mittens: coeyagi: Tickle Mittens: coeyagi: Tickle Mittens: Hey! He's an entrepreneurial charlatan who appears to be planning to embezzle matchings funds provided to serious candidates by funneling them into book sales to his campaign which will then dump them wherever it's convienent.

If that doesn't make him a worthy, and bootstrappy GOP candidate I don't know what does. Maybe he could kill an ob/gyn but that seems a little extreme.

If kills a very specific ob/gyn, he could get back in 2nd place.

Pretty sure the guy who delivered Obama retired... moved his witch-doctor practice to South Africa.

Not sure what Obama's OB/Gyn witch doctor has to do with the republican race, but thanks for attempting a joke that was way off.

//RON PAUL

All of them save Huntsman pander to birthers

Oh, ok. I guess. I guess he should kill them both to be sure.

That's "liberal, lameainstream, drive-by Soros MSM, Lap-dog in-bed-with-Obama 'gotcha' socialist jack-booted Muslim media" submitter

TheBigJerk: the opposite of charity is justice: And was Will saying this a month ago?

Calling out a fraud *after* they've been outed doesn't take a whole lot of precognition. But thanks for carrying the water for your team.

Fark, I don't remember the exact quote but when Cain was still just starting to RISE he said something that basically boiled down to, "selling my book is more important than answering your questions." This is not news, this is history.

No, the interesting thing that ISN'T obvious to everyone but the deluded is that Herman Cain may have been propped up by the Koch Brothers are part of a media campaign for an eventual regressive "Fair Tax" Bill that shifts more of the burden onto the peasant class.

I see this as a long game by the right wing puppet masters. They know that they don't stand a chance in hell of getting their regressive ideas implemented, so they are Overton Windowing the shiat out of them to eventually make them more palatable to the electorate. Look at how far to the right the corporate overlords got the Democrats to move in the last thirty years.

It's never easy when so much is on the line.

Ever since the W. Administration, Will has struck me as something of a "man without a country." He's certainly a traditional conservative, but ever since the end of the Cold War, the Republican party has undergone a dramatic transformation that no longer reflects his own philosophy.

I just don't think he's grasped how badly the combination of Fox News, Grover Norquist, and the Tea Party has mutated what was once a legitimate party for intellectual conservatism (don't laugh, it did actually exist for a spell). Coherent argument and factual analysis has been dethroned by sound clips, uniform talking points to eliminate rogue free expression, and some of the most pathetic excuses for politicians ever seen in first-world politics.

Strolpol: Ever since the W. Administration, Will has struck me as something of a "man without a country." He's certainly a traditional conservative, but ever since the end of the Cold War, the Republican party has undergone a dramatic transformation that no longer reflects his own philosophy.

I just don't think he's grasped how badly the combination of Fox News, Grover Norquist, and the Tea Party has mutated what was once a legitimate party for intellectual conservatism (don't laugh, it did actually exist for a spell). Coherent argument and factual analysis has been dethroned by sound clips, uniform talking points to eliminate rogue free expression, and some of the most pathetic excuses for politicians ever seen in first-world politics.

I think that Will can't wrap his mind around the fact that the party responsible for Johnson's Great Society is now the party of intellectual conservatism.

/we need an actual liberal party in this country
//I'd settle for an actual centrist party

Whore your dignity, sincerity, credibility, good name (and anything else you can scrape up) to politics, rake in dough, fade away. Profit? Ummm, no.

duh?

I knew he was dead in the water when he announced 9-9-9. As if anyone would have voted for a 9% Federal sales tax.

farkityfarker: I knew he was dead in the water when he announced 9-9-9. As if anyone would have voted for a 9% Federal sales tax.

FairTax nutjobs would.

Whatever. The support that he received from the Base absolves and protects them past, present and future from any and all charges of racism. Mission Accomplished.

Rashnu: Whatever. The support that he received from the Base absolves and protects them past, present and future from any and all charges of racism. Mission Accomplished.

Yep. It'll work just like it did with Michael Steele and Alan Keyes.

/What's everybody laughing at?

stoli n coke: Rashnu: Whatever. The support that he received from the Base absolves and protects them past, present and future from any and all charges of racism. Mission Accomplished.

Yep. It'll work just like it did with Michael Steele and Alan Keyes.

/What's everybody laughing at?

Awww, I miss Michael Steele. Dude brought the lulz like nobody's business.

/b..bu...but Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton

Rashnu: stoli n coke: Rashnu: Whatever. The support that he received from the Base absolves and protects them past, present and future from any and all charges of racism. Mission Accomplished.

Yep. It'll work just like it did with Michael Steele and Alan Keyes.

/What's everybody laughing at?

Awww, I miss Michael Steele. Dude brought the lulz like nobody's business.

Those Christmas photos he took with his staff still make me laugh. Even for young Republicans, those kids were unbelievably white.

Rashnu: stoli n coke: Rashnu: Whatever. The support that he received from the Base absolves and protects them past, present and future from any and all charges of racism. Mission Accomplished.

Yep. It'll work just like it did with Michael Steele and Alan Keyes.

/What's everybody laughing at?

Awww, I miss Michael Steele. Dude brought the lulz like nobody's business.

/b..bu...but Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton

Oh Michael Steele, how I miss thee. Is it wrong that whenever I think of him, all I can hear is the Michael Steele puppet from Daily Show?

If Fox News could scrape together a show with both Michael Steele and Herman Cain as co-hosts, they might finally have a comedy show that could give The Daily Show a run for its' money.

/they'd be funny for a totally different reason, but lulz are lulz

stoli n coke: Rashnu: stoli n coke: Rashnu: Whatever. The support that he received from the Base absolves and protects them past, present and future from any and all charges of racism. Mission Accomplished.

Yep. It'll work just like it did with Michael Steele and Alan Keyes.

/What's everybody laughing at?

Awww, I miss Michael Steele. Dude brought the lulz like nobody's business.

Those Christmas photos he took with his staff still make me laugh. Even for young Republicans, those kids were unbelievably white.

What's whiter? Eastlands or Footloose?