Nope cover it with a towel.

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Nope cover it with a towel.

A mere towel can't possibly stop a Santorum surge.

Is this the thread where a bunch of middle age farkers get to release their inner eighth grader with poo puns and sodomy jokes?

I'm in.

It's Ricky's turn for his 15 minutes.
Republicans are so F-in fickle.

God-is-a-Taco: Snarfangel: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Nope cover it with a towel.

A mere towel can't possibly stop a Santorum surge.

I'd recommend a plug of some sort

I'd recommend preemptive action. A good enema or three and a just right amount of lube.

The farce which the Republican party and 78 percent of its registration have become is illustrated by Santorum's transformation into the news media's "flavor of the week" (sorry 'bout that) on New Year's Eve.

Santorum Surge sounds like a sewage worker's darkest fear when they're down in the sewers.

Santorum's staunch opposition to the homosexual and its agenda is a good start, but this is no time for timidity. We need a bold, progressive human rights agenda, not limp-wristed half measures.

i watch CNN sometimes to see how many times the anchors can say "Santorum Surge" in one hour. i laugh and laugh.

I can't...it's already covered in Santorum.

I have a question for conservatives. Since you're so contemptuous of Obama's "hope" and "change" campaign themes, what do you suppose next year's GOP candidate will choose for his campaign themes? Stagnation and despair?

bugontherug: I have a question for conservatives. Since you're so contemptuous of Obama's "hope" and "change" campaign themes, what do you suppose next year's GOP candidate will choose for his campaign themes? Stagnation and despair?

"Nope" and "Strange."

bugontherug: I have a question for conservatives. Since you're so contemptuous of Obama's "hope" and "change" campaign themes, what do you suppose next year's GOP candidate will choose for his campaign themes? Stagnation and despair?

Get those people out of the White House.

IoSaturnalia: Is this the thread where a bunch of middle age farkers get to release their inner eighth grader with poo puns and sodomy jokes?

I'm in.

There's a thread that isn't like that?

As another poster stated (and the name escapes me at the moment, but I give them full credit for the following), Santorum winning in Iowa would bring much lulz to this farce of a race.

Please, please, PLEASE let this guy get the nomination. I'd love to see this ass-clown debate Obama on a national stage.

The best thing about the GOP slate is they've included a basically rational candidate as some sort of experimental control. The failure of Huntsman as a serious candidate tells the interested everything they need to know about the all encompassing failure of the GOP.

What a loser! Santorum is all worked up about being in THIRD place scrambling for 28 delegates out of 2200.

GodsTumor: It's Ricky's turn for his 15 minutes.
Republicans are so F-in fickle trying to find anyone except Mitt. Other than the sort of normal guy.

Look, all these polls up to now are irrelevant. They are just noise. Some organization calls up a few hundred people and ask them an opiniion on a subject they haven't actually decided on yet. Opinion polls shouldn't be news.

The only polls that matter involve actual voting.

Ennuipoet: SilentStrider: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Nope cover it with a towel.

A towel can't repel santorum of this magnitude!

You need some wet wipes and new sheets.

wildcardjack: Ennuipoet: SilentStrider: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Nope cover it with a towel.

A towel can't repel santorum of this magnitude!

You need some wet wipes and new sheets.

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Why do I have the feeling that a Santorum surge is something else Germans know. Hence the shamwow.

Yes Santorum surges... among old fuddys that still have land lines... I don't trust any of these phone polls anymore, it's been a good decade now since these types of polls were at all relevant.

Tickle Mittens: The best thing about the GOP slate is they've included a basically rational candidate as some sort of experimental control. The failure of Huntsman as a serious candidate tells the interested everything they need to know about the all encompassing failure of the GOP.

I've been thinking the same thing. Honestly, I vote (D) about 80% of the time, and I can't wait for this Republican Book Tour, I mean, Republican Campaigning season to end. That said, I find Huntsman to be a very rational, level-headed politician. Maybe he is too moderate for the primaries/caucuses, or perhaps too "sciencey" for the GOP. As I'm sure we all know, the primaries tend to cater towards the fringe (far right or far left), since those are the folks who are most likely to engage energetically in the process. I haven't thoroughly looked into all of the policies for all of the contenders since I can't vote in my state's Republican primary, but he, by far, seems like the "best" candidate to me. At least he hasn't had batshiat crazy moments that we've come to expect from the likes of Bachman, Paul, Gingrich (hypocritical ass-monkey), Santorum, and Perry.

This Santorum "surge" is just the hot weekly story, wherein the media hypes up a candidate as if they're a serious threat to take the nomination. We've seen the same damn thing with Bachman, Perry, and some of the others. These are just trumped-up stories to fill the 24-hr news channels (which are actually only 6 hours "news" and 18 hrs of opinion/commentary). It looked like it'd be Romney for the past 8 months, despite how the media plays up the "OMGZ Candidate X is ALL OVER THE NEWS and SURGING IN THE POLLS" angle.

So this poll puts Santorum at 16%, up from 8% several weeks ago. In this same time, Gingrich has gone from 33% to 14%, and the marginal of error is 3%.

This isn't a surge, it is a statistical echo from Newt catering.

skinink: The GOP Race, animated.

I was hoping for one of those Taiwanese News in 3D thingies.

How about applying that same restraint to the right wings bs claims about how popular fox and hate radio are too.

Look at the actual numbers. Nobody is watching that shiat.

jihad_cowboy: So this poll puts Santorum at 16%, up from 8% several weeks ago. In this same time, Gingrich has gone from 33% to 14%, and the marginal of error is 3%.

This isn't a surge, it is a statistical echo from Newt catering.

As a cook and caterer, i generally leave politics out of my work, but i would venture that i would like neither of Newt's or Santorum's catering.

Moonk: jihad_cowboy: So this poll puts Santorum at 16%, up from 8% several weeks ago. In this same time, Gingrich has gone from 33% to 14%, and the marginal of error is 3%.

This isn't a surge, it is a statistical echo from Newt catering.

As a cook and caterer, i generally leave politics out of my work, but i would venture that i would like neither of Newt's or Santorum's catering.

*cratering

Note to self: do not trust autocorrect at 5 in the morning after yuenglings. (weeps)

The cream always rises in the end.

blastoh: Santorum spoke to about 60 people at a town hall meeting in the Coralville City Council chambers. About half of the crowd was Iowa and national news media who are covering his campaign, which has appeared to be gaining momentum heading into Tuesday's Iowa Caucuses.

It is as if there is this intersection where trainwrecks keep happening, and the press has decided to set up camp near that intersection while waiting for the next trainwreck.

So GOP campaigning is the new 11foot8?

/search 11 foot 8 on YouTube, bunch of 13 foot high trucks going under a 11'8" high bridge

Tickle Mittens: The best thing about the GOP slate is they've included a basically rational candidate as some sort of experimental control. The failure of Huntsman as a serious candidate tells the interested everything they need to know about the all encompassing failure of the GOP.

The biggest story in America is that one of it's political parties has gone completely insane.
The second biggest story in America is that the media refuses to cover the biggest story in America.

Moonk: jihad_cowboy: So this poll puts Santorum at 16%, up from 8% several weeks ago. In this same time, Gingrich has gone from 33% to 14%, and the marginal of error is 3%.

This isn't a surge, it is a statistical echo from Newt catering.

As a cook and caterer, i generally leave politics out of my work, but i would venture that i would like neither of Newt's or Santorum's catering.

Narrator: He was *the* guerilla terrorist in the food service industry.
[the Narrator looks at Tyler, who's urinating in a pot]
Tyler Durden: Do not watch. I cannot go when you watch.
Narrator: Apart from seasoning the lobster bisque, he farted on the meringue, sneezed on braised endive, and as for the cream of mushroom soup, well...

I'm guessing the Santorum went in the Hungarian goulash.

Who'd a thunk the dog farker would be popular in Iowa?

jihad_cowboy: Moonk: jihad_cowboy: So this poll puts Santorum at 16%, up from 8% several weeks ago. In this same time, Gingrich has gone from 33% to 14%, and the marginal of error is 3%.

This isn't a surge, it is a statistical echo from Newt catering.

As a cook and caterer, i generally leave politics out of my work, but i would venture that i would like neither of Newt's or Santorum's catering.

*cratering

Note to self: do not trust autocorrect at 5 in the morning after yuenglings. (weeps)

As a beer drinking living in central Pennsylvania, i commend you in your choice of lagers.

Moonk: As a beer drinking living in central Pennsylvania, i commend you in your choice of lagers.

The subject of this statement is the cause of it.
As a beer drinker living in central Pennsylvania, i commend you in your choice of lagers.