He's such a drama queen.

If by no man, you mean "Obama," you are correct.

Being glitter-bombed is a lot like mustard gas.

because "up for grabs" is just too hard to say

I know it as the all-girl porn videos.

Santorum watches lesbian porn?

No man's land?

1derful: If by no man, you mean "Obama," you are correct.

Be fair, they consider him to be 3/5s of a man.

Rusty Shackleford: [wwii.ca image 640x502]

Waist deep in the Big Santorum.

Just when you thought trenchfoot couldn't get worse...

So does this mean the candidates will take a day off from campaigning in mid March to sing patriotic songs and play American football together?

In United States politics and government, caucus has several distinct but related meanings. Members of a political party or subgroup may meet to coordinate members' actions, choose group policy, or nominate candidates for various offices. (new window)

As the definition and reality imply, this political party inside baseball actually says nothing about the states in which it takes place or about the nation overall. What this really indicates is how completely out-of-touch these private political clubs have become. I suppose at one time there may have been broad participation in the two-party system, with the vast majority of eligible voters identifying with one or the other party.

Today, 4 in 10 Americans identify themselves as independents, and this number is growing - in part because of this sort of thing where party zealots paint themselves into an extremist ideological corner, thus proving to reasonable people that their party is a fringe organization. This is reflected in voter participation, where only half of the eligible voters even bother to vote, and presidents are in effect elected by small minorities of the population: roughly 25% of eligible voters, roughly 50 million people, roughly 17% of the population. Think about it: Only about 17% of the population votes for whoever is elected president, and the person elected always claims a "mandate."

The only thing that amazes me in all of this is that it's only 4 in 10 Americans, not 9 in 10 Americans who are alienated from our archaic, anachronistic, self-serving political establishment. Then again, it is entirely possible that 6 in 10 Americans are not very bright.

GameSprocket: 1derful: If by no man, you mean "Obama," you are correct.

Be fair, they consider him to be 3/5s of a man.

He's only half 3/5s. The other half is 5/5s, making him 8/5s. You know the GOP hates math.

All quiet on the western front.

santorum sure likes imagery that invokes lonely, desperate men in tight quarters, with no women, no, privacy, and no modesty. Sharing not only their most intimate thoughts and emotions but their most basic biological needs. The kind of place where unspoken bonds are formed and things happen that many would consider... unnatural in polite society.

s2s2s2: GameSprocket: 1derful: If by no man, you mean "Obama," you are correct.

Be fair, they consider him to be 3/5s of a man.

He's only half 3/5s. The other half is 5/5s, making him 8/5s. You know the GOP hates math.

I imagine part of Obama is 8/5s the same part of santorum.

He kind of has a point. Let's see who's left: a self hating, frothing closet case, a borderline sociopath corporate raider with more money than God, a fat, loathsome, narcissistic christian hypocrite who can't stop trading up in the wife department and a doddering semi lucid pseudo-anarchist who ranges from voice of measured reason to pants-on-head retarded, often times within the same sentence.

He's right. I don't see any men there, just different variations on a grown up child.

Some awesome portraits of the GOP candidates via Juxtapoz and artist Clay Rodery...









Just had to share...lol...esp. the Romney one...

If you think about it, cannon fodder is a little like santorum.

Furthermore, let's look at Colorado for a stark example of this phenomenon:

With 100% of the precincts reporting, Santorum has "won" Colorado with a total of 26,372 votes, out of a total eligible voting population of 3,526,360 - total state population is 5,024,748. This means that Santorum has "won" Colorado with 0.00748% of the eligible vote. But somehow, the Republican Party will claim that Colorado has chosen Santorum as the Republican presidential candidate. No, Colorado has done no such thing. In fact, more than 99% of the eligible voters in Colorado did not even participate.

In 2008, Barack Obama "won" the nomination in Colorado with 80,113 votes - 0.02271% of the eligible vote.

Less than 1% of the eligible voters in the state are allowed to choose the limited menu from which the other 99% must select. These party caucuses are farcical. I wonder why people accept them as legitimate? It's not democracy, it's political domination by a tiny, almost microscopic, minority.

"They had come to the desolation that lay before Mordor: the lasting monument to the dark labour of its slaves that should endure when all their purposes were made void; a land defiled, diseased beyond all healing-unless the Great Sea should enter in and wash it with oblivion. 'I feel sick,' said Sam. Frodo did not speak.
For a while they stood there, like men on the edge of a sleep where nightmare lurks, holding it off, though they know that they can only come to morning through the shadows. The light broadened and hardened. The gasping pits and poisonous mounds grew hideously clear. The sun was up, walking among clouds and long flags of smoke, but even the sunlight was defiled. The hobbits had no welcome for that light; unfriendly it seemed, revealing them in their helplessness-little squeaking ghosts that wandered among the ash-heaps of the Dark Lord."

canyoneer: Less than 1% of the eligible voters in the state are allowed to choose the limited menu from which the other 99% must select. These party caucuses are farcical. I wonder why people accept them as legitimate? It's not democracy, it's political domination by a tiny, almost microscopic, minority.

Political parties are free to make their own rules about how they select their candidate. Of course the party chieftains will claim a win for democracy and republicanism and apple pie but their job is spin control. We could go back to the party selections in the 'smoke-filled rooms' and likely end up with better candidates, but you have to admit the faux-democratic process does make for great marketing.

Now that Santorum is getting his 15 minutes we must suffer under the unrelenting hypocrisy and irony of what his name represents.

First Dan Savage, the anti-hate crusading sex advice columnist leads an effort to heap double the hate on Santorum for his anti-gay comments.

Savage's efforts pay off with an online definition of Santorum that's ... well, you know.

As Santorum runs for the GOP nomination the theme is carried forward with such a vengeance that it twists to represent Santorum as a gay man, closeted clearly.

Gay jokes ensue to the point you begin to equate gay with something evil or at least worthy of fair-game mockery.

Take your homophobia and go home, Santorum. I don't like where the tolerant crowd is taking this.

canyoneer: Furthermore, let's look at Colorado for a stark example of this phenomenon:

With 100% of the precincts reporting, Santorum has "won" Colorado with a total of 26,372 votes, out of a total eligible voting population of 3,526,360 - total state population is 5,024,748. This means that Santorum has "won" Colorado with 0.00748% of the eligible vote. But somehow, the Republican Party will claim that Colorado has chosen Santorum as the Republican presidential candidate. No, Colorado has done no such thing. In fact, more than 99% of the eligible voters in Colorado did not even participate.

In 2008, Barack Obama "won" the nomination in Colorado with 80,113 votes - 0.02271% of the eligible vote.

Less than 1% of the eligible voters in the state are allowed to choose the limited menu from which the other 99% must select. These party caucuses are farcical. I wonder why people accept them as legitimate? It's not democracy, it's political domination by a tiny, almost microscopic, minority.

Might want to check your math there. It's either .00748 of the eligible vote, or .748%, not both. Either way, yes...this fall is going to be a landslide for Obama, and the Republican butthurt will be glorious.

Only in America would such a person as Rick Santorum be taken seriously by anyone.

StrangeQ: Might want to check your math there. It's either .00748 of the eligible vote, or .748%, not both. Either way, yes...this fall is going to be a landslide for Obama, and the Republican butthurt will be glorious.

I was in a hurry and may have missed a decimal point there, but the point stands: This process is not even remotely democratic - on either side. It's a joke, and I wonder why average citizens accept it as legitimate. Obviously, about 50% of eligible voters do not see it as legitimate and have opted out of the whole thing. The political system cares nothing about them, does nothing for them, and is in effect irrelevant to their lives because they feel completely powerless and disenfranchised.

Santorum will make a fine President.

theorellior: Cletus C.: Take your homophobia and go home, Santorum. I don't like where the tolerant crowd is taking this.

Cry moar, emo conservative.

Santorum likes it up the pooper. Tee hee.

9beers: Santorum will make a fine President.

of Iran

farkityfarker: Only in America would such a person as Rick Santorum be taken seriously by anyone.

He is, by far, the second best candidate though. And Romney isn't that much better. However Romney is the only one who can be made palatable to most voters, though this primary process is making it more and more difficult. For the Republicans to win something has to occur to make Obama even less palatable.

canyoneer: StrangeQ: Might want to check your math there. It's either .00748 of the eligible vote, or .748%, not both. Either way, yes...this fall is going to be a landslide for Obama, and the Republican butthurt will be glorious.

I was in a hurry and may have missed a decimal point there, but the point stands: This process is not even remotely democratic - on either side. It's a joke, and I wonder why average citizens accept it as legitimate. Obviously, about 50% of eligible voters do not see it as legitimate and have opted out of the whole thing. The political system cares nothing about them, does nothing for them, and is in effect irrelevant to their lives because they feel completely powerless and disenfranchised.

I think you are overstating, and exaggerating, the feelings a lot of Americans have regarding this matter.

The word is apathy. Severe, persistent, overwhelming apathy. A good deal of Americans do feel powerless and disenfranchised. However, I think the issue is that a majority of Americans simply don't give two shiats and can't be bothered to learn anything about it. My wife tried to explain for 15 minutes what a primary is, and how it wasn't the general, to her mother and she still didn't get it. (The conversation was about her mother bemoaning the amount of negative ads the previous week and being glad that it was over. When my wife said that it was just the primary and she would have to deal with it again come November she got the quizzical dog look.)

Look, I agree with you that our system is broken but the people of America are part of the problem too. Voting in primaries aren't restricted beyond party ID, if they are restricted at all. Its about motivation and the majority of the people don't have it. The process is democratic, its just people couldn't care less about it.

He was going to say "Limbo" but remembered the Catholic Church officially erased it from the afterlife.

9beers: Santorum will make a fine President.

9beers? After that comment you are either a lightweight or have lost count because you must be completely smashed to even think that president Santorum is a even remotely a good idea.

Wicked Chinchilla: The word is apathy. Severe, persistent, overwhelming apathy. A good deal of Americans do feel powerless and disenfranchised. However, I think the issue is that a majority of Americans simply don't give two shiats and can't be bothered to learn anything about it. My wife tried to explain for 15 minutes what a primary is, and how it wasn't the general, to her mother and she still didn't get it. (The conversation was about her mother bemoaning the amount of negative ads the previous week and being glad that it was over. When my wife said that it was just the primary and she would have to deal with it again come November she got the quizzical dog look.)

Look, I agree with you that our system is broken but the people of America are part of the problem too. Voting in primaries aren't restricted beyond party ID, if they are restricted at all. Its about motivation and the majority of the people don't have it. The process is democratic, its just people couldn't care less about it.

I think we're also going through election fatigue. It felt like Hillary started running for President about a month into Bush's second term. The Republicans have pretty much been running since Obama's first day in office. Our news tends to cover political topics in terms of how it will effect the electability of politicians as opposed to how it will effect the country as a whole. I think people are sick of having to pay attention to it.

Well, if anyone can lead the GOP back to "Man's Land," it'd be Rick Santorum.
If by "Man's Land," you mean Ricky's favorite bar outside of Philly.

Santorum claims that the GOP race is in "No Man's Land"--you know, that thing from World War I that was the ultimate sign of despair, foreboding, and hopelessness

This description is probably the most accurate thing that has ever come out of Santorum. Mud everywhere, more than half the campaigns dead in horrible twisted ways, everyone remaining bleeding out slowly with no-one answering their cries for help, and bombs coming in from both sides to rip things up further.

SubBass49: Some awesome portraits of the GOP candidates via Juxtapoz and artist Clay Rodery...









Just had to share...lol...esp. the Romney one...

Holy crap, the Gingrich one looks like something Ralph Steadman would've illustrated for a Hunter thompson novel. It's farking perfect.

dickfreckle: SubBass49: Some awesome portraits of the GOP candidates via Juxtapoz and artist Clay Rodery...

Just had to share...lol...esp. the Romney one...

Holy crap, the Gingrich one looks like something Ralph Steadman would've illustrated for a Hunter thompson novel. It's farking perfect.

As an art person, I'm almost tempted to start an art contest online somewhere for illustrations that capture the true souls of the GOP candidates...these would make a good start.