Why the hell would Romney be smiling about those two guys sticking around to attack him? Is he a masochist?

This GOP primary season is better than "Survivor", and only slightly less insipid.

Wow, actual people gave Santorum actual money. Still, Romney, Gingrich and Santorum are largely being funded by a very tiny number of billionaires. You have to wonder what the race would look like without Citizens United.

CUM dumpster.

Dimensio: Man On A Mission: Good point. The real issue we're seeing right now is that the GOP is teetering on the brink of a major split. The moderate wing, which is represented by Romney (who is actually far more conservative than GOP moderates were even 10 years ago) is at near complete ends with the religious right wing as represented by Santorum, the isolationist/libertarian wing as represented by Paul, and the return to the 1950's wing as represented by Gingrich.

Mr. Santorum opposes legal access to contraception. He is no less representative of a policy of returning to the 1950s as is Mr. Gingrinch.

As is RON PAUL, the defender of the right to segregate.

Gingrich will drop out when someone offers him a big enough prize. He won't settle for a pittance but he's completely for sale.

At the end of this election cycle, I want to add up all of the money spent on the whole thing. Then I want to point to the US budget, and our job numbers, and shake my head disappointedly at every person.

Newt will drop out unless he wins a state on Super Tuesday. I doubt he throws his support behind anyone else.

ShawnDoc: LasersHurt: At the end of this election cycle, I want to add up all of the money spent on the whole thing. Then I want to point to the US budget, and our job numbers, and shake my head disappointedly at every person.

At least its getting billionaires out spending their money and stimulating the economy.

The "pithy ads" market is booming.

Lost Thought 00: Newt will drop out unless he wins a state on Super Tuesday. I doubt he throws his support behind anyone else other than a young teary eyed staffer.

FTFY

Philip Francis Queeg: Why the hell would Romney be smiling about those two guys sticking around to attack him? Is he a masochist?

No, his face is just incapable of making any other shape.

Don't Troll Me Bro!: ignatius_crumbcake: Man On A Mission: Now, if Gingrich were to drop out and throw his support behind Santorum, we'd have a real race on our hands like the Dems had last time with Obama & Hillary.

Except that Obama and Hillary didn't have totally separate supporters. Sure, they preferred one over the other, but they all fell in line and coalesced around the winner. Hillary supporters still voted for Obama.

The Newt/Santorum crowd hates Romney because he's a moderate. The Romney faithful thinks the Newt/Santorum crowd are inbred rednecks. Both are correct. One side cannot count on the other for support.

Upon reading that I had to check if those 5 people at hillaryis44.com (new window) are still around and posting insane crap with their 50,000 alts. They are.

I actually know one. My buddy's fat lesbian sister. Absolutely infatuated with Hillary.

Man On A Mission: What the GOP desperately needs is a Great Uniter like Reagan did in 1980 and Bush did (to a lesser extent) in 2000. The sad fact is that they have no Reagans in the wings and the current crop of candidates isn't even strong enough to be Bushian.

Reminds me of Roy Batty in "Blade Runner" going to Eldon Tyrell for extended life:



Tyrell: The facts of life... to make a radical alteration in the evolvement of an American political party is fatal. A coding sequence cannot be revised once it's been established.
GOP: Why not?
Tyrell: Because by the second mid-term of incubation, any cells that have undergone TEA Party reversion mutation give rise to revertant colonies, like rats leaving a sinking ship; then the ship... sinks.
GOP: What about EMS-3 Moderate recombination?
Tyrell: We've already tried it - Huntsman, Collins, Snowe, Brown......; it created a virus so lethal the subject was dead before it even left the table.
GOP: Then a RINO repressor protein that would block the operating cells.
Tyrell: Wouldn't obstruct replication; but it does give rise to an error in replication, so that the newly formed DNA strand carries with it a TEA Party mutation - and you've got a virus again... but this, all of this is academic. You were made as well as we could make you.
GOP: But not to last.
Tyrell: The light that burns twice as bright burns for half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly, GOP. Look at you: you're the Prodigal Son; you're quite a prize!
GOP: I've done... questionable things.
Tyrell: Also extraordinary things; revel in your time.
GOP: Nothing the God of Politics wouldn't let you into heaven for.

Rann Xerox: Man On A Mission: What the GOP desperately needs is a Great Uniter like Reagan did in 1980 and Bush did (to a lesser extent) in 2000. The sad fact is that they have no Reagans in the wings and the current crop of candidates isn't even strong enough to be Bushian.

Reminds me of Roy Batty in "Blade Runner" going to Eldon Tyrell for extended life:

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Tyrell: The facts of life... to make a radical alteration in the evolvement of an American political party is fatal. A coding sequence cannot be revised once it's been established.
GOP: Why not?
Tyrell: Because by the second mid-term of incubation, any cells that have undergone TEA Party reversion mutation give rise to revertant colonies, like rats leaving a sinking ship; then the ship... sinks.
GOP: What about EMS-3 Moderate recombination?
Tyrell: We've already tried it - Huntsman, Collins, Snowe, Brown......; it created a virus so lethal the subject was dead before it even left the table.
GOP: Then a RINO repressor protein that would block the operating cells.
Tyrell: Wouldn't obstruct replication; but it does give rise to an error in replication, so that the newly formed DNA strand carries with it a TEA Party mutation - and you've got a virus again... but this, all of this is academic. You were made as well as we could make you.
GOP: But not to last.
Tyrell: The light that burns twice as bright burns for half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly, GOP. Look at you: you're the Prodigal Son; you're quite a prize!
GOP: I've done... questionable things.
Tyrell: Also extraordinary things; revel in your time.
GOP: Nothing the God of Politics wouldn't let you into heaven for.

oh wow

This is farking fantastic.

Rann Xerox: Man On A Mission: What the GOP desperately needs is a Great Uniter like Reagan did in 1980 and Bush did (to a lesser extent) in 2000. The sad fact is that they have no Reagans in the wings and the current crop of candidates isn't even strong enough to be Bushian.

Reminds me of Roy Batty in "Blade Runner" going to Eldon Tyrell for extended life:

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Tyrell: The facts of life... to make a radical alteration in the evolvement of an American political party is fatal. A coding sequence cannot be revised once it's been established.
GOP: Why not?
Tyrell: Because by the second mid-term of incubation, any cells that have undergone TEA Party reversion mutation give rise to revertant colonies, like rats leaving a sinking ship; then the ship... sinks.

et cetera, et cetera

"Smart" or "Funny"? "Smart" or "Funny"?

I . . . I just can't . . . decide.

[Grabs Rann Xerox's skull and pushes thumbs through Rann Xerox's eyeballs.]

it really doesn't help romney, as he does not know how to campaign on a shoestring budget like Santorum does.

Romney's strategy relies on expensive TV ad buys, which don't really work well for caucus states. that creates quite a cash burn rate with minimal results so far.

if Freerepublic is anyting to go by, Santorum and Gingrich supporters also have a fair bit of animosity towards each other as well.

i still don't understand how the Teabaggers have come to support Gingrich...I mean, Gingrich did support TARP, and that is usually unforgivable for them (just ask Bill Bennett)

If you think Romney is smiling, you forgot about this man:



The longer Romney has opponents, the more Gingrich and Santorum do Obama's work for him.

Cargo: Rann Xerox: Man On A Mission: What the GOP desperately needs is a Great Uniter like Reagan did in 1980 and Bush did (to a lesser extent) in 2000. The sad fact is that they have no Reagans in the wings and the current crop of candidates isn't even strong enough to be Bushian.

Reminds me of Roy Batty in "Blade Runner" going to Eldon Tyrell for extended life:

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Tyrell: The facts of life... to make a radical alteration in the evolvement of an American political party is fatal. A coding sequence cannot be revised once it's been established.
GOP: Why not?
Tyrell: Because by the second mid-term of incubation, any cells that have undergone TEA Party reversion mutation give rise to revertant colonies, like rats leaving a sinking ship; then the ship... sinks.

et cetera, et cetera

"Smart" or "Funny"? "Smart" or "Funny"?

I . . . I just can't . . . decide.

[Grabs Rann Xerox's skull and pushes thumbs through Rann Xerox's eyeballs.]

It's too bad the GOP can't live. But then again, who does?

The 2012 Republican National Convention is going to be an unmitigated disaster. You've made your bed GOP, now sleep in it.

imnotadoctor: The 2012 Republican National Convention is going to be an unmitigated disaster. You've made your bed GOP, now sleep in it.

It'll be like Chicago '68 but with MBA blogger-douchebags and fat minutemen in rascals.

$1 million? That's what, 2, maybe as many as 3 donors?

mrshowrules: ShawnDoc: LasersHurt: The "pithy ads" market is booming.

Doesn't matter. As long as the money is being spent it stimulates the economy. The pithy ad makers, those running focus groups, consultants, TV/radio advertising sales, take the money and spend it in their local communities. It touches more than just those getting the initial payment.

Ironic, that the GOP bickering is feeding the Obama recovery.

Plus, Obama's getting exactly what he wanted all along. Who overwhelming contributes to the super pacs? The rich! The rich are paying more into the system which then directly acts as additional stimulus. And their fractious primary is only politically weakening the GOP field. And now Obama is sitting on his huge war chest trickling out positive "we're working hard and getting the economy back on track" ads. He even reluctantly endorsed a pac just the other day.

The current climate is aligning to be an electoral slaughter.

imnotadoctor: The 2012 Republican National Convention is going to be an unmitigated disaster. You've made your bed GOP, now sleep in it.

I can't wait.

PC LOAD LETTER: A fool and their money are soon parted.

I heard an interesting report the other day. You know what super-pacs have to do with their money once their candidate drops out? Anything they want to. Talk about a money-laundering scam.

imnotadoctor: The 2012 Republican National Convention is going to be an unmitigated disaster. You've made your bed GOP, now sleep in it.



I'm less certain then you. If there is a clear winner by the time of the RNC, I feel most of the GOP will *begrudgingly* get in line behind the leader.

Then again, maybe not. The one thing that struck me in 2008 was the differences between the DNC and the RNC.

Obama had Mile High Stadium packed.
McCain had half the room at Xcel.

Dems:


Repubs: