http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...usaolp00000003
Someone has a bad case of the foot-in-mouth disease. Maybe Santorum can go to Illinois next and tell everyone that the Cubs and White Sox should be kicked out of MLB?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...usaolp00000003
Someone has a bad case of the foot-in-mouth disease. Maybe Santorum can go to Illinois next and tell everyone that the Cubs and White Sox should be kicked out of MLB?
Hope is the denial of reality
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
He certainly has a better taste in women than Bill.
Hope is the denial of reality
Who doesn't?
But yeah, good call by Mitt on locking down that yummy redhead. We should all be so lucky.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
Oh Mittens, never changeA Rick Santorum spokeswoman was handing out Etch A Sketches before a Mitt Romney town hall Wednesday in Arbutus, Md., furthering the goading of the GOP front runner after a gaffe by his campaign earlier in the day.
And it apparently worked. After the event, Romney shot back at reporters who quizzed him about it.
"I'm not doing a press conference right now, OK?” a testy Romney said, grabbing a reporter’s tape recorder. He then hastily called a media avail and took one question.
"Organizationally, a general-election campaign takes on a different profile,” Romney said. “Issues I'm running on will be exactly the same.”
He added, “I'm running as a conservative Republican ... I'll be running as a conservative Republican nominee."
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Politics seems to be like sports: people whine every time they get a canned response, but go up in an uproar on the rare occasion a politician/athlete tells the truth.
Hope is the denial of reality
I really can't wait for the VP nod. It has to be someone absolutely insane to placate the Teapers and crazy fundies, but it almost certainly can't be fecal matter and lube, Newt would tell Mittens to go fuck himself, and if Ron Paul is even considered, I'm calling a Farnsworth.
Could Michele make a come-back?
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Sigh...sorry, it does NOT need to be someone insane to placate the 'Teapers'.
Newt and Santorum are big government Republicans...Paul will never be offered, give him SecTreas maybe.
I'm thinking Rubio or Christie. (Their protests that they are not interested are meaningless)
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Rubio isn't white, so he's out. Christie probably won't appeal to the fundies though I admit I'm not that well acquainted with him, and his...Volatile style probably won't be that attractive to swing voters who're not of the "burn the whole thing down" mentality. And, again, Mittens really is way too white-bread for the Teaper crowd, he needs to bring the insanity with him if he wants the core to show up come election day.
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Your logic is fatally flawed. Rubio appeals to Hispanics as well as conservatives, while Christie has been able to gain the support of many independents while maintaining conservative backing due to his volatility. Both would be very strong candidates. There's also an outside chance someone like Paul Ryan or Rand Paul get chosen. Romney is running too much of a research-based campaign to choose someone who'd have any chance of railroading his campaign.Originally Posted by Nessus
Hope is the denial of reality
Believe it or not, I value your analysis, Low-key, and I look forward to history vindicating one of us.
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Jebus, do you really think Republicans are all racist assholes?
And BTW, as someone who identifies with the TEA Party/Libertarians, can you lay off the disparaging remarks and still make your point?
Rubio helps nail Florida being a popular senator from there. He will help even out the Hispanic vote everywhere, and is YOUNG and fairly good looking.
Christie plays to the middle a lot, with some big check marks in the Conservative column. He puts the union in their place while leading NJ (a pretty blue state) to making one of the largest payments to the retirement fund for the municipal and state workers to help close the funding gap. His bombastic nature helps in that if aims for the irate voter. If Christie can get elected in NJ, it bodes well for him.
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What about Rand Paul? Heard his name mentioned a few times.
The Pauls are not politically well-aligned with the Republican party, being libertarian, and on top of that, it's seems like a longshot that either would want or accept a VP position.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
Rand Paul doesn't have decades of experience saying no to his own party, so I think you might be overestimating how much he's disliked by fellow Republicans. He's also less of an ideologue than his father. He wouldn't be the worst choice to shore up conservative support without nominating a psychopath.
Hope is the denial of reality
Sure, Ron won't take it because he's too principled.
Not the same reasons Rand would turn down a VP slot (probably, hard to be sure), but there's a big difference in being near the end of your life, in a nothing congressional district and being at the start of your career in a Senate seat. Plenty of reasons for Rand to not want the proverbial bucket of warm spit.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
I'm sure there are plenty of nice racists in there, too. And I'm equally sure that there's a whole bunch of uninformed unfortunates who don't pay attention and haven't noticed what a fucking freak-show the Pubbie apparatus has become; that the circus of the primaries hasn't clued them in is sad, but there are sadder things in this world.
The only Hispanic vote the Pubbies have a hope with is the anti-Castro Cubans, the rest (assuming they can read and comprehend) will be kind of turned off by all the brown people fright rhetoric. You know, one of those things the Pubs use to court crazy old white people, aka the majority of the Teapers?
Christie's union-busting is likely to be seen favourably by the Pubbie lunatic base, I am aware of that, but I'm not convinced the swing voters, even in the US, have drunk that much kool-aid. And the irate voters set probably largely intersects with the pot-smoking Ron Paul is cool set, so I'm not sure how precisely Christie could help Mittens in the general. No one likes Jersey, right?
Last edited by Nessus; 03-23-2012 at 06:24 AM.
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Paul isn't happy with Mittens. Again.
I like people who get angryParanoia Strikes Deeper
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: March 22, 2012
Stop, hey, what’s that sound? Actually, it’s the noise a great political party makes when it loses what’s left of its mind. And it happened — where else? — on Fox News on Sunday, when Mitt Romney bought fully into the claim that gas prices are high thanks to an Obama administration plot.
This claim isn’t just nuts; it’s a sort of craziness triple play — a lie wrapped in an absurdity swaddled in paranoia. It’s the sort of thing you used to hear only from people who also believed that fluoridated water was a Communist plot. But now the gas-price conspiracy theory has been formally endorsed by the likely Republican presidential nominee.
Before we get to the larger implications of this endorsement, let’s get the facts on gas prices straight.
First, the lie: No, President Obama did not say, as many Republicans now claim, that he wanted higher gasoline prices. He did once say that a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions would cause electricity prices to “skyrocket” — an unfortunate word choice. But saying that such a system would raise energy prices was just a factual statement, not a declaration of intent to punish American consumers. The claim that Mr. Obama wanted higher prices is a lie, pure and simple.
And it’s a lie wrapped in an absurdity, because the president of the United States doesn’t control gasoline prices, or even have much influence over those prices. Oil prices are set in a world market, and America, which accounts for only about a tenth of world production, can’t move those prices much. Indeed, the recent rise in gas prices has taken place despite rising U.S. oil production and falling imports.
Finally, there’s the paranoia, the belief that liberals in general, and Obama administration officials in particular, are trying to make driving unaffordable as part of a nefarious plot against the American way of life. And, no, I’m not exaggerating. This is what you hear even from thoroughly mainstream conservatives.
For example, last year George Will declared that the Obama administration’s support for train travel had nothing to do with relieving congestion and reducing environmental impacts. No, he insisted, “the real reason for progressives’ passion for trains is their goal of diminishing Americans’ individualism in order to make them more amenable to collectivism.” Who knew that Dagny Taggart, the railroad executive heroine of “Atlas Shrugged,” was a Commie?
O.K., this is all kind of funny. But it’s also deeply scary.
As Richard Hofstadter pointed out in his classic 1964 essay “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” crazy conspiracy theories have been an American tradition ever since clergymen began warning that Thomas Jefferson was an agent of the Bavarian Illuminati. But it’s one thing to have a paranoid fringe playing a marginal role in a nation’s political life; it’s something quite different when that fringe takes over a whole party, to the point where candidates must share, or pretend to share, that fringe’s paranoia to receive the party’s presidential nod.
And it’s not just gas prices, of course. In fact, the conspiracy theories are proliferating so fast it’s hard to keep up. Thus, large numbers of Republicans — and we’re talking about important political figures, not random supporters — firmly believe that global warming is a gigantic hoax perpetrated by a global conspiracy involving thousands of scientists, not one of whom has broken the code of omertÃ*. Meanwhile, others are attributing the recent improvement in economic news to a dastardly plot to withhold stimulus funds, releasing them just before the 2012 election. And let’s not even get into health reform.
Why is this happening? At least part of the answer must lie in the way right-wing media create an alternate reality. For example, did you hear about how the cost of Obamacare just doubled? It didn’t, but millions of Fox-viewers and Rush-listeners believe that it did. Naturally, people who constantly hear about the evil that liberals do are ready and willing to believe that everything bad is the result of a dastardly liberal plot. And these are the people who vote in Republican primaries.
But what about the broader electorate?
If and when he wins the nomination, Mr. Romney will try, as a hapless adviser put it, to shake his Etch A Sketch — that is, to erase the record of his pandering to the crazy right and convince voters that he’s actually a moderate. And maybe he can pull it off.
But let’s hope that he can’t, because the kind of pandering he has engaged in during his quest for the nomination matters. Whatever Mr. Romney may personally believe, the fact is that by endorsing the right’s paranoid fantasies, he is helping to further a dangerous trend in America’s political life. And he should be held accountable for his actions.
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
I can see it being Santorum and boy do I not like that thought. If Romney wins and goes for a rival for Veep though, I would think the natural choice would be Perry.I really can't wait for the VP nod. It has to be someone absolutely insane to placate the Teapers and crazy fundies, but it almost certainly can't be fecal matter and lube, Newt would tell Mittens to go fuck himself, and if Ron Paul is even considered, I'm calling a Farnsworth.
Could Michele make a come-back?
Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
Santorum could never be Romney's VP. Think about how many Republican brains that would fry.....
Romney can't pick Perry, either, because that's no better than having Palin one heart beat away from the Presidency. He also couldn't choose someone like Christie who'd seem stronger and more principled. My guess would be someone like Mitch Daniels (guv of IN). Not too well known by the majority of voters, but also a Republican "team player". Dan Quayle v 2.0?
Republicans consistently get over a third of the Hispanic vote, and Cubans don't make up a third of all American Hispanics.
Christie has many accomplishments beyond union busting. It's the reason he's pretty popular in New Jersey, a left-wing state.
Hope is the denial of reality
As I said, I'm not very familiar with the man, but do you disagree that he wouldn't appeal to the fundie whackjobs?
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
I think he'd appeal to a considerable part of the electorate, which is why he'd be a good choice. He has a reputation for getting things done, even if it means attacking either party's holy cows. The only reason why he might not be nominated is because he's not much of a follower and probably stands to gain more from remaining governor.
Hope is the denial of reality
I didn't say Perry was the best choice, I said he was the natural choice if Romney was going to pick from among his rivals, i.e. people who actually showed up in the race for nominee.
I'm not really familiar enough with the GOP light and middle-weight pool to feel comfortable trying to make a pick from there, there are too many valid factors Romney could choose to emphasize in selecting a running mate. I do agree that I don't think it could/would be Christie. He doesn't bring anywhere near enough balance to the ticket and at this point I'm convinced that "no" doesn't really mean "yes," at least for the 2012 race.
Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
I could see Christie more wanting to stay aloof and view himself as a contender in 2016 after Obama's term limit.
Yep...
Brevior saltare cum deformibus viris est vita
Why is TronPaul even in the Republican Party rather than the libertarians, btw?
The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
Because he likes getting elected.
Hope is the denial of reality
Seems he has his own fanbase which is separate and distinct from regular Republicans.
The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
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