The 2012 Elections Thread - Page 34

hahaha! Holy shit, your Election is going to be incredible. Rick Santorum looks like a freakish, post Dark Crystal, experimental Jim-Henson puppet with a name that sounds like the lead singer of an 80's hair metal band.

Edited by SeanCE - 1/19/12 at 10:38am

 

Well according to Andrew Sullivan she kind of already said this (but I don't think most people where paying attention);

 

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/01/sorry-abc-news-this-is-not-a-scoop.html

 

 

 

 

If it's close they can steal it.   Actually this news is a game changer as it shoots holes in the Romney inevitability narrative.   Also, I love that poll about FOX News viewers.   Another poll was put out saying that FOX News Viewers are less informed than people who don't watch news at all.   Scary times we live in folks!

I don't know about you guys, but my president needs to be prepared to handle a Jaguar all the time, no matter what circumstances. I do not want a "Chevrolet" President. Especially one that looks like a demonic, miniature Stay-Puffed Marsh-mellow Man.

I don't doubt for a second that the FOX News audience is the most misinformed audience.  I mean, who needs a poll to tell you that right?

 

But that That poll kind of annoys me.  Plenty of people today don't watch TV news, but still get their news elsewhere.  In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if a large proportion of those who don't watch the news at all, are in fact the MOST informed of all demographics.

 

A really butch looking Teutonic jaguar handler should be the final boss of the presidential debates. Can we get one of Gunther Gebel-Williams' kids?

It was just thinking....whomever gets to be the GOP nominee (in this case, Newt)...I would like to envision the 2012 presidential race like the final "tablecloth" scene in the season 3 opening episode of "Justified"

...metaphorically speaking of course.

 

The polls may not be saying what we think they're saying.

 

 

I get the impression that when Newt gets together with his SuperPac paid friendship companions buddies to shoot the shit about woman, it goes a little something like this:

 

     Quote:

apropos of nothing, but have you ever considered becoming a writer for those little sayings they put inside soft drink bottle caps?

 

(opens a Sobe)

 

IN A REAL DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL, IT IS ALWAYS THREE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING

Newt may want an open marriage, but who the fuck wants to fuck Newt?  Takes two to tango.

 

I'm still not unconvinced that Callista is NOT animatronic real doll.

 

ETA: damn double negatives.

Edited by Spook - 1/19/12 at 11:55am

 

Yall need to be reading Peteykin's: http://sparklepony.blogspot.com/

 

 

Callista Noir.

Bless you for bringing this blog into my life.

 

Newt Gingrich is like a living uncanny valley.   The more human he tries to look, the less human he looks....

 

 

See: Newt tries out crying.

 

 

 

"Like a rock..."

 

or

Unlike Newt's Campaign, Chevy Runs Deep.

Although a couple weeks old, still contains spoilers for folks who want to enjoy the fun and exciting GOP primary journey:

 

Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)

 

 

 

Worst. Sex tape. Ever!
 

 

 

the true definition of "torture porn"

Nope, having grown up in South Carolina, I can tell you that the whole idea of the "Redemption Story" is key to Fundamentalists. That's why they loved W, could support weirdos like Tammy Bakker, etc.
The idea that you can be be totally depraved yet still be saved by the grace of Jesus Christ is a core belief, and it gets reaffirmed every time someone like Newt (yes even if he's a Catholic, he still believes in God, not like those Jew-Arab Communists!) comes out and says "yes I've sinned but NOW I'M RIGHT WITH THE LORD!"

Fascinating.  And he's playing it exactly right, saying it in almost those exact words.

 

Meanwhile, so, does anyone else think Ron Paul probably won Iowa and that's why the state GOP essentially committed what's looking more and more like pure election fraud?

 

As I mellow in my advancing age, I'm increasingly reluctant to attribute to malice what incompetence can accomplish. It's my understanding that Iowa uses paper ballots rather than Diebold's notorious electronic voting booths, and I hold it within the realm of possibility that it took this long for the Iowans to count the damn things.

Regarding Gingrich, the coke-sniffing Bush before him, and the forgiveness both have received: The aspect of Republican tribalism that I find most fascinating is just how vituperative they still get when it comes to the competition from within the tribe. Maybe familiarity really does breed contempt.

I expect someone like me to boo Rick Santorum, for example. Today, though, the poor little stooge couldn't get a break at a pro-life convention from Ron Paul supporters, who accused him of faking his commitment to imposing government regulations on our nation's fallopian tubes. Try to figure that shit out. The poor bastard has spent years building a career out of threatening to regulate other people's sex lives, he has ruined his own family name in the process, and there are conservatives who still doubt his sincerity. That it's the Ronulans calling for more federal government intrusion in the bedroom makes me want to shove a cigarette in each nostril and light them both.

The story of this election is going to be the fracturing of a party that already defined itself by its interest in excluding and marginalizing people.
Edited by Reasor - 1/19/12 at 3:07pm

Yeah, but according to the Des Moines Register, there are several precincts whose votes are lost and will never be recovered. 
And the story about the lady who supposedly slept through turning in her vote count is not true, although Wolf Blitzer blissfully ignored her statement about having already turned them in as he interviewed her on that crapfest CNN.  Something's rotten in Denmark. 

 

And the thing with Diebold and ES&S, you can hack those machines with like $8 worth of equipment you can buy at Radio Shack, so the fact that electronic voting is still legal in most states is staggering to me.  Even InkaVote is easily hackable. 

I'm basically with Reasor in that simple incompetence can outperform malfeasance 95% of the time, but I kind of wish this were the case.  It would be perversely hilarious if the GOP got busted stealing not an actual election, but a primary from their own selves.

 

Even if it is simple incompetence, the fact that the rank and file GOP seem to be OK with that is pretty amazing. 

 

This current crop of GOP contenders are not that far removed a pack-hunter/alpha dominance/territorial mentality.

If it wasn't for the TV cameras, Newt probably would have walked over and peed all over the other nominees while growling menacingly at the same time.

The mental pictures this thread has been producing lately kick the Spider-Cricket thread's ass.

Incredibly, these bastards are debating again tonight on CNN. The next debate after that will be on Monday, after the South Carolina vote has been tallied.

ETA: Holy shit, the new ad spot from the SuperPAC that isn't at all identified with Steven Colbert features images of mushroom clouds, testicle kicking, sausage making, and what I could have sworn were cameo appearances by Natalie Portman and David Otunga. This fucking campaign is like being chased down the sidewalk by a Dali painting.

The latest one is the one narrated by Samuel Jackson and its against Colbert. You've seen that one right?

I'm a stickler for punishment so I'm going to take a bullet for you guys and post some highlights.   I really encourage you to watch the debates though just because there's some crazy stuff that happens that never makes the highlights such as Ron Paul being booed for defending our justice system.

 

 

 

 

Maybe more like a Lynch film, Dali doesn't fill me with dread.  State of the Union Address next week should be interesting.

You guys gotta watch this debate on CNN. They opened it with a question to Newt on the scandal, and Newt went ballistic on the media and John King.

 

Favorite internet comment on this yet:

  Newt just ripped John King a new asshole and filled it with Santorum.

If Newt is elected, he would ask Sarah Palin to consider a "major role" in his administration.  She has talked favorably about him in the past and all but declared herself as an endorser. 

 

http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/01/19/newt-wants-palin/#comments

Wife No 4?

 

I'm not the biggest fan of Santorum but he's kind of awesome tonight.

 

Agreed. He's kicking ass. 

 

This crowd is ROWDY. 

 

ETA - Romney just told Newt that Ronald Reagan didn't like him. Fucking hilarious! 

Says the guy who made a moral mountain out of a mole hill during the Clinton years.  Clinton's unfaithfulness was no one's business but Clinton's and HRC's, but that sure didn't stop Newt from going at it for votes.

 

Also, John King looked like a fucking chump.  He should've stood up to Gingrich and told him that he's made his career by turning people's personal lives (the more lurid the better) into political issues, so he shouldn't be surprised that his own skeletons get to take a ride out of the closet when he's running for the highest office in the land.  It really was pathetic and a sad testament to the shitty network that CNN has become.

Seriously, how many fucking debates do you guys need. Hell we have a maximum of two when electing the prime minister of the country.

 

Is this just 24 hour media beast nonsense or has there always been this much complete overkill?

We like our candidates fuckin' exhausted, bloodied, and turned out, and that's before the primary is over! 

Not watching the debate, so what makes Santorum "kind of awesome" in it?  Are you saying that ironically due to the inanity of his statements?  No matter how well the guy performs in a debate against his fellow party members, I can't fathom how he could he perceived as any kind of awesome.  His positions and general insanity are still the same.

This is just the primaries, so the GOP can have as many as it wants.  They make money on this--more gristle and red meat for the base to get it riled up and ready to donate.  Lord knows how many we'll have for President, but I think we'll have only a few.  Obama actually has work to do.

 

I'm also sure that the 24 hour news cycle is to blame here.

I like that all the GOP Nominees are against SOPA. So they've got one thing going for them. Oh except Santorum who wants to stop those Foreigners from pirating Teh Gay P0rn....

Nice to know the GOP candidates are against SOPA.   Broken clock and all that.   Meanwhile, the moderator is acting like mouthpiece for Time Warner.

 

Edit: And Santorum is not so awesome any more.

 

Actually knowing who supports SOPA and PIPA is depressing.   For instance, Al Franken is one of the sponsors of the bill.   I'm with the GOP on this one.

....let's see CNN is showing the GOP debate and "Alien" is on IFC....

 

I could either watch a story about endoparasitoids OR I could watch "Alien"...kind of a toss up.

 

 

Do I choose "xenomorph" or "xenophobia"?

Most Republicans have declared themselves against SOPA as currently presented, as have Democrats.  There are exceptions on both sides, though - Dodd and Lamar, notably.

Holy Shit! "Wut wud uuuuu do to protect us mericans' from them ILL-legal Aliens and make sure American Citizens get the jobs first".

 

Yeah I bet she's real worried her job as a Nuclear Physicist is in danger!

Hahah and Newt wants to outsource Guest Workers to American Express and Visa!

Dodd doesn't count. He's formally an MPAA stooge now.

 

He's slimy as hell BTW;

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/19/exclusive-hollywood-lobbyist-threatens-to-cut-off-obama-2012-money-over-anti/

 

 

 

 

OK liking Romney's message on Immigration.

 

How much money is being wasted on all this shit at the end of the day? How long will Americans living out of cars or motel rooms or desperately scrambling for any kind of gainful employment put up with these disgusting, preening skeksis and their obscene parade of self-gratification?

 

Hell lets just have Trial By Stone and be done with it.

 

Ron Paul fans in da house!   They just heckled John King to include Paul in the abortion debate.   That was awesome.