Rick Santorum has won the Oklahoma and Tennessee primaries, and he’s now beginning his victory speech in Steubenville, Ohio, so here’s another thread to discuss…
Delegates won so far:
Romney: 81
Gingrich: 34
Santorum: 25
Ron Paul: 0 (sorry, Paulians)
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darthstar Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:23:21pm |
Romney beat Paul in Virginia…can’t wait to hear Mitt brag about that…
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darthstar Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:23:50pm |
MT @LarrySabato: Turnout in VA (~260,000) is miserable: 5.5% of reg. voters, by far lowest of any VA GOP primary ever. cc @KrystalBall1— lowkell (@lowkell) March 7, 2012
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jaunte Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:24:05pm |
Ohio exits: Santorum wins 30% of Catholic vote, Romney 43%. Santorum wins 47% of evangelical vote, Romney 31%. #supertuesday
— Sarah Posner (@sarahposner) March 7, 2012
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erik_t Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:25:32pm |
Come onnnnnnnn North Dakota, don’t fail me now!
Ronulans decloaking off the port bow!
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austin_blue Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:25:57pm |
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darthstar Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:26:57pm |
Santorum’s son looks like he’d rather be out lighting cats’ tails on fire…stop fidgeting, boy! Your dad is making an ass of himself right now and you need to support him.
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Lidane Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:27:10pm |
Frothy wins in both Oklahoma and Tennessee. He’s currently leading in Ohio.
It’s telling that the only Southern state that Mitt has won so far is because the only candidate he was competing against was Ron Paul.
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The Ghost of a Flea Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:28:21pm |
re: #1 darthstar
Romney beat Paul in Virginia…can’t wait to hear Mitt brag about that…
Tofu: mildly more appealing than an aged racist confederate…but at least it’s white!
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Skeetghazi Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:28:27pm |
Heard Romney is having chicken marsala tonight (he’s home for the first time in months, and his son is cooking)
but my question, is their non-alcoholic marsala wine?
LOL, that’s what I drove home thinking.
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Charles Johnson Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:28:36pm |
Rick Santorum: “Once the government has control of your life, then they gotcha.” His anti-choice philosophy in a nutshell.— Charles Johnson (@Lizardoid) March 7, 2012
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darthstar Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:29:06pm |
Ooh…Santorum up by 3% now in Ohio…33% reporting. That’s telling, given how much money Mitt Romney spent trying to destroy him there.
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austin_blue Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:29:22pm |
re: #7 Lidane
Frothy wins in both Oklahoma and Tennessee. He’s currently leading in Ohio.
It’s telling that the only Southern state that Mitt has won so far is because the only candidate he was competing against was Ron Paul.
And Paul got 41% of the vote.
Hmmmmmm…..
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Lidane Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:29:36pm |
Someone convince me to finish the paper I’ve got due tomorrow. I’m completely unmotivated right now.
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BongCrodny Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:29:56pm |
If Santorum wins Ohio, expect Mitt to tack further to the right.
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Kragar Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:30:13pm |
re: #13 Lidane
Someone convince me to finish the paper I’ve got due tomorrow. I’m completely unmotivated right now.
SIT DOWN, SHUT UP AND STUDY!
/
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darthstar Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:30:27pm |
re: #13 Lidane
Someone convince me to finish the paper I’ve got due tomorrow. I’m completely unmotivated right now.
Finish your paper or Newt Gingrich will be president in 2013.
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BongCrodny Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:31:05pm |
re: #13 Lidane
Someone convince me to finish the paper I’ve got due tomorrow. I’m completely unmotivated right now.
If you don’t finish your term paper, you reenact scenes from Platoon with Charlie Sheen.
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Lidane Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:31:14pm |
re: #12 austin_blue
And Paul got 41% of the vote.
Hmmm…
Seriously. Ron Paul got 41%? Air raid sirens should be going off at Romney HQ over that. It’s a sign that nearly half the electorate in VA are willing to vote for a crank in protest instead of voting for Mitt.
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darthstar Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:31:34pm |
re: #14 BongCrodny
If Santorum wins Ohio, expect Mitt to tack further to the right.
If Santorum continues to build his lead on Romney in Ohio, Mitt will be calling every woman he sees a slut to try and win votes.
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Mattand Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:31:42pm |
Ron Paul: 0 (sorry, Paulians)
I’m not. Little evolution-denying, racist jerk.
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mr.fusion Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:32:29pm |
If Santorum takes OH a brokered convention becomes much much more likely
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jaunte Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:32:31pm |
.@RickSantorum You know government is mandating shoving its “heavy hand” into the bodies of women for no medical reason, right?
— Tara Murtha (@taramurtha) March 7, 2012
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austin_blue Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:33:14pm |
re: #11 darthstar
Ooh…Santorum up by 3% now in Ohio…33% reporting. That’s telling, given how much money Mitt Romney spent trying to destroy him there.
Frothy Mix got outspent 6-1.
Mittens is the anti-Sally Fields.
“You don’t like me! You really don’t like me!”
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:33:24pm |
re: #20 darthstar
If Santorum continues to build his lead on Romney in Ohio, Mitt will be calling every woman he sees a slut to try and win votes.
Will he draft Attila the Hun as VP?
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darthstar Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:33:55pm |
Santorum now up by 4% in Ohio. They’ll call it for him if he gets another point or two ahead. Mitt will be singng his “I got the most delegates” song (off key, as he does) because four of the ten states went to other candidates…five if Ron Paul wins Alaska.q
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The Ghost of a Flea Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:34:09pm |
re: #25 Saint Rush, Martyr of Lower Wingnuttia
Will he draft Attila the Hun as VP?
too…ethnic.
Find a white Protestant steppe warlord seated atop a pyramid of bleached skulls and we’ll talk.
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jaunte Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:34:13pm |
Santorum decries gov. using its “heavy hand” to force you to buy insurance. As opposed to using its heavy hand to force you to give birth.
— Michelle Goldberg (@michelleinbklyn) March 7, 2012
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Lidane Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:35:03pm |
re: #25 Saint Rush, Martyr of Lower Wingnuttia
Will he draft Attila the Hun as VP?
Attila wasn’t a Christian. And he’s a dirty foreigner.
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BongCrodny Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:35:08pm |
It’s looking like Santorum’s going to win more states than Romney tonight.
Romney was supposed to win Massachusetts.
He’s winning Virginia with an underwhelming total against RON PAUL.
What’s Mitt’s big bragging point for tonight? “I won Vermont! Woo-hoo!”
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darthstar Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:35:38pm |
re: #29 Lidane
Attlia wasn’t a Christian. And he’s a dirty foreigner.
How’s that different from Jesus?
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engineer cat Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:35:47pm |
pope ricky still leading in ohio
what does it mean if he takes it?
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darthstar Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:36:28pm |
re: #32 engineer cat
pope ricky still leading in ohio
what does it mean if he takes it?
It means nobody on the Romney team gets laid tonight.
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freetoken Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:36:33pm |
re: #30 BongCrodny
Yeah, kind of a weak showing for a #1 contender.
It’s pretty clear that Santorum is the favorite in fly-over country.
This reinforces my suspicion that Mitt will have to pick Santorum as his running mate.
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austin_blue Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:36:38pm |
re: #13 Lidane
Someone convince me to finish the paper I’ve got due tomorrow. I’m completely unmotivated right now.
Quit being a South Austin slacker and finish the goddamned paper! You are paying St. Ed’s way too much money to bail!
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Mattand Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:37:04pm |
re: #32 engineer cat
pope ricky still leading in ohio
what does it mean if he takes it?
That a good chunk of the Republican party would prefer a theocracy over a democratic republic.
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Mattand Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:38:11pm |
re: #35 austin_blue
Quit being a South Austin slacker and finish the goddamned paper! You are paying St. Ed’s way too much money to bail!
Also, get off my lawn.
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jaunte Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:38:16pm |
re: #13 Lidane
Someone convince me to finish the paper I’ve got due tomorrow. I’m completely unmotivated right now.
I thought you had fresh coffee? Take advantage of the initial rush.
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freetoken Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:38:24pm |
Repeating myself from last month: Mitt Romney is the 40% candidate.
He’s going to get the nomination while only getting around 40% of the support of the caucus/primary goers nationwide.
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Lidane Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:38:26pm |
re: #31 darthstar
How’s that different from Jesus?
Republican Jesus was an American. And an NRA member. =P
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darthstar Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:38:29pm |
re: #34 freetoken
Yeah, kind of a weak showing for a #1 contender.
It’s pretty clear that Santorum is the favorite in fly-over country.
This reinforces my suspicion that Mitt will have to pick Santorum as his running mate.
Nope…Mitt fucked up on Friday. Women are trending toward Obama at 60% now, and growing…Mitt Romney will have to pick a female VP candidate (not Palin…probably Nikki Haley) in order to try and win female voters back or he’s fucked like a Palin at a kegger.
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BongCrodny Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:38:33pm |
re: #34 freetoken
Yeah, kind of a weak showing for a #1 contender.
It’s pretty clear that Santorum is the favorite in fly-over country.
This reinforces my suspicion that Mitt will have to pick Santorum as his running mate.
Rom/’rum 2012!!
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The Ghost of a Flea Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:39:14pm |
re: #40 Lidane
Republican Jesus was an American. And an NRA member. =P
Republican Jesus also had a far larger pyramid of bleached skulls than Attila.
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Lidane Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:39:31pm |
re: #35 austin_blue
Quit being a South Austin slacker and finish the goddamned paper! You are paying St. Ed’s way too much money to bail!
Haha, true. I’ve got way too much student loan debt to give up now.
Also, I think the coffee is finally kicking in. :D
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Romantic Heretic Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:39:34pm |
re: #14 BongCrodny
If Santorum wins Ohio, expect Mitt to tack further to the right.
Is that possible?
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Skeetghazi Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:39:39pm |
re: #34 freetoken
Yeah, kind of a weak showing for a #1 contender.
It’s pretty clear that Santorum is the favorite in fly-over country.
This reinforces my suspicion that Mitt will have to pick Santorum as his running mate.
Aw geeze.
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freetoken Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:39:39pm |
re: #43 darthstar
Santorum’s winning North Dakota too?
It’s God’s Country.
That’s why He put all the oil there.
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Mich-again Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:40:03pm |
I can not wait for the upcoming GOP brokered convention.. Are you kidding me? This will be entertainment the likes of which we have never seen.
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darthstar Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:40:06pm |
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The Ghost of a Flea Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:40:26pm |
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DREd Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:40:48pm |
Nate Silver says Romney is under performing while Santorum is doing better than he expected. There’s a coming from behind joke there somewhere.
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darthstar Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:40:52pm |
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TedStriker Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:40:56pm |
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freetoken Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:40:58pm |
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jaunte Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:41:12pm |
not enough nascar team owners in ohio to make up romney’s deficit… #supertuesday
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) March 7, 2012
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Skeetghazi Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:41:17pm |
re: #50 Mich-again
I can not wait for the upcoming GOP brokered convention.. Are you kidding me? This will be entertainment the likes of which we have never seen.
I thought I heard a blip that Sister Sarah on CNN said that if it was, she’d throw her hat in.
Confirmation?
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BongCrodny Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:41:38pm |
re: #41 darthstar
Nope…Mitt fucked up on Friday. Women are trending toward Obama at 60% now, and growing…Mitt Romney will have to pick a female VP candidate (not Palin…probably Nikki Haley) in order to try and win female voters back or he’s fucked like a Palin at a kegger.
Haley would be a good choice for Mitt, because I think he needs a southerner as well.
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darthstar Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:41:55pm |
Okay…Romney about to speak now…let’s hope he doesn’t call his wife ‘fat’ again like he did yesterday.
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mr.fusion Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:42:10pm |
…..and lots of Southern States coming up too….could be a long few weeks for Mitt
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Shvaughn Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:42:10pm |
re: #3 jaunte
[Embedded content]
Catholics just don’t like Santorum.
Santorum talks like an evangelical, not like most Catholics.
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darthstar Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:42:17pm |
re: #62 BongCrodny
Haley would be a good choice for Mitt, because I think he needs a southerner as well.
She’s from South Carolina.
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Kragar Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:42:21pm |
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TedStriker Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:42:24pm |
re: #57 freetoken
re: #41 darthstar
I really think Mitt will have little choice in the matter. If Santorum wins in half the states - and he might - it’s going to be awfully difficult for the GOP elite to ignore the call of the masses.
You can hear the collective pants-shitting of the GOP establishment over that possibility.
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Mattand Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:42:47pm |
re: #61 mr.fusion
Let the draft Sarah movement begin
My God, could you imagine a brokered convention that results in a Palin/Santourm ticket? I’m only half-joking about this. This could possibly happen.
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Bubblehead II Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:43:12pm |
Evening Lizards. What is the current insanity level tonight?
Ice and Jimmy really should do an off shoot of their Butt Hurt Alert Levels to cover this.
Laying odds that Idaho will go for the Frothy Mix, But we should have a live coverage link here in Idaho at 8:30 MST
Stay Tuned
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Mich-again Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:43:17pm |
re: #61 mr.fusion
Let the draft Sarah movement begin
I prefer Sarah in the big can to the draft version.
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darthstar Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:43:46pm |
Heh…Romney and Santorum both giving their speeches before Ohio’s settled because neither wants to give a concession speech.
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Interesting Times Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:43:54pm |
Santorum declared winner of Oklahoma, thanks to the personhood law allowing fetuses to vote. #SuperTuesday— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) March 7, 2012
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jaunte Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:44:00pm |
re: #69 mattand
If she can tease it long enough, it should be good for at least half a million.
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The Ghost of a Flea Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:44:46pm |
re: #34 freetoken
Yeah, kind of a weak showing for a #1 contender.
It’s pretty clear that Santorum is the favorite in fly-over country.
This reinforces my suspicion that Mitt will have to pick Santorum as his running mate.
Frothy Tofu 2012: Once you get used to the blandness, it’s distinctly nutty.
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Mattand Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:45:21pm |
re: #74 jaunte
If she can tease it long enough, it should be good for at least half a million.
Of course, knowing Sarah, she’ll quit halfway through the convention.
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mr.fusion Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:45:51pm |
re: #69 mattand
My God, could you imagine a brokered convention that results in a Palin/Santourm ticket? I’m only half-joking about this. This could possibly happen.
Oh it would be amazing. If Santorum takes OH, we are going to see absolute chaos
To paraphrase Steve Schmidt: If Santorum takes Ohio, you will see a panic and a meltdown of the Republican establishment that is beyond my ability to articulate in the English language.
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TedStriker Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:45:59pm |
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:46:31pm |
Stupid question: what happens to the delegates of candidates who officially leave the race? Can the candidates give them away?
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Romantic Heretic Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:46:40pm |
re: #60 Lidane
Yes. He can start parroting Bryan Fischer.
dfjkha.
Sorry, the thought makes me twitch.
sdudfj
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darthstar Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:47:01pm |
Heh…Matthews criticizing Mitt’s body language as he watches his wife speak.
Now Mitt’s speaking…try not to sound whingy, Mitt…
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jaunte Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:47:04pm |
re: #76 mattand
“That elite media, with those questions about that stuff, well, who could stand it, really!”
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Lidane Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:47:44pm |
re: #79 Saint Rush, Martyr of Lower Wingnuttia
Stupid question: what happens to the delegates of candidates who officially leave the race? Can the candidates give them away?
I think they can encourage their delegates to support a particular candidate. I’m not sure.
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freetoken Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:47:57pm |
Mitt Romney is the nominee of the Nouveau Riche, the Old Money, and the America-Is-Jerusalem party.
Rick Santorum is the nominee of the Christian Republic party.
Newt Gingrich is the nominee of the Christian Confederacy party.
Ron Paul is the nominee of … Chaos.
How can the GOP establishment weld this into a successful campaign, to be a not-too-unpopular sitting President?
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jaunte Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:48:18pm |
romney is speaking. GAFFE TRAPS AT THE READY. #supertuesday
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) March 7, 2012
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mr.fusion Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:48:23pm |
re: #79 Saint Rush, Martyr of Lower Wingnuttia
Stupid question: what happens to the delegates of candidates who officially leave the race? Can the candidates give them away?
I’m pretty sure they can choose themselves to go to whoever they want to, but when a candidate “endorses” the other candidate it’s understood that they’re supposed to go to the endorsed
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Mattand Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:49:20pm |
re: #79 Saint Rush, Martyr of Lower Wingnuttia
Stupid question: what happens to the delegates of candidates who officially leave the race? Can the candidates give them away?
Maybe? Maddow has been covering this on and off and even she seems confused by it. Apparently the rules are a bit arcane.
Her coverage has been focusing on some of the maneuvering the Paul campaign has been doing.
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darthstar Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:49:42pm |
We started this campaign nine months ago, if you don’t count the previous five years we’ve been campaigning.
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BongCrodny Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:50:11pm |
Mitt’s speech almost sounds like a concession speech.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:50:15pm |
Gotta wonder how Mitt would have done here in Va if there was more than just Paul to compete against.
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Mich-again Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:50:43pm |
At the brokered convention they will all step aside and let Rush Limburger pick who gets to run.
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prairiefire Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:50:44pm |
re: #87 Stanley Sea for a while, till someone screws up
Talk about the marsala! I gotta know!
I’m betting it’s non alcoholic **Waves**
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Mattand Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:51:08pm |
re: #91 HappyWarrior
Gotta wonder how Mitt would have done here in Va if there was more than just Paul to compete against.
IMO, he’d have gotten his clock cleaned by Frothy and Gingrinch.
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Four More Tears Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:51:18pm |
A couple of minutes ago he said “Let me be honest,” and I thought ” ‘bout damn time…”
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darthstar Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:52:16pm |
re: #90 BongCrodny
Mitt’s speech almost sounds like a concession speech.
He’s just trying to make everyone happy…
Mitt…what the fuck is “middle income?”…this speech sucks.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:52:40pm |
re: #94 mattand
IMO, he’d have gotten his clock cleaned by Frothy and Gingrinch.
It’s tough to say really. He’d be doing his best here in Northern Va and I imagine the Richmond suburbs but the rural areas that are more socially than economic conservative would be interesting to see how they would break.
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darthstar Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:52:49pm |
re: #95 Meh.
A couple of minutes ago he said “Let me be honest,” and I thought ” ‘bout damn time…”
That’s when his subconscious said, “Shut the fuck youup…you can’t afford to be honest!”
oops…it’s hard to write “fuck” without following it with “you” when I’m talking about Romney.
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BongCrodny Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:53:00pm |
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Romantic Heretic Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:53:08pm |
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Skeetghazi Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:53:19pm |
re: #93 prairie fire
I’m betting it’s non alcoholic **Waves**
There’s such a thing? Sacrilege. Lol, waves back!!!!
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Lidane Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:53:25pm |
HootSuite is down. I might just get some work done.
I’m actually hoping that Frothy wins Ohio. I want to see what happens after that.
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darthstar Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:54:07pm |
It’s fuckin’ rapper’s delight at this…and Mitt can’t talk.
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BongCrodny Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:54:53pm |
Santorum would likely be crushing Mitt in Ohio if Newt weren’t in the race.
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Skeetghazi Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:55:03pm |
davidfrum @davidfrum
RT @warwhorseUSA: @davidfrum Did those Mayans know their shit or what?
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jaunte Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:55:12pm |
Romney, “supporting veterans”:
Military Veterans Blasts Romney Plan To Privatize Veteran’s Care
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Four More Tears Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:55:14pm |
re: #104 darthstar
It’s fuckin’ rapper’s delight at this…and Mitt can’t talk.
It’s painful to listen to. Who the hell do we have to boycott to silence him?
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darthstar Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:55:24pm |
Santorum’s up by 15,000 votes…still “too close to call” but that 15k is holding.
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Firstinla Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:56:07pm |
re: #105 Mitt Romney - Ask me about AMWAY products.
Anyone interested in some Ultimate Bone Health Solution?
Is that anything like viagra?
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BongCrodny Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:56:24pm |
They’re chanting “We Need Mitt,” but it sounds an awful lot like “Weenie Mitt.”
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Mattand Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:56:50pm |
re: #98 HappyWarrior
It’s tough to say really. He’d be doing his best here in Northern Va and I imagine the Richmond suburbs but the rural areas that are more socially than economic conservative would be interesting to see how they would break.
Get what you’re saying, but given the current, vaginal-probe happy VA government, I gotta go with the social wingnuts overwhelming the sane-by-comparison faction.
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Interesting Times Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:56:57pm |
re: #90 BongCrodny
Mitt’s speech almost sounds like a concession speech.
On both sides of EVERY issue! RT @adamnagourney: Romney is giving a concession speech and a victory speech at the same time! How limber!— Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) March 7, 2012
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jaunte Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:57:05pm |
OHIO: Romney Trailing Mental Patient in Sweater Vest #SuperTuesday
— Andy Borowitz (@BorowitzReport) March 7, 2012
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darthstar Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:57:46pm |
WTF does “cut cap and balance the budget” supposed to mean?
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Skeetghazi Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:58:40pm |
REALLY?
Romney crowd boos recovering economy
America is so fucked with their stupid tribalism.
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Four More Tears Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:59:30pm |
Hope you ID fuckers are happy now.
86-Year-Old Ohio Veteran Can’t Vote After Government-Issued ID Is Rejected At Poll
Paul Carroll, an 86-year-old World War II veteran who has lived in the same Ohio town for four decades, was denied a chance to vote in the state’s primary contests today after a poll worker denied his form of identification, a recently-acquired photo ID from the Department of Veterans Affairs. The poll worker rejected the ID because it did not contain an address, as required by Ohio law.
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The Ghost of a Flea Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:00:01pm |
re: #90 BongCrodny
Mitt’s speech almost sounds like a concession speech.
Mitt 5.6 is stepping aside to make room for version 5.7, with added social conservative pandering options….
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darthstar Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:00:08pm |
Where the hell does Romney hope to get revenues if he’s going to cut all taxes? As president, I will get our economy back on track and our citizens back to work - so long as they’re willing to move to Bangalore, India or Makita City, Philippines.
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blueraven Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:00:17pm |
re: #115 jaunte
These GOP candidates do kinda resemble the patients in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.
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austin_blue Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:00:35pm |
re: #84 freetoken
Mitt Romney is the nominee of the Nouveau Riche, the Old Money, and the America-Is-Jerusalem party.
Rick Santorum is the nominee of the Christian Republic party.
Newt Gingrich is the nominee of the Christian Confederacy party.
Ron Paul is the nominee of … Chaos.
How can the GOP establishment weld this into a successful campaign, to be a not-too-unpopular sitting President?
The longer they are kicking each other’s guts out, the more Obama looks like the only adult in the room.
The SCOTUS decision has turned corporate money into the death of the GOP.
I’m laughing my ass off, but who could have predicted this? It’s wonderful!
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blueraven Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:02:32pm |
re: #125 jaunte
*medication time… medication time…*
It would make a great SNL skit. Palin as wicked Nurse…
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Kragar Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:02:32pm |
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darthstar Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:02:45pm |
Romney: “Obama killed bin Laden. I will bring bin Laden back to life.” #SuperTuesday— Andy Borowitz (@BorowitzReport) March 7, 2012
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austin_blue Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:02:51pm |
re: #121 darthstar
Where the hell does Romney hope to get revenues if he’s going to cut all taxes? As president, I will get our economy back on track and our citizens back to work - so long as they’re willing to move to Bangalore, India or Makita City, Philippines.
You are just now noticing the derp? Dude, really.
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BongCrodny Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:02:51pm |
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BongCrodny Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:03:22pm |
Mitt’s catching up in Ohio — 10K behind now.
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TedStriker Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:03:27pm |
re: #122 blueraven
These GOP candidates do kinda resemble the patients in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.
Does this mean that Palin is Nurse Ratched?
/semi
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jaunte Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:03:41pm |
He got a dog, I will get a kitty. He wears ties, I will wear scarves. He speaks English, I will mime everything.
— Alex Pareene (@pareene) March 7, 2012
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blueraven Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:04:19pm |
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goddamnedfrank Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:04:21pm |
re: #22 mr.fusion
If Santorum takes OH a brokered convention becomes much much more likely
I dont’ understand why people keep saying this. It strikes me as more of an emotional reaction or wishful thinking than having anything to do with the math. Even if Romney loses Ohio he’ll come out tonight with more delegates than the rest of the field combined. It’s likely that he’ll hold that position at least until the big winner take all contests start to kick in, where states like California and New Jersey are likely to push him over the top.
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TedStriker Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:05:01pm |
re: #131 BongCrodny
Mitt’s catching up in Ohio — 10K behind now.
Within 1.5%..definitely gonna be a squeaker.
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Interesting Times Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:05:05pm |
People, stop saying that Mitt is using a TelePrompTer. The Candidate C2000 has all its speeches preloaded via USB drive. #SuperTuesday— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) March 7, 2012
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Four More Tears Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:05:27pm |
re: #136 goddamnedfrank
Goddamnedfrank, Destroyer of Dreams.
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Skeetghazi Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:05:29pm |
re: #136 goddamnedfrank
I dont’ understand why people keep saying this. It strikes me as more of an emotional reaction or wishful thinking than having anything to do with the math. Even if Romney loses Ohio he’ll come out tonight with more delegates than the rest of the field combined. It’s likely that he’ll hold that position at least until the big winner take all contests start to kick in, where states like California and New Jersey are likely to push him over the top.
Dumb question GDF, if he goes over the top, will they actually let him? Or?
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engineer cat Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:05:43pm |
alf
wendell
adlai
hubert
gerald
mitt
people who will never be president
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:06:10pm |
re: #141 engineer cat
alf
wendell
adlai
hubert
gerald
mittpeople who will never be president
Gerald?
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jaunte Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:06:22pm |
re: #136 goddamnedfrank
states like California and New Jersey are likely to push him over the top
Then it’ll be Mittcitement Time!
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The Ghost of a Flea Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:08:15pm |
re: #121 darthstar
Where the hell does Romney hope to get revenues if he’s going to cut all taxes? As president, I will get our economy back on track and our citizens back to work - so long as they’re willing to move to Bangalore, India or Makita City, Philippines.
A highly-compensated team of underpants gnomes showed him compelling data that this would work.
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engineer cat Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:08:26pm |
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freetoken Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:08:49pm |
re: #136 goddamnedfrank
I dont’ understand why people keep saying this.
Agree. First, the idea of a “brokered convention” has been thoroughly shown as not possible in these days, and secondly Mitt will simply keep accumulating delegates until he crosses the magic number, even while not winning the majority of the states.
It’s not magic, it’s just math.
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Kragar Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:08:56pm |
re: #143 jaunte
Then it’ll be Mittcitement Time!
Of course, there are those who wouldn’t vote for Mitt in either state just to fuck with him.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:09:03pm |
re: #145 engineer cat
well, he was never elected president…
True but he never was elected vice president either. Could have used Nelson instead. You know it hit me just now we’ve never had a Joseph or a Joe.
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Mattand Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:09:48pm |
re: #144 The Ghost of a Flea
A highly-compensated team of underpants gnomes showed him compelling data that this would work.
1. Cut taxes to benefit the 1%.
2. ????
3. Profit!
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goddamnedfrank Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:10:44pm |
re: #140 Stanley Sea for a while, till someone screws up
Dumb question GDF, if he goes over the top, will they actually let him? Or?
Look at it this way, not only don’t they have a choice, but whoever else they throw into the minefield will only do more to devastate the Republican platform and their ideas. At least with Mitt, if they lose they can maintain the self soothing lie that they lost because they didn’t nominate someone conservative enough. If there’s one thing Republicans are good at it’s self deception, I think they’d actually prefer to lose with an insincere candidate like Mitt than put up a real defender of the faith and risk watching him burn.
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erik_t Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:12:19pm |
Oh, Detestable Mr. Arpaio. You can’t even get your ads right.
Unless, I mean, you actually mean for it to say:
SUPPORT SHERIFF JOE’S EFFORTS TO TAKE OUR COUNTRY
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Skeetghazi Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:12:59pm |
re: #150 goddamnedfrank
Look at it this way, not only don’t they have a choice, but whoever else they throw into the minefield will only do more to devastate the Republican platform and their ideas. At least with Mitt, if they lose they can maintain the self soothing lie that they lost because they didn’t nominate someone conservative enough. If there’s one thing Republicans are good at it’s self deception, I think they’d actually prefer to lose with an insincere candidate like Mitt than put of a real defender of the faith and risk watching him burn.
I still predict Sister Bomb Thrower.
It’s karma.
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engineer cat Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:13:09pm |
re: #148 HappyWarrior
True but he never was elected vice president either. Could have used Nelson instead. You know it hit me just now we’ve never had a Joseph or a Joe.
”..but all of them were ‘enerys - she never had a willie or a sam (no sam!)…”
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JDinLA Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:13:38pm |
re: #32 engineer cat
pope ricky still leading in ohio
what does it mean if he takes it?
I think that was covered in excrutiating detail in Revelation
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Skeetghazi Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:13:40pm |
re: #152 erik_t
Oh, Detestable Mr. Arpaio. You can’t even get your ads right.
Unless, I mean, you actually mean for it to say:
HE HAS A PAC! unbelievable that a stupid backwoods sheriff has a fucking grifter pac.
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TedStriker Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:14:21pm |
re: #136 goddamnedfrank
I dont’ understand why people keep saying this. It strikes me as more of an emotional reaction or wishful thinking than having anything to do with the math. Even if Romney loses Ohio he’ll come out tonight with more delegates than the rest of the field combined. It’s likely that he’ll hold that position at least until the big winner take all contests start to kick in, where states like California and New Jersey are likely to push him over the top.
To me, it’s all about momentum going into those winner-take-all contests and the convention. Mitt hasn’t got it and Santorum is getting some; Mitt may have the lead in delegates now, but Santorum has the opportunity to fuck Mitt’s world completely up in those big primaries.
The GOP establishment has got to be apoplectic about that possibility, hence the rumors about a brokered convention.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:16:09pm |
re: #154 engineer cat
”..but all of them were ‘enerys - she never had a willie or a sam (no sam!)…”
Heh I like that song.
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freetoken Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:16:21pm |
re: #158 talon_262
Santorum is not going to win California.
He just isn’t, even though he will be quite popular in the Holy County of Orange.
Mitt has enough friends and neighbors in La Jolla who can move the entire California GOP establishment, if needed.
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Mich-again Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:16:39pm |
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Four More Tears Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:17:46pm |
re: #160 freetoken
Santorum is not going to win California.
He just isn’t, even though he will be quite popular in the Holy County of Orange.
Mitt has enough friends and neighbors in La Jolla who can move the entire California GOP establishment, if needed.
I don’t think Mitt has anything to fear in NY or NJ, either. I am very curious to find out where Texas goes, though.
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BongCrodny Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:18:41pm |
Mitt Romney had Donald Trump do a robo-call in Ohio?
Tone deaf.
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erik_t Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:20:42pm |
re: #163 BongCrodny
Mitt Romney had Donald Trump do a robo-call in Ohio?
Tone deaf.
Um, he’s kind of the shittiest political candidate on earth. Stop being surprised.
Hell, I’m waiting for him to have Sharron Angle do a robocall for him in a poultry-heavy demographic.
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Spocomptonite Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:21:06pm |
re: #160 freetoken
Santorum is not going to win California.
He just isn’t, even though he will be quite popular in the Holy County of Orange.
Mitt has enough friends and neighbors in La Jolla who can move the entire California GOP establishment, if needed.
I dunno, it will depend on which 5% of California turns out for it.
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engineer cat Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:21:17pm |
re: #151 HappyWarrior
Who does Mitt pick as a running mate?
i’m predicting santorum, but i warn you i never guess the running mates correctly
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BongCrodny Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:21:56pm |
Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin?
I think I might want to watch that.
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BongCrodny Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:22:57pm |
re: #164 erik_t
Um, he’s kind of the shittiest political candidate on earth. Stop being surprised.
Hell, I’m waiting for him to have Sharron Angle do a robocall for him in a poultry-heavy demographic.
It’s not so much being surprised as it is being dumbfounded.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:23:05pm |
re: #164 erik_t
Um, he’s kind of the shittiest political candidate on earth. Stop being surprised.
Hell, I’m waiting for him to have Sharron Angle do a robocall for him in a poultry-heavy demographic.
Sharron’s a Frothy fan but maybe in the GE huh.
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freetoken Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:23:24pm |
re: #166 engineer cat
Whoever Mitt picks, they will most certainly be a God-talker.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:23:50pm |
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DREd Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:24:34pm |
re: #156 Stanley Sea for a while, till someone screws up
HE HAS A PAC! unbelievable that a stupid backwoods sheriff has a fucking grifter pac.
They have woods in Arizona?
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TedStriker Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:24:52pm |
re: #160 freetoken
Santorum is not going to win California.
He just isn’t, even though he will be quite popular in the Holy County of Orange.
Mitt has enough friends and neighbors in La Jolla who can move the entire California GOP establishment, if needed.
Santorum may not win CA, but I imagine Rick’s gonna give Mitt a run for his money. Meanwhile, there’s a big swath of Southern states, from Alabama to New Mexico, that are up for grabs over the next 2-3 months.
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Skeetghazi Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:25:10pm |
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Four More Tears Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:25:29pm |
re: #164 erik_t
Um, he’s kind of the shittiest political candidate on earth. Stop being surprised.
Hell, I’m waiting for him to have Sharron Angle do a robocall for him in a poultry-heavy demographic.
Angle wasn’t the chicken lady. That was her opponent.
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jaunte Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:25:54pm |
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Charles Johnson Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:27:01pm |
Santorum is still ahead in Ohio, 38% to 36%.
It’s a Democrat’s dream.
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The Ghost of a Flea Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:27:58pm |
re: #156 Stanley Sea for a while, till someone screws up
HE HAS A PAC! unbelievable that a stupid backwoods sheriff has a fucking grifter pac.
The outrageous outrages and the continuous fever-pitch hysteria are like an incubator for scamming. There’s a lot of for-profit motive to keeping politics uncivil and derp-y. Arpaio has already been sampling that buffet with his “reality” TV status. A money-washing nonprofit PAC is a natural extension of his current grift.
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goddamnedfrank Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:28:41pm |
re: #162 Meh.
I don’t think Mitt has anything to fear in NY or NJ, either. I am very curious to find out where Texas goes, though.
Texas is proportional. Santorum may win but it’ll be a grab bag and won’t have an impact like California will. Which is ironic in the sense that it’s almost impossible for a Democrat to win Texas or for a Republican to take California in the general election. Allowing California to have such a disproportional impact on the final tally while dividing up Texas’s delegates seems like a strategically horrible decision on the part of the GOP.
Of course this is also the argument that Hillary used against Obama in 2008, that he was gathering delegates in red states he had no hope of winning in the fall. That logic didn’t pan out. The truth is that the battleground is always in the swing states, which is why people are looking at places like Virginia, Ohio, NC, and Florida. This is where the low voter turnout of these primaries should really be troubling the GOP. If they can’t get their base excited to vote for Romney now they’re looking at a pitched battle to come with a lot of ground to reclaim, and the home team has deployed punji sticks.
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austin_blue Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:29:49pm |
re: #167 BongCrodny
Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin?
I think I might want to watch that.
I’d watch her read a phone book.
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Lidane Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:31:17pm |
re: #162 Meh.
I don’t think Mitt has anything to fear in NY or NJ, either. I am very curious to find out where Texas goes, though.
Right now, Texas hates Mitt. The last polls I saw had Frothy beating him 2-to-1.
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DREd Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:32:04pm |
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:32:42pm |
re: #183 Lidane
Right now, Texas hates Mitt. The last polls I saw had Frothy beating him 2-to-1.
Mitt is really, really not a cowboy.
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Four More Tears Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:32:54pm |
I’d be shitting myself right now if I were a serious Republican.
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jaunte Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:32:58pm |
re: #185 DREd
I know from experience there are bears in that forest, too.
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The Ghost of a Flea Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:32:58pm |
re: #182 austin_blue
I’d watch her read a phone book.
Instead, find the animated gif of her from The Big Lebowski repeating:
Vagina. The very word makes some men uncomfortable.
It’s been an unbearable strain not to cite it in every birth-control related thread in the past six months.
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mr.fusion Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:33:00pm |
re: #177 Charles Johnson
Santorum is still ahead in Ohio, 38% to 36%.
It’s a Democrat’s dream.
It’s bananas. Rick freaking Santorum.
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mr.fusion Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:33:59pm |
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Feline Fearless Leader Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:35:21pm |
re: #180 goddamnedfrank
Texas is proportional. Santorum may win but it’ll be a grab bag and won’t have an impact like California will. Which is ironic in the sense that it’s almost impossible for a Democrat to win Texas or for a Republican to take California in the general election. Allowing California to have such a disproportional impact on the final tally while dividing up Texas’s delegates seems like a strategically horrible decision on the part of the GOP.
Of course this is also the argument that Hillary used against Obama in 2008, that he was gathering delegates in red states he had no hope of winning in the fall. That logic didn’t pan out. The truth is that the battleground is always in the swing states, which is why people are looking at places like Virginia, Ohio, NC, and Florida. This is where the low voter turnout of these primaries should really be troubling the GOP. If they can’t get their base excited to vote for Romney now they’re looking at a pitched battle to come with a lot of ground to reclaim, and the home team has deployed punji sticks.
But running a 50-state campaign still makes sense. Besides making the opponent play defense you also help out Congressional candidates at the same time. Otherwise, you just let them stockpile funds for contesting the swing states, and against the GOP you know you’re going to get outspent in that regard.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:35:28pm |
I’m very surprised that Mitt’s beating Santorum in Georgia.
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freetoken Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:36:08pm |
Santorum does appeal to the “Reagan Democrats”. He wears his religion on his shoulder, he talks about how the country ought to be responsive to working people (this is the FDR hangover), he doesn’t have a pair of Cadillacs and thoroughbreds in every port, etc.
So, I’m not surprised Santorum is doing well in OH.
| 196 |
jaunte Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:36:50pm |
CNN analysts in the green room:
[Link: grist.org…]
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Four More Tears Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:36:54pm |
re: #194 To hold my temper, most of the time.
I’m very surprised that Mitt’s beating Santorum in Georgia.
I’m guessing that anyone who’s on the same page as Santorum would be voting for Newt there.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:37:39pm |
re: #197 Meh.
I’m guessing that anyone who’s on the same page as Santorum would be voting for Newt there.
Good point.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:37:42pm |
What’s interested me is how Romney is beating Santorum with Catholics. It’s not surprising totally I guess.
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DREd Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:38:48pm |
re: #187 Meh.
I’d be shitting myself right now if I were a serious Republican.
That’s a rarer animal than a bear in Arizona.
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Skeetghazi Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:38:53pm |
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Lidane Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:39:12pm |
Aha! Found it. This is from February 20th. I’d be interested in seeing how those numbers change after tonight:
[Link: www.texastribune.org…]
Also, it turns out that Frothy is beating Mitt here in Texas by a near 3-to-1 margin, not 2-to-1 like I first thought.
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The Ghost of a Flea Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:39:39pm |
re: #196 jaunte
CNN analysts in the green room:
[Link: grist.org…]
So…that link goes to the penguin cam. Hope that intentional.
Streaming the vid reminds me that penguins look very cute, but they make sounds that, if I heard them without visual cues, I would associate with the demons playing ass-trumpets in Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights.
| 204 |
Charles Johnson Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:39:50pm |
If you thought Santorum’s exploitation of Terri Schiavo would wreck his political career, you underestimated the reactionary RW base.
The religious right has been building a base of indoctrinated robots for decades, and they see this as a last-ditch war for control of American culture.
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goddamnedfrank Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:40:27pm |
re: #199 HappyWarrior
What’s interested me is how Romney is beating Santorum with Catholics. It’s not surprising totally I guess.
Yeah, in spite of the way Santorum combines the adjectives, Catholic doesn’t mean insane.
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Lidane Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:41:35pm |
OHIO: 73% reporting - Santorum 37.8%, Romney 37.0% tpm.ly/zTmPU6
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) March 7, 2012
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Wozza Matter? Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:41:58pm |
re: #199 HappyWarrior
What’s interested me is how Romney is beating Santorum with Catholics. It’s not surprising totally I guess.
Somebodies already mentioned it - but Santorum is more of a traditional Evangelical than a work-a-day catholic, regular catholics don’t recognise his rhetoric and are wary of him.
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engineer cat Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:42:01pm |
no nominee on the first ballot and chaos in the auditorium
i kin smell it frum here
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:42:11pm |
re: #205 goddamnedfrank
Yeah, in spite of the way Santorum combines the adjectives, Catholic doesn’t mean insane.
Precisely.
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freetoken Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:42:48pm |
re: #207 Lidane
Santorum still up by 6000 with 81% reporting.
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:42:53pm |
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:43:05pm |
re: #208 Wozza Matter?
Somebodies already mentioned it - but Santorum is more of a traditional Evangelical than a work-a-day catholics, who seem very wary of him.
Yeah some people have said that they’re always surprised to find he’s Catholic instead of Evangelical. I know the kind of Catholic voters that are attracted to his rhetoric but I wager to say they’re a minority even among more conservative Catholics.
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engineer cat Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:44:04pm |
re: #164 erik_t
Um, he’s kind of the shittiest political candidate on earth
actually i think al gore was and is the worst public speaker in america in anybody’s memory and of course he got the majority of the popular vote
that why i think republicans are did in the long run
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Four More Tears Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:44:22pm |
Holy shit, Wolf Blitzer sounds like he’s narrating a horse race.
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Four More Tears Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:44:46pm |
re: #211 freetoken
Santorum still up by 6000 with 81% reporting.
CNN just said it’s down to about 2k.
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Skeetghazi Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:45:14pm |
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The most racist/misogynist shit evah. | Won’t Be Long Now, Folks! [Link: angryblacklady.com…] #p2 #TFY #fem2 #MikeLester #ABLC (via @ZandarVTS)
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goddamnedfrank Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:45:16pm |
re: #211 freetoken
Santorum still up by 6000 with 81% reporting.
It may flip. Traditionally precincts in the cities are some of the last to come in, and they’re likely to trend towards Romney.
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prairiefire Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:45:50pm |
re: #187 Meh.
I’d be shitting myself right now if I were a serious Republican.
I think they are. I have been reading posts that are factual and not full of self delusion lately on the RW blogs. I’m surprised. I think Rushbo gave them a big ol’ wake up slap in the face.
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Wozza Matter? Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:45:55pm |
re: #216 Meh.
CNN just said it’s down to about 2k.
84% in and a 2400 gap.
3% of Ohio doesn’t traditionally call until the day after however.
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Lidane Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:46:13pm |
I still can’t believe that Rick Santorum is relevant in 2012. WTF.
Or that birth control is a hot button issue.
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:46:45pm |
re: #218 goddamnedfrank
It may flip. Traditionally precincts in the cities are some of the last to come in, and they’re likely to trend towards Romney.
Yeah, seeing how it shrinks by the minute, it may happen.
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zora Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:47:22pm |
re: #205 goddamnedfrank
Yeah, in spite of the way Santorum combines the adjectives, Catholic doesn’t mean insane.
dissing jfk can’t help.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:47:23pm |
re: #223 Lidane
I still can’t believe that Rick Santorum is relevant in 2012. WTF.
Or that birth control is a hot button issue.
We live in strange times.
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Four More Tears Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:47:55pm |
Ooo! CNN has exclusive new information!!!
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goddamnedfrank Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:48:47pm |
re: #224 Saint Rush, Martyr of Lower Wingnuttia
Yeah, seeing how it shrinks by the minute, it may happen.
Urban precincts are larger too and the % precincts in number doesn’t account for that. At this rate I think Mitt is almost definitely going to win.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:48:47pm |
re: #225 zora
dissing jfk can’t help.
Yeah my Dad’s parents loved JFK and they would be pissed if they heard Frothy.
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DREd Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:49:06pm |
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FemNaziBitch Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:49:08pm |
re: #208 Wozza Matter?
Somebodies already mentioned it - but Santorum is more of a traditional Evangelical than a work-a-day catholic, regular catholics don’t recognise his rhetoric and are wary of him.
Actually, we (I) think he is bat-shit crazy.
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The Ghost of a Flea Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:50:06pm |
re: #220 BongCrodny
3,000! Mittmentum!
mittmentum = (mass tofu) x (speed at which Republicans arrive at the grim conclusion they have to back this guy)
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jaunte Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:50:07pm |
While awaiting Ohio final result, fill the time with Mother Jones “are you a slut?” flowchart bit.ly/xCvSlf
— davidfrum (@davidfrum) March 7, 2012
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Four More Tears Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:50:07pm |
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FemNaziBitch Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:50:51pm |
re: #203 The Ghost of a Flea
So…that link goes to the penguin cam. Hope that intentional.
Streaming the vid reminds me that penguins look very cute, but they make sounds that, if I heard them without visual cues, I would associate with the demons playing ass-trumpets in Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights.
Think they know they are being watched by millions?
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The Ghost of a Flea Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:51:31pm |
re: #236 ggt
Think they know they are being watched by millions?
Not all of them, but maybe the one with his ass toward the cam.
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FemNaziBitch Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:53:54pm |
re: #237 The Ghost of a Flea
Not all of them, but maybe the one with his ass toward the cam.
Do they ever blink?
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freetoken Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:54:06pm |
re: #223 Lidane
I still can’t believe that Rick Santorum is relevant in 2012. WTF.
Or that birth control is a hot button issue.
Oh, yes.
Here’s a book that’s being pushed in the God-talk communities:
Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution [Hardcover]
One review:
“If you want to learn what the Pill and the ensuing sexual revolution really accomplished, you must read Adam and Eve After the Pill. Of course, neo-Malthusians talk up the Pill’s benefits: the freedom from having children made it possible for women to pursue serious careers and in the process offered men a new kind of freedom, too. But as Eberstadt writes, how about the increasing unhappiness of women despite their liberation from the chores of raising children? Or husbands’ loss of interest in their wives and the corresponding increase in male pornography addiction? Not to be ignored, either, is the effect of the sexual revolution on college campuses by date rapes, hookups, and binge drinking, all of which directly flow from the sexual revolution mandate that women must be sexually available.”
- Dr. Raymond Dennehy, University of San Francisco
And so forth.
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Skeetghazi Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:55:25pm |
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erik_t Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:56:29pm |
re: #240 freetoken
Oh, yes.
Here’s a book that’s being pushed in the God-talk communities:
Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution [Hardcover]
One review:
And so forth.
THE FUCKING FUCKING-PILL MADE ME ADDICTED TO PR0N
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prairiefire Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:57:07pm |
re: #241 Gus
Kucinich is going down.
Yeah, a Vet who has lived in his Ohio town was turned away at the polls because his new photo ID (new law) issued by the VA didn’t have an address. That’s going to go over well.
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jaunte Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:57:14pm |
re: #240 freetoken
Looks like the author missed the whole “correlation is not causation” lecture.
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FemNaziBitch Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:57:31pm |
re: #240 freetoken
Or husbands’ loss of interest in their wives and the corresponding increase in male pornography addiction? Not to be ignored, either, is the effect of the sexual revolution on college campuses by date rapes, hookups, and binge drinking, all of which directly flow from the sexual revolution mandate that women must be sexually available.”
These things never existed before, or just weren’t talked about because women were sequestered in the home?
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FemNaziBitch Tue, Mar 6, 2012 7:59:01pm |
Penguins can scratch their own backs.
Who knew?
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jaunte Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:00:33pm |
Grand-dad knew about binge drinking waaaay before the Pill.
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ProBosniaLiberal Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:01:28pm |
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:02:11pm |
Gosh can you imagine a Kucinich versus Joe the Plumber race? Yikes.
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FemNaziBitch Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:02:47pm |
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:03:16pm |
re: #229 goddamnedfrank
Now the gap grows a it again.
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erik_t Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:03:39pm |
re: #254 HappyWarrior
Gosh can you imagine a Kucinich versus Joe the Plumber race? Yikes.
I would gnaw off my own arm to escape that voting booth.
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Four More Tears Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:03:48pm |
Oh fuck it, Ohio GOP. Just call it for Romney and fix it later if you have to…
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FemNaziBitch Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:03:51pm |
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goddamnedfrank Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:04:36pm |
re: #245 Gus
Romney swinging back up ever so slowly. It’s tight.
He’s turned his hat around backwards, like a switch … He’s going over the top.
How you like that bitches, you’ve been Stalloned.
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FemNaziBitch Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:04:40pm |
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The Ghost of a Flea Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:04:46pm |
re: #240 freetoken
Setting aside the plethora of lazy correlations, excision of other causal variables, and the moral nostalgia, I want to focus in on this part:
Or husbands’ loss of interest in their wives and the corresponding increase in male pornography addiction?
So the pill makes you lose interest in your wife…but you’re still turned on images of women in porn? If the porn stars are on the pill, does that make a difference?
Magic Satan Pill
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Lidane Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:05:12pm |
re: #240 freetoken
Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution [Hardcover]
*sigh*
Never mind the fact that the FDA approved the Pill in 1957 and that it wasn’t until 1972 that unmarried couples could even have contraception. The sexual revolution of the 1960’s was the scourge of humanity.
God, these people are stuck in the past.
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freetoken Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:05:40pm |
The point is this:
It’s never too late to return to the 12th century.
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FemNaziBitch Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:06:00pm |
re: #257 erik_t
I would gnaw off my own arm to escape that voting booth.
If I were a penguin, I might gnaw mine off (well the wing) to get rid of the band they have on their wing. It looks really uncomfortable.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:06:15pm |
re: #263 Lidane
*sigh*
Never mind the fact that the FDA approved the Pill in 1957 and that it wasn’t until 1972 that unmarried couples could even have contraception. The sexual revolution of the 1960’s was the scourge of humanity.
God, these people are stuck in the past.
These people and many of them go on record as saying the 60’s are the worst thing that happened to this nation.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:06:35pm |
re: #264 freetoken
The point is this:
It’s never too late to return to the 12th century.
Do I at least get a scribe out of this?
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Four More Tears Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:06:42pm |
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FemNaziBitch Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:06:58pm |
re: #263 Lidane
*sigh*
Never mind the fact that the FDA approved the Pill in 1957 and that it wasn’t until 1972 that unmarried couples could even have contraception. The sexual revolution of the 1960’s was the scourge of humanity.
God, these people are stuck in the past.
And it took a Supreme Court Case to let married women use it without their husband’s consent. Really?
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Skeetghazi Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:07:04pm |
I really hate this crazy misogyny. The pill?
Find me one guy, outside of a politician, old old dude or preacher/priest against it. Get him on TV. Stand up for your peeps asshole.
sick.
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Jalal bin Smokin? Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:07:22pm |
Conservatives still don’t understand comedy.
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:07:42pm |
Flip-flop, Romney on top.
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freetoken Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:07:58pm |
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Lidane Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:08:18pm |
re: #266 HappyWarrior
These people and many of them go on record as saying the 60’s are the worst thing that happened to this nation.
They need to get the fuck over it already. The Pill exists. Women work outside the home now. Minorities can vote. We’re off the gold standard. The Cold War is over.
It’s time for these people to move forward a few decades.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:08:27pm |
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FemNaziBitch Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:08:34pm |
re: #262 The Ghost of a Flea
Setting aside the plethora of lazy correlations, excision of other causal variables, and the moral nostalgia, I want to focus in on this part:
So the pill makes you lose interest in your wife…but you’re still turned on images of women in porn? If the porn stars are on the pill, does that make a difference?
Husbands lose interest in their wives? Because of the Pill? Husbands didn’t lose interest in their wives before the Pill? After having 6 kids they didn’t stay thin and firm?
Am I missing something?
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erik_t Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:09:05pm |
re: #272 Saint Rush, Martyr of Lower Wingnuttia
Flip-flop, Romney on top.
Shitty nonsense. I demand more Santorum!
/
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:09:05pm |
Mitt Romney 37% 390,810
Rick Santorum 37% 388,973
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:09:18pm |
re: #274 Lidane
They need to get the fuck over it already. The Pill exists. Women work outside the home now. Minorities can vote. We’re off the gold standard. The Cold War is over.
It’s time for these people to move forward a few decades.
It amazes me to think about guys like Goldwater and Gerald Ford, men of my grandparents’ generation who were more progressive on sexual matters than guys like Santorum who are actually younger than my parents.
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Charles Johnson Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:09:41pm |
Romney’s pulling ahead in Ohio, leading in all the major population centers.
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:09:44pm |
Romney tops Santorum, but let’s wait, maybe Santorum will surge?
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Lidane Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:09:46pm |
re: #269 ggt
And it took a Supreme Court Case to let married women use it without their husband’s consent. Really?
Yes. It took the SCOTUS to “allow” women to use birth control without their husband’s consent, and it took another SCOTUS case to let unmarried people even have access to birth control at all.
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Skeetghazi Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:10:03pm |
re: #279 HappyWarrior
It amazes me to think about guys like Goldwater and Gerald Ford, men of my grandparents’ generation who were more progressive on sexual matters than guys like Santorum who are actually younger than my parents.
It is such a weird time.
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FemNaziBitch Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:10:29pm |
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:10:51pm |
re: #283 Stanley Sea for a while, till someone screws up
It is such a weird time.
It really is. Some of us are moving forward and others seem stuck in the past.
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jamesfirecat Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:10:54pm |
Wow that was an impressive Jon Stewart bit, we all better hope God is not in an election year….
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FemNaziBitch Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:11:34pm |
Ok, I had to turn the Penguins off. Too noisy. (and a big distracting)
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FemNaziBitch Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:12:06pm |
re: #286 HappyWarrior
It really is. Some of us are moving forward and others seem stuck in
thea mythical past.
ftfy
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Four More Tears Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:13:07pm |
MSNBC just called Idaho for Mitt. Paul fails yet again.
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:13:49pm |
86% and 5K for Mitt. This way he’ll be 20K-30K+ by the end.
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FemNaziBitch Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:14:15pm |
So, are these little “K” cup coffee makers the latest fad or do you think they are going to last?
Seems really expensive to me.
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Vicious Babushka Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:14:29pm |
I was going to make a Photoshop of Callista Gingrich fembot, but then I thought that would be kinda mean.
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austin_blue Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:15:00pm |
Check out the county results:
[Link: www.cnn.com…]
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FemNaziBitch Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:15:57pm |
re: #294 Learned Mother of Zion
I was going to make a Photoshop of Callista Gingrich fembot, but then I thought that would be kinda mean.
DO IT!
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Four More Tears Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:16:00pm |
re: #292 Saint Rush, Martyr of Lower Wingnuttia
86% and 5K for Mitt. This way he’ll be 20K-30K+ by the end.
Mitt Romney, crushing the dreams of Liberals and Conservatives at the same time. Impressive.
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Lidane Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:16:28pm |
re: #293 ggt
So, are these little “K” cup coffee makers the latest fad or do you think they are going to last?
Seems really expensive to me.
It is expensive.
I’ve got a Keurig coffee maker in my house. These days, I use it for hot water for tea or for those cups of ramen noodles. I use my cheap $20 French press for coffee instead.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:16:28pm |
re: #297 Meh.
Mitt Romney, crushing the dreams of Liberals and Conservatives at the same time. Impressive.
Hey he’s a uniter.
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jaunte Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:16:41pm |
I don’t know why they make Anderson Cooper hike down the hall into the glass room.
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Four More Tears Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:17:38pm |
re: #300 jaunte
I don’t know why they make Anderson Cooper hike down the hall into the glass room.
The commercials on MSNBC have been pissing me off, but I couldn’t deal with the CNN train wreck any longer.
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Feline Fearless Leader Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:17:45pm |
re: #293 ggt
So, are these little “K” cup coffee makers the latest fad or do you think they are going to last?
Seems really expensive to me.
Have that stuff at work and it is massively preferred over the old Aramark mass churned out “corporate coffee”. More options, better quality, and you don’t burn out pots.
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The Ghost of a Flea Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:17:50pm |
re: #276 ggt
Husbands lose interest in their wives? Because of the Pill? Husbands didn’t lose interest in their wives before the Pill? After having 6 kids they didn’t stay thin and firm?
Am I missing something?
You’re missing the social conservative understanding of the discontinuity of time-space causality. Sexual impropriety developed with the Pill in 1957, but the moral degradation rippled backward and changed the sexual mores of past generations relative to our current time-space coordinates.
You’re also missing the social conservative system of denotation versus connotation. Thinking about leaving your wife rather than raise another kid, or about forcing a miscarriage or finding a back alley abortionist—these constitute continued interest in your wife.
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Skeetghazi Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:18:10pm |
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FemNaziBitch Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:19:17pm |
re: #303 The Ghost of a Flea
You’re missing the social conservative understanding of the discontinuity of time-space causality. Sexual impropriety developed with the Pill in 1957, but the moral degradation rippled backward and changed the sexual mores of past generations relative to our current time-space coordinates.
You’re also missing the social conservative system of denotation versus connotation. Thinking about leaving your wife rather than raise another kid, or about forcing a miscarriage or finding a back alley abortionist—these constitute continued interest in your wife.
ah!
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Skeetghazi Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:19:35pm |
re: #294 Learned Mother of Zion
I was going to make a Photoshop of Callista Gingrich fembot, but then I thought that would be kinda mean.
Was there anything particularly different with her “look” tonight?
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FemNaziBitch Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:19:39pm |
re: #304 Stanley Sea for a while, till someone screws up
I’m ready for the fight.
No fight, man. SOMA!
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Amory Blaine Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:19:44pm |
re: #293 ggt
I got one for the wife. She likes it but the cups are expensive. Plus none of the grocery stores around here carry them. It’s weird going to Boston Store or something for coffee.
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FemNaziBitch Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:20:32pm |
re: #298 Lidane
It is expensive.
I’ve got a Keurig coffee maker in my house. These days, I use it for hot water for tea or for those cups of ramen noodles. I use my cheap $20 French press for coffee instead.
I drink a lot of coffee. Can’t see it being economically feasable for me.
I think they aren’t going to last except for office/professional use.
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FemNaziBitch Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:20:58pm |
re: #308 Amory Blaine
I got one for the wife. She likes it but the cups are expensive. Plus none of the grocery stores around here carry them. It’s weird going to Boston Store or something for coffee.
You can deals on the cups on Amazon and other internet sites.
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Vicious Babushka Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:22:02pm |
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The Ghost of a Flea Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:22:37pm |
re: #306 Stanley Sea for a while, till someone screws up
Was there anything particularly different with her “look” tonight?
She was wearing her exodermal camouflage slightly differently.
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FemNaziBitch Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:22:44pm |
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:23:31pm |
re: #311 Learned Mother of Zion
Dr. Evil’s fembot?
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bubba zanetti Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:24:18pm |
re: #312 The Ghost of a Flea
And in the cool nighttime air they can overclock her a little.
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jaunte Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:24:44pm |
Rick Santorum’s Virginia Church and Opus Dei
St. Catherine is one of only about 10 sites in Virginia that offers “evenings of recollection.” These are monthly, hour-and-a-half long talks by lay people and priests belonging to Opus Dei. They are segregated by sex—St. Catherine men who attend these do so at the Reston Study Center, one town over, while women attend them at St. Catherine. Brian Finnerty, a spokesperson for Opus Dei’s national office, said that men and women are separated because an evening of recollection is “intended as a prayer time, rather than as a social time, and this gets people away from possible distractions.” He added that it also allows priests and lay speakers to tailor their messages.
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:25:16pm |
Without Gingrich Santorum would have been the winner. Romney is lucky.
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freetoken Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:26:02pm |
Looking at the county by county results for OH, it’s pretty clear that Romney is only winning because of roughly 10,000 votes positive margins in both counties in which Cincinnati and Cleveland are located.
Romney just doesn’t resonate with the country folk, the small town people, etc. He just doesn’t.
Then again, Barrack Obama has his problem with these same people.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:26:12pm |
re: #316 jaunte
If he’s going to St. Catherine of Siena, he’s definitely Opus Dei like I’ve suspected.
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FemNaziBitch Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:26:16pm |
re: #316 jaunte
Opus Dei membership is a microscule of the Catholic Population. Although, it seems to have a concentration around D.C.
disturbing.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:27:07pm |
re: #320 ggt
Opus Dei membership is a microscule of the Catholic Population. Although, it seems to have a concentration around D.C.
disturbing.
Yep: Robert Hannsen the famous FBI spy, Louie Freeh the FBI director, Clarence Thomas, etc. Thomas sometimes goes to regular Catholic services though. My grandmother saw him once with his wife.
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Skeetghazi Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:27:18pm |
re: #320 ggt
Opus Dei membership is a microscule of the Catholic Population. Although, it seems to have a concentration around D.C.
disturbing.
All I recall of Opus Dei was the spy who belonged. Or is that a Supreme Ct. Justice?
Cult.
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freetoken Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:27:35pm |
re: #317 Saint Rush, Martyr of Lower Wingnuttia
Without Gingrich Santorum would have been the winner. Romney is lucky.
Call me weird, or conspiratorial, but I do believe that Gingrich is running in part for this very reason. He’s simple guy to understand in one way - an ego the size of a galaxy. But he is also complex, and part of this egotism might be to show his fellow God-talkers that they need him, and if they don’t accept him that he still has the power to deep-six them.
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Vicious Babushka Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:28:16pm |
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:28:21pm |
re: #322 Stanley Sea for a while, till someone screws up
All I recall of Opus Dei was the spy who belonged. Or is that a Supreme Ct. Justice?
Cult.
Both Hannsen and Thomas are members.
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FemNaziBitch Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:28:27pm |
re: #321 HappyWarrior
Yep: Robert Hannsen the famous FBI spy, Louie Freeh the FBI director, Clarence Thomas, etc. Thomas sometimes goes to regular Catholic services though. My grandmother saw him once with his wife.
WE (I) regular Catholic’s think Opus Dei is a scary, crazy cult.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:29:26pm |
re: #326 ggt
WE (I) regular Catholic’s think Opus Dei is a scary, crazy cult.
Yeah my grandmother gets freaked at them. My old man the old Catholic schoolboy is looking at possibly going to Quaker services. Imagine if the nuns saw that heh.
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erik_t Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:30:16pm |
re: #317 Saint Rush, Martyr of Lower Wingnuttia
Without Gingrich Santorum would have been the winner. Romney is lucky.
As I’ve said before, both Obama and Romney have recently been going to bed thanking their lucky stars for the bevy of idiots they have opposing them in their respective (general/primary) elections.
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FemNaziBitch Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:30:47pm |
re: #327 HappyWarrior
Yeah my grandmother gets freaked at them. My old man the old Catholic schoolboy is looking at possibly going to Quaker services. Imagine if the nuns saw that heh.
I think there is actually a group of Catholics that lobby against Opus Dei and have a “deprogramming” program for people who need to get out or who’s families want them out.
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SpaceJesus Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:30:51pm |
I knew it. Santorum is an assassin for the Pope.
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Skeetghazi Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:32:17pm |
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HoosierHoops Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:32:21pm |
I can’t freaking believe Santorum won Oklahoma today..The GOP is dying the death of a thousand cuts.. On the bright side if Rick wins he can have Michelle Bachmann as his VP. What a bunch of political losers with tin ears and bronze hearts.
Dear Mrs. Obama
Go ahead and plant another garden and paint another room in the White House and you know what? The dishes are getting a little old..Go shopping and think about putting in a new Basketball court for the Hubby for his birthday.. He took em to school.
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FemNaziBitch Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:32:24pm |
re: #330 SpaceJesus
I knew it. Santorum is an assassin for the Pope.
Vatican Assassin?
There is a series of Sci-Fi novels by that name. Don’t recall a character by the name of “Santorum”.
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:32:45pm |
re: #330 SpaceJesus
I knew it. Santorum is an assassin for the Pope.
But isn’t the Pope your deputy on Earth?
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Skeetghazi Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:33:56pm |
re: #332 HoosierHoops
Your comments are always good, but Hoops, that one was needed. :)
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SpaceJesus Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:37:02pm |
re: #334 Saint Rush, Martyr of Lower Wingnuttia
JP II was, then he was murdered. Good guy. Never found the assassin. I think I know who did it now.
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:38:08pm |
re: #336 SpaceJesus
That Palpatine look - is it a coincidence? You’re omniscient, you should know.
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bubba zanetti Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:44:08pm |
According to NOAA Spaceweather a strong Solar Eruption lasting from 702pm-740pm ET is causing an R3 (Strong) radio blackout.
Monitor Mittbot 3000 and Callistron for possible malfunctions.
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Skeetghazi Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:44:42pm |
Peyton Manning, cut by the Colts.
Remember when Drew Brees was deemed too hurt by the Chargers? Karma baby. (hopefully)
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aagcobb Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:44:53pm |
Looks like Frothy will fall just short of the 20% he needs to qualify for proportional delegates in Georgia.
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freetoken Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:45:44pm |
I am convinced, now even more so than just last year, that our society’s struggle to come to terms with the abject failure of its dominant (and nominal) religion to address the issues of modernity is the major driver in the angst among our politics.
Entire groups of Americans feel disconnected from institutions that appear to believe something totally different than them.
This is one reason why I keep bringing up creationism. A non-trivial portion of our nation want so badly for the stories of the Bible to be true that they will create an entire subculture to cater to that need.
The last thing most people want to hear from their leaders is “there is no answer, you are on your own”. So almost no politician will go there. Certainly not Barrack Obama. Certainly none of the GOP candidates.
I’m not saying that our leaders should be espousing atheism (I’m not, really.) What I am saying is that non of our politicians will, or can, stand up before a crowd and say that the future is somehow simultaneously in the hands of the voters, and also in the hands of a God. No politician will simply call the populace on that populace’s contradictory belief system. None dare do it.
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jaunte Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:45:47pm |
The GOP front-runner’s grabbing more of the delegates—but he’s being pursued by living-dead competitors he cannot stop.
…
Romney doesn’t have much leverage over them. Zombies are hard to reason with. They’re already dead. They’re tough to bribe. They want to kill you. Santorum need only look at Mike Huckabee to see that there’s life (and great profit) as a social conservative leader following a presidential race. Gingrich has, undoubtedly, already calculated how much his lecture fees will rise with each week he stays in the race. With his alternative-reality crusade, Ron Paul can continue to bolster and build a fiefdom he can hand over to son Rand (and perhaps avoid the estate tax). Pressure from Romney’s pals in the Republican establishment (Vin Weber, this means you!) may not be sufficient to trump these other possible benefits.
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HoosierHoops Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:50:00pm |
re: #340 Stanley Sea for a while, till someone screws up
Peyton Manning, cut by the Colts.
Remember when Drew Brees was deemed too hurt by the Chargers? Karma baby. (hopefully)
I hate this! With my heart shattered and pissed off at the NFL. They have made it so it is impossible to keep 2 great QB’s..I hate the way free agency has changed the game…We will never see a day again when Steve Young holds a clipboard while Montana plays..
Peyton’s new team is going to be my new favorite team…
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prairiefire Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:52:04pm |
re: #332 HoosierHoops
Ha! Let the girls express themselves a bit more with decorating their rooms. Maybe Sasha is going Goth and will paint her walls black like my daughter.
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ProBosniaLiberal Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:54:41pm |
re: #346 Lidane
Considering how big a douche Maher is, this doesn’t surprise me.
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jaunte Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:54:48pm |
re: #346 Lidane
Maher is a fool if he thought that was an apology.
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:54:48pm |
re: #346 Lidane
He’s guilty of similar stuff, so his opinion means nothing.
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aagcobb Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:55:00pm |
re: #344 HoosierHoops
I hate this! With my heart shattered and pissed off at the NFL. They have made it so it is impossible to keep 2 great QB’s..I hate the way free agency has changed the game…We will never see a day again when Steve Young holds a clipboard while Montana plays..
Peyton’s new team is going to be my new favorite team…
I know it breaks your heart, but looking at it cold-bloodedly, the NFL is better as a whole with both Manning and Luck playing, rather than Luck holding a clipboard.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:55:37pm |
re: #346 Lidane
Cue the ‘splodey heads:
Heh. Can’t say I am really that shocked. I like Stewart more than Maher anyhow.
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erik_t Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:56:09pm |
re: #346 Lidane
Cue the ‘splodey heads:
I don’t give a goddamn what Bill Maher has to say, so… well, you know, he can piss right off.
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Skeetghazi Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:56:28pm |
re: #346 Lidane
Cue the ‘splodey heads:
I’m confused. Rush didn’t apologize. And by targeting SF, he targeted every woman. That’s what the difference is.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:57:12pm |
What’s funny is Maher has been used as the MBF by the right in their attempts to rationalize Limbaugh’s screed.
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Skeetghazi Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:57:37pm |
re: #349 Saint Rush, Martyr of Lower Wingnuttia
He’s guilty of similar stuff, so his opinion means nothing.
Ah, the old covering my ass. Same as Bill O’Reilly is a really nice guy! shit
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:57:57pm |
re: #354 HappyWarrior
It’s not funny. It’s sad. Wingnuts = stupid.
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jaunte Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:58:13pm |
…For a while now the Right has held tight to the belief that if the ratings are high and whatever you do pisses off other people, you must be doing something right. And in a way, they are correct: Battling contraception and calling women that are on the pill sluts that should have to be taped having sex so they can whack to it does indeed increase ratings, and it does indeed piss off other people. So they’ve got those things down pat.
What it doesn’t do is win elections, contribute to the dialogue we should be having, or make your party particularly relevant.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:58:20pm |
I recall Limbaugh defending Maher once. The infamous cowards comment. Limbaugh was the only right winger to really defend Bill for that.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:58:30pm |
This Ohio thing is going to take all night.
And…why are they calling Idaho with only 64% of the precincts in?
Bwahahahaha….seriously, my friends in Idaho think that caucuses stink.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 8:58:57pm |
re: #356 Saint Rush, Martyr of Lower Wingnuttia
It’s not funny. It’s sad. Wingnuts = stupid.
Not funny in a ha-ha sense. Funny in weird/unexpected.
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aagcobb Tue, Mar 6, 2012 9:00:02pm |
re: #359 To hold my temper, most of the time.
This Ohio thing is going to take all night.
And…why are they calling Idaho with only 64% of the precincts in?
Bwahahahaha…seriously, my friends in Idaho think that caucuses stink.
Because there are lots of Mormons in Idaho. They are the only bloc of voters really excited about Romney.
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Lidane Tue, Mar 6, 2012 9:00:15pm |
re: #354 HappyWarrior
What’s funny is Maher has been used as the MBF by the right in their attempts to rationalize Limbaugh’s screed.
And he’s defending Rush, too.
I wonder if Pam will comment on it. Or even bother noticing that she agrees with Bill Maher.
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Skeetghazi Tue, Mar 6, 2012 9:00:33pm |
re: #357 jaunte
Oh I really think they blew it. Every woman, they have gone against every woman.
Except Michelle Duggar.
Anyone else is a liar.
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freetoken Tue, Mar 6, 2012 9:00:45pm |
re: #359 To hold my temper, most of the time.
And…why are they calling Idaho with only 64% of the precincts in?
It’s a state with quite a few of the America-Is-Lost-Israel religion adherents.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Tue, Mar 6, 2012 9:00:58pm |
re: #361 Weareallslutsnow
Because there are lots of Mormons in Idaho. They are the only bloc of voters really excited about Romney.
*ahem*
I know.
Why don’t they just call Utah for Romney right now. They can pencil in the details later.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 9:01:19pm |
re: #362 Lidane
And he’s defending Rush, too.
I wonder if Pam will comment on it. Or even bother noticing that she agrees with Bill Maher.
Does Pam have a pathological hatred of Maher?
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Skeetghazi Tue, Mar 6, 2012 9:01:33pm |
re: #358 HappyWarrior
I recall Limbaugh defending Maher once. The infamous cowards comment. Limbaugh was the only right winger to really defend Bill for that.
They probably have townhouses on the same floor, have cocktails every night.
Fakers. Betcha.
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Mar 6, 2012 9:02:32pm |
re: #366 HappyWarrior
Does Pam have a pathological hatred of Maher?
“BILL MAHER, OSAMA’S GOEBBELS”
[Link: atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com…]
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 9:02:56pm |
re: #368 Saint Rush, Martyr of Lower Wingnuttia
“BILL MAHER, OSAMA’S GOEBBELS”
[Link: atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com…]
Ah I see.
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blueraven Tue, Mar 6, 2012 9:03:02pm |
Oh snap…Sarah Palin just revealed on Fox News that she voted for the “cheerful” one.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 9:03:25pm |
re: #367 Stanley Sea for a while, till someone screws up
They probably have townhouses on the same floor, have cocktails every night.
Fakers. Betcha.
They do say that politics is the ultimate form of theater don’t they?
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Skeetghazi Tue, Mar 6, 2012 9:04:05pm |
re: #370 blueraven
Oh snap…Sarah Palin just revealed on Fox News that she voted for the “cheerful” one.
She hates with a passion (or, by reading her followers) Romney.
Who’s the cheerful one? Really?
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Skeetghazi Tue, Mar 6, 2012 9:04:26pm |
re: #371 HappyWarrior
They do say that politics is the ultimate form of theater don’t they?
Lucky us.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Tue, Mar 6, 2012 9:05:16pm |
re: #367 Stanley Sea for a while, till someone screws up
They probably have townhouses on the same floor, have cocktails every night.
Fakers. Betcha.
You know, seriously, that might explain why Rush made such a tone-deaf comment. If he were saying what he thinks we want to hear, instead of what makes sense, and thinks he needs to be “outrageous,” it would explain this entire bizarre episode, like the inability to know how oral contraceptives work in a man who’s been married 4 times and has no kids.
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blueraven Tue, Mar 6, 2012 9:05:46pm |
re: #372 Stanley Sea for a while, till someone screws up
She hates with a passion (or, by reading her followers) Romney.
Who’s the cheerful one? Really?
Newt.
That was his one word description of his self in the last debate.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 9:05:55pm |
re: #372 Stanley Sea for a while, till someone screws up
She hates with a passion (or, by reading her followers) Romney.
Who’s the cheerful one? Really?
My guess is Gingrich. But other than that I got nothing.
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Skeetghazi Tue, Mar 6, 2012 9:06:48pm |
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Skeetghazi Tue, Mar 6, 2012 9:07:34pm |
Newt the cheerful.
Only Sister Sarah would see that.
HE PAID HER OFF. easy.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 9:08:01pm |
Newt’s cheerful? Well I would be too I guess if I had a casino mogul fonneling millions into my campaign I guess and wasn’t as stuck up morally as Santorum is or about my wealth as Romney is or about helping people as Paul is.
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Mar 6, 2012 9:09:17pm |
re: #369 HappyWarrior
Oh wait. Skip several years:
Wish I’d said that, and how nice to once again see Bill Maher stand up for Western Civilization and take the truthful, non-PC stand that radical Islam is in fact a unique and dangerous threat to our country and the world. Maher loathes all religions (and isn’t a fan of King’s hearings), but unlike most of his liberal counterparts who aren’t as upfront about their loathing of Christianity, Maher’s at least willing to admit that comparing Islamists to militias, the KKK and those who shoot abortion doctor makes little sense. Not all evils are equal, and certainly not equal threats. As far as I know, Maher is the ONLY guy in the entertainment world willing to speak this truth and he deserves credit for doing so.
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jaunte Tue, Mar 6, 2012 9:09:42pm |
Someone get @BillMaher a bed sheet and a video camera so he can make a “Leave Rush Alone!” video. bit.ly/zGafrw
— James Urbaniak (@JamesUrbaniak) March 7, 2012
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Four More Tears Tue, Mar 6, 2012 9:11:49pm |
re: #375 To hold my temper, most of the time.
To understood Rush, one need only recall everything they know about an internet troll. A troll makes every effort to get a rise out of people, and that is precisely what he does, day in and day out. In fact, I’m pretty sure he’s admitted as such.
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HappyWarrior Tue, Mar 6, 2012 9:12:55pm |
re: #381 Saint Rush, Martyr of Lower Wingnuttia
Oh wait. Skip several years:
Yeah Maher’s the only liberal who calls out terrorists. Craziness.
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HoosierHoops Tue, Mar 6, 2012 9:16:45pm |
re: #382 Stanley Sea for a while, till someone screws up
Oh, this is really a shit show.
It is…
Hey I took the new GF out for dinner after work tonight..We sat outside the Mont under a beautiful full moon..It was like 70 degrees here..Just one issue.. The wind..It was gusting so bad..Shit would start blowing away..
You want to go inside? No it’s fine..Isn’t is beautiful out? Whoosh! Shit flying away.. You want to go inside? No I’m fine..It’s Oklahoma..I can hang..Whoosh! You know Hoopster..They will let you smoke a cigar inside the Mont..
Oh Waitress!
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The Ghost of a Flea Tue, Mar 6, 2012 9:23:48pm |
re: #386 HappyWarrior
Yeah Maher’s the only liberal who calls out terrorists. Craziness.
She likes that Maher uses generalizations to paint all Muslims as irrational and inches away from being kill-crazy, and doesn’t mind that he applies the same sneering-plus-fallacies combo to Jews and Christians.
Not surprised Maher backed Limbaugh. The two share a contempt for anyone that talks back that transcends political boundaries.
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ProBosniaLiberal Tue, Mar 6, 2012 9:25:00pm |
re: #388 The Ghost of a Flea
However, differences between the Left and Right have meant that Maher has never become as popular on the left as Limbaugh is on the right.
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FemNaziBitch Tue, Mar 6, 2012 9:43:19pm |
re: #342 freetoken
I am convinced, now even more so than just last year, that our society’s struggle to come to terms with the abject failure of its dominant (and nominal) religion to address the issues of modernity is the major driver in the angst among our politics.
Entire groups of Americans feel disconnected from institutions that appear to believe something totally different than them.
This is one reason why I keep bringing up creationism. A non-trivial portion of our nation want so badly for the stories of the Bible to be true that they will create an entire subculture to cater to that need.
The last thing most people want to hear from their leaders is “there is no answer, you are on your own”. So almost no politician will go there. Certainly not Barrack Obama. Certainly none of the GOP candidates.
I’m not saying that our leaders should be espousing atheism (I’m not, really.) What I am saying is that non of our politicians will, or can, stand up before a crowd and say that the future is somehow simultaneously in the hands of the voters, and also in the hands of a God. No politician will simply call the populace on that populace’s contradictory belief system. None dare do it.
Except that in a metaphysical sense there is an answer and we are not on our own. I just don’t think the most people are willing or able to look into themselves and see the raw truth.
They want a parent, a king or a savior.
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Dancing along the light of day Wed, Mar 7, 2012 12:58:03am |
re: #311 Learned Mother of Zion
You do look good in pearls..
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Bulworth Wed, Mar 7, 2012 6:36:48am |
Rick Santorum has won the Oklahoma and Tennessee primaries, and he’s now beginning his victory speech in Steubenville, Ohio,
Did he really give a victory speech? Somewhat sad to see Santo lost Ohio. I was hoping for a longer, drawn out primary battle.
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Bulworth Wed, Mar 7, 2012 6:41:16am |
Of course Santo and Noot are such dopeheads they weren’t even on the friggin ballot in Virginia. “And they want to be my latex salesman?” /
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