Humorless Politics Thread

[cavorting with nudists]

1) Ah, that story is just another effort by the LIEberal media to bring down a conservative warrior; and

2) Looks like Perry is dropping out and will endorse Poot. (I have been dropping the ball with Spikenames of late.)  This on top of Palin's endorsement yesterday. I think he's on a roll!

[buffcoat]

Newt Gingrich, even if he wins the presidency, would be better than Romney.  Romney will not propose much and will automatically sign whatever craziness comes out of the GOP Congress (I'm assuming that if Romney wins, the GOP would take the Senate).

President Gingrich would propose a lot that the GOP congresspeople would refuse to support, and he would have no problem using an ego-driven veto of GOP legislation for inexplicable and arcane reasons.  I would predict an orderly conservative government under Romney and a free-for-all under Gingrich.  Of those two choices, I prefer the free-for-all.

[Steve of Bloomington]

From Frank Conniff last night 'GOP says no to Golden Rule, yes to Golden Showers'

Actually it was WFMUs Benjamen Walker making that crack. Have to give credit to the right guy.

[Steve of Bloomington]

After a long and painful battle with terminal illness, Irony finally expired today when Sarah Palin said this:

"I want more debates, more vetting of candidates, because we know the mistake made in our country four years ago with having a candidate that was not vetted to the degree that he should have been."

I can't decide which is more ironic (real irony, imagine that): Sarah Palin believing someone hadn't been vetted enough, or believing that Barack Obama hadn't been vetted to the degree he should have been.

Seriously: what has come out about Obama SINCE the election?  Jeremiah Wright was before.  Saul Alinsky was before.  The birth certificate was before.  Hell, even that dude who claimed Obama gave him a blowjob was before.

You can make the argument that those things should have prevented people from voting for Obama, but you cannot make the argument that there was a bunch of stuff we have since found out about him that we didn't know - or "know" - before.

Everything that the right hates about Obama was either known before the election or has to do with how he has governed, which by definition could not have been known before the election.

Of course, I am applying logic, facts and reason here, which is a mistake.




PS That Rick Perry website is totally real, and I guarantee you that despite the attitude and... hopefulness displayed there it was not done by a child.

The only thing I can think of people trying to pin on Obama since the election was that Solyndra business. Some people really gave it the college try, but it more or less dropped off the radar it seemed. No sooner do I type that than I think to check if anybody cares about Solyndra anymore, and find this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/jan/19/obama-begins-2012-push-talking-solyndra

[Kormod]

The Fox News crew still talk about the failure of Solyndra on a frequent basis, and my conservative relatives rant about it as if it were as big a deal as the Watergate scandal. Not sure if people other than wingnuts care about it though.

[cavorting with nudists]

I am puzzling over why I kind of miss that crazy bastard Herman Cain, and yet am totally happy to see the last of that smirking Texan dumbshit.  I think it's because Herm was a constant reminder of the human capacity for bizarre comedy (and still is!  Did you catch his "endorsement" the other day?), while Perry is just a constant reminder of the human capacity for ignorant turdism.

[buffcoat]

Cain was only cynical in a humorous way.  By the time he really thought he was going to win, he was already lost.

Everything that Rick Perry did in this race was done in the most cynical way possible.  Years from now, people are still going to be scratching their heads over how he managed to lose - he is exactly what the GOP primary voters want.

The answer is that while he was willing to do and say literally anything to get elected, he 1) figured out too late just how close the primary voters take their revenge-America-on-all-Mexicans-all-the-time-even-if-it-doesn't-make-sense plank and 2) was actually too dumb for them to select him.

I think they got snookered a little bit by the media on that second point.  He's plenty dumb, but I disagree that he's too dumb for this crowd to pick him.

If Gingrich wins South Carolina Tuesday, you're about to see the ugliest single campaign of any type run in our lifetimes.  It will make Clinton-Obama look like a Sunday school picnic.


PS  Please, please let that happen.

[Kormod]

If Gingrich wins South Carolina Tuesday, you're about to see the ugliest single campaign of any type run in our lifetimes.  It will make Clinton-Obama look like a Sunday school picnic.

The primary's actually tomorrow. (An election on a Saturday!? When people don't have work!? That's crazy!)

At this point, I see Newt winning South Carolina. Romney's performance at the debate last night was terrible, and Gingrich did a good job spinning the Marianne Gingrich thing as being just another liberal hit job.

[Kormod]

Further proof that Ron Paul isn't a racist:

Ron Paul explains his support for the South re: Civil War

[Smelodies]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/21/keith-ablow-fox-news-newt-gingrich-marriages_n_1220761.html?ref=media

[Kormod]

I like how Huffington Post refers to him as a "Fox News Psychiatrist." Everyone knows the mark of a distinguished professional is having "Fox News" prepended to your job title.

[nec13]

It's official. Newt Gingrich has more lives than Keith Richards.

[cavorting with nudists]

And many, many more chins.

[buffcoat]

Hey Florida,

They're comin' to your town
They'll help you party down

[Smelodies]

Newt vs. Obama is much more entertaining than Romney vs. Obama.