I’m sick. I’m tired. I don’t care about Satan or phony theology — and I think the entirety of the remaining field should show up tonight with their joints out and all bagged up in some fancy Naturalamb Trojans. Adorned with red white and blue tassels.
But then, I’m a bit of a rightwing bad boy.
Teabagging!
How many of these things have we had now?
I can’t tell if this is a political campaign or a damn reality show.
How many of these things have we had now?
Probably something like umpteen. But I haven’t watched a single one of them, so I’m going with tonight is the first.
Though I’m actually not watching this one either.
Sorry I’ve been amusing myself on another thread.
Wait, you want me to stand up for the National Anthem in my skivvies? I don’t think so, John.
It’s leave on a high note, almost.
Good first question on debt > GDP
It would be nice if King didn’t ask any of the questions.
John King – rather than espanding on the audience member’s debt question,King asks Romney, Newt, and then Paul to attack Santorum
nor luap projection
Paul is still on the stage for some reason.
Called Santorum fake. Which is sorta funny from a guy who loads up bills with hometown pork and then votes against them.
Will Paul get asked about his double billing? Probably not.
Is it wrong of me to hope for a flaming Zeppelin crash into the auditorium?!
I met Dave Navarro yesterday. Scrawny tatted up midget.
King: We’ll get to the future – later. Let’s talk about old crap.
First impression: dog pile on Santorum.
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Santorum – “I was a conservative in a blue state.”
Romney – me too, me too!!
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Thanks, Jeff, for getting my account reinstated.
John King sucks big fat hairy underage goat balls.
No shit? He might be a headcase but… Jane’s Addiction.
Santorum – logical discussion of earmarks
Romney – I didn’t follow all that, ban ’em.
On my way to see Janes Addiction. He fucked Carmen Electra. So there’s that.
Let’s go Zeppelin. Let’s go Zeppelin.
You are a legend, JD.
Tried to reach Mal the Ter, no luck.
Does Paul have a fiscal argument that doesn’t include “these wars overseas”? “Earmarks? Well, wars!!!”
Stop attacking Romney Rick, you are punching down. Obama Obama Obama.
Romney’s people have to be snickering, because Romney’s getting help taking out Santorum from the other candidates.
In that last harangue it looked momentarily like Santorum and then Gingrich were laughing at Uncle Ron.
Every time there’s a debate I again understand Newt’s appeal.
(Romney was pretty good on the GM bailout, btw. I very seldom say something nice about him so there you go.)
Big boos on the birth control question. Newt’s about to kill him.
Did they figure out who the stick-figure satan object of worship Obama carries in his back pocket is yet? Valerie? Plouffy? How about how Obama manages not to wear his dick into a raw and bloody mess ass-fucking the nation with his accustomed frequency despite his refusal to use a lubricant? It’s like . . . . . . . a miracle, innit?
Yep, Newt murdered him and Obama both.
Why don’t more of them do this? Why? Why? Why?
Did they figure out who the stick-figure satan object of worship Obama carries in his back pocket is yet? Valerie? Plouffy? How about how Obama manages not to wear his dick into a raw and bloody mess ass-fucking the nation with his accustomed frequency despite his refusal to use a lubricant? It’s like . . . . . . . a miracle, innit?
Could we ask John King to use a version of this comment as a question in the next Presidential debate to Barcky?
The Left might have to re-figure this whole line of attack – everyone killed that one.
King: Now go at each other on this.
King: And tear the heads off them live chickens you geeks! Dance monkey boys dance!
Newt – How dare you ask about this when you never asked Obama about his support for infanticide.
Romney – And what was up with Stephanoluffuggagous asking me about contraception? Eh?
Maybe I’m crazy but if Paul was going after me like this I’d start asking him about specifics from his newsletters.
John King just sprung wood. Sprang?
immigration question from the audience – john king has to try to modify it to talk about it a fence costing $3M/mile. What a prick.
How is Paul a Republican again?
Cool, Santorum hit Romney hard over the federal funding of Romneycare.
If Santorum can do it, you know Obama will clobber Romney with that issue.
Newt: none of the illegal aliens carried about our wetlands policy
Has anyone asked to see John King’s miniature pocket edition of The Audacity of Hope, y’know, just to check how dog-eared it is?
It’s all sticky.
What, he eats peanut butter ‘n’ jelly sandwiches while he studies it?
And bananas.
Someone really should have worked Fast and Furious into the fence discussion.
“American.” Duh.
The draft. The fucking draft.
We’re encouraging Iran to get a nuke. But, no one knows that they are even working towards one. Also, the Soviets are just like the Iranians in MAD theory.
Yes, that’s a guy on the stage at a GOP debate.
There’s a guy on the the stage during the GOP debate who consistently says “but we deserve it” on all questions of national security. I submit that this means we’re not a serious people.
Iranians can’t possibly attack anybody. They can put a satellite in fucking space, but missiles aren’t within their capability.
Ron Paul = Simpleton. His following = dangerous.
I don’t think that reflects on all of us, and every electorate ever tends to validate that. Obama, OTOH….
It reflects on us to the degree that I don’t see anyone throwing tomatoes at him.
From my read of the crowd, I suspect that’s because Romney didn’t buy them tomatoes.
Heh. Very good.
outside of double billing and earmarks what has nor luap ever accomplished in congress?
The bullshit “Iran is scared because they’re surrounded” line by Ron Paul is the same type of crap that was peddled to excuse the expansionist aims of the Soviet Union.
Hey, Newt took Sarah’s advice when he pointed out the national security implications of producing our own energy.
I DVRed the debate and here’s my takeaway: Ron Paul is working with Mitt Romney. And I’m curious how the Paul supporters justify what is becoming more and more clear here. Not only is Paul going after Santrorum (and before that, Gingrich) with his advertising, but he goes after them at debates, as well — and gives Romney, who is far and away the most statist politician on the stage, a complete pass.
It’s an orchestrated alliance, and it’s an obvious one. So. Any Paul people out there want to comment?
Also, Romney’s sole skill is being a complete and total slime.
I will never vote for him. Sorry. Ain’t gonna happen
Most every plausible — if tacit — account of Paul’s alliance with Romney I’ve heard offered boils down to a mercenary motive on Paul’s part. This is Ron Paul, so far as Ron Paul desires to be.
The hard thing about the debates – and I’ve only watched them after the fact – is that I have have a hard time seeing myself voting for anyone but Gingrich. Romney is a non-starter.
Jeff, did you catch Ari Fleischer ceding the definition of women’s health to the Democrats?
Unless, that is, Paul’s attempt at or gesture toward transcendence of any sort is simply to emulate the nihilism of Iago. How fucked up would it be to find that out in the end, eh, Paul lovers?
Which is a desire to be relevant. Adulation overdose, if I had to diagnose it.
In the PPP Michigan poll the Paul supporters had favorable feelings toward the GM bailout, Romney’s were a 50-50 split while Gingrich’s and Santorum’s were against it.
I don’t think Ron Paul’s supporters are even who he thinks they are. His candidacy is being propped up and used by people who will never vote for him in a general election any more that McCain’s press friends from the primary were his friends in the 2008 general.
I don’t think the Branch Paulinians know who they are.
Jeezus. The entire group of talking heads on CNN are basically saying that democrat women are too stupid to understand that saying the federal government should not force private industry and or religious organizations to provide contraception free of charge is not the same as saying that women will no longer have access to contraceptives.
Has there ever been a poll conducted that would indicate the percentage of Paul supporters are habitual dope smokers? Because, really, my informal survey in real life suggests that it’s 100%
God, I have to start reading comments before I hit “send.”
Arizona Debate Score: The Candidates Were Fine, but CNN is a Joke
Why is Erick Erickson there if not to bitchslap Donna Brazile when she says dumb shit like “restricting access to birth control?”
CNN makes you stupid.
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After the debate, I flipped over to Fox only to see Bill O’Reilly shouting down some rep from American Petrochemical for high gas prices which “are hurting the folks.” No talk about profit percentage, tax burden, etc. No commiserating with the rep for those times when gas prices are very low (that is, were one to extrapolate out from O’Reilly’s dangerous and faulty faux populist thinking). Just your predictable fake lunch-pail defender chest thumping from a fake man of the people.
Why does this buffoon have an audience? Seriously? Why?
And who is that audience?
We are so screwed.
No, I didn’t. But what do you expect, really: we have to face facts that there are a large number of liberal Republicans who are motivated solely by tax cuts, and would just as soon pander to identity groups along with left over just about every other issue.
“Why does this buffoon have an audience?”
Because when we bisect the Bell curve, we find a whole left-side there to be served.
We had a couple of pretty strong personalities on stage followed by the limp wrist talking heads who get the job of “framing” the issues and watering down the message.
Yecchh.
I can’t get this to format well but it shows that Santorum pulls higher support from Republicans and Independents that any other and that Paul does best with Democrats, ties Romney with Independents and is way back with Republicans.
Candidate Base poll Democrat Republican Independent
Gingrich 10% 21% 10% 7%
Paul 15% 31% 9% 25%
Romney 33% 30% 36% 24%
Santorum 37% 19% 39% 35%
Not sure 6% – 6% 8%
Well the poll supports sdferr above.
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“Nancy Pelosi Issues Statement On Soaring Gas Prices“
She then stood up, removed her velvet covered knee-pads, and quietly left the room.
“Nancy Pelosi . . . blah blah blah . . . etc unto death. ”
It’s always good to hear from the more moronic left, if only to know that their corpse isn’t busy rotting away over in some forgotten corner somewhere.
Paul works the left side of the Bell curve but Nancy works that long tail there, but that is her district.
No big victories tonight. No big blunders. A few small ones. All these debates for now are trying to gauge who would do best against Barack Obama. Frankly Rick, Newt, and Mitt could probably hold their own against Barack. Hell, even old Ron (while a non starter for me on foreign policy) might give theoretically him a run (if only stealing a few votes from his base).
Yeah this article is claiming (Rand) Paul is going to be Romney’s veep. A Palin like move isn’t it?http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/22/rand-paul-says-it-would-be-an-honor-to-be-considered-as-veep-this-explains-a-lot/ But I could see Paul trying to work a platform policy deal with Romney in exchange for not running as a third party candidate and throwing support to him. Okay, so Paul is like Tessio. Is Santorum a Sonny or Michael?
Paul is like ’08 Huckabee. Romney is like ’08 McCain.
We’re like us ’08. Fucked.
A fucking men
Newt is Sonny. We can hope that Rick is Mikey but that role is still in the air.
Unfortunately I think bh may have nailed it…
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/02/23/the-mittens-come-off-in-mesa
YEA. I’m back. I couldn’t log in. Jeff fixt it for me.
Does anyone know – I heard last night on NPR that one of the reasons of the increase in cost of oil is that the US has “lost”/closed 5% (I think, I’m sick and things are fuzzy) of it’s refinery capability in the last year. NPR brushed it off saying that the refineries were “old and inefficient”, but of course I’m wondering if these were closed due to politics/ epa decisions, etc.
Does anyone know, have a link?
I really wish Neumayr would stop trying to be so subtle. Makes it hard to tell what he really thinks.
“one of the reasons of the increase in cost of oil is that the US has ” devalued it’s currency
Iran has been 6 mos away from a nuke for four years. There’s got to me more to this…
or ‘be’.
Couple of good links from newrouter above.
Here’s some more from the first:
(Just to see if we can get Jeff to rise up out of his sickbed like old Dan Tobin in The Quiet Man.)
and the new blockquote format doesn’t seem to like paragraph breaks
newrouter: He could not come up with a reference to Glee or Walking Dead?
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