The Democrats are going to have a lot of fun with Mittens if he is the nominee.
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The Democrats are going to have a lot of fun with Mittens if he is the nominee.
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SiubhanDuinne
Chocie?
Zifnab
Mitt Romney is terrible at spelling.
TooManyJens
@SiubhanDuinne: You remember, Joanie loved him.
Certified Mutant Enemy
I got 6 out of 6. What do I win?
Mark B.
It’s not just Mitt, Perry has a similar history of saying whatever he thinks might be well-received by the audience he’s currently talking to. Even on the same exact question. He’s just not as slick at it as Mitt is. It’s a pretty common attribute among the current Republican crop of candidates, although Cain, AFAIK, has been pretty consistent at spouting a narrow set of glib right-palatable talking points. But … blackity black black.
Certified Mutant Enemy
I think the Romney-bot 2000’s choice of reading material should disqualify him from public office…
Certified Mutant Enemy
We need to remember – IOKIYAR, always.
Felanius Kootea
I got a perfect score of 6 on that quiz. Sad part is I lived in MA when Mitt was governor and he wasn’t so bad. Watching him trying to morph into a Tea-party friendly candidate has been entertaining at times & sickening at others.
Mark B.
@Certified Mutant Enemy: I actually thought Battlefield Earth was a moderately entertaining pulp SciFi novel that hearkened back to ElRon’s glory days when he was pumping out stuff for Analog and the other pulp mags back in the 50s.
ElRon made a rig where he had paper on a roll attached to his typewriter, because he was paid by the word, and time spent putting a new page into the typewriter was money lost. Needless to say, none of his stuff was ever edited.
But favorite? Nah, it’s pure kitsch. The movie was appropriately crappy, given the source material.
cleek
the best part of it is that if Mitt had just stuck with his MA-era positions, he’d be in perfect shape to be the Last Sane Republican in the GOP primary race. instead he’s turned himself into Yet Another Teatard and a flip-flopping joke.
Grumpy Code Monkey
I still don’t see Romney getting the nomination. Yeah, all of the other obvious freakshows have finished or are in the process of flaming out (and I had such high hopes for Gov. Goodhair), but something in my gut (other than those day-old kolaches) is telling me that there are going to be some surprised faces come Super Tuesday.
beltane
@Grumpy Code Monkey: The non-Beltway Republican voters do not seem to like Mitt one bit. They may not have loved John McCain but McCain did have the POW thing going for him at least. Mitt has none of that. He appeals to the corporate wing of the GOP but not to the flag-wavers and Bible thumpers, most of whom actively despise him.
How would we feel if Evan Bayh was the annointed one in the Democratic primary? Well, that’s how the Republicans feel about Romney. If he gets the nomination, he’ll have to pick someone like Sharron Angle to be his running mate if he wants to whip up enough enthusiasm in his base to have chance of winning the general election.
joe
I’m fond of the Romney campaign because it reminds me of Subservient Chicken.
Maude
@beltane:
Think he’d pick Palin?
Certified Mutant Enemy
@Maude:
Probably Michele Bachmann…
Joaquin M.
Fucking Mormon Whore
Ash Can
Oh my. The DNC is being uncivil. Someone had better fetch David Brooks’ smelling salts.
TooManyJens
@cleek:
How’s that working out for Jon Huntsman? Granted, he’s got other problems, but Last Sane Republican is a pretty thankless job right now.
@Joaquin M.: Let’s leave the religious bigotry to the speakers at the Values Voters Summit, shall we?
burritoboy
Beltane,
But there’s no other choice than the big Mitt, unfortunately for the Republicans. People should just remind themselves that the Republicans usually go in order of seniority to pick their nominee. It was Dole’s turn in 1996, McCain’s turn in 2008 and it’s Mitt’s turn now. Basically, they’ve almost always followed some sort of seniority system since the late 1950s. 2016 (presuming Mitt doesn’t win against Obama) it will be either Mitt’s running mate, or Mitt’s runner-up in the primaries. Theoretically, there could be some elder statesman, but those are fairly thin on the ground at the moment, and the elder Republican statesmen tend to be extraordinarily old (it’s not unusual for them to be in their eighties, for example).
That is, of course, if a Bush doesn’t throw their hat in.
Villago Delenda Est
@cleek:
He’s a teatard who has an unacceptable religion, to boot. Although I do think that the GOP will fall into line behind him with marginal interest as “the only sane Republican” eventually. It’s just that we’ll have a different value for “sane” than we had in 2008.
Which makes President Obama’s job terribly easy.
Roger Moore
@beltane:
I think he’d be better off with Christine O’Donnel. She may not have any actual experience like Angle, but she is more likely to induce
erectionsstarbursts with thehorny male contingentRepublican Base, which is more important.Villago Delenda Est
@Roger Moore:
Alas, there are a lot of seriously stupid Republican males who do think with their little heads. This is how it’s so easy for the 1% to pick their pockets.
Cris (without an H)
Jon Stewart’s segment last week regarding Romney’s need to run away from himself was fabulous.
cleek
@Villago Delenda Est:
i hope so.
Kola Noscopy
You seem to be forgetting that this is the political party that lost to the special needs Bush boy TWICE.
S. cerevisiae
@Kola Noscopy: Yeah, but Bush never had trouble rallying the base. The base is suspicious of Romney, they think he’s a RINO. If Romney gets the nomination I expect a Nader-like third party run on the right, but I’m not sure who is crazy enough to try.
Mark B.
@S. cerevisiae: Ron Paul, Michelle Bachmann, to name two. Paul has already announced he won’t run for reelection to the House of Representatives, leaving his schedule suspiciously open.
DFH no.6
@Villago Delenda Est:
Of course President Obamaās ājobā (meaning, getting re-elected) is NOT going to be terribly easy. No matter who his opponent is.
It isnāt going to be easy at all. The fucking economy, you know?
And if Romney (sure, heās eminently mockable, but arenāt they all?) gets the nomination ā which I expect he will ā I believe Obama getting re-elected becomes an uphill battle.
I understand well your nom de plume, Villago, and from that (and your comments Iāve read here) I believe youāve zeroed-in on an enormous problem with our current political system ā the media, particularly the self-appointed āgatekeepersā we know and hate as The Village.
The Village was the single most important reason the Tea Party (in its various forms) was given such prominence in the news, and thus acquired such an out-size influence, especially at the beginning with the health care reform ādebateā.
Sure these phony teabaging asshats are mockable, but āthe leftā (whoever the hell we all are) took that approach with them in ā09, and how does November ā10 look now? The Village was more than willing to carry water for them, and they will do the same for the Republican Presidential nominee in ’12.
If itās Romney, then that water-carrying becomes much easier than it would be for any of the other clowns (unless someone unknown appears, but that is increasingly unlikely).
The media next year will spend most of its time bemoaning the bad economy under an obviously-ineffective Obama, and presenting Obamaās opponent as a sane, rockribbed, āoutsiderā businessman who can turn things around. Any mocking over flip-flops and general āweirdnessā and all the rest will be done by comedians, like Jon Stewart, not the āserious mediaā. IOKIYAR pertains (which is why it was ok to mock Kerry and Gore, for instance). Count on it.
Iām still rooting for Perry.
piratedan
@Roger Moore: geez, that would make Carrie Prejean a shoo in then?
trollhattan
@S. cerevisiae:
Obama hatred will conquer the base’s Mittens ambivalence. They’ll be patted on their thick heads and told, “You’ll get one of your guys next time.”
One funny will be when Mittens picks Rubio as his running mate and is surprised–shocked, even–when Hispanic voters don’t come running to support the ticket. This is why continued voter suppression is so important to the Republican’s chances.
DFH no.6
@S. cerevisiae:
Doesnāt matter. The fascist ābaseā considered McCain a RINO, too, and opposed him right up to the point where they didnāt any longer and then campaigned and voted for him in the many, many millions. Enough to make the ā08 election much tighter than it seemed it should have been.
And now the President is a Democrat, and heās near.
The fascists would walk on hands and knees across broken glass to toss the hated Kenyan Muslim soshulist usurper. Theyāll vote, and vote gladly, for whoever opposes Obama. Lack of enthusiasm will not be on the right.
Watch for when Limbaugh gives the ok to Romney. Thatāll be the signal. The supposed āMormon obstacleā wonāt count for shit. All that will count is that he can beat Obama.
In the general, Romney would have the Republican (and the so-called āindependentā but-always-vote Republican) electorate in the bag. Heād pick up not a few conservadems. With that, his floor would be in the low 40-something percent of voters. What heād need to win is enough of the true āswingā voters to swing his way.
And, of course, the fucking economy. Due to that, Romney can get swing voters that the rest of the Insane Clown Posse would likely not (you know, cuz of the clownish insanity).
Anyone still believe Obamaās re-election will be easy?
Go Perry!
DigitalSerf
DNC fail. They should have just bought out http://www.multiplechoicemitt.com – video is even more damning and name/concept is much stronger. Maybe they can merge them.
Roger Moore
@piratedan:
Not Constitutionally qualified since she’s not 35 yet. Besides, she hasn’t yet displayed O’Donnel’s advanced grifter skills, which are vital to any Republican candidate.
4jkb4ia
Of course. He was comedy gold last time. His secret is just to be so vague that no one can point to his having contradicted himself in the past. Spencer had a post up about Mitt’s big foreign policy speech having one decent proposal that is a real idea, and that was about building more ships. (I read it at Attackerman 3.0, not Danger Room)
I imagine the people who put that site up had a great deal of fun.