Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Republicans do not trust women.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

Everybody saw this coming.

No one could have predicted…

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

He really is that stupid.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

How stupid are these people?

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

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  2. 2.

    RossInDetroit

    Wasn’t OBL the wealthy offspring of a Saudi family with a construction business? He might well have been able to buy Mitt and make him serve tea.

  3. 3.

    Soonergrunt

    What Romney would really do is buy Al Qaeda, fire all the underlings and suicide bombers, and make sure that Bin Laden and Al Zawahiri had golden parachutes or seats on the board of Bain Capital.

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    Chris

    I can’t wait until President Romney decides to fire the American public, replace us with lower-wage foreign workers, and tell us to get off “his” lawn land.

    (And if Romney isn’t a career politician, it’s only because he has so much money he can afford to lose race after race without denting his hair-care budget.)

  6. 6.

    Mike in NC

    @Chris:

    (And if Romney isn’t a career politician, it’s only because he has so much money he can afford to lose race after race without denting his hair-care budget.)

    On another blog there was a link to a Weekly Standard (!) piece about how Mitt Romney ran in 22 “elections” (mainly primaries) and lost 17 of them. Not a great track record.

  9. 9.

    some guy

    I like being able to sire people.
    I like being able to hire people.
    I like being able to dire people.
    I like being able to mire people.
    I like being able to tire people.
    I like being able to wire people.
    I like being able to ire people.
    I like being able to fucking fire people.

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    Suffern ACE

    @Mike in NC: Back in my home state, we have this guy who basically ran for every office for awhile on any party line he could get. He got the reputation as kind of a crank you didn’t want to be around(LaRouche connections would do that for anyone) and not some kind of eccentric lovable loser.

  11. 11.

    Villago Delenda Est

    There is a reason why guys like George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Dick Cheney didn’t serve in their generation’s war.

    Every last one of these assholes would have been fragged.

  12. 12.

    adamchaz

    This has always confused me. In 2008 Romney couldn’t beat McCain who couldn’t beat Obama. In 2012 all of a sudden the guy who lost to the guy that lost to Obama is supposed to be able to beat Obama.

  13. 13.

    piratedan

    @adamchaz: well you have to remember that the R’s have been ambitiously assiduous in doing their best to keep the economy in the dumpster and to blame every transgression large and small on the President regardless of actual cause and effect. When you saw the R’s returned to control of the Congress in 2010, why not believe that you can continue to fool all of the people all of the time, you’ve got a complicit media and a majority of the money.

  14. 14.

    The Dangerman

    Comment 1: Romney wouldn’t have caught Bin Laden.
    Comment 2: He would have bought al Qaeda and fired him.

    What did Bin Laden or Al Queda have to do with either cutting taxes on the rich or cutting entitlements for the poor?

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    DCLaw1

    [Apologies for cribbing my own comment from the other thread.]

    The reason Romney’s “fire people” comment resonates, out of context or not, is because it fits with everyone’s overall image of the man. Which is to say, the blowback against the remark is not the disease, but a symptom – a symptom that not only reflects the disease, but aggravates it further.

    This is a serious problem for Romney. If the economy continues to improve, even at a slow pace, he really will have difficulty in the general.

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    Suffern ACE

    @DCLaw1: The firing thing works as it is the only thing about him that makes him look like a he-man “decider.” He flip flops on every other position based on expediency and is really a passionless douche when he speaks. So don’t write off the macho appeal to those voters who want to find macho appeal, somewhere, anywhere, in a republican candidate.

  20. 20.

    DCLaw1

    @Suffern ACE: Normally I’d agree, at least with the general argument that the GOP base loves them some Decider who creates by destroying, but in this case, in this economic climate, the target of macho decisiveness seems a little too much like themselves, and the image of Romney deciding is a bit too much like… Romney at Bain.

  21. 21.

    Joseph Nobles

    Sweet Jesus, Bill Keller got into the Creme de Menthe again.

    The proposal to draft her in place of President Obama this year is preposterous. It exaggerates his vulnerability and discounts Hillary’s loyalty. But the idea that she should replace Joe Biden as Obama’s running mate in 2012 is something else. It has been kicking around on the blogs for more than a year without getting any traction, mainly because it has been authoritatively, emphatically dismissed by Hillary, Biden and Team Obama.
    __
    It’s time to take it seriously.
    __
    …THAT leaves the delicate question of ditching Joe Biden. He is not a dazzling campaigner, and — five years Hillary’s senior — he is not Obama’s successor. But he is a loyal and accomplished public servant who deserves to be treated with honor.
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    A political scientist I know proposes the following choreography: In the late winter or early spring, Hillary steps down as secretary of state to rest and write that book. The president assigns Biden — the former chairman of Senate Foreign Relations — to add State to his portfolio, making him the most powerful vice president in history. Come the party convention in September, Obama swallows his considerable pride and invites a refreshed Hillary to join the ticket. Biden keeps State. The musicians play “Happy Days Are Here Again” as if they really mean it.

    I saw this in truncated fashion at Democratic Underground, so the reader doesn’t realize that whacked-out musical chair scenario comes at the very end. So you have to slog through a lot of mush to get to the point where Obama has to appoint Biden as Secretary of State while retaining him as Vice President in order for all of this to work out to everybody’s satisfaction. Such epic trollery is to be gaped at, but not admired.

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    JGabriel

    @DCLaw1:

    If the economy continues to improve, even at a slow pace, he really will have difficulty in the general.

    As soon as Romney has to put two sentences together that aren’t ad hominem attacks while sharing a debate stage with Obama, he will have difficulty.

    Assuming Romney gets that far.

    .

  23. 23.

    FlipYrWhig

    Romney wouldn’t catch bin Laden because they’re both venture capitalists and scions of wealth. They probably shared brandy at the headquarters of the Carlyle Group.

  24. 24.

    amk

    The first votes in the nation’s first primary have been cast in Dixville Notch, N.H., resulting in a tie between Jon Huntsman Jr. and Mitt Romney in the Republican race.

    Each received two votes apiece, with one vote each for Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul.

    President Obama won all three votes cast in the Democratic primary.

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    JGabriel

    @Joseph Nobles:

    … Obama has to appoint Biden as Secretary of State while retaining him as Vice President in order for all of this to work out to everybody’s satisfaction.

    I can just imagine Biden poking his head into the oval office and saying, “Hey, Bill Keller says I can have VP and State. What do you think, Mr. President?”

    .

  26. 26.

    GregB

    So the candidate that won the most votes in Dixville Notch for the Republican primary is Barack Obama!

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    Suffern ACE

    @GregB: LOL. I’m wreck these days, and I know it would just be a flame war of epic proportions, but…having Barack Obama win the Republican delegates from Romney would be awesome.

  32. 32.

    amk

    cbs survey – 58 percent of Republican primary voters want more presidential choices, while just 37 percent say they are satisfied with the current field. The percentage of Republican primary voters that wants more choices has increased 12 percentage points since October.

    Talk about voter enthu.

  36. 36.

    freelancer

    @GregB:
    @Suffern ACE:

    My understanding is that the two towns have a total of around 40-50 registered voters. The Republican voters voted in the Republican Primary, and the Democratic voters voted for Obama in the Democratic Primary.

  41. 41.

    JGabriel

    @amk: Tain’t Keller’s no more. Keller retired to columny, and Jill Abramson is running the place now.

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  42. 42.

    KG

    @Joseph Nobles: Then of course, there’s the whole problem of such an arraignment likely being completely unconstitutional. If the Vice-President is a member of Congress (technically true as he is President of the Senate and occasionally casts votes), then he can’t hold another position in the Admnistration.

  45. 45.

    JGabriel

    @Chuck Butcher:

    I read it to see if it was nearly as stupid as it sounded – it was.

    You’re too kind. It’s one of those rare pieces that exceeds one’s expectations of stupidity.

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  47. 47.

    redshirt

    @Omnes Omnibus: OT, but a fun fact I recently learned about that awesome movie Die Hard: It was originally written as “Commando 2”, but when Arnold turned it down, they re-wrote it and voila, “Die Hard”.

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