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Tuesday Evening Open Thread

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For those of us who can no longer bring ourselves to care about the point spread in a meaningless sub-semi-final. Somebody let me know if Santorum either drops out or throws his greasy foul-smelling endorsement to either of the two “serious” candidates, because Ron Paul ain’t going away before August.
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Meanwhile, what’s on the agenda out in the Reality-Based Community known as the world?

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  1. 1.

    redshirt

    Random, open question: Which single weapon has been the deadliest in human history?

    The sharpened stone?
    The sword?
    The gun?
    The bomb?
    The Word?

    Discuss!

  2. 2.

    lamh35

    Santorum is running for VP. He’s just released an ad targeting Gingrich and Paul, but not one word about Romney.

    BTW, Did Romney’s completely dishonest speech just make anyone as mad as it made me? Seriously, I’m from NOLA and I’ve got voodoo on my mind.

    Dishonest fuck!

  3. 3.

    Baud

    As much fun as the GOP steel cage death match has been, with all the news and blogging about it, I find it’s easy to forget that this is all about the Republican world and not the majority of America, most of whom are several months away from paying attention to the election.

  4. 4.

    Elie

    @redshirt:

    I would add, the “idea” to your list

    And my answer is: the idea — which is made of thoughts put in words but not necessarily checked down for rationality, sanity, or anything good..

  6. 6.

    Southern Beale

    I posted this downthread, but reposting cuz I’m PISSED OFF:

    Take Your Pink Ribbon And Shove It

    I can’t imagine what they were thinking hiring this idiot woman. Now she shit the bed BIG TIME. They have generated so much controversy by politicizing something that never, ever should have been politicized.

    I am SO OVER this shit. OVER IT. What, how do we fight back? Do we all need to incorporate our uteruses or something? I mean, Jesus.

  7. 7.

    SteveinSC

    or throws his greasy foul-smelling endorsement to either of the two “serious” candidates

    No, I think he’ll throw them some santorum and let them hold the baby-in-jar talisman.

  8. 8.

    j

    Nope. Frothy just said he’s going on the road to fight against “Obamacare”.

    I guess he’s in it to win it. He is now slamming (in order) President Obama, Newt, Romney.

    Apparently Ron Paul scares him. Not a word about that freakish garden gnome.

  10. 10.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @lamh35: At 44 I have no personal memory of Nixon as a pol, so I have no problem saying Romney is the most dishonest major presidential candidate I have ever seen. There have been some loonies, but I’ve never seen anyone so (I believe) consciously and willfully demagogue on everything from climate change to abortion to gay rights to health care to foreign policy. The only thing that surprises me about Romney is that he hasn’t ditched his religion to make it easier to get to the Big Chair.

  16. 16.

    Southern Beale

    @j:

    I guess he’s in it to win it.

    So-called “fiscally responsible Republicans” who spend millions to indulge their own ego fantasies on an obviously failed presidential run need to STFU right now.

  17. 17.

    General Stuck

    Newt is calling for “a people’s campaign”. No shit. Newt Gingrinch, man a duh peeps. irony is on life support

  21. 21.

    Steeplejack

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    Meanwhile, what’s on the agenda out in [. . .] the world?

    Girding my loins to drive from D.C. to Atlanta tomorrow: 600 miles, estimated time 11 hours. I’m actually looking forward to it. I haven’t done a long road trip in years. I like to drive, I like to zone out (in an alert-driver kind of way) and think deep thoughts, and I’ve got CDs and Sirius for the soundtrack. And I’m looking forward to spending four or five days with some really good friends. And Mexican food! Jalisco, Nuevo Laredo, El Torero, El Jinete, etc. I might not eat anything but Mexican while I’m down there.

    But tonight I am going through my usual mild pre-trip panic, which never revolves around useful things like packing but always seems to get into unrelated things like spring-cleaning a closet or sorting my heirloom lunchbox collection. Weird.

  23. 23.

    Hal

    I don’t get it. Isn’t this Romney’s only significant win so far? How does this mean everyone else is done for?

  27. 27.

    JGabriel

    @OldDave:

    Monday Tuesday Evening Open Thread, perhaps?

    Is it Tuesday already? I can never tell, the Days of Primaries all seem to run together …

    .

  29. 29.

    realbtl

    Somebody upthread mentioned Nixon and it got me to thinking about the similarity of Nixon and Romney. It’s not just the lying. Old Tricky was such a sleazy little shit you knew he was lying just by looking at him and I find Mitt the same. The ones that scare me are like Reagan all smiling and sincere looking while they rob you blind.

  30. 30.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    Well at least Newt had two racial minorities in the background, compared to Romney’s zero.

  34. 34.

    The Dangerman

    Too bad Newt won’t win the nomination; I was so looking forward to seven 3-hour debates. Of course, I was expecting Obama to clean Newt’s clock, to the shock of all the Right who’ve bought into the teleprompter shit.

    Obama kicking the shit out of Romney in the debates just won’t be as much fun.

  36. 36.

    JGabriel

    realbtl:

    The ones that scare me are like Reagan all smiling and sincere looking while they rob you blind.

    See, I never get (or got) that. Reagan always struck me as so patently and laughably insincere that I could never understand why he was called the “Teflon President” or why so, so, many people bought his act.

    Even at the time, I thought the guy was always lying — 8 words out of every 5.

    .

  37. 37.

    Hal

    @The Dangerman:

    Too bad Newt won’t win the nomination; I was so looking forward to seven 3-hour debates.

    I loved it when Newt said this. It reminds me of being in college and finding out one of your assignments is a 15 page research paper for a class you thought would be a breeze. It just amazed me Newt thought anyone would find this appealing.

    Speaking of the OvenMitt, does anyone else think it’s amazingly pathetic for him to sing America the Beautiful in Tampa? I mean, really Mitt, not a fucking original thought in your head huh? Like Wonkette says:

    AW, how long had Mitt Romney been practicing his rendition of “America the Beautiful” in the mirror before he decided to try to slip it into his stump speech all casual-like? We’re going to go with a wild guess here and say, “since Barack Obama sang Al Green.” Mittens even tries to be cool enough to get the Florida crowd of napping old people to do backup for him by asking in a solicitous music teacher voice, “Can you sing with me?”

    http://wonkette.com/461922/mitt-romney-bursts-into-song-awkwardness-ensues-video#more-461922

  39. 39.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Steeplejack: Steep, we’ve got some really nice weather going on here at the moment. Hope it lasts for you. Safe travels and have fun in ‘Lanna.

  40. 40.

    Martin

    As of right now, Romney has 6.6% of registered Florida voters, Newt has 4.5% of registered Florida voters. With 81% reporting.

    Just to put the primary vote into context…

  43. 43.

    Jenny

    I just love how Noot is throwing the kitchen sink at Mittens.

    “As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney vetoed a bill paying for kosher food for our seniors in nursing homes. Holocaust survivors, who for the first time, were forced to eat non-kosher, because Romney thought $5 was too much to pay for our grandparents to eat kosher. Where is Mitt Romney’s compassion for our seniors?”

    Come fall, this will by a devastating line of attack in Florida’s Jewish communities.

  46. 46.

    handsmile

    @lamh35: (#2)

    Burdened by little wit, Rih Santorum may well believe that a Mittens/Man on Dog ticket would be a winning combination. Perhaps he imagines that those evangelicals Protestants who may hesitate to cast their ballots for a Mormon president could be cajoled if the vice presidential candidate were a Roman Catholic. Such febrile judgments have been a hallmark of Rih’s years of public service.

    In the inescapable nightmare of a Mittens administration, however, Frothy would likely be selected as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Consider that horror for a moment.

  47. 47.

    Villago Delenda Est

    The thing is, Tweety was the guy who gushed about Romney’s 737 landing strip shoulders four years ago.

  48. 48.

    Martin

    @amk: Well, just being primaries, you’re carving ⅔ of the registered voters out of process, and then the low turnouts of primaries just adds to that.

    But there were 1.9 million votes cast in the 2008 GOP primary in Florida. They’re on track to come in closer to 1.8 million this year. That really speaks to a low enthusiasm by GOP voters. If they really wanted Obama out of the WH, they should be turning out in droves as Dems did in 2008. They’re actually fading, not rallying.

  52. 52.

    chopper

    @JGabriel:

    I could never understand why he was called the “Teflon President”

    cause literally everyone in his administration was indicted except for him.

  54. 54.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @realbtl: I really think the parallels between Nixon and Romney are striking, and kinda scary, most of all the relentlessness, the willingness to endure the long and humiliating slog, pandering and effectively begging people they despise (for opposite reasons, given their opposite backgrounds) to get The Ring. Swap out Nixon’s five-o’clock-shadow sweat for Romney’s never-a-hair-out-of-place, unflinching gameshow host smile, Nixon’s obsession with the international chessboard for Romney’s exclusive interest in a Randian system of tax cuts and deregulation. Twin sons of very different parents.

  55. 55.

    AliceBlue

    @Southern Beale:
    I don’t know. I do what I can–vote, donate and volunteer for pro-choice candidates–but God, I’m almost 60 years old, and I’m so tired. So tired of this shit. And it just keeps getting worse.

  56. 56.

    Jenny

    @Martin: Not only that, but the GOP has the field to themselves — they don’t have to compete for attention and air time with the Democrats like they did 4 years ago.

    Bill Burton mentioned earlier that combined spending in Florida was twice the amount this year than 4 years ago.

    And yet with the spotlight solely and intensely on them, voters are replying with a resounding — Meh.

  57. 57.

    Steeplejack

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Yeah, I checked the forecast, and it looks good. Maybe a little rain tomorrow, but then clear and unseasonably warm for the next week. Probably come back next Tuesday.

    I thought about proposing a meet-up with the ATL crew, but I haven’t been down there in over five years and will be booked solid. Maybe next time.

    ETA: I’ve got this song running through my head.

  61. 61.

    Suffern ACE

    I’m dealing with a very poor web launch. I can now follow my data provider on Twitter and friend it on Facebook and give it access to my linkedin profile. I cannot, unfortunately, log in to my account as the designer decided that the customers wouldn’t actually want to do that.

  62. 62.

    JCT

    @Steeplejack: Robyn is the orange tabby. I originally went to adopt her but they were such pals I couldn’t separate them.

    Certainly making my place more lively!

  64. 64.

    WaterGirl

    @JGabriel: Loved the Angry Translator, Luther! The one time I thought Luther was over the top and took it too far, “Obama” reeled him in. I loved that, too.

    That was laugh out loud fun.

  66. 66.

    Benjamin Franklin

    This month’s Supreme Court hearing in the Julian Assange case has profound meaning for the preservation of basic freedoms in western democracies. This is Assange’s final appeal against his extradition to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct that were originally dismissed by the chief prosecutor in Stockholm and constitute no crime in Britain.

    The consequences, if he loses, lie not in Sweden but in the shadows cast by America’s descent into totalitarianism. In Sweden, he is at risk of being “temporarily surrendered” to the US, where his life has been threatened and he is accused of “aiding the enemy” with Bradley Manning, the young soldier accused of leaking evidence of US war crimes to WikiLeaks.

    http://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2012/02/pilger-assange-australian#jasup

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