The scent of GOP flopsweat permeates the pixels. Erick “Voice of the GOP Gated Community” Erickson, whinging about “The Elephant in the Room“:
He was the elephant in the room, so to speak, at the CNN Debate in Mesa, AZ. And this issue is why Campaign 2012 on the Republican side is so depressing.
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The he is George W. Bush. And the issue is that Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney spent most of the debate campaigning against George W. Bush without using his name…
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And that is what is so awful about this election season for so many conservatives. Santorum, Romney, and Gingrich are campaigning against major accomplishments of the Bush Administration that they, at the time, supported, and now have the audacity to lie to us — yes they are lying — and have us believe they would never have supported such big government programs…
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Here’s the long and the short of it — Super Tuesday approaches. I live in Georgia. And I am pretty sure I am voting for either Herman Cain or Rick Perry because I am just not sold on the final four.
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Doghouse Riley mocks “the GOP’s Great and Small White Hopes“:
To me the twin mysteries of the 2012 Republican sweepstakes are these: 1) when did Republicans become so anti-Republican? and 2) why do people keep going to Mitch Daniels for quotes?…
Christie, appearing on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” twice said he does not want to enter the contest. “I’m with Governor Romney,” he said. “And one of the things people know about me is that when I make up my mind, it pretty much stays made.”
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Daniels reiterated his long-standing position that he will not run. “I haven’t played any games with anybody,” he said in an interview. “Nothing has changed.”
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Still, he acknowledged that the nomination battle has kept the possibility of a late entrant alive.“The fact that no one has sewn it up like previous cycles means it’s a relevant question,” said Daniels, who is neutral about the race. “It wouldn’t have been a relevant question in previous cycles. This one’s different in so many ways.”Yeah. Because your party’s had it in so many ways. Just not in any ways which causes any of you shills, mouthpieces, and privateers to admit that something’s seriously wrong. And not in ways that prevent you from having a 50% chance of getting power, and a 100% chance that whoever does get power will help you stay in the game. By god, I hate to admit it, but it was the people suckered by your “grassroots” Teabagger routine who came closer to changing our politics than anyone since the ’68 Democratic convention. Found a shallow grave, didn’t they?
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Cast that Giant Brain around for a minute, Mitchkin. Climb down from the Ego Train (wait till the Redcap shows up with the kiddie steps) and look. They’re talking about you and Chris Christie as the party’s saviors. And you presume to lecture the rest of us with apocalyptic nightmares?
Even the Media Village’s premier Mean Girl, exquisitely sensitive to every faint change in the DC winds (or windbags) curls her lip at the Ghastly Outdated Party:
Republicans have a growing panic at the thought of going down the drain with a loser, missing their chance at capturing the Senate and giving back all those House seats won in 2010. More and more, they openly yearn for a fresh candidate, including Jeb Bush, who does, after all, have experience at shoplifting presidential victories at the last minute.
Schadenfreude! It may not make a nourishing meal, but it sure is a tasty condiment. What other dainties are on the table this evening?
Anoniminous
It would be nice if Frothy Man-on-Dog would win both Michigan and Arizona primaries. Alas, polling indicates the Romney_Bot will win Arizona. Hopes are eternal tho’ since Rickie out-performed his polling last time around and it’s possible he’ll do the same tomorrow.
BGinCHI
Danziger is a great cartoonist who sucks at drawing sharks.
Also, too, Fonzi jumped over the shark. Can’t these GOP fools do anything right?
Villago Delenda Est
Ouch, ouch, OUCH!
CT Voter
Maureen Dowd as DC’s supreme Mean Girl. Perfect. Just perfect.
I’m hoping Santorum wins in Michigan. Or comes really close. The more tension, the more Mittisms we can look forward to. And now that ThinkProgress has a handy little chart of the best ones, we can keep track of them more easily.
gnomedad
Well, this isn’t gonna be popular around here:
Allegheny College Honors David Brooks and Mark Shields with Inaugural “Prize for Civility in Public Life”
gnomedad
Also, too: the Chicago Tribune takes a bold stand in favor of normal weather without mentioning climate change.
BGinCHI
@gnomedad: The Chicago Tribune sucks balls. Subscription? Cancelled.
quannlace
They weep…..they know not why.
Unfortunately.
lamh35
Santorum Spox Confirms Michigan Robocall Urging Dems Vote For Santorum Is Real
danimal
The ultimate schaudenfraude would be when, due to institutional GOP pressure, a contested convention actually does come about and, riding in on a (snow) white steed, the GOP savior emerges from the Great Northlands.
You Betcha!
lamh35
Patrick Kennedy To Scott Brown: Stop Using My Dad To Defend Your Position On Contraception
Scott
Excuse me but didn’t Erick Erickson support all those Bush policies also? Or does he have amnesia.
Patricia Kayden
“yes they are lying”
Erick is so right. Repubs are liars. Nothing but liars.
The Other Chuck
Ah the sweet sweet tears of emo-cons. They’ve given up on winning the presidency, now they’re just desperately trying to salvage the downticket.
gnomedad
@lamh35:
So now the question is whether more Dems will be persuaded to vote for Frothy by genuine backers or Kos-inspired ratfuckers? My gob, it is smacked.
handsmile
@BGinCHI:
You’re among that legion who “never walk alone”, iirc. If so, congratulations on the weekend’s silverware.
Meanwhile, the trophy case at the Emirates remains locked and will so for the foreseeable future. Though flying pigs were reported in North London on Sunday afternoon.
Tonal Crow
@gnomedad:
Speaking of elephants in rooms that must not be mentioned.
BGinCHI
@handsmile: You got that right. Cup Winner!!
I felt really bad for Cardiff though. They played great and had chances. We have big Welsh connections and so it was hard to root against the bluebirds.
Oh, and F Arsenal. :)
JC
Well, let’s hope the schadenfreude is reflected in election results. It should be, the crazy rethugs should be out on their ear.
But it never seems to work that way.
JC
Also, since it has been awhile since I’ve been critical of Obama, because I like most everything he is doing – regarding the Jake Tapper exchange with Carney on the Espionage Act.
Why is this act, which is for spies, and has been used only a couple of times in the last 40 years, the basis for a WHISTLEBLOWING suit against civilians?
I posit a self-evident truth.
WHISTLEBLOWERS ARE NOT SPIES.
Simple, right?
Amir Khalid
@BGinCHI:
It was a tough break for Cardiff, especially the defender whose spot-kick miss handed the League Cup to Liverpool. He’s Steven Gerrard’s cousin Anthony.
El Cid
George W. Who? Who are you talking about? There was Ronald Reagan, then George Bush, then Bill Clinton hollowed out the military and destroyed American ethics, and at some point or something there was this guy appointed to defend the nation from terrorism, but the next President was Barack Obama who made the economy crash by giving trillions of free homes to ACORN New Black Panther thugs and soshullizing health care so that Catholics would be forced to abort Dutch senior citizens.
Pffft. Lie-berals. Acting like there was some “2nd” President named Bush, all just to hide how Clinton and Obama ruined America.
BGinCHI
@Amir Khalid: Yeah, agreed. But at least Steven missed his (actually it was a great save by the keeper). Cardiff should be proud of their achievement.
Tonal Crow
I love me some teatard fratricide.
rea
@El Cid: George W. Who?
“It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can’t get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile.”
WereBear
Aaaauuguuugughhghhg!
Just finished a 48 hour marathon of optimizing my WordPress blog, and signed up for VPS, and am now in the grace period of figuring out how low I can set it now that I’ve reduced the load.
The good news is that this didn’t matter when I was an itty-bitty-kitty site. I’m moving on up!
El Cid
@rea: Well, I knew he saved all our lives after Bill Clinton and Al Gore let Al Qa’ida attack us, but I guess they gave him the title “President” as an honorific, because I know 100% that there was no Republican President in power what with all these problems we have.
lacp
The Neverending Erick is full of shit. He’ll vote for whoever Big Money tells him to vote for, and smile while he’s doing it.
Pat In Massachusetts
Go for it Daniels because I can’t wait to see all your wife’s dirty laundry! I want to see your inflated male ego throw your wife’s reputation to the dogs.
Go for it.
Pretty please.