None of Santorum’s kids are old enough to have political careers, so Rick has yet to be bought off by the Romney handlers. But it looks like he hasn’t given up hope, because he’s going after the elderly quitter rather than the Designated Candidate:
ROSEMONT, Ill.—Rick Santorum and Ron Paul have never gotten along, and while the primaries are effectively over, their intraparty rivalry could stretch on through the summer.
With 267 delegates pledged to him so far, Santorum is planning to flex his muscle at the Republican National Convention in August, where he predicted Friday there could be a showdown over the party platform between the social conservative delegates who pledged support for him and Ron Paul’s libertarian supporters. Paul’s campaign predicts that about 200 delegates will attend the convention on his behalf.
Both want a piece of the party platform, but the candidates agree on very little politically. Speaking to reporters here Friday at a conservative conference, Santorum said his supporters are ready for a “fight” in Tampa.
“I want to make sure that our delegates have an opportunity to come. Many of these folks were great volunteers and workers for us, and I want to make sure they have the opportunity to experience that convention, and we have other candidates who have delegates coming who, let’s put it this way, may have a different approach, particularly to the platform,” Santorum said….
You and Senator Aquabuddah can’t both be the vice-presidential nominee, Sanctorum, even with a Mormon at the top of the ticket. And I don’t think Willard “Allegic to Risk” Romney will be the first presidential candidate to propose an official Grand Inquisitor, either, no matter how well the concept might go over with your Talibangelical delegates.
As a palate-cleanser, here is a much more winsome piggie:
(via LGF, h/t commentor gbear)
Apart from going for the gusto, what’s on the agenda for the weekend?
Another Halocene Human
The real fight at Tampa is going on now, over whether protest outside the convention will even be allowed.
Culture of Truth
The platform will be socially conservative. Romney can appoint Ron Paul Czar of Shaking Rakes at Ben Bernanke.
c u n d gulag
Anne,
That “official Grand Inquisitor” position, are you sure that Mitt won’t name one of those to keep the Catholic Fundamentalists happy, while he does everything else the Dominionist Christians want, to keep them happy?
I’m not!
JGabriel
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Yahoo News:
Really? What do they disagree on? The only difference between them, that I can see, is that Santorum wants to push forced birth loudly while Paul wants to push it in a slightly more sotto voce fashion.
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PurpleGirl
I love how the piglet went down the last step and landed IN the bowl of oatmeal.
ETA: I will try to build a shelf unit to put between the table and the TV, it will raise the TV about 9 inches. I also hope to do some laundry and other cleaning. Yeah, I know, really exciting. But tomorrow I may take in a movie (unknown at this time) and go to a street fair. I’m not thinking about politics today, if possible.
bago
Holy crap, this windows 8 release preview is awesome. I’m playing with this more than skyrim!
amk
What a buncha whackos. Did the gop hit the peak wingnut with this year’s prez candidates ? Gawd, I hope so.
danielx
@JGabriel:
They do have some points of disagreement: Santorum would like to control almost every aspect of human behavior, while Paul only wants to control most of them. Not that Paul is any less detestable…however. I suspect that Paul is less opposed to areas which have to do with some aspects of personal behavior, i.e., use of controlled substances, sex other than for procreation only in the missionary position, etc. Paul also would prefer a foreign policy with less emphasis on bombing brown people.
Little Ricky (aka SLS – Sanctimonious Little Shit), as with most serious social conservatives, seems to be possessed by the fear that somebody, somewhere, is actually having a good time. Moreover, for him – and I suspect for Willard – a ‘muscular’ foreign policy allows more opportunities to proselytize to furriners who don’t know what’s good for them, to wit, worshipping the Almighty in Catholic- or Mormon-approved fashion.
The biggest difference between the Marquis and these two yahoos is that Mittens will never let a moral position get in the way of what’s important, that being the cash, the Franklins, etc etc. Bain Capital would have invested in a Venezuelan kidnapping ring if it brought a good rate of return.
Weekend: today is – ta-dah! commencement and seeing the daughterspawn close out her high school career. This afternoon attending a birthday do for the spouse’s 91 year old aunt. Tomorrow while they are off at various graduation parties I will be getting a bed set up downstairs for when the spouse has her hip replaced on Thursday (joy!). And, and, leave me not forget, moving everything of the kitchen cabinets next to the sink.
This is in preparation for having the countertop/sink and cabinets removed so that a plumber can bring in a jackhammer to break up the concrete and reach a leak in the kitchen hot water line…18 inches under the slab.
Shit!
Then fix the line, fill the hole, have cabinets and counter reinstalled, get the plumbing hooked back up, etc…all to be finished by Wednesday evening. So much for the new kitchen floor we were talking about; instead it’s pony up close to two grand to have hot water in the kitchen.
Double shit!
One more addition to my personal list of rules to live by – never buy a house built on a slab no matter how much you love the back porch.
Maude
I heard Romney’s voice on the radio this morning. We have make sure he doesn’t win. He sounds like a pre teen lying about why he got caught doing something.
Again. please choose Christie as the Veep, please.
amk
@danielx: Wouldn’t it be easier to run a new hot water line to the kitchen and plug the leaky fucker at the source ?
debit
Today I’m going to bike to breakfast, then get some groceries and bike home where I shall spend the rest of the day in air conditioned sloth. Tomorrow I may go see Prometheus if I can round up another interested party.
Phylllis
Typical summer weekend. Grocery run for something on the grill, laundry, a little housework, Braves baseball, maybe a nap or two. I’d love to go see Bernie but I’m not up to driving 120 miles round-trip just for a movie this weekend. Also plan to ignore politics as much as possible this weekend.
mai naem
I frankly cannot stand the big teeth mormon look of him and all of the damn kids. Also too, I think the fourth one looks gay. Ot at least its the fourth one, maybe the third. Ofcourse I don’t care if he’s gay, its going to be the continual search by the media of proof that will get tiresome. The voice? meh… at least its not Bobby Jindal. A girlyman southerner voice. Jeebus.I think its an Indian thing. I have listened to Ramesh Pomumurunuru on radio and I think its a female until i hear him id’d.
jeffreyw
Ordered some computer parts for a new build, my first ever, and I’m spending the weekend freaking out about what will go wrong.
Maude
@jeffreyw:
I plan to hear you cursing from here in NJ.
Computers bite your hands.
Those sharp edges draw blood.
Good luck.
jeffreyw
@Maude: Ack! None of the thousand Youtubes I watched mentioned blood.
Villago Delenda Est
@jeffreyw:
That’s how they sucker you in.
Schlemizel
The leaks out of Willards coven that they want a bland running mate make me wonder if Timmy Pawlenty is back in the mix. Although there has been breathless whispers about the invincible Snott Walker and that sort of makes sense except he is not exactly wonder bread bland.
Both ex-senator Torquemada and little Ayn Paul would give him a boost with a significant part of the party he needs but piss off the opposite part. I was pretty sure he would go with Ayn but he can’t afford to piss off the Taliban wing. He really is in a bind on this.
Every time I see this fall as hopeless for the country I look at the mess that is the GOP and think we may just be able to squeak this one out. Our only chance is to fight a holding action until more people wake up to what is being done to them & set fire to the GOP. I just hope its not too late by the time the somnambulists regain awareness.
kay
@Maude:
The ad Obama is running in Ohio on Romney’s Massachusets record is good. Romney really did say exactly the same things running for governor as he’s saying now, same word order, same inflection.
There are wall to wall anti-Sherrod Brown ads, all from PACs.
It’s weird, because they have an absolute obsession with his appearance. Brown is always a little disheveled looking and he has longish hair. They exagerate that to ridiculous lengths in the ads.
Conservatives have decided “untidy” is a deal-breaker for a Senatir.
PurpleGirl
@jeffreyw: I’ve repaired and changed parts a number of times since getting my first computer in 1993. I’ve never had blood drawn… lost a few fingernails but not drawn blood. Just take everything nice and slowly, count to ten before retrying to remove a panel or card or whatever and it will all work out. Wishing you a good afternoon.
ETA: The floor vibrations have been increasing since starting at 6:30 this morning. I’m trying to think of things to do outside of the apartment. I may or may not be back to this thread.
Ben Cisco
Went to my grandniece’s graduation last night, deep in the “Real ‘Murkan” part of NC. There were four famous Americans quoted during the ceremony, Muhammad Ali, Hilary Clinton, Mark Twain, and Theodore Guisel (Dr. Suess).
I’m thinking the kids (or at least some of them) are alright.
Hill Dweller
I see the media is desperately trying to turn Obama’s statement about the private sector into some sort of scandal. It is getting wall-to-wall coverage on local and national news.
Conversely, they’re completely ignoring Willard saying we don’t need any more teacher, cops and firefighters, which should be a far more damning statement.
Kay
@Hill Dweller:
They’re gross. They themselves pulled the line out of the context, and made it a story. It now goes: Obama-media-Republicans.
Republicans are now parroting media, rather than the other way around. That’s a whole new level of disgusting.
Once again, they made themselves the center of a story. We’ll now get to follow the predictable trajectory. They’ll go absolutely insane for days, one or another “media critic” will comment on how they went absolutely insane and didn’t cover the substance of the press conference, but in a very careful deferential way because they all know each other, and they’ll get defensive and snippy and deny it ever happened. It’s a closed circle. They’re talking to each other. They need some kind of intervention, a third party to break up this clique.
Omnes Omnibus
@Kay: How else can they ensure a horse race?
Maude
@Kay:
Christie has a long list of people who won’t vote for him. He just can’t help adding to it.
The state isn’t doing well at all.
So many houses for sale and no buyers.
Linda Featheringill
@kay:
That obsession with Brown’s hair is a bit strange.
They have some pics that try to make him look like a hoodlum but Brown is much too white for that to be effective. And some of the “rumpled” pics actually make the dude look cute and sexy.
I wonder who was the Einstein that decided on this tactic?
Maude
@jeffreyw:
When I was refrbishing a lot of older computers, I would read the documentation that the manufacturer provided online. I’d check the parts and how much memory could be put it and all that. It was extremely helpful.
When you reach in the case to remove or put a part and can’t see deep inside, that’s when it gets you.
Kay
@Omnes Omnibus:
I think this is a new low, because of the sequence of events. This time, they didn’t wait for Romney-Cantor to pick it up. They pulled it out and gave it to them. They announced that was what they would be covering. Incredible. I’m not sure we’ve seen this before.
Don’t worry though. Howie Kurtz will be along shortly to tell us how they’re all professionals and great people and they’re not doing what we just saw them do.
I suppose the objective here is to not allow Obama to use the (traditional) advantages of the incumbent, because that is not “fair” to Mitt Romney. Good God. Talk about losing the point of your job. They’re going to stage manage and DIRECT this thing. They are so far out of an observer role I don’t think they can go back.
JCT
I’m sitting outside on a gorgeous Chicago AM waiting for my daughter’s college graduation to start, surrounded by my boys (husband, son and daughter’s boyfriend). I remember celebrating her acceptance with my fellow B-J ers – it really seems like it just happened.
What an exciting day!
Chris
@JGabriel:
They agree on most things, it’s just that Santorum wants them pushed at the national level, Ron Paul wants them pushed at the state level. It’s the same as the old tug-of-war that always used to happen between the king and the aristocracy in the old feudal days.
Doesn’t make much difference to the peasants, but, you know, fuck ’em.
Kay
@Linda Featheringill:
I think Brown is one of those people where it doesn’t matter what he wears, he completely inhabits his clothes. You could put him in a tux and twenty minutes later his jacket would be unbuttoned and his tie would be askew. I once saw Sherrod Brown at an event, in his first run for the Senate, where I could see that he had a colored t shirt with printing on it underneath a white dress shirt.
My husband is like that. He looks exactly like himself no matter what he’s wearing :)
Elizabelle
@Kay:
Re Howie Kurtz: not linking to it, but saw his takedown of Walter Cronkite (!) in Newsweek (aka Tina Brown’s vanity project, without being fair).
Kurtz is not fit to write about Cronkite, or much of anything else.
JCT
@Maude: Where we were in NY was the same, we basically just gave our house away.
Every time that asshole starts up with how “great” it is to fire govt workers all I can think is how I can’t wait for him to be “fired”. But somehow his favorables climb.
Elizabelle
@JCT:
Congratulations to you and your daughter.
Plz keep us posted on how she fares in this economy.
Maude
@JCT:
I can’t understand his poll ratings.
People here in a rich county who aren’t rich are losing their houses. I see quite a few sitting empty within walking distance.
kay
@Elizabelle:
His media criticism is always an elaborare explanation of why it’s not their fault. I guess they won’t talk to him if he attacks one of them.
On a side note, why can’t Bill Clinton talk anynore? He used to produce these perfect paragraphs, unscripted, complete with topic sentence and thee points in a row.
Now it’s this garbled mess of hedging and backtracking. Did he hit his head or something?
Elizabelle
I love that mini pig. It is to smile.
JCT
@kay: Could well be post-cardiac surgery syndrome (pump-head) + age. His quad- bypass was actually quite complex and his recovery was tough.
Have to agree – he’s definitely not as sharp.
cmorenc
@c u n d gulag:
It will be whomever Mitt appoints to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, assisted by whomever Mitt appoints to be US Attorney General.
cmorenc
@amk:
…since the house is on a slab rather than raised on a foundation with a crawl space underneath where things like plumbing pipes can be accessibly run…where exactly would you run this new hot water line? Remember, the slab under the kitchen floor running all the way out to the edges of the house is the impediment to simply tapping a parallel line around the existing one, with no guarantee that some of the leaky section isn’t embedded in the slab. The alternative is to tear out a whole bunch of walls to run the new line through the wall, past a whole bunch of structural framing in the way to boot.
Having lived in a house partially built on a slab, I understand and agree completely with danielx: NEVER AGAIN! It’s a penny-wise, pound-foolish construction design decision, except the original housing developer is the one who gets to keep all the pennies, while the homeowner gets stuck with all the pounds down the road.
Ruckus
@Kay:
They need some kind of intervention, a third party to break up this clique.
Sounds like we need more rusty pitchforks, pikes and chainsaw bikes.
handsmile
AT LAST THE TRUTH CAN BE TOLD!!
From today’s Guardian: ‘Sexual depravity’ of penguins that Antarctic scientists dared not reveal…Landmark polar research about Adele’s Penguins…deemed too shocking for the public…
guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/09/sex-depravity-penguins-scott-antarctic
Zoological pron for a Saturday morn.
Ruckus
@Kay:
He looks exactly like himself no matter what he’s wearing
That’s how it’s supposed to be.
Screw this, the clothes make the man. That describes mittens. $5000 suits, $300 jeans, he’s still a major fucking ass.
the antibob
Hmm. Hamlet looks like he’s the perfect size for Cole’s deep fryer.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ruckus: Mittens never looks comfortable in anything. Everything he wears looks like a costume rather than clothing.
gbear
I’m really glad to see that John pulled his late night thread.
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
That’s what happens when you put a jackass in a suit, clown or Italian hand made.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
piggeh! adorbs.
JCT
@Elizabelle: Thanks , it’s been brutal – she’s wending her way though the process to join a govt agency, but her attitude inspires me in the face of this dreadful job landscape. She still wants to make a difference somewhow. The amusing part has been the looks of barely concealed horror among her professors we have met when she admits she is not heading to grad school right away.
Jebediah
@danielx:
Could you just close off the hot water line and put in an on-demand water heater under the sink?
RossInDetroit
The first of nine days off of my day job for me. I have to write an article that the publishers thought they’d started me on a month ago. But they didn’t. But same deadline. I can do this, but maybe not the second project that they landed on me yesterday afternoon.
I kinda wish it would rain all week. We could use it for the lawns and I wouldn’t feel so bad about slaving over the electronics bench if the weather’s crap.
Jebediah
@gbear:
Why’d it get pulled? Something nasty happen in there after I went to bed?
Yutsano
I just read a business writer talking out of his ass about my old company. What he is unaware of is that this “new thing” had been in test market for three years and was a huge success, with a learning curve. I literally giggled at the writer predicting doom for the project. Get out of NYC once in awhile. Jeez.
teec
@mai naem:
Racist and misogynistic. You may vote like a progressive but you think like a conservative.
gbear
@Jebediah: Not sure, but I think it was just a general realization that some things are better left unsaid.
Jebediah
@gbear:
I clicked your link expecting maybe it would take me to some skeevy unsettling comment and instead saw some very young looking fellows playing guitars. I have seen a few episodes of Live at Darryls House or whatever its called, and he doesn’t look so old to me, which made him look like a teenager in that video. And boy howdy has compositing gotten more sophisticated since then!
ETA: I am glad my expectation was wrong. The video was much more pleasant.