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Sunday Evening Open Thread: Key Endorsement

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Cynical Masshole that I am, I think this can best be interpreted as the Union Leader‘s FVCK ALL YOU FVCKING IOWA BIBLE-BANGERS – #FITN!!!

Because New Hampshire, and more specifically the UL ‘kingmakers’, totally owns its “First in the Nation” primary, corn-sucking caucuses be damned.

… proving that ‘social promotion’ was a thing, even back in the olden days. (McQuaid’s the UL publisher.)

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So, what’s on the agenda as we finish the long weekend?

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  3. 3.

    shell

    But in just 10 weeks, New Hampshire will make a choice that will profoundly affect our country and the world –

    Wow, didn’t realize New Hampshire was totally responsible for electing the next president. Rest of the country be damned.

    Take yourself a bit too seriously perhaps.

  6. 6.

    ThresherK

    Fall Out Boy, a band which I don’t dislike, I guess, is the halftime concert* at the Grey Cup.

    They’re from suburban Chicago. Canada is now out of Canadian music stars.

    (*Apparently this is a mandatory thing, now.)

  9. 9.

    David Koch

    They’ve always been losers.

    4 years ago they endorsed Newt. He went on to visit a lot of zoos and Tiffany stores.

    Other losing endorsements
    1988 Pierre du Pont
    1992 Pat Buchanan
    1996 Pat Buchanan
    2000 Malcolm Forbes Jr.

    So they either endorse old money or old assholes.

  11. 11.

    p.a.

    Anne have you heard his radio ads? “I defunded PP before anyone else. I took on the union thugs.” (paraphrase) I don’t get Mass tv so I don’t have to watch what these shitheels beam into NH.

  15. 15.

    David Koch

    But in just 10 weeks, New Hampshire will make a choice that will profoundly affect our country and the world

    A NH open primary hasnt voted for the winning presidential candidate in 27 years.

  18. 18.

    raven

    @Baud: I’m not either but I banged my knee on the gunwale of the boat repeatedly and it’s killing me. Don’t get old.

  20. 20.

    dmsilev

    @David Koch: A consistently wrong record is valuable too; you just have to look at the decision and assume that the opposite will happen. it’s one reason why people still read Bill Kristol.

  24. 24.

    Corner Stone

    @dmsilev:

    I don’t think this going to make much difference for Governor Bridgegate.

    And can we, for F’s sake, please get the F along with investigating/prosecuting that shit? Why haven’t we?

  27. 27.

    Cacti

    Per the wiki, here’s the rap sheet of the “pro-life” movement since 1977:

    3 kidnappings, 11 murders, 26 attempted murders, 41 bombings, 91 attempted bombings, 153 assaults, 173 arsons, 373 physical invasions, 619 bomb threats, 1,264 incidents of vandalism, and 1,630 criminal trespasses.

    A terrorist movement by any definition or measure.

    Enabled and abetted by the Republican Party for 4 decades.

  31. 31.

    Ruckus

    @Zinsky:
    You are looking in the wrong place. His dickness is as big as he is. IOW, he’s all dick. OK other than the part that’s asshole.

  37. 37.

    Anoniminous

    @Brachiator:

    South Carolina on Feb 20th for the GOP, Dems will hold their primary in SC a week later. Nevada Caucus for Dems is on 20th, GOP Nevada caucus is that Tuesday.

  38. 38.

    Mike in NC

    @Baud: During Thanksgiving dinner my sister-in-law asked me, “So is Jeb Bush completely out of it now?” and I replied, “Yeah, he’s the Invisible Man”. She then added, “No charisma and no personality”.

    Me: “Right, and all of his ideas are worse than the shit his idiot brother pushed for”.

  43. 43.

    Ruckus

    @Baud:
    Laughing at him got him some attention, no matter it wasn’t worth a bucket of cold spit. Ignoring him is better, the total lack of attention is worth even less to him in his quest to be the smarter brother.

  44. 44.

    Amir Khalid

    @dmsilev:
    How did the Union Leader pick Chris Christie to endorse, out of all the Republican candidates? Did it run some sort of competitive interview/assessment process, or did it just pick the one who paid it the most attention? Its statement of endorsement reads like Christie’s media people wrote it; it shows no sign of being the outcome of the former. The Union Leader seems to be squandering its endorsement on an unpopular candidate with no real chance.

  49. 49.

    cmorenc

    @dmsilev:

    @David Koch: A consistently wrong record is valuable too; you just have to look at the decision and assume that the opposite will happen. it’s one reason why people still read Bill Kristol.

    That’s why it would be absolutely terrifying if Bill Kristol predicted in one of his columns that the sun will still rise again tomorrow morning.

  50. 50.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @Felonius Monk: True but there was an attempt to turn it into a proper professional website. Which encountered user acceptance difficulties after launch.

  51. 51.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Amir Khalid: As has been pointed out, the UL was once powerful and relevant, but that was over three decades ago under Bill Loeb, who was as nasty a piece of work as you can find. Read his Wikipedia entry. But since his death it has play-acted at relevance.

  54. 54.

    Roger Moore

    @Baud:

    I said earlier, people are no longer laughing at Jeb!; now they’re just ignoring him.

    So he’s doing the Gandhi thing, but in the wrong order:

    First, you think you’re winning
    Then they fight you
    Then they laugh at you
    Then they ignore you

  58. 58.

    FlyingToaster

    @Amir Khalid: As everyone has pointed out, the UL is thirty years past its sell-by date.

    But in the New Hampster GOP, it’s important. They can’t possibly endorse one of “those people” (anyone that the bible-belters in Iowa would support), so they have to go fishing in the pond of “respectable but sound tough”. Trump is running for America’s ID, Rubio is –gasp!– Cuban-American, and ¿Jeb? is a loser; Carly has a va-jay-jay.

    It was down to Christie or Kasich, and I do NOT want to know what perverse acts were required by the UL editorial board. NO, NO, NO, NO!

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