This election's gonna make '84 look like a photo finish

2/14/2012 10:19:45 AM

in 84, Reagan beat someone from the left.

in '12, Reagan is gonna beat someone from the far right.

2/14/2012 10:30:50 AM

Nominating Santorum is a big gamble. One possibility is that he gets devastated and forces the Republican party to reform and expel the fundamentalist factions. The other, however remote, possibility is that he wins and attempts to make the events in the book of Revelation a reality.

[Edited on February 14, 2012 at 10:33 AM. Reason : ]

2/14/2012 10:33:17 AM

I think I read somewhere that in the states that he's actually winning, there have been absurdly low turnouts (like < 5%)

2/14/2012 10:34:34 AM

I will be absolutely astonished if Santorum gets the nod.

If he does, there is no chance in hell he will win. It will probably be the most lopsided landslide ever recorded.

I like to think the Christian Fundamental Right lives in a bubble where they think they majority of Americans are of like mind... But maybe I am the one living in a bubble, ignorantly believing that the plurality of people can reason and critically think.

2/14/2012 10:37:08 AM

Arizona is winner take all. Mitt is heavily favored there. Michigan is proportional. Mitt's is playing smart. It's all about delegates. If he wins winner take all states and splits proportional states, he can't lose. Santorum is only trying to win proportional Midwest states. He can't garner enough delegates this way. I would bet anything Romney wins the nomination. He is doing it the smart way.

Also Romney will pick somebody ultra 'conservative' to get that vote nailed down. He already has the latino and women vote in his base (2 voting blocs McCain couldn't touch with 100ft pole)

redacted. he needs the libertarians and pauls support. agreed V

[Edited on February 14, 2012 at 10:58 AM. Reason : V]

2/14/2012 10:46:26 AM

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"Also Romney will pick somebody ultra 'conservative' to get that vote nailed down."

He needs to pick someone with a libertarian streak. If he doesn't throw Paul supporters a bone, he's toast because they'll write in or vote third party in a heartbeat.

2/14/2012 10:54:29 AM

santorum as vp would make any candidate's bumper sticker humorous-



Romney / Santorum 2010 - Let Prosperity Flow...

[Edited on February 14, 2012 at 10:55 AM. Reason : -]

2/14/2012 10:54:54 AM

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"He needs to pick someone with a libertarian streak. If he doesn't throw Paul supporters a bone, he's toast because they'll write in or vote third party in a heartbeat."

this is precisely the choice.

consolidate the libertarian vote and force the evangelicals to pick between a mormon and a muslim. lol

2/14/2012 10:57:28 AM

Evangelical vote is way, way more valuable than the libertarian vote. Evangelicals can stay home too, you know.

2/14/2012 11:59:13 AM

I'd be willing to wager that evangelicals are much more likely to vote down the party line, especially against a "black muslim", than independents and libertarians.

2/14/2012 12:02:04 PM

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"Evangelical vote is way, way more valuable than the libertarian vote. Evangelicals can stay home too, you know."

I'm not saying it isn't. I'm saying that a GOP nominee won't win without the young, libertarian-ish voters than tend to choose Ron Paul.

2/14/2012 12:08:04 PM

If they have to choose between courting young libertarians and courting evangelicals they are going to choose evangelicals, sry.

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"I'd be willing to wager that evangelicals are much more likely to vote down the party line, especially against a "black muslim", than independents and libertarians."

It's about turnout, dummy.

[Edited on February 14, 2012 at 12:44 PM. Reason : .]

2/14/2012 12:43:29 PM

elections are 90% hype and inspiration. the guy has a point. as stupid as it is.

it's about whoever gets the most people 'fired up' so to speak.

2/14/2012 1:41:45 PM

Romney/Rubio has a ring to it. Win Florida and the latino vote

2/14/2012 3:17:14 PM

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"I like to think the Christian Fundamental Right lives in a bubble where they think they majority of Americans are of like mind... But maybe I am the one living in a bubble, ignorantly believing that the plurality of people can reason and critically think."

Polls have shown consistently for the past twenty years or so that a majority of Americans think that the world is less than 2,000 years old... so who knows?

2/14/2012 3:59:27 PM

less than 2000? really? people don't even think the world was around when Jesus supposedly lived, yet they declare Jesus as their God's son? what?

2/14/2012 4:11:01 PM

^ probably meant 6000

2/14/2012 6:23:43 PM

Sorry. Yeah, I think the number was supposed to be 5,000, but perhaps 6,000. I must've had the ol' Jesus on the brain when I was typing.

[Edited on February 14, 2012 at 11:12 PM. Reason : d'oh!]

2/14/2012 11:11:53 PM

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"less than 2000? really? people don't even think the world was around when Jesus supposedly lived, yet they declare Jesus as their God's son? what?"

Yeah if you believe the Gregorian calendar, pagan scum

2/15/2012 10:26:38 AM

^how should the world deal with these pagan scum in your opinion? since it's obvious a country or society can't survive with these type of false beliefs.

2/15/2012 10:59:14 AM

http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2012/02/megadeth-frontman-backs-rick-santorum-114539.html

Awwwww yeah, it's on now.

2/15/2012 2:35:48 PM

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"http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2012/02/megadeth-frontman-backs-rick-santorum-114539.html Awwwww yeah, it's on now."

I just saw that and don't want to believe it. As a fan of Megadeth and Dave Mustaine, I always thought he would be a Ron Paul man. It's a shame.

2/15/2012 3:40:07 PM

when are YOU PEOPLE gonna learn to use the embed code instead of the iframe code. either that, or when is frosh gonna make the greasemonkey script stop taking out youtube iframes

2/15/2012 4:06:25 PM

you have to remove the gunzz degayifier. see the FF thread.

2/15/2012 4:11:27 PM

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/02/rick-santorum-wants-your-sex-life-to-be-special/253104/

keep doing your thing, Rick

2/15/2012 6:48:21 PM

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"As a fan of Megadeth and Dave Mustaine, I always thought he would be a Ron Paul man. It's a shame."

Seriously!

Megadeth (like Metallica from which they spawned) damn near overflow with libertarianism.

2/15/2012 7:02:27 PM

2/16/2012 9:10:12 AM

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""There is income inequality in America. There always has been and hopefully, and I do say that, there always will be," said the former Pennsylvania Senator. "Why? Because people rise to different levels of success based on what they contribute to society and to the marketplace and that's as it should be." Santorum explained himself this way, "We shouldn't have a society that has a President who envies or creates class warfare or envy between one group of people and another," said Santorum. "We should celebrate like we do in the small towns all across American _ as you do here in Detroit. You celebrate success. You build statues and monuments. Buildings, you name after them. Why? Because in their greatness and innovation, yes, they created wealth, but they created wealth for everybody else. And that's a good thing, not something to be condemned in America." Read more: http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2012/02/16/santorum-praises-income-inequality?intcmp=trending#ixzz1mbLJElY9 "

i used to say shit like this to my worthless college roommates all the time-

fun stuff.

2/16/2012 9:15:28 PM

My boy, Santorum, is going to pull this thing out.

2/20/2012 3:51:12 PM

He is worse than Biden with his stupid comments.

2/20/2012 3:57:30 PM

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"Why? Because in their greatness and innovation, yes, they created wealth, but they created wealth for everybody else. And that's a good thing, not something to be condemned in America."

Either he can't be serious, or americans can't be this stupid.

2/20/2012 4:53:09 PM

I have zero expectation that Romney, Santorum, of Gingrich would ever do anything to improve the fortunes of the country.

There is absolutely nothing to get excited about if any of them is the candidate.

2/20/2012 5:34:29 PM

GO RICKY GO!

2/20/2012 6:39:21 PM

he's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack

2/20/2012 6:41:14 PM

You have got to be kidding me.

2/20/2012 6:56:12 PM

WTF is this shit?

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"“While our closest ally Britain was being bombed and leveled, while Japan was spreading its cancer all throughout Southeast Asia … America sat in 1940 when France fell, December of 1941…Because we’re a hopeful people. We think, well, you know it’ll get better. Yeah, he’s a nice guy. I mean, it won’t be near as bad as what we think. This will be okay. I mean, yeah, maybe he’s not the best guy after a while, after a while you find out some things about this guy over in Europe who’s not so good of a guy after all. You know what … we’ll just take care of our own problems. We’ll just get our families off to work and our kids off to school and we’ll be okay. So with the optimistic spirit of America, sometimes, sometimes it’s not okay. It’ll be harder for this generation to figure it out. There’s no cataclysmic event.”"

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/20/10460075-santorum-defends-theology-remark-hitler-inference-blames-media

Is this really the fucking debate we're going to have this year, GOP? Really? Fucking really?

2/20/2012 7:03:26 PM

nobody here defends santorum-

he is a sideshow clown, and his sudden contrived popularity is very unfortunate.

[Edited on February 20, 2012 at 7:54 PM. Reason : -]

2/20/2012 7:53:09 PM

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""One of the things that you don't know about ObamaCare in one of the mandates is they require free prenatal testing," Santorum began telling about 400 people here. "Why? Because free prenatal testing ends up in more abortions and, therefore, less care that has to be done, because we cull the ranks of the disabled in our society. That too is part of ObamaCare -- another hidden message as to what president Obama thinks of those who are less able than the elites who want to govern our country.""

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/18/10444238-santorum-says-obama-looks-down-on-disabled-encouraging-more-abortions

OUTLAW ULTRASOUNDS NOW!1!!!! derp

2/20/2012 7:57:54 PM

Except that Virginia just passed a law requiring the sexual assault of women via a transvaginal ultrasound. How anyone can really support these people is truly mind boggling...

2/20/2012 8:00:04 PM

you mean support this person, which nobody here does.

2/20/2012 8:10:32 PM

so you'd vote for Obama over Santorum?

2/20/2012 8:12:19 PM

thats a tough one-

i promised i would leave TSB if he was reelected!



[Edited on February 20, 2012 at 8:23 PM. Reason : that was before this surge of santorum however,]

2/20/2012 8:23:30 PM

Well, enjoy TSB while it lasts. Obama is a lock. This was just a shitty fucking field of GOP candidates

2/20/2012 10:34:03 PM

Santorum '12

2/20/2012 11:07:45 PM

The thing is, I really think just about anybody other than Santorum could win, but at present it seems like the GOP is dead set on throwing that nutbag out there for the general election. I don't want to give Obama too much credit, but maybe this whole kerfluffle with the Catholic church was an incredibly well timed political maneuver.

2/20/2012 11:21:38 PM

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"Is this really the fucking debate we're going to have this year, GOP? Really? Fucking really?"

The GOP is debating contraception for God's sake. Why not debate Hitler? They're a party traveling through time to the 19th century

2/20/2012 11:22:15 PM

The thing that sickens me the MOST is that there are now several people on Facebook pushing the birth-control-is-evil shtick.

It's really sad... we can make transistors that are a single atom, but this still happens???

2/20/2012 11:36:03 PM

Every not-Romney has surged and fallen. I don't think Santorum will be the nominee.

2/20/2012 11:53:41 PM

I don't know, he's projected to do well in a lot of the upcoming primaries and Romney is nowhere to be found nationally right now. All the talk is about Santorum, good or bad.

2/21/2012 12:48:22 AM