Official 2012 GOP Primaries Shitshow

[universe]

Just imagine how shitty Romney is going to be when all the focus is on him though.

[Guy Incognito]

NPR this morning had interviews with people who attended the Santorum/Gingrich town hall last night in Alabama. The first interviewee said that she supported Santorum "because he wants God in everything", the second said we needed to trust in God to take the country back from a Muslim leaning direction, and the third interviewee said Obama isn't even qualified to be president because the Constitution says that to be president both parents need to be natural born US citizens (the reporter had to note that this was not true).

i just heard this. the reporter cutting in after the constitution line sounds like an arrested development narrator aside.

[Durham]

last week I said I kind of wished the shit show was ending, then I got over that. Now today it looks like it might be ending and the timing can't be worse as the President's approval is now slipping with these gas prices. So Romney might really be the "presumptive nominee" in a week and gets to start off with the President in a particularly vulnerable spot.

No panic or anything, just wished Romney didn't get to start his campaign with such an easy opening. Tragically, this massacre in Afghanistan may refocus things somewhat to a much larger and difficult (though arguably related) issue away from gas prices.

This is pretty much how I feel. I was so exhausted of all the horribleness going unchecked and taking the discussion far rightward (though turnout is so low, I guess virtually no one cares), but now I just want these SOBs attacking each other forever. Are there Intrade odds for a brokered convention?

[WAC]

The far Left continues to believe American voters are not smart enough to grasp the diversionary tactics it employs to distract us from the issues our President just doesn’t want to talk about – issues that affect us all every day and must be addressed.

Exhibit A in these diversionary tactics is an absurd new attack ad President Obama has released taking my comments out of context. I’m not running for any office, but I’m more than happy to accept the dubious honor of being Barack Obama’s “enemy of the week” if that includes the opportunity to debate him on the issues Americans are actually concerned about. (Remember when I said you don’t need a title to make a difference?)

Just off the top of my head, a few of these concerning issues include: a debt crisis that has us hurtling towards a Greek-style collapse, entitlement programs going bankrupt, a credit downgrade for the first time in our history, a government takeover of the health care industry that makes care more expensive and puts a rationing panel of faceless bureaucrats between you and your doctor (aka a “death panel”), $4 and $5 gas at the pump exacerbated by an anti-drilling agenda that rejects good paying energy sector jobs and makes us more dependent on dangerous foreign regimes, a war in Afghanistan that seems unfocused and unending, a global presidential apology tour that’s made us look feeble and ridiculous, a housing market in the tank, the longest streak of high unemployment since World War II, private-sector job creators and industry strangled by burdensome regulations and an out-of-control Obama EPA, an attack on the Constitutional protection of religious liberty, an attack on private industry in right-to-work states, crony capitalism run amok in an administration in bed with their favored cronies to the detriment of genuine free market capitalism, green energy pay-to-play kickbacks to Obama campaign donors, and a Justice Department still stonewalling on a bungled operation that armed violent Mexican drug lords and led to the deaths of hundreds of innocent people.

I’m sure I missed a few things, but the list is just for starters. Along with millions of others, I’m willing and free to discuss these issues with the President anywhere, anytime; and I’m sure any of the four patriots currently running for the GOP nomination would also welcome the opportunity to talk about the problems everyday Americans face due to the abject failure of our current administration’s policies. The President will dismiss all of these problems by saying, “Well, uh, ‘change isn’t easy.’” But considering that candidate Obama promised to turn back the waters and heal the planet, the American people had at least a reasonable expectation that, at the bare minimum, he wouldn’t bankrupt our country.

This latest ad is quite odd, but also quite telling. It shows that our President sure seems fearful of discussing the economy, energy prices, and all the other problems people need addressed. And intended or not, now that his ad opens up the discussion of Barack Obama’s radical past associations and the radical philosophy that shaped his ideas about his promised “fundamental transformation” of our country, I welcome the media to join ordinary Americans in finally vetting Barack Obama. The media failed to do so in 2008 to the detriment of us all. Maybe this time around they can do their job.

They might start by noting the President’s heavily edited attack ad. Breitbart’s Ben Shapiro helps them out in this piece. Please read it all.

- Sarah Palin

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150612033023435

[Amblin]

She has such a thin skin.

[blurst of times]

sarah palin accusing anyone of not being fully vetted is just asklfjafds;kfaksdjf

[This Guy]

What is the best case Shitshow scenario tonight? My guess is Santorum winning at least one state and Gingrich losing both. Would almost force Newt to get out and probably endorse Santorum.

[Amblin]

Santorum winning both would be the best.

[arushofwings]

yeah, i want newt to bail so bad so santorum & romney just wail on each other

[unpredictable landlord]

a coupla weeks old, but relevant given the prez's new low poll numbers being attributed, at least in part, to gas prices:

tpm: blame oil speculators, not obama, for rising oil prices

Finally, after many delays, the government board responsible for regulating commodity futures markets finalized a rule in October to limit speculation, a power it was given by the Dodd-Frank Wall street reform law. However, the rule won’t go into effect until next October, as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) needs to collect “one year of interest data” first.

so, barring any delays, limits on oil speculation will kick in this october? i'm thinking that means good things for the price of gas come nov. 4th, right?

[VHGisdead]

omg Jefferson County has prisoners counting ballots, I assume because they are literally bankrupt

[VHGisdead]

never mind, I guess they always have prisoners unload the ballots off trucks

[important dentist]

oh man i forgot there were primaries tonight. and i was really gonna go to bed early too

[VHGisdead]

Bama #s are coming in SLOOOOWWWW

ROMNEY'S LEAD TIGHTENS IN MISSISSIPPI EXIT POLLS

[pinkerton]

I got a bunch of bullshit from the 80 year old witch I'm charge of the ballots today. I wouldn't mind a prisoner (or anyone under 65) workong ar a polling station around here. Got a republican ballot do I could actually vote on local races and voted for John Huntsman to test and see if my vote actually gets counted.

[palmer eldritch]

as of right now with that reuters poll coming out with Obama's approval at 50% I think the polling average for approval is down a point or so from a month ago

this whole Obama approval dropping! meme came out of that NYT poll
and can reasonably be explained by noise

PPP has Obama way up in PA compared to the last year so chill

also Romney has an unbelievable 30/60 favorable in PA

[VHGisdead]

you voted against Roy Moore then

[pinkerton]

Yes of course

[Shotfrog]

Bama #s are coming in SLOOOOWWWW

ROMNEY'S LEAD TIGHTENS IN MISSISSIPPI EXIT POLLS

Alabamans struggling to count up to double digits.

[Mechanical bird]

you voted against Roy Moore then

It's an Alabama tradition

[Robo-Chachi]

Go, Rick. Go.

[important dentist]

how does it take so long to find out who voted for who in the year 2012

[Mr Spaceship]

DailyKos saying Drudge was predicting Romney wins in Alabama and Mississippi

adds even more to the hope that Romney loses both

[Amblin]

http://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/results

this has newt ahead of mitt right now in MS

[Robo-Chachi]

how does it take so long to find out who voted for who in the year 2012

Yeah. I have this thought every primary now.

[Amblin]

DailyKos saying Drudge was predicting Romney wins in Alabama and Mississippi

adds even more to the hope that Romney loses both

I think Drudge never said he had Alabama, he kept labeling it as "close." He did have Romney taking MS though.

[coop]

DailyKos saying Drudge was predicting Romney wins in Alabama and Mississippi

adds even more to the hope that Romney loses both

I think Drudge never said he had Alabama, he kept labeling it as "close." He did have Romney taking MS though.

DEVELOPING...

[Frank]

I’m willing and free to discuss these issues with the President anywhere, anytime

Obama should definitely take up the offer to discuss these issues with Glenn Rice's former cum-dumpster.

[The Dirty Turtle]

this needs to end in a way where we have more debates, that is all

[Amblin]

Pinkerton which county do you live in? Lee County?