The Santorum File

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Tiassa, Jun 8, 2011.

  1. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    Liberals don't need porn. They can get dates.

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    Or, as we were told in "Avenue Q"... (This is not a scene from the musical, somebody put this together from old Muppet clips.)
     
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  3. farther93 Registered Senior Member

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    lmao I played the Terminator theme song in my head when I read this.

    where can I find this study or where did you hear about this?

    Also, Santorum is frothy.

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  5. Arioch Valued Senior Member

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    It makes sense to me. The red states tend to be the boring states(saw the show, got the shirt, wouldn't go back), and what do people do when they're bored? That's right, drink and fuck. And when sex isn't an option we look at porn.
     
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  7. Tiassa Let us not launch the boat ... Valued Senior Member

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    That was quick

    Now, maybe it's just me, because I'm watching MSNBC, and their numbers might be slow, but the chyron says NBC calls Louisiana for Santorum, but the returns say 1% in.
     
  8. Syzygys As a mother, I am telling you Valued Senior Member

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    Louisiana is proportional, so it doesn't matter who wins, as long as the "loser" still get a bunch of delegates.
    There are about 4 states that matter, the biggest CA.....
     
  9. madanthonywayne Morning in America Registered Senior Member

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  10. joepistole Deacon Blues Valued Senior Member

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    I guess Santorum didn't like the ad storm Romney was unleashing on him in Pennsylvania; that plus not having any money to respond in kind. His suspension speech was pretty verbose and certianly all about the greatness of Santorum.
     
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  11. Tiassa Let us not launch the boat ... Valued Senior Member

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    I would recommend a hazmat suit

    And today's upside of not being a Republican is that I don't have to clean up the mess.
     
  12. madanthonywayne Morning in America Registered Senior Member

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    As we saw with the Obama / Hilary nomination battle, going thru a tough nomination process does not automatically mean whoever emerges on top is hopelessly weakened by the internal fighting. Sometimes the fight can yield a battle hardened candidate ready to go into the general election and kick some ass.

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  13. Syzygys As a mother, I am telling you Valued Senior Member

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    "Santorum pulls out after repeatedly coming in number two."
     
  14. joepistole Deacon Blues Valued Senior Member

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    Yeah and sometimes pigs fly. The difference between Democrats in 2008 and Republicans in 2012 is in 2008 the Democrat A team was running. You cannot say that of the Republicans running for POTUS in 2012. This is more like the F string.
     
  15. Repo Man Valued Senior Member

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    Similar to how Bob Dole came on SNL and told Norm MacDonald it was time to stop telling Dole jokes after he lost the '96 election, you're going to have to put away the Santorum jokes now. Which is vastly preferable to the possibility of telling Santorum jokes until 2016. Santorum is no longer spreading.

    Best wishes to his ailing daughter. And here's hoping that Rick rapidly fades from the spotlight, and joins former Republican presidential hopeful Steve Forbes in total obscurity.
     
  16. madanthonywayne Morning in America Registered Senior Member

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    Yes, please continue with the overconfidence. You're not the only one....
    http://campaign2012.washingtonexami...obama-team-mocks-underestimates-romney/471666
     
  17. joepistole Deacon Blues Valued Senior Member

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    It is not overconfidence, it is fact. Joe Scarborough, a noted right winger and former Republican congressman, has said the same and gone further. Scarborough has said in his circle of Republican friends, they all seem to think that the Republican A Team decided to sit this election out.

    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/joe-scarborough-nobody-thinks-romney-is-going-to-win/

    Scarborough goes further in saying he doesn't know anyone in the Republican establishment who thinks Romney is going to win the POTUS election this year. That said, I don't think the Obama team is taking anything for granted when it comes to the 2012 election.
     
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  18. Syzygys As a mother, I am telling you Valued Senior Member

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    I think the Reps approach was this: Obama did everything what Rep president would have done (except the health care thingy) so why fight him now? There was nobody completely ready in the pipeline, so they sent the C team.

    I bet Jeff Bush is running in 2016. Pawlenty and the Indian guy too, not to mention fatso from New Jersey.... Those are the guys with both popular and powerful backing...
     
  19. Tiassa Let us not launch the boat ... Valued Senior Member

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    Epilogue: One Last Whoops

    Epilogue: One Last Whoops

    Remember Foster Friess? You know, "Rick Santorum's Zillionaire"? The "aspirin between the knees" guy? Yeah, him.

    "There are a lot of things that haven't been hammered at because Rick and Mitt have been going at each other," Friess said during an interview on Fox Business Network. "Now that they have trained their barrels on President Obama, I hope his teleprompters are bullet-proof."

    Friess told ABC News that he regretted the statement immediately after making it.


    (Mehta; boldface accent added)

    Whoops.

    For the benefit of our international neighbors, as well as some of my liberal neighbors who might be feeling a little frothy over this one, we should note that this is more a matter of a lack of subtlety, to the one, and poor timing to the other.

    That is, we might recall "Teflon Willie" or "Teflon Ron". Both nonstick ("Slick Willie") and bulletproof°. The word "bulletproof" does actually have a place in the American political lexicon. Looking around the room, one can find people—allegedly everyday people posting comments or discussion board arguments—describing Barack Obama as "bulletproof" and "a Teflon don"; or pointing out that Hillary clinton is "far far far from bulletproof".

    We already know that Friess is tactfully challenged; his aspirin between the knees comment was better suited to a punch line over a schooner of crappy beer in some dimly-lit dive that reeks of body odor and bad chili, where none of the chairs sit level on the cracked concrete floor, and one can reasonably wonder if the missing front tooth of the guy who's laughing at your joke is the result of a fistfight or meth addiction.

    In a period where the societal scars of the Giffords shooting have yet to heal, the nation seems polarized by the shooting of Trayvon Martin, and each week brings us more news of fresh horrors—from children shooting themselves or each other to family and workplace massacres and so on—perhaps one should withhold the gunslinging metaphors.

    Thus, no, Friess has not committed some abject, harrowing sin against American propriety. Rather, he is simply a reminder that wealth is not a measure of merit, and has thrown another fagot on the fire illuminating the eternal back-and-forth of two parties of entrenched professional politicians accusing one another of being out of touch.

    It obviously isn't a helpful remark. He probably figured that out the moment the words passed his lips. And it is just another brick in the wall painted with bright, forty-foot letters explaining the Republican Party's dysfunction to the world, but, no, this is not something we need to spend weeks whining about. In times that aren't so much of a hot lead mess, we might suggest that the metaphor is a bit too direct, and should be construed more obliquely, but there is no real question of what he means.

    Still, though, it seems nearly fitting epilogue, perhaps emblematic not only of the Rick Santorum campaign that somehow thought alienation was a good strategy for building voter support, but the entire 2012 GOP nomination contest, which seems, at this point, very nearly an inertial crisis; they just don't appear to be able to help themselves.
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    ° both nonstick ... and bulletproof — Just to acknowledge the inevitable counterpoint, yes, we know, and it's a popular misconception to be certain; that misconception also becomes part of the meaning.

    Works Cited:

    Mehta, Seema. "GOP donor wonders if Obama's 'teleprompters are bullet-proof'". Los Angeles Times. April 11, 2012. LATimes.com. April 12, 2012. http://www.latimes.com/news/politic...ters-are-bulletproof-20120411,0,6451593.story
     
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