Now that he’s a show biz type, Mike is doing what all former governors ( and First Ladies) of Arkansas do lately.

Stay far away from Arkansas,

And we also believe that Romney is a true fiscal conservative. Also the Easter Bunny, Santa and the Moon being Green Cheese.

Translated into simple terms: We don’t believe any of the candidates, elected officials or media.

Then you also believe Mitt created 100,000 jobs. 

Mitt..Hint, negative ads do more harm than good. Run on your record.

Gingrich wasn’t a Lobbyist to Freddie  he was a ‘Historian’. 

My record is quite liberal.  I would be better off running on Newt’s record.  I appreciate your advice but I pay a lot of people who a lot more experience than you do in matters like these.

Good, because he’s about to be history soon.

What the Mitt creates I also taketh away.

You don’t have to believe I’m a true fiscal conservative.  I’m not Obama and that’s good enough.

Not sure what you said, but yeah.

Nope. Not good enough. That’s how we got Obama. He was not the Republican.

Fine, it’s not good enough, but it’s all you will get.

Mittens, You calling some one a insider is like a Fool calling Himself a Fool.

Mittens you are the Quintessential RINO insider, a , insider in both wings of the Washington establishment, RINO and Democrat.

troll much patsy?

So, as expected, it will be “Let them eat cake,” from both parties.

U MAD BRO?

I’ll eat cake.  You could have my crumbs.

What you have here are two candidates each pretending to be something they’re not.

Romney is at heart a moderate, old-style Richie Rich Republican who secretly loathes the tea partiers and only repeats the idiot talking points about socialism to appeal to the right wing rubes who love Rush and hate reason.

Gingrich is a reckless, narcissistic, lying sack of lard and the perfect embodiment of the bloated establishment he rails against but was a part of for two decades.

Good luck, GOP, trying to sell either of these turds to an American public that thinks your primary race has been more of a freak show than the Kardashians.

Newt Gingrich is seen as an outsider because the majority of people he encountered in Washington saw him as the petty hypocrite he is and he’s perfected his talk radio host-esque angry white guy persona to the point where he can turn that into a strength when dealing with primary voters, railing against the mainstream media and elites. The more people who’ve been painted as the choice of the elite like Romney openly attack him, the stronger that image becomes.

The problem he’ll encounter down the line is there are a lot of people who don’t want to elect someone who comes off as overly aggressive, mean spirited and unpleasant, someone with so many skeletons in his closet. At the end of the day people want a family dog in their homes, one that’s loyal, brave and smart, they don’t want something like a pittbull because they know eventually there’s a chance they’re going to turn around and bite someone who doesn’t deserve it.

Do you mean angry or insane or both?

It’s really all about eating cake in the end. 

Congrats, Pres Obama. The GOP has proven how it not only can’t find a credible opponent for you but it can destroy itself in the process. Enjoy your landslide in Nov.

Yes Mittens, and we believe you are salt of the earth who had to “work” so hard in your life, worrying if you would be fired or not.  How ever did you “work” so hard investing capital? 

Unfortunately true…but the best of the two is Romney.

Jeff, did you know the DJIA is flirting with 12,760 right now?

Did you know that’s more than 4,800 points higher than the day W left office?

Pimpin ain’t easy.

CRICKETS

love the repubnuts: sleazy, dopey, nutty and wacko!

I see SLICK’S handlers finally got around to winding his attack spring.How entertaining-Yawn….

You know I actually always kind of believed that Clinton didn’t inhale. Two reasons for this
First is he does have asthma pretty bad. I have seen asthmatics try to smoke weed and it can be painful to watch.
But the main reason is this:
It is such a bizarre answer that it strikes me that no one would come up with it unless it was true. It doesn’t make him look better in any way, he still committed an illegal act. I know someone is going to reply that this is the same guy who came up with ‘but this is the one who says it depends on what the definition of is is’ but that is a very lawyerly legal technicality answer. In this case it really doesn’t make a difference from that viewpoint. No one would hear the answer he gave and think it was somehow better from a moral standpoint than simply saying he smoked pot. 
In other words it wouldn’t matter politically if he inhaled or not, all that mattered was whether he attempted, so why would he even come up with such a strange lie about it?

Newt Gingrich’s family values:

Using your daughters from your first wife to convince everyone that your second wife is lying about your third wife

He’s already started singing in front of an audience. He’s so happy.

Mitt Romney is a very flawed — potentiall­­y fatally flawed — candidate as the GOP’s presidenti­­al nominee. His record is not so spotless as the media used to portray. And Romney is a Massachuse­­tts liberal posing as a red meat Republican and striving to make his party’a base enthusiast­­ic about a bid that is essentiall­­y a rerun of John McCain’s failed challenge to Obama in 2008. Romney has the dual problem of barely appealing to his own GOP electorate while also turning off moderates and independen­­ts who view him as a one percent elitist.  http://www.sunstateactivist.org

I predict that Mitt will win in the first electoral college non-majority since John Adams

http://wordsofwhizdumb.com/2012/01/2012-year-in-review.html 

No, just rude and stupid!

No, just rude and stupid!

OK, Here what I think. Maybe he did .Maybe not. But it there might have been peer pressure involved and he was trying to fit in with group of friends smoking dope and just sucked it in his mouth and blew it out. I am not saying this happened. All I am saying I think it could have.

It all crap anyways.
The delegates can change their mind/vote at the convention.

Clinton inhale jokes?  Is this the best Mitt (his writers) can come up with? He just got his clock cleaned by a one of the most loathsome politicians of the past 3 decades and he bags on Clinton?  Your post is missing the fact that your party is heading for a Custer like beat down in the general.  Mitt has been exposed for the prima donna he is, and Newt, well enough said.   This collection of frauds and charlatans will set back the conservative movement years and you guys bring up the Clintons in some effort to reignite the hate for that president, as if tapping into the hate for the current president isn’t enough.   I’m starting to suspect you work for one if the campaigns as your posts reflect the same out of touch rhetoric
coming from all of the republican candidates.   
Keep up the good work.

Exactly right. Bashing a president who’s been out of office for 12 years is the surest sign yet that they have nothing positive to say about their own candidates.

LOL @ Mitt. Do you think he has hired a joke writer? Or maybe … maybe … maybe he was smoking pot with his illegal Mexican relatives and he thought it up by himself.

I see, a Gingrich voter.

My illegal Mexican relatives aren’t allowed to smoke weed.  I told them I’m running for president.

Um, Bush v. Gore?

He’s a small time writer for Breitbart. Doesn’t publish often, mostly holds down the Mediaite beat. Posts early and often. Changes the subject. Big Drew’s errand boy.

http://bigjournalism.com/author/sgrammatico/

A little prehistoric, Mittens.  Go back to your cat-box.

My cat box is probably nicer than most peoples homes.

That actually sounded like Willard. Snarky. Snarly. Aloof. You’re getting good.

Trolls are people too my friend.

Smack! Pow! Bonk!

Set back the conservative movement years?  Thats just more of the same rhetoric that we heard in 2008 when it was the death of the GOP, “democrat rule for an entire generation”, blah blah blah.
 
Then 2010 happened.
 
But I do agree with you on his choice of target, there is so much he could attack on our current state of affairs.

I though you lived in your son’s unfinnished basement in Belmont Massachusetts. Remember back then?

If You Believe Gingrich Is A DC Outsider, ‘Then I Guess You Believe In Magic Underwear’

Where is the party going? Where are the debates, or solutions, on the education in this country, the out of control medical costs (killing “Obama care” sounds good but what does it mean?) the complete sell off of politicians in government, the immigration issue, the climate change problem (there is one and we can tackle it many ways but denying it is not a solution), unionized government workers, unending unemployment insurance, jobs going overseas etc. There are many issues that demand intelligent debate and solutions but I haven’t heard them yet and the freak show going on is just a distraction and inhabiting these issues from being discussed rationally.

As for the 2008, running Ms. Palin, someone supremely unqualified to hold any leadership position and the way the way republicans went batshit crazy over this dolt was depressing. So yes it is just a continuation of the downward slide of the conservative movement.

Unfinished is a relative term.  I have a couple of yachts that are “unfinished”.

Every issue you named has been raised and debated in at least one of 17 or so debates thus far.  Just because you may not like the proposed solutions, does not mean it has not been addressed. 

Besides, since the 2008 campaign was fueled by platitudes, generalities, slogans, straw-men, and visual symbolism, why would you be so surprised if “issues” are not discussed in 2012 to the depth that they should be.  It clearly was not a requirement to elective success three and a half years ago, but it is now?
 
Also, Palin was not running for president 2008…Obama was.  What did you find on his resume that made you feel he was not “supremely unqualified” to hold any leadership position.  Pending on your answer…I think we can then decide who is batshit crazy.

What an amazingly untalented being. Sad.

Mitt is just not likeable. Way too snarky.

The problem with Gingrich and his crazy actions and rants – seems he did inhale.

No not really, He is just fed up with no one listening to what he knows.

Exactly what Self Righteous said: Republicans HAVE brought up what they believe are solutions to those problems.

If you don’t like them, then argue why they are bad. Otherwise, I could easily list off what Conservatives think are the solutions for the issues you brought up. 

I mean, come on. You could watch the debate tonight and you know the issues of immigration, the economy, and healthcare are going to be brought up, and the candidates will address their solutions. Watch Mitch Daniels offer up the Republican response to The President’s SOTU address, and again you will hear what The Republican solutions are to these issues.

If you think their solutions suck, well then that’s one thing, and you can list off why.

But to say the Republicans haven’t said what their solutions are?!

Right up there with “Who Let The Dogs Out? Who … Who”.  

I think it’s not at all necessarily a bad thing for a political candidate to project as something of a square – but as a hopeless dweeb unable to resist channelling the hackneyed past? His act doesn’t ‘grow tiresome’ – it’s pre-tired.

Not Obama? Maybe, maybe not. Not black? Eh-yup.

Nothing in his resume fit the bill, but putting Palin on the ticket removed any agrument on those grounds.  And while you are correct she was not running for president, she was and is an idiot.  There is a difference in being unqualified and being both unqualified and stupid.  I am not in love with Mr. Obama and have a lot of problems with his leadership my friend. 

As far as the issues, I must have missed how they folks running would solve them and I thought  I was paying attention. 

Right; to be clear: Bain & Company, the business consulting operation of which Mitt “was” a partner, is the “creative” group  - the one that invested & invests in other businesses, including start ups like Staples, where all those “jobs” were “created” (though mostly low paying service jobs). Bain Capital, the private equity locust capitalism operation of which Mitt was the group leader, is the “destructive” group, the “wealth management” as opposed to “wealth creation” operation – the one where Bain CC made money for its investors (including Bain & Company) by pulling the old bait & switch move known to grifters, first on workers, then on their pension funds, then on further purchasers of the “re-tooled” remnants. Mittens was a junior in Bain & Company from when he joined it after law school until 1984, but insisted on getting senior partner status then before agreeing to run Bain Capital, and it’s that partner status, a profit sharing vehicle, that allows him to claim any job creation at all, despite that he had no direct involvement in any of those from 1984 on, except for his vote in partnership meetings. 

(To be completely accurate, he left Bain Capital briefly just prior to taking over the re-financing of the Salt Lake City Olympics, & a second time to run for the U.S. Senate against Ted Kennedy; but he’s never ceased commanding that partnership share in Bain & Company.).  

Note the distinction: Bain & Company is better poised to take advantage of a growing economy, whereas Bain Capital aimed to take advantage of economic hardship. So, I am going to grant Mitt his involvement, peripheral as it was, to the ‘job creation’ or business development aspect of the two-headed Bain beast – but stress that it was Bain Capital that got him that full partnership & where he made most of his millions. And Bain Capital was a very dirty company.

I don’t think Newt was a lobbyist in the strict sense.  

It’s not just that he never registered as a lobbyist; it’s that he made his ‘consulting fees’ really as an influence pedlar, which is an aspect of lobbying, but not precisely the same thing.  

As a registered lobbyist, given his reputation was toxic through most of the early Bush the Younger years, he would never have been welcomed into the White House or into Congressional offices. But as Citizen Newt, he had more freedom of movement to peddle his connections – &, also, importantly, to peddle his ASSUMED influence to the less suspecting & unwary.  

Mitt’s right on this one: Newt is as classically a Washington Insider as one might imagine.

Not black but sort of Mexican.

Who is and who is not an idiot is very subjective territory.  At risk of moving off on a tangent and opening up a door for Palin derangement Syndrome from the Peanut gallery, you need to remember what the context of the 2008 campaign.  One of the big talking points back then was “We need a Washington outsider!” and “no more of the same!”
 
 McCains answer to that was Palin who was an absolute unknown from a national standpoint.  But with that in mind, and ignoring her quitting the Governorship a year or so later, (which is a whole other conversation), like it or not, she had an impressive track record as a Governor up to that point.  …Which does not point to someone who could honestly be called an idiot. 
 
Did she make gaffes during the campaign, yes..everyone did, does she have a folksy style with goofy colloquialisms that can be superficially attacked, yes, but the rookie mistakes she made and was eviscerated for, cannot be compared to any other VP candidate that I can think of.  She is on the blame line for things that she never even said.  You may disagree with her ideology, but that does not make her an idiot.
 
Besides, if nothing on Obama’s resume fit the bill..which I agree, than why the hell wasn’t Hillary elected in the primaries over Obama, unless issues and qualifications were not the primary basis for decision among Democratic electorate?  Which would imply idiocy.

As partisan as you might be, I agree that the jab at Clinton was weak sauce on Romney’s part.

Are you under some delusion that you are not partisan? You keep calling people partisan.  In case your self awareness antenna is broken; you are one of the most partisan posters here. That’s all in good, it goes with the territory, but being a partisan and a hypocrite is a little much.  I mean it is almost like listening to Newt drone on about family values with a straight face.  I’m not judging you, just reporting the facts.

Gingrich is an outsider since his own party kicked him out of the leadership position. We just hope he stays an outsider by moving to Alaska.

Are you under some sort of delusion that I’ve claimed to not be partisan.  I’m simply pointing out where others are as well to ensure that no one mistakenly believes they are a “centrist” like some posters here have falsly stated.

Also, any thoughts to my previous post regarding the insane nature of the democrat electorate for voting for an unqualified candidate over a qualifaid candidate in the 2008 primaries?

I glad that you are self-aware enough to know the
hack you are.  That said, I have no idea
why voters ultimately make a voting decision, if did I could solve the riddle
of why Texas elects the most inappropriate people to govern their state.  Maybe voters were looking for something radically
different after the last four years of Bush. 
And the difference between HC and Obama on most progressive issues was
small, outside of their differences on how to use the military, which was a big
issue to many. 

That said, while I disagree with Obama on issues,
unlike you and your fellow travelers I do not suffer from Obama derangement.  I do not question his citizenship, his
religion, or his love for the country. 
He is not the Manchurian Candidate that far too many on the right
believe he is. The Birther/Kenyan/Muslim references can only come from one
place, and it is an ugly place that too many on the right will leverage to
garner votes.  David Frum had an article today
which pretty much sums up the current conservative mind set.

“The
conservative movement these past three years has shown an amazing ability to
forgive offenses once deemed unforgivable, providing they are committed by
“one of our own.” The contest is to prove that you are “one of
us.” That’s a contest to which Gingrich comes with large advantages.

The current
Republican Party seems to suffering from the same sickness that has them abandoning
any claim to principles as long at the person running can throw enough hate at
Obama and the government.  You can live
in your little bubble and deny it all day long, but it is happening and ultimately
there will be a price to pay. 

Hmm…where to begin.   I guess we should start on the topic of broken “self awareness antennas”  On one hand you call me a political hack, yet every post I’ve seen you grace this website with, basically talks to the DNC narrative, while attacking DNC opponents.   Project much?
 
Regarding your assessment of conservatives accepting what used to be unforgivable offenses if it were “one of their own”, you’re standing in a glass house with a hand full of stones.
 
Let’s make a comparison. 
 
Would you agree with the premise that racism is an unredeemable offense within the Democratic circles?  Yet, you voted for and vigorously defend a candidate who made openly bigoted statements in two autobiographies, was mentored by the black equivalent of a KKK grand wizard for 20 years, and married to a women who essentially wrote racial supremacy manifesto as her doctoral thesis.  What did the left have to say about that? Nothing…unless you count glassy eyed unquestioning admiration as a response.   
 
Additionally “you and your fellow travelers” routinely and constantly attack rush Limbaugh because of his history of chemical dependency (you conservatives have a drug addict as your leader!). Yet, your own selection for the presidency of the United states was a recreational cocaine user for years.  No issues there!  Rush Limbaugh and Oxycotin=BAD…..Obama and Cocaine= No problem!
 
So please don’t patronize us of compromising on principles to protect our own.
 
You have all these fairly descriptive theories as to what is wrong with the conservatives in America…and you sound very confident in their accuracy.  Such as when you inaccurately and indignantly proclaimed that the candidates where not discussing the litany of issues you listed off…
 
You know somehow…why conservatives think the way they do, and ridicule what you call poor decisions on who they support…. yet you cannot muster a tangible reason as to why you all jumped into the Bandwagon for Obama in 2008 over an openly more experienced and qualified Dem candidate?
 
Let me help you.
 
The Democrat Party seems to suffering from the same sickness that has them abandoning
any claim to principles as long at the person running can throw enough hate at
the previous president and the GOP.  You can live
in your little bubble and deny it all day long, but it is happening and ultimately
there will be a price to pay.

Yawn, I’m officially bored with your denial of reality.

Says the guy who indignantly proclaims that conservatives do not focus on pertinent issues that have been discussed at length in 17 debates while not being able to explain why the Democrat electorate votes for a resoundingly unqualified candidate over a competent one. 

But yeah…I’m the one that needs to get back to reality…and you ought to get back to sleep.