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The latest issue of New Yorker magazine hit a home run with its cover showing Mitt Romney driving a car with Rick Santorum strapped on top in a dog house. That’s exactly where Mitt Romney wants to put Rick Santorum. Hilarious.
New Yorker Magazine Cover Shows Mitt Romney Driving Car with Rick Santorum in Dog House
Dyler Byers: “Somewhere, the Seamus-obsessed New York Times columnist Gail Collins is busy looking for an 8″ x 11-1/2″ picture frame.” (H/T Politicalwire)
Mitt Romney Narrow MI Victory Really a Win for President Barack Obama, Odds of Deadlocked GOP Convention Increase (Wikipedia)
Mitt Romney’s narrow victory in his birth-state of Michigan is proof that he is still not the first choice of American voters to go up against President Obama in November. If anything, I think both he and Rick Santorum were big losers last night. Romney — because he couldn’t break over 40 percent in the state in which he was born and Santorum — because his ridiculous positions insulting women and his inability to give a stump speech and stay on message. If you ask me, President Obama was the big winner last night. Mitt Romney’s narrow win in Michigan is a referendum on the lack of faith conservatives and independents have in a Mitt Romney nomination. The odds of a deadlocked GOP convention are increasing as each day passes.
Sean Trende: “We’re finally close enough to Super Tuesday to get a sense of how the overall delegate count might work out in the GOP primary. The end result: Assuming that none of the four candidates drops out of the race, it looks increasingly as if no one will be able to claim a majority of the delegates. The candidate with the best chance is Mitt Romney, but he probably wouldn’t be able to wrap up the nomination until May or even June. The other candidates will probably have to hope for a brokered convention.”
Maureen Dowd: ”Mitt Romney needs to be left alone to limp across the finish line, so he can devote his full time and attention to losing to President Obama. With Sanctorum and Robo-Romney in a race to the bottom, the once ruthless Republican Party seems to have pretty much decided to cave on 2012 and start planning for a post-Obama world.”
“Not even because Obama is so strong; simply because their field is so ridiculously weak and wacky. John McCain has Aeschylated it to “a Greek tragedy.” And he should know from Greek tragedy. “It’s the negative campaigning and the increasingly personal attacks,” he told The Boston Herald, adding, “the likes of which we have never seen.” When a man who was accused of having an illegitimate black child in the 2000 South Carolina primary thinks this is the worst ever, the G.O.P. is really in trouble.”
I have no doubt Mitt Romney will be the GOP presidential nominee, but he will be a very weak one, who uses dirty politics to get ahead, while having a real problem with connecting with the middle class. Rick Santorum is a joke and the more the guy speaks, the more blatant hypocrisy oozes from his pores. This is one of the worst Republican slate of presidential candidates I have seen in a long time. I suspect most Republicans aren’t too thrilled either. I’m with Maureen Dowd, I’m looking forward to 2016, post-Obama.
Pot Calling Kettle Black: Mitt Romney Accuses Rick Santorum of Playing Dirty Politics with Robocalls
QUOTE OF THE DAY: ”Sen. Santorum did something today which I think is deceptive and a dirty trick.” Wow, a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
– Mitt Romney, quoted by CNN, on his Santorum using robocalls to court the support of crossover Democrats.
Mitt Romney is the same person who also said he sank to that “new low” when he voted in Democratic primaries to influence the race. Sorry Mitt Romney, you can’t have it both ways.
Daily Beast Adam Winkler Thinks Clarence Thomas a Viable Candidate for GOP Presidential Nomination (Wikipedia)
CLARENCE THOMAS FOR PRESIDENT. LMAO! Adam Winkler, a columnist with the Daily Beast, seems to think Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas would be a viable presidential candidate. Um, really? That’s just too funny. If you think Rick Santorum is every Democrats dream of an ideal candidate to meet Obama in November, they would be foaming at the mouth to sink their teeth into Clarence Thomas and on so many fronts.
Daily Beast: While Chris Christie and Jeb Bush might be fine candidates, perhaps the Republicans should consider a more inspired and game-changing pick: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Far-fetched? Maybe. But a Thomas candidacy would energize Republicans in a way that few other Republicans can and would steal tremendous media attention from President Barack Obama.
Unlike the flip-flopping Mitt Romney, Thomas is a true conservative who could appeal to all of the segments of the Republican coalition. Tea Partiers would see Thomas as one of their own. Not only has he been a consistent voice to curtail the power of the federal government but his wife Ginni, a Tea Party activist herself, has been a leader in the fight to repeal Obama’s healthcare reform law. Wall Street Republicans would be buoyed by Thomas’s opposition to environmental regulation and his free market philosophy. Blue-collar workers could embrace Thomas’s up-by-his-bootstraps story of rising from incredible poverty–until he was 7, his home had no indoor plumbing–and his votes to end affirmative action and preserve the Second Amendment. Evangelicals will like that he’s against abortion, gay rights, and limits on prayer in school.
Wow, not only would blacks run from Clarence Thomas in droves, I suspect women and Hispanics would too. Remember the whole Anita Hill scandal? Women won’t look too kindly on Clarence Thomas and his sidekick, Ginny. Hah. This is so far-fetched, it’s hilarious. Either Adam Winkler has been drinking the wrong type of Kool-Aid, or the Daily Beast has now become The Onion. Wow, all that Clarence Thomas for President talk has gotten me worked up. I need a can of Coca Cola.
Rick Santorum Says President Obama College Plan Aimed at "Indoctrination" of American Youth, But He Knows Best Wikipedia
GOP presidential “frontrunner” Rick Santorum went on Glenn Beck’s Internet-only television show to say that President Obama wants to “indoctrinate” our young people in his desire to see more young people go to college. Um, really? Was he indoctrinated when he went from undergraduate studies to law school? Rick Santorum has just proven once again, he will say whatever it takes to win, even if it goes against positions he has taken in the past.
DALLAS, Texas – Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said Thursday that President Obama wants more young adults to go to college so they can undergo “indoctrination” to a secular world view.
In an hour-long interview with conservative television host Glenn Beck, Santorum also defended his record on abortion and his vote in favor of President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind education law.
On the president’s efforts to boost college attendance, Santorum said, “I understand why Barack Obama wants to send every kid to college, because of their indoctrination mills, absolutely … The indoctrination that is going on at the university level is a harm to our country.”
He claimed that “62 percent of kids who go into college with a faith commitment leave without it,” but declined to cite a source for the figure. And he floated the idea of requiring that universities that receive public funds have “intellectual diversity” on campus. Source
In other words, we shouldn’t listen to President Obama because he’s trying to “indoctrinate” our kids by encouraging higher education, but we should listen to Rick Santorum and his views because he knows best, right? Intellectual stifling at its best.
GOP "Frontrunner" Rick Santorum Imploded During CNN Presidential Debate, Hit Repeatedly on "Strange" Positions (Wikipedia)
I found last night’s CNN presidential debate boring and nauseating at the same time. It was interesting to see the Mitt Romney-Ron Paul tag team at work against Rick Santorum, who I thought imploded last night. But, the GOP is getting exactly what it deserves with this slate of mediocre candidates and with Rick Santorum’s implosion. If this is the frontrunner, then President Obama will be laughing all the way to a second term, easily. Rick Santorum would be a good candidate for the nomination because he doesn’t have a lot of baggage like Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney, but he has taken some rather crazy positions. Here’s an excerpt from Rise of the Center on his positions (these positions show why Rick Santorum is dangerous for not only women, but for America):
The CNN presidential debate was lackluster at best and shows that the Republican Party is in disarray, no matter how they try to paint a different picture. Here are some comments from political pundits courtesy of Political Wire:
The Daily Beast has video clips of the seven best moments.
Paul Begala: “Santorum was clearly thrilled to be in the spotlight. But he spent way too much time splitting hairs and explaining the protocol and procedures of Washington in defense of earmarks and defending his support for Specter. As he has done in the past, he couldn’t resist picking a gratuitous fight with Ron Paul. That’s called punching down, and it rarely works. He played too much defense and too little offense. His job should have been to use every opportunity to define Romney as a feckless liberal and himself as a principled conservative. He didn’t accomplish that.”
Roger Simon: “This was the first debate in which Santorum sat atop the national polls. And he was nervous. Very nervous. So nervous that he looked like a graduate of the Bob Dole School of Debating, in which you are allowed to speak only in the impenetrable language of Capitol Hill.”
Howard Kurtz: “In the end, the debate did little to shake up the race, perhaps because the candidates–seated this time, close to one another–muted their criticism in what was the last such face-off before Super Tuesday. Even moderator John King, famously roughed up by Gingrich in their last encounter, emerged unscathed.”
Andrew Sullivan: “Maybe I’ve lost my mind after all these debates, or maybe I secretly want him to win (because he would finally expose all the insanity that has been building in this party and needs venting). But I thought Santorum was on form tonight. My sense is that he will not lose his current momentum after tonight. I didn’t feel Newt tonight. Romney doesn’t wear well. Paul was great and funny and human.”
I am dying for this circus to come to an end. I guess after Super Tuesday, March 6, we could see someone drop out, or if not, it’s on to the convention. The GOP clown car continues to make its rounds across the U.S.
Mitt Romney will love Ron Paul’s new television ad attacking Rick Santorum over his purported fiscal conservatism. The closing scene tells the story: “Rick Santorum a fiscal conservative?” the narrator says before an image of Big Foot fills the screen. “Fake.” LOL. This infighting is only working in President Obama’s favor. When will we see a serious contender for the GOP presidential nomination?
Rick Santorum is wading in treacherous waters by questioning President Obama’s Christianity, saying his “agenda is based on some phony theology. Not a theology based on the Bible. A different theology.” Yeah, Rick, your theology is the best one that will lead followers to the pearly white gates. Rick Santorum also said, ”in the Christian church there are a lot of different stripes of Christianity,” he said. “If the president says he’s a Christian, he’s a Christian.” Couldn’t we make the same argument about his brand of Christianity?
Rick Santorum Invokes Jeremiah Wright, Accuses Media of Double Standard Over Foster Friess Comments
Rick Santorum invokes Rev. Jeremiah Wright and accuses the media of a “double standard” over the fallout from Foster Friess comments about about birth control during an appearance on MSNBC: ”This contraceptive thing, my gosh, it’s so inexpensive. You know, back in my days, they used Bayer aspirin for contraception. “The gals put it between their knees, and it wasn’t that costly.” Foster Friess has since apologized for his ill-advised “joke.”
Rick Santorum accused the media of defending President Obama for comments his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, made from the pulpit.
The Hill: ”Santorum was reacting to criticism of comments Thursday by Forster Friess, who made ill-advised remarks about birth control. He said he shouldn’t be held accountable for every comment by one of his supporters, and said the media were playing “gotcha politics.”
“Santorum admitted that “it was a bad joke — it was a stupid joke,” but maintained that it was not “reflective of me or my record on this issue.” Friess is the largest donor to the super-PAC supporting Santorum’s candidacy.”
Well, that comment and his handling in the aftermath could be the kiss of death for his presidential aspirations if he doesn’t get in front of the controversy. Pointing fingers at then-candidate Barack Obama’s handling of the Jeremiah Wright scandal won’t serve him well. In fact, he comes across as pretty petty and childish. Um, Rick Santorum, Jeremiah Wright is so 2008. Come with something else. Just saying….
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GOP Can No Longer Afford to Avoid Rush Limbaugh Problem in Wake of Ugly “Slut” Comment About Sandra Fluke
GOP Can No Longer Afford to Avoid Rush Limbaugh Problem in Wake of Ugly "Slut" Comment About Sandra Fluke (Photo credit: Bearman 2007)
We knew the day was coming when the GOP would have to confront its Rush Limbaugh problem head-on and they can’t keep dancing around the issue. Rush Limbaugh’s basic argument about the government paying for contraceptives wasn’t unfounded. In fact, it is a legitimate policy issue, but the way in which he denigrated Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke to prove his point was not only despicable but misogynistic at best. The government should not be paying for birth control pills any more than it should be footing the bill for Viagra.
The media outlets that carry Rush Limbaugh’s radio show shouldn’t be let off the hook any more than the show’s advertisers. We have to stand for something and not fall for anything. Respect should be demanded of ALL women. It’s very telling when we have yet to hear from the so-called women of the GOP such as Sarah Palin. Let’s not forget when David Letterman made sex jokes about Sarah Palin’s daughter, all hell broke loose and he was forced to issue an apology. Well, Rush Limbaugh should be held to the same standard and not just dismissed as an “entertainer,” as Rick Santorum said. We can’t give some people a pass and punish others. Don Imus was kicked off the air when he called the Rutgers University women’s basketball players “nappy-headed hos.” You remember the outrage that erupted, right? Then the same treatment should be afforded to Rush Limbaugh.
Rush Limbaugh doubled down claiming that the left was going crazy. Well, so are some on the right, including John Boehner and Carly Fiorina. He changed the premise of the discussion to something ugly that the Republican Party cannot ignore. Calling a woman, who he knew nothing about a “slut” and a “prostitute” was vitriolic and low. In essence, Rush Limbaugh has called ALL women who share the same views as Sandra Fluke sluts and prostitutes. How would he like someone to call his mother, his sister (if he has one), his wife or a female cousin a slut?
The bottom line is that he represents the conservative mindset in this country to a large degree and the Republican Party cannot afford to be tied to this wingnut. Rush Limbaugh needs to remember that karma is a beeyotch and what goes around, comes around. His day is coming and many will rejoice at whatever curve ball life throws him. It’s funny that Newt Gingrich claims to stand for so much, but really stands for nothing. He was pretty vocal about President Obama apologizing for the recent Koran burning in Afghanistan, but mum on Rush Limbaugh calling Sandra Fluke a slut.