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The first wave of presidential hopefuls hit New Hampshire this week, with Buddy Roemer and Jon Huntsman both visiting.
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Thhis is the Sign that the Rapture IS happening!
If the Rapture does happen, which of the two Jon Huntsmen will ascend? I hope it's the new, Republican primary version, because the old governor wasn't half bad.
Before the month is out we'll have Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich and Michele Bachmann.
And the first CNN/Union Leader/WMUR Candidate Debate is scheduled for 13 June.
James D. Macdonald @ #3 -
Before the month is out we'll have Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich and Michele Bachmann.
Let's play political Jeapordy!
"I'll take Right-wingers Without A Hope in Hell of Getting the Nod, Alec."
Steve C:
To mangle an old joke...
Question: What do you call "A Good Start?"
Answer: Politicians Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich and Michele Bachmann at the bottom of the Marianas Trench.
"And the answer is, "Appeared on 'Conversation with the Candidates' on WMUR on the 12th of May."
"Who is Rick Santorum," Alex.
Just checked, and a page about the politician Santorum is still only #3 in the search results on both Google and Bing. The fight-bigots-with-humor effort lead by Dan Savage is still winning!
janetl: Just checked, and a page about the politician Santorum is still only #3 in the search results on both Google and Bing. The fight-bigots-with-humor effort lead by Dan Savage is still winning!
Better than that: Santorum complained about it to journalists during the big Conservative clam-bake a couple of months ago, insuring that Savage's version will get a bigger boost...
I just want to have a brief gloat here and note that the phrase "President Santorum" featured in a certain story of mine (written in 1999, published in 2001), which got turned into a novel published in 2005.
Now I'm going to wipe the smirk from my face and hope (because I don't hold with prayer) that you aren't so unlucky as to see that phrase in any context other than a work of fiction.
How many of them are bringing long-form birth certificates?
#12 ::: thomas :
My guess? None of 'em.
And Making Light scoops CNN again!
Note we had Herman Cain at 12:02 pm (above), while CNN only got the word at 1:29 pm.
Jim, that's particularly good given that Cain made his announcement literally on CNN's doorstep.
Not that we need politics? Politics is life!
(as my Mum told me)
James D. Macdonald @ 10: I saw what you did there! As I'm not a moderator, I hesitated to use the power of Making Light on that frothy fellow. Thank you.
Sandy B had posted this URL over on the Open Thread - http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/18/santorum-mccain-doesnt-understand-interrogation/
Apparently Savage was way too kind to Santorum.
janetl #17: A link you or I posted would have the "nofollow" tag, to keep spammers from tapping the power of Making Light. Presumably Jim can get around that.... I also note unhappily that the site is stale -- the last posts are circa 2004.
Isn't the political season starting relatively late this cycle?
As a member of the Pro-Amusement wing of the Democratic Party, I would like to strongly encourage Michele Bachmann to impose her lack of vision on the Republican platform for 2012. For the lulz!
Rob #21:
The problem is, even a complete idiot or lunatic running on one of the two big parties' tickets has a non-negligible chance of winning. Let the Republicans nominate Palin/Bachman, and there's always some chance that they'll still win. An economic meltdown, a well-timed sex or bribery scandal, a terrorist attack, any of those things might win the Republicans the election, and deliver the white house into the hands of people who are, at best, cynically playing to the worst of their base, and at worse, are actually delusional and ignorant. (And of course there's no reason only one of those can be true....)
Albatross #22: And that's ignoring the issue of electoral fraud, which... well, some of us still haven't forgotten Shrub vs. Gore, and not just the court decision.
The nominating process has been fairly good at pruning out the true nutcases.
My take is that some of the more moderate GOP possibilities will sit this one out (like Daniels), and that Romney will most likely get the Republican nod.
The election should be interesting; Obama is not an ideologue, and is far more interested in (mostly) pragmatic approaches to problems.
Rob Thornton #21: We've already had Herman Cain* manage to take two sides on the question of Palestine in the same interview. Bachmann has some stiff competition.
I am curious: who is writing the script for the Republican primary campaign, Lewis Carroll, WoodAllen, Mel Brooks, or Franz Kafka?
* A former student of mine pointed out to me that Cain has already staked out the Alan Keyes/Stanley Crouch position by declaring that Barack Obama isn't a real black man. The Republican Party will shortly be declaring that black voters are racist because they won't vote for real black people.
Fragano Ledgister: I am curious: who is writing the script for the Republican primary campaign, Lewis Carroll, WoodAllen, Mel Brooks, or Franz Kafka?
If it was Carroll there would be more logic in it, if it was Allen there'd be more funny in it, if it was Brooks there's be more funny in it accompanied by fart and/or body function jokes, and if Kafka was doing it there would be more jokes if his brother hadn't been at the manuscripts before the publisher got them. (I read a piece sometime ago that a group of translators have finally been given access to the original manuscripts and they're funny as hell.) I suspect that it's being scripted by the fine minds who wrote "The San Pedro Beach Bums," which is still considered the worst television series ever shown on a national network.
Steve C:
Perhaps. Neither McCain nor Palin seemed to me to be functioning at 100% during the last election. Previously, in Reagan's second term, I think there's some evidence that he was undergoing some age-related mental decline, though I'm not sure that was clear (or clearly distinguishable from just being a pretty old guy under a lot of pressure and with the kind of brutal schedule required for a political campaign) when he ran for his second term.
Charlie @11: It may not endure as long as "the door dilated", but "President Santorum's America" is certainly an economical way to describe a dystopia, that's for sure.
Tim Pawlenty visited Milford, New Hampshire, today. He did not mention Sarah Palin even once. Not even when asked about her.
Steve C @ #4:
Nate Silver isn't so sure about that:
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/26/the-simple-case-for-taking-herman-cain-seriously/
Oops, sorry about that. Should've tagged the link to Nate Silver.
And....
I've had my first Anti-Charlie-Bass Pro-Ann-Kuster robocall push-poll last night.
Looks like they're going to be hitting the Give Tax Cuts To The Rich And Make Up the Difference by Defunding Medicare line.
Fragano Ledgister @25:
I am curious: who is writing the script for the Republican primary campaign, Lewis Carroll, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, or Franz Kafka?
Hmm. Since Allen and Brooks are still alive, only Carrol and Kafka were available for reanimation. Zombie script writers would explain a lot.
[Poster pauses to consider Alice in Wonderland as written by Kafka. Fortunately, I am incapable of writing this pastiche on oh so many levels. Where is Mike Ford when we need him?]
Sarah Flippin' Palin will be down on the seacoast tomorrow, attending a barbecue. I won't be.
On this morning's local TV news: One anti-Charlie-Bass commercial, and one anti-Barack-Obama commercial.
The first Republican candidates' debate is scheduled for Monday in Manchester, as news arrives that Newt Gingrich's New Hampshire strategist has left the campaign. Folks who've left include all six of Newt's paid staff in Iowa.
(Others who bailed on Newt today include one of his national co-chairs, his campaign manager, and his press secretary. Early in the season for this sort of stuff.)
The Newtster was in Hudson, New Hampshire yesterday. We'll see what Monday brings.
Laugh about it, shout about it, when you've got to choose
any way you look at it you lose.
35 and 36: Are James and Jim two different people? Or is it one person posting slightly different kinds of things, and I haven't grasped the pattern yet?
James D. and Jim have the same Twenty Most Recent Posts, and link to the same home-page.
The difference is in which computer (the laptop or the desk model) they're posting from.
Guess I coulda checked that...but they still could be alters of the same person!
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