A big Gingrich win would be GOP nightmare
UPDATE: That was an impressive win. A 14-point margin for Newt Gingrich is probably more than the former speaker could dream of a week ago, and certainly was unimagined by the Romney camp. A lot of Republican Party officials will not sleep well tonight.
The voting booths close at 7 p.m. in South Carolina, and given movement in the most recent polls, it wouldn’t be surprising if the networks name Newt Gingrich the winner shortly thereafter.
If that happens — and particularly if Gingrich can push his margin into double digits, which seems plausible — the Republicans have themselves a serious problem. Newt will come out of South Carolina with the smell of napalm in his nostrils, and we all know what napalm smells like: victory.
The greater the Gingrich margin, the more it will validate his strategy of attacking Mitt Romney on the issue of his Bain-gotten wealth. As his high-school yearbook photo tells you, this is a man with a grandiose sense of destiny, and the closer he gets to seeing it realized, the more aggressive he will become.
And as I’ve pointed out before, the Republican establishment will have only itself to blame. They have trained their base to turn up its nose at even the slightest aroma of moderation. They have fed it on resentment, and instilled it with a deep disdain for the media. In short, they have turned it into an audience utterly susceptibel to a man of Newt’s talents and eccentricities.
On the other hand, if Romney wins, this thing’s all but over. We’ll know in a few hours.
– Jay Bookman
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josef
January 22nd, 2012
5:41 pm
DDR
Thanks for that…I had heard it used, but was not sure under what conditions it applied…
DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
5:51 pm
This AFC Championship game is a beast!! This is one of the best games ever!
DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
5:55 pm
josef it seems that the definition has morphed through time to become interchangeable.
josef
January 22nd, 2012
6:00 pm
occupation
Fascinating! I gave it a quick scan and have saved it…this is one I’ll come back to and give some attention to. Thanks.
Like a lot of gay people, I’m alternately amused and ticked off by what so many have fixed in their minds about what gay people “look like.” I have a friend we’ll call straight who says that the reason so many say that they don’t care what we do “in private” just don’t bring it up in public is because it disturbs them when somebody who looks and acts just like them, i.e. can’t be “identified” turns out to be gay, it challenges their own “look.”
Unmentionable is the archtypical easy going and relaxed “masculine” male and has spent a lifetime dealing with that. He, well at least when we were younger, was always getting hit on by “straight” men because, well, it can’t be homosexual if he ain’t “faggy!”
DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
6:13 pm
i HATE New England
DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
6:15 pm
josef – people say the same thing about my sister-in-laws (how straight they look)– I guess they think that if you’re a lesbian you have to run around in flannel shirts, boots, and big belt buckles or something….
getalife
January 22nd, 2012
6:17 pm
Ravens had it won but dropped the ball in the end zone.
Awesome game.
“Coulter: SC Voters Rather Have Snotty Remark Toward Obama Than Winning…”drudgey.
They eat their own.
Midori
January 22nd, 2012
6:31 pm
Getalife,
speaking of “eating”
the battle of the bulges:
Chris Christie: Gingrich ‘Has Been An Embarrassment To The Party’
getalife
January 22nd, 2012
6:39 pm
Midori,
They eat baby cons.
“Get in my belly” Fat B a s t a r d.
Welcome to the Occupation
January 22nd, 2012
6:41 pm
Hi josef, couldn’t agree more.
“I have a friend we’ll call straight who says that the reason so many say that they don’t care what we do “in private” just don’t bring it up in public is because it disturbs them when somebody who looks and acts just like them, i.e. can’t be “identified” turns out to be gay, it challenges their own “look”. ”
One of the things I think is so important about a progressive politics is to remember that people are willing go a long way towards ‘tolerance’ if it’s defined in a balkanized environment where boundaries are simply re-drawn (gerrymandered if you will) where you easily to give them their space, but in the end that kind of ‘tolerance’ is phony.
In other words maybe the most threatening thing to the bigot is not so much the ‘other’, but the fact that we can never really be sure we know the same the way we think we do or want to think we can.
kayaker 71
January 22nd, 2012
7:03 pm
Welcome, 6:41,
You are mind fu*king this to death in the typical liberal way. The majority of America is not tolerant much of anything that has to do with a “gay lifestyle”. Quite frankly, it is none of their business, I will grant you that. People can live any way they want as long as they are not breaking any laws…. but tolerant? I think not. Prop 8 in the most vibrant gay community in the whole country voted to define marriage being between a man and a woman. The California electorate passed it. They have voted in a “progressive” way for decades yet this issue struck a chord with them, as it has with the the majority of Americans. I have no problem with people of the same sex living together and sharing a life together….. it is simply none of my business what they do. I do have a problem calling it marriage however.
josef
January 22nd, 2012
7:06 pm
An interesting thing about being able “to pass” is often how much you learn about what people really think when they assume they’re among their “own kind.” Sure, you hear a lot of negative things, but in my experience I have been often pleased to find out just how many people will defend the “other” when that other has been maligned. It’s one of the reasons I am such an incurable optimist.
josef
January 22nd, 2012
7:08 pm
kayaker
WHY do you have a problem with calling it a marriage? Would that imply an equality you’re not willing to extend?
Adam
January 22nd, 2012
7:10 pm
Gabby Gifords resigning from Congress this week. :’(
Welcome to the Occupation
January 22nd, 2012
7:15 pm
yak 71, I don’t necessarily disagree with anything you say there, aside from your opening statement.
I’m not a liberal.
Brosephus
January 22nd, 2012
7:19 pm
Is a mind f**k the same thing as gettin’ brains?
josef
January 22nd, 2012
7:20 pm
occupation
Then, the same question to you, why not a marriage?
Welcome to the Occupation
January 22nd, 2012
7:21 pm
That said, yak, it all hangs on why the insistence on drawing a line at gay marriage.
If it’s for purposes of shoring up traditional marriage — as it almost always is — it will fail.
Better to abolish marriage altogether — and we may be moving in that direction anyway.
On the other hand, I disagree with some liberals to the extent that they think our understanding of traditional marriage can be preserved wholesale for gay marriage without it undergoing decisive changes in the process.
josef
January 22nd, 2012
7:27 pm
kayaker, occupation
So, somehow my relationship with Unmentionable is a threat? How so? If yours is a religious argument, so be it…but outside that paradigm, how can you justify that precept?
independent thinker
January 22nd, 2012
7:30 pm
The GOP has given two great choices:
Willard the flip flopper who will change his position on anything to suit the right wing media and voters and who will do anything to protect his unlimited wealth and who is the epitomy of the worst of capitalism or
The gasbag Newt a/k/a Porky Pig who will deny anything, has more baggage to explain than a fully loaded 747, has no moral character and has nonstop mental flatulence which his followers call brilliance; along with his floozy Callista and her plastic looks and Tiffany’s jewelry.
josef
January 22nd, 2012
7:32 pm
independent
Amen!
Midori
January 22nd, 2012
7:32 pm
When they say, “traditional Biblical marriage,” show them this.
http://www.bartcop.com/marriage-bible-tradition.jpg
http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?36631-When-they-say-quot-traditional-Biblical-marriage-quot-show-them-this.&s=b22c51d7bfc54cbe41831bbee31a720d
DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
7:32 pm
If Newt Gingrich is a representative of “straight” marriage, then you guys who advocate NOT allowing gays to marry, are gonna have a problem defending your stance.
TaxPayer
January 22nd, 2012
7:33 pm
My skull is limiting my greatness. — Newt
Midori
January 22nd, 2012
7:35 pm
would those stances be “wide” by any chance Debbie?
DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
7:37 pm
dang midori that traditional marriage chart gave me the hives. especially the part about “the female must submit”. Brrrrrr
Welcome to the Occupation
January 22nd, 2012
7:38 pm
josef, “So, somehow my relationship with Unmentionable is a threat”
On the contrary, my concern is that it needs to be MORE of a threat.
DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
7:38 pm
Taxpayer and Midori – You two are sooooo baddddd…..
JKL2
January 22nd, 2012
7:39 pm
welcome- do you really think that Barack Obama is a “marxist”?
Obama himself acknowledges that he was drawn to socialists and even Marxists as a college student. He continued to associate with Marxists later in life, even choosing to launch his political career in the living room of a self-described Marxist, William Ayers, in 1995, when Obama was 34.
“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully,” Obama wrote in his memoir, “Dreams From My Father.” “The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.”
After college, Obama states lived on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, venturing to the East Village for what he called “the socialist conferences I sometimes attended at Cooper Union.”
Never read any of his books, but I’ll take his word for it since he wrote it.
Of course patterns of behavior mean nothing to the left…
DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
7:40 pm
On the contrary, my concern is that it needs to be MORE of a threat
Why?
josef
January 22nd, 2012
7:41 pm
occupation
Okay…got it, I think…
Mick
January 22nd, 2012
7:43 pm
brosephus
Some people just live different, this is unreal-
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/01/19/watch-as-a-motorcycle-rides-on-top-of-the-world/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cnetscape%7Cdl6%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D129382
Kamchak
January 22nd, 2012
7:44 pm
Of course patterns of behavior mean nothing to the left…
Unlike you, I’m not gonna pretend that I or anyone speaks for the entire “left”, but it’s those silly fear mongering labels that mean nothing to me.
Just sayin’.
DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
7:47 pm
HOMOPHOBIA: THE FEAR THAT GAY MEN WILL TREAT YOU THE WAY YOU TREAT WOMEN
stands for decibels
January 22nd, 2012
7:48 pm
does anyone think that Newt can beat Romney? If so, can he beat Obama?
Anything’s possible. However, it’s hard for me to believe that Mitt will continue stumbling as he’s done the past couple of weeks (obviously, if he loses FL, he’s in pretty serious doo-doo.)
As for Newt beating Obama in a general? Newt is pretty well known by the public. He’s polled horribly in head-to-head matchups. Absent Obama being caught in bed with a dead boy, it’s hard to imagine Newt beating him.
Jm
January 22nd, 2012
7:52 pm
DDR
Find something intelligent to say
0311/1811
January 22nd, 2012
7:52 pm
“Steven Tyler, lead singer of the Boston-based, Hall-of-Fame rock and roll band Aerosmith and an “American Idol” judge, was brought in to sing the national anthem before kickoff of the New England Patriots AFC championship game at home. Well, sing is an overstatement. It was more of a warbled scream.”
Has anyone thought of treating our National Anthem with just a little more respect and inviting the U.S. Marine Corps Drum & Bugle Corps instead of these knuckleheads ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs-c5GDccJw (one minute mark)
JKL2
January 22nd, 2012
7:57 pm
midori- all I can say is Neal Boortz has some loyal and faithful suckers
Never listened to or read anything by him if that was a reference to me.
“A dramatic change in the face of the Democratic Party: The New York Times “Opinion Pages” reports that for the first time in next year’s election the party will “explicitly abandon the white working class.”
According to plans by party operatives, Democrats hope to cobble together a center-left coalition made up of highly educated voters such as lawyers, professors and teachers – along with African-American and Hispanic lower-income voters, according to the Times.”
Any guess what they mean by lower income voters?
Vote obama. Free money for everyone!
Bruno
January 22nd, 2012
7:59 pm
JamVet–Can’t believe you were back on board the blog at 9:58 AM.. PB and I didn’t end the party till way past 4 AM.
In case any of you here were wondering, JamVet is a veritable chick magnet. It took PB and I a little while to get him going last night, but the girls were literally throwing themselves on him before the night was out, no crap.
josef
January 22nd, 2012
8:00 pm
Jm
DDR is one of the more intelligent posters hereabouts, imo. And I’ll say that even when she and I are squared off in a tangle over differing opinions.
Kamchak
January 22nd, 2012
8:01 pm
Vote obama. Free money for everyone!
Vote Republican: It’s Easier Than Thinking
Jm
January 22nd, 2012
8:01 pm
Josef 8 I beg to differ
She’s full of nonsense
josef
January 22nd, 2012
8:02 pm
jkl
Boortz is about the biggest jackass around here in Atlanta…crude, rude, lewd and socially unacceptable as the old queens would say…
0311/1811
January 22nd, 2012
8:02 pm
Now, I don’t know if some of these figure are exact (may be more by now) but if they are ever close …………….. :
“Occupy Party vs Tea Party Comparison
The Democrats and the liberal media have said that the Occupy Party was a civic group “just like” the Tea Party.
I report……you decide…….
OCCUPY PARTY/TEA PARTY
ARRESTS 4149+ /0
RAPES 12 /0
DAMAGE $10,000,000.00 / $0
PUBLIC DEFECATION YES / NO
ANTISEMITIC RANTS 12 / 0
COST TO TAXPAYERS ( by 11/9) $19,327,487.00+ / $0
PUBLIC MASTURBATION 3 / 0
MOLOTOV COCKTAILS THROWN 10 / 0
FIGHTS STARTED YES / NO
CHILDREN EXPLOITED YES / NO
POLICE CARS DAMAGED 2 / 0
PUBLIC DRUNKENNESS YES / NO
DRUG POSSESSION ARREST YES / NO
CONCEALED WEAPON ARREST YES / NO
DRUG OVERDOSE YES / NO
THEFTS YES / NO
BURGLARIES YES / NO
VANDALISM ARREST YES / NO
TRESPASSING ARREST YES / NO
NON FATAL SHOOTINGS 1 / 0
PUBLIC URINATION YES / NO
URINATION ON OTHERS YES / NO
ISRAELI FLAGS BURNED 2 / 0
AMERICAN FLAGS BURNED 1 / 0
AMERICAN FLAGS DANCED ON 1 / 0
AMERICAN FLAG DESECRATION 25 / 0
FELONY ASSAULT ON AN EMT 1 / 0
HEAD/BODY LICE OUTBREAKS 1 / 0
TUBERCULOSIS OUTBREAKS 1 / 0
MURDER 1 / 0
SUICIDES 1 / 0
SHOTS FIRED AT WHITE HOUSE 1 / 0
SCABIES OUTBREAKS 1 / 0
OBAMA ENDORSED IT YES / NO
PELOSI ENDORSED IT YES / NO
CAIR ENDORSED IT YES / NO
SOCIALIST PARTY ENDORSED YES / NO
NAZI PARTY ENDORSED YES / NO
MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ENDORSED YES / NO
COMMUNIST PARTY ENDORSED YES / NO
BIDEN ENDORSED YES / NO
HUGO CHAVEZ ENDORSED YES / NO
BLACK PANTHERS ENDORSED YES / NO
HEZBOLLAH ENDORSED YES / NO
MARXIST UNION ENDORSED YES / NO
9/11 TRUTHER ENDORSED YES / NO
BOLSHEVIK ENDORSED YES / NO
IRAN GOVERNMENT ENDORSED YES / NO
AYATOLLAH ENDORSED YES / NO
NORTH KOREA ENDORSED YES / NO
FARRAKHAN ENDORSED YES / NO
NATION OF ISLAM ENDORSED YES / NO “
Bruno
January 22nd, 2012
8:03 pm
And just for the record, Bruno called it first here on the JB blog:
Bruno
December 14th, 2011
8:35 pm
President Gingrich.
Kind of rolls off the tongue, no??
http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2011/12/14/the-keystone-pipeline-will-not-create-20000-new-jobs/?cp=14#comment-807904
Welcome to the Occupation
January 22nd, 2012
8:04 pm
DDR, josef, well, let me put it this way. When its biggest defenders are folks like Andrew Cuomo, we need to ask ourselves what’s going on here.
But I am nonetheless a support of it.
Welcome to the Occupation
January 22nd, 2012
8:05 pm
When I was scrolling up and saw : BLACK PANTHERS ENDORSED YES / NO HEZBOLLAH ENDORSED YES / NO MARXIST UNION ENDORSED YES / NO 9/11 TRUTHER ENDORSED YES / NO BOLSHEVIK ENDORSED YES / NO IRAN G …”
I just knew. Had to be scout.
Welcome to the Occupation
January 22nd, 2012
8:09 pm
JKL2: ““A dramatic change in the face of the Democratic Party: The New York Times “Opinion Pages” reports that for the first time in next year’s election the party will “explicitly abandon the white working class.”
According to plans by party operatives, Democrats hope to cobble together a center-left coalition made up of highly educated voters such as lawyers, professors and teachers – along with African-American and Hispanic lower-income voters, according to the Times.”
I saw that earlier but did not save the link, now it’s not showing. Do you have that link, JKL?
If this is true and if it succeeds, it will have huge implications.
It has Douglas Schoen’s and Evan Bayh’s and Andrew Cuomo’s and other sham leftists’ hands all over it.
Midori
January 22nd, 2012
8:09 pm
anddddddddddddddddd
JKL shows up right on time to strengthen my point…..
josef
January 22nd, 2012
8:10 pm
Jm
Oh, I disagree strongly. DDR is highly and widely read, a lady of culture and breeding when allowed to be, well spoken (written) and that lil gal (DDR you know what I’m talking about!) knows more about music than just about anybody around…and like I said, I’ve tangled with her and come out on the losing end, and, no, she didn’t gloat…
St Simons - we're on Island time
January 22nd, 2012
8:10 pm
you can pick up a radio station or two here from north of Savannah-
sometimes truth is funnier than fiction – the local reporter:
“In a state that is 66% white, 28% black and 6% other, the voters in the
Republican primary were 99% white. Sully (have no idea who sully is) has
a picture of the single black voter in the Republican primary, but he may
have just come to fix the heat pump, though.”
Bruno
January 22nd, 2012
8:12 pm
The greater the Gingrich margin, the more it will validate his strategy of attacking Mitt Romney on the issue of his Bain-gotten wealth.
Kind of interesting to see Jay’s take on things sometimes, just to see how his mind works. A Study In Libthink, if you will.
If you want to know the real reason Newt surged, Jay, you can trace it back to one (paraphrased) quote: “If you want 99 weeks of unemployment and food stamp, vote for Obama. If you want a job, vote for me.”
It’s that simple. Obama’s message of victimhood, dependency, and class warfare isn’t working anymore.
josef
January 22nd, 2012
8:12 pm
BRUNO
Mark my words, you’ll live to eat yours!
0311/1811
January 22nd, 2012
8:13 pm
Welcome to the Occupation :
But you dodge the point by taking a swipe at me.
Are those endorsements true or not ?
DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
8:14 pm
thanks josef! I called JM out earlier today as a reading comprehension illiterate and he’s been pissy with me ever since.
Go figure!
JM – if you don’t like my posts, just scroll by them. This is after all a free society. Duh!
Welcome – Andrew cuomo notwithstanding, if we are truly to live out the meaning of our creed, then everyone should have equal access to every facet enjoyed by every american. to deny a significant portion of americans a basic human right, yet expect for them to pay their taxes, fight in our wars and stand by our side, is downright ridiculous.
Jm
January 22nd, 2012
8:14 pm
The single irrefutable good thing that will come from mitts candidacy:
Highlighting the insanity and stupidity of the tax code clearly for people
Carried interest may be done for
getalife
January 22nd, 2012
8:14 pm
Scout hole.
Jm
January 22nd, 2012
8:16 pm
Of course there are alternative to the carried interest
Only a wholesale revision of the tax code will fix the stupidity
JKL2
January 22nd, 2012
8:16 pm
kamchak- it’s those silly fear mongering labels that mean nothing to me
You mean like “evil rich” “the evil Republicans are going to take away your health care, Social Security, and welfare” etc…
just sayin..
Soothsayer
January 22nd, 2012
8:17 pm
Well, I’m sorry to see Baltimore lost. I really thought they were going to pull it out.
Great San Fran/New York game.
One thing I always enjoy watching the games on Fox is the adverts for their insipid television shows. I always wonder: what kind of brain-dead imbecile actually watches this crap? Someone obviously. I think they must have an (R) beside their name.
Bruno
January 22nd, 2012
8:17 pm
Mark my words, you’ll live to eat yours!
Well, if Jay wins, it’s going to cost me a hundred smackers to the charity of his choice. I’m almost certain he’ll force me to send it to the IRS for voluntary debt reduction just for spite.
At least I’m putting my money where my mouth is. That’s more than you can say about most here. Hell, I even paid JamVet off last night in advance just in case Obama gets reelected. Gave him a taste of partying Bruno style.
Kamchak
January 22nd, 2012
8:18 pm
You mean like “evil rich” “the evil Republicans are going to take away your health care, Social Security, and welfare” etc…
Too funny!
I’m not gonna defend words that I have not used.
I may have been born at night, but it wasn’t last night, sport.
Jm
January 22nd, 2012
8:18 pm
DDR go re read the whole article
O illiterate one you are
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 22nd, 2012
8:19 pm
Obama’s message of victimhood, dependency, and class warfare isn’t working anymore</I.
Victimhood? From the party that whines abotu talking their party back, the evil liberal media…. But great job of hitting all the dog whistles in one sentence!
getalife
January 22nd, 2012
8:19 pm
Hell, I even paid JamVet off last night in advance just in case Obama gets reelected
0311/1811
January 22nd, 2012
8:20 pm
getalife:
No …….. occupy movement is trash.
getalife
January 22nd, 2012
8:20 pm
Oopps.
Way to go JamVet.
No welching.
getalife
January 22nd, 2012
8:23 pm
Scout,
Are you the con that filed that complaint against our President in a Atlanta court with that birther garbage?
Talk about trash.
JKL2
January 22nd, 2012
8:23 pm
scout – Occupy Party vs Tea Party Comparison
So what you’re saying is the Tea Party is evil and ruining America?
Bruno
January 22nd, 2012
8:23 pm
Well, Keep, I guess we’ll find out in due time. I’m betting that you Libs here are bat-shyyte crazy and are grasping at any straw to deflect from your own candidate’s meager record.
You want to make any wagers??
Buckeyein Ga
January 22nd, 2012
8:24 pm
Jay, you can trace it back to one (paraphrased) quote: “If you want 99 weeks of unemployment and food stamp, vote for Obama. If you want a job, vote for me.”
———–naw the surge happened after Newt battled Juan W. and John K. S.C. seem to want a fighter.
Brosephus
January 22nd, 2012
8:25 pm
Mick
I tried to play that video, but my pc keeps locking up. Looking at that still shot, I know that’s something I wouldn’t attempt.
0311/1811
January 22nd, 2012
8:25 pm
getalife:
Not me …….. but like I said yesterday I would like it to go forward NOT for this election but for 2016.
We need a definitive decision from the Supreme Court on the Constitutional meaning of “natural born citizen” so we don’t have these problesm in the future.
Do you have a problem with that ?
DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
8:25 pm
Jm I’ve already READ the whole article; that’s how I know you have a reading comprehension problem. Hospitlization does not equal Immigration.
Here let me “dumb it down” for you.
Hospital = Sick. Illiterate = You.
0311/1811
January 22nd, 2012
8:26 pm
JKL2:
I don’t know how you got that from those stats unless you read them backwards …………
getalife
January 22nd, 2012
8:27 pm
Scout,
He was born in the United States.
You cons never get over losing.
JKL2
January 22nd, 2012
8:27 pm
midori – JKL shows up right on time to strengthen my point…..
Obviously missed my 7:57
Stay Clueless and uneducated. It’s your Democratic right.
Jm
January 22nd, 2012
8:27 pm
DDR
He’s being kicked out of his own country
He will be here to stay clueless
Jay
January 22nd, 2012
8:27 pm
“f you want to know the real reason Newt surged, Jay, you can trace it back to one (paraphrased) quote: “If you want 99 weeks of unemployment and food stamp, vote for Obama. If you want a job, vote for me.”
It’s that simple. Obama’s message of victimhood, dependency, and class warfare isn’t working anymore.
Nice try, Bruno. But there are a couple of logic problems with that argument.
First, Newt wasn’t running against Obama in the primary. He was running against Mitt. Something gave Newt a considerable advantage over Mitt in South Carolina, and it couldn’t have been the message you just cited.
Because Mitt is making the same argument.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 22nd, 2012
8:29 pm
wager about Obama’s reelection? What do you propose Bruno? Or are you proposing a bet about whether “libs” are going bat-shyte crazy and “deflecting”?
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2012
8:29 pm
Debbiedoright,
Did you know that zero in cajun is actually spelled zereaux. Twenty-one is still spelled twenty-one though.
Brosephus
January 22nd, 2012
8:30 pm
Scout fails to mention the difference in the average age of the Tea Party participant when compared to the Occupy participant. Those differences could be as simple as one group not having the collective energy to do anything other than wave signs and fuss. Regardless to who believes in what, they are all Americans at the end of the day, and they are simply expressing their right to free speech. If you don’t like that, then maybe you need to re-check your “American” values.
Bruno
January 22nd, 2012
8:30 pm
naw the surge happened after Newt battled Juan W.
I’m not saying that hurt, Buckeye, but I think people are keying in and agreeing with his core message about self-sufficiency.
DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
8:30 pm
We need a definitive decision from the Supreme Court on the Constitutional meaning of “natural born citizen” so we don’t have these problesm in the future. Do you have a problem with that ?
JFK, whose father I think was an immigrant, was president and I can’t find any legal challenges to his presidency. Why now? Why THIS president? And I do have a problem with it.
Thulsa Doom the bookmaker
January 22nd, 2012
8:31 pm
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 22nd, 2012
8:29 pm
wager about Obama’s reelection?
Obama’s odds of winning reelection are about the same as those of a librul stepping outside and being shat upon on by an eagle, a crow, and a woodpecker all in the same day.
DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
8:34 pm
You cons never get over losing
Yeah like a Alabama Fan…….
Evening Doom – I HATE Alabama Doom. Before I was ambivalent about them, but now I’m joining my husband, (Auburn) in my unconditional HATE of “Bama”. Roll OVER Tide.
josef
January 22nd, 2012
8:34 pm
The only explanation I’ve been able to come up with for what happened in SC, and I’m serious as a heart attack here, is mass hysteria. And the more I listen to the victory chants, the more I believe that. We’ve got folks coming in having turned their backs on the very principles they have so long so vociferously defended. It’s really quite scary…
DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
8:34 pm
JM can see into the future!! Quick JM what’s the winning Lotto Numbers next week?
Kamchak
January 22nd, 2012
8:35 pm
You want to make any wagers??
The professionals are wagering here.
They only give Gingrich a 10% chance of winning.
JKL2
January 22nd, 2012
8:35 pm
Bruno- Obama’s message of victimhood, dependency, and class warfare isn’t working anymore.
Keep disagrees with you. That means it;s obviously still working (especially with union members, lower income families and minorities).
Vote obama. Free money for everyone!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 22nd, 2012
8:36 pm
DDR, its a simple game…. one of these Presidents is not like the other ones. Can you guess which it is?
Jm
January 22nd, 2012
8:36 pm
Mitt will have to clean up the tax code
He will not be popular with his former PE buddies
Thulsa Doom- political prisoner advocate
January 22nd, 2012
8:38 pm
Debbiedoright,
Free Harvey!
http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/Are-you-an-Alabama-fan-Get-your-Free-Harvey-Updyke-shirt-2350.html
josef
January 22nd, 2012
8:39 pm
The Romany Lady says she’s making no predictions at all…
Bruno
January 22nd, 2012
8:39 pm
Nice try, Bruno. But there are a couple of logic problems with that argument.
First, Newt wasn’t running against Obama in the primary. He was running against Mitt. Something gave Newt a considerable advantage over Mitt in South Carolina, and it couldn’t have been the message you just cited.
Because Mitt is making the same argument.
Perhaps if you read a transcript of the debate, you would see many similarities between Newt’s and Mitt’s pitch. And, if you ONLY had a written transcript, then your “logical” complaints would be valid.
But, if you recall, the message we receive when we see and hear someone speak is estimated to be 95% emotional and only 5% factual in terms of impact. Mitt is giving the appearance of a man on the run, with both his offense and defense breaking down simultaneously. Meanwhile, Newt openly challenges to a debate in which Obama can keep his teleprompter, Newt will just rely on his intellect. In the end, only one candidate can carry the message to the voters. I, along with 40% of SC, believe that man should be Newt.
JKL2
January 22nd, 2012
8:40 pm
Scout-
Did you see my “occupy” shirt?
http://www.rangerup.com/occupy.html
DebbieDoRight
January 22nd, 2012
8:40 pm
I’m not saying that hurt, Buckeye, but I think people are keying in and agreeing with his core message about self-sufficiency.
what really ticked me off about that whole exchange is the millions of black people that newtered dissed. he acts like 99% of black people:
a) don’t want to work.
b) are on welfare.
c) are lazy.
i hope one day his fat azz is laying up in the emergency room and his black doctor suddenly gets a case of “lazy” and forgets how to work.
Thulsa Doom- political prisoner advocate
January 22nd, 2012
8:41 pm
“Vote obama. Free money for everyone!”
I t’aint buying it. To my knowledge Obama still hasn’t filled up Peggy Joseph’s gas tank or paid her mortgage!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36×8rTb3jI
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2012
8:44 pm
“what really ticked me off about that whole exchange is the millions of black people that newtered dissed”
I dunno Debbie. He managed to diss a lot of white people too seeing as how there are more whites on welfare than blacks- 38% to 37% with Hispanics 20% of the welfare roles.
JKL2
January 22nd, 2012
8:45 pm
Brosephus- they are all Americans at the end of the day, and they are simply expressing their right to free speech
Except for the part about breaking the law and being a drain on the tax payers. I thought you were against criminals, or is that job security?