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    complete_kaizencomplete_kaizen Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Unless Obama eats a baby on stage while nuking NYC, he's getting reelected, end of story.

    Could always pull a Brietbart style hit and run the last moment before the election. Doesn't even have to be true just has to take long enough to disprove it that it lasts till after the election. It's sleazy and cheap but the ends justify the means.

    There are ways to make this work. ;-)

    And there is always keeping your fingers crossed for another economic collapse or terror attack. And while that would suck might as well make lemonade out of it.

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    TwoQuestionsTwoQuestions Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    hanskey wrote: »
    Um, guys, complete_kaizen's join date is today.

    Right now all I'm getting from him is "I HATE LIBERALS AND THEY SHOULD BE DRIVEN FROM GOVERNMNT WHARRGARBL!!" I think I saw a post in there mentioning what he'd like done if his team wins, but I forget what was.

    Kiazen, if you're reading, cut the 'us vs them' rhetoric a notch. You're not helping anyone win anything, least of all yourself and your team. Hatred alone can't unseat a President, you need something for people to vote for that's perceived as better. Simply not being a moderately popular president won't get you into the big chair. Hell as Kerry found out not being an unpopular President won't bag you the nice digs either!

    The only guy who has a chance in hell of winning the general is Romney, and he doesn't stand for much. Unless Obama eats a baby on stage while nuking NYC, he's getting reelected, end of story.

    Yeah. Shepharding Romney through the nomination process is going to get really, really ugly and perhaps ruin his chances at winning the general. Who knows when the next Swift Boat will find it's mark in Republican infighting?

    The Dems also are getting pretty good at messaging too. It's not hard against this 'field', when the most insightful commentary you can give is...WTF?

    I might dig up the video later, it was the Dem response to the GOP debate.

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    mrt144mrt144 King of the Numbernames Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Unless Obama eats a baby on stage while nuking NYC, he's getting reelected, end of story.

    Could always pull a Brietbart style hit and run the last moment before the election. Doesn't even have to be true just has to take long enough to disprove it that it lasts till after the election. It's sleazy and cheap but the ends justify the means.

    There are ways to make this work. ;-)

    How'd that work out for you in 2008? :lol:

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    complete_kaizencomplete_kaizen Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    mrt144 wrote: »
    Unless Obama eats a baby on stage while nuking NYC, he's getting reelected, end of story.

    Could always pull a Brietbart style hit and run the last moment before the election. Doesn't even have to be true just has to take long enough to disprove it that it lasts till after the election. It's sleazy and cheap but the ends justify the means.

    There are ways to make this work. ;-)

    How'd that work out for you in 2008? :lol:

    How'd that hope and change and healthcare work out for you guys in 2010:P

    I'll give Obama one thing, he's helped us get more actual conservatives in power and united us far more than we ever were. Sure some of them are nuts, and sure the political climates is more toxic. But we got back the congress, Democratic politicians are scared for their literal lives in some cases, and the loonies usually vote with us when it counts on the real issue, taxes!

    I can live with that. It's not perfect but it's vastly better than where we were in 2008.

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    TwoQuestionsTwoQuestions Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Unless Obama eats a baby on stage while nuking NYC, he's getting reelected, end of story.

    Could always pull a Brietbart style hit and run the last moment before the election. Doesn't even have to be true just has to take long enough to disprove it that it lasts till after the election. It's sleazy and cheap but the ends justify the means.

    There are ways to make this work. ;-)

    And there is always keeping your fingers crossed for another economic collapse or terror attack. And while that would suck might as well make lemonade out of it.

    What could he say that isn't being screamed from the rooftops already? Remember, this is a guy who won despite supposedly not being American, being a Muslim terrorist radical Christian Nazi Athiest Socialist Communist who would do everything he can to destroy us all, etc.

    Anything extreme enough to catch attention would be so far in right-field it'd never catch on with anyone except the bunker and guns crowd.

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    mrt144mrt144 King of the Numbernames Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    I'll make you a wager:

    You stop posting from now until election day.

    If Obama loses you can come back here and I will stop posting completely.
    If Obama wins then nothing here changes and you avoid the shame of being a 2 time loser.

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    MagnumCTMagnumCT Registered User regular
    edited June 2011

    And there is always keeping your fingers crossed for another economic collapse or terror attack. And while that would suck might as well make lemonade out of it.

    Going for broke, eh?

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    TwoQuestionsTwoQuestions Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    mrt144 wrote: »
    Unless Obama eats a baby on stage while nuking NYC, he's getting reelected, end of story.

    Could always pull a Brietbart style hit and run the last moment before the election. Doesn't even have to be true just has to take long enough to disprove it that it lasts till after the election. It's sleazy and cheap but the ends justify the means.

    There are ways to make this work. ;-)

    How'd that work out for you in 2008? :lol:

    How'd that hope and change and healthcare work out for you guys in 2010:P

    I'll give Obama one thing, he's helped us get more actual conservatives in power and united us far more than we ever were. Sure some of them are nuts, and sure the political climates is more toxic. But we got back the congress, Democratic politicians are scared for their literal lives in some cases, and the loonies usually vote with us when it counts on the real issue, taxes!

    I can live with that. It's not perfect but it's vastly better than where we were in 2008.

    Have you considered a career in organized crime? Just think, no taxes!

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    complete_kaizencomplete_kaizen Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Unless Obama eats a baby on stage while nuking NYC, he's getting reelected, end of story.

    Could always pull a Brietbart style hit and run the last moment before the election. Doesn't even have to be true just has to take long enough to disprove it that it lasts till after the election. It's sleazy and cheap but the ends justify the means.

    There are ways to make this work. ;-)

    And there is always keeping your fingers crossed for another economic collapse or terror attack. And while that would suck might as well make lemonade out of it.

    What could he say that isn't being screamed from the rooftops already? Remember, this is a guy who won despite supposedly not being American, being a Muslim terrorist radical Christian Nazi Athiest Socialist Communist who would do everything he can to destroy us all, etc.

    Anything extreme enough to catch attention would be so far in right-field it'd never catch on with anyone except the bunker and guns crowd.

    I'm sensing another cock shot in the future and some college students. Worked so far, could work again. Maybe an intern. There are ways, again, doesn't have to be true, just has to last long enough. Someone could take one for the team and land some jail time.

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    BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    mrt144 wrote: »
    Unless Obama eats a baby on stage while nuking NYC, he's getting reelected, end of story.

    Could always pull a Brietbart style hit and run the last moment before the election. Doesn't even have to be true just has to take long enough to disprove it that it lasts till after the election. It's sleazy and cheap but the ends justify the means.

    There are ways to make this work. ;-)

    How'd that work out for you in 2008? :lol:

    How'd that hope and change and healthcare work out for you guys in 2010:P

    I'll give Obama one thing, he's helped us get more actual conservatives in power and united us far more than we ever were. Sure some of them are nuts, and sure the political climates is more toxic. But we got back the congress, Democratic politicians are scared for their literal lives in some cases, and the loonies usually vote with us when it counts on the real issue, taxes!

    I can live with that. It's not perfect but it's vastly better than where we were in 2008.

    Tea partiers tanking the GOP's extremely easy victories in NY-23 and the other special election races counts as "[uniting] us far more than we ever were"?

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    hanskeyhanskey Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    When another person gets curb stomped at a political rally I think the water will be the right temperature for a win, but no sense in boiling the pot too soon.
    WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!!

    Don't you fucking dare praise curb-stomping - that is not and never will be acceptable. You might as well just say "next time we kill a n-word at a rally then we will win"

    The only people who do that are fucking Shite Supremacists.

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    complete_kaizencomplete_kaizen Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    mrt144 wrote: »
    Unless Obama eats a baby on stage while nuking NYC, he's getting reelected, end of story.

    Could always pull a Brietbart style hit and run the last moment before the election. Doesn't even have to be true just has to take long enough to disprove it that it lasts till after the election. It's sleazy and cheap but the ends justify the means.

    There are ways to make this work. ;-)

    How'd that work out for you in 2008? :lol:

    How'd that hope and change and healthcare work out for you guys in 2010:P

    I'll give Obama one thing, he's helped us get more actual conservatives in power and united us far more than we ever were. Sure some of them are nuts, and sure the political climates is more toxic. But we got back the congress, Democratic politicians are scared for their literal lives in some cases, and the loonies usually vote with us when it counts on the real issue, taxes!

    I can live with that. It's not perfect but it's vastly better than where we were in 2008.

    Have you considered a career in organized crime?

    Last I checked it was liberals that were getting death threats, got shot, and had violence directed at them, not our team. We don't have to worry about that shit, your side is the one that has to sleep with one eye open after their votes. Our guys can go home and bang the maid, like Arnold.

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    mrt144mrt144 King of the Numbernames Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Burtletoy wrote: »
    mrt144 wrote: »
    Unless Obama eats a baby on stage while nuking NYC, he's getting reelected, end of story.

    Could always pull a Brietbart style hit and run the last moment before the election. Doesn't even have to be true just has to take long enough to disprove it that it lasts till after the election. It's sleazy and cheap but the ends justify the means.

    There are ways to make this work. ;-)

    How'd that work out for you in 2008? :lol:

    How'd that hope and change and healthcare work out for you guys in 2010:P

    I'll give Obama one thing, he's helped us get more actual conservatives in power and united us far more than we ever were. Sure some of them are nuts, and sure the political climates is more toxic. But we got back the congress, Democratic politicians are scared for their literal lives in some cases, and the loonies usually vote with us when it counts on the real issue, taxes!

    I can live with that. It's not perfect but it's vastly better than where we were in 2008.

    Tea partiers tanking the GOP's extremely easy victories in NY-23 and the other special election races counts as "[uniting] us far more than we ever were"?

    Delusional and proud of it!

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    RaggaholicRaggaholic Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    So are you saying Rick Santorum (or other social conservatives) is in favor of or has sponsered legislation outlawing unintentional abortion, such as miscarriage and stillbirth? A quick Google search seems to indicate otherwise. He appears to even favor cases such as rape, incest or life of the mother, although he has stated he still believes it to be taking a life.
    Sorry, that doesn't add up. His wife was given pitocin, which induces delivery. Doing this on a non-viable fetus is the same thing as killing it. Saying that they didn't have the "intention" of terminating the pregnancy is like saying the guy on trial for murder who fully knowingly and willingly shot this other guy in the head five times didn't have the intention of killing him.

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    AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    By the way, Georgia takes money from New York. Not the other way.

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    TwoQuestionsTwoQuestions Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Unless Obama eats a baby on stage while nuking NYC, he's getting reelected, end of story.

    Could always pull a Brietbart style hit and run the last moment before the election. Doesn't even have to be true just has to take long enough to disprove it that it lasts till after the election. It's sleazy and cheap but the ends justify the means.

    There are ways to make this work. ;-)

    And there is always keeping your fingers crossed for another economic collapse or terror attack. And while that would suck might as well make lemonade out of it.

    What could he say that isn't being screamed from the rooftops already? Remember, this is a guy who won despite supposedly not being American, being a Muslim terrorist radical Christian Nazi Athiest Socialist Communist who would do everything he can to destroy us all, etc.

    Anything extreme enough to catch attention would be so far in right-field it'd never catch on with anyone except the bunker and guns crowd.

    I'm sensing another cock shot in the future and some college students. Worked so far, could work again. Maybe an intern. There are ways, again, doesn't have to be true, just has to last long enough. Someone could take one for the team and land some jail time.

    ...but his wife is hot. That'd be like accusing Kucinich (damn that name's hard to spell) of cheating. But hey, go for it. I'm sure Stewart and Colbert could use some material.

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    MagnumCTMagnumCT Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Coming from a fan of the art of trolling, good god man, have some self-respect. Where is your craft? Good trolling should be like pickpocketing. Your "effort" reads more like a nuclear strike.

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    mrt144mrt144 King of the Numbernames Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    mrt144 wrote: »
    Unless Obama eats a baby on stage while nuking NYC, he's getting reelected, end of story.

    Could always pull a Brietbart style hit and run the last moment before the election. Doesn't even have to be true just has to take long enough to disprove it that it lasts till after the election. It's sleazy and cheap but the ends justify the means.

    There are ways to make this work. ;-)

    How'd that work out for you in 2008? :lol:

    How'd that hope and change and healthcare work out for you guys in 2010:P

    I'll give Obama one thing, he's helped us get more actual conservatives in power and united us far more than we ever were. Sure some of them are nuts, and sure the political climates is more toxic. But we got back the congress, Democratic politicians are scared for their literal lives in some cases, and the loonies usually vote with us when it counts on the real issue, taxes!

    I can live with that. It's not perfect but it's vastly better than where we were in 2008.

    Have you considered a career in organized crime?

    Last I checked it was liberals that were getting death threats, got shot, and had violence directed at them, not our team. We don't have to worry about that shit, your side is the one that has to sleep with one eye open after their votes. Our guys can go home and bang the maid, like Arnold.

    Arnold is a RINO.

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    complete_kaizencomplete_kaizen Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Unless Obama eats a baby on stage while nuking NYC, he's getting reelected, end of story.

    Could always pull a Brietbart style hit and run the last moment before the election. Doesn't even have to be true just has to take long enough to disprove it that it lasts till after the election. It's sleazy and cheap but the ends justify the means.

    There are ways to make this work. ;-)

    And there is always keeping your fingers crossed for another economic collapse or terror attack. And while that would suck might as well make lemonade out of it.

    What could he say that isn't being screamed from the rooftops already? Remember, this is a guy who won despite supposedly not being American, being a Muslim terrorist radical Christian Nazi Athiest Socialist Communist who would do everything he can to destroy us all, etc.

    Anything extreme enough to catch attention would be so far in right-field it'd never catch on with anyone except the bunker and guns crowd.

    I'm sensing another cock shot in the future and some college students. Worked so far, could work again. Maybe an intern. There are ways, again, doesn't have to be true, just has to last long enough. Someone could take one for the team and land some jail time.

    ...but his wife is hot. That'd be like accusing Kucinich (damn that name's hard to spell) of cheating. But hey, go for it. I'm sure Stewart and Colbert could use some material.

    Weiners wife was hot too, so was Arnolds wife.

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    mrt144mrt144 King of the Numbernames Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    MagnumCT wrote: »
    Coming from a fan of the art of trolling, good god man, have some self-respect. Where is your craft? Good trolling should be like pickpocketing. Your "effort" reads more like a nuclear strike.

    That's what I was thinking at first but I'm really curious to see far he goes. Advocating for terrorism or economic collapse are lines he has already crossed.

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    PantsBPantsB Fake Thomas Jefferson Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Dudes.

    Stop feeding the troll.

    His join date is today and he immediately starts posting ridiculous and irrational statements clearly intended to be inflammatory and provoke a response. The odds of him still being around tomorrow are slim. There's no need to sink to his level, he's going to go away on his own.

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    hanskeyhanskey Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Raggaholic wrote: »
    So are you saying Rick Santorum (or other social conservatives) is in favor of or has sponsered legislation outlawing unintentional abortion, such as miscarriage and stillbirth? A quick Google search seems to indicate otherwise. He appears to even favor cases such as rape, incest or life of the mother, although he has stated he still believes it to be taking a life.
    Sorry, that doesn't add up. His wife was given pitocin, which induces delivery. Doing this on a non-viable fetus is the same thing as killing it. Saying that they didn't have the "intention" of terminating the pregnancy is like saying the guy on trial for murder who fully knowingly and willingly shot this other guy in the head five times didn't have the intention of killing him.

    Infection did not induce, but pitocin was used to induce by wife to birth our first.

    Look the procedure was essentially the same as a "partial-birth" abortion, it just was a "full-birth" abortion.

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    BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Raggaholic wrote: »
    So are you saying Rick Santorum (or other social conservatives) is in favor of or has sponsered legislation outlawing unintentional abortion, such as miscarriage and stillbirth? A quick Google search seems to indicate otherwise. He appears to even favor cases such as rape, incest or life of the mother, although he has stated he still believes it to be taking a life.
    Sorry, that doesn't add up. His wife was given pitocin, which induces delivery. Doing this on a non-viable fetus is the same thing as killing it. Saying that they didn't have the "intention" of terminating the pregnancy is like saying the guy on trial for murder who fully knowingly and willingly shot this other guy in the head five times didn't have the intention of killing him.

    Again, the free portion of the article that was linked by bum didn't really convey that this is what happened.

    As I said, it is probably somewhere behind the paywall, but all the free section really said was that Santorum has always been an anti-choice advocate.

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    RaggaholicRaggaholic Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    MagnumCT wrote: »
    Coming from a fan of the art of trolling, good god man, have some self-respect. Where is your craft? Good trolling should be like pickpocketing. Your "effort" reads more like a nuclear strike.
    Seriously. I've seen more subtle trolls on Fark. I can't believe so many people are engaging him.

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    complete_kaizencomplete_kaizen Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    hanskey wrote: »
    When another person gets curb stomped at a political rally I think the water will be the right temperature for a win, but no sense in boiling the pot too soon.
    WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!!

    Don't you fucking dare praise curb-stomping - that is not and never will be acceptable. You might as well just say "next time we kill a n-word at a rally then we will win"

    The only people who do that are fucking Shite Supremacists.

    People are born black and they are born gay, and there is nothing wrong with either. People choose to be a liberal at some point and there are some wrong things about that. I'm not advocating curb stomping people, but if it's hit that point it show's we're "fired up and ready to go" so to speak. I mean if you're willing to risk jail time to beat the bastards you're probably going to vote no?

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    mrt144mrt144 King of the Numbernames Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    What I really want to know is whether or not the Republican Party can get Tea Partiers to vote for someone they don't like or whether Tea Partiers will act like butthurt HRC supporters who threatened to not vote for Obama for myriad butthurt reasons.

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    hanskeyhanskey Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    PantsB wrote: »
    Dudes.

    Stop feeding the troll.

    His join date is today and he immediately starts posting ridiculous and irrational statements clearly intended to be inflammatory and provoke a response. The odds of him still being around tomorrow are slim. There's no need to sink to his level, he's going to go away on his own.

    No he should be banned for his psychotically racists comment about curb checking people at rallies.

    Now he has the gall to try to defend something that sick and indefensible.

    Be glad I'm not good enough at hacking to find you IRL, pal.

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    PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    mrt144 wrote: »
    What I really want to know is whether or not the Republican Party can get Tea Partiers to vote for someone they don't like or whether Tea Partiers will act like butthurt HRC supporters who threatened to not vote for Obama for myriad butthurt reasons.

    NY 23 already showed when they aren't derped too enough they'll vote for another. We'll see if that actually applies in the general as well.

    I could see Bachman losing the nom but going on to the general anyway.

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    complete_kaizencomplete_kaizen Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    hanskey wrote: »
    PantsB wrote: »
    Dudes.

    Stop feeding the troll.

    His join date is today and he immediately starts posting ridiculous and irrational statements clearly intended to be inflammatory and provoke a response. The odds of him still being around tomorrow are slim. There's no need to sink to his level, he's going to go away on his own.

    No he should be banned for his psychotically racists comment about curb checking people at rallies.

    So a white person curb stomping a white person is somehow an act of racial animosity :? On what planet in what dimension is that true?

    Somebody got stomped for being a liberal, of the same race. And then you all dragged lynching and the N word into it. Says a lot about what's on your mind, put down the noose and take off the sheets.

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    BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    mrt144 wrote: »
    What I really want to know is whether or not the Republican Party can get Tea Partiers to vote for someone they don't like or whether Tea Partiers will act like butthurt HRC supporters who threatened to not vote for Obama for myriad butthurt reasons.

    Are tea partiers quick on uptake?

    They already cost the GOP 3 races since the election.

    And they cost another two during the midterms.

    Doesn't seem like they are the type to give up once they don't get their way.

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    LawndartLawndart Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Preacher wrote: »
    mrt144 wrote: »
    What I really want to know is whether or not the Republican Party can get Tea Partiers to vote for someone they don't like or whether Tea Partiers will act like butthurt HRC supporters who threatened to not vote for Obama for myriad butthurt reasons.

    NY 23 already showed when they aren't derped too enough they'll vote for another. We'll see if that actually applies in the general as well.

    I could see Bachman losing the nom but going on to the general anyway.

    Oh, a Teaper third party candidate would be a dream come true.

    I think Bachmann might be a bit too attached to her House seat to mount it, though.

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    Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Yeah Christine O'Donnel pretty well cemented just how politically savvy the tea party is.

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    RaggaholicRaggaholic Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Preacher wrote: »
    mrt144 wrote: »
    What I really want to know is whether or not the Republican Party can get Tea Partiers to vote for someone they don't like or whether Tea Partiers will act like butthurt HRC supporters who threatened to not vote for Obama for myriad butthurt reasons.

    NY 23 already showed when they aren't derped too enough they'll vote for another. We'll see if that actually applies in the general as well.

    I could see Bachman losing the nom but going on to the general anyway.
    I do too, especially since she's not going to run for Congress again. The only way the Pubs combat this is by putting her or another Tea-Party candidate on the ticket.

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    enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Burtletoy wrote: »
    Raggaholic wrote: »
    So are you saying Rick Santorum (or other social conservatives) is in favor of or has sponsered legislation outlawing unintentional abortion, such as miscarriage and stillbirth? A quick Google search seems to indicate otherwise. He appears to even favor cases such as rape, incest or life of the mother, although he has stated he still believes it to be taking a life.
    Sorry, that doesn't add up. His wife was given pitocin, which induces delivery. Doing this on a non-viable fetus is the same thing as killing it. Saying that they didn't have the "intention" of terminating the pregnancy is like saying the guy on trial for murder who fully knowingly and willingly shot this other guy in the head five times didn't have the intention of killing him.

    Again, the free portion of the article that was linked by bum didn't really convey that this is what happened.

    As I said, it is probably somewhere behind the paywall, but all the free section really said was that Santorum has always been an anti-choice advocate.

    I kind of hastily linked to the most legitimate mainstream news source. Here's the original Kos (front page, if that makes a difference to you, and it should) article, with link to the blog that summarizes the article that gave me the New Yorker link.

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    BullioBullio Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Lawndart wrote: »
    Wait, Ralph Reed is still relevant?

    Did I just fall asleep in the Hot Tub Time Machine again?

    He's behind this. Which got most if not all of the GOP primary contenders to show.

    He had more than that in attendance.
    Heavyweights in Congress appeared as well—House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, budget guru Paul Ryan (and his staff director), head of the National Republican Campaign Committee Rep. Pete Sessions, along with a litany of lower-ranking members.

    The head of the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, delivered a long speech. Strategists like Grover Norquist, Dick Morris, Frank Luntz, and the leaders of several national Tea Party organizations made appearances.

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    AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    mrt144 wrote: »
    What I really want to know is whether or not the Republican Party can get Tea Partiers to vote for someone they don't like or whether Tea Partiers will act like butthurt HRC supporters who threatened to not vote for Obama for myriad butthurt reasons.

    You do remember how Palin happened, right?

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    mrt144mrt144 King of the Numbernames Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Burtletoy wrote: »
    mrt144 wrote: »
    What I really want to know is whether or not the Republican Party can get Tea Partiers to vote for someone they don't like or whether Tea Partiers will act like butthurt HRC supporters who threatened to not vote for Obama for myriad butthurt reasons.

    Are tea partiers quick on uptake?

    They already cost the GOP 3 races since the election.

    And they cost another two during the midterms.

    Doesn't seem like they are the type to give up once they don't get their way.

    Self Righteous indignation seems like the founding principle of the group but I wonder if when it comes to the Big Dance that'll be the case. I feel like going to a Tea Party board and asking but given that the internet is for porn (and lulz) it might be hard to get a real answer.

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    PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Burtletoy wrote: »
    mrt144 wrote: »
    What I really want to know is whether or not the Republican Party can get Tea Partiers to vote for someone they don't like or whether Tea Partiers will act like butthurt HRC supporters who threatened to not vote for Obama for myriad butthurt reasons.

    Are tea partiers quick on uptake?

    They already cost the GOP 3 races since the election.

    And they cost another two during the midterms.

    Doesn't seem like they are the type to give up once they don't get their way.

    It is funny that the tea party was sold as some independent group mad about taxes, but suspiciously if they don't vote straight ticket R ideals they don't line up with the tea party, curious.

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    complete_kaizencomplete_kaizen Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Burtletoy wrote: »
    mrt144 wrote: »
    What I really want to know is whether or not the Republican Party can get Tea Partiers to vote for someone they don't like or whether Tea Partiers will act like butthurt HRC supporters who threatened to not vote for Obama for myriad butthurt reasons.

    Are tea partiers quick on uptake?

    They already cost the GOP 3 races since the election.

    And they cost another two during the midterms.

    Doesn't seem like they are the type to give up once they don't get their way.

    The Tea Party is just a bunch of twits who get their funding from big business. Yank the money and it goes away. It depends how far the funders want to push it, who knows.

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    mrt144mrt144 King of the Numbernames Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    mrt144 wrote: »
    What I really want to know is whether or not the Republican Party can get Tea Partiers to vote for someone they don't like or whether Tea Partiers will act like butthurt HRC supporters who threatened to not vote for Obama for myriad butthurt reasons.

    You do remember how Palin happened, right?

    Vaguely. I remember it being a pandering play but the whole "Icon of the Tea Party" thing wasn't until she already had joined the ticket, right?

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