The [2012 Republican Primary] Thread

Hacksaw

This is the thread for discussing the eponymous 2012 GOP Primary and the maddening effect it's having on the American people at large. Please come and discuss with one another who the next Not Romney is going to be, or how big a joke Rick Santorum is, or how no one seems to realize John Huntsman is still a candidate.

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Hacksaw

Reserved for list of current candidates (which I will fill out once I get back from work today).

matt has a problem

It is terrifying that Rick Santorum is a candidate. It is terrifying that enough people support Rick Santorum for him to be polling in third place.

Jacobkosh

Let's try and keep this on-track and topical.

dbrock270

What about Gary Johnson?

Hacksaw

...Who?

Captain Carrot

He plays guitar for Republican Candidates Nobody Has Heard Of, with Buddy Roemer on drums and Fred Karger on vocals. McCotter was covering the keyboard, but he left due to creative differences.

Hacksaw

I thought McCotter played the banjo.

matt has a problem

It's actually MC Cotter, he beatboxed.

Gandalf_the_Crazed

Holy shit we made it to 100 pages. Good hustle out there, everyone.

Couscous

http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/12/31/396180/gingrich-explains-why-hes-now-a-climate-denier-im-an-amateur-paleontologist/

At a town hall in Atlantic, Iowa, Saturday afternoon, Gingrich gave an unusual reason for his present denial of man-made global warming. “I’m an amateur paleontologist,” Gingrich said. “I spend a lot of time looking at the Earth’s temperature for a very long time. I’m a lot harder to convince than just looking at a computer model.” Professional paleontologists, who have spent a lot more time than Gingrich looking at the Earth’s temperature, are convinced. “Few credible scientists now doubt that humans have influenced the documented rise in global temperatures since the Industrial Revolution,” the American Quaternary Society wrote in 2006.

I love it when candidates claim to do shit that no one in their right mind would do. I also love it when a passing interest makes a person qualified to comment on something as if an expert.

dojango

dbrock270 wrote:

What about Gary Johnson?

I thought he dropped out and endorsed Paul. Don't know whether his supporter will follow, however.

KalTorak

Couscous wrote:

http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/12/31/396180/gingrich-explains-why-hes-now-a-climate-denier-im-an-amateur-paleontologist/

At a town hall in Atlantic, Iowa, Saturday afternoon, Gingrich gave an unusual reason for his present denial of man-made global warming. “I’m an amateur paleontologist,” Gingrich said. “I spend a lot of time looking at the Earth’s temperature for a very long time. I’m a lot harder to convince than just looking at a computer model.” Professional paleontologists, who have spent a lot more time than Gingrich looking at the Earth’s temperature, are convinced. “Few credible scientists now doubt that humans have influenced the documented rise in global temperatures since the Industrial Revolution,” the American Quaternary Society wrote in 2006.

I love it when candidates claim to do shit that no one in their right mind would do. I also love it when a passing interest makes a person qualified to comment on something as if an expert.

More qualified than an expert.

Hexmage-PA

Couscous wrote:

http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/12/31/396180/gingrich-explains-why-hes-now-a-climate-denier-im-an-amateur-paleontologist/

At a town hall in Atlantic, Iowa, Saturday afternoon, Gingrich gave an unusual reason for his present denial of man-made global warming. “I’m an amateur paleontologist,” Gingrich said. “I spend a lot of time looking at the Earth’s temperature for a very long time. I’m a lot harder to convince than just looking at a computer model.” Professional paleontologists, who have spent a lot more time than Gingrich looking at the Earth’s temperature, are convinced. “Few credible scientists now doubt that humans have influenced the documented rise in global temperatures since the Industrial Revolution,” the American Quaternary Society wrote in 2006.

I love it when candidates claim to do shit that no one in their right mind would do. I also love it when a passing interest makes a person qualified to comment on something as if an expert.

I like how the opinion of one self-described amateur outweighs the consensus of an organization of professionals.

And by like, I mean loathe with the passion of 1000 angry, burning Earths.

Rick Francis · University of Washington
There is a rightwing sense of entitlement, wherein any rightwinger feels entitled to proclaim knowledge outweighing any number of experts without acquiring expertise, engaging in rational discourse, or otherwise earning a right to refute those who actually HAVE paid dues.

It's very common, and completely irrational.

Jonathan Jensen · Top Commenter · Works at Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Near as I can figure, it's because colleges and universities are notorious hotbeds of liberal thought, which makes all knowledge gained there questionable at best.