Santorum wins Alabama and Mississippi. "Hey Romney! You mad, bro?"

[WhipperSnapper]

It sounds like Santorum won the primaries in Alabama and Mississippi. I think this is great because it will prolong the primary and continue to expose the Republicans as being a gang of Christian Taliban who want to turn the nation into Jesusistan. The best thing Romney has going for him right now is that neither Gringrich nor Paul have dropped out of the race, which helps dilute the anti-Romney vote, preventing it from concentrating for Santorum.

Go Santorum! "Support anal sex! Vote for Santorum!"

 

[MovingTarget]

It sounds like Santorum won the primaries in Alabama and Mississippi. I think this is great because it will prolong the primary and continue to expose the Republicans as being a gang of Christian Taliban who want to turn the nation into Jesusistan. The best thing Romney has going for him right now is that neither Gringrich nor Paul have dropped out of the race, which helps dilute the anti-Romney vote, preventing it from concentrating for Santorum.

Go Santorum! "Support anal sex! Vote for Santorum!"

You think thats bad? You should look up a former judge we had by the name of Roy Moore. Looks like he's going to end up back on our supreme court after being kicked off.

/facepalm

 

[Dari]

It sounds like Santorum won the primaries in Alabama and Mississippi. I think this is great because it will prolong the primary and continue to expose the Republicans as being a gang of Christian Taliban who want to turn the nation into Jesusistan. The best thing Romney has going for him right now is that neither Gringrich nor Paul have dropped out of the race, which helps dilute the anti-Romney vote, preventing it from concentrating for Santorum.

Go Santorum! "Support anal sex! Vote for Santorum!"

Not really. If you read the Wall Street Journal today you will understand Gingrich's strategy as clear as day. His main objective is to stop Romney at all cost. That means staying in to the bitter end. What it also means is that he could give all his delegates to Santorum if took this to the convention. Furthermore, the longer Gingrich stays in then there is a higher likelihood that, combined with Santorum, their delegates could be greater than Romney's, fucking everything up for the Republican Party and leading to a brokered convention. This would force Romney to spend time and money battling his fellow Republicans and little time confronting Obama. IMHO, this is mainly Romney's fault for running a very negative campaign and making his opponents hate him rather than hating his policies or message. He brought this on himself.

 

[etrigan420]

It sounds like Santorum won the primaries in Alabama and Mississippi. I think this is great because it will prolong the primary and continue to expose the Republicans as being a gang of Christian Taliban who want to turn the nation into Jesusistan. The best thing Romney has going for him right now is that neither Gringrich nor Paul have dropped out of the race, which helps dilute the anti-Romney vote, preventing it from concentrating for Santorum.

Go Santorum! "Support anal sex! Vote for Santorum!"

That. Is. Fabulous!

 

[xBiffx]

Concentration for Santorum isn't going to happen. If anything they will shift to Romney as he gets closer to the nod. Either that or people will just stay home. But I love the slogan!

 

[Lemon law]

Pardon me if I say it, but mostly this tells me that no existing GOP POTUS candidate in 2012 can unite the GOP across it various States. And now that Santorum and Romney are found wanting, the GOP are speculating about a Gindrich rearrange.

A deadlocked 2012 GOP convention looks increasingly likely.

 

[sportage]

It this still going on...?
I must have dozed off (along with the rest of the country).

 

[Generator]

It is a curious thing how much support Santorum gets from women. His policies consists of pilfering women's birth control and they love them for it. The days of women laying on their backs generating a litter of children as their blowhard husbands pontificate are coming to an end.

Despite the two wins yesterday Romeny still got more delegates. To little, to late. Somebody in the Republican party needs to tell this dead beat dad Rick Santorum to go home, get a job, and raise your inbred kids.

 

[Craig234]

First, Romney won in terms of delegates.

In AL, he came out ahead in delegates. In MS, it's a tie but there are two super-delegates yet to pick a candidate.

In Ohio, a bit earlier, remember it was a tie between Romney and Santorum, Romney winning by uner 1%? The delegates are 38 Romney, 21 Santorum.

The news on Roy Moore is a disaster.

 

[Jaskalas]

You think thats bad? You should look up a former judge we had by the name of Roy Moore. Looks like he's going to end up back on our supreme court after being kicked off.

/facepalm

The news on Roy Moore is a disaster.

You hate men so much for their defense of American Judeo-Christian heritage? That ALONE is strong reason to support him. Of course, now I suspect you'll tell us he rapes young boys and eats babies as opposed to mentioning the Ten Commandments.

If anything, it's to tell the Feds to go shove it.

 

[busydude]

You hate men so much for their defense of American Judeo-Christian heritage? That ALONE is strong reason to support him. Of course, now I suspect you'll tell us he rapes young boys and eats babies as opposed to mentioning the Ten Commandments.

If anything, it's to tell the Feds to go shove it.

His strong bias and prejudice makes him clearly unfit for that job.

 

[Craig234]

You hate men so much for their defense of American Judeo-Christian heritage? That ALONE is strong reason to support him. Of course, now I suspect you'll tell us he rapes young boys and eats babies as opposed to mentioning the Ten Commandments.

If anything, it's to tell the Feds to go shove it.

I didn't realize what a liar you are.

Roy Moore's bad behavior isn't 'mentioning' the Ten Commandments.

I could explain more about how you are misusing the word 'defense' to justify offense and unconstitutional wrong to other religions, but your lies do not deserve more response.

 

[Ausm]

I am rubbing my plastic Jesus in anticipation of Sanitorium going the whole way!

I can't wait to see the reaction he get's when people who don't pay attention to Politics takes a closer look at this batshit crazy mofo... LMFAO!

 

[jpeyton]

 

[Painman]

Not exactly sure when the next major contest takes place, but Mitt's coders ought to have a bit of time in which to update his firmware... Don't want any more strange things to start happening to him all of a sudden.

 

[Craig234]

I am rubbing my plastic Jesus in anticipation of Sanitorium going the whole way!

I can't wait to see the reaction he get's when people who don't pay attention to Politics takes a closer look at this batshit crazy mofo... LMFAO!

It's bad for the country. It moves the country to the right if he gets nominated even if he loses. When the Republican party moves right, it leaves more room for the Dems to also.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

It moves the conversation more to the right, but there has to come a point where the country rejects it and swings back to the left. If Santorum isn't that point God help us, but my personal hope is Romney eaks it out this go around and Republicans save full retard for 2016.

 

[Ausm]

It's bad for the country. It moves the country to the right if he gets nominated even if he loses. When the Republican party moves right, it leaves more room for the Dems to also.

Craig I have been reading several articles on this theory also and I do see your point. That would not be a good thing at ALL.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

Can you link to them? I just don't see Republicans running on and exposing their most extreme views to everyone as a bad thing.

 

[Craig234]

Can you link to them? I just don't see Republicans running on and exposing their most extreme views to everyone as a bad thing.

On the one hand, FDR moved the country to the left - it got votes because of the reaction to the Great Depression. Because of this, it pulled the Republicans to the left, as they had to promise to support left-wing things to try to compete - and even that wasn't enough. It gave us more liberal policies like those in several ways under Eisenhower, where 'conservatives' were 'a fringe' without power.

On the other hand, when the country elected 'too far right to get elected' Reagan, who Democrats wanted to get the nomination because he was 'radical right', it pulled the country way to the right, and 'liberal' became not the word describing the country but a word to attack Democrats with, and the Democrats moved to the right to compete, and the country hadn't recoered yet from that shift.

What was the dominant political orientation for decades is now 'far left'.

The way we shift back is not by nominating ever further-right Republicans until people say 'enough' - that got us Obama, a good Republican president.

It's by electing an actual liberal president who can pull the country to the left.

The further to the right the Republicans go, the further to the right the Democrats go simply because it helps win elections.

They're always going to get the 'left' vote because they're better than Republicans; but they can get more and more of the rest of the country the further right they go.

'Centrists' as well are shifted to the right when staying in the middle is between an ever more right-wing Republican party and ever more right Democratic party.

The idea is, a party shouldn't move too far because it costs them votes - but when they do and win, it can shift the goalposts of 'left and right', as with Reagan.

 

[ichy]

It's not often that I say this but I completely agree with Craig about Roy Moore. He's a buffoon, an embarrassment to the country and a perfect example of everything that's wrong with the GOP.

The fact that Santorum has continued to hang on is kind of funny, but it also shows that yes, a significant part of the Republican party IS composed of batshit insane religious extremists. Sad since that forces me to vote for the Dems as the lesser of two evils even if I'm often not very fond of them.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

Craig, I see what you're saying, but every time there is any leftward movement by a politician today the "OMG socialism!" crowd starts up and we swing even further right. Regardless of how far from left it actually was, I think the healthcare act and the backlash that carried 2010 for the Reps is a prime example. I don't think there can be any meaningful moves toward the left until the right goes ahead and swings off the map. Attacking birth control is a pretty good start. With a populace growing ever more discontent with government, managing backlash will win elections over the long term, and swinging further to extremes makes that harder to do.

 

[Thump553]

I also find the Roy Moore thing extremely disturbing. The guy is unanimously removed from judicial office for judical misconduct and the GOP voters renominate him for the exact same office because they liked his misconduct.

Talk about unconstitutional judicial activism-this guy is THE poster child for it.

 

[Craig234]

Craig, I see what you're saying, but every time there is any leftward movement by a politician today the "OMG socialism!" crowd starts up and we swing even further right. Regardless of how far from left it actually was, I think the healthcare act and the backlash that carried 2010 for the Reps is a prime example. I don't think there can be any meaningful moves toward the left until the right goes ahead and swings off the map. Attacking birth control is a pretty good start. With a populace growing ever more discontent with government, managing backlash will win elections over the long term, and swinging further to extremes makes that harder to do.

Every presidential nominee/president on 'the left side' for a century I can think of has been accused of 'socialism'.

When Teddy Roosevelt gave his great speech, in it he said he would be called a socialist.

FDR, nuff said. Ronald Reagan got his start in politics as a spokesman for the AMA putting out a record of anti-Medicare propaganda against JFK with the title 'Ronald Reagan speaks out against socialized medicine'. Obama is basically a traditional Republican in policy, but is called a 'socialist', as were Kerry, Gore, Clinton, Dukakis, Mondale, on and on.

That isn't about their policies, it's about it working for Republicans as a political attack.

 

[Ketchup]

I think we will have a brokered convention either way. If Newt does want to put Romney down, I think it makes sense for him to stay in until he gets the states he knows he will win, such as GA and SC, which we could have guessed months ago.

I do find it interesting that Santorum isn't hated by every woman in America, which is the impression one would get from listening to most media outlets. I guess they really don't know everything.