2012 GOP, who's it going to be?

Hugin · 2012-03-31T11:22:35.000Z

Huzurdaddi:

So now we are buzzing about something that we think someone we don’t like was, we guess, about to say before he stopped himself.

Oh liberal hive mind. Never change.

There are plenty of valid reasons not to like Santorum. Buzzing about a non issue is retarded.

Please carry on.

Er…wha?

Look, I said from the beginning, there’s no way to know what he meant to say there. I find it funny because it’s a funny moment. I don’t care if Santorum is racist or not, because he has about 6000 other policy issues I diametrically disagree with him on. Him popping the n-word is about as relevant to me as finding out Rush Limbaugh doesn’t like Firefly.

I see no reason why Santorum would feel a need to catch himself to stop uttering “negotiatior”, nevermore, nogoodnik, negative ghost rider the pattern is full, or whatever it is he almost said.

Now, maybe he just had a complete brain fart that derailed everything he was trying to say and he had to stop and reboot with a totally different phrase. If so, he picked the worst possible time to stop and restart, which again, makes it just damned funny.

He’s not going to be president. He was never going to be president. He’s just a tool for the base to register their dissatisfaction with Romney, who they (rightly) recognize as a hapless plastic man. But I see no reason why anyone needs to contort themselves to give Rick “Blah people” Santorum the benfit of the doubt. He’s a hateful neanderthal on every other social issue under the sun, demonstrably hideously sexist and homophobic, from an area that’s the north’s happy little slice of the deep south, heaven forfend we allow something he said that sounded like it might have been racist, might have been something racist.

Gordon_Cameron · 2012-03-31T11:25:48.000Z

Lorini:

Um, they already are.

Great, so why even pay attention to the guy?

Hugin · 2012-03-31T11:34:52.000Z

charmtrap:

Although it’s fun to speculate given his retrograde social views, I don’t think it’s necessary to be uncharitable. There’s no possible way he stopped himself from saying that word. It’s simply not remotely credible that he uses that word on a regular enough basis that no-one knows about it.

Speaking as someone who lives in…uh…the real world, I can say from personal experience, people can maintain a firewall between what they say in public/in front of you, and what they say in private/what they say with the “right” group of friends, for decades, until one day there’s a slipup, or you enter the room at the wrong time, or someone sends an email reply to the wrong person. Racism, expressions of personal animosity between those who are publicly friends, god knows secret sex stuff. It’s all hidden, until the day oops, it isn’t.

Again, this has less to do with Santorum than about humanity in general. I just don’t see why Santorum of all people would be exempt from that.

Jason_McCullough · 2012-03-31T12:59:47.000Z

Charlie Stross’s comments on Santorum are something.

Mike_O_Malley · 2012-03-31T14:14:46.000Z

Houngan:

Western Pennsylvania is identical to Eastern Kentucky or West Virginia, so yeah.

No, we have lake effect snowstorms, SO THERE.

Tin_Wisdom · 2012-04-02T11:12:32.000Z

Quiz time!

One is a religious fanatic railing against secularism, the role of women in the workplace, and the evils of higher education, as he seeks to impose his draconian moral values upon the state. The other is the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

It’s time to play: Khamenei or Santorum? Who said what?
I got seven out of eight.

Miramon · 2012-04-02T12:19:42.000Z

NY Times on Quantum Romneality.

Lorini · 2012-04-02T13:18:09.000Z

I don’t think all his bullshit will get him the Presidency. It’ll just get a shit thrown at him during the national election.

Omniscia · 2012-04-02T18:15:53.000Z

Tin Wisdom:

Quiz time!

I got seven out of eight.

As did I.

It wasn’t hard. The Ayatollah sounds considerably more literate than Santorum.

Malathor · 2012-04-10T11:06:15.000Z

Santorum about to announce he’s out.

Rightbug · 2012-04-10T11:29:06.000Z

Malathor:

Santorum about to announce he’s out.

Of the closet.

Tin_Wisdom · 2012-04-10T11:34:30.000Z

I’m gonna miss him – the next interesting event will be when Romney picks Bristol Palin to be his running mate.

Timex · 2012-04-10T11:44:47.000Z

Thank God Santorum is out. I was starting to get worried that some kind of craziness would result in him being the Republican candidate.

Now maybe Romney can stop trying to out-crazy Santorum, and go back to his normal, moderate, sane self.

Papageno · 2012-04-10T12:05:12.000Z

Timex:

Thank God Santorum is out. I was starting to get worried that some kind of craziness would result in him being the Republican candidate.

Now maybe Romney can stop trying to out-crazy Santorum, and go back to his normal, moderate, sane self.

Not if he wants “the base” to show up to the polls in November.

Timex · 2012-04-10T12:12:23.000Z

“The Base” is gonna show up, regardless, because they are obsessively anti-obama.

Papageno · 2012-04-10T12:29:21.000Z

Timex:

“The Base” is gonna show up, regardless, because they are obsessively anti-obama.

You have a point there, what with Obama being a Kenyan secret Muslim socialist and all, who’s waging a war on religion and trying to make us all pay 100% of our income in taxes, plus take away our gunnnzzz.

Dejin · 2012-04-10T12:29:24.000Z

Timex:

“The Base” is gonna show up, regardless, because they are obsessively anti-obama.

Many of them are also anti-Mormon though. Some obsessively so.

Rightbug · 2012-04-10T13:16:18.000Z

I can’t remember if we’ve talked about running mates for Romney yet. I’ve heard some people are saying Rubio is perfect for several reasons but I have a vague recollection that someone here explained why he would likely not be picked.

Dejin · 2012-04-10T13:19:33.000Z

Rightbug:

I can’t remember if we’ve talked about running mates for Romney yet. I’ve heard some people are saying Rubio is perfect for several reasons but I have a vague recollection that someone here explained why he would likely not be picked.

Among other things Rubio was a Mormon when he was a kid. That will increase the Mormon conspiracy rumors amongst the hardcore fundamentalist groups.

strategy · 2012-04-10T13:46:55.000Z

Santorum angling for 2016? Dropping out now allows him to bow out graciously, before he gets embarrassed by Romney’s moneybags. Having seen how effective he was this year, he will be able to build up a much bigger warchest for a bid in 2016.