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just call me "Supreme

jollyroger — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:28:52 +0000

In reply to Here's another with a split

just call me "Supreme Jurisprudent." 9 for 9 .

Here's another with a split

artappraiser — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:36:46 +0000

Here's another with a split screen photo that you'll probably like even more, it's almost like it was written just for you:

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/02/29/grand_ayatollah_or_gran...

Maureen Dowd, calling them

artappraiser — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 07:43:59 +0000

In reply to Romney beats Santorum in Michigan and They're Both Sore Losers

Maureen Dowd, calling them Robo-Romney and Sanctorum in her Weds column, titled "G.O.P. Greek Tragedy", wrote, among other things:

....the once ruthless Republican Party seems to have pretty much decided to cave on 2012 and start planning for a post-Obama world.

Not even because Obama is so strong; simply because their field is so ridiculously weak and wacky.

John McCain has Aeschylated it to “a Greek tragedy.” And he should know from Greek tragedy.

“It’s the negative campaigning and the increasingly personal attacks,” he told The Boston Herald, adding, “the likes of which we have never seen.” When a man who was accused of having an illegitimate black child in the 2000 South Carolina primary thinks this is the worst ever, the G.O.P. is really in trouble....

Is this great country or

jollyroger — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 05:37:32 +0000

In reply to I wonder if he tries to self

Is this great country or what? Where else does 250,000,000 dollars not qualify to fully self finance an election?

Nice catch. The

jollyroger — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 05:00:47 +0000

In reply to For political junkies, this

Nice catch. The Paul/Gingrich split screen is why I founded Amalgamated Trotskyite Paulistas.(High-prestige single-digit membership #s available)

If the last presidential

Elusive Trope — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:32:48 +0000

In reply to I wonder if he tries to self

If the last presidential election is anything to go by, there is a general assumption that a popular candidate will be able to achieve financial support from the little guy. The Obama team has spent a lot of energy pushing the info on how many of their contributions come from the little donors. If Romney was forced to self-finance his campaign, it would push the meme, rightly or wrongly, that this indicated he didn't have strong support from the people - ie those who would vote for him don't support him enough to give financially as opposed to the more passionate supporters of Obama.

I wonder if he tries to self

Michael Maiello — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:24:50 +0000

In reply to Yeah. You inspired me to try

I wonder if he tries to self finance in the general. He's rich, but he's not as rich as the usual self financing candidate.

It doesn't matter who wins in

Elusive Trope — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:53:12 +0000

In reply to Romney beats Santorum in Michigan and They're Both Sore Losers

It doesn't matter who wins in Michigan or anywhere else. Big Money is going to back the Republican nominee and since it's worked so well for them all these long ages, they'll pay big to keep the hate machine going.

I am one of those who believes that it does matter a little bit. If Romney was able to cruise to the nomination crown early on in this primary, then the machine could basically operate as it has been able to do in the past. Romney could use the primary season as the beginning of the general election, with the machine and other helpers like Fox News working to undermine Obama.

But now that there is a fight going on between the various nominees that threatens to go on for another couple of months at the very least, the focus is on the battle within the party. The hope here that the longer this fight goes on, the more exposed the various factions of the right wing and their real agendas become. Whether it is the establishment's economic agenda or the social conservative's desire to interfere with a woman's right to control her own body. And so on.

When the various factions of the right are able to remain united against a common enemy, they have shown to be very apt at presenting a common messaging package.

Romney's inability to unite the party / conservatives this election cycle has allowed the various cracks to widen between the factions.

And the fact that Santorum can say what he has said in the recent path (along with what he has said for a long time now) and still get as many votes as he has is doing one thing if nothing else: scaring the bejeezus out of the independents.

And the fact that Romney continues to demonstrate his true economic colors as he fights for the heart of the Republican base is doing one thing if nothing else: scaring the bejeezus out of the independents.

The same goes for Gingrich and Paul.

2012 isn't about just Obama re-election. It is about the down ticket - state and federal.

The big money machine can't cover for the candidates when they actually reveal their true thoughts or go off the reservation in an attempt to win over the extreme ideologues of the base. The longer that goes on, the more the independents and centerists begin to see that the Democrats and even the liberals might be the more sane choice to keep the country going on the correct path.

Keeping a contested primary all the way to the convention won't turn Alabama into a liberal haven, but it might help peel away a little of the facade the machine has been able to place over the true face of the Republican party.

Yeah. You inspired me to try

artappraiser — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:07:33 +0000

In reply to Would love to see a dollar

Yeah. You inspired me to try a quick search on dollar-per-vote. I found nothing useful on that front, but ran across the following from the land of the Jaguar @ The Guardian, Feb 21; I love his "thought for the day" at the end of my quote:

Mitt Romey's advantage as the best-funded candidate in the GOP presidential race is being eroded, as the latest figures show Romney's campaign has been burning through its cash pile like a dotcom start-up, while his rivals and their Super PAC's are closing the fundraising gap.

According to January's fundraising reports filed with the Federal Election Commission, Romney and his supporting Super Pac spent well more than $32m during the month, with only wins in New Hampshire and Florida to show for it, while his campaign raised just $6.5m during the same period.

The Washington Post's Aaron Blake calculates:

The Romney campaign spent heavily on the four states holding contests in January – nearly $19 million for the month – and ended it with $7.7 million in the bank. In other words, for every dollar he raised, he spent nearly $3.

Thought for the day: Bain Capital Romney would probably shut down Presidential Candidate Romney for being a bad business proposition.

For political junkies, this

artappraiser — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:49:07 +0000

In reply to Romney beats Santorum in Michigan and They're Both Sore Losers

For political junkies, this Atlantic Wire article is a fun review of who's playing footsie with who::

That Brokered Convention Is Already Underway