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August 14, 2011 01:56 AM UTC
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Meant to post this on Friday. But even more appropriate today I suppose.
Song by our very own Richie Furay
the crazier the better . . . those results and rankings could be some new kind of corn-fed-lack-of-sanity scaling.
Go baby, go.
It looks like it’s a Romney/Perry/Bachmann race.
Rick Parry with an A. An A for America. An A for Iowa.
http://www.colbertnation.com/t…
http://www.colbertnation.com/t…
http://info.tpj.org/reports/pd…
with who will ultimately win the nomination but it must be depressing for Romney to come in behind a write-in vote for the guy who wasn’t officially participating. 718 for Perry (Parry?). Surprised Huntsman hasn’t announced he’s dropping out yet.
He’s far too sane to get any traction in the GOP primary.
Further commentary completely unnecessary.
since she gave out 6000 tickets and got only 4800 votes.
Iowa Republicans know a free lunch when they see one, just like Bachmann and her husband.
“Republicans at war with reality.”
I just hope the Dems do something with this golden nugget.
None of the pubs would make that compromise! Unbelievable! Apparently this whole “common-sense governing” thing they’re harping on only goes one way…
The biggest threat to Obama is Obama himself.
Time to start leading, Mr. President.
I think Obama would make a decent (not great) prime minister. But as President with a divided Congress – he doesn’t have what it takes to successfully lead. Very few do.
For a libertarian candidate (okay, so he claims to be an R) to get that many votes, there is something that is resonating with non-traditional R voters that Dems can learn from.
Never confuse correlation with causation.
I don’t think they hear what people are saying…not only on the far right but also within the democratic party.
(see it happened again). The Obama administration has been remarkably tone deaf. They seem to think only the far left base is the annoying problem for them but it’s so obviously the whole broad spectrum of Dems as well as the type of indies who elected him in 2008 who are increasingly disappointed and to whom his team continues to turn a deaf ear.
And they continually lag behind instead of getting out front on leadership. The Bin Laden triumph was pretty much the sole exception and they completely wasted the political capital gained there almost immediately.
It’s going to get boggled a few more times before this is over.
It’s going to be Romney and Perry and teaparty riots at every one of their stumps. Dig the popper out of the basement and sit back.
They’re mostly all rabid nativists and are either going to have to swallow hard and shut up, or Perry’s going to have to pull a Romney on this. Too bad, too, because the country really needs a good debate on immigration. (Although I expect Obama to bring it forward in his second term.)
Iowa, NH, SC
If, IA goes native, Bachmann leads.
Then NH – I don’t think the border stuff hurts as much as the hard-whack evangelical stuff so they tie.
Perry wins SC if the border stuff doesn’t hurt- and then it’s off to the races.
“Governor P” no longer refers to the former half-governor of Alaska!
Didn’t anyone tell McCotter to go negative?
This is so dumb I honestly can’t believe Pols went with it. A straw poll? In Aames? That includes Ron Paul and his merry band of truther idiot Xbox nation fanboys?
Please wake me when you Dems have something tangible to sweat about.
I don’t think the Dems are sweating about anything other than the guy at the helm.
make a royal fool of itself for all to see?
😉
It’s not just Pols, it’s everywhere–the NYT, WP, CNN, and it’s the lead story on Fox.
Remember 2000 and 2004? We libruls were all smarty pantsy, wise-assed and know-it-all before those elections. That Bush boy, what a laff riot we thought he was. Oops.
1992–remember Bush vs. the 7 Dwarves?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
You have a point…oh wait, it was pretty much wall-to-wall coverage…
c rork wrote this, not “the Pols.” You make this mistake a lot, is it some kind of weird ref working strategy or is it just reading comprehension?
I’m only asking so I can help you avoid it next time. This must be embarrassing for you, like Bachmann and Paul themselves.
That’s on me. I think I need to look at the byline more often and carefully.
This is a political blog and this has been the political story of the past week, as it is every year. Everybody knows that it doesn’t predict the winner but it often shows who is not viable and what ideas are getting the most traction with the base. It clearly eliminated Pawlenty in his own judgement. The entire spectrum of media doesn’t seem to share your view that it is entirely uninteresting.
Your making this out to be a case of the Pols or anyone else being dumb or sweating or anything other than just discussing and enjoying the political spectacle du jour doesn’t make the slightest sense.
Any poll that Ron Paul’s idiot supporters can saturate is a meaningless poll.
I’m not going to get too hung up on anything until he drops out.
It was a clarity problem. Silly me. I thought it was just a clear but nonsensical criticism of a political blog for talking about, you know, the week’s big wall to wall covered by everybody political event and a completely unsupported supposition that we silly libs were sweating over it or assigning too much importance to it. Sorry. My bad.
… not like those of scholar-king candidates like Michelle Bachmann and Rick Perry that you’d go “full-bore” to support. Your distinction, between the idiocy of Paul’s supporters and yourself as an enthusiastic backer of those two brainiacs, eludes me.
regarding Ron Paul and Bachmann.
Paul’s supporters are 9/11 conspiracy theory nuts and while Paul has flat out said he doesn’t agree with them or believe in what they believe (see video below–he can’t get much clearer than what he said in 2008 during the SC presidential debate), his supporters have permanently tainted his already sort of kooky image by continuing to espouse that sort of crap. I don’t see a whole lot of daylight between the supporters of Michelle Bachmann and the supporters of Ron Paul, particularly considering some of the “theories” and “beliefs” that have come out of her mouth.
Perry is a different story altogether and we would all be wise not to attempt to marginalize his appeal. You better believe he is a force to be reckoned with in 2012.
to turn the average American off to Perry in a general election and plenty of unpopular ideas for opponents to mine in his own book “Fed Up”. But you are correct that he isn’t currently perceived as a fringe eccentric in the same way Paul is. Paul simply is never going to be considered a serious candidate by enough Republican primary voters. Perry is not so lightly dismissed but, ultimately, he would be seen as too extreme to win national election.
Pretty confident there isn’t going to be a President Perry. Just for starters, one could expect Oprah, tool of the anti-Christ according to Perry preacher pal, to put up a very strong resistance with the full support of Satan. And that sun demon that slept with the Japanese Emperor and screwed up their economy.
In fact, I’m about as far apart on this one with you as it is humanly possible. And boy, do I wish I saw it your way. I’d sleep a lot better at night if I did, believe me.
Since I don’t see it that way, can you throw me a bone (or a meaningless Reader’s Digest platitude) and cheer me up just a little?
Other candidates have been working for months (or years) and haven’t gotten very far. Perry is entering around the same time as Thompson did (relatively), and his major appeal seems to be that he’s “none of the above” (exactly like Thompson). Already you’re starting to see little bits of trouble (like on immigration), which is pretty substantial for a guy who hasn’t been investigated at all by the national media.
Sarah Palin looked pretty good about three days into her nomination as Vice President too.
make me feel a little better. Thank you. Seriously. And also slightly icky having to think of a “handsome Fred Thompson.”
but my gut tells me Perry’s got too much crazy garbage to go the distance. Thanks, sxp.
I mean, come on. Just look at my sig line. That cheers me up every single day.
comes from here. I remember seeing the original episode with my family and laughing out loud. (Short version: it’s due to Margaret Carlson, who had a weird crush on him for a long time.)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/…
Some chicks are really into lawyers, even fake ones.
He just also played one on tv.
they tell that to every law school admitant who hasn’t yet paid the tuition.
T-Paw seems to think it was pretty important.
… and that’s not an opinion, it’s a solid statistical finding: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.n…
I don’t mean to sound uppity, because I shared your view until I saw Nate Silver’s surprising finding. The intuition behind the finding that Ames predicts caucus success surprisingly well is that caucuses are (stupid and) unique forms of elections that place a premium on two things Ames predicts better than polls do: (a) organizational strength and (b) intensity of support.
75% think the next president of the United States should be Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, or Herman Cain.
Yup.
Sometimes foolish — Lenin, Hitler — sometimes courageous — FDR, Churchill.
With Republicans determined to shrink the economy, reducing jobs and any safety nets, desperation will be on the rise (with the implicit support of many Democrats). We are a far cry from the conditions giving rise to any of the four above, fortunately.
But, if a courageous choice is not available, then the foolish choice may actually prevail.
It’s time for Democrats to show some courage, since the Republicans have the foolish choices totally covered.
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4 better or 4 worse.
We are 3 headlines and 2 flashmobs away from the conditions giving rise to any of the four above, fortunately or un.
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Unemployed youth — 16-25 year olds — is the highest in 30 years, here as well as in Britain.
Bored, restless, and with their own form of an echo chamber to reinforce their feelings of disaffection and desperation, we do have a simmering problem that has been basically ignored.
This is yet another issue that private industry is unwilling or unable to deal with effectively. Destruction of the middle-class directly affects their children too. And the greatest danger is that the impact of our inaction today could be devastating for decades to come — giving rise to a Lost Generation.
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what do we know about what young people think ?
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…and unexpected.
I think I just tune out any kind of poll, online, or straw poll that Ron Paul takes part in.
hurts your credibility.
You have to listen to it all, whether you like it or not, in order to comment with credibility.
If I can, you can too.
I agree with ellbee — Nate Silver’s analysis is very interesting. Using his criteria of placement in the straw poll, and degree of conservatism, I’d have to go with a back of the envelope calculation that it’ll be between Bachmann and Perry in the Iowa caucuses, for whatever that’s worth.
I just can’t see Paul pulling strong numbers in the caucuses. And Romney has already written off the state. No other candidate has the slightest credibility in a national race. With a three-way struggle among Bachmann, Perry and Romney, all three will get pretty beat up through the primaries, and bleed major dollars in the process.
That should allow Obama time off to focus his attention on leading us out of a double-dip recession and work on his storyline highlighting the differences between tossing around nut-ball GOP ideas, and actually governing the country.
Congrats to Paul on having such a devoted following that he got almost 3000 people to vote for him… but those may be close to the only 3000.
Perry is hoping Bachmann is like Paul — that she’s limited to a small number of dir-hards, so maybe her 3000 straw poll supporters are close to the max of her support. But for now, who knows.
Romney, I’d guess, will just throw enough clandestine effort at the caucuses (tracking supporters, urging them to show up, offering free rides, etc.), to hope to come in a strong 3rd — ahead of Paul and not terribly far from Bachmann/Perry.
Sweet dreams, Rip Van Ellbee . . .
But in all seriousness I agree the R straw poll is overhyped — I recall Mitt Romney winning in 2007, which is of course why he was the Republican nominee who went on face Obama…oh wait nevermind.
Even the bipolar and mentally challenged are entitled to be represented (see Tom Tancredo).
Marketable real estate perth is a whole other animal compared to housing investing. Commercial properties have different financing necessities and they have different formulas.
at an Iowa McDonald’s along I-80 on Friday.
What astonished me was the total lack of any entourage – it was just the two of them and one pudgy campaign staffer. The McDonald’s guy called out an order for Newt and nobody even looked up. It was like watching that episode of The West Wing where Vinick shows up at Starbuck’s after losing the election and nobody notices he’s there.
I’ve never seen clearer evidence that Gingrich is done.
probably works better than 10 (or 100) talking heads on TV.
What did he order? A Big Mac or an Angus Burger?
It fit so well with the rest of the image.
Newtered is not exactly racking up big donations nowadays so not sure how he could even swing a double fudge for he & the Stepford missus.
Amazing that any of the Repubs had the self-awareness to withdraw.
so there was no point in not following.
that they aren’t even in the race yet they aimlessly ride buses around the country.
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I ain’t in the race.
I just like ridin’ the Grey Dog.
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Jeb Bush.
I know he had said earlier he wasn’t running, but I’ll bet there are folk after him right now. If he stays out this year then watch out in ’16. Unless the Democrats come up with someone more than they have now for ’16 he would be a steamroller.
Had big bro not laid such a big turd in the punchbowl in 2008. Eight years won’t be nearly enough to get rid of that stink.
GW has done for the Bush name what a certain Civil War era doctor did for the name Mudd.
every other Prez three times in a row.
So that’s a sure sign daddy ain’t running.
And any ass-kissing advisor, no matter how beholden, has to honestly address GW’s “nucular” half-life in sullying the family name.
With everything the same and a halfway decent economy (or recovery) B4 GW left then there might have been a case made, but too much of this ditched car wreck is owed to GW’s impaired driving.