GOP Primary Megathread!

[Viking]

I love Santorum

Ur disgusting.. .

actually, I have a hard time immagining gay foreplay before penetrative sex without the enema bags.

[Neil]

Oh joy!  Rick Perry got asked a question on something he's not been prepped for, in this case Turkey.

They're apparently being run by 'Islamic terrorists'.

But isn't that true, with all those Turkish flotillas?

[garbon]

Huntsman is good, but has crappy timing.  Maybe later.

I think he ran the wrong campaign.  He was trying to run John McCain's 2000 campaign, which I think was a mistake.  His first forays into the race were needless needling of conservatives on things like climate change and evolution. 

He should have run as a strong conservative (as a Governor he got a very strong rating by the Cato Institute and pro-life groups) with the McCain-ish 'country first' stuff that he developed towards the end of the campaign.  I think he could have been a credible, conservative alternative to Romney if he wanted.

Well he certainly needed to do something difference. If you don't make it in the news, people don't vote for you.

[garbon]

I was rather surprised by Santorum's answer.  He gets a small boost from me because of that. 

The combination of that answer and the felon voting answer makes me like Santorum far more.  It's easy to pander to a crowd that angry but I think he's taken two potentially unpopular stands.  Aside from Ron Paul he's been the boldest.  I hope it pays off with a tick up in SC, he certainly deserves it.

Too bad Santorum doesn't actually care about civil liberties.

[garbon]

actually, I have a hard time immagining gay foreplay before penetrative sex without the enema bags.

[Sheilbh]

actually, I have a hard time immagining gay foreplay before penetrative sex without the enema bags.

Apparently Romney talking about hunting is like Viking talking about gay sex.

Well he certainly needed to do something difference. If you don't make it in the news, people don't vote for you.

I agree, but his method was wrong.  Those weren't core issues for anyone but they suggested what sort of views he held and what sort of campaign he'd run.  He was basically signalling to the press not his electorate.  It was a big mistake.

[garbon]

I agree, but his method was wrong.  Those weren't core issues for anyone but they suggested what sort of views he held and what sort of campaign he'd run.  He was basically signalling to the press not his electorate.  It was a big mistake.

He needed to signal to the press to get his name touted about. None of "his" electorate knew much about him.

[Sheilbh]

He needed to signal to the press to get his name touted about. None of "his" electorate knew much about him.

Yeah, but he was getting touted as someone who was calling his party's base 'crazy'.  That's counter-productive.

[garbon]

He needed to signal to the press to get his name touted about. None of "his" electorate knew much about him.

Yeah, but he was getting touted as someone who was calling his party's base 'crazy'.  That's counter-productive.

Oh certaimly.

[Ideologue]

actually, I have a hard time immagining gay foreplay before penetrative sex without the enema bags.

Apparently Romney talking about hunting is like Viking talking about gay sex.

[Sheilbh]

Tonight Rick Perry called the government of Turkey 'Islamic terrorists', seemed to hint towards eventually bombing them and lumped them in with Iran and Syria.  Despite this I think that was his best debate performance by a mile and he may do okay, though not well enough, in SC.

I don't know if that says more about Perry, his party or South Carolina

Edit:  Also two further thoughts.  First the extremism of this party right now is scary.

Second I don't know how this Super PAC stuff is going in the US.  But does it hurt Romney that he simultaneously says he's no influence over it while referring to it as 'my PAC'?

Edit: Oh and I loved Newt's come back that if Romney can't influence his PAC he may not be a great President.

[Ideologue]

All of the above.

[Zoupa]

Tonight Rick Perry called the government of Turkey 'Islamic terrorists', seemed to hint towards eventually bombing them and lumped them in with Iran and Syria.  Despite this I think that was his best debate performance by a mile and he may do okay, though not well enough, in SC.

I don't know if that says more about Perry, his party or South Carolina

It tells you a lot about US citizens' intellect.

[jimmy olsen]

Tonight Rick Perry called the government of Turkey 'Islamic terrorists', seemed to hint towards eventually bombing them and lumped them in with Iran and Syria.  Despite this I think that was his best debate performance by a mile and he may do okay, though not well enough, in SC.

I don't know if that says more about Perry, his party or South Carolina

It tells you a lot about US citizens' intellect.

More like their education than their intellect.

[Zoupa]

Nah.