GOP Primary Megathread!

[Caliga]

Wait? Is there another debate?

Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking debates in this motherfucking primary race!

[Eddie Teach]

I think it's a good thing. Debates put a candidate to the test much better than stump speeches and attack ads. If one was truly fatigued* by them, why would he be watching Fox/CNN during prime time in the first place? 

*Yes, I got the SOAP reference.

[Caliga]

I don't watch TV.

[Tonitrus]

I'm kind of liking Newt more then Mitt.

He writes alt-history novels where the Nazis win.  You should hate him with all of your soul.

[Tonitrus]

How the hell is Mr third wife doing so well in these primaries? what happened to the religious right?

They like him because he has the balls to openly what they wish they could get away with.

[CountDeMoney]

only exceeding Richard Nixon in personal vendetta asshattery.

What the fuck?

Nixon had a habit of seeing enemies that weren't there.  And you know that.

[Sheilbh]

How the hell is Mr third wife doing so well in these primaries? what happened to the religious right?

As Disraeli said of Gladstone, the problem with Mitt is that he has no redeeming defects. 

I'm starting to feel sorry for Mitt.  Given that the last politicians I felt sorry for were Brown and Palin that's probably not a good thing.

Edit:  Incidentally I think Mitt's business roundtable this morning is exactly what he should be doing.  Shame about the mild gaffe but more of that will help.

[The Minsky Moment]

He writes alt-history novels where the Nazis win. 

Only one.
All the rest are about the ACW or the American Revolutionary War or the War in the Pacific.

The man whose PhD in European History was so impressive as to convince Freddie Mac to pay him $25,000/month for his historical insights has never actually written a book on any topic relating to European history.  Other than the Nazi one, even his novels don't go there.

[Grey Fox]

I don't watch TV.

Commie.

[FunkMonk]

An article from 1984 about Republican rising star Newt Gingrich:

http://motherjones.com/politics/1984/11/newt-gingrich-shining-knight-post-reagan-right

From his former friend and adviser:

"He's probably one of the most dangerous people for the future of this country that you can possibly imagine. He's Richard Nixon, glib. It doesn't matter how much good I do the rest of my life, I can't ever outweigh the evil that I've caused by helping him be elected to Congress."

[grumbler]

An article from 1984 about Republican rising star Newt Gingrich:

http://motherjones.com/politics/1984/11/newt-gingrich-shining-knight-post-reagan-right

Thanks for posting that.  Pretty interesting stuff, though obviously a lot more biased than the author lets on.

Even if the specifics are less cut-and-dried than they are given to appear, though, they give me a rational basis for my instinctive contempt for the man.  I'd rather see Santorum or even Paul in the White House before him.

[Sheilbh]

Not to dispute the article, but I don't think it's right to call Nixon glib.

[mongers]

Not to dispute the article, but I don't think it's right to call Nixon glib.

Yes, I saw that and couldn't make sense of it; glib no, thoughtful, intense, paranoid, insincere at times yes. Hard working, at all times.

[fhdz]

Yes, I saw that and couldn't make sense of it; glib no, thoughtful, intense, paranoid, insincere at times yes. Hard working, at all times.

This.

[Berkut]

Not to dispute the article, but I don't think it's right to call Nixon glib.

Isn't it saying he is a glib Richard Nixon? As in "richard Nixon, but glib"