GOP Primary Megathread!

[MadImmortalMan]

It is not about substance here. 

Well, no. It's theater to fuck around with the emotions of women voters. The Limbaugh thing and the Romney thing both.

OMG they hate you more than we do!!!1111   

[CountDeMoney]

I particularly enjoyed both Mitt's and Ann's "shout outs" to Moms everywhere today.  Because that's just what the NRA is all about.

[CountDeMoney]

[CountDeMoney]

YEAH PRESIDENTIAL ASSASSINATIONS AS METAPHOR

Foster Friess: 'I Hope Obama's Teleprompters Are Bulletproof'

During an appearance on Fox Business Network Wednesday, Foster Friess--the billionaire backer of former Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum--said he hopes President Obama's "teleprompters are bulletproof."

"There are a lot of things that haven't been hammered at because Rick and Mitt have been going at each other," the retired mutual fund manager said before he made his comment directed at the president. He later told ABC News that he regretted his words immediately after he said them.

Talking about Obama's teleprompter use had become one of Santorum's favorite digs at the president.

"I've always believed that when you run for President of the United States, it should be illegal to read off a teleprompter, because all you're doing is reading someone else's words to people," Santorum said at a March campaign stop in Mississippi.

Friess pledged to support Mitt Romney now that Santorum is out of the race. That will mean some more cash for Romney, but potentially more on-air blunders as well. In February, when Santorum decided to make contraception a campaign issue, Friess told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell that "back in my days, they used Bayer aspirin for contraception. The gals put it between their knees, and it wasn't that costly."

Friess' comment isn't the first time a quip about shooting the president has become a story during the campaign cycle. Earlier this year, at a campaign stop at a shooting range in Louisiana, a woman shouted, "Pretend it's Obama," while Santorum was taking target practice.

"It's a very terrible and horrible remark and I'm glad I didn't hear it," Santorum said, regarding the incident.

[garbon]

No way this is real.

https://www.gop.com/momsdoworkmug/momsdoworkmug.htm

Order your mug.

Looks like the perfect Mother's Day gift.

[katmai]

So, there's a difference between moms and millionaire moms, and that's what got lost in all this.  Ann Romney a stay-at-home Mommy?  Nigga, please.

Yep this is where they fucked it up.

[derspiess]

Seedy's on fire today!   Getting nervous?

[DGuller]

Seedy's on fire today!   Getting nervous?

You have to be nuts not to be.

[grumbler]

So, there's a difference between moms and millionaire moms, and that's what got lost in all this.  Ann Romney a stay-at-home Mommy?  Nigga, please.

Yep this is where they fucked it up.

There's a whole demographic of poorly-educated (but not poor) women out there, who don't think of themselves as "minorities" and so who are natural republican voters, but the republicans don't seem to have a clue as to how to pick them up.  I don't get it.  The Republicans have overwhelmingly got the uneducated "white male" vote, and I don't understand how they could be missing so badly with their female counterparts.  The fact that republican-leaning males like to refer to women as whores can't explain the whole phenomenon.

[KRonn]

Women are so doomed. First the Republican war on women's contraceptives, and now the Democrat's war on stay at home moms.      

[CountDeMoney]

Seedy's on fire today!   Getting nervous?

I do: Lean Forward.

[Admiral Yi]

I really find the 'Obama's apologising for America' a bizarre line.  In terms of Republicans actually getting ready for the election I think it's almost as self-harming as the idea that Obama's not very bright and can't speak without a teleprompter.

They need to work on better lines, because these are demonstrably untrue and don't ring with what anyone else sees.

Why do you think it's bizarre and self-harming?

[CountDeMoney]

There's a whole demographic of poorly-educated (but not poor) women out there, who don't think of themselves as "minorities" and so who are natural republican voters, but the republicans don't seem to have a clue as to how to pick them up.  I don't get it.  The Republicans have overwhelmingly got the uneducated "white male" vote, and I don't understand how they could be missing so badly with their female counterparts.  The fact that republican-leaning males like to refer to women as whores can't explain the whole phenomenon.

Maybe because they've been convinced they're not allowed to vote?

"Billy Bob Ray, he does all tha' thinkin' for both of us."

[Sheilbh]

Why do you think it's bizarre and self-harming?

It depends which you mean the 'apology tour of the world' or the teleprompter.   They're both wrong, I think it's relatively easy to demonstrate otherwise and I don't think they fit with what most non-Republicans see in Obama.

It's kind of like the whole dangerous radical friend of Bill Ayres thing.  While that line of attack excited the base I don't think it was at all connected with the sort of impression most people have of Obama.  So they hear a line about him being mates with the Weather Underground, they look at Obama and don't recognise it.  Then the attacker ends up looking worse.

[Razgovory]

No way this is real.

https://www.gop.com/momsdoworkmug/momsdoworkmug.htm

Order your mug.

Looks like the perfect Mother's Day gift.

Maybe I'll get one for my mom.  If I can figure out which address she's at these days.