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[GlyphGryph]

South Carolina accepts write in votes in their primary, don't they?

The thing is, he's CURRENTLY a write in candidate in the polls and he's still at 5% among legitimately likely REPUBLICAN voters. That's higher than Hunstman, who was actually offered as an option to those polled.

[Nadaka]

I would vote for Colbert.

[GlyphGryph]

As would I.

[RedKing]

Oh...yeah, I guess write-in is always an option. Wow...that's going to be awesomesad if he actually beats out Huntsman (and at 5%, could beat Rick Perry) as a write-in. It would be the epitome of awesome if he actually got enough to earn a pledged delegate.

[Nadaka]

Sometimes I wonder if our universe isn't an absurd satirical fiction making fun of some other universes political buffoonery.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/gingrich-hits-romney-knowing-speak-french-150300235.html

Basically Gingrich is launching attack ads against Romney because he once went to France as a missionary (it was how Romney dodged the draft) and he is just like liberal democrat John Kerry because they both speak french.

[Flying Dice]

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if we are living in some Tom Tomorrowesque world of insanity.

[EmperorNuthulu]

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if we are living in some Tom Tomorrowesque world of insanity.

A man with a boot on his head whos main polices are mandatory tooth brushing laws and free ponies for everyone, and a popular comedic entertainer are running in an election of one of the most powerful countries on the planet. And they're probably the most normal candidates all things considered. So yeah, the world is pretty insane.

[G-Flex]

Sometimes I wonder if our universe isn't an absurd satirical fiction making fun of some other universes political buffoonery.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/gingrich-hits-romney-knowing-speak-french-150300235.html

Basically Gingrich is launching attack ads against Romney because he once went to France as a missionary (it was how Romney dodged the draft) and he is just like liberal democrat John Kerry because they both speak french.

I like how the ad, in a complete non sequitur, states at the end that "a Massachusetts moderate cannot beat Barack Obama". It switches straight from "Mitt Romney isn't conservative enough" to "Mitt Romney isn't a viable candidate" completely out of nowhere.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I'm telling you, this is exactly why we should re-legalize dueling among politicians. Andrew Jackson would not be standing for any of this.


Of course, he was also kind of a homicidal lunatic. But he was the homicidal lunatic America needed.

[RedKing]

Rick Perry will one-up this ad by accusing Romney of speaking English. >_<

Jeez, first the "Manchurian Candidate" thing, now "The French Connection". Way to be proud we're a country full of people too parochial to learn a second language, guys.

Sometimes I wonder if our universe isn't an absurd satirical fiction making fun of some other universes political buffoonery.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/gingrich-hits-romney-knowing-speak-french-150300235.html

Basically Gingrich is launching attack ads against Romney because he once went to France as a missionary (it was how Romney dodged the draft) and he is just like liberal democrat John Kerry because they both speak french.

I like how the ad, in a complete non sequitur, states at the end that "a Massachusetts moderate cannot beat Barack Obama". It switches straight from "Mitt Romney isn't conservative enough" to "Mitt Romney isn't a viable candidate" completely out of nowhere.

No, that's a logical flow from A to B for the folks making that ad. Romney can't beat Obama BECAUSE he's not conservative enough. Because they think that secretly the REAL American people are just like them. That or they think he won't be conservative to win God's vote, and of course that's all that really counts because God will then make everyone vote for him. Damn vote-rigging Jehovah.

[Aqizzar]

Yeah, you really couldn't write a more hamfisted ad if you tried.  Like, third-grade reading comprehension hamfisted.  But I was wondering how long it would take before someone figured out the glaring similarities between Romney and John Kerry (other than Jon Stewart's writers, four years ago).  Gingrich is definitely pulling out all the stops to destroy Romney any way he can, with clearly either no regard for who is the eventual nominee or a deluded hope that it'll still somehow be himself.

I can't say I'm surprised by the level of puerile, chest-beating worship at the alter of Hank Hill, but I didn't really expect it to start this soon, and to be introduced by the Republican nominees competing against each other.  Let alone that it would spark off a tectonic war between conservative "thinkers" like Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin over the merits of populist economic rhetoric (or at least as a screen for Romney-vs-Anti-Romney factions).

[GlyphGryph]

I feel like Newt is doing this out of pride. Romney went pretty vicious on him with a ton of untraceable ads, and Newt isn't going to stand for that.

[EveryZig]

Sometimes I wonder if our universe isn't an absurd satirical fiction making fun of some other universes political buffoonery.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/gingrich-hits-romney-knowing-speak-french-150300235.html

Basically Gingrich is launching attack ads against Romney because he once went to France as a missionary (it was how Romney dodged the draft) and he is just like liberal democrat John Kerry because they both speak french.

The first ~38 seconds of that video actually made him sound better to me >.>
It is somewhat worrying that the political spectrum is so polarized that half of one side's insults are half of the other side's compliments.

[RedKing]

You'll know we've passed the point of no return when you hear an ad like "John Jackson doesn't eat the bodies of his slain enemies. John Jackson: too liberal for America."

[Bauglir]

Rick Perry will one-up this ad by accusing Romney of speaking English. >_<

No, see, he understands that English is the One True Language. He'll accuse him of speaking British.