I don't have a dog in this fight, but...

[BigV]

That would be unfair. Effective, but dirty though.

[ZenGum]

Sideshow Bob 2012!

[TheMercenary]

ANYone but Obama.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

ANYone but Obama.

Out of this bunch, Huntsman gets the nod over Obama, the rest are not close.

[ZenGum]

Strategy for Obama?

Both Napoleon and Sun Tzu are reported to have said something like "when the enemy are making mistakes, don't interrupt."

Mouth shut, powder dry, try to run the country.

[classicman]

For whatever reason the most intelligent and capable man in the race just cannot seem to gain any traction with his party.
Hmmm.... perhaps as VP.

I'm still thinking the best the R's can do is a Romney/Huntsman ticket.

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by classicman

For whatever reason the most intelligent and capable man in the race just cannot seem to gain any traction with his party.
Hmmm.... perhaps as VP.

I'm still thinking the best the R's can do is a Romney/Huntsman ticket.

Romney / Huntsman does seem to be the best out of this lot.

Maybe these two are keeping their heads down, their powder dry and their mouths shut (to avoid gathering feet) for a few more mnths, while the pretenders entertain the media. Maybe we'll see them emerge more as things progress.

As of right now, I think it would fall to Romney by default.

[Lamplighter]

At the turn, here comes Newt on the outside...

[infinite monkey]

Newt, Mitt...what's up with the weird name thing?

Biff for President!

Now, about Barack. Oh.

[Lamplighter]

If Cain is guilty of sexual harassment, these quotes will be end his career

Christian Science Monitor
David Grant
November 14, 2011

Gloria Cain says Herman Cain 'totally respects' women

Gloria Cain, wife of GOP candidate Herman Cain,
has given her first televised interview ever, to Greta Van Susteren of Fox News.

The interview is scheduled to air Monday night,
but according to partial transcripts already released,
Mrs. Cain strongly defends her husband against the allegations of sexual harassment.

“You hear the graphic allegations and we know that would have been
something that’s totally disrespectful of her as a woman.
And I know the type of person he is. He totally respects women.”

“I’m thinking he would have to have a split personality
to do the things that were said," according to Mrs. Cain.
<snip>

A Reuters/Ipsos poll last Thursday and Friday found Cain*,
with 20 percent support, was second to former Massachusetts Governor
Mitt Romney, who polled 28 percent, among Republican voters
in the race for the party's presidential nomination.

[Happy Monkey]

If someone changes their name to Nott Romney, they could probably get the nomination.

[Lamplighter]

In the GOP foreign policy debate Sunday in South Carolina, candidates were asked
whether they believed the U.S. should waterboard terror detainees.

This question did two things totally unique to this year's debates.
It resurrected the ghost of Dick Cheney on the issue of water boarding, and
it brought emphatic, yet matching responses from President Obama and Senator McCain.

Michele Bachmann explicitly endorsed waterboarding:

“If I were president, I would be willing to use waterboarding.”
"I’m on the same side as Vice President Cheney on this issue".

Cain told the debate moderators:

“I don’t see it as torture. I see it as an enhanced interrogation technique,”

Ron Paul, in contrast, upset a portion of the partisan crowd by declaring:

"water boarding is torture" and reminding the crowd that
"torture is illegal" under both US and international laws.

"Why would you accept the position of torturing a hundred people because
you know one person might have information?" Paul asked,
“I think it’s uncivilized. It would have no practical advantages
and is really un-American
to accept on principle that we will torture people we will capture.”

Huntsman, agreed, saying,

"We diminish our standing in the world and the values that we project,
which include liberty, democracy, human rights and open markets, when we torture."

Reactions from McCain and Obama were:

John McCain said:

“Very disappointed by statements at SC GOP debate supporting waterboarding.
Waterboarding is torture.”

President Obama responded: Let me just say this:

They’re wrong. *Waterboarding is torture. *It’s contrary to America’s traditions.
It’s contrary to our ideals. *That’s not who we are. *That’s not how we operate.
We don’t need it in order to prosecute the war on terrorism. And we did the right thing by ending that practice.
If we want to lead around the world, part of our leadership is setting a good example.
And anybody who has actually read about and understands the practice of waterboarding
would say that that is torture. *And that’s not something we do, period.

And besides all that:

Today Herman Cain showed that he is a manly man, with a link back
to Red Skelton's skits about the "Mean 'ittle Kid":

"Manly" men like more pizza toppings

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said in an interview
with GQ Monday that one can tell how "manly" a man is by looking at
how many toppings he puts on his pizza.
He also said a pizza covered in vegetables is a "sissy pizza."

"The more toppings a man has on his pizza, I believe the more manly he is," <snip>.

Cain, laughing, then explained that "the more manly man is not afraid of abundance"
before calling into question the manliness of a pizza with vegetables on it.
"A manly man don't want it piled high with vegetables!
He would call that a sissy pizza," Cain said.

Those were not the only food-related comments Cain made in the interview.
Cain has compared himself to black walnut ice cream;
asked what flavor Mitt Romney would be, Cain responded, "just plain vanilla."
He went on to call Rick Perry "rocky road" and deem
Michele Bachmann "tutti-frutti" after initially insisting, when asked about Bachmann,

"I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to say it."
"I know I'm going to get in trouble!," Cain said after deeming Bachmann tutti-frutti.

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[BigV]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

If someone changes their name to Nott Romney, they could probably get the nomination.

Now that is funny, right thar!

[DanaC]

Calling Pelosi 'Princess Nancy' really pissed me off.



Why? How? WTf is this man doing at the forefront of politics? I mean....I am assuming he isn't as thick as he appears to be (roughly the thickness of two short planks) ... because that really would be scary. But if he isn't as thick as he appears to be then he has no fucking excuse for his unreconstructed, macho, sexist, homophobic dickery.

[Happy Monkey]

You can't go wrong in the Republican party when insulting Nancy Pelosi.