The GOP presidential candidates’ popularity over time—as determined by Gallup—illustrated in a series of butt plugs.
Fitting for Santorum.
Shep Smith on Romney’s reaction to Newt withdrawing from the GOP race:
Politics is weird. And creepy. And now I know lacks even the loosest attachment to anything like reality.
(Source: youtube.com)
"Let’s just be honest…I’ve yet to meet a single person in the Republican establishment that thinks Mitt Romney is going to win the general election this year. They won’t say it on TV because they’ve got to go on TV and they don’t want people writing them nasty emails. I obviously don’t care."
— Joe Scarborough • This particularly smarts, as Scarborough is a former Republican congressman himself. source (via • follow)
(Source: shortformblog)
- yeah … Last week, a spare comment Mitt Romney campaign staffer Eric Fehrnstrom comparing his candidate to an Etch A Sketch seemed to catch fire in the media, and the Gingrich and Santorum campaigns treated the gaffe as a major coup. Or was it?
- … but Despite the comment seemingly being everywhere last week, a Pew study shows that 55 percent of people didn’t even know about the incident. The WaPo’s Chris Cillizza says the poll is evidence of the bubble the political sphere builds around itself. (He’s right.) source
I wonder how many of those Etch-a-Sketch purchases that drove up sales were media outlets buying them to use on air.
(by way of anonymous)
(Source: lucilleandmitt)
(Source: lucilleandmitt)
Rachel Maddow: Rush Limbaugh “doesn’t know what birth control is.”
"The Republican brand is in a state of collapse – over 50 percent of voters give the Republican Party a cool, negative rating. The presidential race and the congressional battles are interacting with each other to drive down their lead candidate, the party, and perceptions of the congressional Republicans. Romney may be on the edge of political death. The shift against him is one of the biggest in the polls and he now competes with Republicans in Congress for unpopularity. […] The percentage of voters who identify as Democrats has increased 7 points since November to 39 percent."
— Democracy Corps (via maxistentialist)
(via maxistentialist)
A Florida voter defends his candidate, Mitt Romney, to Slate’s Dave Weigel.
We give up.
"Wouldn’t it be nice if people didn’t make accusations somewhere else that they weren’t willing to defend here?"
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Mitt Romney on Newt Gingrich backpedaling on the negative tone of the debates, that Wolf Blitzer called him out on instigating, but only after Rick Santorum chastised both of them for their “petty personal attacks” and ignoring the issues.
Ron Paul agrees.
