UNLIMITED GOP 2012 PRIMARY CANDIDATE THREAD

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

The whole fucking political system is turning into a reality show.

Once again, Nigel cuts to the chase.

What do you want to bet that somewhere between now and 2016, MTV will have a show called "So You Want To Be President?"

Too late: http://www.lucthehague.nl/news/premier-gezocht.html

Oh god. 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

HOW.

[Chairman Risus]

It must be an absolute riot working at Fox News.

[Luna]

HOW.

Hell, that's not half as bad as how they mysteriously manage to mislabel any GoP politician caught with his dick where he shouldn't have it (like, say, in a rentboy) as a Democrat.

[Luna]

Santorum opened his pie-hole again.

Santorum tweeted: "Here is 1 effect of changing definition of marriage "@HuffingtonPost: Marriage rate in America drops to new low"

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/12/15/rick-santorum-blames-lower-us-wedding-rates-on-marriage-equality/

All those extra people being allowed to marry!  THAT's why fewer people are getting married!

[Precious Moments Zalgo]

Santorum opened his pie-hole again.

Santorum tweeted: "Here is 1 effect of changing definition of marriage "@HuffingtonPost: Marriage rate in America drops to new low"

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/12/15/rick-santorum-blames-lower-us-wedding-rates-on-marriage-equality/

All those extra people being allowed to marry!  THAT's why fewer people are getting married!

If I understand correctly, that's exactly their argument.  Now that the wrong sort of couples can get married in a handful of states, marriage is completely meaningless so why bother?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Santorum opened his pie-hole again.

Santorum tweeted: "Here is 1 effect of changing definition of marriage "@HuffingtonPost: Marriage rate in America drops to new low"

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/12/15/rick-santorum-blames-lower-us-wedding-rates-on-marriage-equality/

All those extra people being allowed to marry!  THAT's why fewer people are getting married!

If I understand correctly, that's exactly their argument.  Now that the wrong sort of couples can get married in a handful of states, marriage is completely meaningless so why bother?

Same argument used to promote the anti-misegenation laws: http://hnn.us/articles/4708.html

[Luna]

Aaaand, the inevitable Herman Cain butthurt is aired.

Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain told a conference call of tea party activists on Sunday night that it was the liberal media that forced him out of the 2012 presidential race.

"I am as broken hearted as others about having to pull out," Cain said, "but I couldn't continue to try and run a race when you have a liberal media and others who did not want to see me succeed and to see us succeed — constantly fighting false accusations."

Cain suspended his campaign for president following a series of  news stories about women who accused him of harassment and infidelity dating back to the 1990s.

[Juana]

1.
2. Bitch please. What a wuss. My POOR WIDDLE FEEWINGS.

[LMNO]

GO NEWT GO!

For a self-confessed epic character, Newt Gingrich has stage-managed himself into an epic piece of political stupidity. With his escalating attacks on the federal judiciary, he has confirmed that, if elected, he would place himself atop a government that simultaneously manages to be both a dictatorship and a theocracy. In recent weeks—and just as his presidential star was improbably rising—he doubled down on his initial claims that the federal courts "have become grotesquely dictatorial and far too powerful," to offer up new promises that, as president, he would abolish federal judgeships, occasionally ignore the Supreme Court, and—in the manner of a tiny tyrant in khaki shirts and mirrored sunglasses—have federal marshals arrest errant federal judges and force them to testify before Congress about their unpopular decisions.

One is tempted to open up a can of lofty rhetorical whoopass to explain why each of these ideas offends the basic constitutional principles of separation of powers, and judicial independence, but really, why? Does anyone even have to explain why Gingrich's plans to construct a federal judiciary out of his own rib, then terrorize it into imposing his constitutional vision on the nation is a staggeringly bad one?

VOTE FOR NEWT: LET THE HOUSE OF CARDS FALL, ALREADY.

[Cain]

Actually, this is even more awesome than that.  IOZ explains:

I love Gingrich. I love his new idea that the President or Congress oughta send the Texas Rangers after judges who issue rulings contrary to their decrees and make em splain themselves. It just doesn't go far enough. I think every institution of government should have its own paramilitary, and every minister should have the power to summon any other minister to splain his ministrations; every decision should be infinitely reviewable by every individual; Joe from Public Works should be able to subpoena John Roberts who will be tied up, metaphorically speaking, with John Boehner, who has to rush to testify before Ethyl in the WalMart greeting line. His totalitarian vision, taken to its own logical end, is the very anarchy we so desire.

[LMNO]

Still, though..

Also, if there is a dumber idea than having judges who already issue written opinions being hauled before Congress to explain the very reasoning they have painstakingly rendered in writing, I can't imagine it.

[Cain]

Yes.  There is voting for someone who is aware of this, but is promising to do it anyway.

"Never always go full-retard" should be the official motto of US politics.

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

Still, though..

Also, if there is a dumber idea than having judges who already issue written opinions being hauled before Congress to explain the very reasoning they have painstakingly rendered in writing, I can't imagine it.

      We need a leader not a reader.
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[The Good Reverend Roger]

Still, though..

Also, if there is a dumber idea than having judges who already issue written opinions being hauled before Congress to explain the very reasoning they have painstakingly rendered in writing, I can't imagine it.

It occurs to me that being a villain is an obsolete concept.   

TGRR,
Buggy whip salesman, will travel.