Perry's donors may not understand the depths of his inability to win. I mean, they sank a lot of money into him because they believed quite the opposite. If they think that his campaign is salvageable, say, by a radical replacement of his staff and shift of strategy, then they might be very pissed off if he fails to make a last ditch effort to turn it around.
These are Texans -- people who are used to celebrating football players who stay on the field with broken ribs and make the tackle that saves the touchdown and the game. It may not make sense in a practical context, but this is Texas... you win or you come back on your shield.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/T1AiN.png
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
RELATED: Jon Huntsman Says Iowans ‘Pick Corn,’ Not Presidents
too honest to be president
― Aimless, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
who was president sterling?
― goole, Wednesday, January 4, 2012 5:18 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
prez of stanford, in whose office the hippies were "sitting in" to protest vietnam
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
Up in New Hampshire:
Wandering around the event, Romney supporters were surprisingly difficult to find in the crowd, even among those sporting campaign stickers and signs. Outside the event, a small group of backers politely argued with a group of unidentified protestors dressed in animal costumes, including a dolphin mocking Romney’s “flip flops.”“We loved him as governor,” Amanda Stradling, who moved to the state from Massachusetts, told TPM, holding a nine-month old baby wearing a Romney sticker.But for every Romney, there seemed to be plenty of undecideds, independents, and even Democrats. One group of three friends, two of whom said they plan on voting for Obama, came up from New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut as “political tourists” just to check out the candidates.“It’s just too early to decide,” one twenty-something in a Boston Red Sox hat said.Simona Amiet, a homemaker who immigrated from Switzerland 20 years earlier, said she was leaning Romney because he was “knowledgeable with enterprise,” but had yet to decide. A Hillary Clinton supporter in 2008, she said she knew she wouldn’t be voting Democrat again in the general election, upset with both deficits and how he treated her favorite candidate four years ago.Al Plass, 57, said as an independent he was still not sold on Romney, and that he was beginning to even warm up to Rick Santorum. But he was still holding out hope that his dream candidate would run: Donald Trump.“He has way more business experience than Romney,” he said. “He’s straightforward, he’s a patriot, he loves this country.”
“We loved him as governor,” Amanda Stradling, who moved to the state from Massachusetts, told TPM, holding a nine-month old baby wearing a Romney sticker.
But for every Romney, there seemed to be plenty of undecideds, independents, and even Democrats. One group of three friends, two of whom said they plan on voting for Obama, came up from New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut as “political tourists” just to check out the candidates.
“It’s just too early to decide,” one twenty-something in a Boston Red Sox hat said.
Simona Amiet, a homemaker who immigrated from Switzerland 20 years earlier, said she was leaning Romney because he was “knowledgeable with enterprise,” but had yet to decide. A Hillary Clinton supporter in 2008, she said she knew she wouldn’t be voting Democrat again in the general election, upset with both deficits and how he treated her favorite candidate four years ago.
Al Plass, 57, said as an independent he was still not sold on Romney, and that he was beginning to even warm up to Rick Santorum. But he was still holding out hope that his dream candidate would run: Donald Trump.
“He has way more business experience than Romney,” he said. “He’s straightforward, he’s a patriot, he loves this country.”
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
Outside the event, a small group of backers politely argued with a group of unidentified protestors dressed in animal costumes, including a dolphin mocking Romney’s “flip flops.”
I can't even
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
in what way is Trump a patriot
― The Silent Extreme (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
did he kill a muslim I don't know about
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― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
sounds like newt's her candidate then
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
“knowledgeable with enterprise"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWIEyZFwZ8k
― buzza, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
An Iowa caucus is basically like a livestock auction crossed with a general assembly, right?
― Oh shit, that's my bone! (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
and a New Hampshire primary is basically a Rotary Club crossed with a toadstool.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
link courtesy nro/the corner but i put here so more people would see
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/my-night-at-michele-bachmanns-headquarters
― no longer the deli llama (m coleman), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web03/2012/1/3/2/enhanced-buzz-23574-1325574283-7.jpg
― no longer the deli llama (m coleman), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
pathos
http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal05/2012/1/3/2/enhanced-buzz-1479-1325574650-157.jpg
― no longer the deli llama (m coleman), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
I overheard someone say: "We have a lot of courts trying to institute Sharia Law. They stoned a woman in Toronto and didn't do anything about it."
― The Silent Extreme (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
show me this Corner post!
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
I was watching last night when all this nonsense transpired, and, yes, I found it very funny ("We know--a lot of people Tweet in America!")
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/01/the-iowa-spectacle.html
Number one rule in Toronto: everybody must get stoned.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
x post
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/287016/visit-bachmann-hq-robert-costa#comments
what's also funny is the other thread he links to - the santorum scrapbook - takes the piss out of rick
― no longer the deli llama (m coleman), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web05/2012/1/2/11/enhanced-buzz-29688-1325522119-20.jpg
― no longer the deli llama (m coleman), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
where does he want to put the end of nuclear war?
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
iLegal same sex marriage
― nah (crüt), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
Legalize the Death Penalty
― The Silent Extreme (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
the corner:
Katharine Hepburn said that Ginger Rogers gave Fred Astaire sex appeal. Iowa has restored the glow to Rick Santorum.
― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
Put more money in the "investment of education" of our children so they learn to spell illegal.
― Dan Peterson, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
1 person named April Buysman in Iowa | WhitePagesnames.whitepages.com › Name Popularity › April BuysmanFind April Buysman on WhitePages. There is 1 person named April Buysman in Orange City, IA.
― buzza, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
orange city!! haha no shit
― goole, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
new Corner thread:
NRO's The Corner 2: Ghost Protocol
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
From the Bachmann article:
She spoke for about a minute and then they played "Hey Soul Sister" 3 times in a row.
This is literally my idea of what hell would be like.
― Nicole, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 23:57 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
Correct top three. Wrong order, but the 25 Romney voters came damn close.
― Aimless, Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:09 (twelve years ago) link
I voted for Santorum. Force of habit from all the NRO polls where I vote for what I want to happen (within reason, else I would have voted for Gingrich).
― clemenza, Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
Me too.
― Nicole, Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
i voted paul because he is a living god
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 January 2012 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
I voted for RuPaul, because I expected this was his best shot at muddying the waters and giving the Republican establishment a hissy fit. I never dared to think Santorum would actually win it; he's such a loser.
― Aimless, Thursday, 5 January 2012 01:14 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't honestly think he would win, I just liked the idea of him winning.
― Nicole, Thursday, 5 January 2012 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
120,000 - 30,000...I think there about 90,000 people in Iowa who, big-picture, would probably say the same thing.
― clemenza, Thursday, 5 January 2012 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
Kind of sad I didn't go to the democrat caucus last night, but my district was one of the ones where the room was practically overcrowded anyway.
I kind of love and hate this but I'll park it here since this thread's probably the last of the Iowa-mentioning for some time:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLZZ6JD0g9Y
― mh, Thursday, 5 January 2012 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
i totally dont think iowans are all hillbillies, u need hills for that
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 January 2012 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think iowans are hillbillies. I think they are predominantly small town or rural dwellers, without big cities. They also have a high percentage of college grads. Prob ag colleges, but those are diplomas, too.
― Aimless, Thursday, 5 January 2012 02:35 (twelve years ago) link
wait, the Democrats caucused? did they just bow toward Washington?
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 January 2012 03:00 (twelve years ago) link
The smug Iowan Obamaniac in that video might wanna listen to the first 2 minutes of this clip of the late (mostly) liberal talkshow host Lynn Samuels in 2008:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw0zr9hn01E
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 January 2012 03:07 (twelve years ago) link
hey smug Iowan check out this youtube
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 5 January 2012 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
it's 2012 & Matt's supporting his party by trolling Dr. Morbius on ilx political threads. come lord Quetzalcoatl incinerate us all in fire
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 5 January 2012 04:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/datacenter/quickfacts
― j., Thursday, 5 January 2012 04:43 (twelve years ago) link
Btw I have no idea where the guy got the 4/5 in cities thing. All seems like smug pandering but I had a guilty lol.
"wait the democrats caucused" is kind of the "I have no idea what went on beyond headlines" statement here.
Wtf is an "ag college?" one of the two state universities has ag programs (both science and business) but they're not the largest parts of the school. According to j.'s stats there, there a about 90k people working on farms versus 1.5mil working elsewhere in the economy. 1 in 16 people working on a farm is kind of high, I guess?
― mh, Thursday, 5 January 2012 05:12 (twelve years ago) link
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, January 5, 2012 4:39 AM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I'm really kind of hurt that you think this is my reason above all the other far superior reasons to aggravate Morbs.
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 5 January 2012 05:33 (twelve years ago) link
really feel like we need a moratorium on the term 'trolling' at this point, just a cooling out period
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 January 2012 05:34 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not gonna watch that YouTube but Iowa State is an ag school for sure. Mrs. Aero worked on glycine max aka the noble soybean in their lab, they do a lot of research on g. max & corn & parasites etc @ Iowa State. "Farms" kinda doesn't really begin to describe just how much of Iowa's economy is agricultural - co-ops, grain elevators, transport, pesticides etc., whatever you classify anhydrous as they gotta buy shitloads of it to keep farming, etc
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 5 January 2012 05:34 (twelve years ago) link