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shadow puppet of a posted:My favourite Mitt annecdote from the last election was his opening conversational gambit with constituents on the trail being: Well, if you were a JVP at Panduit or Courtyard, you'd use that to start a discussion. If you're Joe on the street, like gently caress you care that 92% of Courtyards in America are planned to be LEED-compliant by 2020. You care about basic poo poo like hotcakes, good coffee, and cheap eggs. Or, minus the hotcakes, things which Mitt can't relate to.
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shadow puppet of a posted:My favourite Mitt annecdote from the last election was his opening conversational gambit with constituents on the trail being: Oh my God. I just can't wait for the 2016 election to really get going, which will probably be around this September again.
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Jan 8, 2015 09:31
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If Romney really is running, he'll have to hurry to announce before CES is over.
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ufarn posted:If Romney really is running, he'll have to hurry to announce before CES is over. I dunno, I can't really see him falling under consumer electronics. Maybe industrial? Something to explain that abysmal user interface.
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Fulchrum posted:I dunno, I can't really see him falling under consumer electronics. Maybe industrial? Something to explain that abysmal user interface.
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My Imaginary GF posted:Well, if you were a JVP at Panduit or Courtyard, you'd use that to start a discussion. If you're Joe on the street, like gently caress you care that 92% of Courtyards in America are planned to be LEED-compliant by 2020. Everyone knows that the voters only care about tree height, the quality and hydration of a given lemonade, how horrible their homemade cookies are, and who to blame for letting the dogs out.
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shadow puppet of a posted:Well I guess I should hope for Mitt to run as well at least as a signal to Cain and Gingrich that it is also their time once more.
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Jan 8, 2015 18:36
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Mike Huckabee's mailing list features One Weird Trick for Curing Cancer (atheists hate it!)
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The real secret of the mysterious healing message is that if you read it backwards it becomes killing words.
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Jan 8, 2015 20:28
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Chris Christie re-enters the hotseat.
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Jan 8, 2015 21:27
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The Republican Party of Iowa has gotten the message from the RNC that it can go ahead with plans to continue hosting the Ames Straw Poll. Fans of BBQ, country music, and busing in people from Illinois to vote for fringe candidates rejoice.
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Joementum posted:The Republican Party of Iowa has gotten the message from the RNC that it can go ahead with plans to continue hosting the Ames Straw Poll. So will Ron Paul win again, or will the divine mantle successfully pass to Rand?
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FMguru posted:I've always loved Charles Pierce's observation about the utility of the Iowa straw poll - that the ability to convince old people to board buses to take them to somewhere in rural Iowa qualifies you to be the marketing director for an Indian casino, not the leader of the free world. Charles Pierce posted:That doesn't mean that everybody won't show up for the corn dogs and the concerts and the spectacle of deciding which campaign is best at putting old white people on buses and moving them from one place to another. (Which, to me, is a qualification for managing an Indian casino, not for being handed the nuclear codes.)  FMguru fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Jan 9, 2015 |
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Winners of the Ames Straw poll: 2011: Michele Bachmann 2007: Mitt Romney 1999: George W. Bush 1995: Bob Dole and Phil Gramm (tie) 1987: Pat Robertson 1979: George H. W. Bush Ron Paul came in 2nd in 2011 (losing by 4,823 to 4.671) and 5th in 2007.
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Jan 8, 2015 23:04
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How odd that Dole and Gramm each got exactly 2,582 votes...
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FMguru posted:^^^ I think Bachman won the 2012 event. To be fair, is there anything more representative of middle America than getting liqoured up and heading to be nearest Indian casino? It seems like they have a pretty good hit rate for Presidential candidates.
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dorkasaurus_rex posted:When're the first debates? Last cycle the first one was at the Reagan library in Sept 2011, but it's not on the list of Official RNC-sanctioned Debates right now. The real answer is "not soon enough". 
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Just pretend I put every single emoticon the forum has here~quote:Romney Tells Donors He Is Considering 2016 White House Bid http://www.wsj.com/articles/romney-tells-donors-he-is-considering-2016-white-house-bid-1420839312
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I have moved Mitt Romney out of the list of people who are not running in the OP.
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What a completely unexpected turn of events. Politico has him quotes as saying "Everybody in here can go tell your friends that I’m considering a run."
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Jan 9, 2015 22:58
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Trees are now even more the correct height. Lemonade is now more lemony, wetter, and better. Fresh cookies taste more like stale 7-11 garbage. It's time to get LEED-compliant. It is time to 
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Joementum posted:I have moved Mitt Romney out of the list of people who are not running in the OP. On twitter they're helping out with some new campaign slogans for Mittens. 
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Jan 9, 2015 23:34
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I hope to god he runs. Romney is the best
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It'll just be months of this ad again right? http://youtu.be/QMDVQh0WrQs Also queue up the dog on car roof comics again
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJJKW7ea1oc Never gets old.
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Is there video of the LEED-compliant quote? I missed that one.
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The best part of this is that now some hard questions can be asked about his on-camera consumption of full caffeine, full sugar coca cola in the Mitt netflix documentary.
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I remember laughing so hard the night when the 47 percent video came out and he had to do a late night press conference totally disheveled. It was like something out of Veep. While it doesn't look that funny now, in context it was awesome: http://youtu.be/LWjE5rtYOoo Lots of fun on the forums during the 2012 election. Looking forward to another great couple of years coming up.
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Dear god, this is exciting news. Time to think of new and interesting ways to make fun of Mitt on the internet.
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I desperately hope that whoever set-up White People Mourning Romney is still around.
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Alls I'm sayin' is that Steve Forbes, Alan Keyes and Bob Dole are all still alive. Do you hear me out there o great granter of thread wishes? No reason at all why they couldn't run again. Just sayin'. The Pats Robertson and Buchanan too. John B. Anderson as well if we are really hitting the back catalog. All men firmly under the umbrealla of "currently alive"
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Forbes at least had the dignity to go away and be unspeakably rich in private after his failed run. However, I do hope that we see Romney follow his example and host SNL.
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Jan 10, 2015 07:59
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George HW Bush is still eligible to run as well.
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B B posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJJKW7ea1oc the first sperglord president?
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He's had three years to take his hundreds of millions of dollars, his network of people and even the very souls in his Mormon stake congregation whose afterlife he rules with an iron fist, and actually do something worth getting back the nomination. Take a simple problem, and visibly, publicly spearhead the effort to solve the gently caress out of it. Even on a private enterprise basis, start a company that does something electable. Be they guy that sticks EV and hydrogen stations everywhere in battleground states, use Bain-math to make everything look profitable, and march around for the entire primary going, "No, let ME tell YOU how to solve this' country's dependence on foreign oil! <applause> Because unlike you I went out and did it! <applause> Let him die! <muted applause>" But he was content to just be photographed by Reddit at gas stations and checkout lines. And thank his polygamous god for that.
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That sounds like a good way to approach the general, but he needs to survive the primary first, and you ain't gonna get there with some fancy liberal hydrogen fuel cells instead of God's own gasoline.
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Fracked hydrogen, to be sure.
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