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William Bear posted:NYTimes reporting that Romney is meeting with Chris Christie tonight. Angling for the candidate most likely to die of heart failure. That crafty bastard
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:Now, Romney can sell off his influence (and donors) to the highest bidder. I am guessing that Romney will meet with Christie and other candidates in the coming weeks. I initially thought VP push but I now I think he would see that as beneath him. He could be looking for a prominent role though in an upcoming administration. Poverty Czar.
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Romney would be a terrific Ambassador. Maybe to France?
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Awwww...  was, like, the one thing I created here that had any traction and now it won't be resurrected.
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:I am guessing that this was decided last week when Bush and Romney met up. They probably hashed out what donors where with which person and how they would compare. Romney has to realize that both he and Bush are going after the same sub group of Republicans. I think I read that Bush took a few Team Romney people, so while some were spinning that as a coup it seems now that Romney actually was planning to duck out. I don't get his overall plan though. For example, why release that brutal Huckabee ad from 2008? Why go on a greatest hits tour for one week? It's not like he's selling a book (or needs the money from a book tour). I mean, I guess it's just that his ego is that cosmically large? I don't get it.
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Jan 30, 2015 18:41
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Mitt Romney: Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
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PupsOfWar posted:Mitt Romney: Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Only then he could truly not live up to his father in any way, shape or form.
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mdemone posted:gently caress me, True Detective ripped off Tom Ligotti?!? No wonder people thought it was a great show. Yeah the writer director guy got some poo poo for lifting from that book and just sort of shrugged and said you can't really plagerize philosophy. The guy that mack-on-a-hey plays is like a superhero for pessimists and the entire show is loving awesome. Edit: Forgot that it's illegal to say anything about this show without also saying That loving Long Traaaacking Shotttttttt omg Intel&Sebastian fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Jan 30, 2015 |
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Jan 30, 2015 18:49
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:Now, Romney can sell off his influence (and donors) to the highest bidder. Late stage hail mary wish: Romney sells his database/donor rolodex to Christie, and his Christie oppo folder from the VP vetting process to Bush. This is pro-click as gently caress youse guys. Get in on that poo poo.
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euphronius posted:Romney would be a terrific Ambassador. Maybe to France? Vietnam, so he can actually get sent there by the government for once. I'm surprised by Romney bowing out, because I assumed he was more selfish than that. This move increases the chance that we'll have a Republican president in 2017, even though Romney's out. He might have won a slapfight with Jeb, but he's not going to swoop in at the RNC and suddenly get the nom.
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Syjefroi posted:I don't get his overall plan though. For example, why release that brutal Huckabee ad from 2008? Why go on a greatest hits tour for one week? It's not like he's selling a book (or needs the money from a book tour). I mean, I guess it's just that his ego is that cosmically large? I don't get it. The first case can be explained pretty easily: whether or not Romney runs, he doesn't want Huckabee or his ilk to win the nomination. As for the rest: While you're running in the Invisible Primary, you need to look like you're serious about running in the real one so that you can pump up some poll numbers to hand your potential donors as proof you can win it.
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PupsOfWar posted:Mitt Romney: Secretary of Housing and Urban Development He does have a lot of experience building houses in multiple states.
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Hopefully we'll at least get Trollmney on twitter feuding with Trollbama now.
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BuzzFeed Andy FOIA'd Hillary's HR files from UA, finding that she beat out 39 male applicants for a law professorship. Her reviews appear to be good, except for a note about a lecture where she was chewing gum. Little did she know she'd be beaten years later by a notorious gum chewer!
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The Freedom of Information Act is easily one of our best laws. Bruce Bartlet is awesome. He's a great follow if you're into political twitter
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Goddrat Ohhhhhh shiiiiit son.
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Rygar201 posted:The Freedom of Information Act is easily one of our best laws. It's also really weird these days to see a law with FREEDOM in the name that isn't just a smokescreen for LESS FREEDOM.
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Cythereal posted:I don't think Romney wanted to be president so much as Ann Romney wanted to be First Lady. To keep the family tradition going, Ann needs to lose a Senate race.
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Fox News, channeling the hopes and dreams of this thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwB8qPTP9ac
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for a brokered convention? Don't think it'll happen. Ford was out on the golf courses in 1980, waiting for Reagan and Bush to beat themselves to a stalemate so that he would be asked to step in and take the nomination. By mid-summer Reagan had wiped the floor with GHB and...Ford could carry on with his putting practice.
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I just want to think this is the part in a James Brown concert, where somebody puts the cape on him, only to have Brown shake it off and keep singing.
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Jan 30, 2015 21:43
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A deadlocked convention. There are no brokers any more. But nah, that's not going to happen, and Mitt wouldn't be the pick even if it did. He's liked by roughly 1% of the people who'll attend the RNC.
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I just want Newt to make another hilarious run for it.
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Jan 30, 2015 21:50
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PupsOfWar posted:Mitt Romney: Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Tree Height Czar
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Is the White House LEED certified? I know just the guy, proven track record of managing commercial linen cleaning facilities already. Would not be daunted by complex parking challenges either.
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Jan 30, 2015 22:55
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Pron on VHS posted:I honestly feel bad for Romney, I could feel how badly he wanted to be a U.S. President, I don't think I've ever wanted anything that much. Don't. He'll be fine. The one thing he wanted that he never got. Cry me a loving river for that silver spoon motherfucker.
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Joementum posted:A deadlocked convention. There are no brokers any more. could you explain the difference if you have time?
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baw posted:could you explain the difference if you have time? A brokered convention involves all the primary races turning up nothing but a plurality of votes for any one candidate, but there's a willingness to negotiate that guy x accepts runner up guy y as the vice presidential candidate and favors are traded after the election for guys z and w. A deadlocked convention is the same thing, but no combination of factions that can generate a majority agree enough on any person exists.
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I'm sad because now we'll never know how he would get around that tacky as gently caress video of Ann Romney saying how "the country lost" because her train wreck of a husband isn't president.
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Nintendo Kid posted:A brokered convention involves all the primary races turning up nothing but a plurality of votes for any one candidate, but there's a willingness to negotiate that guy x accepts runner up guy y as the vice presidential candidate and favors are traded after the election for guys z and w. Thanks. I guess on topic, has anyone read this? I bought it on a whim.
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If Obama somehow trolls the entire GOP base and electorate into granting Hilary a landslide election, he's going to deserve every little bit of his Nobel Peace Prize. And may he continue to troll in his post-presidential years!
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So I'll be interested to see what comes out, but my current theory is that Romney was all set to run, but the big money guys made it clear they preferred Jeb instead of a guy who lost twice before, so he reluctantly had to give up. I listened to his conference call earlier, and he comes off sounding to me like he truly believes he can win, but he won't have the chance to try. Just an idea.
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Can't wait for Game Change 3.
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baw posted:could you explain the difference if you have time? Before the 1972 McGovern primary reform balloted primaries weren't run in most states and even in those where they were most of the time the delegates weren't pledged to a campaign. That meant that the state party chairman, an influential politician, and union leaders hand picked their delegates and could speak for the entire delegation. This was also the tail end of the age of machine politics where most of the delegates owed their employment to the party leaders. An example of how this worked was at the '68 RNC where Strom Thurmond, who controlled multiple Southern state delegations, was being courted by both Nixon and Reagan (Rockefeller was trying too, but  Strom was never going that way). Nixon handed him a list of possible VPs and Strom picked Agnew. Nixon also pledged not to mandate busing federally.Now that every state and territory holds a primary or caucus, and the RNC has even changed the rules so that (almost) all the delegates are pledged to a candidate (and most will be selected by the campaign they're pledged to), the only brokers are the candidates. The most likely scenario for anything approaching a deadlocked convention would be the 1st place candidate picking the 2nd as their VP, but even that is extremely unlikely because of how the primary schedule and funding works. One side note is that it's much more likely on the Democratic side because every national Democrat is an unpledged delegate at the DNC. These were the "superdelegates" you heard about in 2008. Joementum fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Jan 31, 2015 |
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comes along bort posted:Late stage hail mary wish: Romney sells his database/donor rolodex to Christie, and his Christie oppo folder from the VP vetting process to Bush. Nightmare scenario: Romney is backing Bush, he's only meeting with Christie to show him the oppo and drive him out of the race.
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We are going to have another Bush versus Clinton election, aren't we? Jeb Bush with Romney as VP -- that's how the R ticket is gonna go down.
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