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Eh, I’m not impressed. There’s still a chance, with the disasterous field before us on his side of the aisle, that he could change his mind.
All he’s doing is buying some time and, ergo, not spending money.
Watch this guy. He’s as honest as the day is long, but you gotta watch him (credit to Chico Marx).
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I’d rather have an epic blizzard fail. If Mitt recants and comes back later, he’ll have to use all his own money to run. Since he hasn’t had to pay taxes since 2000, I guess that wouldn’t be a problem.
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47% of him wanted to run. The other 53% didn’t, but Karl Rove is still waiting for final
returns from Ohio.
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Oh, for Fuck’s Sake…
Mark Halperin was their inside scoop??? This is the same asshole that thought Palin would make a genuinely impressive President in 2010. Courtesy of MediaMatters:
But the mistake you are making is to assume that Palin needs or wants to play by the standard rules of American politics. Or that it even occurs to her to do so. Trash her all you want (even you Republicans who are doing it all the time behind her back) for being uninformed, demagogic and incoherent, and brandish the poll numbers that show fewer and fewer Americans think she is qualified to be President. Strain to apply political and practical norms to Alaska’s former governor. You are missing the point.
Surely you’ve come to accept the reality that as a businessperson, Palin is a genius. The gusher of revenue from her speeches, books and television deals sweeps away any doubt that she can brilliantly harness her energy, charisma and popularity into a moneymaking bonanza.
But what you need to appreciate is that the same dynamics of supply and demand that Palin has cleverly exploited for financial gain also make her inimitably formidable as a political force.
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All of you are certain she can’t win the presidency – and as of today you are right. But the nomination is another kettle of salmon, and she bears more in common with the past three presidential winners than with the passel of hopefuls clamoring for donations, press attention and straw votes. She is like Obama: the camera loves her and both sides of the political spectrum hang on her every word. She is like Bush: able to communicate with religious conservatives and Middle Americans. Most of all, she is like Bill Clinton: what doesn’t kill Sarah Palin makes her stronger. So as the world gets ready for the midterm elections and for the start of the epic contest in which Republicans will pick their champion to go into battle against Barack Obama, be advised: Palin is very much alive and, despite what you think, extraordinarily strong.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2010/09/20/mark-halperins-mash-note-to-sarah-palin/170855
Who could’ve seen this coming?
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I trust Mitt Romney about as far as I can spit. I don’t like the man, I don’t like his policies, and I don’t like his religion. (I was a member of the LDS church until I came to my senses).
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Ah, the last nail in the coffin of the “Romney candidacy.” Finally, he’s learned (I think). And, another nail in the coffin of respectable journalism from the so-called “news outlets.” The death knell for that has been ringing for a long, long time. Indeed, for the most part, respectable journalism is already dead.
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For me, this latest, MSM-fail episode is about as interesting and relevant as listening to a bunch of bald-headed men arguing about the latest hairstyles.
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- I can’t believe that any of the big money GOP backers would consider giving Mitt a second chance after blowing it so hugely last time around
- What about Queen Ann? Wasn’t she thinking of bringing Rafalca out of retirement to carry her down the Mall for the inauguration?
- I do agree however that Mitt may still wait it out to see if the rest of the GOP clown car kill each other off in the circular firing squad known as the GOP primaries
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This is why the identity of sources should not be protected or privileged when they are proven wrong: The Beast is full of shit, tried to beat everyone to the punch by guessing it correctly and has now made up fictional “sources” to blame for it.
It’s an abuse of the entire thing. You know it and I know it…they’re lying and hiding behind imaginary “sources” to protect their credibility. The public should be able to test that credibility when the “news” is THAT wrong about something. If we can’t, then they have no reason not to just make shit up left and right, claim it was magically “sourced” and never have to worry about the truth or the consequences of not telling it.
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MOrE MITT teAM cheSS to KEEP you LIBtards GUESSING whEther OR not BILLARY will CrasH and BURN with A MITT nominATION. WILL he? Won’t HE? HE is? He ISN’t. HAHAHA. LIbtards is DUMBER than DUMB!1!!11!!!1one!!1!!!
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Lord have mercy…Insane clown posse rolls on.
I’m sad Peter Lisagor isn’t remembered and Betty Beale…I’m sad others won’t have the thrill of anticipation I had with a new issue of Rolling Stone with another Hunter S. Thompson election report.
New media, and new candidates for that matter, have a way to go…
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GOP rule: it is more important to the First than to be correct.
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Why media outlets, the TV news networks do it too, feel it’s more important to be first by 10 seconds instead of, you know, getting the facts right, always amazes me. Aren’t they more embarrassed and concerned about damage to the brand by the errors instead of being a few minutes behind a competitor?
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I think it is unfair to blame the media. Blame technology. If Romney is going to flip-flop at 400 cycles per second, Twitter is a poor vehicle to report his status at any given moment. We need much faster networks so iPhone apps can keep up with a sensor attached to Romney himself.
OMG is he running or not???
So long as there isn’t a future in which Mitt Romney is running the free world… I just don’t care.
Halperin never had credibility as a reporter.
Or as a human being, for that matter.
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