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[Zzoram]

If Michelle Obama said "whitey" in college 15 years ago, does that really mean anything? Oh no, she called white people white.

 

[Puddles]

If Barack wanted to make fun of a bunch of crackers at some point in the past, I couldn't really give a fuck.

 

[Particle Physicist]

Anyone post this yet?

[/b]

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/...lege-and-theyll-come-out-during-the-election/

Starts at 5:15. The guy is human slime, but I do wonder what he has up his sleeve.

It's probably Obama smoking weed, which he has admitted to already.

 

[Zzoram]

It's probably Obama smoking weed, which he has admitted to already.

Obama smoking weed is far better than Bush snorting coke.

 

[Chumly]

Anyone post this yet?

[/b]

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/...lege-and-theyll-come-out-during-the-election/

Starts at 5:15. The guy is human slime, but I do wonder what he has up his sleeve.

I can only imagine how much editing these new set of videos required for them to become controversial (that is if he even has videos)

 

[PhoenixDark]

I bet the video is something like Obama commentating on Malcolm X's autobiography or something like that. Regardless it'll be edited enough to make it a "big" story and Brietbart will criticize the media for not covering it 24/7

I don't get it. This type of fear mongering didn't work four years ago, and despite a shitty economy MOST people still like Obama/have positive opinions of him. So what does a video of College Obama saying controversial things accomplish, besides further enrage the 20-30% of the country who already hates him?

 

[Dram]

True, but those videos did destroy Acorn and did get that one lady fired.

 

[PhoenixDark]

True, but those videos did destroy Acorn and did get that one lady fired.

I can't possibly imagine a video that would destroy or hurt Obama, the president of the United States. Unless he's on tape saying white girls are fun because they swallow, I just don't see this mattering with the economy improving; even if it doesn't improve, the economy will be the deciding factor.

 

[Black Republican]

If Barack wanted to make fun of a bunch of crackers at some point in the past, I couldn't really give a fuck.

he already did that at the televised health care debate with the GOP

 

[AlteredBeast]

I can't possibly imagine a video that would destroy or hurt Obama, the president of the United States. Unless he's on tape saying white girls are fun because they swallow, I just don't see this mattering with the economy improving; even if it doesn't improve, the economy will be the deciding factor.

I am guessing breitbart is just fluffing up some video of Obama stoned or something, it won't touch him. Especially since a huge portion of the adult populace has experimented at one point in their lives ei some drug or another. Some crazy misogynistic stuff or vile racist stuff would definitely bring him down a peg, though. Obama seems better than that, though. He already said he had done coke before, right? It would be awesome to see a video of him snorting some coke and then screaming, eyes bloodshot and wide, " I love cocaine!!!!!!!"

 

[Flying_Phoenix]

So yeah I bumped this thread in case anybody here wanted to participate.

 

[Invisible_Insane]

I am guessing breitbart is just fluffing up some video of Obama stoned or something, it won't touch him. Especially since a huge portion of the adult populace has experimented at one point in their lives ei some drug or another. Some crazy misogynistic stuff or vile racist stuff would definitely bring him down a peg, though. Obama seems better than that, though. He already said he had done coke before, right? It would be awesome to see a video of him snorting some coke and then screaming, eyes bloodshot and wide, " I love cocaine!!!!!!!"

I would totally love to see a high-as-fuck Obama staring belligerently into the camera asserting, "Cocaine is a hell of a drug."

But the fact that we're even talking about this means Breitbart is already winning. Ugh.

 

[PhoenixDark]

Cocaine? You mean crack right; we are talking about a black person after all.

/fox news

 

[AlteredBeast]

Cocaine? You mean crack right; we are talking about a black person after all.

/fox news

Either way, that clown probably has nothing.

 

[PhoenixDark]

Reminds me of Hannity claiming to have video of Obama trying to call off the Bin Laden raid. It could just be pure bullshit, but most likely I think it's some out of context hit job. Regardless it'll be irrelevant and I'd imagine Breitbart knows it. Like his other stunts this will ultimately boil down to him complaining that the mainstream media doesn't pay attention. boo hoo

Between Obama and Romney I don't think we'll be stumbling across any major personal scandals. Both seem like prototypical family men, especially by Washington/White House standards.

 

[GaimeGuy]

Lol, right, the commander in chief of the armed forces called off the bin laden raid, but the military went through with it anyways.

 

[Al-ibn Kermit]

Lol, right, the commander in chief of the armed forces called off the bin laden raid, but the military went through with it anyways.

The truth is that Blackwater took on the mission that the president was too afraid to even order. That's why we haven't seen any pictures, they took the body and kept it on ice somewhere, just waiting. And then when the first general election debates come around, frankenladen will emerge and Romney will pull out dual Tec9's and empty them in his general direction, sealing a Republican victory in all the national elections.

 

[Chumly]

You know it amazes me that the church is having trouble getting young people to support them and they know this but they decide anyways to go all out on crazy issues such as this contraception debate. I mean of all things.....its promoting womens health and they are against it. It somehow turns into this government war against religion and yet all its doing is turning more and more people away from religion because they look like a bunch of crazies.

 

[Wilsongt]

You know it amazes me that the church is having trouble getting young people to support them and they know this but they decide anyways to go all out on crazy issues such as this contraception debate. I mean of all things.....its promoting womens health and they are against it. It somehow turns into this government war against religion and yet all its doing is turning more and more people away from religion because they look like a bunch of crazies.

You mean they aren't already a bunch of crazies? Because before this issue they certainly were doing a damn good job of getting that impression across.

 

[cartoon_soldier]

So guys...fun times are coming

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...udget/2012/02/13/gIQAbYKhAR_blog.html#excerpt

Now the White House is adding both sets of tax recommendations together and touting $1.5 trillion in new taxes, and a 2.5:1 ratio. It's clear evidence that they think they're winning on the tax issue.

 

[Door2Dawn]

Taxes.....TAXES!!?!!?

It's nice to see a Democrat attacking the fax issue head on instead of running away from it.

 

[BotoxAgent]

I can't possibly imagine a video that would destroy or hurt Obama, the president of the United States. Unless he's on tape saying white girls are fun because they swallow, I just don't see this mattering with the economy improving; even if it doesn't improve, the economy will be the deciding factor.

Repubs try so hard to my make a controversy out of nothing. They must be so frustrated that Obama is such a scandaless President. And the reverend Wright and Ayers stuff just shows how miserably pathetic the media can be. Hannity was stretching that Wright stuff to absurd levels.

 

[Evlar]

33 out of 33.

 

[Pie Lord]

So guys...fun times are coming

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...udget/2012/02/13/gIQAbYKhAR_blog.html#excerpt

This should be amusing.

 

[Invisible_Insane]

Santorum's ahead of Romney everywhere in Michigan except Oakland County

Rick Santorum leads the Michigan Republican presidential primary with 33%. Santorum is followed by Mitt Romney with 27%, Newt Gingrich with 21%, and Ron Paul with 12%.

Santorum leads Gingrich 42% to 24% among self-identified Republicans, followed by Romney with 18% and Paul with 11%. Among self-identified independents and Democrats, Romney leads with 48%, followed by Paul with 15%, Gingrich with 13%, and Santorum with 11%.

Santorum leads Romney 36% to 25% among likely Republican primary voters saying they will definitely vote in the March 6 primary, followed by Gingrich with 21% and Paul with 11%. Romney leads Santorum 33% to 22% among those saying they will probably vote, followed by Gingrich with 20% and Paul with 17%.

Santorum leads with 37% among likely Republican primary voters saying they are supporters of the Tea Party, followed by Gingrich with 29%, Romney with 17%, and Paul with 11%. Among likely primary voters saying they are not supporters of the Tea Party or are undecided about the Tea Party, Romney leads with 35%, followed by Santorum with 30%, Gingrich with 14%, and Paul with 13%.

Santorum leads Gingrich 33% to 28% among men, followed by Romney with 17% and Paul with 16%. Romney leads Santorum 39% to 33% among women, followed by Gingrich with 12% and Paul with 7%.

Oh dear.

 

[RustyNails]

Mostly people claiming that Kerry was a fraud combined with the fact that Kerry is not a likable person even among their own voters.

And to no surprise I sound like I am describing Romney.

Romney is a phony. Kerry wasn't. He was an actual war hero, smeared and dragged through pig shit by the America Loving Patriotic Party/Republicans.

 

[Marvie_3]

Taxes.....TAXES!!?!!?

 

[Tim-E]

And there are people saying Michigan is in play for Romney in November. Lol

 

[Invisible_Insane]

This speaks to something I mentioned earlier:

Michigan is perceived as a state where Romney really has a home field advantage, but only 26% of primary voters actually consider him to be a Michigander while 62% do not. Only 39% have a favorable opinion of George Romney with a 46% plurality having no opinion about him. Romney really doesn't have some great reservoir of goodwill in Michigan to fall back on. Only 49% of voters have a favorable opinion of him to 39% with a negative one. That's down a net 28 points from our last poll of Michigan in July when he was at +38 (61/23).

Full write-up from PPP on Michigan is here.

 

[StopMakingSense]

Don't worry, she totally didn't say it herself.

It was a ghost writer.

Wasn't supposedly from a talk with her saying something to the effect of: "Why'd he ....?, Why'd he....?"

Also, I have video proof of Obama flipping Hilary the bird in a victory speech and his people cheering!

God 2008 was AMAZING.

 

[Joe Shlabotnik]

https://twitter.com/#!/ppppolls/status/169078165325611008

http://americanresearchgroup.com/pres2012/primary/rep/mi/Oh dear.

I suspect we'll see the usual pattern when the Romney campaign has time to focus--the SuperPAC Death Star laser will be fully trained on Santorum for the next two weeks and Romney will pull out the win.

But that's still not a great narrative for Romney, and if he still loses, it's devastating.

 

[Invisible_Insane]

I suspect we'll see the usual pattern when the Romney campaign has time to focus--the SuperPAC Death Star laser will be fully trained on Santorum for the next two weeks and Romney will pull out the win.

But that's still not a great narrative for Romney, and if he still loses, it's devastating.

Or as Dave Weigel put it,

BREAKING: Candidate does very well in poll after a week of positive media coverage and no negative campaigning against him.

 

[StopMakingSense]

Or as Dave Weigel put it,

Well, I don't think anyone's really been looking at it as a good thing for Santorum, but as a terrible harbinger for Mitt. Also, it seems like one of those situations where he could sort of land in the position Meg Whitman found herself in CA, with too many people who won't change their mind about her, no matter how much advertising they would buy.

 

[RustyNails]

Santorum's lead is technically within sampling's margin of error, but that has to be a big error, which I doubt it is. All trends are pointing downward for Mitt though. He has to be fuming.

 

[Crisco]

I'll be curious to see what sort of negative ad campaign Mitt is going to hit Santorum with. The guy is basically Beck/Limbaugh 2012. Attacking him will amount to attacking the very core of what conservatism is in this country today.

 

[speculawyer]

I'll be curious to see what sort of negative ad campaign Mitt is going to hit Santorum with. The guy is basically Beck/Limbaugh 2012. Attacking him will amount to attacking the very core of what conservatism is in this country today.

It will be interesting. I think all we've heard that they intend to attack (so far) is Santorum abusing earmarks.

 

[Invisible_Insane]

It will be interesting. I think all we've heard that they intend to attack (so far) is Santorum abusing earmarks.

Yeah, that's pretty weak tea so far. Other things I've heard are that Santorum voted against right-to-work and supported Arlen Specter. Again, nothing so damning as

Spoiler

I can't believe this is a liability. this fucking country

passing universal healthcare.

I nearly spit coffee all over my laptop when I heard a conservative blogger assert that the current field is entirely composed of moderates. Moderates.

 

[daedalius]

I nearly spit coffee all over my laptop when I heard a conservative blogger assert that the current field is entirely composed of moderates. Moderates.

Unbelievable. Apparently that blogger has completely lost the definition of what a moderate actually is.

 

[Bulbo Urethral Baggins]

Obama smoking weed is far better than Bush snorting coke.

Obama has already admitting to using coke too. Not that it matters to me or anyone.

 

[ToxicAdam]

I don't think Romney is too worried yet. I still think, they think, their money and organizational strength will decimate Santorum on Super Tuesday. That means going hard in places like Ohio, Virginia and Georgia and geting easy wins in Idaho, Mass and Vermont.

 

[Plinko]

https://twitter.com/#!/ppppolls/status/169078165325611008

http://americanresearchgroup.com/pres2012/primary/rep/mi/Oh dear.

That's what I've been trying to tell people numerous times on this board. Michigan is WAY more conservative on the GOP side than you'd think. The entire state is red except for a few counties. Wouldn't shock me at all to see Santorum take Michigan.

 

[RustyNails]

That's what I've been trying to tell people numerous times on this board. Michigan is WAY more conservative on the GOP side than you'd think. The entire state is red except for a few counties. Wouldn't shock me at all to see Santorum take Michigan.

It's because Michigan has an unnaturally high Evangelical population there. They're going all out of Santorum.

Methinks Ohio will get Santorummed too, but it will be a nailbiter.

 

[Plinko]

What's funny about Santorum is that the more people get to know him in the media the more they don't like him.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ep.../general_election_santorum_vs_obama-2912.html

 

[gcubed]

What's funny about Santorum is that the more people get to know him in the media the more they don't like him.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ep.../general_election_santorum_vs_obama-2912.html

Santorum has zero upside in the GE. At least Romney WAS a moderate.

 

[Bulbo Urethral Baggins]

It's because Michigan has an unnaturally high Evangelical population there. They're going all out of Santorum.

Methinks Ohio will get Santorummed too, but it will be a nailbiter.

"unnaturally high"? Not sure what that means, but I'm not sure I believe Michigan has a high amount of evangelicals.
Anyway, Romney took the evangelical vote in Michigan in 2008 -over Huckabee and McCain, so I don't see a big problem this time.

 

[Mike M]

What's funny about Santorum is that the more people get to know him in the media the more they don't like him.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ep.../general_election_santorum_vs_obama-2912.html

Has there been a front runner who this couldn't be said about?

 

[Pie Lord]

So does anyone actually thing Santorum has a chance of securing the nomination? Because I honestly don't know what I think anymore.

 

[NihonTiger90]

https://twitter.com/#!/ppppolls/status/169078165325611008

http://americanresearchgroup.com/pres2012/primary/rep/mi/Oh dear.

... that is awful for Mitt. Oakland County is a swing county (bunch of rich people in the northern townships, suburbs in the south). Romney should be winning the western half of the state because that's where the old money GOP base is, with a smaller evangelical base that would swing Santorum's way. But if he's not ... if he can't take western Michigan and put a bigger dent in Metro Detroit, he cannot win the state, primary or general.

And Ohio, Santorum or Gingrich can win. Especially if Romney and Kasich get tied together because Kasich is awfully unpopular right now.

 

[Plinko]

Has there been a front runner who this couldn't be said about?

Not this year.

 

[RustyNails]

Speaking of Kasich, he would lose with over a 20 point margin to Ted Strickland in a hypothetical match up.

A new Public Policy Polling (D) survey shows only 33 percent of Ohio general election voters approve of his job performance, while a majority of 53 percent are disappointed with it. Those numbers translate into a serious case of buyer’s remorse on the behalf of Ohioans, as Kasich would lose a rematch against former Gov. Ted Strickland (D) by twenty points in the poll.