John Hawkins has another one of his “poll” things up where he asks a bunch of third-string bloggers (the type who live for an Ole Perfesser link as proof of their existence) who, in the post-Herman Cain Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love, Baby era they want to represent the Republican Party at next year’s Who Can Beat A Kenyan In A Fight For America’s Soul Deathmatch.
The results show a remarkable grasp of …. something, with – as Paul Krugman described him “a stupid person’s idea of what a smart person sounds like”- Newt Gingrich leading the way with 39% of the votes. Following Newton Leroy is Rick Perry, who is a stupid person’s idea of what a stupid person sounds like, at 26.6 % and then Mitt Romney who everybody just fucking hates, in third place with not quite 13% of the vote. Rick Santorum? Sixth place again.
Well, here, see for yourself:
If you had to pick a 2012 GOP contender today, which of the following candidates would you select?
7) Jon Huntsman: 2.5% (2 votes)
6) Rick Santorum: 5.1% (4 votes)
5) Michele Bachmann: 6.3% (5 votes)
4) Ron Paul: 7.6% (6 votes)
3) Mitt Romney: 12.7% (10 votes)
2) Rick Perry: 26.6% (21 votes)
1) Newt Gingrich: 39.2% (31 votes)
Lest you think they made these selections without regard to how the final outcome of said election might turn out, well …. no.
Which candidate do you think would be more likely to beat Barack Obama in 2012?
Mitt Romney: 42.3% (33 votes)
Newt Gingrich: 57.7% (45 votes)
Of course, as a Hawkin’s commenter points out, none of these are good choices:
aposematic
News Flash: None of the GOP frontrunners are Conservatives; Romney is a Socialist, Gingrich is a Liberal, Paul is a Libertarian. That doesn’t mean any one of them would not be infinitely better than Obumbo (a stray dog would be better than Obumbo), but does mean that the era of Big Gov. and ruinous/repulsive Legislation and Regulation will continue regardless of who wins the GOP nomination with the one Libertarian exception–more on that later. Get real people, do you really believe the Country was ruined overnight by Obumbo? One caveat, Ron Paul, the Libertarian, would be the only exception to maintaining the Big Gov. onslaught within the current front runners which, by the way, makes Paul the closest of the front runners to being Conservative and also simply means all currently within Gov. will ferociously oppose the Paul nomination.
“Romney is a Socialist, Gingrich is a Liberal….”
These people are never happy.



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Following Newton Leroy is Rick Perry, who is a stupid person
’s idea of what a stupid person sounds like,FTFY.
It always amazes me how they love to boast about America being the biggest and bestest of everything, with the Biggest military, the Biggest set of greedy oligarchs, the Biggest dicks on the planet … and yet they think that the best way to run all this Great Bigness is to have a little tiny government that can be drowned in a bathtub like the runt of the, er, kitty litter. (Pun not intended – sorry!) Of course, cognitive dissonance is what they do, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.
This is the same group that whined that GW Bush was a liberal. Weren’t the TeaTards also pushing the notion that Obama was like Hitler, and that was bad bc Hitler was a socialist.
Of course none of this makes any sense, which is a feature, not a bug. But still, I think we’re at the point where these dickheads would whine that Ghengis Khan is much too nice to the natives and is a flaming liberal socialist commie pinko gay-loving sex-change abortionist-supporting DEMOCRAT (the last being the worst thing evah!!!). And so on.
All in the name of confusing the rubes enough so that they don’t get how they’re being totally ripped off by these villains and crooks.
How must Huntsman feel, loosing to Santorum? Well, probably not to bad as his kids can google his name.
78 “people” voting in the “poll”?! WINNING!
Yeah that’s your problem if you nominate Newt. It’s not the corruption, nor the fact that he’s the least telegenic politician in the universe who in fact looks like a cartoon of a baggy corrupt politician from central casting, it’s that he’s a “liberal”.
As Krugman noted yesterday and I’ve also said many times, the Republicans should be walking away with this thing next year. Instead, it’s like watching people boxing while wearing bags over their heads.
“Romney is a Socialist, Gingrich is a Liberal….”
And John D. Rockefeller was a communist. Further proof, for anybody who needed it, that these people are totally delusional.
Once upon a time, this was considered comedy/satire. Nowadays, it’s a documentary about the Republican nominating process.
Though I do doubt that any of them would finish the “Walking in a Straight Line” segment, which is too bad because I know they all want to participate in the “Kicking the Beggar” segment.
And how unfortunate for all the rest of us that it won’t end with the “Shoot Yourself in the Head” segment.
Well, yes, from the position of the teatards on the political spectrum, Newt IS a socialist.
And Hitler is a liberal, just like DoughBob LoadPants told us.
They are very, very. Very, VERY far out on the righty-right-RIGHT end of the spectrum. And they can *almost* see reality from there if they use binoculars, and squint really hard.
Well, it isn’t just any 78 morons voting here…it is the intelligentsia and crop creme of Republican/conservative/teabag movements.
Frankly, I’m surprised Rick Sanctimonium isn’t skyrocketing in the polls with his plan to reduce the budget and/or deficit by 5 Trillion dollars in 100 days. It would seem be a no-brainer. But that could be said about any of the choices, I suppose.
BTW, who is the ‘Special Needs’ kid with Steele?
Further proof of the adage over at Balloon Juice about how these people think:
‘Obumbo.’ Sheesh, it’s kind of sad when they can’t get their own jokes right. It’s like he was just so consumed with rage, that squishing ‘Obambi’ and ‘Obummer’ into a single nonsense word was the only way to convey it. Something tells me, though, that he hasn’t worked out all his anger just yet.
What I want to know is: the tie Steele is wearing in that picture — did Congress classify that as a vegetable, too? And the guy next to him, did Congress… no, wait. That’s mean.
I wish I could pity Huntsman his profoundly pathetic showing, but, alas. No. Can. Do. The Frothy One should be having a little heart-to-heart with the big man upstairs right about now — unless he still genuinely believes that he’s being strategically sneaky and stealthy by consistently lagging behind the rest of the field, biding his time. Uh, Rick, the time would be now — as far as your political career goes, they’re calling you to the Rapture gate.
I have always said that every time I see Hawkins, I think a Special Olympics somewhere is missing a shot putter…
Alas, poor Santorum: Unlike Cain (& Palin), the other quondam front-runners refuse to quit. Or else he’d be up to fourth, amirite? That’s almost on the podium!
Yeah, that’s the first thing that hit me: these aren’t poll numbers. Fenway could get more total votes if he was allowed to write his own poll on best squeaky toys for Christmas. And by the way, I much prefer any squeaky toy to any GOP nominee. Less obnoxious.
I can’t stop laughing. Won’t soon forget this line.
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What’s better than winning the Special Olympics?
Not being Hawkins.
Time for more popcorn:)
The poor kid.
Having had to be within proximity of Steele should not be allowed by any parent.
Newt wins the Woman vote for the GOP will be its lowest ever divorced Women will be quite interested to talk about Newt’s past divorce’s even if they normally are not interested in politics. Newt’s Tax Cut’s for the rich will create jobs, his push to deregulate banks and support of the bank bailout will piss off the GOP base.
That leaves Newt his strength the racist Tea Baggers who will come out in force. I expect this to be an election of the disappointed on ourside and the racist on the other with the increasingly ignored Moderate vote with no real choices and joining us in not feeling a reason to vote.
May be one of the lowest turnouts in history.
Eh? The conservative women I happen to know have not one tiny whit of a problem with Newt. Yet one of ‘em was just recently tirading to me about Clinton. Don’t count on Republican women being “upset” with Newt and his despicable behavior towards women… per usual: IOKIYAR always applies. Go figure. Not so sure the vote turn-out will be low… these conservatives do what they’re told.
Your remarks concerning Ron Paul are quite accurate Mr. Bogg. He has small government AND social conservative credentials. Yet (because he’s a peace candidate?) the Republicans reject him. Maybe Ron Paul is just too much of a good thing. Like the progressives rejecting Kucinich because he’s short.
Uh yeah. Not my comments though.
I’ve always had a suspicion that ol’ Bill’s being kinda sexy may have had a good deal to do with that whole crazy goulash of American political-puritanical-hypocritical primitivism. Sexy in an open, aboveboard way that’s perceptible to the average viewer, not the appeal that Newt apparently possesses, which operates invisibly on the women in his life. Like being slipped a combo of chloral hydrate and LSD.
I happily told Newt’s recorded voice to fuck off today as I hung up on it. You have to wonder how they can support somebody who’s so far beyond two-faced he should be doing a one-man version of A Christmas Carol. It’s not just that Republicans are constantly forgiven and reforgiven, it’s that their brains are more rigidly compartmentalized than somebody with an ax in their corpus callosum.