So the GOP is going to run a non-descript nothing next to the least-liked candidate in their entire field.

Such is the stuff that dreams are made of!

Apparently the Christian Coalition subtracted 8 large for Portman having only 1 wetsuit, a dildo-down payment and silly string instead of rope.

Still 92 out of 100 should give the god botherers a little tingle in the trousers….

“who was director of the Office of Management and Budget during the George W. Bush administration”

Because we really need the architect of the Bush economy to run with Mitt. It just seems to make so much sense.

Their strategy just keeps getting better and better.

Theme song…..

“Bland On The Run”?

(because playing the bass with mittens makes everything sound like Miracle Whip)

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Finding[..]Allen West way too fucking brown,

And also batshit fucking insane. Don’t forget that.

Mittster…. dude… you’re fucking this up. Michele Bachmann is your ticket. It will totally work this time around.

Commie.

Other candidates who won’t be too exciting to detract from Romney:

Tim Pawlenty
George Will
A cardboard cutout of Ronald Reagan
Jon Arbuckle from Garfield
An aging housecat
An old log covered in moss
A cup of pudding

Just make sure it’s vanilla pudding.

I’m sorry, but I think this should REALLY be called “Blah on Blah”.

I think he needs someone with sincerity, you know? Like Jeb Bushman.

Well, if its gonna be an election about who can get more people to vote Against the Other Guy cause Our Guy Aint All That Great, well, Bland is Good. And in a good ole amurican HateFest teh Wingnuts are natural favorits when the Other guy is, you know, dusky.

An then I think, Why bother? Republicans dont need to be President anymore. Rednecks have got the Senate tied in knots. We got the small-state bias makin the place more countrifried than Cooter Junction. We got the filibuster fine tuned to stop any legislation before its a twinkle in Pelosi’s eye. We got SuperPac gazillion dollar bombs ready to drop on any Senator who is even thinkin of actually, you know, legislating. We got the wingnut welfare/corporate media industrial complex flatulating the asymmetric overton puke funnel so that the only acceptable discourse is a little left of Hitler. I mean we blocked a wildly popular bill to cut subsidies to the most profitable companies IN HISTORY including Exon and the Koch bros FROM EVEN BEING DEBATED. The reaction? Meh, teh democrats have become accustomed to their abuse.

We got all kinda Democrats hatin on Obama for passin a health care bill founded on a republican mandate for PRIVATE insurance. Maybe Mitt coulda done that but if youre gonna do it then at least have a democrat take the blame. And even if democrats won big in November it wouldn’t change a thing, we would still have Harry Reid by the short hairs.

Supreme Court appointments? Mitch will manufacture a mandate to block em all. Until he nominates Bork Jr.

Republicans don’t really want to have a President Mitt teh Mormon or VicePresident WhotheFuck. We like our growing slice of the pie just the way it is and we like havin Obama to blame for whatever shit hits the fan.

But mostly we just dont wanna give up on hatin Obama at least two minutes every day.

JEB wants Romney to lose. JEB and Ruby Tuesday will run in 16. Ruby is saving himself for JEB.

Winston Churchill described Clement Atlee “as a sheep in sheep’s clothing.” That description might fit Rob Portman.

Actually, I should probably just post the definitive Mitt’s Veep prognosti-palooza: http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2012/04/10/vice-presidential-prognosticatin-2/

Talk about the bland leading the bland.

I thinks youse got it figured, cous.

Oh shit no. I wiz hoping to bring back the clan with Cheney and the boys, even maybe condi.

Romney, Romney, Romney….

blah on blah…

I suspect Republican voters will be a lot more animated than Democratic voters… afterall “your” guy looks a lot like “their” guy in accomplishing so much of the GOP agenda and any “progressive” with half a brain should be way beyond questioning their dedication to the loathsome Democratic Party.

Either way we’re fucked…

but don’t let me rain on your little partisan parade.

Just keep in mind… Obama’s second term, should he win again, will be worse than his first.

Imagine that…

They love Condi for her meanness (bloodthirsty as Cheney), but they don’t like the fack that she’s both colored and female.

Oh joy.

Colored, female, bloodthirsty. Trifecta for the Rs.

Plus, ain’t it great, Condi doesn’t have any drug-addled or pregger kids trailing along behind her. Stunning, I think, that not only Bristol but also her older “war hero” brother did the nasty based on abstinence. At least the brother actually did the “Right” thing and married the girl before she produced another Palin grandchild. Condi is unencumbered.

A little over or under. Worse than his first you say? How bout Mittens, better or worse than Obama? How bout if we add condi and the retrofitted Cheney to the mix?

Wonder when (if ever) Condi had her tubes tied. Idle speculation.

Hmmm think we could start a rumor around that?

I’d go with asexual.

All other things being equal – the wars the security/surveillance state, the tax cuts, the oil, the carbon economy, global warming…

Which asshole has the best chance to dismantle Social Security and Medicare?

Condi has a girlfriend. College Professor funny name. Like Peanut.

And I’m still waiting for someone on TBogg’s site to tell me why Obama is going to be better than Romney/Portman. I, for one, would rather have some kind of push back than to continue to watch Obama sell us all down the river.

And I am beyond the SCOTUS scare tactics.

Other than the acute sugar-diabetes I contract when gazing upon his lily-white visage, he seems like a real dandy, and a very reliable corporate / party hack.

And clarification: The top line should read “Retarded,” not “Retired.” Someone should prolly report the typo to the CRP webmaster.

You gotta give that one to Mittens since he could very likely have another nut case congress sometime in the future. Obama will do some serious damage but Mittens can go for the whole ball of wax – - plus he can appoint Bork Jr and Bork 111 to the supremes and fuck us all for the next 40 years. Man what a fucking run he can have.

I’d go with creepy and asexual..

Bluedot & Dearie,

I could go with either & don’t care a snit. Condi is one of the world’s least inneressing peeps in my book,

She would no doubt dispute my evaluation.

According to newly revealed information in the book (which Kessler found through real estate records), the two women, Rice and Bean (yes, hilarious), own a home together and have a line of credit together. The way Bean explains this in the book, is that she had some medical bills that drained her financially years ago, and Rice and Blacker helped her out by buying the house with Bean. But over time Blacker sold his share of the house to Rice and Bean, and then Rice would later get the line of credit with Bean to do some renovations on the home. Kessler, when pressed, said he did not know if this meant there was something more to the relationship between the woman beyond a friendship.

Full story here: http://www.queerty.com/condi-and-best-girl-friend-have-home-20070914/#ixzz1spSANq00

I think she plays the game really well. I actually admire her for that. I mean look at the fuck ups she had to baby sit for eight years.

Obama

Obama has all the chess pieces line up to continue the dismantling.

I’m not so sure she thought (or thinks, even to this day) that Bush was responsible for anything but the execution of historical greatness. Her obsequious groveling on any given issue seemed to be without limits. One must assume that denial ain’t just a river in Egypt…

When it comes to SSMM, Mittens will cut benefits but he will keep or even increase the tax. Then he will turn it all over to Wall Street to “manage” for us. And, hey, if they lose it, which they will, he will bail them out, or make more cuts. That is what republicans have wanted to do for a generation and the day is at hand. Their goal is to make our world a fiefdom for Wall Street. Stay calm, we are nearly there.

Yes, that seems right. But she plays her part well.

“and potentially a leg up over the rest of the field.”

The better to trickle down no doubt.

But here’s the gamble: when Bush the Lesser tried to privatize SS, he was stopped by the populace everywhere he tried to push it. Would there be a push back when Obama tries to do the same thing?

I think I’ve read too much of Michael Hudson’s stuff lately. It makes me depressed. So I think I will just go to bed. There is this little thing called work.

Obama will cut it, but I doubt he will privatize it. But then who knows?

On what basis would you trust Obama?

Absolutely. She can play the Parlor Fascist act to the hilt.

The way that trial mix Obama is going , he not only going to sales us down the river , they will probably be waiting for us with cameras and chains.

chains you can bereave in

If I remember correctly, “Bland on Bland” was a GREAT album by Dylan…

;-)

Thanks for that. Thread’s getting way to fucking heavy.

Portman was a nieghbor of mine until he moved to be in the district he was running for. He is not at all impressive, with little in the way of accomplishments. Mainly, he was a bush apologist who ran off-budget appropriations scams for the then pres.

Problem for mittbot: portman cant deliver his own home state if he is named VP. kasick is very unpopular and we voted down his union stripping legislation. Gonna be a hard slog for a gop presidential ticket in November.

White rice with white sauce and a side of mashed potatoes with Miracle Whip.

Portman? When there’s a charismatic rock star like Tim Pawlenty available?

IF not the first, then let me, please, be the last -

I BLAME OBAMA!

I mainly remember Portman because his CD was considered so safe that everyone figured Jean Schmidt would win it in a cakewalk. Instead, Paul Hackett made her sweat for it — and he brought in enough voters who voted for down-ticket stuff that a whole bunch of much-needed school and infrastructure levies, things that had been languishing for years, got passed, and so OH-02 is much better off as a result.

Speaking of prominent Minnesota Republican incumbents who lost their last elections: You will notice that Norm Coleman is nowhere to be found on this list.

In case you’re wondering why, here’s a possible hint.

I can’t ever see a Mormon Pres candidate having a female as Veep. Their cult doesn’t permit that kind of thing. Not a joke. The LDS “Church” keeps women in their place. Ann Rmoney may have “enjoyed” her status as a “stay at home mom,” but there’s almost NO WAY that Ann could’ve held any job once hubby-dearest got to be a “Bishop.”

In Utah almost any job held by a woman means the woman ain’t a Mormon.

West was just expressing his “inner” white-man for all of us. He and others like him are the perfect product of oppression. ( The self-hating black man.)

I wonder if Mitch Daniels is bitter that his wife thinks about Allen West when they do it?

Don’t think Rob Portman is the solution for the Marquis du Mittens, whose campaign needs a little Elvis like people in hell need ice water. He could always pick Newticles, who looks like fucking Mick Jagger by comparison with Willard. Except that der Newt would sooner cut off his own Newticles than to be #2 to someone he holds in contempt*, even given the opportunity to play Cheney to Willard’s Bush**.

*Actually I can’t think of anyone Newt doesn’t hold in contempt, with the possible exception of Callista. I’d be scared of her myself, you couldn’t part that hairdo with a fire ax.
**Would never happen – Mittens isn’t up to much and he has all the charisma of your average mail box, but there’s no doubt that he’s some considerable smarter than the Boy Emperor. Granted that’s not much of a stretch…

Where oh where is the Dan Quayle for the New Millenium? Or did John Edward put the permanent kibosh on the VP as pretty vase option?

I think it’s pretty fucking obvious. They’re going with the boring white guy who won’t even be able to deliver his own, must win swing state. Puggies KNOW they’ve lost this one and are gonna go least offensive in hopes of keeping the house and maybe getting the senate (unlikely given the two red seats for sure turning blue).

While Rubio might’ve been controversial and brown, he represents the OTHER must win state for the Puggies and could (at least theoretically) put a dent in the Latino vote for Obama.

Since the wingnuts are running so far behind with the ladies, obviously it makes perfect sense to pick a VP who gets a 100% rating from the National Right to Life Group. And at least pays dodering lip service to the Teaparty.

They know they’ve lost and they’re already looking ti minimize damage. And dream of 2016 when Jebby tries to make it Bush cubed!

Hey, would you look at that.

You made it rain fun again on this thread.

I love you man!

Another Cinci pol…how wonderful.