In my opinion, Newt Gingrich ran the worst campaign, Rick Perry was the worst candidate, and Tim Pawlenty made the biggest mistake by not realizing that he could just court some billionaire to keep him afloat and he could win the thing in a walk. What say you?
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Rick Perry was the worst candidate…but would have been the most successful President…(from a radical right-Wong perspective, of course$…what does that tell you?
Rick Perry is hated in his home-state by most Republicans.
probably would have put Bush to shame for being awful.
Sure….just like Bush got the unemployment rate in the FOURS before you’re Government induced, Fannie/Freddie bubble burst…
Fannie and Freddie?
Boo… you’re missing the point…there are more than one kind of intelligence…that’s why Jesus (I know your progressive instincts repulse against this Man …,but He is one of Us!)…
Rick Perry doesn’t possess any of the many types of intelligence, so stop displaying the same tendency.
Also, too, why are you picking on Jesus?
I never said a bad word about the Man.
Thank You…
I’m really hurting for the human race…I can feel their suffering…
Look, Progressives, Jesus was mostly a Progressive, His First Law was to Love every being on this planet…why is this man despied among Progressives?
It’s truly scary with the Governor of a huge state and a Presidential candidate knows far less about US politics than I do – and I have spent all of 4 months in the USA.
Well, but never forget you had a good education in that socialist hellhole you call home.
like asking who pooped the rankest turd …
for what it’s worth i must say cain’s red-faced straining was the most entertaining.
Instead of the nominee they should really start calling the GOP candidate Mr. Just for Men America.
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Foster Friess: I hope Obama’s ‘teleprompters are bulletproof’
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."shall we list the things belonging to Freiss that we hope are not bulletproof? Or would that be construed as a threat?
That merits a little chat with the Secret Service. Or a Smedley Butler to expose the plot.
I’d have to go with Herman Cain’s, for both its sheer ineptitude and surreality.
gotta go with cain. hell, he really didn’t campaign at all…it was nothing more than a super-hyped book tour/ego trip. what’s truly amazing is that the teabaggers took him seriously. one hell of a con.
followed closely by bachmanns’ inept attempt to make herself somehow relevant to the process.
serious wackos, the both of them.
Tim Pawlenty was and is a bar of soap. Even a billionaire couldn’t fix that.
Agreed on everything but Tim Pawlenty. Even with money he wouldn’t have went anywhere. His organization was shit.
Agreed on Perry being the worst candidate. Worst campaign…iunno. Probably Herman Cain.
I’m sure Pawlenty, in Santorum’s shoes, would have beat Romney. He just though he had to raise money the old fashioned way.
Nah. Pawlenty isn’t telegenic at all. At least Santorum has some style and pizzazz in his speech. As stated below, Pawlenty is like a bar of soap.
Holy Cow! My wife has never voted…ever!…I told her about how “Ann Romney has never worked a day in her life”…my Wife works her ass off taking care of 12 cats, 2 dogs, and 4 horses…ever mucked stalls, Progs?…She’s going to vote this time!
Why, yes, I’ve mucked stalls, in fact I muck, haul hay bales, tote 50-pound feed sacks, etc. etc., for my two horses every day, as well as taking care of eight cats. Oh, and run my own business.
You did point out to your horse-tending wife that Ann Romney’s horses live at a high-end boarding barn and that she doesn’t do the actual care herself, right? Ann arrives, gets on a groomed and tacked-up horse that the staff has trained and exercised for her; rides; dismounts and goes off while the staff put the horse away and see to its daily needs.
I rode my Morgan today, after grooming the dried mud from his shedding coat and tacking him up; groomed him again afterwards; haled all the gear back to the tack room I’d hauled it out of; then mucked, watered, fed, and hauled half a dozen hay bales from the loft to the run-in hay storage. The ride was probably 5 percent of my time at the farm today. What percentage of her time do you think Ann Romney spends riding? Hint: it isn’t close to my end of the spectrum.
So you can take your “Ever mucked stalls, Progs?” sneer and stick it in the manure pile.
liberty for all is a troll. ignore it.
so far as which one was the worst? I don’t know.
SO far as I’m concerned, I’d rather see them all given a pair of cement shoes and pushed off into a lake of fire.
Good thing you added the cement. Otherwise they wouldn’t sink. Though they’d probably just sink until it hit their crotch.
Yeh, you’re right, and it’s become increasingly obvious lately; should’ve ignored it. But I was tired and grumpy and none of the cats was in kicking range.
Liberty needs a 12 step program.
Good Work! I appreciate your hard work and stewardship of animals…but leave Ann Romney alone…
I’d hold off criticizing Tpaw for his lack of wealthy benefactors:
I think this is an indication of what is coming regarding Romney’s VP selection.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-03-30/romney-pawlenty-campaign-debts/54147698/1
Oh just fanfuckingtastic. The Flip-Flop Man and Granola Republican. The excitement is killing me. Watching paint dry would be less boring.
Exactly.
Safe to say Romney will pick a VP even more white bread boring than him, and that’s Pawlenty.
Romney selects…Susana Martinez, evil “wingnut” Republican Governor of New Mexico!!!