March 9, 2012 - Pensito

N.J. Governor on GOP’s VP Short List Bullies Constituent, a Navy SEAL, Calls Him an ‘Idiot’

March 9, 2012March 9, 2012 Jon Ponder

It’s hard to know why Beltway Republicans love New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Some of them want him to bigfoot Romney out of the GOP nomination this year. The rest put him on their short lists to be Romney’s vice presidential nominee.

This is puzzling because Christie’s boorish, bullying style is repulsive to voters in the West and South — in fact, to everyone outside, and most people in, the Tri-State area. The episode shown in this video is a case in point:

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Mittbot Is Just Simply Awful at Campaigning

March 9, 2012 Jon Ponder

Speaking for all Southerners, as I always do, watching this clip of Romney trying to do Southern in Mississippi is cringe-making, especially this part:

“I am learning to say y’all, and I like grits and things. Strange things are happening to me.”

Ick.

Jon Stewart Reveals Sean Hannity’s Suspicious Associations

March 9, 2012March 9, 2012 Jon Ponder

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N.J. Governor on GOP’s VP Short List Bullies Constituent, a Navy SEAL, Calls Him an ‘Idiot’

Mittbot Is Just Simply Awful at Campaigning

Jon Stewart Reveals Sean Hannity’s Suspicious Associations

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“One woman at a rally in New Jersey told me last week that she was ‘nauseously optimistic.’ That may capture a lot of people’s last-minute jitters.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by Axios, on what Democrats feel ahead of the midterm elections.

“I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom.”

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by The Wrap.

“Boy, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. It feels like a real desperation play to me, because it has got zero basis in the law.”

— Republican election law expert Ben Ginsberg, quoted by Politico, on the Trump administration’s effort to invalidate Alaska’s election results.

Numerati

3,824

$1.4 billion

-35 points

31%

63% to 38%

KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”