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[SalmonGod]

FDR couldn't even walk on his own two legs because walking was too pedestrian for someone of his breeding.

A little unnecessary, don't you think?

Yeah... way out of line considering FDR was actually paralyzed, and struggled admirably with his condition while under the public spotlight.

[Nadaka]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/chuck-norris-endorses-newt-gingrich-224223391.html

I don't even... Can Chuck Norris roundhouse kick the 'Grich all the way into the presidency?

[Aqizzar]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/chuck-norris-endorses-newt-gingrich-224223391.html

I don't even... Can Chuck Norris roundhouse kick the 'Grich all the way into the presidency?

Let's ask Mike Huckabee oh wait.

And dang, I really gotta update that OP.  Where do I begin describing this incredibly bizarre week to be preserved for memory?

[Dr. D]

I can't wait until tomorrow afternoon. Maybe all the damn robocalls will stop.

[Descan]

I'm gonna post to watch atop my high horse up here in the Land of the Free and Home of the Beaver.

[mainiac]

FDR couldn't even walk on his own two legs because walking was too pedestrian for someone of his breeding.

A little unnecessary, don't you think?

Yeah... way out of line considering FDR was actually paralyzed, and struggled admirably with his condition while under the public spotlight.

The man died over 60 years ago and I was in the middle of a rant on how awesome he was.  I think that one can tastefully make a pun about his condition in those circumstances.

[SalmonGod]

FDR couldn't even walk on his own two legs because walking was too pedestrian for someone of his breeding.

A little unnecessary, don't you think?

Yeah... way out of line considering FDR was actually paralyzed, and struggled admirably with his condition while under the public spotlight.

The man died over 60 years ago and I was in the middle of a rant on how awesome he was.  I think that one can tastefully make a pun about his condition in those circumstances.

You're right.  I didn't understand your humor at the time, but I do now.

[EveryZig]

I keep thinking 'Newt Gingrich' sounds like a name for a villain from Harry Potter. This impression is helped by how close it is to the truth.

[Sirus]

I keep thinking 'Newt Gingrich' sounds like a name for a villain from Harry Potter. This impression is helped by how close it is to the truth.

You are not alone in that thought. Sadly, a quick Google search found nothing on Newt's views on Harry Potter.

[RedKing]

It's gameday! South Carolinians are taking to the polls today to vote for which son-of-a-bitch they dislike least, to run against that "uppity black guy" in the White House.

On the ballot:
Newt Gingrich, who has had a stellar week by napalming Romney on the airwaves and somehow turning his ex-wife's tell-all interview into a positive by playing the media victim card.

Mitt Romney, a week ago the undisputed front-runner and nominee apparent. Today? A liberal rich guy vulture capitalist who loves firing people.

Ron Paul, who is...still Ron Paul.

Rick Santorum, the newly recrowned victor of Iowa, who has shed almost all of his momentum from Iowa and is back in the low double-digits in polling.

Herman Cain, who isn't actually running but is being used as a cipher vote by Stephen Colbert. And because it's an open primary, could well finish ahead of Santorum.

Buddy Roemer, just because everybody could use a Buddy.



Results should start coming in after 6pm EST (about 5.5 hours from now)

[Criptfeind]

turning his ex-wife's tell-all interview into a positive by playing the media victim card.

That actually worked?

[Aqizzar]

turning his ex-wife's tell-all interview into a positive by playing the media victim card.

That actually worked?

In the Republican party, decrying the "Liberal media" will always trump any character flaw.  Always.  You can read about it in the other thread ggamer started.

Anyway, I updated the OP.  There's a tornado warning in effect in rainy South Carolina today, but so far exit polls are showing higher than expected turnout (compared to 2008) across the state.

[Willfor]

I'm going to make the obligatory joke about the fact that these tornado threats could be drawing their strength from the low pressure caused by so much hot air blowing into that state right now.

[Montague]

turning his ex-wife's tell-all interview into a positive by playing the media victim card.

That actually worked?

In the Republican party, decrying the "Liberal media" will always trump any character flaw.  Always.  You can read about it in the other thread ggamer started.

That's the line they like to snivel when somebody digs up dirt on them, but Republican voters don't buy it anymore then anybody else does, Herbert Cain is a recent example and his character smear was a pretty lame one compared to some others.

[Aqizzar]

What it really is, is like some many other realms of life, if you listen to the number and volume of talking heads, you'd think the Republican party was 9-to-1 men and women, when of course it's about 50/50.  When the stuff about Herman Cain and his wacky romantic shenanigans came out, you say most of the "Republican establishment" and media outlets blaming them dang liberals for wanting to stir up trouble for an honest man... whilst women supporters and men with a sense of composure silently abandoned him in droves and his polling numbers disappeared overnight.  Whether the same will eventually happen to Gingrich?  Who knows.