CNN, just now, on the Republican primaries between Romney, Santorum and Gingrich: ‘It’s a very tight three-man-‘
GODDAMMIT I DON’T WANNA HEAR ANOTHER WORD.
The GOP is going to nominate somebody who didn’t win South Carolina, Georgia, Oklahoma, Tennessee, or Ohio, somebody who can’t win a majority of the evangelical vote, or of those making under $50K a year.
THAT SHIT CRAY.
Romney suffers from the same problem afflicting the likes of Lloyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon: He’s been living for so long with the delusion that the way he makes his money is fair and honest, he’s started to believe not only that he deserves his wealth, but the converse – that the poor deserve to be poor. He’s incapable of sympathizing with people who can’t pay their bills, because their condition is tied too closely in his mind with the question of how he made his enormous fortune: If you ask Romney to imagine what life is like for someone who’s broke, what he hears is you accusing him of making that happen. (In Romneyspeak, you’ve “attacked capitalism.”) In short, he’s a narcissist. They’re all narcissists, these colossal Wall Street types – they have to be, because the way they make their money makes moral sense only if you’re viewing things from the top of the heap. Asking them to step outside that comfort zone, into the world where the rest of us live, is an unthinkable outrage.
–Matt Taibbi, a national fucking treasure, in Rolling Stone
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And now it begins. My prediction, for those who want it: now that Perry is in, Palin will jump in too, because she knows that Perry and Bachmann have enough crazy between them to keep the media attention away from her throughout the primary season and God knows Palin can’t stand for that. So with a four-person race, Romney wins New Hampshire, Bachmann wins Iowa, Palin wins South Carolina, and Perry wins Nevada, and none of them win a majority of delegates from the primaries, leading to a brokered convention and no nominee until late August.
