Primary Clusterfuck 2012

[Tinker to Evers to Chance]

Fox just reported that a guy driving a truck has the results out of Story County, the largest county still outstanding, and is driving the results to the secret vote-counting center. Seriously, the Republican nomination for President of the United States is, at least for a moment, controlled by a guy driving a truck out of Story County, Iowa.

Wow.

This is the difference between like 7 non-committed delegates and 6 non-committed delegates.

The race is close enough where it really won't matter for the future of the campaign.

[Gilgamesh]

Santorum didn't even file a petition to get on the ballot in Virginia.  Go figure.

[Gilgamesh]

And then Santorum waits until after midnight on the east coast to speak to his supporters.  So, now, his remarks won't make it into the morning papers.  Smooth move.

Also, Al Sharpton just called Santorum the "flavor of the month."

Eww.

[BC]

Gil,

What's this thing called a paper?!?!?

[Gilgamesh]

Gil,

What's this thing called a paper?!?!?

You'd have to use a typewriter to understand, man.

[flannj]

This will probably be the only time in my life I quote from a Rolling Stone story, but this basically sums up my belief that a possible Obama-Romney race would be a choice between Shitty and Slightly Less Shitty...

"Most likely, it'll be Mitt Romney versus Barack Obama, meaning the voters' choices in the midst of a massive global economic crisis brought on in large part by corruption in the financial services industry will be a private equity parasite who has been a lifelong champion of the Gordon Gekko Greed-is-Good ethos (Romney), versus a paper progressive who in 2008 took, by himself, more money from Wall Street than any two previous presidential candidates, and in the four years since has showered Wall Street with bailouts while failing to push even one successful corruption prosecution (Obama)."

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/iowa-the-meaningless-sideshow-begins-20120103#ixzz1iSaS2rVt

Really BC?
You're going to quote a Matt Taibbi article.

Have we taught you nothing???

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Also, Al Sharpton just called Santorum the "flavor of the month."

Outstanding.

[Internet Apex]

Also, Al Sharpton just called Santorum the "flavor of the month."

Outstanding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iroGKyhELdw

[BC]

Apparently the truck story wasn't true, but the Iowa GOP apparently doesn't know where some of the outstanding votes are. I would love to stay up longer, but I can't. Hopefully we can all get back to Iowa not mattering tomorrow.

[Gilgamesh]

Apparently the truck story wasn't true, but the Iowa GOP apparently doesn't know where some of the outstanding votes are. I would love to stay up longer, but I can't. Hopefully we can all get back to Iowa not mattering tomorrow.

Was your first clue that it was reported on Fox?

[Slaky]

Getting coffee this morning the news was on. They were talking about who won the vote amongst Evangelicals in Iowa.

In short, I'd like to leave and never come back.

[SKO]

Getting coffee this morning the news was on. They were talking about who won the vote amongst Evangelicals in Iowa.

In short, I'd like to leave and never come back.

I have to attend one of their weddings this spring. T'was a girl who was a pre-law student. Bright kid. Then she became disillusioned after she broke up with her boyfriend of five years and got sucked in by "bible-believing christians" who have now convinced her that she can save herself from her past wickedness by obeying her husband (they're engaged but have never dated, because only "courtship" is acceptable Christian dating) and have actually told her she can get salvation by bearing children. But she's the fiancee's ex-roommate so apparently I'm obligated to go. Can't wait to deal with the non-alcoholic, non-dancing, non-Cyndi Lauper reception.

In short, yeah, fuck those guys.

[Gilgamesh]

Getting coffee this morning the news was on. They were talking about who won the vote amongst Evangelicals in Iowa.

In short, I'd like to leave and never come back.

I have to attend one of their weddings this spring. T'was a girl who was a pre-law student. Bright kid. Then she became disillusioned after she broke up with her boyfriend of five years and got sucked in by "bible-believing christians" who have now convinced her that she can save herself from her past wickedness by obeying her husband (they're engaged but have never dated, because only "courtship" is acceptable Christian dating) and have actually told her she can get salvation by bearing children. But she's the fiancee's ex-roommate so apparently I'm obligated to go. Can't wait to deal with the non-alcoholic, non-dancing, non-Cyndi Lauper reception.

In short, yeah, fuck those guys.

I was going to say something about liking the 14th century viewpoints too, but then I figured that even 14th century Europeans probably did more drinking, fucking, and carousing than most.

So, yeah, fuck them.

[CBStew]

I asked Siri how many votes Obama got in the Iowa caucus but she didn't know and told me to look it up on the web. 
She offered me two sites, but they didn't know either.  Can anyone out do Siri?

[Tonker]

Getting coffee this morning the news was on. They were talking about who won the vote amongst Evangelicals in Iowa.

In short, I'd like to leave and never come back.

I have to attend one of their weddings this spring. T'was a girl who was a pre-law student. Bright kid. Then she became disillusioned after she broke up with her boyfriend of five years and got sucked in by "bible-believing christians" who have now convinced her that she can save herself from her past wickedness by obeying her husband (they're engaged but have never dated, because only "courtship" is acceptable Christian dating) and have actually told her she can get salvation by bearing children. But she's the fiancee's ex-roommate so apparently I'm obligated to go. Can't wait to deal with the non-alcoholic, non-dancing, non-Cyndi Lauper reception.

In short, yeah, fuck those guys.

I was going to say something about liking the 14th century viewpoints too, but then I figured that even 14th century Europeans probably did more drinking, fucking, and carousing than most.

So, yeah, fuck them.

We certainly have a long tradition of drinking, fucking and carousing.  I've been doing it for years.