American politics
The GOP race
One morning's emails
Jan 24th 2012, 16:40 by Lexington
FOR those lucky enough not to be on the list, here are the headlines of just a few of this morning's press mailings from the Romney and Gingrich campaigns:
"Romney's crony capitalism".
"Romney for President releases new video: 'Mr Washington Insider'".
"Newt Gingrich: part of the problem".
"Politifact: Newt Gingrich 'took pains to avoid being subject to the rules' of lobbying."
"Missing: Newt's Freddie Mac papers".
"Mitt Romney's Top Conservative Achievements". (This mailing from the Gingrich campaign is blank.)
"Romneycare and Obamacare: what's the difference"?
"New York Times: Gingrich 'did many of the things lobbyists do'".
"Fact: Newt lobbied lawmakers on Medicare Part D".
"NBC News: Gingrich contract with Freddie Mac leaves questions unanswered".
"Fact Sheet: Newt Gingrich's Ethics Investigation Vindication".
"A history lesson on Newt the historian".
"Mitt Romney: a decade of failed leadership".
Et cetera, ad infinitum and, some might say, ad nauseam.
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"Et cetera, ad infinitum and, some might say, ad nauseam."
Don't worry, when you hit rock bottom, we'll be there for you. A 12 step program for recovering political junkies. :)
In the 19th century, it was commonplace for parties to give their supporters hard cider and cigars.
I submit this was preferable to spam.
Cigars got out of fashion since Castro took over.
The Obama campaign has infiltrated the republican primaries. It's the only logical explanation.
How about 'Ad Hominem'?
You're right, we are lucky not to be on these mailing lists.
Although, it would be great to be able to access any of these whenever we needed a laugh. Ah well, at least there are the live blogs. Those preform pretty much the same function as far as I can tell.
You have my condolences regarding your mailing list, Lexington. That said, I must admit that "Mitt Romney's Top Conservative Achievements" is actually pretty funny.
I found a copy.
After the title, the page is blank.
Regards
Only some might say ad nauseam?
Does our electoral point and counterpoint have to sink to the playground level?
Let's figure out a way to fill offices by lot.
I'm all for the reintroduction of large predators into the human population, starting with congress and party headquarters.
It's hard isn't it. We can only pray that Newt will come a cropper after new revelations of him being felated while driving his Mercedes at 90 mph through a school zone and tweeting the photos to his friends. I hope he doesn't get elected but Mitt would probably make a fairly respectably president. Newt? Santorum? Paul? I mean it's nice RR's meth addicts want to stick it to the lamestream media, but Newt? Santorum? Paul?
Maybe we are neglecting an important source of alternative energy here. We could hook the corpses of a century of staunch Republicans up to turbines and power the country from them spinning in their graves.
A brilliant alternative energy suggestion. We ought to have started in 1995.
The Republicans are playing Gladiator Fight-to-the-Death.
And they all have good arguments. Some have sword and shield, others mace, others spear and net.
Their fellow Republicans are definitely not fit to govern.
And they themselves are pretty degenerate and awful humans.
It is a Suicide Pact.
It is the Noble Roman Way.
And it will not end well.
You forgot circular firing squad.
Next Thursday is Groundhog Day.
Either way, I think Punxsutawney Phil will predict 9 more months of political baloney.
Regards
Hedgie, Groundhog Day is one of the best movies ever made. It's not better than Caddyshack, though, because the gopher steals the show.
And if anyone from either campaign reads the comments on this blog: I'm pretty confident no campaign has missed out on any donations from me this year, despite the waning communications.
But here is something for hope. In the past, I have donated to both Republican and Democratic candidates and I used to get all manner of email from all manner of candidate. In this cycle, I have received nothing from Newt and nothing from Mitt. Be strong, brother Lex, ad infinitum might be an illusion.
But I'll bet that, as the California primary nears, we'll be seeing e-mails and robo-calls both. Even if the nomination is sewed up by then.
Oh, yeah. I'm turning off my phone.
I want to figure out a way to make one party's and candidate's callbots only call the others'.