South Carolina Primary Thread

More likely stuff will come out which will be very very very very embarrassing to some of the rivals considering their main constituencies and personal histories.

My suspicion is we'll find out why Santorum is so insanely, hysterically, maniacally, obsessively anti-gay -- how at times it seems like he thinks of little else. And of course there's always the possibility (or likelihood) of more juicy tidbits on Newt's curious sexual history.

While he's at it, Mitt could probably sic his hit squads on some of the more raving-lunatic-fringe of the hate-radio talk squawkers who have been trashing him, too. Most of those guys have plenty of shit they don't want to become public, either,

 

I don't know about that.

I can't imagine he'll pick the South Carolina governor, because he'll win that state easily, but I don't think Palin shitting the bed should prevent him from considering picking a female running mate.

I'm still hoping Christie winds up on the ticket. I know it's a longshot, but with the way Christie has put himself out there to stump for Romney, even from very early on, makes you wonder...

Rubio wouldn't touch the VP.

People have said he needs to pick a "true conservative" to shore up the base. I think he should pick a very popular moderate since the voters he's going to need in order to win are the independents.

 

It won't matter. Both will be done in 2-3 weeks.

 

Yeah, probably. But there will be rumbling that Mitt should pick one or the other as a VP for various "ticket-balancing" reasons.

My bet is Mitt's vetting squads will come up with good reasons he doesn't want either on the ticket.

 

Romney also admits his personal income tax rate is around 15 percent.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/romney-does-math-tax-rate-closer-15-percent-180536871.html

 

This might become a bigger issue than Bain, though the two together could provide fodder for a million more political ads than they have already. The Republicans might regret running Scrooge McDuck if the current environment holds. Heck, who knew that Mitt's fellow Republicans would be leading the charge on the unfairness of it all? I guess once they saw what happens when someone with more money can spend them into oblivion, Newt, Santorum, Perry, et all, suddenly started identifying as the 99 Percent.

 

Newt did great last night. The problem is that people don't think he can beat Obama.

Hell, the recent ABC poll had Romney beating Obama by a couple points and I know polls at this point don't mean much, but the same poll has Obama crushing any of the remaining candidates.

I think that matters to a lot of people.

 

He has that perfect Republican part in his hair as well.

 

I'm wondering if this election will finally spur some sort of campaign finance reform (McCain-Feingold not withstanding).

Seems like the whole concept of outside interests creating ads was cute in '04 with Kerry and the Swift-Boaters, but now that both sides will be throwing millions, maybe the pols will finally get tired of getting attacked from pillar to post.

Doubt it will happen, though.

 

It shows adherence and conformity. Republicans like that kind of thing.