2012 Political Predictions

[AquaMan]

Did any one see Gingrich interviewed this weekend by a coupla' donkey  ABC "journalists". For anyone who thinks the G man can out debate the prez, they should watch him at work. I don't have the link but it went like this...

ABC-"You've complained that Romney is not being honest about his past political decisions and that if he lies during the campaign that he would obviously lie in the oval office. Are you saying that he is a liar?"

G-man-"Yes".

ABC-"You're saying he is a liar!?"

G-Man- "Yes".

ABC-"Would you support him if he gets the nomination?"

G-Man- "Of course I would. He is better than Obama. Anyone is. He's destroying our country".

ABC- "So, you would support someone for the presidency who you think is a liar and will be a liar in the White House?!"

G-Man- "Well.... blah, blah, blah...

[Townsend]

Per Daily Beast FB:

Michele Bachmann is ending her campaign for the presidency, telling supporters this morning, "I have decided to stand aside."


She thinks that was her decision apparently...

[Conan71]

Well good.  Now she can go back to her full-time job the taxpayers have been paying her for while she was out of the office on a six month ego trip.

[AquaMan]

Dang good job, running for office. Too bad I've squandered my chances by posting around here!

[Townsend]

POLITICO's Ginger Gibson reports:

Newt Gingrich still won't congratulate Mitt Romney for winning the Iowa caucuses.

At a news conference in Concord, N.H., Gingrich was asked by CBS correspondent Dean Reynolds why he congratulated Rick Santorum but not Romney.

Gingrich stared at the reporter and raised his eyebrows in silence, eventually drawing laughter from some of the reporters.
"Because I know you would be a man of great professionalism, I know that's a rhetorical question. And a good one," Gingrich said.

During his speech in Des Moines last night, Gingrich visibly seethed at mention of Romney, who along with his supporters ran a barrage of attack ads against the former speaker.
Romney said he'd spoken with every GOP rival last night except Gingrich.

So yeah...he'd do great...

[Conan71]

My label of "petulant little child" seems to be dead on.

I think highly of Newt as a historian and even a political philosopher, but he's an asswipe as a politician.

[DolfanBob]

Per Daily Beast FB:

Michele Bachmann is ending her campaign for the presidency, telling supporters this morning, "I have decided to stand aside."


She thinks that was her decision apparently...

I think she is still doing the "Playboy" spread for the November issue.

[Red Arrow]

Michele Bachmann is ending her campaign for the presidency, telling supporters this morning, "I have decided to stand aside."
She thinks that was her decision apparently...

It's her decision not to continue running for President and using up her time and campaign funds.  It would probably be silly for her to continue though.

[Teatownclown]

Predictions for 2012

                                                By Paul Krassner


Politics: The electoral college will be replaced by a system where voters will
choose the polling firm they trust the most. Barack Obama will be re-elected
because his vice-presidential running mate Joe Biden will be replaced by
Hillary Clinton, thereby gaining the women's vote. Failed Republican
campaigners will all take other jobs. Mitt Romney will start smoking a
pipe and portray the character Bob Dobbs in a movie about the cultish
Church of the Subgenius. Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain will launch
the bipartisan Adultery Party in 2016, joined by Democrats John Edwards
and Bill Clinton. Ron Paul will unite with Ru Paul and they'll perform
on Dancing With the Stars. Rick Santorum will be caught in an
airport bathroom stall enjoying a gay encounter. Michelle Bachmann
will launch a lie-detector company. Rick Perry will copyright the word
"Oops." And it will be revealed that Donald Trump was actually born
on Mars; he will have a birth certificate to prove it, along with a
photo of him as a typical Martian baby with a comb-over.

Show Business: Vegetarian converts will include Lady Gaga, who will
wear a dress made entirely of heirloom tomatoes, and Meatloaf will
change his name to Tofuloaf. Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy will
win Academy Awards for best male and female actors. Angelina Jolie
will legally adopt Brad Pitt. Kim Kardashian will get married and
divorced on the same day. The Tea Party will become a popular
sitcom. Capital-punishment executions will become a top-rated
reality-TV series. The Second Coming of Jesus Christ will occur
live on a three-hour special to be telecast on every single channel
simultaneously, with an offstage voiceover narration by God.
Atheists and agnostics will picket the production, only to be
struck by lightning. Howard Stern will expose himself on America's
Got Talent. The Taliban and al-Quaeda will be the final
competitors on The Biggest Terrorists. Hulu and Netflix will merge as Huflix.

Fashion Trends: Square Hitler-style mustaches will finally become
stylish after decades of ridicule. Botox will become a soft drink that
will get rid of unwanted wrinkles from the inside. Pornography will
be allowed in public libraries, but moaning out loud will definitely
not be permitted. Fetus transplants from poor pregnant girls
to wealthy anti-abortion women will become a controversial new fad.
Arizona, Mississippi and Tennessee will refuse to recognize Leap
Year. Lottery winners will be fingerprinted. Private prisons will be
turned into ashrams. Inspired by Steve Jobs, many industries
will continue his legacy by transforming planned obsolescence into
a virtue. Prescription drugs will become children's names, such
as Ambien and Lipitor. Travel agents will begin arranging guilt
trips for clients who have given up on airplanes. Combination
vibrators and insomnia cures will be invented, trademarked as
Dildoze. Pope Benedict XVI will permit condoms to be marketed
if there are tiny pinhole pricks in the reservoir tips in order to ensure a
fighting chance for spermatozoa to get through. Serial pedophiles, gay
bashers and Internet hackers will form unions.

The Economy: The Department of Energy will release a report concluding
that so-called "clean coal" is, in point of fact, "filthy dirty." The Bank of A
merica will stop doing business with Verizon and switch to Credo. The
largest protest in history will take place by ongoing Occupy-the-Federal-
Reserve-System demonstrations. The recession will evolve into a depression,
which will end quickly as the war on drugs morphs into the legalization
of every single strain of cannabis will be designated as medical marijuana.
Facebook members will be taxed for every friend, Twitter users will be taxed
for every tweet, Monsanto will be taxed for every genetically modified food,
and masturbators will be taxed for every ejaculation. The Supreme Court will
download all corporations into embryos. Several million jobs will be created as
Unemployment Insurance clerks.

International Relations: North Korea's new Beloved Leader will be caught
cheating on his SAT examination, but he will redeem himself when he allows
almost 70 McDonalds restaurants to open all over his dictatorial realm; however,
in keeping with his father's policies, he won't allow them to sell any food.
Saudi-Arabia will outlaw laughter. Iraq will become our 51st state. Afghanistan will
require all men to wear burkas. Iran will develop a nuclear bomb, than drop it by
accident on Libya and Syria. World War III will be fought entirely by drone
planes attempting to destroy each other in the air. Products made in China
will be increasingly pirated by American entrepreneurs. Global warming will
continue to melt icebergs as well as Sarah Palin's cold heart. The world will end on
December 21st, but will begin all over again on December 23rd, just in time
for last-minute Christmas shopping. The most popular gift will be cans of p
epper-spray in a variety of flavors. Pakistan will continue to be bribed by us.
And the Nobel Peace Prize will be secretly awarded to Anonymous.

These predictions for 2012 were originally published in Metro Newspapers.
Paul Krassner publishes the infamous Disneyland Memorial Orgy poster.
His latest book is an expanded and updated edition of his autobiography,
Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counterculture,
available at paulkrassner.com and as a Kindle e-book.

[we vs us]

what

[Teatownclown]

what ?

Hey, if you don't know who Krassner is, do some research. High humor....

[Townsend]

It's all over.  Here's your winner folks.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/todd-palin-endorses-newt-gingrich/

Todd Palin Endorses Newt Gingrich

[carltonplace]

It's all over.  Here's your winner folks.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/todd-palin-endorses-newt-gingrich/

Todd Palin Endorses Newt Gingrich

I won't be convinced until we hear from Levi and Sarah's navel lint.

[Townsend]

I won't be convinced until we hear from Levi and Sarah's navel lint.

Levi's navel lint died unexpectedly when it was licked out by the merman dwarf in the sideshow next to Levi's at the Montana state fair.

I'm afraid the lint's prediction just won't be available.

Sarah has no navel.

[Hoss]

Levi's navel lint died unexpectedly when it was licked out by the merman dwarf in the sideshow next to Levi's at the Montana state fair.

I'm afraid the lint's prediction just won't be available.

Sarah has no navel.

Kinda like Metatron in 'Dogma'?  Wait, what?