2012 Republican Presidential Candidate Race

[SwampdonkeyPLD]

When libs make those statements are you referring to abortion, gay marriage, or both?

[Jeryhn]

Hey, while we're at it, shouldn't we be cutting off thieves' hands? Hammurabi would have wanted it that way.

Quality control on thieves would definitely increase on a long-enough timeline, though.

How dare you try to shackle the will of the free market?!

[Correction]

When libs make those statements are you referring to abortion, gay marriage, or both?

Take your pick. People parroting Santorum's words hardly have a leg to stand on regarding either issue.

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

I assume we're talking about perm, I had to block him because he was worse than Solanis in a Palestine thread - at life.

http://www.3sigma.com/wp-content/upl...mile-frown.gif

[Sera]

To be completely fair, I don't think anyone can be that bad perm

[MaachaQ]

The internet never ceases to amaze me...

'Romney' means defecate? Candidate facing a Santorum search problem
By Bob Sullivan

It appears that Mitt Romney now has a Rick Santorum Internet-age problem.

Recall that Web users who search for "Santorum" using a tool like Google are immediately confronted with a parody site that offers a faux definition of the word "santorum" which is not suitable for work or polite conversations. Within the past few weeks, enterprising Romney-haters have pulled off the same trick, albeit at a slightly less tasteless level.

Searching for Romney using Google now yields a page defining the term Romney as "to defecate in terror" within the first five links or so, reports Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineLand.com. (Go ahead, try it for yourself).

Clicking on the site brings visitors to a Web site called "SpreadingRomney.com" which echoes the SpreadingSantorum.com site. The page repeats the definition and links to a story about Romney's ill-fated family vacation that include a lengthy trip with the family dog strapped to the roof of the car.

"I don’t recall seeing it recently, so it appears to be a new gain," Sullivan wrote in a blog post about it.

The rise is unusually meteoric, and almost certainly signifies a concentrated effort to game Google's ranking system. In fact, Sullivan uncovered a page at DemocraticUnderground.com encouraging people to "Google Bomb" the SpreadingRomney site.

(Geeks would say this technique isn't, strictly speaking, a Google bomb. But it certainly must feel like one to the Romney camp).

The site launched on Jan. 10, site creator Jack Shepler told Sullivan. He also said he's not affiliated with any campaign, and created the site just to be funny, "and to make a point."

It got a boost when msnbc's Rachel Maddow mentioned it during her show two days later, but that hardly justifies the high Google ranking. SpreadingSantorum has been around for years, has attracted thousands of links the old-fashioned way, and the site offers real points of debate about gay rights debate. SpreadingRomney.com is hardly more than a blank page, yet still managed to fool Google and Microsoft's Bing. (Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal.)

We've discussed earlier how political entities can trick search engines, and why Google seems to let this go on as a form of political speech.

Sullivan supports that concept, but the quick rise of SpreadingRomney.com might be changing his mind a bit.

"For this site to leap-frog ... others, it creates all the same issues that Google initially encountered with real Google bombs, the impression that anyone can fire off a linking campaign and make it into the top results for anything," he said. "Certainly Google should take a harder look at why its algorithm rewarded a site with so little substance to it."

http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2...search-problem

[Elvis]

why would you block perm, Churchill? he isn't funny or rises to the level of troll, that solanis so effortlessly exudes

bring back the all-stars like Leif! and enough of this spam-forum circle jerking

[Milkster]

Wrong thread.

[quannum]

Speculation that a late challenger might still emerge in the increasingly bitter race for the Republican presidential nomination is set to surge after former Florida governor Jeb Bush made remarks criticising the current field.

Bush, who is the brother of President George W Bush and son of President George Bush Sr, is a beloved figure among many conservatives who see him as a strong and charismatic leader who is popular in the must-win swing state of Florida.

That contrasts with a widespread unease among many Republican leaders and grassroots activists with the remaining crop of Republican candidates and the vitriolic nature of the fight between frontrunner Mitt Romney and his main challengers Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich.

...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...?newsfeed=true
if romney loses michigan, they're going to have a brokered convention with Jeb Bush winning the nom.

[Elvis]

Wrong thread.

Me? I think not.

[archibaldcrane]

Jeb (despite his ridiculous hillbilly name) is actually quite well spoken, and entering this late may allow him to stay above the fray a bit, not having to answer many questions about his conservative credentials while also not having to flip-flop like Romney to prove he's "right enough"!

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[Sera]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...?newsfeed=true
if romney loses michigan, they're going to have a brokered convention with Jeb Bush winning the nom.

lol, the last name alone will do him in, thanks to dubya

[Dimmauk]

why would you block perm, Churchill? he isn't funny or rises to the level of troll, that solanis so effortlessly exudes

bring back the all-stars like Leif! and enough of this spam-forum circle jerking

I miss those guys. LOL

[ronin sparthos]

lol, the last name alone will do him in, thanks to dubya

^

It's partly why so many people are begging Chris Christie to get in.

[Alleya]

lol, the last name alone will do him in, thanks to dubya

2004.

[Correction]

2004.

2008

[quannum]

1984

[Andalusian girls]

Jeb will never win the nomination and neither will any last minute candidate, it'll be Romney or Santorum (90% chance Romney)

[Correction]

Santorum comes from behind in Alabama three-way

[Apelila]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...46.html?frothy

This guy....just keeps saying things that make me wonder what kind of high he's chasing.