Live With Mittens or Die
Ezra:
Possible outcomes tonight: 1) Romney wins NH and goes on to win the nomination. 2) Romney loses NH and goes on to win the nomination.
Well, eliminate #2 and this is correct. But we can have an open thread for those into that kind of thing. I plan to largely skip television coverage to work and watch hockey, so in light of the 500th goal I missed (and how!) by one game I’ll cite Jarome Iginla’s two greatest games instead:
Salt Lake 2002 wasn’t quite Vancouver 2010, but it was extremely entertaining in its own right. (Oh yeah, and who set up the Crosby OT winner at the latter?) And, obviously, after the defeat of the Bertuzzi/Cooke/Ruutu/Crawford Canucks Iginla (and Kiprusoff) should immediately have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
…It’s sad to see people who hang in there beyond reason, not knowing when to quit when they’re done. I refer, of course, to Marty Brodeur. (Apologies to Mr. Brodeur for implicitly comparing the washed-up Hall of Famer to the never-was also-rans in the GOP primary.)
Other question: Where did ‘and how’ as a phrase come from. Makes no bloody sense.
“And how!” is an emphatic [expression], indicating intensive emphasis of what someone has just said. It was first recorded in 1865, and is either a German-American or Italian-American colloquialism. See http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=h&… . It originated as a direct translation of the German “Und wie!” or the Italian “e come!” See http://ask.metafilter.com/16692/And-How ”
From Yahoo Answers.
It works just fine in English if you understand what’s being left out. “We have turnips for dinner” / “And how [large an abundance of turnips we have]!”. Or: “Rick Perry has stepped on his dick again” / “And how [dramatically he has stepped on it]!”
I think I can come to terms with that.
It exists as a direct calque in French as well (“Et comment!”).
“Mittens or your life”
“….”
“Well?”
“I’m thinking, I’m thinking!”
Good to see the Republicans still love their vulture capitalists.
Keepin’ the dream alive!
I was actually in downtown Toronto the night Canada won that gold in 2002. I literally did not know the Canadians knew how to party that hard. Bloor and Yonge basically shut down as revelers took them over. Bars were handing out free pitchers. (Granted, of shit like Molson, but still.) We skipped back to the hotel singing the Canadian national anthem. An anthem, I might add, which is both easier to memorize AND more kickass in general than our own.
Good times.
How dare you. I will not stand for anyone speaking of Molson that way.
Molson is piss. It’s only marginally better than Budweiser and Coors. LABATTS is better than Molson.
I am prepared to defend these words with my body.
Never underestimate the ability of Canadians when it comes to partying. In this, as in many other things, their culture is far superior to the US.
Well, it looks like the tallest dwarf won.
Or the saddest clown.
Smartest idjit?
No, make the smarmiest idjit!
MSNBC is really straining to make this seem interesting.
No kidding, Joe from Lowell. I was thinking the same thing. They’re stretching so hard to make this interesting that they’re actually talking about Ron Paul conspiracy theories.
It’s going to be Mittens. But we shouldn’t laugh at this–he’s ahead by two points in the latest poll, even with all his gaffes:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57355518-503544/poll-among-gop-hopefuls-romney-fares-best-against-obama/
Romney has a little bit better than a 50/50 chance to win this thing, and Obama’s constant caving in to Republicans and moderate squishiness doesn’t help matters.
Romney has a little bit better than a 50/50 chance to win this thing
Yes, because a single poll taken ten months before an election is a truly accurate picture of the odds.
In January/February of 2004, Kerry was demolishing President Bush in the polls, beating him in a February Gallup poll by 12 points.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Presidential_04/bush_vs_kerry_historical.html
Romney has a little bit better than a 50/50 chance to win this thing
I don’t think so. This far out, I put much more weight on organization than polling numbers. And from everything I’ve read, Obama has a serious advantage in terms of putting together a field operation at this point.
MSNBC is really straining to make this seem interesting.
I’m actually surprised to hear that…I figured the “Huntsman surge” would give Tweety enough to yammer about for 24 hours straight.
Not to be pedantic, but in all actuality, it would have been very tough to see Mittens’s path to the nomination if he had lost NH tonight.
Well, somebody would have to win it, and none of the others look all that plausible . . .
But my point is, the only way he could have lost NH was if there was someone else who looked plausible.
Would like to see this improvement to the electoral process. Most truly whacked out politicians would find this process difficult and I don’t expect it to substantially lower the quality of public official that results.
Erm, remove option 2). That shouldn’t be a viable route to the White House.
Only teams can win the NHL. Many of those teams are Canadian corporations, and thus not eligible to be president.
Wow, the NYT called it for Romney before 7:00 Central. I was going for 9:00.
(Another day when the computer wasn’t turned on. John was seen to have uttered a tweet that wasn’t about Tebow, so is presumed alive.)
The dead tweeet for Tebow!
So here’s your ballot, South Carolina Republicans: two Mormons, two Catholics, Ron Paul and me. How do you like me now?
Sincerely,
Rick Perry