Cain is slip slidding in Chicken Grease. Hum wonder where that came from.

Two new polls from Iowa, 5 weeks shy of that primary.

Insider Advantage

Newt 28%
Paul 13%
Romney 12%
Cain 10%
Bachmann 10%
Perry 7%

We Ask America

Newt 29%
Romney 13%
Bachmann 13%
Paul 11%
Cain 7%
Perry 5%

EDIT - Two polls from South Carolina as well.

Insider Advantage

Newt 38%
Romney 15%
Cain 13%
Paul 7%
Perry 4%
Bachmann 3%
Santorum 2%

American Research Group

Newt 33%
Romney 22%
Cain 10%

EDIT 2 - and New Hampshire!

Insider Advantage

Romney 31%
Newt 27%

Rasmussen

Romney 34%
Newt 24%
Huntsman 11%

Wow, they just do NOT like Mitt do they? The guy hasn't climbed significantly in any poll.

Btw, with news all Newt and all Cain, it seems Romney is staying under the radar doesn't it?


TIS

He's under attack, and quite possibly Newt might not flame out as quickly as those other would-be contenders did.

He should be worried that NH, his "home turf," is under severe (surprising) assault and that if indeed in spite of all his money and endorsements, he has peaked (which quite frankly I have no reason to disagree with that assessment)...well, he's not having a good day.

Then here's the hypothetical complication. Does Romney keep his relative "cool" as has been his basic primary plan and assume that Newt sinks Newt? Or does Romney hit back hard and try to destroy him? If the latter option, and if Mittens wins the nomination, all that rhetoric of him going to Newt's right will could hurt him in the fall.

I don't think it helps Mittens that idea his campaign loves to float that he's the most "electable" candidate against Obama is much like the Loch Ness Monster, MRI scans cause tattoos to explode, or that Twinkies can survive a nuclear holocaust.

You know, a myth.

Romney Gets Flustered On Fox]



I was for it before I was against it.



Oh Mitt, you just gave Newt ammo.

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/1...on-abortion.php

Romney has a lot of flubs/flip flopping on tape. The ad the Dems are running (posted above) is perfect (0ne of the best I've seen). They simply have to show Romney open his mouth.

As for Newt, he's got issues too. I must admit tho, and I'm guessing Romney is as well, maybe, just maybe, Newt will be "the one." It's amazing to me just how much the Right simply does NOT want Romney.


TIS

I think this is more brutal.

Former Romney Iowa Chair: Not Sure If He's Got The 'Gut Instinct'



Ouch.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/magazine/mitt-romney-bot.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all

Man, right-wing blogs are roasting Mittens over that FNC interview.





http://hotair.com/archives/2011/11/29/br...on-as-gingrich/

Romney not ready for prime time

http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2011/11/30/romney-not-ready-for-prime-time/

PPP Florida

Newt 47%
Romney 17%
Cain 15%
Paul 5%

PPP Montana

Newt 37%
Paul 12%
Romney 11%
Bachmann 10%
Cain 10%

I saw these polls earlier. That's pretty startling isn't it. Romney 11 percent in Montana? Watch maybe Ron Paul will be the next surge.

I expect Cain will drop out shortly. This entire ordeal, I would think, would be a huge impact on his lengthy marriage and family life. Maybe his wife will kick him to the curb too. Plus, really was he ever serious or was he trying to sell books?

Right now it seems like Gingrich but this is the most topsy turvy campaign I can remember.

TIS

from NBC News twitter:

She is so, so, so, so uninformed.

Romney: Whiney Bitch?



http://www.nationalconfidential.com/20111130/romney-whined-to-fox-about-interview/

At 2:18
"He physically personality-wise comes across as if he was designed by East German scientists to be the perfect android politician, and his answers come across that way."
Can somebody explain this reference to me? I'm from East Germany, and I have no idea what that guy is talking about. Chancelor Angela Merkel is an East German scientist and a politician at the same time. Does she look like a "perfect android politician"? (I think, there hasn't been a single attractive East German politician in the last 100 years. )

It's not a reference so much to Mitt's handsomeness or the attractiveness of East German politicians (not one in the last 100 years, really?? ) but to the stereotype of German engineering acumen and to the stereotype of East German Olympic cheating. Mitt looks like a politician should look; he's tall, comes across as affable and reasonable but much like an android, he seems to have little ability to connect with people, can't think on his feet or react to changing conditions, and seems to be programmed.

Obama may be the luckiest politician who ever lived.

Typical example of why politics is one big Male Ego Trip. Did Cain really think that he could mount a national campaign and not have all those skeletons in his closet come rattling out?
If someone came up to you and announced, "I, alone among 300 million Americans, am the only person fit to be your president," you'd conclude that the guy was nuts. But, every four years, several people do exactly that.

A political satirist couldn't write this stuff; not even Carl Hiaasen.

Re what Dont Tomasso just posted: Yes, I'll be the first to admit that Obama is VERY lucky to be up against such a bunch of stiffs. When I was younger, I always thought that voting for "the lesser of two evils" was a crock of shit that older people used to justify their own political agendas, but now I know what they meant. Because even though Obama has been a disappointment to me, he's still better than anyone the GOP can put up against him right now.

And speaking of the GOP: Where are their morals police that outed Clinton's blowjob from that fat chick? By rights, shouldn't they be scrutinizing both Cain and Newt for their sexual exploits?

Can you say double standard?

She and Sarkozy are bigtime buddies. Sarko refers to Merkel as la Boche (the Hun).

Regarding Cain and his latest accuser saying how he called her at all hours, etc. I heard someone say yesterday that "Cain has proven his ready for that 3:00 a.m. call.....'Yea, Ginger?'.



TIS

Wasn't Newt one of the Republicans screaming for Clinton's blood??

He sure was. The moral authority as he was cheating on his wife at the same time.

Btw, I heard a very sleazy story about him yesterday. If Newt wins I have no doubt it'll circulate whether true or not.

Let me just say this guy said he witnessed Newt in a car in a Lewinsky type situation.


TIS

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You can't win without luck.

No for luckiest politician ever, that would have to be ole Adolf. Seriously its like the fates were determined to let him win despite obstacle after obstacle that surely would've destroyed everyone else.



Those two were true adversaries who wouldn't piss on each other if either were on fire. Remember that story that allegedly the chief for Newt running one of the government shutdowns was because Clinton made him sit at the back of Air Force One?

Anyway I also remember that anecdote that Clinton purposely copied the argumentative rhetoric* used in his Impeachment trial from Newt's divorce case, just to stick it him.

*=If you must know but I'm warning you, it's disgusting: Bubba (and Newt previously) argued that they didn't actually commit adultery in the "biblical sense" with their respective mistresses because neither internally ejaculated. I told you it was gross. It certainly explains Monica's dress "stain."



I would also blame it on Arnold Schwarzenegger, who's actually Austrian but I disgress.

Rasmussen has Newt leading Romney nationally 38% to 17%.

I found this article on the Fox website about sex and Presidential candidates. Give it a read:

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/12/0...ntcmp=obnetwork

TIME Magazine: Why Don’t They Like Mitt?

http://swampland.time.com/2011/12/01/mitt-romney-why-dont-they-like-him/?iid=sl-main-lede

"Potemkin frontrunner"? I like that term.

Newt flanks Mittens again, now from the right.

Newt signs Border Fence Pledge

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/12/01/newt-gingrich-signs-pledge-to-build-border-fence/

(Might add Newt was the second GOP national candidate to sign that pledge, after Bachmann.)

Okay, the enemployment rate is down to 8.6% and no reason to believe it won't continue to drop into next year.

That's got to throw one hell of a monkey wrench into Republican campaign plans. And as I suspected, Fox found a way to put a negative spin on it:

"Though it appears encouraging that the November jobless rate dipped to its lowest level since March 2009, those numbers come with a caveat: nearly three times as many Americans stopped looking for work as found it."