Mitt the Ripper

Stephen Colbert Super PAC anti-Romney ad:

The GOP primary is coming to Florida at the end of this month. The ads have already started—at least Romney’s have. (Le sigh.)

Meanwhile, does anyone speak Sad, Disgruntled Wingnut? If so, can you translate this snippet of a post from Erick Erickson, who attended the Evangelical Stop the Mormon Heretic Convention this weekend?

But by voting for Santorum, the group largely undercut more serious efforts waged by Gingrich to stop Romney and, even more troubling if Romney is the nominee and loses, potentially sets up a claim by Rick Santorum, a man who will have been out of office a decade by then, to be the 2016 front runner.

In a year when we could possibly see Bobby Jindal, John Kasich, Rick Scott, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, and others, the evangelical movement might have just sown the first seeds of division for 2016 — seeds that, like in 2008 and 2012, prevented evangelicals from getting one of their own the nomination.

Does he actually think Rick Scott, who is slightly less popular in Florida than chlamydia, or Scott “Koch Kabana Boy” Walker are viable candidates who will be shoved aside in favor of Santorum in 2016? The capacity for self-delusion is uncommonly strong in that one.

[H/T: Meepmeep09 for the Colbert vid]

Posted by Betty Cracker on 01/16/12 at 09:53 AM • Permalink

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Well, Erick, Son of Erick is hardly known as a thoughtful and incisive political analyst. The only real question about 2012 (aside from whether the Mayan Prophecy has chops) is whether this will be the high water mark for right-wing political atavism and theocracy or whether the American political economic experiment simply collapse altogether.

The Mitt the Ripper ad is sweet, sweet, sweet. I wonder if it is airing at all in SC?

Comment by Jim Tarrant on 01/16/12 at 10:57 AM

Well, Erick, Son of Erick is hardly known as a thoughtful and incisive political analyst.

Yep. Great hire, CNN!

Comment by Betty Cracker on 01/16/12 at 11:36 AM

I think Erickson is most sore-graping that his favorite, Rick Perry, didn’t even get a second’s consideration from the evangelicals, who should have still been basking in the afterglow of that silly “Response” thingy back in August. Now, he has to blame both the Tea Partiers and the Talibornagains for Perry’s false-start campaign, instead of Perry’s general lack of extra-texican competence.

The viability of either Gingrich or Santorum is just wrong—they sorely need to go back to “having-been”. His take might be that people who’ve more recently served in office probably have a better shot at demonstrating credibility—but I would say, not if they are currently stinking up their respective offices!

2016 will be a free-for-all over evangelical votes anyway, because I think that’s what the GOP does, end of story.

Comment by Vixen Strangely on 01/16/12 at 12:19 PM

I’m curious about this concept of Santorum having a “claim” to be front-runner even before any votes are cast. Very monarchy-y!

Comment by Xecky Gilchrist on 01/16/12 at 12:28 PM

Yep. Great hire, ~~CNN~~ TeaNN!

There, much better.

Ewick Son of Ewick’s tears are like a fine fine wine, and as far as I’m concerned, he, the equally eternally repulsive Dana Loesch, and the Faux wannabees-that-be at TeaNN can all bathe in them.