We Are In Agreement

This is what I was thinking but was unable to articulate

TPM's analysis of Mitt's sitch

Second, and a bit more intangibly,[Mitt Romney] running around the country in a long twilight struggle with Rick Santorum is just ... how to put it? inherently demeaning and diminishing. It's like struggling to land a one pound fish or searching for the way out of a paper bag. People see you doing that and you just look weak and feckless, even pitiful.

Santorum getting the nomination? Nate Silver hedges

To have a chance at winning in the delegate count, he will need to supplant Mr. Gingrich as Mr. Romney’s major rival in the South. The results in Missouri, a borderline Southern state where Mr. Santorum beat Mr. Romney by 30 points without Mr. Gingrich on the ballot, suggest that he could run strongly if Mr. Gingrich were to bow out.

It is certainly not a straightforward path, but nor is Mr. Romney’s at this point. And so far in this Republican race, betting on the underdog has yielded dividends.

538 via Sullivan

Heaven. Hidden right here in Los Angeles

The corner of Santa Monica and Highland

Obama slowing it down a little bit, for the ladies

From WaPo

Rather, it may well be about the demographics that are most supportive of this particular health reform provision: young voters and women. In the PRRI poll, both groups register support above 60 percent for the provision.

Those two demographics are important here for a key reason: they were crucial to Obama’s victory in 2008. Third Way crunched the numbers earlier this month and found that the “Obama Independents” — the swing group that proved crucial to his 2008 victory — are, as Ryan Lizza put it, “disproportionately young, female and secular.”

This is starting to come into a sharper focus:

If you answered "yes," then let us suggest you not use TurboTax

"I own more than 50% of the stock of a corporation (less than 500 shareholders) that owns a foreign bank account"

I think at this point you hire an accountant.

 

Mark Steyn Looks like an Old GI Joe Figure

There's no way I'm the first one to notice this...

Pray for us, for we are shitheads

Every third superbowl ad included an impossibly gorgeous (via computer enhancement) human; additional ads told us to drink gallons of totally awesome beer (alcohol: 75,000 deaths/year) or eat junk food (heart disease: 2.4M deaths); and of course the Fiat commercial-chick had a very subtle come-shot on her decolletage.

And finally the whole thing centered around the most violent mainstream sport in the world.

But MIA flipping the bird? That's the problem:

“The obscene gesture in the performance was completely inappropriate, very disappointing and we apologize to our fans," said Brian McCarthy, spokesman for the NFL, which produced Madonna's halftime show, according to the Associated Press.

Politico

Let's say you're Newt Gingrich

And lets' stipulate that you haven't run to the bathroom, drank a liter of watchhazel and hung yourself.

So you're still alive (corporally and electorally. That sounds kind of like Jesse Jackson, actually).

Anyway, this is how you did in Florida:

Check out that panhandle, a section of the state that closely resembles the rest of the south/appallachia.

Wouldn't you just rachet-up the rhetoric, stay hawkich on Israel (to keep the Adelson money coming in) and hold on till convention?

This is the sound of me praying for that very secenario.