NYT's Gail Collins: Wait! Don't Tell Me!

[Scuba]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/10/opinion/collins-that-old-gang-of-mine.html?_r=1&ref=opinion



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Pity the Republican voters. They aren’t asking for much. They just want a candidate who’s really conservative but not totally crazy. Who has verbs in his sentences. Who didn’t drive to Canada with the family dog strapped to the roof of the car. Yet they’re still searching with such desperation that you expect to wake up some morning and see a headline like: “Poll Says Most Likely Voters in South Carolina Favor the Geico Gecko.”

Going into the debate, Gingrich was on a little upswing, which seemed to make him even more self-important than usual. “I love humor disguised as a question. That’s terrific,” Newt said snarkily, when CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo called him on his claim that the media was doing a bad job of covering the economy. An excellent example of journalistic failure to dig deeply, Newt said, would be the way nobody asks Occupy Wall Street protesters who would pay for the parks if all the businesses failed. The crowd loved him.

Can you imagine how all this makes Rick Santorum feel? The former senator from Pennsylvania has been running around for years now, talking about conservative social values and trying to get right-wing Republican voters to think of him as presidential timber. He’s good at debating, and he says “family” at least 5,000 times per appearance. He points out constantly that he thought of everything first. But he’s never gotten a bump. The Republican core turned to Michele Bachmann. They had a fling with Rick Perry. They fell in love with Herman Cain. They had a mad moment in the school cloakroom with Donald Trump. Now, they’re sniffing around Newt.

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[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. "Sniffing around Newt." There goes breakfast...

[BootinUp]

2. I always enjoy her columns. nt

[Inuca]

3. Me too

Smart & great way with words. "Who has verbs in his sentences" is an example. And two more short paragraphs, that I just HAVE to quote:

So much for Governor Perry, who went out not with a bang but an “oops.”

If only he’d prepared! I can see him now, jogging in the morning, his coyote-killing pistol tucked precariously into his sweatpants, chanting: “President Perry knocks off three: Commerce! Education! Energy!” all the way down the trail. Really, it would have made all the difference.

Try reading the bolded part aloud (in your mind or otherwise), and it's hilarious!

[coalition_unwilling]

4. Bwa-ha-ha. "Pity the Republican voters. They aren’t asking for much. They just

want a candidate . . . . Who didn’t drive to Canada with the family dog strapped to the roof of the car."

Oh, snap!

Lovin' it!

:)