drsmooth wrote:

td11 wrote:one of you old people explain to me exactly what the "aspirin between knees" comment meant. like, girls kept their legs closed by holding aspirin pills between their legs? or, girls literally took aspirin as contraception by letting it melt by the body heat generated by their knees? i am confused?

you have it right in your 1st guess

TenuredVulture wrote:It does seem as the Santorum bump in the polls is beginning to level off, but according the RCP polling chart, he's higher now (at about 39%) than any Republican has been at any point in the cycle.

pacino wrote:i'm still basking in the light of my title thread

phdave wrote:I was just looking at pollster.com. What the hell happened to Romney's favorability/unfavorability ratings? The guy has been running for president for what, 8 years and suddenly he has a spike in his unfavorables in the past few weeks? Did he kill someone or something and I missed it?

EDIT: I guess it's not the past few weeks. It's the past few months.

allentown wrote:

phdave wrote:I was just looking at pollster.com. What the hell happened to Romney's favorability/unfavorability ratings? The guy has been running for president for what, 8 years and suddenly he has a spike in his unfavorables in the past few weeks? Did he kill someone or something and I missed it?

EDIT: I guess it's not the past few weeks. It's the past few months.

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Up until last couple months he's gotten to just run around saying what great business experience he has, stating how he wants to currently define himself and his new positions, and hurl criticisms at President Obama. With the debates, he's had criticisms leveled at what his business experience really consists of (minor partner in venture capital for startups, but with big $ coming from raping stodgy companies for his hedge fund and throwing guys out of work and bankrupting said companies), had his opponents remind voters of what his positions used to be and how much they've changed, actually be compared to other Republicans, have to say bad things (many untrue) about other Republicans, and generally looking wooden in a series of debates and stump appearances. It is different saying what you want to friendly audiences and actually having to handle actual debates, real questions from media, and counter attacks by opponents. I don't think he was ever all that likeable. He was just viewed as the steady-hand, inevitable, it's his turn candidate for Republicans. Like H. Clinton, he thought he'd just cruise through primaries and has now run into a few icebergs.

Phan In Phlorida wrote:His problem with the "real" Republicans is he reminds them of Obama... smooth and charismatic, promises all the right things. They see him as an opportunist who'll say or do anything. They don't trust his ideals, the flip-flopping on core issues. Most core Republicans want principled consistency in a candidate and they have doubts whether he's a Republican with Republican values .

I think the perceptions of '08 play a factor too. Mitt lost to McCain, McCain lost to Obama. If A > B and B > C, then A > C. Not that it's predictive, it's just how some people think.

jerseyhoya wrote:

Geitner goes before House Budget Committee, agrees with Ryan that our long term path is unsustainable because of debt, then suggests the administration doesn't really have a plan for it other than disliking Ryan's plan

dajafi wrote:Has he ever shown any willingness at all to consider closing tax loopholes that we know don't help the overall economy, much less higher rates on the super-wealthy whose taxes were cut so steeply under Bush?