Today on the Dish, Andrew blasted Santorum's anti-freedom agenda, labelled Romney the uber-awkward "John Kerry" of 2012, found a heavy anti-Paul bias at the WaPo, and defended the consequences of Paul's ideas on foreign policy. He noted Santorum's lucky timing, exposed the self-proclaimed moral paragon's long history of corruption, praised Obama's Iran policy and political strategy on the CFPB appointment, and unearthed more evidence that the President defied right-wing charicature. Romney looked likely to get hit both as a flip-flopper and extremist in the general, planned to make the deficit worse, and appeared dominant in New Hampshire (where Huntsman flailed). Gingrich was a "festering white-head of loathing," Santorum may actually have won Iowa (a no-recount caucus) but looked to have some issues in Iowa, and Ron Paul was in it for the looooooooooooong haul. Moderate GOPers were SOL, the media had a clear interest in lying to you about New Hampshire and "Queen Esther" reared her head at CPAC.
Iran imitated Palin (ironically enough given that moniker), Assad's victims extended beyond his borders, and the international climate on climate change looked slightly better. Ryan Avent thought positively about the economy come election time, Reihan hoped for GOP party-switchers, George Will got hit for betraying conservatism in favor of consumerism, and readers and readers kept discussing why terrorists suck at their jobs and whether movie theaters were on the decline. White girls said dumb things to black girls, naked male bodies were sexy off and on the screen, the drag TV show "Work It" was still awful, and the wives of high-profile marriage equality opponents differed quite publicly. Also, George Washington may have gotten high.
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– Z.B.
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