Today on the Dish, Andrew endorsed Santorum as the best candidate to heighten the GOP's contradictions, explained how Romney – and not Obama – wanted to make the US into Europe, guessed that lying was Mitt's first resort, and wondered what would happen if Newt actually followed through on his pledge to quit if he lost Alabama and Mississippi. We pulled reax to Super Tuesday (hilarious follow-up here and above), examined whether the media would start calling Romney out when he lied, connected Romney to Rush, unearthed a new explanation for why Santorum turned off Catholics, played the sucker's game of predicting Newt's next move, and saw Paul's delegate strategy struggle. The popular vote mattered, the GOP was likely screwed without more Hispanic voters, campaigns struggled with text messages, and the election of 1896 was craaaazy. Ad War Update here.
Andrew also reflected on his (long since rejected) offer to join Opus Dei, stood his ground on the Limbaugh boycott (follow-up here), peered into Netanyahu's psyche, and flagged some concerns about ruling out a containment policy for Iran. A brave Iranian girl uploaded some subtle resistance against the regime to YouTube, the Republican Persian obsession excluded other nuclear threats, and drones did more than you think. We watched Rush stroll into a trap on contraception, noted some parallel misogyny on the left, charted one way that the pill's price might rise, updated you on the rising marriage equality tide in Maine, aired more reader debate on posthumous baptism, and tracked with the Kochtopus tentacles reaching for Cato. The GOP caught up on prison reform, high gas prices weren't so bad, and the food stamps for soda discussion moved forward. The iPad helped construction, tablets spread far and wide, apps outsourced chores, a YouTube guy broke down viral videos, unfriending on Facebook surged, and the web photoshopped Michelle Obama. Quote for the Day here, AAA here, Cool Ad here, Yglesias Nominee here, VFYW here, MHB here, and FOTD here.
– Z.B.
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