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Position change: I fully support SuperPACs

sanjuro

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I especially like Stephen Colbert's Super PAC. The highlight of the ads he ran against the NBA strike: there was some real criticism that Colbert's PAC is being financially supported by Mark Cuban since it backs Cuban's points.

Colbert says in his overly-seriously voice that they carefully reviewed if Cuban is involved with his Super PAC, and his findings is that "I don't have to tell you".

Sport Report - NFL Fines & Colbert Super PAC's Second NBA Lockout Ad - The Colbert Report - 2011-27-10 - Video Clip | Comedy Central
 
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dante

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"If three people want to get married, should that be allowed?"


I really wanted the person to say:

"I don't know, should we ask Mitt Romney?"


edit: While it was dumb for Santorum to go to a *college campus* to espouse his anti-homosexual views, those college kids sucked at debating him...
 
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Pesqueeb

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Kind of low, even for a racist.

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman and members of his family expressed outrage on Friday at an advertisement targeted at his adopted daughters by a group supporting rival Ron Paul.

An online ad authored by "NHLiberty4Paul" shows footage of Huntsman with daughters Gracie, who was adopted from China, and Asha, adopted from India, when they were infants.

"American values. Or Chinese," the ad asks to a soundtrack of Chinese music. It calls Huntsman "the Manchurian Candidate" and ends with an image of Huntsman dressed as China's former communist leader Mao Zedong, and the words "Vote Ron Paul."

Paul, a Texas congressman, disavowed the ad during an interview on Friday on CNN, but said he could not control the actions of all his supporters.

"I couldn't even hear it, haven't looked at it, but people do that, and they do it in all campaigns," Paul said.

At a campaign appearance in Concord, New Hampshire, Huntsman, who was U.S. ambassador to China until April before jumping into the Republican race, termed the ad "just stupid" and "political campaign nonsense."

"If someone wants to poke fun at me, that's OK," said Huntsman, who trails in most polls in the Republican nominating contest. "What I object to is bringing forward pictures and videos of my adopted daughters and suggesting there's something sinister there."

The second oldest of Huntsman's seven children, Abby Huntsman Livingston, denounced the ad on Fox News Channel's "America Live" broadcast.

"It is unfortunate that the political conversation has become this vile. In our family, we put ourselves on the national stage and we expect to get everything and anything. Unfortunately, I think this video goes a bit far," Livingston said. "My two little sisters are the love of my dad's life."

Gracie Mei Huntsman, now 12, was found abandoned in a vegetable market in China at 6 months old, and adopted by Huntsman and his wife, Mary Kaye. She has been a fixture on the campaign trail, often referred to by her father as "our senior foreign policy adviser."

Asha, now 6, was abandoned in a field in India the day she was born, Livingston said.

Also weighing in was Cindy McCain, the wife of 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain. "I deeply resent the video made using the adopted daughters of@jonhuntsman," McCain wrote on Twitter. "@ronpaul shame on you. This has shades of 2000 all over it."

During John McCain's failed 2000 campaign for the Republican nomination, automated phone calls referred to the Arizona senator fathering an out-of-wedlock "black baby," apparently in reference to the McCains' adopted Bangladeshi daughter.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/sns-rt-us-usa-campaign-huntsmantre806017-20120106,0,2245239.story
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I'm sure Paul disavows it. Just like how Romney absolutely-positively-can't-possibly know anything about the actions of the SuperPAC that just hapens to support him with its Gingrich attack ads
 
dante

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*chuckle*

Regardless of who actually made it (anonymous youtuber with a brand-new account created 3 days ago with possible ties to John Huntsman himself?), it's not an "online ad". It's a youtube video, and a poorly made one at that.

Video of someone following the original links/hashtags, and if it's not the Huntsman girls themselves, it's someone who's following them and Huntsman himself.

 
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dante said:
*chuckle*

Regardless of who actually made it (anonymous youtuber with a brand-new account created 3 days ago with possible ties to John Huntsman himself?), it's not an "online ad". It's a youtube video, and a poorly made one at that.

Video of someone following the original links/hashtags, and if it's not the Huntsman girls themselves, it's someone who's following them and Huntsman himself.

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The reports that I heard yesterday said that it was most likely the Huntsman girls (just reports though, could be anyone), which is kind of disappointing because I also like Jon Huntsman. His ability to speak Mandarin is a big plus in my opinion.
 
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stevew

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please tell me you didn't have anything else better to do than to watch that all the way through?
 
Pesqueeb

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Thank the FSM for Steven Colbert. :rofl: :rofl:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/137803703.html?cmpid=15585797

CHARLESTON, S.C. - The biggest political rally of the primary season was hosted Friday by a fake Republican who is running for president even though he's not on the ballot and a real Republican who is not running for president even though he is on the ballot.

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Paula Feldman, 63, an Obama voter in 2008 who already voted for Cain/Colbert via absentee ballot, drove two hours from Columbia, S.C., where she's an English professor. "I think Stephen Colbert is the most interesting, intelligent, and politically-savvy person on the ballot," she said.

But he's not on the ballot, someone said.

"He's Herman Cain!" she replied. "And I think it would be totally cool if Stephen Colbert-slash-Herman Cain got more votes than any of the actual candidates."

It was unclear whether Cain got the gag. In his speech, the former pizza executive plugged his new organization, Cain Solutions. He made pro-tea party remarks, criticized Obama - coolly received by the crowd - and said, "Stay inspired!"
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