Don't Call Him Willard...

[Anitgrum]

It not that bad considering there were President with names like Herbert, Warren, Calvin, and Woodrow. It is really not that out of place.

I think Willard would be much more in line with those than Mitt.

Exactly

[Farnhamia]

I think Willard would be much more in line with those than Mitt.

Exactly

Okay, but the point about "Mitt" is moot, since he's not going to win, even if he gets the nomination. The GOP Right will saddle him with a nut-case as VP.

[Occupied Deutschland]

Exactly

Okay, but the point about "Mitt" is moot, since he's not going to win, even if he gets the nomination. The GOP Right will saddle him with a nut-case as VP.

Worked for them.

Although then I guess the question becomes...Which one is the nut-case?

[Farnhamia]

Okay, but the point about "Mitt" is moot, since he's not going to win, even if he gets the nomination. The GOP Right will saddle him with a nut-case as VP.

Worked for them.

Although then I guess the question becomes...Which one is the nut-case?

Well, yeah. But the GOP today is not the same party it was in 2000.

[Cannot think of a name]

There should be a candidate that goes by Econosaur, Bringer of Jobs. And insist it be spelled with a drawing of a t-rex spewing money out of its mouth.

Waiiiiiiit, wouldn't an Econosaur eats money instead?

A regular one might, perhaps, but * spews money because of his aggressive GRAAAAARRRRRR! jobs plan.



*In keeping with his wishes regarding his spelling...

[Offenheim]

Isn't this like when pro-Republican pundits call the Democratic Party the "Democrat Party". It's just a move calculated to enrage.

[Cannot think of a name]

Isn't this like when pro-Republican pundits call the Democratic Party the "Democrat Party". It's just a move calculated to enrage.

It is in fact like that. And it's juvenile, especially when done by professional punditry blurring any line that might exist between them and some jackass making an unrelated comment after a local news story...

[Offenheim]

Isn't this like when pro-Republican pundits call the Democratic Party the "Democrat Party". It's just a move calculated to enrage.

It is in fact like that. And it's juvenile, especially when done by professional punditry blurring any line that might exist between them and some jackass making an unrelated comment after a local news story...

Isn't that the purpose of pundits? To be the jackass making an unrelated comment? I mean, they're certainly not being hired because they get things right. Wasn't there a study where it found that if you planned for the opposite of what the pundits predict you'd be correct a higher percent of the time?

Also, it turns out Dan Quayle was James Danforth Quayle. Similarly, Gordon Brown's first name is also James. That's right Britain. You were a 50% chance away from having a Prime Minister named "James Brown". And you blew it. For shame.

[AiliailiA]

Bill is a pretty casual name too.

William Jefferson Clinton is the kind of name you only use for the inauguration. If his first dad hadn't died, he'd have been William Jefferson Blythe III, honestly I doubt you could get elected to anything with a name like that.

I agree with CTOAN, it's trite to object to "Mitt".

[Cannot think of a name]

It is in fact like that. And it's juvenile, especially when done by professional punditry blurring any line that might exist between them and some jackass making an unrelated comment after a local news story...

Isn't that the purpose of pundits? To be the jackass making an unrelated comment? I mean, they're certainly not being hired because they get things right. Wasn't there a study where it found that if you planned for the opposite of what the pundits predict you'd be correct a higher percent of the time?

Well, I'll start backwards. I'm going to call that study dubious since there tends to be pundits who are at odds with the things they predict and the arguments they make, so I don't know how that would even work. Further, I don't know that it's the jobs of pundits essentially to make predictions that you're supposed to plan on. That would be psychics.

And yes, as of late that has been the flavor of punditry, to be bombastic, snarky, aggressive. But that's not their job, just how they go about their job. At its core, there's nothing wrong with someone forming the argument, making the argument so to speak. You can disagree with the argument made, you can find your own pundit that makes a counter-argument, that's fine. That's honestly part of the dialog. The way in which they have chosen to represent the argument, in their own individual ways (I don't want to fall into the trap of equivocation, not all pundits are equal and not all of their sins are shared) has shattered the discourse they're meant to elevate.

Also, it turns out Dan Quayle was James Danforth Quayle. Similarly, Gordon Brown's first name is also James. That's right Britain. You were a 50% chance away from having a Prime Minister named "James Brown". And you blew it. For shame.

See, this is what I'm saying. People use their middle names and this preference says very little about them. Except that maybe for some reason someone would be tired of being called a Sex Machine...

[Wikkiwallana]

Nobody's calling Ron Paul "Ronald", why call Mitt "Willard"?
_{Inevitable response: Because Mitt Romney matters}

Yeah, this is just...wow. I mean, making jokes about the guy for having a first name that saw its last usage when Sherman was burning his way across the South is one thing, but seriously saying you don't trust him because of it? Lawrence O'donnel.

And then there's the Willard Hotel ...

See, now, when I hear "Willard", I think of Willard Scott. In a leotard, because of Animaniacs.

[Qazox]

...Pundits are a bit like NSG- a bunch of cranks that make news fun. ..

The truest words ever spoken on NSG!!!

[Qazox]

Okay, but the point about "Mitt" is moot, since he's not going to win, even if he gets the nomination. The GOP Right will saddle him with a nut-case as VP.

Worked for them.

Although then I guess the question becomes...Which one is the nut-case?

The nut-case was the Prez, not the V-P...

[New England and The Maritimes]

Worked for them.

Although then I guess the question becomes...Which one is the nut-case?

The nut-case was the Prez, not the V-P...

The VP was just a sociopath.

[Farnhamia]

The nut-case was the Prez, not the V-P...

The VP was just a sociopath.

I don't think George Bush was a nut-case. He was just a C-student who had the right connections and who was available at the right time to run for President. Dick Cheney, on the other hand ...

[Angleter]

You know who else used his middle name? Goebbels. Therefore, "Mitt" Romney must be a Nazi.

[Norstal]

The VP was just a sociopath.

I don't think George Bush was a nut-case. He was just a C-student who had the right connections and who was available at the right time to run for President. Dick Cheney, on the other hand ...

He shot a man during duck hunting...

[Farnhamia]

I don't think George Bush was a nut-case. He was just a C-student who had the right connections and who was available at the right time to run for President. Dick Cheney, on the other hand ...

He shot a man during duck hunting...

Yes, but the man he shot was a lawyer, so ...

[Serrland]

The VP was just a sociopath.

I don't think George Bush was a nut-case. He was just a C-student who had the right connections and who was available at the right time to run for President. Dick Cheney, on the other hand ...

I get a very "mad scientist that studied Political Science instead of Chemistry" vibe from Cheney.

[Coccygia]

Now that I know this, I think the real question is not his Mormonism* but whether he owns rats.


*Which may well cost him the nomination since the Fundies don't consider Mormons Christians - and not entirely without reason, either.