Let’s just hope all of Perry’s supporters turn out at the polls on Nov. 12.

– Pensito Review editor Trish, snarking on Twitter about Rick Perry’s most recent gaffe, in which he said the election is Nov. 12 (it’s Nov. 6) and that the voting age is 21 (it’s 18).

Reassess this, Hermie. You are toast.

I’m not the first to note that it’s pretty sleazy for a man who puts three of his SEVEN children — his three oldest daughters — front and center in his campaign to call charges from several women who claim they were sexually harassed a “bimbo eruption.” But Jon Huntsman’s Mormon sexism is showing.
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The Best of Barney Frank

It is not hyperbolic to suggest that the future of America’s prosperity hangs in the balance in the next election. But less than a year out from the vote on Nov. 6, 2012, current polling finds 1) bad news, 2) theoretically better news but then 3) the worst development yet.
1. The bad news:

His pizza-pizzazz manliness is anything but plain,
And he’s got a special sauce that drives chicks insane.
With his toppings hot and spicy
He makes the ladies feisty.
He’s a pizza-powered love machine, is Herman Cain.

There is no doubt, certainly, that Rove is influential. But, as I spent time speaking to insiders from both parties about him, I initially struggled to pin down the exact nature of his resurgent influence. The classic line on Rove has always been that his political instincts are unrivaled by any Republican since the heyday of his mentor, Lee Atwater. Yet, while Crossroads undoubtedly played an important role in the 2010 campaign by flooding the airwaves with ads for Republican Senate candidates, the only thing memorable about these ads was their omnipresence.

— Walter Shapiro, writing in the New Republic.

Said GOP strategist Matthew Dowd: “The whole Rove brand as an evil genius is wrong. Karl is neither.”

Madam, trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it.

— Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), at a town hall meeting on health care reform in August 2009.