Posted on 04/04/2016 2:07:10 PM PDT by Kaslin
So I asked Bitey the Dog about her views on NATO, and she responded by growling and attacking my sock. In doing so, she offered a more comprehensive, insightful, and sane commentary on this vital alliance than the putative Republican frontrunner.
Yes, it’s been a bad couple weeks for Donald Trump. Let’s review:
· His skeevy attacks on Ted Cruz’s wife confirmed his status, in the eyes of women, as America’s nightmare first husband.
· His transparent plant of the bizarre “Ted Cruz, Sex God” story in his pal’s pseudo-paper offended anyone who doesn’t require a drool bib.
· He repudiated his pledge to support the eventual nominee – hard to believe Donald Trump’s word is literally not worth the paper it’s printed on – and managed to both alienate even more Republicans while simultaneously putting at risk some of his own delegates.
· His campaign manager got charged with battering a woman, the same women whose Bic pen the noted Vietnam War non-veteran subsequently claimed placed him in mortal danger.
· He was ordered to report to Principal Priebus’s office for some pathetic groveling before the establishment he pretends he’s broken.
· He was unable to decide whether women who have an abortion should be tossed in a dungeon or given a medal.
· Polls are predicting his impending humiliation in Wisconsin.
And, to compound his hilarious and well-deserved agony, people are starting to review the general election polls – the real polls, not the online polls that unemployable geebos in red hats live to vote in – and they are seeing that it might be an uphill climb to win an election when about 60% of voters actively despise you. And that’s just among Republicans.
But a bad week for Trump is a good week for America. This clown isn’t done yet, but his sell-by date as Republican is fast approaching and I couldn’t be happier.
Now we just have to convince him to run third party, which is barely a threat because many of his dwindling supporters were probably never going to vote GOP anyway. Plus, he may weaken Hillary more by drawing in a bunch of alienated Bernie dorks, since the Democrats – whose party establishment is actually competent– are gonna shaft them like Richard Roundtree.
Plus, half of what Trump babbles could come out of Sanders’s mouth anyway. The government’s main purposes is healthcare, housing, and education? Not the American government’s main purpose, you creepy talking troll doll.
Yeah, let Trump run as a third party candidate, except he won’t because that will simply compound the yuge rejection that’s coming. Moreover, he doesn’t really even want to be president – my contacts have been telling me for months that Trump never expected this and has tried to find a way to get out without looking like a wuss, including considering a fake cancer scare. And there is no chance the famously cheap Trump would ever spend the money he needs to run a general election campaign. The GOP donors would abandon him in favor of saving down ballot candidates from being pulled down the Donald Drain too. You can’t fight Hillary by calling into Morning Joe every day.
Nor is it clear he even could run as third party candidate. This super smart savvy business genius forgot about all those arcane third party ballot rules, meaning he could only run in a fraction of the states. Man, I’d hate to be the Trump minion who has to tell Stubby Digits about that whole Electoral College thing.
Trump has surrounded himself with the best people – the best at screwing up. When they aren’t getting busted for picking on girls they are managing to lose delegates in places like Louisiana to Ted Cruz. Turns out actually doing the hard work of learning about the nominating rules and creating an infrastructure to take advantage of them gets you better results than improvising a campaign out of Hannity appearances and rambling rally speeches.
Lyin’ Ted? Try Winnin’ Ted. You know, the one tying or beating the Wicked Witch of Arkansas as opposed to being crushed by her by double digits. That Ted.
Now, I am a Cruz supporter, and I saw him live in Beverly Hills last week at a fundraiser – yeah, Trumpoids, Ted has to raise money because his daddy didn’t give him millions of dollars. I’ve seen Cruz several times in the last couple years and he is much, much improved. He focuses on three key themes with appeal across party lines – jobs, civil rights (like religious liberty and the Second Amendment) as well as national security. People want to paint him as crazy, but I litigate in the California courts and know crazy when I see it – Ted does not come across as crazy. He also gets hit for being “preachy” – I did not see that either. And I must have missed the raw sexual firepower that Trump’s slack-jawed battalions attribute to him.
I want to see the Ted Cruz I saw in person (and who comes out in long-form interviews) when he’s at a podium or on stage. That Ted Cruz is great. He was clear, sensible, sane, and – dare I say it – Reaganesque. The Ted Cruz I saw could beat that shrill, bitter incompetent crook the Dems are in the process of anointing.
Now, the path is hard, and the map daunting, but the polling against the Hilldebeast is solid and establishment is coming around. Cruz has the best team in the business – nobody ever really expected it to be down to a two-man race right now except Team Ted. I think he’s going to win the nomination, Karl Rove’s insane idea about a “White Knight” squish parachuting in notwithstanding, and in the general, a good portion of the remaining Trump fans will come home. Most of Trump’s supporters are decent Americans infuriated by an establishment that ignored, lied to, and abused them. If they want to cause the GOPe some real pain, Ted’s the guy, and many of them will see that.
But what of Trump? He’ll go back to his tacky tower muttering about how Ted Cruz unfairly beat him with a combination of using the rules and not being an idiot. Good riddance, future footnote.
By the way, I’ll offer any mainstream media reporter a shiny quarter to ask The Donald what “NATO” stands for.
Remember what kind of a sweet man Cruz was to Trump in the beginning. Everyone could trust Cruz because he was such a stand up guy. What a prince.
Now we have the son of Dracula in place of Cruz. He is a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide combo.
We see the real Cruz now from the well mannered man he was. Basically he was always a total hyena and snake in the grass.
This article is the saddest, most pathetic piece of drivel I’ve read in a long time. I’m surprised it’s not from Huffpo or Politico, though.
weird , because I ma in st Johns too and there is not one person saying they would not voter for Trump, hell you want to look at the exit polls for our county.
There has been some however saying that they would never vote for anyone , but Trump now.
So where in town are you, because here where I ma it is very different.?
You state this on your profile to.
I’m a Spanish legal translator by profession and live in St Augustine, Florida. The town is full of liberal nutcases, grannies for peace, etc., and therefore I am forced to seek sympathetic conservative souls in cyberspace.
That is not true either . The only place where any liberals live are maybe the King street, Lincolnville area and you can look at how our county has voted I the last 3 Pres elections and look at our county commissioners who are all republican.
It was his job...big woop...he did it well
Oooohh...Solicitor General presents to Supreme Court...was his job...
Didn’t demonize him... straight facts...
You don’t need to canonize him......
Still no response from any Cruz supporter..... Cruz has ZERO meaningful accomplishments outside of lawyer responsibilities..... ZERO!!!
Maybe because he was expressing his personal opinion? Should he talk about that in third person?
How this con man (Trump University) and snake oil salesman (Trump TajMahal Casino; Trump Shuttle; Trump Steaks) has become the so-called Republican frontrunner will be grist for social scientists for years to come. Trumpkins are really chumps for Trump. They bent themselves into a pretzel to defend his filthy tweeting of a pic of Cruz’s wife (who by the way hasn’t taken a seven figure paycheck for seductively posing nude in a men’s magazine inviting them to leer at her and masturbate their sexual fantasies) beside Melania, but now when Trump regrets this and publicly calls it a mistake, his obeisant followers are left stranded on the shores of moral indecency.
Hopefully, the results from Wisconsin will be one more log into this idiot’s political funeral pyre.
“Who has he ever hired or fired -ZERO- What business has he ever built or helped build? -ZERO- What payroll has he ever had to make? -ZERO- What private or governmental management or administrative management experience does he have? -ZERO-”
Same as Obama — it worked for him. Cruz thinks it will work for him too...but I hope Republican voters will wise up before it’s too late.
Maybe look at his body of legal work? Read his arguments & briefs?
More so by the day.
When you were describing cruzluse it sounded like you describing the POS in the WH now...neither were or are qualified to serve in the position either as a result of the lack of proper citizenship!!
“FR is a microcosm of what America has become and it’s kind of ugly at times.”
The really scary thing is that we’re on the upper end of the American bell curve.
cruzluzer
I’m not sure why people on either side of this debate get angry at Ted. GOPe blame him for “Trump” because they aligned with each other last summer. And now some Trumpers get angry with him for competing for the nomination.
This whole race is just like the TV show Survivor. You work with an alliance until you reach the end where there are only two left. At that point you have to part ways. Nothing wrong with that. Only one can win.
1996-1997 - Clerks for Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
1997-1999 - Attorney with the D.C.-based law firm Cooper, Carvin & Rosenthal.
1999-2000 - Domestic policy advisor during George W. Bush’s first presidential campaign.
2001 - Associate Deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice.
2001-2003 - Director of the Office of Policy Planning, with the Federal Trade Commission.
2003-2008 - Solicitor General of Texas. He is the first Hispanic to hold the position. He is also the longest serving solicitor general in Texas’ history.
2004-2009 - Adjunct law professor at the University of Texas School of Law.
2008-2012 - Attorney with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Houston, Texas.
May 29, 2012 - Wins enough votes in the Texas GOP senatorial primary to force a runoff.
July 31, 2012 - Defeats Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in the runoff election for the Republican Senate nomination, by a vote of 57% to 43%.
November 6, 2012 - Elected U.S. senator from Texas by defeating Democrat Paul Sadler, 56% to 41%.
November 14, 2012 - Named vice chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
January 3, 2013 - Sworn in as the 34th U.S. Senator from Texas.
that filibuster led to the landslide in 2014, imho.
more than a lot of us have done!!
Sessions said he was very important fighting some anti gun legislation among other things.
Since his Second Ammendment defense is meaningless lawyer stuff to you, go ahead and turn in your guns.
I leave reding Ted’s briefs to his hookers and campaign help.
Other than that, Ted is a fraud.
Arguments about the general election at this point in time serve only one purpose: to try to mitigate your rival’s chances in the eyes of the beholders.
To the extent that the average person is interested in the primary races, they are in it for the scandals and the gossip and the circus fun. It’s food for chat. They won’t become interested in the general election until after the conventions, when talk television gets even more boringly repetitious (to us) than it is now. Some will call up their best friend the night before the election to ask who they should vote for.
So clear the air for something more substantive. If polls are manipulated, which they are, at this stage they are manipulated and manipulative to the point of being meaningless. It’s like trying to predict the weather on election day seven months in advance.
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