Posted on 04/11/2015 5:45:39 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
That is my manifesto also, for a while. Throwing punches this early over the inevitable barbs coming to every single conservative candidate is a waste of energy, imho.
I hope they all float high and proud, and drive the media to distraction trying to pick them off.
I should say, rather, the media coersing *us* into picking them off for them, and doing the dirty work *for* the RNC, the Bush camp, and the Hillary camp.
The Queen has a certain Jabba The Hutt presence from that angle.
Interpretation: Jonah’s a GOPe squish who so hates it being pointed out to him that he’s protesting even before he announces exactly which GOPe squish candidate he’s backing.
For those who aren’t aware, this is the G-File, a “newsletter” Jonah sent out weekly to fans for many years. You had to sign up.
It’s full of in-jokes (or attempts thereat) and snide remarks.
If you try to read it as serious political commentary, you just won’t get it.
If you don’t like the style, don’t read it again. I enjoy it.
Looks like Bill lost weight and Hillary found it.
Same here.
I will also leave Perry and Rubio alone.
One sad side effect of injuring these candidates in a presidential primary is that it also hurts them when they go back to win a senate, house or gubernatorial race. They might not be the perfection so many conservatives seem to hope for, but the are far more on the conservative side than they are on any other side.
We’ve all but told a young guy like Rubio to take a hike. I find that to be extremely perfectionistic to the point of injuring one’s own cause.
I love Goldberg. I sure agree, he has really hit his stride with his talent. I don’t even agree with a considerable portion of his political expounding, but he is the most engaging writer, thinker, pundit and commentator in the field today, regardless, imho.
Ooooh, and when I do agree with Jonah, there is no one ever better to put my opinion to music in words.
Good bye, and eat your heart out, Peggy Noonan.
Same here. While I have my personal favorite, I'm pretty impressed with the top-tier* roster of conservatives we're fielding this time around and I'd be happy with any of them taking Jeb out of the running. I don't see where attacking them individually does us much good. One can promote their personal favorite without trying to handicap the others.
*Apologies to Huckabee, Santorum, Carson, Pence and Trump. You didn't make my "top-tier" list.
I actually do like Santorum and voted for him last time around but I simply don’t want anyone running who ran last time. That said, Cruz still stands head and shoulders above him.
Exactly. No retreads. Let's take a page from the Democrats' playbook. We've got some young blood, energized and spoiling for a fight. No more old guys waiting in the wings for their turn.
The Dems can trot out tired, old Hillary this time around.
I “love” that picture.
I agree. The Democrats hit the GOP with everything and the kitchen sink while the Republicans just dust off their white gloves and act cordial. The hell with that. The gloves need to come off and everything Hillary has done needs to be thrown out there for public consumption. Mena, Whitewater, Bimbo Eruption Unit, Benghazi, E-mailgate, etc. Who cares what the media will say. Our country is at stake! This woman has so much slime and mud on her it would make the Creature from the Black Lagoon jealous.
I really don’t like the banning part, I’m fine with name calling, some of it is quite humorous. Bans on the other hand particularly bans of long time members are not nearly as funny.
Agree - rational insights and he has the chops to do amusing free-associations. As for taking shots at the primary guys, well, the finest steel must go through the hottest fire.
Too bad it sometimes falls into a circular firing squad.
There is a lot I like about Rand Paul. I can even reconcile his moonbat views on foreign policy by rationalizing that four to eight years of relative isolationism might actually be our most prudent course given how ObaMao has wrecked the military.
What frosts me more than some of Rand Paul's nuttier views is his followers: They will swamp the early caucus and small primary states to convince us he has 20% to 25% of the hardcore voters on his side, almost all of whom will magically disappear when November rolls around.
My problem with libertarians is seldom the candidates and more often some of their supporters.
While FR libertarians lean more conservative, I see a lot of them on twitter who want to drive the “religious zealots” out of Washington, end “Israeli Aparteid”, and let people marry who they love.
I like Jonah Goldberg but for the most part The National Review is a RINO mouthpiece.
I pitched NR’s offer of a free issue earlier this week.
National Review is like the Rolling Stone of the right.
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