Posted on 04/27/2016 2:27:31 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration
A SLOW-TALKER AND A HOMELESS GUY WALK INTO A BAR ...
April 27, 2016
Apparently, John Kasich and Ted Cruz are at their most appealing when no one is paying attention to them, which, conveniently, is most of the time.
After Cruz won cranky Wisconsin last month -- only the fourth actual election he's won -- voters decided to give him a second look. But two seconds after people said, "OK, let's give this guy a try," he cratered. You might say a little of Ted Cruz goes a long way. Voters can't stand Cruz any more than his Senate colleagues can.
Listening to Cruz always makes me feel like I have Asperger's. He speaks so slowly, my mind wanders between words. As Trump said, there's a 10-second intermission between sentences. I want to order Cruz's speeches as Amazon Audibles, just so I can speed them up and see what he's saying
The guy did go to Harvard Law School, so I keep waiting for the flashes of brilliance, but they never come. Cruz is completely incapable of extemporaneous wit.
Now that Cruz has been mathematically eliminated, he's adding Carly Fiorina to the ticket. She's not his "running mate," but his "limping mate." It's an all-around lemon-eating contest.
Voters quickly moved on from Cruz and tried Kasich. But he turned out to be the spitting image of a homeless man. He's got the slouch, the facial tics, and a strange way of bouncing his head and looking around that makes you want to cross the street to avoid him. It looks like he cuts his own hair, and his suits are Ralph Nader cast-offs. He wolfs down food like a street person, has a hair-trigger temper, and rants about religion in a way that only he can understand.
Kasich is constantly proclaiming that illegals are "made in the image of God," and denounces the idea of enforcing federal immigration laws, saying: "I don't think it's right; I don't think it's humane."
When asked about his decision to expand Medicaid under Obamacare -- projected to cost federal taxpayers $50 billion in the first decade -- he said: "Now, when you die and get to the, get to the, uh, to the meeting with St. Peter ... he's going to ask you what you did for the poor. Better have a good answer."
He lectured a crowd of fiscal conservatives on his Obamacare expansion, saying, "Now, I don't know whether you ever read Matthew 25, but I commend it to you, the end of it, about do you feed the homeless and do you clothe the poor." He also attributed the law to Chief Justice John Roberts and said, "It's my money, OK?"
Voters thought they were getting a less attractive version of Mitt Romney with Kasich, but it turns out they're getting a more televangelist version of Ted Cruz.
They're also getting a less warm and personable version of Hillary Clinton. Last week, Kasich lashed out at a reporter who asked a perfectly appropriate question, going from boring campaign boilerplate to irritated browbeating in about one second flat. As much as I enjoy watching reporters being berated, this was deranged.
Kasich: Listen, at the end of the day I think the Republican Party wants to pick somebody who actually can win in the fall."
Reporter: But if you've only won Ohio?
Kasich: "Can I finish?"
Reporter: "If you answer the ques--"
Kasich: "I'm answering the question the way I want to answer it. You want to answer it?" (Snatches voice recorder from reporter's hand.) "Here, let me ask you. What do you think?
When giving a speech to Ohio EPA workers a few years ago, Kasich suddenly went off topic and began shouting about a police officer who had given him a ticket three years earlier. "Have you ever been stopped by a police officer that's an idiot?" he began. He proceeded to tell the riveting story of his traffic violation to the EPA administrators, yelling about "this idiot! ... He's an IDIOT!"
Based on the dashcam video immediately released by the police, Kasich had been in the wrong, and the officer -- you know, "the IDIOT" -- was perfectly polite about it.
With Trump it's exactly the opposite. The more people see of him, the more they like him. The usual pattern is: Trump says something perfectly sensible, the media lie about it, then voters find out the truth and like him more and the media less.
Ironically, it's Kasich who has been complaining the loudest about the alleged billions of dollars of "free media" Trump has been getting. It turns out not getting "free media" was a godsend for Kasich and Cruz.
COPYRIGHT 2016 ANN COULTER
Coulter is an idiot to judge someone on how fast they talk. Sad to inform you kaehurowing, I talk very slow too. I’ve been told my Southern drawl becomes more pronounced on either coast. I think it is to make sure those that hear fast will slow down to consider the merit of what is said. I’ve been told, when I apologized for speaking slowly (Judge Cornelius Blackshear, Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York) that isn’t important - it just means I’m thinking faster than the listener. I think it was the 43 civil RICO cases before him.
Again, Coulter is an idiot.
Gwjack
Ewww! Ted and Carly "hooking up" is an image I didn't need.
Traditionally upper class people speak more slowly. It’s a prerogative of power, others have to wait to hear what you say. Lower classes speak faster because they are only worth a small amount of their “betters” time. That’s why in England the lower classes dropped their H and such. Speaking very slowly shows disrespect to your listener. It implies they are beneath you.
Hillary thanks you for your support.
lol, so true Duncan, and insightful!
Hope you are well my fellow dawg :)
Hilarious and on point!
Splendid as ever !
Trump already said he would pick someone in politics.
Which he does need. I’m thinking Christi - he and his wife were right behind Trump when he gave his 5-state victory speech.
Bump!
Post of the day.
Thanks. This needs to be repeated and understood by the bleeding hearts out there. Please repeat as often as possible.
Totally agree.
Except I’m not getting rid of her old books. “How to Talk to a Liberal” is still a classic.
Re: Trump. I understand how his non-PC remarks resonate with so many (I like that about him), but I can’t understand how so many people can think he is so “brilliant”. This is the same as thinking 0vomit is “brilliant.” Is the bar really that low these days?
She is also so robotic.
How many times did she say she was going to call her buddy Bibi Netanyahu and then I won’t talk to Putin and will send in the troops in her speeches and debates?
The bigger question is this, Cruz picked someone who can’t help him at all, she has no delegates.
The strategy is to always wait until you get to the convention and you have that VP carrot to dangle, well now he doesn’t have that.
Even if Cruz wins Indiana, Trump can and will still get the nomination, he has cards to play and Cruz does not.
Actually I had a radical idea. Trump should consider former Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. from Tennessee. That would shake things up and really leave the Democrats and Hillary in a fog.
Maybe Harriet Tubman as VP.
No one expects the VP to do anything so she would be perfect as she passed away in 1913......
Always liked the acid wit. She's positively schizoid in her views.
Would you like another Spiro Agnew type?
Spiro Agnew...
oh, those nattering nabobs of negativism...
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