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A SLOW-TALKER AND A HOMELESS GUY WALK INTO A BAR ...
Ann Coulter.com ^ | April 27, 2016 | Ann Coulter

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


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: coulter; cruz; effeminacy; fascism; greed; kasich; manliness; trump
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To: generally
...but I can’t understand how so many people can think he is so “brilliant”. This is the same as thinking 0vomit is “brilliant.”

No, it's not the same thing at all...and it generally requires intelligence to recognize intelligence.

Something to ponder...

41 posted on 04/28/2016 5:59:07 PM PDT by gogeo (Donald Trump. Because it's finally come to that.)
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To: IrishBrigade

That’s burned into your brain; too?!


42 posted on 04/29/2016 3:29:15 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: IrishBrigade

The REST of the story...

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
They have formed their own 4H Club:

the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.


43 posted on 04/29/2016 3:33:24 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: gogeo
......and it generally requires intelligence to recognize intelligence.



44 posted on 04/29/2016 3:40:54 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: DuncanWaring

“I took money from some people at gunpoint and gave it to other people” is not going to be a good answer.”

No it won’t but Kasich won’t believe he did that, he thinks that somehow he pulled off something like the loaves and fishes but St. Peter will likely know the truth about it.


45 posted on 04/29/2016 3:41:59 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: fortheDeclaration

Many fast-talking men tend to be more effeminate. Sodom, Gomorrah and other cities were destroyed for libeling the homeless by implying generalizations and for effeminacy in too many of the influential, anti-charitable men.

Both evil tendencies are too often seen in all quarters of contemporary influential political constituents, many pretending to be conservative. There’s no fiscal conservatism without moral conservatism.


46 posted on 04/29/2016 6:17:15 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: familyop
Sodom, Gomorrah and other cities were destroyed for libeling the homeless by implying generalizations and for effeminacy in too many of the influential, anti-charitable men.

Sorry; regardless of what the professional Homo movement wants to try to project; according to the BIBLE account; this is only partially true...


Read the NEXT verse.



Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.

47 posted on 04/30/2016 4:00:45 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Both sins were wrongful. The mention of one does not cancel the wrongfulness of the other.


48 posted on 04/30/2016 4:05:14 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: familyop
The mention of one does not cancel the wrongfulness of the other.

It sure does in the mind of someone convinced that being a HOMO is ok with GOD!

49 posted on 05/01/2016 3:20:21 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
Both evil tendencies are too often seen in all quarters of contemporary influential political constituents, many pretending to be conservative. There’s no fiscal conservatism without moral conservatism.

Behold the bipartisan political class. It's all quite socialist, filthy and wealthy with the destruction of the private sector and robberies through its NIMBY-ism and legalized vices. And it blames the poor for what it does.

OpenSecrets.org
American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees [State/County/Municipal Employees]
[Total Contributions:] $94,708,977
[To Dems & liberals:] $93,739,954
[To Repubs & Conservs:] $671,755
[Pct to Dems & liberals:] 99%
[Pct to Repubs & Conservs:] 1%


Leviathan (Uncle Sam employs more people than you think)
National Review ^ | 02/03/2011 | Iain Murray
"...nearly 40 million Americans employed in some way by government."

...and pensioners from the same.

America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution
http://spectator.org/articles/39326/americas-ruling-class-and-perils-revolution

The Fragmenting of the New Class Elites, or, Downward Mobility
http://volokh.com/2011/10/31/the-fragmenting-of-the-new-class-elites-or-downward-mobility/

Environmentalism and the Leisure Class
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2835601/posts

The New Upper Class and the Real Reason We Dislike Them
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2843575/posts

Are you a member of the political class?
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/08/are_you_a_member_of_the_politi.html

Downton’s Class System — and Ours: We have a ruling class that despises the free market and does...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3024119/posts


50 posted on 05/01/2016 4:08:09 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Elsie
During the '90s, in a small city in the Midwest, roughly 400 men were arrested for occupying a local public park and exposing themselves to passers-by. They were meeting for homosexual activities in and around the public restrooms in the park. Some of them made the mistake of also soliciting women and children (mostly being "bisexuals").

And most of them were government, "professional" services managers and investors, well-to-do pillars of the community and regulators against low income people. They're not makers. They don't repair or produce anything but trouble. The largely unemployed working class--technically inclined as it is--is prevented from producing by way of planning, zoning and other local regulations and fees (and hasty regulatory pogroms--hurried blitzes). No one is really fooled by the propaganda of the bipartisan political class.

The default process and physical natural changes continue, maybe in answer to the increasing outcry.


51 posted on 05/01/2016 4:22:25 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Elsie
My original point was that in some locales, we're seeing support for both sins in local governments and connected services. Consider the following.

The county is majority Republican. One of the most influential constituents is a man who owns several businesses and much land (a elderly "tranny"). There's an effort to outlaw camping against landowners camping on their own properties (many more than 35 acres) while trying to prepare the properties for building (water systems, septic systems, power plants--no nearby grid power available).

The county and properties are far from larger cities, and the weather is brutal (extreme winds, cold, etc.). The effort is to drive those landowners into distant cities or even into homelessness in order to take properties through adverse possession, violate homestead exemption rights and so on.

The "trannys" are mostly affluent with large flows of income, and the poor are not influential in politics.


52 posted on 05/01/2016 4:23:17 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Elsie

Corrections:

...an elderly “tranny.” And ...adverse possession, violating homestead exemption rights...


53 posted on 05/01/2016 4:25:43 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: fortheDeclaration

You don’t remember correctly. He became a Republican in 1962, and before that espoused many conservative ideas.


54 posted on 05/01/2016 4:28:58 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: familyop
There’s no fiscal conservatism without moral conservatism.



55 posted on 05/02/2016 5:44:43 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: fortheDeclaration
If I remember correctly Reagan was a life long Democrat.

Who got elected with a Republican Vice President: George Bush the First.

56 posted on 05/02/2016 5:46:44 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
Had a college history course once and the professor had us read de Toqueville's Democracy in America . That professor (Matthew Brady at tiny Ramapo College in NJ) taught one of the most interesting classes I ever took. The phrase that always stuck with me was "self-interest rightly understood." With it, de Toqueville explained the American penchant for self-sacrifice when rallying to defend the national interest (something we are in short supply of today).
57 posted on 05/02/2016 5:53:26 AM PDT by MarDav
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To: MarDav

National Interest has been fragmented.


58 posted on 05/02/2016 7:13:03 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

That and self-interest has been magnified.


59 posted on 05/02/2016 7:35:59 AM PDT by MarDav
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To: MarDav

Yup!


60 posted on 05/02/2016 8:22:00 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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