ROTFLOL
Oh, please don't throw me in the Cruz patch
Posted on 03/27/2016 7:17:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
When is a news story not a news story? That question hung in the air much of the day on Friday, as the major cable news networks laboriously steered around any direct reference to the political bombshell that had set social media aflame since the small hours. Once again the mainstream media had been Trumped, made to look floundering and foolish by the Republican clown-prince even as it wrestled with one of the biggest news days of the year. Belgian authorities had apparently captured a leading suspect in the Brussels attacks, and the United States military had apparently killed an ISIS leader in Syria. But for at least half the day, those headlines felt like footnotes to the hot topic TV news wouldn’t even touch.
With no apparent sense of irony, Fox News sought to recast itself as a sober, responsible news organization, whose guests and commentators are deeply concerned about the toxic nature of American political discourse. During the 11 a.m. hour of Fox’s “Happening Now,” an entire group of panelists earnestly embraced Hillary Clinton’s recent complaint that moderate, centrist, reasonable voices had been excluded from public debate and political media, and that this was harming democracy. The old saw about putting lipstick on a pig doesn’t begin to capture it. Friday’s display of cable-news hypocrisy and paralysis, as the talking heads danced along the edges of the unmentionable story everyone in the real world was talking about, was more bizarre and more far-reaching than that.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
Among ideas others never touch on like using bank circuits to cut off ISIS resources. And no one, including me, even heard of corporate inversions until Trump brought them up.
During the 11 a.m. hour of Fox’s “Happening Now,” an entire group of panelists earnestly embraced Hillary Clinton’s recent complaint that moderate, centrist, reasonable voices had been excluded from public debate and political media, and that this was harming democracy.
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Right, and going back to the same crime families over and over again for presidential candidates doesn’t harm democracy.
I have been pushing the GOPe sidling up to Cruz to stop Trump theory for a while. Then of course they will gleefully dump “2nd place” Cruz when the time comes, (in the general if they have to.) They are focused on Trump right now since he is the bigger problem.
Trump has one goal and that is to protect Hillary, Pelosi, Schumer, and Reid. These are the folks he’s invested his money in and the ones he must see that keeps their power.
His job is to destroy the ring wing and build up the left, look at where most of the man’s votes are coming from, the kooky left. All those new voters he talks about are all extreme left wing nit wits that normally vote for the communist left on the Democrat party.
“So if the GOPe steals it from Trump and installs one of their puppet candidates, and then they put Cruz on as veep , will you support it ?”
Absolutely not. I think most of us are sick and tired of the lies the GOP has been telling us. Having Cruz in the VP slot safely puts him on the shelf so to speak from the GOP stand point.
ROTFLOL
Oh, please don't throw me in the Cruz patch
Huh? You like trash TV?
All of the candidates except for Trump had substantive ideas on every one of these topics. Trump has nothing but an old man’s ignorant bluster.
Even the British interviewer the other day described him as irrational, rambling, talking only about himself and “sounding like the drunken uncle at the BBQ.” To me, that’s what Trump’s raving sounds like, the bitter rantings of an old man.
No. Also, the bloviator has no idea how to do these things,Right. You have to be a first term Senator pretending you didn't know you were a Canadian citizen and no record of accomplishment to really know how to do things.
Hey really stuck up people...how is the condensation working out for you? Not making you popular with the people? Hmmm, go figure....
Here is a particularly juicy paragraph: “That didn’t happen, and it probably wouldn’t have worked. One measure of Trump’s Mephistophelean ability to manipulate the news cycle is that the Enquirer story didn’t hit until now, when Rubio is toast and Trump is the only candidate who stands to benefit from the destruction of Cruz’s image as squeaky-clean Christian family man. But Trump’s dark powers go far beyond dirty tricks and shrewd timing, and no one has yet discovered an effective counterspell. Hillary Clinton’s strategists can talk all they want to about their terrific poll numbers and Trump’s huge negatives among women and voters of color and all the rest of it. But Jeb Bush and Rubio and Cruz and those other people all thought the laws of political physics were on their side too. When you do battle with the Necromancer, those laws are suspended and strange things happen.”
Salon is campaigning for Cruz.
What does that tell you?
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It tells me that a lot of you did not take the time to read the whole article. This is support?
“What mattered, in the Trumpian calculus, was not the content of the Enquirer article but the fact that it left Ted Cruz, the pompous, Princeton-educated firebrand who presents himself as the most virtuous conservative in the land, looking ridiculous. On a day when Cruz no doubt yearned to ramp up the tough talk about persecuting American Muslims and bombing ISIS backwards in time, he had to face the cameras, quivering with rage and looking even more like Eddie Munster than usual, to denounce a scurrilous tabloid story for being scurrilous and tabloid-ish. It was almost the definition of a no-win situation, and you can’t say Cruz didn’t deserve it.”
lol, tells me that those here who can’t let go of their devotion to their savior Ted, are aligned with the dirtballs at salon. This is TOO funny.
I won’t bother reading comments here - I’ve no doubt it’s the same old drum beat:
Trump’s a lefty
Trump cheated on 2 wives
Trump donated to Hillary
Trump thinks I’m an idiot
Trump is a stalking horse (are they still using that old stale one?)
Trump Trump Trump - like a broken record.
I guess you haven’t figured out yet that an attack from the likes of Salon is the best kind of endorsement Trump can get.
Kind of slow, aren’t ya?
Says the idiot who actually believes the GOPe is going to nominate Cruz once he helps them neutralize Trump.
Trump's bluster aside, if you cannot recognize the policy impact he has on this race you suffer either from willful ignorance or delusion.
Says the idiot that still believes in the man that publicly called him a dumb a$$.
Slow? I am not the one who said Salon was campaigning for Cruz when it was a hit piece on both of them.
I think they will put Cruz on the ticket if they steal it from Trump , thinking that we will all fall in line like we always have ... won’t work this time
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