[miss marmelstein]

Thanks for posting. Good essay by Steyn.

[mazda77]

[snip]
“Let me say that I personally don’t care for Rubio, who is the kind of canned over-disciplined on-message candidate that makes me despair of politics: in media interviews, his answers to almost any question are like modular furniture, with the same half-dozen stump-speech lines chopped up and re-assembled and invariably concluding with the ultimate banality of the hustings that “this election is about the future”. But, if you’d never heard Rubio speak before Monday, he came over as a crisp effective candidate making the most of his time on national TV. By contrast, Cruz’s unfocused ramble of a victory speech left you wondering how the hell this guy won the state.” (Mark Stein)
[snip]

After reading the article to my wife, her answer was that Rubio is just another Obama without the teleprompter.

[antonia]

I am so grateful that we have Mark Steyn.

[iontheball]

Unfortunately, there is a pattern developing with Cruz. You see, I like Steyn, am choking on the foul stench of sleaze. If you want to go back to the beginning with Cruz, you need to see how conveniently he has changed his mind on the issue of POTUS eligibility. I know this article has been posted here before, but not in the context of the recent campaign deceptive practices. I hope I do not have to spell out to you how damning the quoted statement by Cruz is in this article.

http://www.newswithviews.com/JBWilliams/williams300.htm

[Windflier]

Vote Trump.

[Theophilus]

What happened to Steyn?

Using public intel about Carson's bizarre, half-hearted campaign behavior is doing the quick witted work it takes to win the Iowa Caucus not corruption.

The Cruz Administration Is Coming.

[Smokin' Joe]

Steyn forgets one simple aspect of human nature when it comes to the whole message dispute. It is fundamental that you always find something the last place you look. Sure, it would be silly to keep looking, right?

So when CNN makes an announcement that looks like Mr. Carson is dropping out, that 'news' is spread through the staff--and they quit looking. That was good news for them, and they'd found it.

[Tupelo]

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children”s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” - Ronald Reagan

Less than thirty years after Reagan left office, he is once again proven right.

[don-o]

Steyn quoting Powerline AND Rove in the same article?

Now there’s something you don’t see every day!

[sauropod]

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[VRW Conspirator]

We have a president who rules by decree on everything from immigration to health care - and a legislature of castrati too craven to object.

Sublime.

[odawg]

“But, whatever the truth behind these two incidents, they are (as Cruz’s former fellow British subjects would say) not cricket.”

It is a dig, but it is true.

[bert]

the sewer should be plugged and gassed

so long as there are survivors, there will be no change

[B212]

[SC_Pete]

There is only one way to end the corruption: OUTLAW CAREER POLITICIANS. That means term limits and the only way to get term limits on Washington politicians is through an Article V. Convention of States.

Once a politicians gets elected, the prime directive becomes: GET THE MONEY TO GET RE-ELECTED. Once the money is acquired, the politician is bought and special interests supersede the common good. If a politician cannot get re-elected, that eliminates the most important source of corruption infecting our entire political system. CAREER POLITICIANS ARE KILLING US. Electing a Republican President will help, but it’s not enough. We need to reassert the Constitution. A balanced budget amendment and repeal to the 17th Amendment would help tremendously as well.

http://www.conventionofstates.com/

[kindred]

All so very true on the corruption of the politicians who hate and scorn and deride the Constitutional laws and liberties God gives men in the Scriptures but lawless thieves have stolen from Americans, to wit, the politicians who are the true scum of America.
The Congress has failed and abdicated their duties and have supported the work of this abominable regime of incompetent and tyrannical monsters. DC smells of death.

[Right Wing Assault]

That smell is not ethanol? Megyn agrees.

[cassiusking]

We can all bicker but the fact is that any of the Republican candidates are far better than the commie Dems

[Georgia Girl 2]

I’m with Mark Steyn. The corruption is now in every agency of the US govt. Not just the DOJ and IRS. Its everywhere like a cancer. Everything rots from the head down.

[GOPJ]

We have a "justice" department that prosecutes a senator who made the mistake of crossing the President (Menendez) but declines to do anything about a tax collector who treats American taxpayers differently on the basis of how they vote (Lerner).

We have a revenue agency that regards itself as the paramilitary wing of the ruling party.

If Jebbie and his Mom want to get a few votes they could talk about the above rather than throwing worthless platitudes at us... Talk about the abject corruption of elites Jebbie... do something for your country that's needed NOW...