Establishment Candidate One:
“If this election is about how we’re going to fight to get nothing done, then I don’t want any part of it.”
“I’ve got a lot of really cool things I could do other than sit around, being miserable, listening to people demonize me and me feeling compelled to demonize them,” [Jeb Bush] spat. “That is a joke. Elect Trump if you want that.”
Establishment Candidate Two:
“Do you know how crazy this election is? Let me tell you something, I’ve about had it with these people,” [John] Kasich said, according to the report. “I want you to know I’m fed up. I’m sick and tired of listening to this nonsense and I’m going to have to call it like it is in this race.”
“What’s happened to our party? What’s happened to the conservative movement?” Kasich said to the crowd, according to the publication. “I’m done being polite and listening to this nonsense.”
I’m sensing a theme here.
I believe that Jeb? doesn’t actually know the meaning of the term cool.
In Bushlandia cool is being born with a silver spoon and trust fund. Who knew the GOP electorate would reach “won’t get fooled again” when a third Bush appeared to say, “My turn.”
(Prescott never ran for POTUS and was only in public office for less than ten years as a Senator; so, he doesn’t count. And would be loathed by today’s Republicans considering: He was involved with the American Birth Control League as early as 1942, and served as the treasurer of the first national capital campaign of Planned Parenthood in 1947.)
Frankenstein wasn’t on the best of terms with his monster, either.
The funny part is that every single Republican candidate believes in the same exact things.
The Establishment’s problem isn’t with the policy, but with the marketing.
The Republican party is essentially a political party that has to submit policy to its base via bumper sticker. Jeb and Kasich are just pissed that Trump’s bumper stickers are more popular.
In the latest CBS/NYT poll, Jeb! Bush is 7% and John Kasich is 4%. The combination of Someone Else (3%) and Don’t Know/No Answer (6%) is greater than either of the establishment candidates. I’m enjoying watching the GOP flounder again. It’s worse than 2008 and 2012. Good. They certainly deserve it.
That poll is rather generous to Kasich, who is sitting between 2-3% in the national polling average.
Haha! Jeb and Kasich are experiencing the Ignore the Privilleged and Entitled Candidate effect.
“Nobody is looking at ME! I’m an important candidate! I want to be President!”
Unless you say stupid shit and present yourself as some sort of rebel or pretend to be the voice of reason, you won’t get the attention. Jeb$ is never going to be president because he thinks he’s some sort of frat legacy who will be elected because of his family tree. Which is full of nuts, actually. He’s bitter and jealous and it looks terrible on him.
Kasich wants to be the adult in the room, but he hasn’t got the swag.
I am dumbstruck by Ben Carson, though. He is a nightmare.
Maybe the family is named after the Filbert Bush.
I saw video of #2 making that statement. The audience response was nervous giggles.
Look in a mirror fucktards. You created this because you couldnt face that your beliefs are empirical failures.
The best part is acting like they aren’t jokes, either, and that their policies significantly differ with the clowns up top.
David Brooks, in today’s NYT, tells Trump just what he needs to do to win.
Unfortunately, not a joke.
After 35 years of relentless battling against reality and denying the normal and natural consequences of their fictitious policies, the Republicans are shocked and disgusted by the nonsense their base believes and votes for.
What did they think was going to happen? If the results hadn’t been so bad for so many billions of people around the world, I’d say the situation serves them right. As it is, the Republicans should be in line for a lot more pain and suffering. They courted it so assiduously; it would be rude of the world not to visit it on their pointy little heads.
There is something refreshingly honest about a GOP candidate that is blatant about his disdain for the party’s base voters before the election. DEM pols wait until after the election to make their feelings known.
I’m guessing Kasich, at least, was referring to the other candidates.
“What’s happened to our party? What’s happened to the conservative movement?” Kasich said …
Am guessing that his audience took it to mean them.
Bad luck for him. Speaking of the ‘crazy’ the comments over at Breitbart and others lately are pretty wild; some posts getting thousands. The natives seem very restless. Ryan, the Freedom Caucus, all bitter foes; a mare’s nest of frustration, angst, magical thinking and heroic fantasy bombast championing Trump or Cruz. Schadenfreude notwithstanding it is pretty disturbing. We probably need to start teaching civics again.
Speaking of the ‘crazy’ the comments over at Breitbart and others …
Hard work, but I guess somebody should do it. Not me. My stomach isn’t strong enough.
Unfortunately, all the school districts would buy books approved by the state of Texas.
I was having an argument with some people on the Twitter machine today. They didn’t seem to get that Kasich is just as batshit insane as the rest of the GOP. He is in no way a moderate. People need to wake the hell up and inspect his record!! And that’s not even factoring in that he used to be BillO the Clown’s vacation fill-in.
Considering that Kasich’s poll numbers have been hovering between 2% and 4% (except for a short-lived large bounce in NH) not much need for the public to wake up about who the real Kasich is. The difference between him and the current batch of crazies is that he speaks in the language of 1990s rightwing radicals and some of the others today use Newspeak. Same poison; different packaging.
Meant to add that when the old hangs around for a while, those that didn’t like it when it was new find it less threatening and not so harsh or objectionable when it becomes old. Sort of like older folks that railed against Elvis and his swivel hips in 1955 were catching his show in Vegas in 1970 when by then they were railing against the DFH musicians.
people confuse not crazy with moderate these days
Does this mean that Rush Limbaugh and the chorus of imitating shock jocks have reached their sell-by date after a quarter of a century?
Because it is the media that drives the voters and there is no advertising control over the media, as the Flush Rush gang has found out. It is media ownership that is driving the message. From Murdoch-Ailes to each of the network owners. The Wurlitzer automated its own tunes.
Might be that the rage of their audience has now become so inchoate that they can’t channel them to believe in the GOP elders because McCain and Romney lost in spite of the GOP hoi polloi remaining loyal and their rage is being fed by two factors: 1) From Reagan through GWB they didn’t deliver on banning abortion and 2) they’re further away from being millionaires and/or financially secure than they were in 1980 and they can’t wrap their minds around how that could be.
Trump running with the theme as well. WaPo Donald Trump to Iowa: `What the hell are you people doing to me?’
He’s losing it — but can anyone in the clown car smell the blood and has the skill to take advantage of it tomorrow night?
Tomorrow will be interesting. OK Corral for Jeb, Carly seeking to reprise her only moment, Trump believing his polling sank because he didn’t speak up last time; grumpy candidates. Nothing would surprise me short of stun grenades.
Politico Rubio gets a mini-theater room with leather seats and Christ and Paul get a closet with a toilet.
In a main editorial today, “Catastrophe Averted” in the Richmond Times Dispatch, the subject is Boehner’s deal with the President to raise debt ceiling and craft a budget. After declaring that it would not be “good for the country” to have a showdown or a shutdown, the writer says,
“But let it not be said, as it usually is, that either outcome would have been the fault of one party only. The media routinely blame the GOP for refusing to accede to the president’s fiscal wishes. Yet the shutdowns and showdowns could be avoided just as easily if the president would simply accede to the wishes of House Republicans.
Then again, why should Republicans think Obama should cave in to their demands? Who do they think they are, anyway–Iran?”
I guess the only Republicans are the 40 in the Freedom Caucus, and they are all that matters–no compromise even within the party–just as there was no compromise with Iran; Obama (and no other nations) simply caved to Iran’s demands. This is why I should never read the editorial pages.
It’s The Richmond Times Dispatch. They’re worse than WSJ.
And don’t forget Establishment Candidate no. 3, who’s only running for president because he hates his day job so much:
It’s funny to me because it sounds – in tone – very similar to the whining that I hear from both of Martin O’Malley’s supporters. “My guy is the bestest, most awesomest candidate ever – why isn’t anyone paying attention to him?” I think Jeb and friends thought that Trump and Carson would have faded away by now, but that implosion won’t happen until just before (after?) Iowa. I doubt that either Carson or Trump can build a ground game to compete in Iowa or New Hampshire.
In Carson’s third quarter FEC filing, he listed a whopping $169,000 on salaries. Other than the obvious direct mail fundraising operations listed in his filing, nobody knows what, if anything, all the other LLCs his campaign pays are doing.
Trump has spent more to organize than any other Republican. Chump change compared to Clinton and Sanders, but he isn’t ignoring it completely. On the other hand, the churches will win Iowa for Carson.
both of Martin O’Malley’s supporters – very nice!
JEB? looked bizarrely low energy in the debate [just saw part of a clip]
When do we get to substitute WATB for GOP?