Super Tuesday?
This cycle it has a theme song. What has floated to the top of the Republican pot of candidates is not the cream, but the scum.
Some people have just noticed that Joe Scarborough is not an unbiased reporter of facts. As a local (to me) attorney, my former Congresscritter, and current talking head, there has never been any indication of any kind of unbiased or informed individual in his resume, and I’m not even going to talk about the dead intern in his office. Ignore him and he might quit and move. It worked for his first marriage and Congressional career… 😈
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Except that what’s happenin’ here is exceedingly clear. The Republican apparatchniks pumped up pseudo-populist astroturf “movements”, and now have been taken by surprise by a carnie sideshow barker who’s subverted their creation and is using it against them. On the Democratic side you have more of a usual thing going on. The Party elite selected Hillary Clinton as their nominee. All nominees need a foil, so various people urged Bernie Sanders to be that foil. Bernie got more traction than anybody expected, but really, his power base is white people, and no Democrat elected as President has won the majority of the white vote since 1964. Minorities elect Democrats, and they like Hillary for whatever reason, maybe because she’s been eating rubber chicken dinners at black churches for the past 20+ years and they figure better the devil they know than the one they don’t know.
The only surprise for me is going to be who wins in the fall. Hillary is a spectacularly unlikeable and awkward campaigner. It’s not her gender, Bible Spice (John McInsane’s running mate) can work a crowd and get them all enthusiastic and shouting and screaming. Hillary, on the other hand, is more likely to put her audience to sleep. Her problem is that she is a detail-oriented policy wonk first and foremost. She’s better at that than any other politician who’s run for office since, well, her husband — for that matter, she’s probably better at the actual work of policy and government than her husband, Bill always tended to handwave some of the details. She’d make a fine President, one who was never surprised when a memo says “Bin Laden intends to strike inside United States” and then it actually happens, because she would have taken care of the details to do something about it before it happened. But she’s not an inspirational speaker. She’s not comfortable in front of a crowd. She comes across as brittle and even condescending. People who interact with her in small groups report that in that setting, she functions quite well, but put her on a podium in front of an audience… she’s about as inspiring as an accounting textbook.
On the other hand, Donald Drumpf is quite clearly an idiot. But his rallies are fun.
This is definitely going to be the election from hell, in other words. The policy nerd versus the boisterous bully. Only an idiot would vote for Trump… but 50% of all people are below average, and average don’t seem so smart nowadays. Brrr….
Just remember that Nova Scotia welcomes refugees and immigrants. 😉
One thing to watch is that so far Drumpf doesn’t do well in closed primaries. If the GOP ‘establishment’ is going to stop him, that’s where it will have to happen. The ‘bosses’ are worried about not only the loss of the Presidency, but the loss of the Senate.