tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post2929809495803829925..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: RUBIO MIGHT DO JUST FINE IN NEW HAMPSHIRESteve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-57439738757742083862016-02-09T07:48:31.369-05:002016-02-09T07:48:31.369-05:00Classic Hammer Drops:
1. MC Hammer in "Can&#...Classic Hammer Drops:<br /><br />1. MC Hammer in "Can't Touch This":<br /><br />The whole song is constructed around sudden stops, gain and again. E.g. at 1:01 all stops dead for a now0iconic half-beat between "a beat, HUH-" and "they can't touch".<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2DTi5GwQb8<br /><br />2. Humphrey Bogart in "The Caine Mutiny":<br /><br />This is from the climax, the cross-examination scene from the court martial. At 2:30, on the word "officers", Queeg stops short & finds himself in Wile E. Coyote territory with his paranoid conspiracy theories, & we hear nothing except the clicking from his rolling his metal balls:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLUZ0Nv7UH4<br /><br />3. Senator Marco Rubio on 2015 Feb 9:<br /><br />On the campaign trail in New Hampshire, at 0:26 note the extra beat between "our" and "throats", that comes across as something between a glottal stop and a swallow:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBX0Z1MkDyQ<br /><br />Feud Turgidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379322096770703017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-50293703316771933542016-02-08T18:15:20.267-05:002016-02-08T18:15:20.267-05:00Ten Bears, President Obama is on the ballot as sur...Ten Bears, President Obama is on the ballot as surely as Shrub was on the ballot in 2002, 2006 AND 2008.<br /><br />IOW, the President casts a long shadow, even in years he's not really running. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09741578725880869865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-9550028396912851552016-02-08T16:29:02.671-05:002016-02-08T16:29:02.671-05:00@Unknown,
While I appreciate the analogy, please d...@Unknown,<br />While I appreciate the analogy, please don't insult Buster by putting him in the same sentence as RUBE-io!<br />Rubio, on his best day, isn't a pimple on ass of the the fictional "Crash" Davis.<br />That, and Costner, the actor who played him, knew his lines, and didn't repeat them without reason. <br />Ok, maybe in the "out-takes."<br />But there are no out-takes in political debates.Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-18315524681199612002016-02-08T15:17:52.908-05:002016-02-08T15:17:52.908-05:00The over-riding feeling I came away with is do the...The over-riding feeling I came away with is do these guys know Obama isn't running for re-election?Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594307610015584119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-32199728201105855192016-02-08T14:11:10.984-05:002016-02-08T14:11:10.984-05:00I agree that Rubio could well retain pretty much t...I agree that Rubio could well retain pretty much the support in NH the pre-Feb 7 polls suggest; who knows, maybe a bit more, what with how even poll aggregation boils down to probabilities.<br /><br />But I disagree that Rubio can fix the bigger, wider more long-term impression left by Christie's filleting job. Christie sent huge obvious messages it was coming, ones that Team Rubio could not possibly have missed, yet Rubio himself did not adjust. Maybe he could have and chose otherwise, expept there's no evidence he's capable of that; such evidence as exists all suggests instead that Rubio is UNABLE to adjust.<br /><br />I'm a big baseball fan, every level from beer league to MLB, and the team that owns my heart is the Giants. The Giants have won the World Series 3 times in the last 6 post-seasons (and will again: it's an EVEN YEAR!), and while it's nowhere remotely fair to attribute their success to one person, if ANY Giant can be seriously suggested as 'most responsible' for that, it's their catcher, Buster Posey. Posey is a terrific hitter, with dangerous power, and has made himself into one of the best if not THE best at his position (It's arguable, but regardless: he's very goood defensively.). But Buster has a big problem with his skill set: he's a slow runner - markedly slower than I was at that age, and I was no pro-level athlete at anything. But for the other things he does, if he was just merely average as a hitter and catcher, that lack of foot speed would very likely have prevented him from not just being a big star in MLB but even gaining a regular job there.<br /><br />In MLB terms, Marco's got some tool, but they're not top tools, just better than most. And he's got an array of problem issues, too, because he's got these wrong ideas about government. But on top of all that, he's got his huge hole in his toolkit that's holding him back now and, IMO, will continue to hold him back for the rest of his political career. His gifts aren't enough to overcome the combination of his stale wrong governing ideas - essentially, like Reagan, delegating out all decision making - and his turgid slowness on his feet is going to prove to have built a big ceiling on his prospects he simply can't overcome.Feud Turgidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379322096770703017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-72227567702356497332016-02-08T13:51:22.875-05:002016-02-08T13:51:22.875-05:00Ok, so people may now realize that RUBE-io has str...Ok, so people may now realize that RUBE-io has strings, but that's not his only control mechanism.<br />But who would want to look for the hand up this puppet's ass?<br />No one.<br />So, he may still be ok.<br /><br />Time will tell.<br />And so will we. Probably in less than 36 hours.<br />Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-11485736871263239272016-02-08T13:03:19.023-05:002016-02-08T13:03:19.023-05:00I think it will hurt him. The problem isn't w...I think it will hurt him. The problem isn't with people already committed to him justifying their commitment, he needs people who are undecided, or with marginal candidates, Carson, Fiorina, Christie, or even people who were leaning Trump or Cruz. It's their opinion that matters. <br /><br />And tracking polls showing him losing support are a big deal because those are three day averages, and there was only one day post-debate to survey. Losing one point in one day is like losing 3 points overall-except the margin of error is higher due to the lower number of people polled. Jonashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01342241665438606551noreply@blogger.com