tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post3795853114644271287..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: KNOW WHO HAS THE ONLY SENSIBLE PLAN FOR TAKING ON TRUMP? SCOTT WALKER. (updated)Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-76935318576136710802015-12-12T09:19:25.460-05:002015-12-12T09:19:25.460-05:00What Yastreblyansky said is not weird.
I suspect t...<br />What Yastreblyansky said is not weird.<br />I suspect this is the reason to return to the old ways of a brokered convention-attention getting, quid pro quo advertising money to TV media and the false appearance of open & inclusive nominating process. Viewship has been low & airtime has consequently been very truncated in the last few cycles: but, a "brokered" convention will make the networks return to the full coverage of the past. Behind it all, the decision making will occur in smokeless back rooms and GOP unity will be restored "for the sake of the nation". Trump won't be nominee...Pallihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06610910291627363042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-2707554614730921062015-12-12T00:32:14.164-05:002015-12-12T00:32:14.164-05:00Can you even imagine the frothing, cat-spitting, L...Can you even imagine the frothing, cat-spitting, Limbaugh-fueled tantrum the Tea Party would throw if they managed to successfully pull this off at a brokered RNC Convention? Willard "Mitt" Romney on stage with his hands out placatingly, calling for calm, as hundreds of "tree of liberty must be watered" sign-carrying concerned citizens click off the safeties on their totally legal concealed carry self-defense assault weapons...Chai T. Ch'uanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10956478299220539612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-41501757328710958202015-12-11T20:45:15.098-05:002015-12-11T20:45:15.098-05:00I need to pretend to be conservative, so I can get...I need to pretend to be conservative, so I can get a cushy job writing utter bullshit for the NYTimes. It's obviously not a very competitive field with schmucks like Doubt-That and cab-driver-aficionado Friedman.theHatisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15025601907575400484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-78892788612254226552015-12-11T19:23:56.321-05:002015-12-11T19:23:56.321-05:00Yas's scene, Take 2: hush descends over crowd ...Yas's scene, Take 2: hush descends over crowd as yuge halo of blond strands and drone-spread cologne precedes leading candidate onto stage to accept party's nomination; speech starts; candidate thrusts porcine finger into air in punctuating this or that jingoism; SHOT rings out, candidate's laid out; dead body lifted up by ... well, it's not clear: there's two pudgy white guys squabbling over who gets to lift up the body, one of them built like an expanded hydrant about to burst, so we'll see who wins this little drama, as life-blood continues to ooze from that body ...Feud Turgidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379322096770703017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-56015838813968871672015-12-11T16:11:57.910-05:002015-12-11T16:11:57.910-05:00Weird sudden thought: What if that's what the ...Weird sudden thought: What if that's what the RNC wants, a convention where the entire country watches because they <i>don't know who's going to win</i>? Suspense right up through June and the entire world holding its breath in terrified anticipation?<br /><br />I hope not.Yastreblyanskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08335868257729063363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-27822043116867684732015-12-11T14:29:22.374-05:002015-12-11T14:29:22.374-05:00you go ahead and try this, GOP.
"Please proc...<i>you go ahead and try this, GOP.</i><br /><br />"Please proceed, governor."OBShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11290768768025981403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-25161252529801834312015-12-11T10:30:07.934-05:002015-12-11T10:30:07.934-05:00So here is what I cannot grasp: why would anyone t...So here is what I cannot grasp: why would anyone think that the Republican Party, of all entities, is going to <b><i>suddenly begin believing in playing by rules</i></b>, on this occasion of all possible occasions?<br /><br />Of course they are going to tear up the rulebook. The only question is when, and the answer to that is easy to deduce. The less time Trump has to build a 3d-party campaign, the better. Therefore, stomp in the puddle at the latest possible moment: which is the convention.<br />Frank Wilhoithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800594066476167549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-33914575707576310442015-12-11T10:22:26.586-05:002015-12-11T10:22:26.586-05:00I wouldn't definitively declare "it's...I wouldn't definitively declare "it's not going to happen." Indeed, I raised the spector of a brokered convention several months ago, based on my rooting about the bowels of the reichwing o'sphere, with Willard, having sat out the clown car, presenting hself as the "responsible" candidate.<br /><br />The Retards are prudent in preparing contingencies, and I commend that. Contingencies are prudent things to have. Others should prepare for them. From my unique perspective it lends credence to your conviction we are not witnessing the end of the party. None of the clown car candidates can take Hillary, and in my read of my conservate friends, clients and the fever swamp a brokered convention with Willard as the adult in the room is the only practical alternative.<br /><br />Willard is the only one that can give her a run for the money, and the dems should be preparing for that.Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594307610015584119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-35434414197857279962015-12-11T10:14:48.758-05:002015-12-11T10:14:48.758-05:00Given that no one who has dropped out was above 1%...Given that no one who has dropped out was above 1% in the polls and his support rounded to zero, Walker's great sacrifice for the good of the party meant nothing. <br /><br />These guys are driven by a lust for power and the uncertainty in the race may be bad for the party but it improves their individual chances of catching a wave, so f**k the party.Pragmatic Idealisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06375225814206930812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-31869918616483563112015-12-11T10:02:26.994-05:002015-12-11T10:02:26.994-05:00Jeb won't exit until his daddy let's him.
...Jeb won't exit until his daddy let's him.<br /><br />Rubio will stay, just to spite Jeb, and be the GOP establisment's (balding, and not fair-haired) boy, in case Jeb doesn't make it to the strench run.<br /><br />Carson will stick, to sell more books, and bring in bigger bucks from future Wingnut Welfare gatherings.<br /><br />As for Fiorina, who knows why she'll stay? A VP slot? I doubt that. Maybe a cabinet post, possibly. More money on the WW tour?<br />Ditto, Kasich?Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-58985292058351121792015-12-11T09:17:24.748-05:002015-12-11T09:17:24.748-05:00It's like there's more than one contest: t...It's like there's more than one contest: the one for 2016 (which we all watch in near-real-time), and then for 2020 (where I've been thinking Cruz was aiming, and certainly leading until this utterly avoidable Ted Mistalk; now WTF knows: maybe Walker's been sittin' and wishin' & hopin' on this Fuddsy development for weeks and plans on remerging like a good little Nixon Youth Scout for 'his' turn in 2020).<br /><br />Cruz's puerile ego got him into pickle. The very idea, bragging to his existing & potential donors & bundlers about how Carson's got a big brain BUT- and Trump's got a big brain BUT- and neither can win the nomination because neither's brains has been hammered out evangelical steel and tempered by God's Catholic blessings and brought to a razor sharpness in the schools of Harvard and hard knockers, in the courts and the Senate.<br /><br />Cruz is going to have to go full forelock tug and kiss some outlying strands of Trump's hair, and pronto, else this festers into the next running of the clowns.Feud Turgidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379322096770703017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-70841562175669217422015-12-11T08:36:59.513-05:002015-12-11T08:36:59.513-05:00You could very well be right. On the other hand, i...You could very well be right. On the other hand, it's possible Rubio's core support would drop if he's seen as the beneficiary of an "Establishment plot."AllieGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994768860067988405noreply@blogger.com