tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post3856658589207304936..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: TRUMP MIGHT LOSE, BUT THESE HACKS AREN'T GOING TO BEAT HIMSteve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-24925144931583566732015-11-22T04:20:45.867-05:002015-11-22T04:20:45.867-05:00After producing the demon sheep ad, I can't be...After producing the demon sheep ad, I can't believe this guy would ever get hired by anyone again.Professor Chaoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07983291640844939759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-17606444806522438262015-11-21T18:52:39.491-05:002015-11-21T18:52:39.491-05:00That line about Reince being Walker's butler i...That line about Reince being Walker's butler is one for the commenting Hall Of Fame!Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-75459144841460158032015-11-21T16:34:43.304-05:002015-11-21T16:34:43.304-05:00Whatever, the consensus here is, I think, more bro...Whatever, the consensus here is, I think, more broadly represented in the electorate: that Kasich has turned into an old man.<br /><br />GOPers ain't about to waste attention, money or votes on someone who's lost that obligatory boot-blacked hair, balls-clanging vigor. I've felt more than once that the NYTimes 'sexpose' on Old Man McGetoffmylawn early in 2008 was a plant by the McCain campaign: Hey look, he not only dumped that first old sad sack for a rich skinny bint, he's dry humping the campaign press corp! Talk about Can Still Git It On!<br /><br />I agree unreservedly with Steve M. that there's no one in the GOP ad-service class that's both up to coming up with something that could dump Trump from the hearts of the moronic Reagan-salivating bigoted chicken lemmings in the TeaPstered, Freedumbiest Base, AND is currently available to any of the lesser monied contestants. Neither Cruz nor Rubio would hire any one of them. Jeb! might, but Jeb's dead. Carson could, but that massive burn rate's got zilch to do with building a GOTV operation or working for high-leverage delegates, and Trump - with a lot of msm help he didn't have to pay for beyond staging some pantomimes - has already choked out Ben's shot, to the extent he really ever wanted or had one.<br /><br />I don't foresee EITHER Cruz or Rubio doing anything overtly public about Trump's lead in the polls. Anyone who's read any of many media pieces portraying Rubio's time in the Florida state legislature knows that's not his way: he works the system from the inside, starting with teaming up with the refs, then compromising his potential opposition. <br /><br />I've maintained that a big chunk of Cruz's advantage comes from him not actually having to win this cycle. Cruz can afford to lose this primary, do his impression of Nixon 1964-8 in 'selflessly working for fellow GOPers & to improve the party' (Cruz would just take over the RNC, as Walker somehow did with installing his butler Reince Priebus.), trust to the general electorate to choose HRC, spend the next 3 years promoting re-enactment of the same disasters the Congressional GOP has visited on the country since 2010, then waltz into the next cycle as the guy whose Turn It Is ... AND the first-ever Hispanic president. That long-term plan REQUIRES Cruz forego bashing fellow GOPers, in public or directly at least (which he's already said, REPEATEDLY, in invoking Dutch's Rule). <br /><br />If Cruz wins it this cycle, it'll be because a confluence of events, each of which isn't really impossible or all that remote, some of which might even be probable, but that in coincidence are unlikely.<br /><br />Cruz can't & won't even try to beat Trump on the trail. He'll certainly work to beat or at least materially suppress Rubio's advantages in the GOP insider game, and he's got the brains & money & organizational capacity to put a serious dent in Rubio's in-party status (Cruz is the biggest beneficiary of exactly how awful Jeb! has been at this, because old rich white guys who would otherwise head to Bush are splitting between Cruz & Rubio, even then I think in Cruz' favor.). <br /><br />A dent may be all Cruz needs against Rubio, because whatever happens with Trump will happen regardless anything Cruz does, or the GOP establishment so long as it remains divided. Cruz needs to beat Rubio - which he's already doing - then with Trump it's que sera sera.Feud Turgidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379322096770703017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-64125914173637200542015-11-21T13:17:46.302-05:002015-11-21T13:17:46.302-05:00@Charon04,
Either that, or he's making it more...@Charon04,<br />Either that, or he's making it more obvious that all conservatives have their heads up their asses!Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-75020567913103117982015-11-21T11:09:21.569-05:002015-11-21T11:09:21.569-05:00Kasich's head is always tilted forward. Osteo...Kasich's head is always tilted forward. Osteoporosis, maybe?Charon04https://www.blogger.com/profile/02755362669687773097noreply@blogger.com