tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post7339473199443373352..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: IF DAVID BROOKS IS SMUG, I'M NOT HAPPYSteve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-9385077474882183672016-02-02T22:22:09.133-05:002016-02-02T22:22:09.133-05:00It's been my feeling, Lit, for a couple of wee...It's been my feeling, Lit, for a couple of weeks now that tRump has grown tired of the game.Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594307610015584119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-82115822984972074922016-02-02T21:44:56.546-05:002016-02-02T21:44:56.546-05:00What happens to Carson's 10% supporters might ...What happens to Carson's 10% supporters might be the key. They must be the hard core crazies, so it's unlikely they'll go to Rubio. If they go to Trump, it's shut the gate. To Cruz, and it keeps him in a two-horse race. But they might lose interest and not bother turning up at all, resulting in a tight three-way contest with Rubio the insider favorite.Ken_Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11709548046018362581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-65873069784915431462016-02-02T19:51:25.609-05:002016-02-02T19:51:25.609-05:00Rubio is the great Republican Hope and Change. It...Rubio is the great Republican Hope and Change. It doesn't matter if his record is thin or he's an empty suit....those are pluses for people to project him as what they want him to be.<br /><br />Trump could easily sew up the nom by chanting the new n-word: "immigration immigration immigration!!" That would win him a majority of delegates in most Southern states. But I'm not convinced he truly wants the nomination.Lit3Bolthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10407681812425172672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-60037104424385542102016-02-02T19:37:40.022-05:002016-02-02T19:37:40.022-05:00"ditto" (TM). Rubio and Cruz both have p..."ditto" (TM). Rubio and Cruz both have paths to the presidency, but neither one is a safe bet; either can beat either Dem, but neither is a lock to do so.<br /><br />Cruz is Nixon: smart, scheming, and playing the dog whistle like a symphony oboe.<br /><br />Rubio is Bush Jr.: dumb but smiling, hard to beat because he doesn't stand for anything.<br /><br />America elected each of those mistakes twice, and nobody should be shocked if we end up with a repeat.<br /><br />(We've had businessmen like Perot run before, but I would still consider the 'vulgar talking yam' unprecedented.)the RaptorMagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11374544136127298312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-91846668458329704092016-02-02T13:48:37.260-05:002016-02-02T13:48:37.260-05:00Rubio's vetting hasn't been too serious ye...Rubio's vetting hasn't been too serious yet. He'll get much more of it before NH, from Cruz, Trump, and Bush's Billion. Let's see how he comes out the other side of that meat grinder. If he does win the nomination, I don't expect him to make it look easy, and then he'll have to stand on a debate stage with Hillary, who will make him look like the foolish, ignorant child he is. I think in the general, Rubio's advantages and weaknesses cancel out to the point that it will be decided strictly on the fundamentals (i.e. economy, Obama's approval, etc.), which is still better from a GOP perspective than Cruz or Trump, both of whom would be doomed millstones around the whole party's neck. Curt Purcellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12580782572650471362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-79091863195091015002016-02-02T10:19:18.788-05:002016-02-02T10:19:18.788-05:00(If Marco Rubio is the nominee, he will win. Take ...<i>(If Marco Rubio is the nominee, he will win. Take that to the bank.)</i><br /><br />A little early for this, Steve, and while I respect your judgment and have long followed No More Mister" with admiration, you seem here as if you're distantly channeling poor Andrew Sullivan's fainting fit following the first Obama-Romney debate. Let's talk again after Super Rubesday.Rand Careagahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04993454654652802173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-1202680806552257712016-02-02T09:52:25.513-05:002016-02-02T09:52:25.513-05:00Rubio is about as extreme right as you can get on ...Rubio is about as extreme right as you can get on both the PNAC warhawk stuff and religious stuff like abortion. He may look moderate to some people now, but he has said a lot of stuff he can either own or walk back.<br /><br />He has some pretty dicey money stuff in his background too.Charon04https://www.blogger.com/profile/02755362669687773097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-75742616923283145702016-02-02T09:48:01.522-05:002016-02-02T09:48:01.522-05:00Let's hope that someone finds some clearer pho...Let's hope that someone finds some clearer photo's of Marco dancin' the night away at a Miami gay "foam party," back in the 90's.<br /><br />Not that I give a shit, but if he was, then that might disturb the Evangelical rubes.Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-21205883648843636062016-02-02T09:45:55.546-05:002016-02-02T09:45:55.546-05:00Yeah, I'm with Ten Bears on this. Caucus resul...Yeah, I'm with Ten Bears on this. Caucus results in Iowa don't really mean anything.<br /><br />Speaking as someone who's lived in Iowa for 31 years and attended the caucuses 6 times, I continue to be struck by how few people actually participate. And I live in a highly poltically-active college town!<br /><br />In 2008, the last time there was no incumbent running, the turnout of eligible voters here was 16.3%. That's less than one out of every six, and that was the all-time record high (last night may have been higher, though-- I'm not sure). Even by the pitiful voter turnout standards of the U.S., that's simply appalling.<br />BKThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15780381542236932101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-52477102934382023032016-02-02T09:43:25.704-05:002016-02-02T09:43:25.704-05:00What you see in Bobo, isn't smugness.
It's...What you see in Bobo, isn't smugness.<br />It's excess humility.<br /><br />And yeah, the manchild in the empty suit is a much easier sale for the HRC-loathing MSM to push on the nit/dim/half/fuck-wits in this country, than either Trump or the Cruz-ader.<br />Oy.Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-39514181001645939362016-02-02T09:33:48.976-05:002016-02-02T09:33:48.976-05:00Stupid is a disqualifier, Phil? In a country that ...Stupid is a disqualifier, Phil? In a country that elected Reagan and George W. Bush twice each?Steve M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-34262540201705653152016-02-02T09:07:30.274-05:002016-02-02T09:07:30.274-05:00[i](If Marco Rubio is the nominee, he will win. Ta...[i](If Marco Rubio is the nominee, he will win. Take that to the bank.)[/i]<br /><br />Never gonna happen. Marco Rubio is a very, very stupid man, dishonest in an obvious and easily proven way, with effectively zero personal charisma, which means that reporters will happily wave his contradictions and obfuscations in his face when the time comes. He is an old person's idea of a young person, to repurpose a phrase. A whole bunch of Republican voters haven't figured out that he's one of those brown people yet. And Latino voters loathe him. The Republican party has no winning candidates this year.Phil Freemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05041604069121995890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-65801690217118328902016-02-02T08:51:02.689-05:002016-02-02T08:51:02.689-05:00Now that Rubio has earned the title of "mains...Now that Rubio has earned the title of "mainstream consensus", Jeb has literally no hope left. He'll be lucky to break 5% in NH. Then the party apparatus will stop pussyfooting around and tell, not ask, him to drop out and endorse the protege he tried to destroy.<br /><br />That will be a jumbo shit sandwich to choke down. But then he gets to spend the rest of his life with the stench of failure about him, trying to ignore the cold looks of disgust from Mom and Dad.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05493939044872288977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-7601527949061700682016-02-02T08:49:33.625-05:002016-02-02T08:49:33.625-05:00He's now goine more unreservedly neocon - he&#...He's now goine more unreservedly neocon - he's TALKING full metal neocon - than any neoconartist since Reagan and before. With one exception, those warmongering, war hawk, neocon a-holes have proven disturbingly successful against all but the absolute best the Democratic party is able to come up with, & no matter which of HRC & Sanders the D party process settles on this time, that nominee not be among those best. Jeb is walking toast * that bottomless war chest is going somewhere; it now has a new home.<br /><br />Some weeks back, Steve M. offered up Rubio as both most likely to win the GOP contest and the most likely of that bunch to win the general. I remain more unsure about the first than about the second, but now the horrible twisted beast I figured to win the former has shot his wad in his most favorable early state & largely proved himself a creepy wanker, I join Steve in concern that the g.d. monster party won't cooperate by nominating an even more obviously flawed candidate than the Dems will. Feud Turgidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379322096770703017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-80957515411685303582016-02-02T08:42:03.445-05:002016-02-02T08:42:03.445-05:00Didn't Huckabee "win" Iowa a cycle o...Didn't Huckabee "win" Iowa a cycle or two ago? And... what's his name, the frothy mix of lube and fecal waste, didn't he "win" Iowa a cycle or two ago as well?<br /><br />Other than demonstrating that they in no way shape or form represent the interests of everyday Oregonians (or New Yorkers), Iowa doesn't mean a focking thing.Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594307610015584119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-37133853947128403722016-02-02T08:12:28.365-05:002016-02-02T08:12:28.365-05:00Why do you assume Rubio will win? He is clearly be...Why do you assume Rubio will win? He is clearly benefiting from the phenomenon which also helps Sanders -- being lesser known and thus able to serve as an object of voter projections. That gets harder to do the closer one gets to November. Ideologically, he's not much different from Cruz.AllieGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994768860067988405noreply@blogger.com