tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post2071615645617686040..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: A FEW MORE SOFTBALL INTERVIEWS LIKE THIS AND CRUZ WILL BE SEEN AS LIKABLESteve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-85698177656418807592016-04-08T10:03:36.317-04:002016-04-08T10:03:36.317-04:00The saying in the fifties was "If you've ...The saying in the fifties was "If you've got nothing to do with your hands, you smoke a cigarette. Got nothing to do with your mind, you read Time magazine."<br /><br />That said, even today, Time is the fucking <i>New York Review of Books</i> compared to Newsweek after Tina Brown got hold of it. I used to subscribe. Beginning with the cover story "Diana at Fifty" and through the end of my subscription term every issue went unread from the mailbox to the recycle bin.Rand Careagahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04993454654652802173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-18949874082256370092016-04-08T09:06:17.971-04:002016-04-08T09:06:17.971-04:00Fortunately, not too many people read Time any mor...Fortunately, not too many people read Time any more. The mag always had a Republican bias, going back to its Henry Luce beginnings, but at least it offered relative depth compared to today, even as backwards reeled its sentences. (If you're not old enough to remember Henry Luce, just take my word for it that Time deliberately employed some weirdly entertaining sentence constructions.) <br /><br />Even taking Time's right wing bias into account, Scherer is clearly an idiot, lacking either the preparation, the smarts or perhaps the integrity to follow up on some of Cruz's ridiculous statements. As the publication shrivels, they can no longer afford to employ competent journalists, I suppose. Too bad.<br /><br />Yours very crankily,<br />The New York Crank<br /><br />The New York Crankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04489472134701718697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-14036128486890933982016-04-08T04:49:29.203-04:002016-04-08T04:49:29.203-04:00So what? Just to GET to HRC, he's gotta go thr...So what? Just to GET to HRC, he's gotta go thru me. Okay, you say: no one's watching an online avatar with a silly name take on Cruz. FINE! If I can be surrogate for HRC, someone else cam be surrogate for me. I'd nominate Rachel Maddow because she'd wipe the floor with that whacko, or Colbert, cuz then Cruz would be reduced like a picked over 2-day chicken in a stew pot. But you say, their in the 'neutrality biz"? I don't GAF - I want him beaten to pulp. But alright, alright - I'll play by the rules. I pick Tituss Burgess, for an hour, on mortality, humanity, equality, LGBT rights, ethnicity, and immigration. If Cruz is even still BREATHING by the end, I'll be shocked.<br /><br />I give zero f**ks for Cruz so-called 'debate' skills. I and up to 70 million others will be up there on the dias on HILLARY's side, so FU you creepy Cubano Canadian Jesus-fondling crazy person! Feud Turgidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379322096770703017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-56949666508582295612016-04-07T22:06:22.504-04:002016-04-07T22:06:22.504-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594307610015584119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-65438238810930374812016-04-07T18:32:32.069-04:002016-04-07T18:32:32.069-04:00Erm, no. Just no. A 3 point spread in a meaningles...Erm, no. Just no. A 3 point spread in a meaningless poll is probative of nothing. Five minutes of Hillary simply speaking in a debate, demonstrating the batshit craziness of this loathsome toad, and it's over. And that's only if the RNC doesn't do the honorable thing before then, the thing even they know is necessary, and that is to take this guy's head off. Seriously. For all their hatred of her, their personal antipathy toward Cruz is even keener.<br /><br />So, no. There's already enough to worry about without inventing things. Like Bernie v. Cruz. That's what keeps <i>me</i> up at night.jsrthetahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09471258641340325875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-78464034903258101472016-04-07T17:50:15.035-04:002016-04-07T17:50:15.035-04:00Anyone the GOP nominates (excepting Trump), can be...<i>Anyone the GOP nominates (excepting Trump), can beat Hillary.</i><br /><br />Sanders would, I think, prove conspicuously weaker. But sure, anyone the GOP nominates—I do not exclude Trump—<i>can</i> conceivably beat Clinton given a (far) right alignment of the stars. Still, I think it unlikely. First, it's difficult from here how Trump graciously yields up the prize in Cleveland if, as still seems likely, he arrives there with conspicuously the largest share of delegates. "Them's the rules" seems unlikely to mollify him if a bunch of Trump delegates prove to be Cruz ringers who desert the short-fingered vulgarian beginning with the second ballot. Nor are The Donald's supporters among the Teeming Millions likely to be accommodating in this event. Cruz will emerge from the convention far more damaged than Ford did in 1976. Sure, some of the Trumpenproletariat will eventually fall in line, particularly if the thwarted tycoon retires to sulk in silence rather than braying his sense of betrayal from the battlements from July until November (bets, anyone?), but I anticipate that they will do so with diminished partisan ardor. Add to this the loathsome personal qualities of the junior senator from Texas—the inimitable Cruz <i>Backpfeifengesicht</i>, that special quality that causes even many of his own party to despise the mere sight of him—and I think that Tailgunner Ted will have a tough row to hoe. Remember that it's a little easier for a sycophantic reporter to make Cruz seem reasonable in print, but the campaign will be waged largely on television, a medium on which the man's personal charm, if he has any, does not appear readily to translate, although his innate nastiness comes through unfiltered.<br /><br />If, as I'm coming to believe, a consensus has emerged among the party panjandrums that Trump <i>must</i> not be the nominee if he enters the Quicken Loans Arena even half a dozen votes short of the magic number, then I think among their bleak choices the smartest might be to anoint Paul “Eddie Munster” Ryan as the party’s savior and white(!) knight to take the field against Morgan le Fay this fall. Accept the rage of the Trumpistas as a "sunk cost," prepare to lose to the Hillabeast, but contain the collateral damage downticket so that the GOP can live to make the country ungovernable for the next four years.Rand Careagahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04993454654652802173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-89618859407885619092016-04-07T15:00:08.106-04:002016-04-07T15:00:08.106-04:00Anyone the GOP nominates (excepting Trump), can be...Anyone the GOP nominates (excepting Trump), can beat Hillary. She's a weak candidate.ChrisNBamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02103124835903883315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-89252744496781330892016-04-07T14:44:40.133-04:002016-04-07T14:44:40.133-04:00Allie, while I agree with you, the MSM will try to...Allie, while I agree with you, the MSM will try to help heal any rifts in the GOP.<br />They want and need a close horse race.<br /><br />And to stick it to Hillary, too many in our MSM will be more than happy to don knee pads and fellate and kiss the ass of her opponent, whoever he may be.<br />Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-14841264620830679332016-04-07T14:07:36.656-04:002016-04-07T14:07:36.656-04:00If the Republicans stuffed the corpse of William M...If the Republicans stuffed the corpse of William McKinley and nominated him, you'd be saying "watch out for this guy." Cruz can't pivot towards the middle until he reconciles the Trump crowd, which won't want to hear that. He's not going to abandon wingnut red meat. It's all he's ever eaten.AllieGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994768860067988405noreply@blogger.com