tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post4551053188381064056..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: JEB'S RUNNING MATE WILL PROBABLY BE STEVE KINGSteve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-76963514157247584022015-07-13T12:32:59.473-04:002015-07-13T12:32:59.473-04:00If the Republican candidate is a supposed moderate...If the Republican candidate is a supposed moderate, the VP pick will be either Haley (to amplify the moderation) or Ernst (to cut against it).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-18560152537681873852015-07-13T10:36:04.884-04:002015-07-13T10:36:04.884-04:00Just want to highlight some historical context…JEB...Just want to highlight some historical context…JEB is a lot like his father as a political character…very flat footed…the planning of the negative attacks are coming…some will be delivered by Christie and some others more potent by silent partners…Bush will try and stay clear of it and let the liberal media go at Trump and hope something will unstick the base from Trump…That is JEB’s strategy in a nutshell (no imagination)<br />Picking a VP wingnut was already in the cards from the beginning put he will not find a Palin who was very talented at delivery given the media structure but terribly flawed in other areas<br />Liberals need to fight little more on the emotional level with wingnuts not on the intellectual and in that way the politician will be able to split thier base up. They are not all religious in ID…..A little bit what Bill Clinton does<br />Marcushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07068578537190718769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-90012107831703583432015-07-12T17:41:54.138-04:002015-07-12T17:41:54.138-04:00Perot almost gained my respect in the early 90'...Perot almost gained my respect in the early 90's until the Vietcong commandos on his Dallas front lawn thing. And the daughter's wedding conspiracy. I considered him unstable and paranoid after that. Small potatos these days considering the animal farm presuming to rule us now. That Overton Window effect is a hell of a thing, eh?<br /><br />I forgot to mention that anyone (like me) who lived in the DFW area in the 70's-80's was well aware of years of Perot's often annoying, self funded crackpot gadfly politics well before he burst onto the national scene.petrillihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17889489779105405703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-35088802865776473472015-07-12T11:45:36.325-04:002015-07-12T11:45:36.325-04:00Sorry, Petrilli! I was reading comments on my phon...Sorry, Petrilli! I was reading comments on my phone from my blog dashboard and inadvertently deleted your last comment. I do that a lot and I wish Blogger had an Undo for that.<br /><br />I agree that Perot said paranoid things. But I think he said a lot of things that weren't loopy, even if you disagreed with him. On the deficit, which was his main focus, he sounded similar to Paul Tsongas, a mainstream moderate Dem who'd done well in the primaries that year. Not my politics, but not crazy. On NAFTA, he sounded like the current critics of the trade agreement Obama's been fighting for this year. Most of the time, he didn't sound as unhinged as Trump does now.Steve M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-72665205268965438572015-07-12T11:21:25.056-04:002015-07-12T11:21:25.056-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.petrillihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17889489779105405703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-5750585687685905662015-07-12T10:16:33.506-04:002015-07-12T10:16:33.506-04:00And, once again, Google is our friend.
Found this...And, once again, Google is our friend.<br /><br />Found this 1992 NY Times article with a nice roundup of Perot's paranoia: http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/26/us/1992-campaign-overview-perot-says-he-quit-july-thwart-gop-dirty-tricks.htmlNever Ben Betterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17814767173601107270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-11993408345816937912015-07-12T09:26:33.788-04:002015-07-12T09:26:33.788-04:00Trump is sucking all of the oxygen away from the o...Trump is sucking all of the oxygen away from the other candidates.<br /><br />I made the mistake of turning on my TV yesterday afternoon, forgetting that I had set MSNBC as the default channel, and saw a moment of his deranged press conference - or, whatever that thing was.<br /><br />He's a showman, I'll give him that!<br />And, I'd love to see him run as a 3rd Party candidate.<br />Could you imagine him in a debate?<br /><br />Steve King?<br />AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!<br /><br />Somehow, I don't think he'll sell in the blue and purple states, so I think he'll have to find someone else.<br />Though, King in a debate with the Dem's VP candidate would be a hoot!<br /><br />Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-76227507948442479532015-07-11T23:39:56.072-04:002015-07-11T23:39:56.072-04:00Ross Perot looks like a dignified statesman compar...Ross Perot looks like a dignified statesman compared to TrumpProfessor Chaoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07983291640844939759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-49147113140057864112015-07-11T20:33:35.125-04:002015-07-11T20:33:35.125-04:00Trump's Birther obsession borders on pathologi...Trump's Birther obsession borders on pathological in the "unhinged" sense. But IIRC, and this is pure pre-internet no Googling memory here, but I remember during the campaign, Perot claiming to have spotted North Vietnamese commandos on his lawn, among other paranoid assassination conspiracy theories related to his POW/MIA activism. He really believed the Vietnamese were still holding American POWs in 1992 and beyond.petrillihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17889489779105405703noreply@blogger.com