Discussion for article #246937
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Pay no attention to the man looking at himself in the mirror
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OK. Should I be more worried or less worried?
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I don’t know, but I’ll answer with a question: When did a country or other large entity emerge from a civil war stronger than it went in?
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Tough call. Trump is the bigger buffoon, and Cruz is the bigger asshole. Neither one captures the “who would you like to have a beer with” vote. I’d be more worried about Rubio, simply because he has more personal appeal - not to me, but to the voter who votes for the person who “seems like a nice young man/woman.”
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I’d argue that the U.S. did, oddly enough. But the G.O.P. is going to be even more of a shambles than it was before.
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I think if Trump takes a beating today, he may be forced to backtrack and make a kind of Checkers speech saying his endowment isn’t all that impressive after all and since he’s being totally honest can he please be President now?
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Point taken, although there’ve been some lingering problems. : )
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Fivethirtyeight’s live coverage gives us a good reminder – Santorum carried Kansas in 2012, and Huck in 2008. So I guess we can more safely decide what this result means after all today’s results are in.
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That’s because the forces of good won. There are no forces of good left to the GOP.
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I wonder if Rubio will eat a booger during the next debate.
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This is becoming fun again. When does Mitch McConnell start the #NeverCruz hashtag?
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Lick o’ paint, lick o’ paint. - O’Reilly, Fawlty Towers.
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Team Venal may love Kansas, but it sure doesn’t care much for Sweden. Indeed, I don’t see much Ted love coming from outside the US for our Joe McCarthy 2.0. Perhaps the one area of common ground will come from Russia, which has a flat 13% income tax. So, great, at least we can be loved for copying the Russian model.
Republicans tend not to treat their Presidential losers well. Witness Gerald Ford, Bob Dole, John McCain, and Mutt Rimney, in terms of being renominated.
It would be nice to see Ted Cruz get nominated, then crushed at such a tender young age.
Edit: Mutt Rimney was a typo, but I liked it so much I think I’ll leave it.
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Not sure. The positive in this is there will still be a lot of in-fighting within the GOP and amongst their voters. The more broken ribs and punch marks to the face an eventual GOP candidate has starting the general, the better. That said, the idea that a Ted Cruz or a Donald Trump might have a shot at being chosen to sit in the chair at the desk in the Oval Office just gives me the creeps.
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If only TPM would make their Maine results sidebar link work.
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Not sure yet. As I posted in a different thread, this may be a really good day for Cruz across the board. Now the question is, what will that do for the race and the GOP in their quest to stop Drumpf?
Will they en masse rally around Cruz?
While many in the party may hate Cruz on a personal level (and even professional one as well given the disasters he has wrought in Congress, Gov. shut-downs, pretensions of being a shadow Speaker of the House even though he is in the Senate, etc.) but they don’t hate him for conservative apostasy or that he is toxic down-ticket like Drumpf is.
So the GOP party and associated eco-system can and would rally behind him if it meant they could keep Drumpf from being the nominee. But it may be “too little, and too late” to not have this end in tears for them in a bitter fight in Cleveland. A fight which could still fracture the party and throw the election at the top-of-the-ticket and damage down-ballot races.
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I can’t wait for the part about how Melanoma “doesn’t have a mink coat. But she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat, and I always tell her she would look good in anything.” (Pained grin)
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I always assume that caucuses are skewed relative to standard primary voting. You get a relatively small subset of voters, and campaigns will sometimes throw a lot of resources into a caucus, because there is an opportunity to exceed expectations.
Rick Santorum did as well in the 2012 Kansas caucus as Cruz is now.
Edit: I also discount the results of a primary in a state where a party loses badly in the general.
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