It’s too early to pull the plug on Bernie Sanders. He trails in the delegate count, and he has to keep on pulling upsets like he did in Michigan to prevail as the nominee. And it is quite possible that he might pull some of those upsets tomorrow — in Missouri, Illinois, and even Ohio. But he has to do … Read More
Trump Campaign Takes It To A Whole New Level
Or… depth I should say. Friday night saw the cancellation of a Trump event in Chicago because of protesters. Trump stated that he decided to cancel the event after consultation with law enforcement, but the Chicago PD says they never advised Trump that the safety issues were beyond what they could handle. Rachel Maddow entered Ed Murrow land — talking … Read More
Last Night’s Republican Debate Had All The Earmarks Of An Actual Debate
I don’t have much to add to all the chattering pundits from last night’s debate. However, it seems pretty clear that “civil Trump” is very very dumb. He talked imperceptibly about things like Cuba “suing” the United States, and closing the Cuban embassy until we had a better deal. In fact, it was clear that he viewed everything in terms … Read More
RIP George Martin
Dead at the age of 90. And don’t kid yourself — he’s the only one who can rightfully claim to be the so-called “fifth Beatle”. Times obit: George Martin, the urbane English record producer who signed the Beatles to a recording contract on the small Parlophone label after every other British record company had turned them down, and who guided … Read More
Okay, So How Will A Contest Convention Work?
So, the eventual Republican nominee needs 1,237 delegates to secure the party’s nomination before its July convention. If that doesn’t happen, then it creates a potential opening for another nominee as the delegates vote on the convention floor. The Republican Party of each state has its own rules about whether and/or when a delegate is bound to the results of the primary votes. … Read More
Breaking Down Last Night’s Primary Results
TRUMP Yesterday was big for Trump. The first major set of primaries after a huge onslaught of non-Trump ads, and it seems to have bounced off him. No, he never won 50% in any state yesterday, but he came close. In Michigan, he got 36.5% (Cruz: 24.9%, Kasich: 24.3%). In Mississippi, he got 47.3% (Cruz: 36.3%). And in Hawaii, he … Read More
Game Of Thrones Trailer
Psyched
Republicans That Scare Us
He’s talking about Goldwater, but when he talks about things like white supremacist support, etc., it is eerily familiar to today:
Missing The Point
The award goes to Gersh Kuntzman of the New York Daily News for writing this: No disrespect to the jury in the Erin Andrews case, but I can’t breathe. The Fox Sports reporter just got a $55 million award for the pain and suffering of being videotaped naked in a Nashville hotel room in 2008. Fifty five million dollars because people … Read More
Time To Face Reality
Here’s the plan: The presentation is an 11th-hour rebuttal to the fatalism permeating the Republican establishment: Slide by slide, state by state, it calculates how Donald Trump could be denied the presidential nomination. Marco Rubio wins Florida. John Kasich wins Ohio. Ted Cruz notches victories in the Midwest and Mountain West. And the results in California and other states are … Read More
International Women’s Day
Props to Google for today’s Google Doodle: Unlike past women’s day doodles, this doesn’t look at achievements from the past, but at the achievements to come. The theme for this year is gender parity. You may not think this is a problem here in the United States, and comparatively, you would be right. The United States is ranked 20th, which is … Read More
Why Florida and Ohio Matter In The GOP Primaries
Florida and Ohio are not only big states with lots of delegates, but they are winner-take-all delegate states. AND Rubio is from Florida. AND Kasich is from Ohio. Both have primaries on March 15. And Rubio and Kasich as giving Trump a run for his money in Florida and Ohio, respectively. Something will give on March 15. Not definitively, but … Read More
RIP Nancy Reagan
I was not a fan. I thought her “Just Say No” campaign was dumb at best, counter-productive at worst. Still, she brought Ronnie to the left and that was a pretty unusual love story, so there’s that. She died yesterday at the age of 94 of congestive heart failure. P.S. I almost put her in my dead pool this year. I’m doing … Read More
About Last Night’s Algonquin Round Table
Yesterday, I heard some pundit on TV say that Rubio and Cruz, having insulted Trump in their stump speeches, would come in last night and elevate themselves in a statesmen-like discussion of policy issues. Yeah, right, I thought. I was correct: “Gentleman, gentleman, you’ve got to do better than this,” Chris Wallace implored the candidates after one particularly nasty bout … Read More
Romney Enters The Fray
At some point today, Mitt Romney will make the case against Trump for President: Mitt Romney will call Donald J. Trump “a phony” and “a fraud” in a speech on Thursday in which he will urge Republicans to rally around one of Mr. Trump’s presidential rivals, according to excerpts from his remarks. The hastily organized speech, to be delivered in … Read More