Today at the shameless anti religious liberty rally-- "Rally for Religious Liberty"-- at Bob Jones "University" in Greenville, South Carolina, starring anti-Jesus hate-monger Tony Perkins and vicious homophobe Ted Cruz (congratulations Mati and Ian),
Almost a year ago I told my political friends that Ted Cruz would be the GOP presidential nominee. They all thought I was joking-- or insane. Oh, look, even Rich Lowry agrees now.
Bill Maher and Ann Coulter in June 2015 discussing the prospect of a Sanders presidency (from The Thom Hartmann Show)by Gaius PubliusI put up the video above to show, again, that many including Ann Coulter think Sanders would be the more formidable Democratic candidate for president in the general election. The recent McClatchey-Marist poll seems to confirm Sanders' strength.
Tuesday, as people were gearing up for the GOP debate, Jenna Johnson and David Fahrenthold, writing for the Washington Post, blamed the new GOP-normal-- lying-- on Trump. Trump is as much a fact-free zone as Fox News or Hate Talk Radio.
This whole credit card scandal seems to have touched a raw nerve with Rubio (again). After studiously avoiding fights with Trump, who's been taunting him for weeks, as soon as Trump attacked on the credit card scandal, Rubio hit back.
How much anxiety, in 1932, did it take for German voters to give the Nazi Party 37.3% of the vote-- their highest in a free election? That was in July of 1932 to be precise and 13,745,000 Germans elected 230 Nazis to the Reichstag. 4 months later-- with Hitler screeching that he should be Chancellor, instead of monarchist and centrist Franz von Papen-- new election didn't go aw well for the Nazi's, 11,737,000 votes (33.1%) and 196 seats.
The only poll that I know of that came out after the GOP debate in Boulder, NBC's, indicates to me what I saw during the debate-- not what the mainstream media says I saw-- that Ted Cruz made the biggest impact. In the last NBC poll, Cruz was at 6% among Republican voters. After the debate he was up 4 points to 10%-- a gigantic jump and the most significant movement of the 2 week period.
In the new CBS/NYTimes poll, Texas neo-fascist Ted Cruz is way down at 4%, tied for 6th place with also-rans Rand Paul, John Kassich and Mike Huckabee. Meanwhile the newest poll in Iowa has Cruz in 4th place with 6.2%, behind Carson (30.6%), Trump (18.6%), Rubio (10.0%), and Jeb (6.8%).
I suppose it's conceivable that if the hacks in the GOP Establishment drive Trump out of the presidential race-- something they are very much trying to do-- he could revert to being a Democrat and even endorse Hillary Clinton. He certainly hasn't been as harsh towards her as he's been towards Jeb and some of the other Republicans.
This morning's first post-- based primarily on the work of Boston College history professor Heather Cox Richardson conflating today's off-the-rails Republican extremists with the post Civil War secessionist Democratic extremists of 1879-- is one of the most chilling ever at this blog. If you missed it, I heartily recommend you go back and read it right now.
