Republican Field update
George P Bush goes on the stump boosting Jeb Bush. To give credence to a cartoon by Matt Boors with a punchline of the family being his one and only support.
Lindsey Graham hopes John McCain will save him. (How about Joseph Lieberman while he’s at it?)
Ted Cruz faults Marco Rubio for Benghazi. And uses the word “neo-con”, as though he’s Rand Paul… (aiming in the same direction, but not getting the press notice as a lower tier candidate, because… he doesn’t support so many wars. Irony.)
Note to NPR: what success did Ron Paul get that eludes Rand Paul? Wasn’t… getting much vote — like father like son.
Headlines always show some… creepy opportunism in politics. In Wake Of Paris Attacks, Chris Christie Sees An Opportunity. Right. I recall Scott Walker’s big meta and then not meta narrative was his stand on the Unions shows how he will be “Man enough” to deal with Islamic Terrorists. (The problem for Walker became when he had to make the connection explicitly.)
So, we have with Ted Cruz making the rounds. Ted Cruz: ‘Majority of Violent Criminals Are Democrats’ … (See Ted Bundy, for instance.) Ted Cruz: GOP isn’t ‘condom police’. (Better than Leonard Cohen’s “Jazz Police.” Jizz Police?)
Jim Gilmore joins with Kasich and calls Trump “Fascist”, or at least using “Fascist Talk.”
It is telling when the major media goes on Mike Huckabee with fluff piece headlined with the premise of him strumming along to Aerosmith and “Life’s a Journey, not a Destination“.