Marco Rubio did repeat that meme yesterday in Bedford, the one that was so controversial at the Debate Saturday to the effect that "The President knows what he is doing...".
However what isn't being reported is that said quote in imbedded in a larger paranoid argument that insists that the President knows what he is doing, is making America less exception and more like The Rest of the World. Literally Rubio is accusing President Obama of trying to turn the USA into say Nigeria. So it's a sort of proxie birther argument that goes light on the birth certificate palaver....that is it nonsense repeated ad nauseum in public, is not being reported at least in detail.
Monday, February 08, 2016
Sunday, February 07, 2016
A Copyist On The Stump....
Dateline: McKelvie Intermediate School, Bedford NH, 12pm EST...
Do ALL Marco Rubio's events start a solid hour late? I am serious when I say that Granite State GOP auds prefer promptitude when getting their arses kissed.
This was a bigger crowd than I'd seen before and younger overall as well, but that is simply the last seventy two hours of the New Hampshire Primary the casual voters start checking out whats on offer. John Kerry's crowds skewed lower in NH once he carried Iowa in 2004, its just the way the primary works up there.
But believe the hype, Marco Rubio is as glib and slick as they come, of the four GOP candidates I saw up in New Hampshire he is the best public speaker hands down. Of course the baseline is Jeb Bush in that cohort so take that with a grain of salt.
Rubio is also a profoundly rigid politician without a single creative notion rattling around in that handsome noggin, his whole program was seemingly downloaded from Jeb Bush's website cut down to two pages and insolently shoved out there under the Senator from Florida's name.
Despite his humble origins, Rubio exudes an irritating pro-wrestler's air of sheer ugly entitlement, it comes of wasting one's entire life public and private cowering in the conservative echo chamber.
It is therefore an act of sick intellectual desperation to somehow assign "mainstream conservative" props to such a profoundly limited and cynical man. But that is the sinkhole into which movement conservatism has plunged, their last hope in the face of uncontrollable reactionary populist revolt is a grimly selfish third tier jobber.
No wonder Jeb Bush is tearing out his hair in utter bafflement this kid has completely eaten his lunch with an evil little leer as well.
Its interesting to me that when Rubio finally did take the stage he was introduced by some giddy locals, no name NH politicians active or retired, it doesn't really mean anything save that either his campaign isn't interested in endorsements or simply has not had any on offer. Usually a few local names get attached to a campaign...here none.
This where things got a little weird I actually heard grown adults announce that as the parents of small children "national security is at the center of our concerns".
I mean screw clean water, good schools or safe playgrounds....
BTW Rubio clearly pulled his kids out of school to work the New Hampshire Primary...cynical no?
And then off he went promising the exact same shit that Christie, Bush and Kasich (and no doubt the rest of them as well) put down at their events, total repeal of Obamacare, trash common core, revoke all executive orders signed by the President, 700 miles of fences & walls on the southern border, pulling out of the Iran Nuclear Deal, Putting Russia, China & North Korea in their places, a missile shield (a-gain), a tax cut & the usually blank check to a Pentagon that Rubio promises to denude of paper pushing bureaucrats.
Don't worry Rubio wants to end sanctuary cities, abolish the Department of Education, appoint Supreme Court Justices as rigid as Antonin Scalia and repeal the 2008 & 2012 elections in general...in case you were worried or anything.
His two most cynical promises involve a solemn pledge not to cut benefits to current retirees although his plan to save social security apparently involves making baby boomer work longer for few benefits & a bizarre promise to modernize our nuclear deterrent (something Obama is already spending close to a trillion dollars to accomplish). And then there is Marco Rubio's plan to destroy Isis ("the most successful Jihadist Group Ever") which involves arming local proxies and conducting an intensified air campaign against the Caliphate.....in other words OBAMA'S PLAN the one that has reduced Isis territory by 40% in one year per the Sunday Globe.
Trust me when I say that IF Marco Rubio had a single original or new idea, it'd die a swift lonely death indeed.
And then the peroration, which is usually the most intellectually corrupt part of these GOP town hall events, Rubio promised a new era of comity and bipartisanship as soon as the republican party controls all three branches of the Government and an all powerful majority, this is where the Senator lurches into bizarrely utopian....its just the same goddamn utopia the other eight are promising. None of it can ever be realized and from the tight little smirk on Rubio's face, he knows it best of all.
Overall Rubio is a pretty glib customer although as time passes you get a definite whiny bratty vibe from him, he clearly doesn't take no for an answer....ever. His program is a stitched up fandango of everyone else's best applause lines, he took remarkably few questions from the audience (all of four all of them unremarkable, he was asked about the national debt from a tyke and Rubio simply repeated his social security meme, not one word about balancing the budget) and acted in all like someone about to ascend to Heaven on the basis of a third place showing in the Iowa Caucuses.
He claims that Hilary Clinton is "scared of him" perhaps so if there is something inherently scary about feckless young jobbers on the prowl.
About his very limited and shopworn notions Rubio is....well briefed, but that merely underscores the irony of yet another feckless empty suit is advertised as the GOP's last best hope to save The Universe.
In sum, Marco Rubio gives off that intangible of an insolent young MBA hired by your boss to clean out the deadwood in your office, soon enough he'll be in your cubicle with a stopwatch in his hand grinning that he wants to see "how fast" you work.....
Do ALL Marco Rubio's events start a solid hour late? I am serious when I say that Granite State GOP auds prefer promptitude when getting their arses kissed.
This was a bigger crowd than I'd seen before and younger overall as well, but that is simply the last seventy two hours of the New Hampshire Primary the casual voters start checking out whats on offer. John Kerry's crowds skewed lower in NH once he carried Iowa in 2004, its just the way the primary works up there.
But believe the hype, Marco Rubio is as glib and slick as they come, of the four GOP candidates I saw up in New Hampshire he is the best public speaker hands down. Of course the baseline is Jeb Bush in that cohort so take that with a grain of salt.
Rubio is also a profoundly rigid politician without a single creative notion rattling around in that handsome noggin, his whole program was seemingly downloaded from Jeb Bush's website cut down to two pages and insolently shoved out there under the Senator from Florida's name.
Despite his humble origins, Rubio exudes an irritating pro-wrestler's air of sheer ugly entitlement, it comes of wasting one's entire life public and private cowering in the conservative echo chamber.
It is therefore an act of sick intellectual desperation to somehow assign "mainstream conservative" props to such a profoundly limited and cynical man. But that is the sinkhole into which movement conservatism has plunged, their last hope in the face of uncontrollable reactionary populist revolt is a grimly selfish third tier jobber.
No wonder Jeb Bush is tearing out his hair in utter bafflement this kid has completely eaten his lunch with an evil little leer as well.
Its interesting to me that when Rubio finally did take the stage he was introduced by some giddy locals, no name NH politicians active or retired, it doesn't really mean anything save that either his campaign isn't interested in endorsements or simply has not had any on offer. Usually a few local names get attached to a campaign...here none.
This where things got a little weird I actually heard grown adults announce that as the parents of small children "national security is at the center of our concerns".
I mean screw clean water, good schools or safe playgrounds....
BTW Rubio clearly pulled his kids out of school to work the New Hampshire Primary...cynical no?
And then off he went promising the exact same shit that Christie, Bush and Kasich (and no doubt the rest of them as well) put down at their events, total repeal of Obamacare, trash common core, revoke all executive orders signed by the President, 700 miles of fences & walls on the southern border, pulling out of the Iran Nuclear Deal, Putting Russia, China & North Korea in their places, a missile shield (a-gain), a tax cut & the usually blank check to a Pentagon that Rubio promises to denude of paper pushing bureaucrats.
Don't worry Rubio wants to end sanctuary cities, abolish the Department of Education, appoint Supreme Court Justices as rigid as Antonin Scalia and repeal the 2008 & 2012 elections in general...in case you were worried or anything.
His two most cynical promises involve a solemn pledge not to cut benefits to current retirees although his plan to save social security apparently involves making baby boomer work longer for few benefits & a bizarre promise to modernize our nuclear deterrent (something Obama is already spending close to a trillion dollars to accomplish). And then there is Marco Rubio's plan to destroy Isis ("the most successful Jihadist Group Ever") which involves arming local proxies and conducting an intensified air campaign against the Caliphate.....in other words OBAMA'S PLAN the one that has reduced Isis territory by 40% in one year per the Sunday Globe.
Trust me when I say that IF Marco Rubio had a single original or new idea, it'd die a swift lonely death indeed.
And then the peroration, which is usually the most intellectually corrupt part of these GOP town hall events, Rubio promised a new era of comity and bipartisanship as soon as the republican party controls all three branches of the Government and an all powerful majority, this is where the Senator lurches into bizarrely utopian....its just the same goddamn utopia the other eight are promising. None of it can ever be realized and from the tight little smirk on Rubio's face, he knows it best of all.
Overall Rubio is a pretty glib customer although as time passes you get a definite whiny bratty vibe from him, he clearly doesn't take no for an answer....ever. His program is a stitched up fandango of everyone else's best applause lines, he took remarkably few questions from the audience (all of four all of them unremarkable, he was asked about the national debt from a tyke and Rubio simply repeated his social security meme, not one word about balancing the budget) and acted in all like someone about to ascend to Heaven on the basis of a third place showing in the Iowa Caucuses.
He claims that Hilary Clinton is "scared of him" perhaps so if there is something inherently scary about feckless young jobbers on the prowl.
About his very limited and shopworn notions Rubio is....well briefed, but that merely underscores the irony of yet another feckless empty suit is advertised as the GOP's last best hope to save The Universe.
In sum, Marco Rubio gives off that intangible of an insolent young MBA hired by your boss to clean out the deadwood in your office, soon enough he'll be in your cubicle with a stopwatch in his hand grinning that he wants to see "how fast" you work.....
Saturday, February 06, 2016
Ted Cruz's current Ad Buy in New Hampshire...
promises to save The Granite State from Flying Monkey's & EPA Inspectors under the orders of the United Nations.
Ridiculous yes?
Not hardly, Chris Christie's ad buy talks about his Presidential Fists, Jeb Bush is desperate to lay his claws into someone anyone at this point, Marco Rubio smarms like a fratboy who burned down Greek Row, in short the final terrible apocalyptic seventy two hours of the New Hampshire Primary are upon us.
I like to think the voters in New Hampshire have a certain level of discrimination, but if the GOP race is nothing but mendacity and fear then it's mendacity and fear that'll win on Tuesday no matter who the winner.
Ridiculous yes?
Not hardly, Chris Christie's ad buy talks about his Presidential Fists, Jeb Bush is desperate to lay his claws into someone anyone at this point, Marco Rubio smarms like a fratboy who burned down Greek Row, in short the final terrible apocalyptic seventy two hours of the New Hampshire Primary are upon us.
I like to think the voters in New Hampshire have a certain level of discrimination, but if the GOP race is nothing but mendacity and fear then it's mendacity and fear that'll win on Tuesday no matter who the winner.
Friday, February 05, 2016
I don't think...
Charlie Baker is a particularly skilled politician, he isn't much of a visionary, he isn't a persuasive public speaker and his skillset seems....rudimentary.
But I give him credit he has mastered the art of paying off big political debts in what amounts to "Monopoly Money".
Case in point his fervent endorsement of NJ Governor Chris Christie's campaign for the GOP nomination today, the Candidate in Question polling back down at about four percent after a brief spike some six weeks ago. "He ain't going nowhere" in the local argot and I think he knows it. Christie's current ad buy in New Hampshire looks like the roll out of commercials for a National Protection Racket, but his prospects are so dim that Charlie Baker can safely spend worthless political capital propping this fat mook up for a few more days.
Thus Baker will never have to explain to anyone why he ever thought Pro-Life, Anti Gay Marriage, Pro Revenge Chris Christie was ever anyone's idea of a moderate.....
Thats the nice thing though about endorsing a cheap act, you can pay back your political debts to the RGA for what amounts to "pennies on the dollar".
But I give him credit he has mastered the art of paying off big political debts in what amounts to "Monopoly Money".
Case in point his fervent endorsement of NJ Governor Chris Christie's campaign for the GOP nomination today, the Candidate in Question polling back down at about four percent after a brief spike some six weeks ago. "He ain't going nowhere" in the local argot and I think he knows it. Christie's current ad buy in New Hampshire looks like the roll out of commercials for a National Protection Racket, but his prospects are so dim that Charlie Baker can safely spend worthless political capital propping this fat mook up for a few more days.
Thus Baker will never have to explain to anyone why he ever thought Pro-Life, Anti Gay Marriage, Pro Revenge Chris Christie was ever anyone's idea of a moderate.....
Thats the nice thing though about endorsing a cheap act, you can pay back your political debts to the RGA for what amounts to "pennies on the dollar".
Wednesday, February 03, 2016
The Big Takeaway from Iowa
is that over sixty percent of republicans in caucus choose candidates with a bombastic, apocalyptic and or belligerent World View. All three of the top vote getters out there fairly bellowed at the voters, "If I Do Not Win You Will All, DIE DIE DIE!!! If you doooo vote for me, I will graciously ignite a bonfire composed of everyone who scares you all to light your way to a Free Market Utopia to be debugged later...."
And in truth given exactly no other audible message from the other fourteen jobbers on the GOP stump, the locals simply opted for the loudest voices and or the brattiest character...Hence Cruz, Trump & Rubio.
This has important implications for everyone down the road, but the main point is, given no choice voters will opt for volume and the illusion of domination....and people will back illusions right up to the bitter end. Remember that.
And in truth given exactly no other audible message from the other fourteen jobbers on the GOP stump, the locals simply opted for the loudest voices and or the brattiest character...Hence Cruz, Trump & Rubio.
This has important implications for everyone down the road, but the main point is, given no choice voters will opt for volume and the illusion of domination....and people will back illusions right up to the bitter end. Remember that.
Tuesday, February 02, 2016
Basically what happened last night in the Iowa GOP Caucuses
is that no less than three cartoonishly belligerent declinists finished in the money. All three of them, Cruz, Trump and Rubio are essentially peddling the same line "All of You WILL DIE DIE DIE unless you elect me President whereupon I will reward your loyalty by unleashing a Painless New Golden Age".
This is all delivered with as many smirks, snarls and eye rolls as three underaccomplished jobbers can generate on the stump.
This is heading towards gruesome spectacle and may be too much even for a jaded observer as myself.
I finally feel bad for New Hampshire. For the next seven days they will be bombarded as never ever before with a tidal wave of sheer electoral bilge all of it nauseatingly truculent in extremis. It may even be enough to make the local yeomanry finally reconsider their heretofore sacred "First in the Nation" primary status in favor of somewhere outside their TV market, Guam say....or the Aleutian Islands.
This is all delivered with as many smirks, snarls and eye rolls as three underaccomplished jobbers can generate on the stump.
This is heading towards gruesome spectacle and may be too much even for a jaded observer as myself.
I finally feel bad for New Hampshire. For the next seven days they will be bombarded as never ever before with a tidal wave of sheer electoral bilge all of it nauseatingly truculent in extremis. It may even be enough to make the local yeomanry finally reconsider their heretofore sacred "First in the Nation" primary status in favor of somewhere outside their TV market, Guam say....or the Aleutian Islands.
Monday, February 01, 2016
Jeb Bush must be tearing his hair out right now....
his hated former protege Marco Rubio scored for 22% so far in the Iowa Caucus. So of course that is allegedly one of the "three tickets out of Iowa" but it is divided neatly between three twitchy wingnut jobbers.
And if Senator Marco Rubio is anyone's idea of an "establishment moderate" then moderate republicanism dead, Dead, DEAD, in our lifetimes.
I will pay $500.00 cash to any undergraduate at Saint Anselm College who asks Marco Rubio on camera why he an alleged Roman Catholic regularly attends an Evangelical Protestant Church in Florida....and does he take communion therein? and is he worried about being reprimanded by his Bishops?
I predict a serious sh*tstorm of negative attack adverts in NH....the din is about to become a screech....and I wouldn't put it past Bush to drop the religious issue on Rubio....the man is "Madness Maddened" to quote Herman Melville.
And if Senator Marco Rubio is anyone's idea of an "establishment moderate" then moderate republicanism dead, Dead, DEAD, in our lifetimes.
I will pay $500.00 cash to any undergraduate at Saint Anselm College who asks Marco Rubio on camera why he an alleged Roman Catholic regularly attends an Evangelical Protestant Church in Florida....and does he take communion therein? and is he worried about being reprimanded by his Bishops?
I predict a serious sh*tstorm of negative attack adverts in NH....the din is about to become a screech....and I wouldn't put it past Bush to drop the religious issue on Rubio....the man is "Madness Maddened" to quote Herman Melville.
Subscribe to:
Posts
(
Atom
)