I've been watching the politicking, when not shoveling snow or sunk in such classics as Amber Brown Horses Around, and I have to say the rollicking Rs are free of sin--if you accept the notion that the only sin is to bore. Ted Cruz and his dirty tricks! Donald Trump having a try at a concession speech! Marco Rubio, the "boy in the bubble," according to Chris Christie, who evidently can't believe he was outpolled 12 to 1 in Iowa by a marionette. New Hampshire is a different place, big guy! All the cable news talking heads concur. Flinty conservatives, as opposed to the swooning evangelical variety.
Ted Cruz: listening to him, it seems odd that the word oleaginous existed before he did.
I think my favorite campaign anecdote concerns his wife's explanation of why she fell in love with him. Lots of fellas revere the Bible, or the U.S. Constitution, but Ted had them both by heart! In case you wanted to know what warms up a Goldman Sachs girl.
From a perch in the reality-based world, it appears the Republican primary electorate, taken as a whole, is inerrantly and sequentially alighting on the most preposterous choices available to it. The spurned--Kasich, Christie--are generally the least absurd specimens. I know, Santorum is at the back and he's pretty nutty, always worrying that somewhere two people might be having sex with each other, and enjoying it--maybe that's why he was almost the nominee in '12.
Marco Rubio is going to save them from Trump and Cruz and electoral disaster? It's as if I complimented someone on their French and so had to be told by a Parisian that there are very slim phrase books for sale. "Excuse me, but can you direct me to the train station?" It's all he's got.
Well, it's more work than Trump is willing to do.
The only time I agree with these guys is when they're lampooning each other.
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