Sunday, September 20, 2015

Candidate Update

This truly is the silly season of politics. This is when the idiots run wild offering nonsense as "policy," pandering like mad, and spouting moronic statements which get the fringe all giddy. Here is an update on the candidates.

Bernie Sanders: Sanders doesn't so much put his foot in his mouth as his entire ideology is idiocy. He keeps making all kinds of spending promises and he's now up to $1.8 trillion A YEAR in new spending... increasing the budget by 46%. That works out to $12,000 a year in new taxes for every taxpayer. I hope you didn't have plans for that money.

Trump: You could write books on the stupidity that spews from Trump's mouth. He's doing it intentionally because it entertains his supporters. He's now whining that his latest poor showing at the debates was the result of CNN trying to help his opponents, just like Fox News did. Oh, and Carly Fiorina is a poo poo head! In any event, his latest "policy" pronouncement is that he's going to end "birthright citizenship," which is legally impossible, and he's going to deport all 11 million illegals within two years... which is physically impossible and will require a police state that makes Nazi Germany look like Canada. Oh wait, Obama's a Muslim! /wink wink Look, shiny!

Ben Carson: Carson says that being Muslim is inconsistent with the Constitution and therefore we should never have a Muslim president. Of course, that's ridiculous. The Constitution forbids the Federal Government from picking a national religion. That means, the Feds can't tell you what you need to believe, nor can it punish you for believing whatever religion you want. In other words, there is no such thing as a religion being inconsistent with the Constitution so long as it obeys the law. As an aside, the same reasoning Carson uses against Muslims applies in spades to Christian fundamentalists like himself.

Hillary Clinton: "I am a real person!" This is Hillary's latest attempt to prove that she's not a dried up, unlikable automaton. Usually, when you reach the point of needing to prove that, you're pretty much done. Between proving her personhood, dodging email questions that seem to be leading toward criminal charges, insulting rape victims (and spewing way out of date rhetoric), hosting empty receptions, getting into trouble with reporters, and generally imploding, Hillary hasn't really said much related to policy. She wants to spend some money on the things Bernie likes, like making student loans cheaper... or just more plentiful, but her main policy seems to be attacking Trump. She also made some confused noises about Syria which got the left upset that she's possibly a war monger.

Carly Fiorina: Seems to be trying to sway social conservatives by attacking the GOP for not destroying Planned Parenthood after the videos... even though they've been obsessed with it.

Bush 3: Bush continues to hide under a blanket. Last week he suggested tax cuts for corporations, which isn't something the increasingly populist public wants to hear, but no one was listening anyway.

The Others: None of these guys even made the news.

18 comments:

Kit said...

Didn't Hillary blast Trump for something her campaign did in 2007-08?

ScottDS said...

Please God, make it stop!!!! - me, everyday, any time I see a news story about one of these people

:-)

I have no dog in this fight right now. My friends have been talking up Bernie Sanders but he's a little too far to the left for me. (I say that as someone who's a little bit to the left of most of you!)

And try as I might, I can't hate Trump. I get it. I see the appeal. It's nice to see someone with no filter for once. Don't get me wrong, he's a clown. But, to paraphrase Voltaire, if he didn't exist, it would've been necessary to invent him.

I saw a brief clip from the earlier debate and I honestly forgot Santorum was still running!

AndrewPrice said...

Kit, I don't doubt it. What I find really funny about Hillary's attack on Trump is that a lot of analysts are saying that he's peaked and is now sliding away to oblivion. That is so like Hillary, to attack an issue AFTER it's already fading... and is safe to attack.

AndrewPrice said...

Scott, God isn't that merciful.

Honestly, I hope that your friends make Sanders happen. He is soooo far out of the mainstream of America that he will guarantee a Republican victory. He's like the left's Santorum. And honestly, if your friends think he makes any sense, then your friends are very far left.

Santorum is at the "friends and family only" level of support.

Trump is funny to watch, but the man is a fraud. There isn't a conservative bone in his body, most of what he says is lies (and he knows it), and he's just playing his supporters for suckers. He's the modern PT Barnum, and he's done that brilliantly. I will be curious to see how he eventually plans to capitalize on this.

tryanmax said...

The nice thing about having these outsiders at the front of the GOP pack is that--somehow--it seems to be making it hard for the MSM to smear their views as representative of the Party. Oh sure, they clutch their pearls each time they talk, but Jeb seems to be holding onto the position of "face of the party." Not to mention, they are totally drowning out Santorum.

AndrewPrice said...

tryanmax, This has been a fascinating primary season for that very reason. For once, the MSM doesn't seem to know how to attack. They are going after the clowns, but the clowns are so clearly not GOP or conservative that the MSM can't smear us with them. It's like Trump is flack.

At the same time, Hillary is taking it with both barrels by a leftist MSM that doesn't like her.

BevfromNYC said...

I imagine that the GOP hierarchy allowed Trump to run for just that reason...he is a great distraction. And since he is so good at it, he is trial ballooning issues and saying stuff that the other candidates don't have to yet. They can temper their responses according to Trumps hits and misses.

AndrewPrice said...

Bev, I wish I could see the GOP as being that smart, but I think they just lucked into Trump. Now we'll see how it all plays out.

I think Hillary is making (another) huge mistake by trying to take on Trump now.

AndrewPrice said...

Scott Walker is apparently dropping out.

EPorvaznik said...

Something to help soothe the sting of a Walker-less field ...

NYC, it’s rat-tastic!!! Big ups to Mayor De Blasio, continuing to preside over a city returning to Death Wish-era days. Wherefore art thou, Charles Bronson???

https://twitter.com/DNAinfo/status/646040887429070848/photo/1

Koshcat said...

Re: Walker; not a surprise based on how poorly his campaign was ran. I think his primary problem was he misunderstood his own appeal to people. It wasn't that he fought the teachers union that made him stand out. It was he fought for what he thought was the right thing to do and it worked. It's subtle but different.

Anthony said...

I'm sure Jindal is due for a surge any day now...

BevfromNYC said...

EP - Oh, come on. That NYC rat is a survivor just like the rest of us. They work harder than our sanitation department. Imagine what the streets would look like without them! And anyway, the rats outnumber us 2:1, so we have to be nice to our Rat Overlords a/k/a our Legislature, our City Council etc. And once the Pope blesses us, everything will get better, right? And it entertaining that The Blas actually thinks that the he will get a 2nd term with a 23% approval rating. Incidently that is exactly the percentage of registered who that voted for him.

AndrewPrice said...

Eric, Is there a difference between a Rat and a DemocRat?

AndrewPrice said...

Koshcat, I can't honestly tell you what Walker's campaign did. I don't remember any speeches, issues or even appearances. He was Governor Bland as far as I can tell.

AndrewPrice said...

Anthony, I think Jindal already had his surge when he went from 0.0% to 0.0% support.

AndrewPrice said...

Bev, You should run cats or exterminators. :D

BevfromNYC said...

Andrew - We already have a cool cat and exterminator. His name is Preet Bharara...the US Attorney who keeps indicting and jailing our local DemoRat populaton. ;-D

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