I Believe My GOP Brethren In Iowa...

[Lord Jim]

I think it would be a strong, effective "counter-Trump" nomination strategy (for someone like Jeb or Kasich) to say to the idiots who think it would be a good idea to have a President who is completely unqualified for the job...

"We tried that; it didn't work out really well"....

And combine anti-Obamaism with an attack on lack of experience...

[Sue U]

But instead, ¿Jeb? is attempting to slap-fight with Trump with his own dumb-ass video that is never gonna work, because he's too genteel to back it up with trash-talking on the stump. Who's running his media team? Hasn't anybody told him that thing about wrestling with pigs? You're never gonna out-mean-girl Donald Trump.

[Guinevere]

What Donald Trump Understands About Republicans

Donald Trump’s success is no surprise. The public and the press have focused on his defiant rejection of mannerly rhetoric, his putting into words of what others think privately. But the more important truth is that a half-century of Republican policies on race and immigration have made the party the home of an often angry and resentful white constituency — a constituency that is now politically mobilized in the face of demographic upheaval.

Full (long) article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/02/opini ... .html?_r=0

[Guinevere]

¿Jeb?

Between you and George Will I am snorting my water . . .

[TPFKA@W]

Between you and George Will I am snorting my water . . .

Well you won't get high enough to survive the election doing that. Better up your game to root beer.

[Guinevere]

I'm in the office, silly.

I had a great beer last night though. A grapefruit sculpin.

[Gob]