Achilles Last Stand

An Embarrassing Display

Dr. Tar-

Donald Trump took the opportunity at his press conference last night to rebut Mitt Romney’s list of failed Trump brand products by displaying them on stage. It made for a nice photo op. Only it was all so blatantly false and misrepresented that anyone willing to look beyond the surface would find Romney’s words confirmed.....

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Jersey Fat Guy Squashes Rumors He's Being Held Hostage in Donald Trump's Basement

After it appeared like he was being told to get his ass back on the plane after introducing Donald Trump at a campaign event, this may be the moment Chris Christie’s political career strapped on cement shoes and drowned itself in the river:

"New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday addressed those who mocked his stone-faced expression during a press conference on Super Tuesday. 

“No, I wasn’t being held hostage,” Christie said at a press conference in New Jersey."

We're going to file that clarification right along with Yeb Bush’s campaign having to explain that Yeb tweeting a picture of a gun with his name on it was not  a desperate cry for help, though it’s easy to see how so many could assume, jokingly (or maybe seriously!). Humiliating. Embarrassing. And even sadder still.

Earlier this week, the New Hampshire Union Leader, which had endorsed Christie when he was still running for president, published an editorial saying boy, that sure was a mistake, and it regrets the error. Then everyone in New Jersey, including all of its liberal commie rag newspapers, demanded Christie resign to spend more time stuffing his face with nachos and vitamins. So Christie, who is still allegedly the governor of the state, held a press conference to further disgrace himself.

We don't know if we should take Christie at his word, though. Denying that he is Trump’s hostage is exactly what Trump would force him to say if he were Trump’s hostage, isn’t it?

Gov. Christie, if Trump is still keeping you locked up in his classy basement, only allowing you into the light to appear on TV and say nice things about Trump, next time blink twice and use the safe word. How about “salad”? 

If you say “salad,” we’ll definitely get the message.

Thank You MJA for the Linkage!

The Republican 2016 Dilemma

"The Republicans ought to be comfortable in their catbird seat, surveying nothing but knee-high cotton, corn as high as an elephant's eye and blue skies for as far as anyone can see. They have the happy prospect of running against a Democratic foe awash in scandal and chicanery. Few voters like her, nobody trusts her and she seems as likely to land in prison as in the White House.

But the Grand Old Party dare not break out the bubbly, not just yet. It's caught in a curious dilemma. The party elites, with their hands on the familiar levers of the party apparatus, are the helpless hosts of a party they can't control. They huff and they puff and then huff some more, but at the end of the day they're only exhausted, frustrated, and out of breath." — Wesley Pruden, The Washington Times

Bernie Sanders Supporter Redefines the Term 'Grassroots Support'

You Can Burn One for Bernie and His Campaign

Bernie Sanders supporters can take the phrase "Feel the Bern" to a
whole new level by buying weed pipes with the campaign's 
logo from  the Portland-based Stonedware Company.  

Ariel Zimman, a 29-year-old from Portland, told the Center for Public Integrity she will donate 10 percent of all proceeds she gets from sales of ceramic marijuana pipes emblazoned with the Vermont senator's campaign logo to the Sanders campaign. Supporters who want to take the campaign slogan "Feel the Bern" to a whole new level — most likely "Burners for Bernie" — will have to shell out $60 for a pipe and $30 for a chillum, according to Zimman's website. 

Sanders has previously introduced a bill in congress to end the federal prohibition on recreational marijuana and allow states to decide on legalization. But like most legislation Mr. Sander puts forth, everyone just ignores anyway. 

The 29-year-old told the Center for Public Integrity that she's already donated about $150 to the Sanders campaign and plans to send about $200 more in about a month. That's out of roughly $3,000 in pipe sales. "There is profit on my side of the business, but I'm also doing it for their profit as well."

Bernie Sanders Says You Too Should Have the Right To Be Stoned....

H/T mySA

Bernie Tops National Poll For The First Time

The Hill

Bernie Sanders has passed Hillary Clinton at the top of a national poll for the first time in the 2016 race.  A Fox News poll of the Democratic presidential race released Thursday shows Sanders with 47 percent support to Clinton’s 44 percent.

That's a gain of 10 percentage points for Sanders a January version of the poll. Clinton's support declined 5 points.

Clinton posted leads as high as 30 points over the summer, but Sanders has been steadily closing the gap. While no other poll of the race going back to 2014 has ever showed Clinton trailing a rival, she led Sanders by just 2 points in the last two Quinnipiac University tracking polls.

It's unclear whether the numbers are outliers or indicative of a dramatic change in the race. Outside of the Quinnipiac poll, Clinton posted double-digit leads in all three national polls conducted in February, with the largest lead coming in at 21 percentage points.

“One thing that is clear from our poll — and others — is that Clinton has been losing support and Sanders has been gaining,” said Democratic pollster Chris Anderson, who assisted Fox News on the poll.

“And this process appears to have accelerated since the contests in Iowa and New Hampshire.”

Fox released the poll two days before Saturday's caucuses in Nevada, a state where Clinton has also seen a major lead evaporate. A CNN/ORC poll from this week found the White House hopefuls essentially tied there.

The Democratic establishment had long viewed Clinton as the inevitable nominee, but anxiety is growing, with some fearful that the campaign is slipping away from her.

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At This Point, Is It Really Wise to Get in a Poo Fight With the Pope?

Just Seems Like an Unnecessary Distraction to me.....

A Bernie Sanders Presidency

Inauguration Day, January 20, 2017

Tax Day, April 15, 2018

The Anti-Rhythm Sisters

Hillary Faces the Music

Image via Springer's Blog

WAPO Columnist: We Have To Talk About Bill Clinton’s Penis Again.

Graphic via Freaking News

It’s a good thing Hillary Rodham Clinton is running for president, or else some people would be forced to find creative no-holes-barred ways to mention Bill Clinton’s most famous asset. Ever since he left office, it’s been hard to figure out by some how to insert the former president's notorious member into conversation. Which really hasn’t stopped anyone from trying. (Good job, Maureen Dowd!)

But now that the former Senator and former Secretary of State is running for the highest office in the land and blah blahing all the time, all over the place, about how we need a Strong Leader with girly parts, it’s irresponsible to talk about America's most notorious political penis.  Tell us why "Liberal" columnist Ruth Marcus: 

"Ordinarily, I would argue that the sins of the husband should not be visited on the wife. What Bill Clinton did counts against him, not her, and I would include in that her decision to stick with him. What happens inside a marriage is the couple’s business, and no one else’s, even when both halves crave the presidency." 

Marcus is one of those “liberal” “feminists” who is still SO MAD at Hillary Clinton, for letting her husband do infidelities to her, so of course there is a but:  

"Hillary Clinton has made two moves that lead me, gulp, to agree with Trump on the “fair game” front. She is (smartly) using her husband as a campaign surrogate, and simultaneously (correctly) calling Trump sexist...." These moves open a dangerous door. It should surprise no one that Trump has barged right through it....."

It makes perfect sense when you look at it that way, so long as you’ve also taken a whole metric load of acid first. Since Hillary “Doormat” Clinton unforgivably forgave her husband for doing stuff with his penis, and she has the audacity to let her spouse kiss the babies and the butter cow on the campaign trail like every other presidential candidate in history and she has observed (along with the rest of the radical man-eaters' sentients) that Donald Trump is a gross nasty sexist pig, Hillary Clinton started it, and it’s her fault for forcing Trump to bring Bill’s Big Dog into this, by being married to him.

Oh sorry, you probably didn’t take quite enough acid for that, did you?

The bottom line is that Hillary’s run for the Oval Office means the radical feminist and the  internet blogosphere can finally, in the name of “politics,” return to their national obsession of the past with the actions of Bill Clinton and his famous member!

Me, no I wouldn't think of stooping to that......

And What if Trump Wins the Nomination?

Will The Republican Establishment Elect Hillary

by Ben Shapiro  

With both Donald Trump and Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) running ahead of establishment favorite Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) in Rubio’s home state of Florida, the establishment is beginning to realize how precarious its situation actually is. Cruz and Trump are most likely to win Iowa; Rubio is running a distant third in current polling. In New Hampshire, Rubio runs a distant second behind Trump, but he’s grouped in with Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ), Cruz, Governor John Kasich (R-OH) and former Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL).

And so the possibility now arises: if Donald Trump is the nominee, will the Republican Party back him? Or will they destroy the party the way they suggested ardent conservatives were poised to do in 2008 and 2012?

It appears that Republican establishment figures are already thinking along those lines. On Thursday, former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman wrote:

“Republicans, now is the time to defeat this scourge of our party. We can make America great again by defeating the selfishness, arrogance and bigotry of Donald Trump.” 

She called Trump “evil” and compared him to Hitler. She called Trump a threat to “the very foundational values on which our party and our nation were built.”

Does that sound like someone prepared to support Trump if he wins the nomination?

On Wednesday, Politico reported that Bush aides “began looking into the possibility of making a clear break with Trump – potentially with the candidate stating that, if Trump were the nominee, Bush would not support him….the option may still be on the table.”

Meanwhile, Joe Scarborough said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe that if Trump were the nominee, the Republican Party honchos would run a third party candidate to split the vote and give Hillary Clinton the presidency:

“I think Haley Barbour and a lot of the Republican leaders would much rather Hillary Clinton be President of the United States than have Donald Trump represent them as a Republican.” Scarborough went on to suggest that the establishment would recruit Mitt Romney or Michael Bloomberg to run third party to take a “political bullet for his party.”

Back at the end of November, The Hill suggested that GOP donors would back Hillary over Trump: 

“In conversations over the past month, GOP establishment donors have confided to The Hill that for the first time in recent memory, they find themselves contemplating not supporting a Republican nominee for president.”

The establishment and their donor base have spent so much time trying to determine how to lock grassroots conservatives out of the halls of power that they’re now finding themselves overrun – and they’re fleeing into the arms of defeat. Trump’s ascendancy has made one thing crystal clear: the establishment wouldn’t just prefer Hillary over Trump – their decision not to support Trump virtually guarantees Hillary the presidency – but that they would prefer Hillary over Ted Cruz. They could, at any time, move their support from Rubio and Christie and Kasich and Bush to Cruz; if they did so, Cruz would wallop Trump in the primaries. They aren’t doing so, because they hold out hope that Rubio will somehow pull victory from the jaws of defeat.

That hope is fading. The longer they wait, the clearer it becomes that the establishment’s worst nightmare isn’t merely Trump, but something bigger: losing control of the Party to either a hard-line conservative or a populist. It’s their way or the highway.

And if they don’t get their way, they’ll make Hillary Clinton president.

(via The Daily Wire) 

If you have spent 150 million dollars on your campaign and have 3% in the polls to show for it, you might be Jeb Bush.

I suspect the guy in front is just waiting to take the chairs back to the rent-all.

And Now Donald Trump Is Picking on the Mentally Challenged....

Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Fla) DNC Chairman Chair-Human

“You have this crazy, you know Wasserman Schultz, Deborah Wasserman Schultz, who’s in there, highly neurotic woman. This is a woman that is a terrible person. I watch her on television. She’s a terrible person.”

Donald Trump was going after DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz for the media slow pitch softball love-fest that was set up for Hillary Clinton that she passed off as a debate. Now the one thing I have against Trump is the way he goes after  people with mean wreck-less abandon. Damn it Donald Trump, that's a job for us mean wreck-less bloggers! 

But in the case of  Debbie Wasserman-Schitts  I have to give the big guy a pass. Even a clock is right twice a day......

Life Must Suck For The Jebster These Days

 But The Jebster Is Poised For Triumphant Comeback

....Really..... Any Moment Now. 

Life sure sucks recently if your Jeb Bush. But it also sucks if you work on Jeb’s flailing presidential campaign, a term we are using very loosely at this point. If you’re part of the Iowa ground game, you are spending 37 hours a day driving all over the state to cover your “region” because Team Jeb is bad at maps. If you are Jeb’s graphic designer, you gotta explain how the fuck Jeb’s hand turned black while doing a Bush-league job photoshopping him onto a brilliantly fake blue Iowa river. And if you are Bush campaign communications director Tim Miller, you have to say stuff like this:

Bush is gonna make a comeback — you’ll see! — with his rebooted campaign. And then his numbers won’t be stuck in the literal toilet like a common just-barely-top-tier candidate. Jeb’s born-again campaign is like the old one, except more pathetic because now we know for a fact he isn’t the smart one.

But Jeb Can Fix It Good, it’s not too late, he can do president too, Daddy, he can, HE CAN! He has a fresh new slogan, his boy-vag is all rejuvenated and vajazzled, and — as he demonstrated during a weekend chit-chat with Mark Halperin — he’s a leaner, meaner tougher tough-talking take-no-shit GRRRRRRR JEB BUSH!:

Good god, man. Have you not watched Donald Trump strut around the country, guaranteeing he’s gonna make America Great Again, gonna hit her right in the G-spot, ooooh yeah, baby? Can you even fake a tattered shred of confidence?

HALPERIN: Just talk about your resilience, because some people think you don’t know how to fight.

BUSH: They don’t know me. They don’t know me. I eat nails when I wake up, then I have breakfast.

OK, then, obviously not.

Jees Jeb. Pull yourself together. You’re pathetic. You’re tragic. We can barely bring ourselves  to mock you because that’s how freakin' sad you are. Obviously, we will continue to do so anyway, but we will feel a little bad about it until you make it stop. Which you should do pretty much now, for your own good.

Cause when ya behind Bobby Jindal in the polls, it's time to throw in the towel big fella!

(Bloomberg)

Touché - Media Hit With Cruz Missile.

Has Trump's Trash Talk Finally Caught Up With Him?

Why Trump’s Poll Numbers Are Falling in Iowa

The Spectacle

Donald Trump is baffled as to why his poll numbers are suddenly falling in Iowa in favor of Ben Carson. On Sunday, during an appearance on CBS' Face the Nation on Sunday he said, "I don't understand Iowa because frankly, I just left and we had tremendous crowds and tremendous enthusiasm." Trump told the folks at MSNBC's Morning Joe, "I don't get it," as he plans to head back to Iowa today.

Since October 22nd, Trump's poll numbers against Carson in Iowa have been falling and I think it's pretty obvious why. That day Trump sent out a tweet which read:

"@mygreenhippo #BenCarson is now leading in the #polls in #Iowa. Too much #Monsanto in the #corn creates issues in the brain? #Trump #GOP"

Donald Trump forgot the first rule of politics - don't insult people who you are trying to persuade to vote for you.

Sure, Iowans might have enjoyed it when Trump dissed Jeb Bush, insulted Megyn Kelly and threw Jorge Ramos out of his press conference. But Iowans become the target of Trump's ire they don't like it so much. And yet this surprises Trump? I can see how though. Almost everything Trump has touched has turned to gold for the past four months. If he could get away with insulting Jeb, Kelly and Ramos then he probably he figured he could away with insulting voters in Iowa. My friends this is called hubris.

A secondary reason for Trump's decline is his denigration of Ben Carson's faith. Last Saturday, at a rally in Jacksonville, Florida, Trump said, "I'm Presbyterian. Boy, that's down the middle of the road, folks, in all fairness. I mean, Seventh-day Adventist, I don't know about. I just don't know about."

Now I have some strong reservations about Carson. Nevertheless, if Trump wants to regain top spot in Iowa he will have to better than knock Carson's faith. Of course, if Trump has a strong debate tonight in Colorado, then Carson's lead in Iowa (and nationally) could prove short-lived. But any rebound by Trump could also prove short-lived if he insists on cheaply insulting the people who might vote for him and cheaply insulting his opponents who are well liked by said voters.

The Jebster Baffled By Zippers, Magnets..... Life Itself

This awkward moment was not captured by some devious macaca liberal with an iThingy, smeared across the interwebs to humiliate the Jebster who apparently does not possess functioning opposable thumbs.

Oh no. This clip of #JebNoFilter is from the Jeb! YouTube page, apparently because Jeb or the social media moron on his team — probably the same one whose Photoshop skills need ALL the work, unless Jeb’s hand was supposed to look black, figured this candid moment of Jeb not knowing how to put on a freakin' sweatshirt would ......we don’t even know what they figured, honestly. Making fun of Jeb is starting to feel mean. Like kicking a three-legged puppy or something. So please, Jeb, for the love of whatever “really cool things” you hold dear, just stop it already.  Put yourself out of your own misery, and put us out of your misery too, because watching you fail harder than the average Bush is so excruciating, we almost cannot bring ourselves to mock you for it anymore. Almost.

Joe's Runnin'......or maybe the Opposite......

We were so young and innocent, back during bikini season, when sources of varying kinds....who even remembers now.....were tellin' us Joe might run for president. But then he didn’t. But then CNN said,  “Please, pretty please, Mr. Vice President, boost our ratings and come to our debate and we will walk your dog and fold your laundry, PLEASE?” But then he still didn’t run.  *sigh*
 

What Was She Doing With This Classified Iraq Info?

Commentary Magazine

The British press is all aflutter with reports that Prime Minister Tony Blair promised to back President George W. Bush in Iraq a year before the Iraq War began. The then-classified letter that was attached to a Hillary Clinton email is much ado about nothing. In it, Secretary of State Colin Powell states, “On Iraq, Blair will be with us should military operations be necessary. He is convinced on two points: the threat is real; and success against Saddam will yield more regional success.”

That the British press ignores the conditional phrase “should military operations be necessary” reflects poorly on the British press.

What is interesting, however, is why Clinton would have such a document attached to the email. Once a politician, always a politician: It seems Clinton and her top aides were much more interested in trying to dig for dirt on the Bush administration to prove the cheap political rhetoric and conspiracy that Clinton, Joseph Biden, and Barack Obama engaged while American troops were in harm’s way and after Clinton and Biden at least had voted to put them there.

Even more interesting, however, is that the lack of leakage of any such findings to back the conspiracies embraced by Obama, Clinton, and Biden show just how false they were: The war was not pre-ordained. Rather, it is prudent to plan just as hard for war as it is for diplomacy. If anything, Bush put the kibosh on any real post-war planning for much too long due to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice’s fear that the “optics” of planning for occupation might undercut diplomacy and antagonize European states.

Many prominent Democrats also bought into the conspiracy that the Iranian government had actually offered a grand bargain in 2003 to resolve the nuclear issue, terrorism, and frozen relations with the United States. It was nonsense, and anyone having basic common sense and knowing the personalities of the Iranians involved or having witnessed the Iranian way of negotiation over the past several years would recognize.

If Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney had, in a fit of arrogance and pique, rejected the Iranian overture, classified material would have shown that. The silence from Obama, Clinton, and others show how cheap the promotion of such conspiracies was.  

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