Catastrophic. Jennifer Rubin at The Washington Post summarizes the past two weeks: Within the past two weeks, the Republicans held a dreadfully negative convention that made Donald Trump and the GOP look worse in the eyes of voters. During that convention, Trump attacked the home-state governor; the Republican National Committee strong-armed the rules committee to run over Sen. Mike Lee … Read More
Post-DNC: Is There A Bounce?
Of course there is. It’s only been a few days, and only three polls are out containing JUST data gathered after the end of the Democratic National Convention. But there are all good. PPP has Clinton +5 (includes Johnson), Morning Consult has Clinton +3; CBS has Clinton +6 (with Johnson added, +5). PPP measured likely voters, the other two measured … Read More
Trump Tries To Bluff His Way Through Foreign Policy
Trump tells @ThisWeekABC the Crimean people appear to want to remain under Russia’s control. https://t.co/1Y4BPPCzUD https://t.co/C2PQQYxCAJ — ABC News (@ABC) August 1, 2016 In an interview on ABC’s “This Week” that aired Sunday, Trump asserted that Russian President Vladimir Putin was not going to invade Ukraine, where pro-Russian rebels — and some Russian special forces — have been operating for … Read More
The Wrath of Khan
Although most of the networks and even the cable news channels did not carry the moving speech of Khizr Khan (the father of the Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq), I’m sure they wish they did. Mr. Khan and his wife were all over the news channels all weekend, and on Morning Joe this morning, doing what they did at the … Read More
Baited By The Tweet
“Imagine him in the Oval Office facing a real crisis,” Hillary said last night. “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.” To be sure, after the convention, Trump let loose with a bunch of Tweets…. although it was clear that this was not Trump himself. This morning though, we … Read More
Highlights From DNC Day 4
It was a very well-orchestrated Day 4 of the convention, with some extraordinary speeches. Unfortunately, the networks and 24 hours cable news stations didn’t cover some of the best ones, like these: (1) The father of a deceased Muslim soldier offering Trump his copy of the Constitution: (2) North Carolina’s Own, Reverend Barber shakes the walls: (3) Friend of mine … Read More
I Loath These People
Not their ideals, not their passion. I loathe their self-righteous ignorance.
A Look At Convention Ratings
For some reason, Trump thinks that success in the political arena has to do with TV ratings. During the GOP debates, he bragged about how he,and he alone, was responsible for the high TV ratings of the debates. So let’s play in that ballpark and see how the DNC is stacking up against the RNC — uh-oh: President Obama’s prime … Read More
A Word To The Bernie DeadEnders
I’ve been fighting with them online for days. Sarah Silverman called them “ridiculous”. I GET that their guy lost, and I GET that that is hard to digest. But some of them — probably (I’m assuming) the fucking millennials — think something is OWED to them before they decide to back Hillary against Trump. Wrong. Anyway, I’m spent from those … Read More
A Bunch Of Funny Side Stories From This Week
(1) NC GOP CAN’T DO ANYTHING RIGHT, INCLUDING MOCKING DEMS When Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Tim Kaine addressed the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia Wednesday night, the North Carolina GOP thought it quickly spotted something wrong. When Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Tim Kaine addressed the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia Wednesday night, the North Carolina GOP thought it … Read More
WikiLeaks Releases Worthless DNC Voicemails
Wikileaks followed up with another DNC release, this time voicemails. Only problem with this release is that its worthless malarkey. The voicemails are purportedly of various people calling up to complain that some donors are favorited over others. Wow, what a revelation, NOT. In one of the 29 voicemails released, a woman who donated $300 to…
Day Four Of The DNC Already?
The stream of news that usually comes from political conventions has been a torrent for the past two days. This has not been a conventional convention. On Day One, you had the homage to Bernie, which spilled into Day Two with the Bernie Deadenders (that’s what I’m going to call those Bernie supporters who won’t vote in unity behind Hillary … Read More
The First Woman To Be Nominated For President In The History Of America
You know, the milestone snuck up on me. But when Hillary Clinton was officially nominated, and Bernie Sanders made a motion to accept her unanimous nomination by proclamation…. well, I kind of lost it. Just a little.
The Case For Trump’s Kremlin Connection
Yeah. It sounds like something out of a movie. Very Manchurian Candidate-ish. But over at Kos, they’ve compiled the facts: [W]ith apparently clear evidence that Russia hacked the DNC and released information designed to harm the Clinton campaign, there’s a question that has to be asked: Why? Why would Russia hack into the emails of one American political party and push out … Read More
Let Me Remind You Fuckers Who I Am
GUEST POST BY HILLARY CLINTON: What the fuck is your problem, America?? I’m Hillary goddamn Clinton. I’m a political prodigy, have been since I was 16. I have an insane network of powerful friends. I’m willing to spend the next eight years catching shit on all sides, all so I can fix this fucking country for you. And all you … Read More