Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall sizes up whether Donald Trump’s feud with Sen. John McCain will hurt his presidential campaign:
Is Trump a joke? Of course, he is. But if we judge politicians by any other standard than their ability to garner votes and polling support, we’ll soon run out of candidates. If clowns are above your dignity to report on, find another line of work. Especially with this primary field. Trump isn’t a distraction or mere entertainment any more than the rest of the GOP field is. In fact, this version of his candidacy (I can imagine him running more as a Perot-type centrist figure in earlier cycles) is the logical end result of the Tea Party-ization of the GOP since 2009. Trump is running an angry, populist campaign focused on xenophobia and “I don’t care what you think” aggression against ‘the establishment’ and ‘elites’ of all stripes. To think that trash talk against an establishment favorite, who is only marginally relevant to the politics of the moment in any case, will upset that apple cart is to thoroughly misunderstand the politics of the moment. Trump is the Frankenstein’s Hair Monster, finally walking among us, who is the inevitable product of a decades long embrace of clown-show anti-establishmentism and the stoking of xenophobic and racial paranoia.
This article appears in Jul 16-22, 2015.
Are murdered Americans a joke?
Are Veterans being shuffled back and forth postponing needed medical care a joke?
At least somebody is talking about more than amnesty.
The Bernie and Hillary Show have nothing to offer but increased taxes.
Al Franken on John McCain in 2000:
Fifteen years ago, Al Franken took a dig at John McCain for being captured during the Vietnam War.
“I have tremendous respect for McCain but I don’t buy the war hero thing,” Franken wrote in an essay about the 2000 elections. “Anybody can be captured. I thought the idea was to capture them. As far as I’m concerned he sat out the war.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/al-franken-criticize-jon-mccain-captured-donald-trump-120359.html#ixzz3gTh8351t
Call him whatever you want now in an attempt to tear him down. You’ll be calling him Mr. President soon enough. He’s the only hope that we the people have to take back our country.
How is a bigmouth racist with dodgy business ethics going to help take our country back? If you think he’d care about anyone but the 1% you’re kidding yourself. We may as well have Comcast the Corporation become president. Remember: they’re people too.
I’m beginning to think that the Republicans are paying him to take the heat. The Left is frothing at the mouth and all the other candidates are getting away with murder.
I miss you Vince Foster. RIP
The Tucson Weekly must be getting hard-up for news. Josh Marshall has a lot of balls calling Trump a joke, really? The biggest joke is the asshole in the Whitehouse right now; Obama has fucked America upside down along with the dimwit democrats. If a republican came out and just write a law letting illegals stay here we would never hear the end of it, along with his health care crap that places most everybody from 40 hrs. a week to 20. Josh Marshall is the fucking joke along with all the other bleeding heart librals.
Feather merchants, During the early days of the US Army, perhaps as early as the Revolutionary War, it was used to describe unscrupulous merchants (perhaps precursors of Haliburton) who would include rocks and other heavy objects to add weight to the feathers sold to the government that were used for soldiers’ pillows, mattresses and such, so to increase the contractors profits. The only thing worse is the yes master sycophants that trail behind the bigmouth bus that carries all their fears, justifications and bigotry with a big US flag on one side and a confederate flag on the other side.