Now that the Democratic contenders have been whittled down to three with Clinton taking victory laps, Bernie trying to herd his cats over the finish line, and O’Malley just hoping someone will pay attention, the next event is another round of Republicans. There will still be a kiddie’s table consisting of Santorum, Jindal, Pataki, and Graham, all of who are glad if someone tells them “Good Morning”. For the main event, we have Trump, Carson, Rubio, Bush, Fiorina, Cruz, Huckabee, Christie, Kasich, and Paul.
None of the above have shown any real capacity or talent for the job they are seeking, but something interesting might be said.
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
CNBC Republican Debate
8pm ET (7pm CT, 5pm PT) – Main primetime debate
6pm ET (5pm CT, 3pm PT) – Undercard debate
Aired On: CNBC
Location: University of Colorado in Boulder
Sponsors: CNBC
Moderators: Carl Quintanilla, Becky Quick, and John Harwood
83 responses to “Up And Coming”
Jeb Died on That Stage
And the Republican Party’s refusal to update its ideas may doom the rest of the field.
By Jamelle Bouie
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/10/jeb_bush_suffered_another_crushing_defeat_in_the_cnbc_debate_republican.html
Hillary Clinton won the third GOP debate. Here’s why
By Douglas E. Schoen
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/10/29/hillary-clinton-won-third-gop-debate-heres-why.html?intcmp=hpbt1
for jack
from http://www.wsj.com/articles/mets-drop-game-2-to-royals-fall-into-0-2-world-series-hole-1446089700?mod=rss_newyork_main
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—The Mets lost the first two games of the World Series in 1986, and it didn’t stop them. They roared back to win four of the next five and secure the franchise’s second—and most recent—championship.
So it can happen. A team can recover from a 2-0 deficit in the World Series. A previous incarnation of the Mets proved that nearly three decades ago.
But these Mets, the ones currently two losses away from oblivion, can’t do much with a cute little story from yesteryear that almost none of them can actually remember. No, they need something more than that, because right now, they look outclassed by a Royals squad sitting comfortably in the driver’s seat.
https://youtu.be/Ymixm6PtVBA
Bernie Sanders Walking the Line Between Personal Attacks and Political Critiques
By PATRICK HEALY and MAGGIE HABERMAN
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/28/us/politics/bernie-sanders-walking-the-line-between-personal-attacks-and-political-critiques.html?_r=0
https://youtu.be/WVvI3AUSxAg
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/irish-born-mets-fan-rewrites-danny-boy-as-a-theme-song-for-daniel-murphy-7837711
Well… I watched it…
After being called petulant children compared to the Dem debaters acting like adults, the goopers decided to try to act more maturely. Yup… by golly… those mean ol’ debate hosts were trying to make it a food fight… but no… goddammit…. keep your cool and all will be well. Yup… attack the press… attack the press!… you mainstream liberal media, you…
oh yeah… and keep talking about tax cuts…. that’ll fix everything….
A clown car trying to hold it’s breath is still a clown car.
Yeah, I watched, too.
Each of the candidates started with the premise that our country was in great shape until those damned Democrats took over seven years ago. With that as the entering assumption they developed whatever rosy scenario they wanted to develop supporting their candidacies.
It was a terrible waste of time. The moderation was dismal. The bandwidth could better have been used to replay excerpts of Hillary’s testimony.
http://www.onlinesportshandicapping.com/horse-racing-picks/102915-2015-breeders-cup-predictions-post-positions-betting-odds.html
man, this is harsh…
from http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/29/jeb-bush-and-rand-paul-should-drop-out-instead-theyll-run-for-president-forever
There is a kind of empty despair at the back of the eyes in photographs of the man now. Events have changed around him in a shattering and profound way for the scion of a political dynasty, a Copernican shift that has so reordered the nature of things as to destroy his cosmology. He’s losing to a reality TV host, a guy who wrote a book that reads like an eighth grader rephrasing the World Book Encyclopedia CD-Rom entry on the constitution and the callow young man he once mentored.
[….]
But if Bush led himself to the gallows onstage, he at least had company. At best, Kentucky senator Rand Paul’s night was a long stretch of silence punctuated only briefly by irrelevancy. For much of the debate, it was tempting to see if the CNBC moderators would ask him to periodically rap his knuckles on the podium to remind everyone that he’s alive.
cont’d thoughts from above guardian piece:
Both Paul and Bush should just drop out of the race, but there’s no reason to expect that they will, because dropping out would be the most practical outcome. If the Republican primary process were governed by the rigors of making any sense, no part of it as currently constructed would exist. Up is down, high is low, water is dry, we wear shoes on our heads, hamburgers eat people and everyone can and will run for president forever.
With Bush there’s some small reason to keep going even if he can’t win. Overlooking the fact that it has to gnaw at Bush’s ambition to forsake the presidency after his idiot brother had the job, a lot of people have sunk a lot of money into Jeb! 2016. Those people probably want a return on their investment, and Jeb! probably feels some obligation to give them a little effort for the cash. Meanwhile, Rand Paul has given every indication over the span of his career that there is no privilege of which he believes himself undeserving, so the process of matching his self-abnegation to the American people’s massive disinterest cannot happen overnight.
They’ll keep running, because they can, because nobody will tell them to stop, and because they don’t really know, in their heart of hearts, that it’s over and has been since the first debate.
a suggested campaign song for both of them
https://youtu.be/TqtEjCW1GSY
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