This the, "I've always wanted to kill another president" look. pic.twitter.com/QPxxNqDOl5
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) May 3, 2016
This is 2016, and #LeeHarveyOswald is trending on Twitter, because such is the state of the Republican presidential campaign. Per Politico:
Donald Trump on Tuesday alleged that Ted Cruz’s father was with John F. Kennedy’s assassin shortly before he murdered the president, parroting a National Enquirer story claiming that Rafael Cruz was pictured with Lee Harvey Oswald handing out pro-Fidel Castro pamphlets in New Orleans in 1963…
“I mean, what was he doing — what was he doing with Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before the death? Before the shooting?” Trump continued. “It’s horrible.”
Trump’s tangent followed his rebuke of Rafael Cruz using the pulpit to court evangelicals for his son.
“I implore, I exhort every member of the body of Christ to vote according to the word of God and vote for the candidate that stands on the word of God and on the Constitution of the United States of America,” Rafael Cruz said in a video clip aired by Fox News. “And I am convinced that man is my son, Ted Cruz. The alternative could be the destruction of America.”
Asked to respond, Trump called it a disgrace. “I think it’s a disgrace that he’s allowed to do it. I think it’s a disgrace that he’s allowed to say it,” he said, before touting his support from Jerry Falwell Jr. and other evangelical leaders.
“You look at so many of the ministers that are backing me, and they’re backing me more so than they’re backing Cruz, and I’m winning the evangelical vote,” Trump continued. “It’s disgraceful that his father can go out and do that. And just — and so many people are angry about it. And the evangelicals are angry about it, the way he does that.”…
Has anyone bothered to ask Rafael Cruz if he killed JFK? Maybe Trump could reassign his Hawaiian investigators onto the case.
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) May 3, 2016
Failgunner Ted promptly returned fire, per the LA Times:
… “This man is a pathological liar,” Cruz said. “He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth.”…
Cruz called Trump “a narcissist at a level that I don’t think this country has ever seen. … Everything in Donald’s world is about Donald.” Not only that, Cruz said, Trump is “utterly amoral. Morality does not exist for him.”…
For good measure, Cruz also called Trump a “serial philanderer.”
“And he boasts about it … describes his battle with venereal disease as his own personal Vietnam,” Cruz added…
I actually heard @tedcruz just call @realDonaldTrump a "liar" but not denying HIS father knew & hung out with Lee Harvey Oswald-Ted???
— Sharon Andreas (@SharNeal) May 3, 2016
I can't believe the Zodiac Killer's dad helped Lee Harvey Oswald kill JFK!
— W. Axel Foley (@WAxelFoley) May 3, 2016
Me, I’m rooting for injuries. But the Sad! part — to quote one contestant — is that we all know where this will devolve, once Cruz has lost his final primaries…
Cruz last year: Trump is terrific #dealwithit
Cruz now: Trump is pathological, immoral.
Cruz in a few weeks: Time to put division behind us— Michael B Dougherty (@michaelbd) May 3, 2016
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
Wild beasts, wildebeests, Hildebeasts – and then there are Strandbeests.
Click, then wait a couple of seconds. I am really looking forward to seeing these in the flesh and on the loose.
Emma
I have officially reached my WTF!!! REALLY, WTF!!! with the Republicans. Good golly.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I have no idea if Nixon would’ve said this, but I love this guy
Sad_Dem
I feel for Penelope Cruz.
Emma
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: Those things are amazing!
dlwchico
“describes his battle with venereal disease as his own personal Vietnam,” is amusing.
dmsilev
To be fair, Ted Cruz is an expert on the subject.
NonyNony
I have to admit – the Zodiac Killer/JFK assassination connection was staring us all right in the face and it just took Donald Trump to point it out to us.
Now the truth needs to come out about the Cruz family’s involvement with the Roswell coverup!
Bitter Scribe
How presidential. Both of them.
The Dangerman
IRL, I’ve met Hillary supporters, I’ve met Sanders supporters, I’ve met Cruz supporters, and almost all the rest (hell, I may have run into a Baud supporter); I’ve yet to ever run into a Trump supporter. What rocks do they live under? Who are these people?
ETA: I live in CA, the bluest of the blue States; perhaps that’s the problem.
feebog
I think we all knew the elder Cruz was batshit crazy. Nice to have it confirmed on Fox News. Thanks Roger Ailes!
Schlemazel Khan
The involvement in the Kennedy killing aside, wouldn’t Cruzifer Sr. being pro-Castro get Little Nicky tossed from the GOP?
Major Major Major Major
I found an absolutely brilliant ink painting at the SF Zen Center, can anybody help identify? (Yes, I’ll ask next time I’m there)
Gin & Tonic
@Emma: They are amazing. They are not, though, “evolving” as the ad copy says.
Gin & Tonic
@Major Major Major Major: Is that Cole?
Anoniminous
This year’s GOP primary is AmazeBalls. No matter how cray-cray it gets and how one thinks it can’t possibly get ANYMORE cray-cray.
It does
Luthe
@The Dangerman: I live in CT and was in PA for the weekend. Trump bumper-stickers and lawn signs do exist in the wild; I’ve seen them.
@Schlemazel Khan: All sins, including supporting Fidel, are washed clean when you are born again as an Talibangelical.
redshirt
Can’t wait for the “party of adults” to be back in charge….
Schlemazel Khan
@Major Major Major Major:
That is JC contemplating the commetariate here
of course, @Gin & Tonic: got there first!
MattF
It’ll be interesting to see which Republicans manage to swallow their reflux and endorse Der Trump. Note, e.g., that the oh-so-moderate Jon Huntsman has done it. Could it be that Huntsman isn’t actually quite so moderate? So many questions, so few answers.
smith
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: I always loved strandbeests! Theo Jansen is some kind of nutty genius. Did you know you can get kits to build your very own wee strandbeest?
Anoniminous
@Major Major Major Major:
Portrait of Bodhidharma
Villago Delenda Est
@dmsilev: The two of them are projecting at each other like the multiplex down at the Mall over Memorial Day Weekend.
NonyNony
@The Dangerman:
RCP Polling average for the GOP primary in California: Trump 50.7%, Cruz 24.3%, Kasich 17.3%
Half of the California GOP is telling pollsters that they’re voting for Trump. So no, “I’m in California” isn’t the answer.
The Trump supporters I know are all angry white guys – with a few angry white women in the mix but not many. They tend to be loud and obnoxious about their politics and their religion, but not really “religious” – everyone knows that they’re a Christian because they say so (often) but that’s about the only reason you know it. One of them drives one of those “rolling coal” trucks. Guy at the end of my block has a Trump sign up in his yard to match the Confederate Flag he’s had hanging from his porch for years.
There aren’t a huge number of them here in central Ohio, but they’re around. I imagine that they live in the parts of California you don’t visit very often.
Mike J
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: These are what I imagined when I read The Peripheral.
gvg
so in other words Trump is too gullible to be allowed anywhere with power. What a stupid man who doesn’t know a joke when he hears one. Just an idiot. I guess I knew from the birther nonsense but this? How could anyone believe this?
Villago Delenda Est
@NonyNony: There’s another tie in: was some Cruz relative seen snorkeling near the USS Maine in Havana harbor?
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Major Major Major Major: A quick Google Image search pulls up this from a Yelp review:
HTH!
(But I see that Anoniminous and maybe others got there first.)
Cheers,
Scott.
gvg
@MattF: I think the Huntsman thing may be a kind of lashing out at the people who rejected him. I can’t explain it, but I think there is a connection.
NonyNony
@MattF:
What’s shocking to me is that Hunstman is a member of the LDS church. My connections in Utah say that Trump is pretty widely despised by Mormons, so I’m not sure what’s going on here. Did Trump give him a fat stack of cash? Or did Ted Cruz do something to really piss him off?
smith
@gvg:
How much of what Trump says do you think he believes himself? He’s fundamentally a salesman, and probably can believe three contradictory things before breakfast every day if it makes him a buck (or gets him a vote).
NonyNony
@gvg:
Does Trump actually believe it or is he just using it? Who knows. What I do know is that you may be very surprised to find out that a lot of people who are inclined to support Trump are probably willing to believe it.
BTW – the National Enquirer didn’t publish it as a joke. They published it because the owner of the NE is a friend of Trump and is doing whatever he can to help Trump win this election. That’s why they put out that story about Cruz possibly having an affair that was so carefully worded that it really didn’t say anything at all. If Trump were calling him the Zodiac Killer it would be “mistaking a joke for a real thing” but that’s not what’s going on here – Trump’s friends are helping him out here.
? Martin
@NonyNony:
Understand that in California, there are nearly twice as many registered Dems as Republicans, and no party preference is roughly equal with the GOP. Just finding a Republican can be difficult, especially if you live along the coast. Even OC is hardly the conservative stronghold people imagine it to be. And then if you do find a conservative, getting them to admit to being one, and then admit to being a Trump supporter – well, that’s going to take some work.
I did see one woman wearing a HUGE Cruz pin the other day. But that’s the only non-Clinton/non-Sanders piece of flair that I’ve seen here in OC. If there are conservatives in OC, they’re laying really fucking low right now.
Sad_Dem
@Villago Delenda Est: Ted Cruz’s uncle Sylvester Cruz cast the deciding board vote in favor of New Coke. Later that same day, at a Microsoft board meeting, he approved the Zune.
rikyrah
For some Republicans, President Trump is a real possibility
05/03/16 12:57 PM—UPDATED 05/03/16 03:05 PM
By Steve Benen
Donald Trump may be lacking in a great number of qualities, but when it comes to self-confidence, his cup runneth over. Naturally, this extends to the Republican presidential frontrunner’s campaign, which he assumes will be a great success.
The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent noted this morning that Trump told an Indiana audience yesterday that defeating Hillary Clinton in a general election will hardly pose any challenge at all. “Folks, I haven’t even started yet,” the GOP candidate said. “Now I’m going to start focusing on Hillary. It’s going to be so easy.”
Trump isn’t the only Republican who’s exceedingly, albeit bafflingly, optimistic about a future Trump White House. During an online chat yesterday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), rumored to be eyeing his party’s vice presidential nomination, insisted that “all 50 states could be in play” with Trump at the top of the Republican ticket this fall.
He did not appear to be kidding. As Gingrich sees it, literally every state – no matter how “blue,” no matter how diverse, no matter how consistently it’s supported Democrats in the recent past – will be competitive thanks entirely to Trump’s broad national appeal.
What’s more, the Washington Examiner’s Byron York reported last week he’s had “private conversations with several stalwart Republicans,” including a former top party official, former members of Congress, and two former managers of GOP presidential campaigns, and he was struck by some of their hopefulness about November.
danielx
@NonyNony:
Is there no end to this conspiracy? How deep does it go?
Also, too – this date is marked in my memory. A long time friend and more-or-less rational Republican registered as a Democrat to vote for Hillary in today’s primary. Said he simply could not abide actually casting a vote for Trump or Cruz, and he wasn’t actually frightened by the thought of her in the Oval Office. Signs of sanity are few and far between these days, and it’s nice to see one occasionally.
I admit the opportunity to give him a raft of shit was completely seized.
catclub
So, I just watched a video where the narrator ends with “…and this is why I love “The Princess Bride” movie so much.”
I love it, too.
narrator was Ted Cruz, surprise.
scav
@The Dangerman: I had to break bread with one, and the hairs on the back of my neck were already rising before those pearls dropped from his lips. Some people I know have very bad nature and nurture when it comes to dating. Someone else at that table (who I do otherwise like) has long been #1 on my list of visages I most want to film when Hilary is elected.
Mnemosyne
@The Dangerman:
I saw a handmade Trump lawn sign in Burbank, so they’re out there.
I’m resisting the urge to ask my lifelong Republican brother who he’s going to vote for. I suspect he may hold his nose and ink the dot for Hillary, so I don’t want to scare him off.
Iowa Old Lady
@Emma: I’m with you. Words fail me.
rikyrah
Man…oh man…
that was too sweet to read….
outside of the GOP getting the nominee that they deserve…
it has been a pleasure, watching that clown lay waste to those urchins.
Rafael is so arrogant…he can’t believe that TRUMP is stopping his ‘DESTINY’ to be President.
THIS is the party where the majority TO-THIS-DAY
Will admit to believing that the President is a MUSLIM.
A Sizeable portion —–way more than a ‘sliver’ – believe that the Current President WAS NOT BORN IN THIS COUNTRY.
And, you think they’ll have a problem with Trump throwing out lunacy like this?
Lips pursed.
Keith P.
Apparently, Donald Trump has no fucking clue what surrogates are used for. *This* is exactly the kind of shit you put Roger Stone on TV (whichever station he isn’t banned from) for rather than do it yourself, so you don’t look like a goddamn loon.
Mnemosyne
@? Martin:
I saw an article in the LA Times within the past couple of years that said Vietnamese-American voters were hanging onto their Republican affiliation, but only for local (same ethnicity) candidates. For statewide offices, they were splitting the ballot and voting Democrat.
Mike J
Trump has other tabloid stories to throw around.
Gin & Tonic
@Mike J: What ever happened to the WWN? I miss that paper.
Trollhattan
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
I guessed Allen Ginsberg.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: That’s what my anecdata says, too.
Ken
@Keith P.: But looking like a loon works with Trump’s voters. It’s part of the “He’s not afraid to say what he thinks” package.
Trollhattan
@? Martin:
Not only is the Dem registration much greater, last poll I saw had “decline to state” breaking significantly to Hillary.
? Martin
@Mnemosyne: Yeah, there’s a lot of different reasons why people vote the way they do. Nearby I have a pile of Taiwanese families that steadfastly refuse to vote for Democrats due to Carter’s signing of the Taiwan Relations Act. Because of when my neighborhood was built, a lot of those families bought homes here in the event they needed to flee Taiwan and over time many of them have moved here. Their view is that Democrats abandoned the people of Taiwan and they will never vote for a Democrat again.
Unfortunate, but not irrational.
I always give them a very gentle approach when I canvas. I know their position and acknowledge it, and make a case that I think might resonate with them. Maybe things will be different this year, but I doubt it.
Mike J
@Gin & Tonic: Stopped printing and reopened web only.
Mnemosyne
Argh. My work computer went kablooey today so I’m having to work from a borrowed laptop. This sucks.
Rolling Along
Big news coming tonight in the next few days from #NeverTrump, including big big developments from Koch and Company.
Donald Trump will have his hands full soon enough!
Anoniminous
A bit of reality from the WaPo:
The bedrock demographic of the GOP is White folks especially old White folks and old White folks are dying. Further the overall percentage of whites as a percentage of the electorate should fall to 69% this year from 72% in 2012 and from 81% in 2000.
We shouldn’t be complacent but taking the Presidency, Senate, and House this time isn’t out of the realm of the possible.
Ken
@Trollhattan: For several years now, the percentage identifying as Republican has fallen, and the percentage identifying as Independent has risen. One theory was that as the party went crazy, people didn’t want to admit they were Republicans. Perhaps now the craziness has begun pushing them into identifying as Democrats.
Mike J
@Anoniminous: Senate maaaaaaybe, but the house is a real stretch. Which doesn’t mean we should give up on it, it means we should work harder. But falling short there isn’t a sign of failure or weakness.
Matt McIrvin
@Ken: Huffington Post’s aggregator shows party identification now rising for both parties (with the Democrats at a consistently higher level), at the expense of “independents”.
However, I should say that I’m suspicious of that result: the polls show enormous spread and variations could depend heavily on changes in the poll mix. Party identification for registered voters is pretty flat.
? Martin
@Trollhattan: Not surprised. There’s not much alignment between what CA conservatives (at least the ones I know) want and what the GOP is selling. Abortion isn’t really a thing here, nor is the religious persecution shit, nor even is immigration any longer. That CA stopped falling apart the minute Republicans were kicked out of office doesn’t seem to be lost on them. They seem to think Brown has done pretty well (they’ll bitch about HSR, though) and I suspect they see Hillary as being not far removed from him.
I don’t expect them to stay here. The moment the GOP finds a non-suicidal platform I’m sure they’ll all go flying back as fast as possible.
MomSense
Can we petition President Obama to sign an executive order declaring this peak wingnut?
Amir Khalid
@Trollhattan:
My guess was Ed Asner.
Mnemosyne
@Rolling Along:
#ReadyForHillary!
jl
Could be worse. Could be like the Democrats with Sanders making sinister hints about what really happened to Vince Foster. Or that the real reason he wants to decriminalize weed is to break the back of the Clinton global drug cartel, run out of that dirt airstrip in Arkansas.
Major Major Major Major
@MomSense: You know that that would just make them crazier, thus immediately obviating itself, right?
MomSense
@Major Major Major Major:
It could bring on the wingularity.
CONGRATULATIONS!
@The Dangerman: Sigh. Good question. My mother is one. College educated, born in Alabama, runs her own business, extremely successful, lifelong Democrat until 2008. Could not and will not accept a black person as the president. All it took was the comments about Mexicans (she has always believed every word, long before Trump came around) and she was on board for life.
Poopyman
@Anoniminous: I did not know that Bodhidharma was Grumpy Cat, but it makes sense!
Rolling Along
@Mnemosyne:
We’re going to recruit a third candidate. If Ted Cruz doesn’t win tonight he is no longer of any concern to us.
The new Conservative candidate will get instant “ON DEMAND” FUNDING from Koch and Company giving them ballot access in all 50 states virtually overnight!
We will send this thing straight the fuck into the House of Representatives this November where Paul Ryan will get to handpick the next president–and he won’t be Trump!
#TakeItToTheHouse
#NeverTrump
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Anoniminous: Needing to win Florida was the reason why the GOP bigwigs were so desperate to anoint JEB? or Rubio as the nominee. They knew it was a long shot with them, but it’s hopeless with anyone else.
Cheers,
Scott.
Major Major Major Major
Is Rolling Along a really funny troll or a normal troll?
Keith P.
I’m just now noticing how big an upper lip area Rafael Cruz Sr. has. If he grew a mustache, it would be EPIC. Or, he could grow one of those John Waters stache’s and look hee-larious.
singfoom
@Rolling Along: So BRINX TRUX straight to the house floor? Why’d you change your nym from RightToRise?
Ken
The weird thing about the Zodiac Killer meme is that Heidi Cruz bothered to deny it, which breaks one of the primary rules of any campaign by giving it more play. Hasn’t anyone in the Cruz campaign heard the story about Lyndon Johnson that ends with the punchline “I just want to make him deny it”?
Anoniminous
@Mike J:
We’ve got a solid shot at the Senate since the GOP won seats in the 2010 wave they had no business winning. The House is another matter but it is doable. Their gerrymandering is going wonky on ’em and Hillary should bring out a ton more women voters who are highly likely to vote party line.
rk
@The Dangerman:
I’ve never met a Trump supporter either. I heard a young high school girl say that “nobody likes Trump”. Yet they have to exist. He beat Cruz in our state by thousands of votes. I just think ordinary republicans are voting for Trump but are too ashamed to admit it out loud.
Rolling Along
@singfoom:
The House of Representstives and Paul Ryan chooses the next President.
Can’t wait to hear the whining from liberals and Trumpkins about how “undemocratic” it is to elect a President by House delegation in the lame duck, lol.
#TakeItToTheHouse
Chyron HR
@Rolling Along:
You can make words come out of your face, but meaning eludes you.
Major Major Major Major
@Ken: You mean the pig-fucking one? This is Balloon-Juice, you can say “pig fucking.”
Pig fucking!
Mike J
@Anoniminous: I will do my best to prove you right.
piratedan
It’s somehow schadenfruedenly awesome how the GOP primary has moved from how high a bar one has to clear to a depth of trench one has to dig…..
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
He went a little funny in the head … you know … just a little … funny.
raven
Gov. Nathan Deal is set to veto the ‘Campus Carry’ bill, sources tell 11Alive News.
Tuesday marked the deadline for Deal to make his decision whether to sign or veto the legislation. The bill would have legalized concealed-carry weapons on Georgia’s colleges.
Iowa Old Lady
@Major Major Major Major: Funny may be the wrong word, but more entertaining than most trolls.
Anoniminous
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
A friend of mine is a Serious Stats Person and knows Florida almost down to the precinct level and he is giving good odds the Dems will win Florida on the statewide level for President and Senate.
MomSense
@Keith P.:
Or a John Bolton stache.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: There was a little problem… with the trucks. …the Brinks trucks…!
CONGRATULATIONS!
@Rolling Along: Doesn’t work that way. Deadlines for this election are all long since passed. Ballots are printed.
Also, you can only throw an election to the House if the Electoral College is tied. As it stands, a tie is not mathematically possible.
Enjoy the sound: President Hillary Clinton.
Rolling Along
@CONGRATULATIONS!:
LOL That’s not how the Constitution works, shithead. If nobody gets a majority in the EC–not just in cases of a tie–it goes to the House. But I guess I should know better than to assume liberals know the Constitution.
As for deadlines we will hijack an existing tiny Third Party (libertarians? Constitutional?) for our own ends. The floodgates of money from the “ON DEMAND” FUNDING can take over one of those two parties rather easily.
We will also write generous checks to Jill Stein and the Green Party to muddy the waters even further.
#TakeItToTheHouse
Anoniminous
@Mike J:
I’ll be working to coordinate my deeds with my mouth as well. If enough of us get out there and bring home our precincts we’ll them bastards an ass-kickin’
Amir Khalid
My reaction to this is dismay on behalf of the young lady, but not surprise.
MattF
Josh Barro on what Republicans will do when Der Trump loses:
Rolling Along
Why not Scott Brown? Would be an intriguing candidate who could bring over blue dog Dems especially in the case of a Hillary indictment?
Brachiator
If you think that Trump has a venereal disease, please clap.
Anoniminous
@Poopyman:
LOL. Yeah, that’s how he is almost always drawn.
aimai
@NonyNony: I don’t know why people think the Mormons won’t come around. Trump is going to be the only game in town and the Utah leadership knows as well as anyone that when you vote Republican you are voting to be kept inside the tent, regardless of who is the circus masterfor any individual go-round. The Mormons have tons of national and international interests to defend. They are not going to feel secure voting for Hillary (unless someone brokers a very high level deal guaranteeing them some serious advantages under a Hillary administration.) so they are going to vote for Trump. Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t. Its just that simple.
Ken
@CONGRATULATIONS!: Those deadlines are for party candidates. There’s still time to file as an independent in all states, though it’s getting pretty tight. Also, Rolling’s sugar daddies better have a heck of a ground game because they’ll need a lot of signatures to get on the ballot.
Ella in New Mexico
Meanwhile, a really good, substantive interview with a completely sane, serious and policy-focused Hilary Clinton is airing on MSNBC. Is anybody Twitter trending THAT?
I guess if she talked about whether Bernie is really circumcised that might get a listen.
“All I want to know is where is the transcript of the Bris, Bernie? Where’s the foreskin?”
Rolling Along
@Ken:
That as well.
Don’t worry, Koch and Company will have every college student in the country getting paid $25/hour to collect signatures for the Independent
Conservative candidate.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Lindsey Graham is lamenting how his party has lost its way and wound up nominating Trump. I’ll wait over here while his friends in the Village liberal media ask him why he went along with Palin, the Garland blockade and did more to make Benghazi into a thing than, I would argue, any other individual. And that’s just politics, we’ll leave policy to the side for the moment.
Still waiting, Chuck? Andrea? Brian?
MattF
@Brachiator: Hm, could be syphillis– its symptoms are notoriously varied. But I think some mood-altering medication is more likely.
Wyliecoat
@The Dangerman: I have a friend who has privately admitted to me that she will vote for Trump but has asked me to keep it to myself. I suspect his supporters are ashamed to admit it.
Rolling Along
“ON DEMAND” FUNDING was not my statement, btw, but a statement from a top contact to a certain GOP donor to characterize their response to an Independent Conservative candidacy.
Getting 100s of millions in the bank virtually overnight will be as easy as choosing a movie on cable.
#TakeItToTheHouse
Brachiator
@Amir Khalid:
I’ve seen racist comments about this everywhere, from the Daily Mail to Yahoo news. Most of the worst posts at the Daily Mail, by the way, were from Americans, not Brits or other readers.
It just says how far we still have to go.
Eric U.
I just hope Trump mentions that Ted is the Zodiac Killer before this is over
RandomMonster
It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
rikyrah
@Rolling Along:
We’re going to recruit a third candidate. If Ted Cruz doesn’t win tonight he is no longer of any concern to us.
tee hee hee
really?
Mnemosyne
@Ken:
Stop trying to talk the troll out of running an independent third-party conservative candidate. It’s totally going to work and bring complete victory to the Republicans. Stop snickering!
Rolling Along
@rikyrah:
You won’t be laughing in November when 2016 becomes Ryan’s Choice.
#NeverTrump will become #TakeItToTheHouse.
singfoom
Why does Ryan’s Choice sound like Hobson’s Choice to me? Hrmmmmm….
Mike J
@singfoom: I was thinking Sophie.
Anya
Is Rolling Along “unlimited corporate cash”? Does anyone remember that troll?
Amir Khalid
@Rolling Along:
Oh come on. Paul Ryan’s chances of being inaugurated President in January are about as good as mine.
Brachiator
@MattF:
I think the whole thing is ridiculous. I was just throwing in a cheap allusion to another Republican contender, Jeb!
NonyNony
@Rolling Along: As a liberal, let me just say that this plan both angers and terrifies me. Nothing could make me more mad and/or afraid than this cunning plan. So I really hope that you are wrong and no deep pocketed conservatives are thinking of investing hundreds of millions of dollars into a plan like this, because it would anger and upset me so very much.
FlyingToaster (Tablet)
@Rolling Along: Are you telling me Senator Centerfold wants to get beat by a girl AGAIN?
Say something racist already so Cole can drop the banhammer again. {Which is what happened to the previous nyms.}
The Koch brothers are on record for sitting this presidential race out. You shoul try to keep up.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@Rolling Along: You’re so right. Pie is absolutely wonderful, and I’m going to have another slice.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Anoniminous: Excellent!
/Mr. Burns
Cheers,
Scott.
akryan
@The Dangerman: My crazy manic-depressive aunt in TN loves the guy. She’s a huge Sarah Palin fan too. She’s a college educated, fairly well-off, white woman. This idea that he’s only getting support from uneducated voters isn’t true. I think he’s getting the crazy eye vote from across the spectrum. Since that is now the majority of the base of the Republican party, he’s winning the Republican nomination.
singfoom
@Mike J:
I think one could argue that Sophie’s choice was a Hobson’s choice. She could choose to not decide and they’d both die. Maybe I’m wrong.
Rolling Along
@FlyingToaster (Tablet):
Nope, off the record they’re “intrigued” by the possibility of an Independent Conservative and a rep talked of “ON DEMAND” FUNDING.
Watch out! Especially in the case of a Hillary indictment.
Ripley
@Rolling Along:
bqhatevwr
Trollhattan
@Major Major Major Major:
As it turns out the Brinks Trucks! were sourced from the Egyptian Army after the Six-Day War. The only gear is reverse.
geg6
I can’t do politics another minute. So how happy am I that my friend Sharon brought me some nice fresh morels that she and her husband collect every year? So happy that I’m making a classic chicken with shallots and morels in white wine cream sauce for dinner. My John has broken down the chicken and I will serve it with parsley noodles and fresh asparagus from the garden. Got a nice Sauvignon blanc to wash it down and apple tart for dessert. I’m walking around the kitchen talking like Julia Child.
NonyNony
@Rolling Along: Has anyone asked how much they’d give for a Hillary Clinton Whitey Tape? Cause if they’ve got a few million lying around, I know a guy who swears he’s got a copy.
MomSense
@Anya:
Was that the one who posted from the woods while hunting?
Mnemosyne
@Anya:
They are one and the same.
Trollhattan
@NonyNony:
May I show you something in a briar undergarment? Please step over to the rack, right down here.
Mike J
@singfoom: Hobson’s is, “this or nothing”. “This” needn’t even be bad, but it is no choice. Sophie’s was an actual choice, both horrific.
Trollhattan
@MomSense:
Nope, huntin’ boy is srv, who refuses to go mano-a-mano with RtR (etc) about his love of all things Trump, while RtR is
firmly.squishily in the anybodybuttrump camp.Tripod
Make him deny it. He did, Trump wins.
I once thought Undertaker Ted might be skilled enough in the Nixonian dark arts to get to the big house in DC. Now I realize he is just one dumb-ass son of a JFK killer…..
Schlemazel Khan
@Major Major Major Major:
Stumbling along blindly is UNLIMITED CORPORATE CASH with a new fleshlight
FlyingToaster (Tablet)
@Rolling Along: now you’re just delusional.
In order to get your indiecon on the ballot in the June deadline states — check ballotpedia — they needed to start last week. But the don’t even have a candidate to petition for. Let alone getting the college kids before finals, and finding enough GOP or indie voters who could be arsed to sign a petition at all.
Hillary isn’t going to be indicted, you ignorant slut.
And Santa isn’t good enough to bring me a third party candidate in 2016. Nah gah hah pen.
CONGRATULATIONS!
@Ken: Quite informative. A viable third-party candidate still has enough time.
Won’t happen, though. Especially not in CA, where Trump is wildly popular among the lead paint contingent.
Mike in NC
@Rolling Along: How is your low energy loser hero JEB! doing these days, sad loser troll?
Mike J
@CONGRATULATIONS!: And the deadline for Texas is next Monday, and needs 80k sigs.
MomSense
There is a three day concert in October in Cali.
Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, Roger Waters, Neil Young, The Who, and Paul McCartney are all playing.
Wow.
Schlemazel Khan
@Stumbling Along Blindly:
That reminds me of an old Peanuts cartoon:
“One day I’ll be President of the United States, then you’ll be sorry!”
“Yes, Charlie, we will all be sorry when that happens.”
It certainly fit W’s maladministration.
Peale
@Rolling Along: Nope. If you’re floating Scott Brown, you got nothing. Ever since Kennedy, parties only turn to candidates from Massachusetts when they are completely in disarray and don’t know who the hell to nominate. Your hopes will be dashed, even if its just to spoil the election and hand it to Walker or whomever you think will be palatable to your House members. We know. We did Dukkakis and Kerry. And you know, too. Or has Romney continued to pay you the big bucks to pretend that he won.
Grumpy Code Monkey
@Anya: I will bet real money it’s Doug J.
Mnemosyne
@FlyingToaster (Tablet):
@Mike J:
Imagine for a moment that Charles Koch has been running a secret under-the-radar campaign to put *himself* on the ballot as a third-party candidate.
I know it won’t happen, but let a girl dream, will ya?
Villago Delenda Est
@NonyNony: Oh, Nony, that is so precious!
Rolling Along
@Mike in NC:
Jeb Bush would have been an absolutely fantastic president. Charter school reform alone (he got Ryder Corporation to fund a whole school system of charters in FL!) will have him going down in history as a conservative luminary.
Sadly the center-right vote was too divided this year and we ended up with 33% of the party, mostly embittered Buchananites, hijacking the GOP.
We could have run on entitlement reforms, tax reform, charter schools and public employee union busting but now we’re going to hear about fantasy walls and tariffs.
Rolling Along
@Mike J:
We will get the TX legislature to move the deadline.
Ken
@Rolling Along: College students gathering signatures? I thought your plan was to bribe-hijack (bribejack?) the Green Party. You don’t need signatures for that, assuming they’re already on the ballot in a state (and the deadlines for parties to get on the ballot are almost all past).
No, you have the much more difficult problem of persuading anyone to vote for the Green Party. I doubt most people will read far enough down the ballot to get to it, much less notice that their candidate is Jeb!Bush, Marco Rubio, or whoever the designated
sacrificial idiotwhite knight is.Plus, it does you no good for the Greens to peel off 10% of the votes in each state, since electors are awarded by plurality in almost all states. If the Greens end up with the usual Green Party count – zero electors – one of the two major-party candidates will get a majority, and your
wank fantasyclever plan of throwing the election into the House fails. The Greens actually have to win a state or two, and that means they need to get more votes in those states than either the Democrats or Republicans.Rolling Along
@Ken:
No no, we fund Jill Stein to jack votes from Hillary in addition to running our own candidate.
Citizens United opens endless possibilities for fucking with the election to our benefit!
#TakeItToTheHouse
FlyingToaster (Tablet)
@Mnemosyne: Dream away, lass! I’d love to see the reich wing piss away a few more billion on this election.
Ken
@Rolling Along:
Ah, you’ve finally said something almost sensible. “Almost” because of the last three words. But I have to agree with the rest, Citizens United has opened endless possibilities for rich conservatives to fuck with the election, and we’ve seen the results in the Republican primary this year, with each sugar daddy backing a different no-hoper candidate long after the sell-by date.
satby
@Rolling Along: crackhead
FlyingToaster (Tablet)
@Rolling Along: That will never happen. Not even if you use Daleks.
CaseyL
@Major Major Major Major: The style looks Japanese. Old Japanese like maybe 17-18th Century.
Mike J
So yeah, whatever you hear either way, don’t believe anything until the votes are counted. I’m predicting the winner gets it by 3, but no idea which way it will be. Not that it will matter. 41-42 or 42-41 delegate split is pretty much the same thing.
hellslittlestangel
@Anoniminous: To me, complacency isn’t saying that Clinton has it sewn up, it’s saying that we can’t take back the house.
Brachiator
@Ken:
I saw something that said that California GOP grandees had spent $55 million on primary candidates, with $36 million going to Jeb!
The money went down a loser rathole. It was all money wasted. So much for “endless possibilities.”
Mnemosyne
@Rolling Along:
Yeah, about those charter schools in Florida, you might want to leave those off the list of Jeb’s successes. “Potemkin village” is a polite term for what seems to be a straight-up scam of stealing money from taxpayers.
Mnemosyne
@hellslittlestangel:
This! As I keep saying, I really think we can take advantage of the Republican collapse this year and run the board. Let’s not throw away our shot.
Ella in New Mexico
@Rolling Along:
Geezus this asshole sounds like he thinks he’s working for Anonymous. Do they have a Guy Fawkes emoticon for this guy?
@FlyingToaster (Tablet)
@satby:
LOLOLO FUCKING L
redshirt
@Grumpy Code Monkey: I wish I could take your money.
redshirt
@Gin & Tonic:
Hostile takeover by Batboy.
NonyNony
@Ella in New Mexico: He’s actually hilarious. 90% chance he’s parody who occasionally crosses the line, 10% chance he’s just a hilarious idiot.
(Seriously – why would he post here if he weren’t trying to make us all laugh? He’s been wrong so many damn times that if he didn’t think this was funny he’d go hang out at RedState)
Davebo
@Brachiator: I saw what you did there….
Davebo
@Rolling Along:
Hilarious! You do realize most of those schools have since closed right?
Schlemazel Khan
@Stumbling Along Blindly:
Dougie, I love you so! I am so tired of all the pissing and moaning and then you bring this assclown sock puppet out to remind us of who the real enemy is, the enemy of intelligence, of reason, enemy of science and humanity, enemy of history and decency, enemy of America really. Thank you, DougJ
cokane
Oswald was a communist sympathizer though. Cruz’s dad defected from a communist country. This is dumb
Davebo
@cokane: Raphael Cruz was imprisoned by Batista and supported Castro before he bailed to Austin to attend UT. So yeah, you’re a bit dumb.
Wapiti
I’ll confess a little confusion as to the Zodiac Killer thing. Yes, Cruz looks like a soulless nasty piece of work. But I remember worrying about the Zodiac Killer as a child, and looked it up: the killings took place in 1968 and 1969. Cruz was born in 1970. Why does this thing have any legs at all?
Villago Delenda Est
@Wapiti: Because it’s an obvious joke to anyone with a small set of working synapses (whoops, there goes the Drumpfenproletariat), and Heidi Cruz actually felt she needed to respond to it.
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
I would think being in on the JFK assassinations would win you votes in this year’s GOP primary.
WaterGirl
@Schlemazel Khan: Excuse me, sir, but I think you might have left off some exclamation points!!!!
JGabriel
Politico:
Shorter Trump: It’s disgraceful that Cruz’s father can do for him what dozens of strangers are doing for me!
AxelFoley
Just want to say that second to last tweet wasn’t mine, even though I like it. Dude’s got a cool Twitter handle, though. ?
Grumpy Code Monkey
@Rolling Along:
Not this year. Lege isn’t in session. But you know that already, don’t you, Doug?