Whether it's Ted Cruz's dad, or Rand Paul's assistant, you can count on those around the candidate to be more honestly forth-coming than they are, if just as difficult to understand:

“Most conservatives are not, and never were, racists, but many have displayed a disregard for minorities for a very long time and in a plethora of ways. I certainly did.

Minorities think we don’t like them. Not enough conservatives have tried to convince them that’s not true.

The same conservatives who say they believe government treats everyone badly were not willing to see how that was true for black Americans. They either don’t see it or don’t want to see it. I used not to see it. For that, I am very sorry.”

ACCEPTED.

Good Ol' Mitch has stopped listening to Rand Paul's insane whispers:

“McConnell said the Tea Party was ‘nothing but a bunch of bullies,’” the source said. “And he said ‘you know how you deal with schoolyard bullies? You punch them in the nose and that’s what we’re going to do.’”

And that's The Republican Party I know and love,...

 

“I said, ‘That’s asinine! That’s idiotic!’ If you’re doing positive things in the Black community go out and share with the public what you’re doing. They are afraid of anything that has a racial component to it. They don’t know how to respond to it.”

"Time for this feud to move back to the front burner."

“Does anybody remember Charlie Sheen when he was kind of going crazy ... And he was going around, jumping around saying ‘Winning, winning, we’re winning’? Well I kind of feel like that, we are winning. And I’m not on any drugs.”

It looks like the smarter half of Dumb & Dumber acted like it:

  A key challenge for Paul if he runs would be to make himself acceptable to — if not win over — traditional Republicans. His low-key approach to the shutdown and debt limit drama could help that cause.

“He was a reasonable voice in a very difficult time for the party,” said one top national GOP strategist. “He wasn’t as strident as Cruz. When he recognized there was no real end game in sight, he recoiled. He wasn’t on the tip of the spear. I think that did him a lot of good with a lot of Republicans, a lot of conservatives.”

Even Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) — whose budding presidential campaign is predicated upon taking on Paul and the tea party wing of the GOP — had kind words for how the Kentuckian has acquitted himself.

Paul is “a gentleman,” King said. In contrast, “Ted Cruz is totally different,” he continued. “I consider him to be a demagogue. … I’d say by comparison, Sen. Paul has gotten better. I have real problems with Sen. Paul’s positions, but Ted Cruz is in a class by himself.”

So, as the low-hanging fruit of Right-Wing "intelligence," all Cruz mostly succeeded in doing is taking himself out. Which is what Paul and King should do as well - willingly. They can't win the nomination or a national election. We coalesce around Christie for the White House:

We can turn this thing around,...

 

Alright, who's making popcorn? Is anybody making popcorn? We're gonna need popcorn:

“There is a very large silent majority that’s getting frustrated with what’s happening because of what these outside groups have done by setting false expectations, deliberately misleading the public on some of these issues and commanding allegiance of certain members who falsely place their allegiance to these groups rather than to their constitutional responsibility to govern.”

Like blacks, it sounds like the Tea Party's about to learn what it feels like to be outnumbered - by a hostile group,...