There it is - the writing on the wall - the black message is clear:

  "If Hillary runs for the nomination, she gets it. Period.”

So - here we are again, conservatives:

Either you win my vote, or you don't stand a chance.

You don't stand a chance,...

 

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.

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Really - based on what he thinks the job requirements are:

I'm over-qualified to replace this guy,...

 

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,...

 

"Whatever Bill Clinton’s motives — Republicans say,…"

“Republicans love people who have money”

“40% Of Veterans Need Food Assistance”

“He, for whatever misguided and terribly cynical reason, believed that his punitive retribution against a community represented by Democrats would somehow encourage that community to support Republicans.”

"A Houston electrician known mostly for his personal crusades against LGBT rights and the city’s lesbian mayor has won a seat on the Houston Community College Board of Trustees after pretending in campaign materials to be African American,…

…KHOU reported that Wilson pulled stock images of people of color from websites and magazines and used them to make fliers to distribute in his district.

Wilson, a conservative white Republican with tea party leanings, realized that he had little to no chance of beating 24-year incumbent Austin in his heavily African-American district, so Wilson decided not to run as a white man."

"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.”

Consider - the Right-wing's many "scandals" have come to absolutely nothing, Syria was cornered without a war, and Ted Cruz's Tea Party faction was outmaneuvered - but here's the (politically pathetic) conventional wisdom after a mere website screw-up:

"Surely, it must be happening, an emergent Obama nostalgia, to take the edge off the dreariness of what the Obama administration has become."

Or - just as "surely" - somebody's still seeing what they want to see, imagines they see, or are told to see.

Which is how we got Obama (including the real man) in the first place,...



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People losing insurance is the only problem I see Obama with, right now, and only because lives are at stake.

It's shocking, to me, what lies y'all decide are important. Very selective. "If you like your plan you can keep it" is worthy of outrage, while "water is medicine" is over 200 years old but long received either a shrug of the shoulders, prominent placement at Whole Foods, celebrity endorsements and/or some viciously aggressive evangelizing that "you can believe what you want to believe."

Obama's critics' long-standing hypocrisy, in this regard and others, serves only to highlight their own opportunistic nature and/or slavery to the ambitions of those behind today's almost-substance-free 24 hour news cycle.

They're a sad replacement for actual wisdom - and work,...

A new documentary finds exactly what and who I said was happening during the primary:

The not-so-secret hero of “Caucus” is former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, who plugs his way across Iowa in his Dodge pickup and an endless wardrobe of endearingly dreadful sweater vests, talking to anyone and everyone who will listen. He’s almost a Frank Capra character, a plainspoken man of principle who believes in old-fashioned politics and refuses to tell lies just to get elected. “Caucus” is in many ways the story of Santorum’s triumph, short-lived as it turned out to be: Despite polling in the low single digits in the fall of 2011, Santorum outlasts Bachmann, Gingrich, Cain and Perry and winds up in a dead heat with Mitt Romney, candidate of the GOP establishment.

Let’s be clear: I wouldn’t vote for Rick Santorum for dog-keeper if the other candidate were a dog. He’s a committed Christian conservative – actually, a Catholic conservative, a subtle but important distinction – who is forcefully opposed to abortion rights and marriage equality, and rejects the scientific consensus on climate change. I do not lament the fact that he didn’t get elected to national office (and never will). But amid all the overheated anti-Obama rhetoric and wild, unfulfillable promises of the Iowa campaign, Santorum comes off as the only candidate who isn’t telling people exactly what they want to hear, and who isn’t fueling hatred for its own sake.

So, once again, the Republican Party - in it's so-called wisdom - wasted the best candidate it had going,...

 

"Last year, Chris Christie was elected chairman of the Republican Governors Association and he officially takes over that post in Arizona in 15 days. It’s a position with a high national profile, money to spread around and a bully pulpit.

So, in way, Christie’s power just doubled…"

Well, what is a Christian, after all? Can we say that most of us are defined by the belief that Jesus Christ made the most gracious gift of his life and death for our redemption? Then what does he deserve from us? He said we are to love our enemies, to turn the other cheek. Granted, these are difficult teachings. But does our most gracious Lord deserve to have his name associated with concealed weapons and stand-your-ground laws, things that fly in the face of his teaching and example? Does he say anywhere that we exist primarily to drive an economy and flourish in it? He says precisely the opposite. Surely we all know this. I suspect that the association of Christianity with positions that would not survive a glance at the Gospels or the Epistles is opportunistic, and that if the actual Christians raised these questions those whose real commitments are to money and hostility and potential violence would drop the pretense and walk away.

H/T - Ann Althouse

"Being a social conservative is not by itself a political death sentence even in deep-blue territory."

Doug Phillips of Vision Forum and Vision Forum Ministries resigned last week over an extramarital affair. That always seems to happen to Anti-gay, anti-feminist, anti-all of you, GOP God worshippers.

"The disastrous launch of the ObamaCare website is the only lifeline left for the GOP to grab at the moment," says Nina Easton at Fortune. With the party's poll numbers in the toilet after the government shutdown, "it may not be enough."

"This is a non-story. Benghazi was a tragedy. It's not a scandal. Republicans are going to investigate this until the end of the Obama administration. They will find nothing, because there's nothing to be found there,…You're looking for some sort of smoking gun to implicate the president and Hillary Clinton. That's all that anybody is interested in. And there's nothing there."