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A commenter mentions that I neglected Carson in my summation of the GOP candidates.

No. I didn't.

I just had to stop somewhere.

The list keeps changing all the time.

I used the CNN tabs for my summary.

The sad fact is that I don't know anything about Carson.

Declared 2016 GOP candidate: Ben Carson. Ben Carson is the former director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore. He was appointed to serve on the President's Council on Bioethics in 2004 by then-president George W. Bush.Aug 14, 2015

He was not included in the lineup that I consulted.

Another doctor. MD. Of some renown.

I suppose I could say a bit fat "so what". But that would be unkind.

In my own defense, I can only say that the list keeps shifting and somehow I did miss him.

Now that I have looked at him a bit, I would put him in a list of not-serious wing nuts who don't have a chance.

There. Job done.

Who else did I leave out. Sarah Palin is not running as far as I know.

Labels: Ben Carson, GOoPers, right wing, right wing bastards, wingnuts

Today, the analysis continues.

By tomorrow, no one will give a shit.

A lot of it is the standard stuff. Immigration, cross voting Democrats (which becomes increasingly discredited) but the real nut, as I pointed out yesterday was probably Cantor himself. An insufferably arrogant little prick.

Matt Bai agrees. Do we care any more? Just one more time.

Cantor Didn't Need to Move Right He Needed to Get Real

Hubris my friends. "With all due respect".

Don't let the door smack you on the ass on your way out Eric!

Labels: GOP, Republicans, right wing, world class assholes.

We do not get to see huge landmark events in recent politics.

But this is a shocker to everyone.

Eric Cantor to Step Down as Majority Leader

It is a precipitous fall in a "take it for granted" career. He was thought to be the successor to Boehner. Not now.

Experts seem to differ on what happened. One is that the nasty right got him right where we would like to see someone of his ilk gotten. Another is that in an open primary a lot of Democrats crossed over to give Eric a big black eye.

Whatever the case, it is an interesting development and probably not good news.

It is almost laughable to think of Cantor as a liberal voice but he was that for his party. One of the few. They will now be an endangered species. And anyone seeking to moderate, to work with the Obamas, will be seen as a traitor to a newly amplified cause.

For Democrats, in the short term, it is just a pain in the ass. His power is gone and it took only a day for the rabble to eat him whole. Scrambling to take his place. No one to work with now. A new face.

In the longer term it is just one more step in the long retrenchment of the GOP into a minority party with little to say for itself but archaic negativity and mossback points of view.

It cannot be good news for them.

Time will tell.

I suppose there are some factors that will reveal themselves on closer reporting. Evidently Cantor's electorate thought him insufficient. Whether that is in his loyalty to the tea partyish thinking or his neglect or them as "his people" is not too clear. Maybe the Democrats did take revenge with crossovers.

Maybe it is a lot simpler than that.

Cantor has always struck me as a supercilious bastard. A priss. A dogmatist without any core. Perhaps even a poseur. An empty shell.

It does seem that he took things a little for granted a little too long in his district. Tip Oneil always said that people expected you to ask for their vote. Simple enough. But a lot of guys get busy with being the GUY to remember that. A bit too big for their boots. In need of an ego trim.

Cantor strikes me as that kind of guy.

A jerk who needs to get jerked out of his seat.

Whatever the case, I do not think that he will standout in history for much of anything but ambition. Ego. To be the guy. And that is a pretty low bar to cross.

Labels: GOP, politics, right wing, world class assholes.

This is amusing. The wingnuts got caught with their biases showing!

Rand Paul Condemns Cliven Bundy's Remarks on Blacks

For about 48 hours, this obvious right wing cowboy got a lot of right wing press for standing up to old Uncle and defending his rights to graze his cattle where he fuckin' wants.

Instant support from the talking heads at Faux News and other right wing outlets.

Then, they realized that he had somehow slipped in a rather blatant comment about "the blacks" and, on second reading, they ran for the hills.

Presumably the city slickers could find the hills, this being the wide open spaces.

And then, to add even more amusement, Old Clive went to the microphones and repeated the slur all over again.

Why is it that in addition to being wrong a lot of these guys manage to be outspokenly stupid as well?

Rand Paul was smart enough to catch himself or his staff was. The second round of racism got a lot of the righties crawling out from under the big pile of cowshit that Bundy had delivered.

What fun!

I don't know if Clyde is right about his grazing rights or not. He had a lot of support from other ranchers.

But then this is another example of conservative hypocrisy. Decry the government handouts to others but protect your own benefits. There is nothing wrong with taking government help. Or using government land, to be specific. Just don't be a dumbass about it and fly under the radar like the rest of us. Reserve your outrage for things you are not doing and would not do.

NB: The American Flag across the right shoulder. Flag wavers. Beware of them.

Labels: right wing, wingnuts