Obama Ain’t Seabiscuit

[Flanders]

If your spirit needs a boost watch this brief video. It’s only 24 seconds:

Sen. Ted Cruz: 'I don?t trust Republicans' - The Hill's Video

Should you read the text following the video you’ll find this:

McCain said a “small minority of the minority” was blocking progress on the budget and a return to regular order.

But Rubio and Cruz argued that Democrats are trying to use budget reconciliation rules as a back-door way to raise the debt ceiling with just 51 votes, essentially giving "Democrats a blank check." The federal government is expected to reach the debt ceiling this fall.

If picking the “Republican” party’s presidential candidate in 2016 was a horse race Ted Cruz just busted out of the gate to take a commanding lead in the backstretch. Mercifully, John McCain is not entered in 2016 due to advancing senility. It would be tragic watching him turn around and run the wrong way.

Anyway, I expect RINO will join Democrats in saving Hussein’s sagging butt by handing him a major victory in the budget battle. With the help of RINO —— raising the debt ceiling is a prohibitive favorite to pass unless Cruz and others can leg-lock Hussein.

For those who are unfamiliar with the sport of kings, a leg-lock is a tactic that was common in the years before race tracks installed cameras. A jockey on another horse would lock his leg in the leg of the jockey riding the favorite. Once done, the favorite wasn’t going anywhere. Can Senator Cruz get close enough in the debt ceiling battle to apply a leg-lock. I hope so.

For the record, Hussein ain’t no Seabiscuit:

At the eighth pole Ligaroti began to weaken. Richardson grabbed Seabiscuit’s saddlecloth. Seabiscuit was towing Ligaroti forward. With seventy yards to go Richardson released the saddlecloth and snatched Woolf’s whip hand. Then he locked his leg with Woolf’s-- a common roughhouse maneuver in those days. With twenty yards to the wire Woolf ripped his hand free and retaliated by grabbing Ligaroti’s bridle and tugged the horse's head back and to the side as Seasbiscuit’s head bobbed forward. Seabiscuit flashed under the wire first, by a nose.

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Oscar Otis was perched on the clubhouse roof at Del Mar racetrack calling the 1938 race for the first-ever national radio broadcast.

“That was as rough a race as I’ve ever seen in my whole life,” Otis observed. “They were hitting each other over the head with their whips and Richardson had Woolf in a leg-lock. Never seen so much trouble in one race and there was a hell of a stink about it.”

Jockeying for Position: Seabiscuit v. Ligaroti
America's Best RacingThe Jockey Club & NTRA Racing Website
August 2012

Jockeying for Position: Seabiscuit v. Ligaroti

 

[rightwinger]

Ted Cruz is unelectable

Who else ya got?

 

[Flanders]

Ted Cruz is unelectable

Who else ya got?

To rightwinger: Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and Rand Paul are far more electable than Hillary Clinton. Ditto Karl Rove’s pick whoever that might be. Double-ditto the media’s pick. The Internet is slowly overtaking the press’ monopoly on appointing Republican candidates who have been nothing more than acceptable replacements for the Democrat in recent elections.

NOTE: I’m assuming Benghazi will not knock Clinton out of the race altogether. No matter what blame is attached to her she will soldier on “for the good of the country.”

 

[rightwinger]

Ted Cruz is unelectable

Who else ya got?

To rightwinger: Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and Rand Paul are far more electable than Hillary Clinton. Ditto Karl Rove’s pick whoever that might be. Double-ditto the media’s pick. The Internet is slowly overtaking the press’ monopoly on appointing Republican candidates who have been nothing more than acceptable replacements for the Democrat in recent elections.

NOTE: I’m assuming Benghazi will not knock Clinton out of the race altogether. No matter what blame is attached to her she will soldier on “for the good of the country.”

To be elected, a President needs a certain likeability and charisma. Ted Cruz comes off as a prick. Add to his Joe McCarthy persona and he becomes unelectable

While Rand Paul may come off as cuddly and likeable he still has his bat shit crazy side that will shoot one liners that will doom his chances

Neither will appeal to moderates and neither is electable

 

[Flanders]

To be elected, a President needs a certain likeability and charisma. Ted Cruz comes off as a prick. Add to his Joe McCarthy persona and he becomes unelectable

To rightwinger: Your interpretation is nothing more than the politics of personal destruction. Liberals can’t defeat Cruz on issues; so they attack him personally. Were he Santa Claus the Left would say the same things on Christmas Eve.

Incidentally, the media always portrays the Democrat as the smartest person in the universe, while painting the Republican as a dunce. It did not work with Eisenhower, or with Ronald Reagan, or with Bush the Younger. That game has no chance of working against conservatives warming up in the Republican/Conservative bullpen.

While Rand Paul may come off as cuddly and likeable he still has his bat shit crazy side that will shoot one liners that will doom his chances

To rightwinger: Nobody on today’s political landscape is more bat shit crazy than Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. Both will continue Hussein’s failed policies expecting a better outcome. Were it not for the media Biden would be tucked away in a rubber room happily counting his toes, and Clinton would be climbing the walls in a detox clinic.

Neither will appeal to moderates and neither is electable

To rightwinger: Don’t be so quick to count moderate votes. IRS tyranny coupled with implementing Hillarycare II will change the minds of the wimpiest moderates —— making every true conservative eminently electable.

 

[Flanders]

Karl Rove and media choices, Marco Rubio & Chris Christie, have all but taken themselves out of 2016 race. No Republican can win without the conservative vote. Those two don’t stand a prayer in the general election. Rubio’s immigration bill is so full of lies and misdirection he might have to be put down for humane reasons.

NOTE: Hussein has turned into manna from heaven for conservatives, and the country, in that he is singlehandedly showing the public exactly what Constitution-hating Democrats do to the people. Romney would have wimped along for four years without exposing Democrats as effectively if at all. Should top Republicans fail to see the way of it in 2016, another one like Hussein will be better than a Rove Republican; doubly so if conservatives control the House and Senate.

Happily, conservatives have a three horse entry in the race:

There is rebellion afoot in the United States Senate. A new breed of conservatives and libertarians are loosed, unconcerned with The New York Times, unfettered by back-bench rank and unintimidated by Washington politics.

Elected over the past three years, Republican Sens. Rand Paul, Mike Lee and Ted Cruz have had a meteoric impact in Washington, soaring to grassroots stardom, crashing into the Democratic majority and raining down on the old bulls of the Republican Party.

Dubbed “Wacko Birds” by top Republican John McCain, these three wear the senior Arizona senator’s scorn as a badge of honor.

A new breed in town
Christopher Bedford
Associate Editor

A House Divided: The Wacko Birds and their war on DC | The Daily Caller

How’s this for irony? A crazy old coot calling others wacko birds? If McCain wasn’t hanging on in the Senate on the strength of his unique heroism during the Vietnam War his daughter would have to lock him away in the attic.

Of the three conservatives in the race Rand Paul went to the whip on FOX News Sunday:

Rand Paul On NSA Spying: "I'm Going To Challenge This At The Supreme Court"

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5lgvxcMkS4&feature=player_embedded]Rand Paul On NSA Spying: 'I'm Going To Challenge This At The Supreme Court' - Fox News 6/9/2013 - YouTube[/ame]​

 

[rightwinger]

To be elected, a President needs a certain likeability and charisma. Ted Cruz comes off as a prick. Add to his Joe McCarthy persona and he becomes unelectable

To rightwinger: Your interpretation is nothing more than the politics of personal destruction. Liberals can’t defeat Cruz on issues; so they attack him personally. Were he Santa Claus the Left would say the same things on Christmas Eve.

Incidentally, the media always portrays the Democrat as the smartest person in the universe, while painting the Republican as a dunce. It did not work with Eisenhower, or with Ronald Reagan, or with Bush the Younger. That game has no chance of working against conservatives warming up in the Republican/Conservative bullpen.

While Rand Paul may come off as cuddly and likeable he still has his bat shit crazy side that will shoot one liners that will doom his chances

To rightwinger: Nobody on today’s political landscape is more bat shit crazy than Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. Both will continue Hussein’s failed policies expecting a better outcome. Were it not for the media Biden would be tucked away in a rubber room happily counting his toes, and Clinton would be climbing the walls in a detox clinic.

Neither will appeal to moderates and neither is electable

To rightwinger: Don’t be so quick to count moderate votes. IRS tyranny coupled with implementing Hillarycare II will change the minds of the wimpiest moderates —— making every true conservative eminently electable.

I would like nothing better than for Republicans to choose Ted Cruz or Rand Paul as their 2016 Presidential candidate..........easy pickings

However, The Republican base has shown they will not support these one trick ponies as a credible candidate.

Obama is gone in 2016 an Republicans have a chance if they run a charismatic candidate who can appeal to moderates and independents. Selecting Cruz or Paul will enhance their image as the Party of Stupid