Cross Town Thoughts
Chris Matthews conducted the best interview with El Trumpo. Rapid-fire. Two street fighters sparring tête-à-tête. Chris the only one who’s gotten the best of The Donald. Has El Trumpo finally met his Waterloo? Stumped and trumped too often of late. Winging it. Swinging and missing it. Will he find a way to extricate himself from humiliating defeat. We’ll see.
Does Trump really want to be President? Never his intent.
Misandry is accepted. Misogyny is dissed. Trump the equal opportunity insulter is regularly panned for his attacks on women. Despite his calling guys sweaty, short, fat, stupid. Get it coming from the left. They push the war on women to raise money and gain votes. But. Don’t feminists realize the disservice they do to themselves by bunching up in vivid victimhood?
Monolithic labels demean every group. David Brooks’ column takes that misguided route.
Again. Brothers at the center of terrorist attack. This time Belgium. It started with the Tsarnaev sibs of the Boston Marathon massacre. The Chechen Brothers KaramazOff. Disaffected young men ostracized and marginalized in their adopted or native land. Attracted by a global gang of thugs to mount revenge in the name of religion but with no real devotion to it.
So. It we take Cruz and Trump to their logical conclusions. Arrest all swarthy young brothers. Just to be safe.
President F.U. is back. So is Claire. House of Cards. Season 4. Shockers galore. Pretty good through 7 episodes. Then. Writers took a vacation at the end. Out-of-character risks. Gratuitous contrivances. Creepy breakfast twist. Melodramatic Homeland ripoff. Fear is good.
Be very afraid, Frank. Get a food taster if you win. Veepy wife-in-waiting. President C.U.
Trick of the eye. Chicanery. Snake oil anyone? His followers rally. Media and Republicans dally. Hillary is the only one who can reveal this Trump l’œil. Will she?
House of Cards 4. Frank Underwood. Makes Trump look like a saint. Or. Maybe not. Nancy Reagan could have given Claire a run for her money. Will fiction become fact?
Kardashians move over. It’s now The Trumps. Donald doing dick jokes at the debate. What do we expect with Cialis and Viagra commercials 24/7. We’re numbing down. Little Marco a perfect foil. Protesters at rallies a key part of the act. PGA playing at his Doral.
Current wife Melania on every channel prime time. Leggy beauty with gilted nouveau riche rooms in the background. Ex-wife Marla will be Dancing With the Stars. Daughter Ivanka ready to pop the next Trumpster grandbaby as she launches a new line of shoes. Son Eric tries to push Chris the Sidekick out of frame. It’s The Celebrity President Reality Show.
Bon weekend.
Megyn Kelly will get another shot at Trump. His reaction to her barbs got him in trouble. Misogynist. So. He called Christie fat. Rubio sweaty and short. Jebra low energy. Fiorina’s face. Hillary’s voice. All targets. Equal opportunity insulter. That’s who he is. Is that okay? No. But, we know what we are getting. Now Rubio and Romney have sunk to his level. Name-calling. Schoolyard banter. A new standard for political discourse?
On The Donald’s Blue Monster at Doral, youngsters will also play today. McIlroy. Spieth. Day. Oy. Vey.
It’s the Cubano Dos and El Trumpo now. Rubio. Cruz. The Cuban crusts. Tricky Ted’s dirty tactics and Nixonian sneer harken back to the Bebe Rebozo corruption days. Marco el Rubio, not really. He’s not blond. But, as his SuperPac says, he is like Harry Potter to Donald’s Voldemort. Well. Sort of. Young and impressionable yes. NeoCons’ new rube.
Then there’s all those slices of ham in the middle. With lots of cheesey drippings. Spicy sauce. And most of the votes.
Confluence of the death of a Supreme who upheld Citizens United. Big Donor Bucks drove the political landscape. Then. There came Trump. Shattered the status quo. Major goal was to self-fund and debunk traditional nomination game. Took on the establishment. Even if he doesn’t go all the way. He has succeeded in disrupting. Lots of lobbyists scratching their heads.
And Bernie. He has brought Hillary to the far left. Turned out youth in droves. Small donations vs. the Fat Cats. Again. Disrupting. Well done.
True. He is a long shot. First hurdle. His name. Kasick. Not the way it’s spelled. John Kasich is the current second-term Governor of Ohio, with a successful record. Unlike Christie. Bush was one long ago. Executive experience is a plus. Kasich is a fiscal and social common sense moderate. Many in New Hampshire are choosing between him and Hillary. He is authentic and likes people. You can see the connection in Town Halls. As an alum of the U.S. Congress and a banker, he has a myriad of experience. God-fearing. Yes. Compassionate. Not evangelical. Seems to understand the church/state divide. Has integrity. Will he do well in today’s first primary? Don’t know. If so. Onward.
If not, we risk a Bush-Clinton re-run show. No!!!!!
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