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Home Front: Politix
Brooks: Cruz Has 'Dark and Satanic Tones'
[BREITBART] New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
columnist David Brooks argued that Republican presidential candidate Texas Senator Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has "dark and satanic tones" and that fellow candidate Florida Senator Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is starting to adopt on Friday's "PBS NewsHour."

Brooks said, "you begin to see little signs of liftoff. Trump's sort of ceiling-ed out. Carson's collapsing. And Cruz is somehow beginning to get some momentum from Iowa and elsewhere. And so people are either mimicking him, which Rubio's doing a little, by adopting some of the dark and satanic tones that Cruz has, and so --."

Brooks added, "Well, if you go to a Cruz -- if you watch a Cruz speech, it's like, we've got this enemy, we've got that enemy, we're going to stomp on this person, we're going to crush that person, we're going to destroy that person. It is an ugly world in Ted Cruz's world. And it's combative. And it's angry, and it's apocalyptic."

Brooks did alter his description of Cruz from "satanic" to "Mephistophelian, maybe." He then continued, "But it's dark, and combative, and, frankly, harsh. It's a harsh -- he gets some jokes in the beginning, but then it's just, we have enemies. We're in an apocalyptic situation. We're on the edge of the abyss. You need a tough guy to beat that back. And that's his personality. That is not Marco Rubio's personality. He's a sunny -- he's been running the youthful optimism campaign, but he's beginning, to prevent Cruz from getting liftoff, to mimic sort of that, get a piece of that. I personally think it's a mistake, because inauthentic -- inauthenticity almost never works. And so, if Cruz starts to go like -- I mean, if Rubio starts to go like Cruz, he just doesn't look like himself, and that bothers people."
Posted by: Fred || 01/10/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  At least you can say Cruz doesn't sound as if he were in the pay is the Muslim Brotherhood. I doubt the NY Times can make the same claim.
Posted by: badanov || 01/10/2016 0:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Wow. The establishment is really starting to loose it WRT trump & cruz.

Now imagine if Hilliary is k.o.'d by indictment.

This election cycle promises to be endlessly entertaining no matter who wins it.
Posted by: Nguard || 01/10/2016 0:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Goodness. The last time I can recall a major newspaper equating someone to the ruler of the nether realms, it was the Wall Street Journal going on about the CEO of Procter & Gamble in the 1990s -- Ed "Prince of Darkness" Artzt. He did a good job, too, though he was not kind about it.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/10/2016 1:18 Comments || Top||

#4  We were watching PBS newshour on Friday and Brooks was on again as the pretend Republican (He really seems to think he is one but he hasn't a clue what Republicans might believe or feel.) I turned to the son and said "Neither Brooks or Shields have been relevant for 20 years or more. How long does it take PBS to dump pundits past their 'Sell by Date'?"
Son's response was "The anchors are past their sell by date too."
Posted by: 3dc || 01/10/2016 1:37 Comments || Top||

#5  PBS needs to dump the McLaughlin Group too. Their prime demographic group are now in their 90s and they haven't had a correct prediction in ages.
Posted by: 3dc || 01/10/2016 1:40 Comments || Top||

#6  I consider most progressives and the NYTs as evil... so I'm voting for Cruz then.

And fuck the grey lady. She has been dead and mummified for decades. All of the staff are worthy of a Stalinesc purge.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/10/2016 2:46 Comments || Top||

#7  It's all Pravda anymore, but the borg media and democrat funded bullshit machine PBS.
Posted by: newc || 01/10/2016 3:21 Comments || Top||

#8  The revelation: Cruz is a secret Jew, in 5 .. 4 .. 3
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/10/2016 4:06 Comments || Top||

#9  My dad used to listen to NPR to get himself worked up. I told him smoking crack would be at least as bad for him, but at least he would get something for his money...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/10/2016 4:53 Comments || Top||

#10  Nguard, I'm afraid that entertaining is not the word unless you consider waiting in the Dentist's waiting room and listening to the screams of the previous patient who came in for a cleaning to be entertaining.

The world and our political environment are so screwed up that anything like this is frightening.....and no, I don't be Sen. Ted.
Posted by: AlanC || 01/10/2016 10:10 Comments || Top||

#11  "His pants lack a sharp crease. He's unfit"
Posted by: Frank G || 01/10/2016 10:55 Comments || Top||

#12  Beat me to it, Frank!
Posted by: Raj || 01/10/2016 11:17 Comments || Top||

#13  Lighting candle for Cristie and dawg help us, JEB!
Posted by: Shipman || 01/10/2016 11:40 Comments || Top||

#14  Translation - Cruz might actually be a conservative. Bring my fainting chair.
Posted by: Iblis || 01/10/2016 12:29 Comments || Top||

#15  He looks like Major Frank Burns, we Need Harry Bratsburg.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/10/2016 12:36 Comments || Top||


Mark Steyn Attends Trump Rally -- 'Notes On A Phenomenon'
[THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE]
Posted by: Fred || 01/10/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Below, is from the excellent comments:

I’ved always thought Kasich was taking a chance on the “mailman’s son” routine. I’ve been waiting for someone to come up with a joke about “going postal.”

Ponder that one for a minute or two. I am in full agreement with the writer.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/10/2016 3:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Forget politics and policies, Trump has some of the same characteristics of Ronald Reagan:
1) A real joie de vivre that is infectious.
2) The playful attitude of a puppy coupled to a core of iron ("I paid for this microphone.")
3) A total disregard for the mandarins.

The policies are irrelevant at this point it is the atmosphere that matters.
Posted by: AlanC || 01/10/2016 10:46 Comments || Top||

#3  But can you see Trump on a horse? Exactly. Dis d00d Fred Jackson Turner had it figured out. Reagan was the quentissal American. Western, looking always at the horizon, generous to a fault, a fine actor and scary as shit.

"We start bombing in 5 minutes"
Oh the mic was on, well LOL.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/10/2016 11:48 Comments || Top||

#4  AlanC: Big difference between sounding like Reagan and acting like Reagan.
Posted by: Iblis || 01/10/2016 12:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Iblis, you are correct.
RR is my favorite president in my lifetime and I was here, if not voting, for Truman. He walked the walk as well as talked the talk.

Trump has proven that he can talk the talk but he has no history about walking like RR's governorship, etc.

Right now talk is what matters. If he should win I'll be praying that he can walk. There's no Democrap that I could stomach.

I think Cruz is the best one left in the running.
Posted by: AlanC || 01/10/2016 12:53 Comments || Top||

#6  AlanC: Cruz does seem to be a real conservative. As they say, he certainly has made all the right enemies.

Like you, I was around for Reagan. My kids have only known Clinton / Bush / Obama as presidents. Makes me sad that that's the only America they have seen.

As for Trump, I enjoyed Steyn's take. Makes sense that Trump can run a campaign well. That's a management job after all. Also makes sense that professional politicos don't have management skills. The frustration with the political ruling class, RINO Division, is also something I feel deeply.

Where we part ways is perhaps strategy. With politics I play chess, and Trump feels like a roll of the dice.
Posted by: Iblis || 01/10/2016 13:52 Comments || Top||

#7  I think Trump has a chance of being a good President.

He communicates well and he seems to understand what is driving the angst of the average American. Which is amazing considering he is a gazilllionaire and politicians in Washington with far less money and more time cannot seem to understand.

He also is a good communicator, which was RR's greatest gift. Ronnie was the "Great Communicator" and Trump seems to be able to do the same things.

Lastly, he has a sense of humor and an ability to make fun of himself, qualities that most people equate with self-confidence and self-assurance. That resonates well in a political landscape of thin skinned sycophants with no sense of humor.

I think he will be decisive and will not quibble around with subtleties. This "nuisance" thing that the Euros liked about Obama has given way to concern about the realities of the Black and White realities of Islam with no shades of gray.

After a bunch of phony conservatives, I think Trump is more Teddy Roosevelt than anything else.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 01/10/2016 13:55 Comments || Top||

#8  >I think Trump has a chance of being a good President.

Trump worries me. What's behind Trump's success is in a large part zero-sum property deals (not classic-capitalism as Adam Smith/Ricardo would term it). Good for Trump, not good for America.

I do worry that trump would run the country as an extension of his "business" interests.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/10/2016 15:46 Comments || Top||

#9  BP, as I said, there's no history of Donnie "walking the walk". In terms of policy & politics (building proper alliances domestic & foreign) he's basically a cipher.

What he isn't is a known traitor to anything American or a member of a known criminal gang. Which means that if it is a choice between Bernie or Hillary and Trump my vote goes hands down to Trump.

I am hoping for Ted to come through but we'll have to see what the primaries bring. Either Ted or Don seems like a kick in the balls to the Rino establishment and that's a good thing.
Posted by: AlanC || 01/10/2016 16:00 Comments || Top||

#10  AC, isn't management an art of selecting competent subordinates---which skill Trump, apparently, has?
And (IMO) any sycophant, like Condoleezza or ValJar, who wants to get the better of Don, is ought to get up really early.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/10/2016 16:08 Comments || Top||


Trump Could Win It All
[USNEWS] So if Donald Trump proved the political universe wrong and won the Republican presidential nomination, he would be creamed by Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Chateaubriand ...
, correct?

A new survey of likely voters might at least raise momentary dyspepsia for Democrats since it suggests why it wouldn't be a cakewalk.

The survey by Washington-based Mercury Analytics is a combination online questionnaire and "dial-test" of Trump's first big campaign ad among 916 self-proclaimed "likely voters" (this video shows the ad and the dial test results). It took place primarily Wednesday and Thursday and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percent.

Nearly 20 percent of likely Democratic voters say they'd cross sides and vote for Trump, while a small number, or 14 percent, of Republicans claim they'd vote for Clinton. When those groups were further broken down, a far higher percentage of the crossover Democrats contend they are "100 percent sure" of switching than the Republicans.
Posted by: Fred || 01/10/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I suspect the Beest is feeling the heat. Why else would she enlist Slick's assistance. I was sure she'd keep him well at arm's length. It's obvious he has excessive baggage and caries with him the 'old age' factor. It will be quite interesting to see who her shadow running partner will be.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/10/2016 4:02 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Lampedusa Creretch3679 || 01/10/2016 8:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Blah, blah.

No one who is really a Republican no matter how squishy can vote for Clinton. Not voting at all if Cruz wins? That I would believe, but voting for Clinton? No way.
Posted by: AlanC || 01/10/2016 12:59 Comments || Top||

#4  There is this poll out there in last day or so that says that Trump would cream Hillary like Nixon creamed Whatshisname back in 1972
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 01/10/2016 13:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Who counts the votes?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/10/2016 15:14 Comments || Top||

#6  And how many times do they get counted until we get the result we want??
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 01/10/2016 18:59 Comments || Top||

#7  What is the state by state party breakdown of Secretaries of state? How many Electoral Votes did Soros buy?
Posted by: Ebbomorong Ghibelline8855 || 01/10/2016 19:41 Comments || Top||

#8  "Win it all" > I'm NOT so sure about that, as both GOP-DEMS in our mighty "Unitarian", Pro- SSSHHH ...CCCCCC Anti-US OWG-NWO Govt. still fear the threat of FILIBUSTER vee the opposition across the hall, hence a reason for "brokered convention" for one or both Major Parties in 2016.

THE MAHA-RUSHIAN QUESTIONNE' IS WHICH PARTY(S) IS WILLING TO RISK WORSE-THAN-OBAMA DIVIDED OR STALLED GOVT IN 2016 + BEYOND, ESPEC IN THE FACE OF INTENSIFYING GLOBAL JIHAD, OWG CO-SUPERPOWER-VS-CO-SUPERPOWER MIL CONFRONTATIONISM, + GENERAL [US/Globalist-supported?]ANTI-AMERICANISM ACROSS THE WORLD???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 01/10/2016 20:09 Comments || Top||

#9  As Hugh Hewitt said a while back in one of his books:

"If we win big enough, they can't cheat" meaning if we really cream them, there is no way they can cheat enough to fill the gap without obvious and gross malfeasance of a kind that would be so blatant that it would not be successful.

I believe that if Hildabeast or Red Bernie is nominated, it will be a real splatter job one of those 49 state avalanches sends the media off to bed sucking their thumbs and wetting their beds.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 01/10/2016 23:10 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
Report: Netanyahu to lead effort in thwarting Obama bid for UN chief
Given the source, and the excitability of Arab many news sites, I don't see this as having more than a 50% probability of being true. But it's interesting that it's out there.
[Jpost] According to the Kuwaiti newspaper 'Al-Jarida,' Israeli leader will rally moderate Arabs to sabotage Obama plan to succeed the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remembers well just how US President Barack Obama
teachable moment...
brushed aside Israeli objections and went ahead with the P5+1 nuclear agreement with Iran.

Now, Netanyahu is reportedly planning some personal payback.

According to the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida, Netanyahu will make common cause with moderate Arab governments in order to sabotage Obama's plan to succeed Ban Ki-moon when the South Korean diplomat ends his term as United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
secretary-general on December 31 of this year.

Al-Jarida quoted sources as saying that Obama has already discussed the issue of running for secretary-general with Democrats, Republicans, and Jewish officials in the US.

The sources said that once Netanyahu got wind of Obama's plans, the prime minister began to make efforts to submarine what he has referred to as "the Obama project."

"Wasn't eight years of having Obama in office enough?" Netanyahu is quoted in the Kuwaiti daily as telling associates. "Eight years during which he ignored Israel? And now he wants to be in a position that is liable to cause us hardships in the international arena."

The newspaper cited the widely acknowledged fact that personal ties between Netanyahu and Obama are frayed.

"Obama is the worst president Israel has had to deal with and the worst president for the Middle East and its allies, the moderate Arab states," a Netanyahu aide is quoted as saying.

A source close to Netanyahu did not deny to Al-Jarida that the premier is aiming to "torpedo the Obama project," noting that "his presidency was characterized by [Washington's] moving closer to the Moslem Brüderbund, toppling the regime of Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
, and attempts to ally itself with political Islam."

"Obama's term is ending with him forging an alliance with Iran, coming to an agreement with it on its nuclear program which in the end will result in a similar scenario that took place with North Korea," the aide said.

"Israel will not allow this to happen," the source is quoted as saying. "It will take all of the necessary steps to prevent Iran from manufacturing a nuclear weapon either covertly or overtly."

The prime minister's associate told Al-Jarida that Netanyahu "sees an opportunity to establish good relations based on shared interests with moderate states from which Obama has moved away."
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/10/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Obama has zero chances to get that job. I think Angela Merkel wants it.
Posted by: European Conservative || 01/10/2016 1:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Let him have the job with a 12 Jan 16 start date and generous sign-on bonus. Biden can easily finish out the year. I'll gladly drive to D.C. and assist with the moving of boxes and heavy items.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/10/2016 3:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Like, as long as he's no longer POTUS, anybody in Israel cares what he is.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/10/2016 4:03 Comments || Top||

#4  'Like".... :-(
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/10/2016 4:13 Comments || Top||

#5  It has been a given since the beginning that the SecGen will not come from either Russia or the US. I doubt that the rest of the world is ready to give that up for a lying weasel like Zero any time soon.
Posted by: AlanC || 01/10/2016 10:49 Comments || Top||

#6  You have to understand that the left and Democrats actually believe that Obama is widely respected and idolized around the world as an international diplomat, economic arch-wizard, and superhero of humanity. The lightbringer we have all been waiting for! (Obama himself told us it was so and he never lies - right?).

To them it is a real possibility - and will save the world!
(now I have to go wash my mouth out.)
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/10/2016 10:57 Comments || Top||

#7  naw, let's help him get it... then withdraw from the damned thing.
Posted by: Herb Dark Lord of the Chinese9977 || 01/10/2016 11:59 Comments || Top||

#8  He's run the US into the ground. Maybe he can do the same for Oyster Bay.

The thing would be, we'd know where he and his puppeteers are and what they're supposedly engaged in.

Don't want him and ValJar doing a lot of back-channel crap at some 'foundation'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 01/10/2016 12:25 Comments || Top||

#9  There's always the Mossad. I'm sure Netanyahu wouldn't officially okay such action, but. . .
Posted by: Old Patriot || 01/10/2016 16:11 Comments || Top||

#10  Citizen of a permanent member of the security council. Non-starter.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/10/2016 17:09 Comments || Top||

#11  Get him a job where he has to leave the USA.
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 01/10/2016 18:45 Comments || Top||

#12  > Citizen of a permanent member of the security council.

Perhaps he'll be Kenyan by the time he leaves.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/10/2016 19:54 Comments || Top||



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