Thursday Open Thread [7.16.15]

Commissar Obama, this is Comrade Delaware Dem at the Houston Front. Operation Jade Helm 15 has succeeded. Donald Trump, the Iran Deal and Planned Parenthood video were perfect diversions to distract patriotic conservatives at the last minute. The Texan homeland was undefended!

Brian Beutler at The New Republic writes that Scott Walker is “the most boring presidential candidate ever”:

But Walker’s biggest liability may be this: He is incredibly dull. Not just plodding-speaker dull, though he’s often that, too, but an actually boring person. Mitt Romney is nobody’s caricature of a party animal, but he could legitimately boast of being an industrial titan, a fixer, and a man of the world. Hillary Clinton isn’t particularly charismatic, but her life story is filled with dramatic tension, and nobody who masterminded #Benghazi can be credibly dismissed as boring.

Walker, by contrast, is painfully boring. His boringness is encapsulated by this sequence of 37 incredibly boring tweets, going back more than four years.

When I look at him, especially when he makes one of this “dumb” faces, I am convinced the man has no actual functioning brain.

NATIONAL–PRESIDENT–REPUBLICAN PRIMARY–Monmouth: Bush 15, Trump 13, Cruz 9, Walker 7, Huckabee 7, Rubio 6, Carson 6, Paul 6. The rest of the field garners no more than 2% of the vote.

Rick Santorum warned that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s disagreement with his wife on same-sex marriage could cause him to be less “active” in his opposition, The Hill reports.

Said Santorum: “Spouses matter. When your spouse is not in-sync with you — particularly on cultural issues, moral issues — you tend not to be as active on those issues.”

Is Santorum saying that Walker is whipped? LOL.

Politico: “Concerns are mounting among top donors and party elites that an influx of huge checks into the GOP primary will hurt the party’s chances of retaking the White House. Long-shot candidates propped up by super PACs and other big-money groups will be able to linger for months throwing damaging barbs at establishment favorites who offer a better chance of victory, the thinking goes. Already, big-money groups have raised about $86 million to support a handful of second- and third-tier candidates.”

“I’m a businessman. I contribute to everybody. When I needed Hillary, she was there. If I say ‘go to my wedding,’ they go to my wedding.”

— Donald Trump, in a Fox News interview, on whether his past contributions to Hillary Clinton suggest he’s a Democratic plant.

So Trump doesn’t send out wedding invitations. He sends out orders.