John Fluharty is out as the Executive Director of the Delaware Republican Party. That is a shame. He is the only redeeming aspect of the Delaware Republican Party.
The US Treasury is planning to put a woman on the $10 bill alongside or in place of Alexander Hamilton. Here is who the luminaries that are the Republican candidates for President would nominate:
Here’s who they’d nominate:
Rand Paul: Susan B. Anthony
Mike Huckabee: His wife
Marco Rubio: Rosa Parks
Ted Cruz: Rosa Parks, but keep Alexander Hamilton on the $10 and replace Alexander Jackson on the $20 bill instead
Ben Carson: His mother
Donald Trump: His daughter
Jeb Bush: Margaret Thatcher
Scott Walker: Clara Barton
Carly Fiorina: Don’t change anything
John Kasich: Mother Teresa
Chris Christie: Abigail Adams
Ted Cruz has the best idea of his entire life and of his entire political career, and I agree with it. Well, I would change it a little bit. Replace Hamilton with Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Jeb Bush says his brother kept us safe. Well, except that one time when 3,000 Americans were killed. Well, except that one time when he lied to create a war and then 4,486 Americans died and 1 million Americans were gravely injured in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Well, except that one time when he let the city of New Orleans drown.
So Anne Coulter is not even hiding it anymore as she goes on a Twitter tirade about the “f–k– Jews.”
Donald Trump is a Jenny McCarthyite Vaccine Truther.
“Something unusual happened here Wednesday when the Republican presidential candidates met for their second debate: For the first time since he joined the race, Donald Trump wasn’t the commanding presence on the stage,” the Washington Post reports.
“Not that Trump wasn’t the Trump whom Americans have seen nonstop on cable television… But at other times, particularly when the discussion shifted from what Trump has said about the others to issues of domestic and foreign policy, the candidate who has dominated the summer and leads the polls was far less a force.”
Gerald Seib: “While many of the questions posed by the CNN moderators began with a recitation of comments Mr. Trump has made, which left him still at the center of the conversation, his competitors managed to launch a conversation that, for the first time in weeks, got beyond the Trump orbit.”
For once, it wasn’t all about Donald Trump. After the billionaire businessman steamrolled the rest of the Republican field during last month’s primetime debate, Trump’s rivals managed to get in their punches—and airtime—during the second showdown.
The first question of the night went to Carly Fiorina, who opted not to take the bait and slam Trump. But when Fiorina was asked to respond to Trump’s “Look at that face” remark disparaging her appearance, she was devastatingly succinct.
“Trump says he heard Mr. Bush very clearly,” Fiorina said, playing off Trump’s critique of Bush’s statement earlier this summer that “women’s health issues” are overfunded. “I think women all over this country heard very clearly what Mr. Trump said,” Fiorina said.
Conservative Rick Wilson:
All my life, the Republican Party has been my political home. Helping it succeed has been my work for decades. It was never perfect, but families never are.
Flawed, and given to wrong turns from time to time, we had good years and terrible years. We elected presidents, took back Congress after decades, lost it, and took it back again. Our leaders ranged from bad to extraordinary. But through it all, the GOP was the one party even vaguely amenable to limited-government conservatism, to at least some adherence to the Constitution over the social preferences of the moment, and to the constraints on government power that our Founding Fathers so cherished. It was nice while it lasted.
Today the Republican Party has two choices before it: It can either reform itself, or fracture and surrender to the Troll Party.
Jonathan Chait says the Republicans tried to out-crazy Donald Trump. And they succeeded.
The debate revealed a party wedded to the tenets of Bushism — rabid, debt-financed, regressive tax-cutting, reflexive hostility to regulation, and a pervasive anti-intellectualism. Trump at one point implicitly defended his lack of foreign-policy knowledge on the grounds that the current administration had many knowledgable people (true) and the world was on fire (questionable). This open attack on brainpower would have been astonishing, except that Marco Rubio repeated it himself, declaring, “Radical terrorism cannot be solved by intellect.”
The most revealing pair of exchanges came at the end. First, Jake Tapper asked Rubio about former Reagan secretary of State George Shultz’s argument that it would be prudent to take out an insurance policy against the effects of carbon emissions in case scientists are right. The question was designed to cut off every possible escape route. Tapper did not ask Rubio to accept climate science, merely the possibility that it might not be wrong. Nor did he ask him to endorse a specific program. Rubio swatted away the premise of the question, insisting, “We’re not going to destroy our economy.” It was telling that Rubio defined literally any policy response to the theory of anthropogenic global warming as economy-destroying.
Tapper then asked Trump about his statements linking vaccine use to autism, a dangerous conspiracy theory that has been conclusively debunked. Trump cited anecdotal evidence to support his crackpot beliefs. Worse, the two doctors on the stage, Ben Carson and Rand Paul, had chances to correct Trump, and both instead gave him tepid support. It is depressing that a presidential field with two doctors cannot even produce sensible views on medicine, let alone anything else. The party’s decades-long flight from empiricism and reason shows no sign of abating. Alas, from Trump to Rubio to Carly Fiorina, it is filled with talented demagogues well suited to pitch America on nonsense.