Delaware Liberal

The irony is so delicious, isn't it? There is, of course, the surface level irony of the party that brayed nonsensically about Obama's legitimacy for 8 years turning the fire hose on itself. That alone is awesome. But there is also another layer of irony that I'm enjoying. There is the irony that Cruz himself is a huge proponent and avid practitioner of anti-factualism. For Cruz, facts simply don't matter. Facts, to candidates for the GOP nomination, are more worthless than a bicycle to a fish. Knowing this, Cruz after initially tried to laugh off Trump's birther questions with a Happy Days clip. But as the story builds and more GOPers hop on the birther bandwagon, Cruz is now looking to FACTS to bail him out of this. Hilarious. Listen to Cruz on the topic of his Canadian eligibility to be President.

Turns out we all got a gift this Christmas. Bloggers that care way more about this shit than I do found out that the Grifter from Wasila is flat broke…

Wall Street Journal: “With less than a month before the first ballots are cast, Mrs. Clinton is hoping to rewrite her history in Iowa as the caucuses are again taking on an outsize importance to her presidential aspirations.” “It was Mrs. Clinton’s third-place finish and decisive loss to then-Sen. Barack Obama in the 2008 caucuses that made clear her campaign, initially seen as inevitable, was in real trouble. This time, she faces a tough opponent in Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is challenging her from the left for the Democratic nomination. She is ahead of him in recent Iowa polls, though some surveys put her lead in single digits.”

How did Governor Elect, John Carney, use 484 words to say: "I didn't accomplish anything, but seeing the Pope was nice" ? Read on to find out.

This is interesting. Ted Cruz has literally gamified his Iowa ground game. It almost makes me want go to Tedcruz.org and sign up to see who in Delaware is the points king.

The Cruz mobile app, which game-ifies the campaign process — users win points for sharing their contact lists or for posting messages of support to Facebook and Twitter — has close to 30,000 downloads, according to Chris Wilson, head of analytics for the campaign.

The Republicans are stuck in the 90's:

According to CNN, the heckler stood up just a few feet from Clinton and shouted at her. Clinton rebuked her once, and then when the heckler tried again to get Hillary’s attention during a lull in the action, she started shouting again. That’s when Clinton shut her down. “You are very rude and I’m not never ever going to call on you. Thank you.” That shut down New Hampshire state Rep. Katherine Prudhomme O'Brien, who later admitted she was there to try and bring up Bill Clinton's sexual pecadilloes in the town hall.

How is Hillary responsible for Bill's indiscretions? It is the height of sexism to suggest that she is. This has been Sen. Rand Paul's hobbyhorse, saying that Hillary Clinton shouldn't be president because Bill Clinton is bad.

[J]effrey T. Kuhner, a WRKO radio host in Boston asked Paul if sexual harassment and assault claims against former president Bill Clinton “and her role in trying to cover it up and protect him” were a legitimate campaign issue. Paul initially replied that it is not “necessarily her fault,” that “her husband has committed serial infidelities,” but then slammed the former Secretary of State for having spoken out against sexual assaults in a recent campaign speech.

First off, this is the first time I have ever heard any Republican allege that Hillary herself was involved in covering up Bill's affair with Monica. All accounts, including such partisan accounts as the Starr Report, state unequivocally that Hillary was in the dark about it until Bill told her in August 1998, before his national address admitting the affair. Second, I don't get the Republican logic here: If one's husband has a consensual adulterous affair, that means the wife cannot ever speak out against or even oppose sexual assault? Third, if this is all they've got, Republicans better start planning for a 40 state wipeout and the loss of the House.

White Conservative Terrorists have attacked a federal building in Oregon and are illegally occupying it. Why?

They’re apparently upset at the conviction and upcoming jail sentences of a couple of fellow domestic terrorists for arson. They believe that the federal government has no constitutional authority to own land, that national parks are essentially illegal, and that men like them have a God-given right to mine, log and otherwise destroy whatever forest land they want.

The undisputed facts are that the terrorists have now illegally trespassed onto property that they do not own and have no claim to. I want these white conservative terrorists to be treated as with they were African Americans. I want these white conservative terrorists to be treated as if they were ISIS. They are to surrender to federal and/or local authorities immediately and evacuate the refuge forthwith. Any provocation shall be met with deadly force, and to be sure, a provocation is pointing a gun at anyone. Failure to comply shall eventually lead to the recapture of the refuge by federal and/or local authorities, during which time all terrorists shall be either killed or incapacitated.