Great summary. My take is that the establishment is planning on forcing Nikki Haley on us all. It just seems the party "leadership" does not understand, we are done with these same wretched people doing only things that enrich themselves and the donor class and neglecting the rest of the country. I just dont know if they will let Trump back in even with his poll numbers...interesting times we live in.
At the moment, all we have are poll numbers, and the poll numbers are not Nikki Haley's friend. Frankly, they're not Ron DeSantis' friend.
Unless something happens to knock Donald Trump out of the race, the Vegas odds say he's going to sweep just about every primary and lock in enough delegates almost immediately to secure the nomination. We have yet to see a single ballot cast, however, so there is always a possibility something else will happen.
To force Haley on the GOP Trump has to be taken out of the running. Right now, the various trials he's facing are not going to accomplish that. If the trials don't get it done, then the GOP is going to have a time yanking the nomination away from him without looking as corrupt as the Democrats.
Time will tell, but I could see them pulling a fast one. Rumor is much of the donor class funded/encouraged these indictments against Trump.
Before all this I had hoped for a younger candidate who could emulate Trump's policies and style (but with their own pizzazz), but at this point, it appears none such exists. If we want a bombastic, angry, outsider, he's really the only option.
"the rest of the GOP field is simply atrocious" which is why I didn't watch it knowing that you would and deliver an excellent report on it. And yes, Tim Scott is essentially leading himself away from the position, but maybe not accidentally, maybe to get a cabinet level position in the next Trump administration.
I'm starting to wonder if Scott shouldn't be aiming to replace McConnell as the leader of the Senate Republicans. He's not stupid and he's not inarticulate, but he keeps coming across as a consensus builder rather than an executive decision-maker.
To me, that spells "Senate Majority/Minority Leader", not "President"
Great review on that two-hour extravaganza of bullshit last night, Peter. Dang, I felt like stabbing a chicken or at least kicking the dog after suffering through it - only at the insistence of my dear mother.
Gosh, we need to spend even more on upgrading our military and must go to war over Taiwan?! Gadzooks!
Too bad none of them would tie the persistent inflation with the government spreading fiat dough foreign aid all over the planet if regimes play ball.
Social Security debate was interesting. At least one of them blubbered something about a means test to filter recipients. No one would dare mention removing the tax cap on it though. I know millionaires who are chagrined to receive a check every month and donate it to their favorite charity. One even remarked that he once tried to give it back to Uncle Sugar with no success.
One of the greatest travesties in the political reporting in this country is the inability (or unwillingness?) of the corporate media to point out that, despite poll after poll after poll saying most Americans believe this country is headed in the wrong direction, the Presidential wannabes in both parties are promising to keep moving this country in that same wrong direction.
The electorate wants leaders who will talk in different terms from identity politics and defense spending, yet all the parties are offering are candidates who talk in terms of identity politics and defense spending. A primary reason Trump is popular is that he's willing to employ that different rhetoric, even if he tends to govern more as a center-right President or even a "business Democrat".
“He kept reaching for moments of soaring oratory last night, but kept running into the reality that he is not a soaring orator.” 😅
Great summary. My take is that the establishment is planning on forcing Nikki Haley on us all. It just seems the party "leadership" does not understand, we are done with these same wretched people doing only things that enrich themselves and the donor class and neglecting the rest of the country. I just dont know if they will let Trump back in even with his poll numbers...interesting times we live in.
At the moment, all we have are poll numbers, and the poll numbers are not Nikki Haley's friend. Frankly, they're not Ron DeSantis' friend.
Unless something happens to knock Donald Trump out of the race, the Vegas odds say he's going to sweep just about every primary and lock in enough delegates almost immediately to secure the nomination. We have yet to see a single ballot cast, however, so there is always a possibility something else will happen.
To force Haley on the GOP Trump has to be taken out of the running. Right now, the various trials he's facing are not going to accomplish that. If the trials don't get it done, then the GOP is going to have a time yanking the nomination away from him without looking as corrupt as the Democrats.
Time will tell, but I could see them pulling a fast one. Rumor is much of the donor class funded/encouraged these indictments against Trump.
Before all this I had hoped for a younger candidate who could emulate Trump's policies and style (but with their own pizzazz), but at this point, it appears none such exists. If we want a bombastic, angry, outsider, he's really the only option.
Agreed. I really didn't want to see Trump run again. I wanted him to mentor someone in the next generation.
And then reality set in....and here we are!
"the rest of the GOP field is simply atrocious" which is why I didn't watch it knowing that you would and deliver an excellent report on it. And yes, Tim Scott is essentially leading himself away from the position, but maybe not accidentally, maybe to get a cabinet level position in the next Trump administration.
Great summary!
I'm starting to wonder if Scott shouldn't be aiming to replace McConnell as the leader of the Senate Republicans. He's not stupid and he's not inarticulate, but he keeps coming across as a consensus builder rather than an executive decision-maker.
To me, that spells "Senate Majority/Minority Leader", not "President"
Great review on that two-hour extravaganza of bullshit last night, Peter. Dang, I felt like stabbing a chicken or at least kicking the dog after suffering through it - only at the insistence of my dear mother.
Gosh, we need to spend even more on upgrading our military and must go to war over Taiwan?! Gadzooks!
Too bad none of them would tie the persistent inflation with the government spreading fiat dough foreign aid all over the planet if regimes play ball.
Social Security debate was interesting. At least one of them blubbered something about a means test to filter recipients. No one would dare mention removing the tax cap on it though. I know millionaires who are chagrined to receive a check every month and donate it to their favorite charity. One even remarked that he once tried to give it back to Uncle Sugar with no success.
One of the greatest travesties in the political reporting in this country is the inability (or unwillingness?) of the corporate media to point out that, despite poll after poll after poll saying most Americans believe this country is headed in the wrong direction, the Presidential wannabes in both parties are promising to keep moving this country in that same wrong direction.
The electorate wants leaders who will talk in different terms from identity politics and defense spending, yet all the parties are offering are candidates who talk in terms of identity politics and defense spending. A primary reason Trump is popular is that he's willing to employ that different rhetoric, even if he tends to govern more as a center-right President or even a "business Democrat".