Friday, September 11, 2020
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Jenny Poo? I get you being bitter about the Republican base no longer being willing to mindlessly accept instruction from people like you. Thing is, sweetheart, if you follow John McCain, who didn't much care for the Republican base with Mitt Romney and try to pass him off as a jen-yoo-wine conservative, Donald Trump basically becomes inevitable.
But this shit crosses a line. 
UPDATE: Get help, Larry.
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Rubin is a deeply sick woman.
My suspicion about the NeverTrump residue is that they're vain fools whose response to empirical data is to double-down in lieu of admitting they were wrong about something (a tendency re-inforced by the mordida they're getting from Bezos and Omidyar, among others). The crew at National Review takes what they read in the MSM quite literally, often abjuring reserve during that prudent interval in which stories commonly fall apart. Rubin's the most bizarre of the bunch (even attracting critiques from NR), but they're all bloody peculiar.
I know this is a bit of a stretch, but bear with me. The acronym for the cracks that spy masters exploit when recruiting a spy is MICE. That is Money (you are in over your head), Ideology (you really dislike your country's politics), Compromise (you got caught in the wrong bed), & Envy (you didn't get the promotion). I am smelling Envy as the motivating factor amongst all these never-Trumpers. Their guys never got the job that Trump landed.
You could be on to something, ur. But I still think that sudden irrelevance is a hard thing for anyone to swallow, particularly if you've got nothing to fall back on at all, basically.
But I still think that sudden irrelevance is a hard thing for anyone to swallow, particularly if you've got nothing to fall back on at all, basically.
What they discovered in 2015-16 was that their rapport with Republican voters is nil.
Again, there is no popular NeverTrump strand of thought in the electorate at large. Compare Trump's approval ratings with those of George W. Bush and you see that the dimensions of the dissatisfied population of self-identified Republicans is about what it always is. They're the 2d iteration of the Obamacon phenomenon, a collection of journalists, lobbyists, campaign hacks, and quondam officials - many of them jonesing for contract or a job.
Here we have Richard Lowry the other day chuffering about what Trump has to do in order to prevail electorally. Richard Lowry's actual experience with any dimension of electoral politics approximates that of Madonna. They employ Andrew McCarthy and Wesley Smith as contributors, but the list of people who make contributions to the publication who actually know something about something other than the mechanics of publishing has been declining for 15 years or more. They do what they do because they can turn in copy on time.
Not sure where you can find numbers on circulation and unique views.
This was the latest leftist coordinated line yesterday, comparing the 9/11 terror attacks to coronavirus deaths. If they want to play that game, the attacker is Communist China, not Trump. But logic is not their strong point.
"Their guys never got the job that Trump landed."
Their guys couldn't do the job that Trump landed. Yes, envy. Big time.
Their guys couldn't do the job that Trump landed. Yes, envy. Big time.
Disagree. Doubt there's any envy at all. Aside from the collection of security state denizens that just signed that silly manifesto (most of whom appear to be permanent government with only a tenuous association with the Republican Party or conservative discourse), it's difficult to locate NeverTrumpaloos who have ever shown much interest in the business sector or functioning as a line administrator in any venue. Rubin's a lawyer-turned-opinion-journalist. Max Boot has been a scribbler his whole life. Ditto David Frum. George Will was a college professor for two years and change, then a congressional aide for several years. He's been writing since 1973 and was working at home 40-odd years ago when that was quite unusual. He employed a secretary at one time and that's it. David French's occupational life is a puzzle. He appears to have practiced law fitfully, but not in a number of years. Jonah Goldberg went from a documentary production company to a staff job at AEI to a position at NR. He likely never had more than a half-dozen people working under him. Mona Charen has bounced back and forth between PR jobs in Republican administrations and a sinecure at the Ethics and Public Policy Center (where her job appears to consist of writing her newspaper column). Rick Wilson is supposedly a 'political consultant'. Kevin Williamson has edited several weekly papers, never staying more than a few years in one place; I have the impression they were the sort of papers which employ 10 people.
If Trump pulls this off, I don't think any of these people are going to matter anymore. So they can officially shut the hell up or go Democratic.
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