Tag: GOP candidates
GOP Candidates Don’t Know What Carpet Bombing Is
Carpet bombing would be completely useless. It’s totally contrary to the American way of war. Total disregard for civilians. So, I mean, part of the concern that I have with the campaign, particularly when it comes to national security, is that the solutions being offered are so simplistic and so at odds with the reality of the rest of the world, with the way the world really works.
— Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, quoted by Politico, saying the GOP presidential candidates “don’t know what they’re talking about.”
How the GOP’s ‘Five-Ring Circus’ Is Shaping Up
This from Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight: “The chart is an oversimplification, but it recognizes the GOP’s dynamics are more complex than a simple left-right spectrum would imply. Some wings overlap more with others. For instance, a candidate could easily have a lot of appeal to both tea party and libertarian voters. But it’s unlikely that one candidate would simultaneously be the choice of both Christian conservatives and moderate voters.”
Marco Turns 43
To the climate scientists he loudly shouts “Nay!”
And he’s all for marriage, unless you’re gay.
He’s the GOP’s darling,
Still boyish and alarming,
And we wish him bad cess on his birthday.
GOP Brain Trust
The “conservative intelligentsia” are hoping to prod
Some Republican to enter the race who’s not a clod.
Because Politico really nailed it,
Saying of Rick, Michele and Mitt —
He’s a dope, she’s a joke and he’s a fraud.
