2016 GOP Primary Archives - Page 9 of 20

How can you tell when Donald Trump’s lyin’?
It only happens when his lips are movin’.
Here’s an example,
And it’s just a sample:
When he said those black pastors really loved ‘im.

A Growing Tolerance for Lying

December 1, 2015 Buck Banks

There’s a good chance that if you’re reading this you don’t believe it. … It hasn’t exactly been a banner year for truth-telling in the 2016 election, with flubs, rumors, misleading stats and flat-out falsehoods uttered on the campaign trail and ping-ponged around the social media universe with regularity. But in many cases, furious fact-checking from the mainstream media has not only failed to prompt solemn apologies from the worst offenders — it’s made them stronger.

— Carrie Dann, NBC News

On Rubio’s Political Skills

November 30, 2015 Buck Banks

When Marco Rubio speaks, young women swoon, old women faint, and toilets flush themselves.

— Florida Rep. Dan Gelber (D), quoted by the New Yorker, warning his colleagues of Sen. Marco Rubio’s “innate political skill.”

Fiorina Groks the Trump Pattern for Us

November 30, 2015 Buck Banks

This is the pattern, isn’t it? The pattern is — he says something insulting, offensive and outrageous; the media pays attention; then he claims we all misunderstood him.

— Carly Fiorina, quoted by the Washington Post, on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

Christie Receives Significant Endorsement

November 30, 2015 Buck Banks

Gov. Christie is right for these dangerous times. He has prosecuted terrorists and dealt admirably with major disasters. But the one reason he may be best-suited to lead during these times is because he tells it like it is and isn’t shy about it.

— Fro the editorial endorsing New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie from New Hampshire’s Union Leader, traditionally the most respected newspaper voice in the first-in-the-nation primary state.

Reporters Actually Like Covering Trump

November 30, 2015November 30, 2015 Buck Banks

It is fun to be here. Even the reporters, to whose perfidy Trump devotes a substantial chunk of his speech, are having fun — you never know what Trump is going to say, and you get a lot of airtime … Despite all the negativity and fear, the energy in this room does not feel dark and aggressive and threatening. It doesn’t feel like a powder keg about to blow, a lynch mob about to rampage. It feels joyous.

— Molly Ball in the Atlantic

Politicians Can Say Anything Without Worrying About It

November 30, 2015 Buck Banks

Politicians are quickly learning that they can say just about anything and get away with it. Along with vindication, apology and suffering, there now exists a fourth way forward for the politician spewing whoppers: Blame the backlash on media bias and walk away a hero.

$47.5 million

At least I was once winning. Jeb Bush has been doing nothing but losing throughout this entire campaign.

— Former 2012 GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, responding on his website to being cited by Jeb Bush as an example of an outsider presidential candidate who lost the race.

The overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats.

— Sen. Ted Cruz, in an interview with Hugh Hewitt.

— Carrie Dann, NBC News

When Marco Rubio speaks, young women swoon, old women faint, and toilets flush themselves.

— Florida Rep. Dan Gelber (D), quoted by the New Yorker, warning his colleagues of Sen. Marco Rubio’s “innate political skill.”

This is the pattern, isn’t it? The pattern is — he says something insulting, offensive and outrageous; the media pays attention; then he claims we all misunderstood him.

— Carly Fiorina, quoted by the Washington Post, on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

Gov. Christie is right for these dangerous times. He has prosecuted terrorists and dealt admirably with major disasters. But the one reason he may be best-suited to lead during these times is because he tells it like it is and isn’t shy about it.

— Fro the editorial endorsing New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie from New Hampshire’s Union Leader, traditionally the most respected newspaper voice in the first-in-the-nation primary state.

— Molly Ball in the Atlantic

Politicians are quickly learning that they can say just about anything and get away with it. Along with vindication, apology and suffering, there now exists a fourth way forward for the politician spewing whoppers: Blame the backlash on media bias and walk away a hero.

— Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.”

— Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

“Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day. And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.”

— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by The Atlantic, speaking to college students.

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

Numerati

+175,000

“The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.

$4,600

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30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%