Category: Politics

Ted Cruz just took a very big step towards winning Indiana.

You’ve heard the news by now: Ted Cruz is going to let John Kasich take a clear shot at Oregon and New Mexico in exchange for Kasich getting the heck out of the Indiana primary. It’s a trade that Cruz needed, and it’s gonna scramble all the calculations, in Cruz’s favor. It also suggests that the ‘vote for whoever’s ahead: Cruz or Kasich’ state strategic voting rule is now in full effect everywhere else. Continue reading Ted Cruz just took a very big step towards winning Indiana.

My RedState post on pointless threats against delegates in… Delaware.

Found here. Short version: …well, all y’all know who did it. The question is, why would he? It’s not like Ted Cruz or John Kasich is likely to win freaking Delaware. Guess being nasty got good to Team Trump, to use the Stephen King phrase.

And this was supposed to be a fun election cycle, too.

My RedState piece on Team Trump’s VA Charity woes.

Found here. Short version? Somebody over at Team Trump has fornicated the canine when it comes to all that veteran charity money Donald Trump supposedly raised.  Not Trump himself, most likely; but somebody in his staff. There’s allegedly three million or so that hasn’t been accounted for… and finding out precisely what happened should prove amusing in 2017.  Because people go to jail for stuff like this.

There are so many things I could say about this Ann Coulter tweet…

…and not a single damned one of them would be safe for work.

Oops

But Dan’s sentiment is correct. Trump is altering the deal. Trump supporters had best pray he does not alte… wait, no, they can just stop supporting the guy. That’ll solve their problem, right there.

Moe Lane

PS: Hey, I didn’t say that I couldn’t come up with a clean response. Just that all of the really good responses were fairly rude, in the older sense of the term.

Elvis is Everywhere, Ted Cruz edition.

People should just be embarrassed on the National Enquirer’s behalf at this point. It’s like watching somebody being paid to poop their pants in public. And for a ridiculously small sum, too.

Also:

Blow struck against political intimidation in California.

This is good news:

A federal judge in Los Angeles has again shut down California Attorney General Kamala Harris’ drive to obtain the donor list for Americans for Prosperity, an influential political group funded by Charles and David Koch.

U.S. District Court Judge Manuel Real issued a permanent injunction Thursday barring Harris’ office from requiring AFP to submit the donor list. And AFP may not be considered deficient or delinquent in its filings because it won’t turn over the form, the judge said.

Note that I’m not going to pretend that AG Harris isn’t selectively trying to enforce the law in order to get her progressive hands on a leakable list of conservative and libertarian donors. Unlike her, I’m not inclined to treat the American voting public as idiots. Bad reputations, once acquired, have a habit of sticking, folks. Something to keep in mind…