12 Responses to “I Heard It On The NARN”

1. DMA Says:
   February 28th, 2016 at 3:08 pm

   Listened to your segment with Pawlenty and the Nebraska Senator. Perfect demonstration of the cluelessness of the professional GOP. Didn’t even mention the #1 issue in this election – immigration. Trump is on the right side of the issue, Rubio is on the wrong side.

   You want to stop Trump? Get a candidate who is willing to make getting control of our borders AND STOPPING the deluge from radical muslim infested countries the centerpiece of his campaign. That’s it. It’s that simple.

   And if you think you are going to stop Trump at the convention, how are you going to spin he 20,000 people who tried to see him in Alabama today that despite the fact that Trump got twice the delegates of the next guy he didn’t get the nomination.

   The people of this country will spit the republicans out like warm water.

2. Mitch Berg Says:
   February 28th, 2016 at 7:06 pm

   Trump is on the right side of the issue,

   Well, he’s saying words that sound like they’re on the right side of it, to be accurate.

3. Bento Guzman Says:
   February 28th, 2016 at 7:17 pm

   I hereby claim to be the first to make the Trump/Ventura comparison, on this blog, back in 2011: http://www.shotinthedark.info/wp/?p=19300

4. Bento Guzman Says:
   February 28th, 2016 at 7:21 pm

   You want to stop Trump? Get a candidate who is willing to make getting control of our borders AND STOPPING the deluge from radical muslim infested countries the centerpiece of his campaign. That’s it. It’s that simple.
   DMA and I are in perfect agreement.
   The poll numbers, pro-and-anti amnesty, have always been heavily against amnesty. The elites of both parties took comfort in the fact that while the people were against their open-immigration plans overall, immigration was a low priority to the voting public. That seems to have changed.

5. nerdbert Says:
   February 29th, 2016 at 11:17 am

   Well, he’s saying words that sound like they’re on the right side of it, to be accurate.

   Rubio was a gang-of-eight co-conspirator. Cruz was wishy-washy on the issue, but seemed mostly pro-wall and pro-limited amnesty. Rubio sponsored legislation that would more than triple H1-B visas; Cruz went along with it.

   So, if we have an environment in which one person proposes an extreme, anti-establishment wisdom position in direct opposition to nearly everyone else in the field, and the field only reluctantly adopts some of those positions, who’s aligned with the GOP electorate and who’s off kilter? Trump hit a very, very sore nerve with his position, and for many working stiffs it’s finally given them a way to be heard over the drone of “establishment” types beholden to corporate donors.

   I’m grateful for Trump raising the issue. I’m still supporting Cruz, and in the general I’ll hold my nose and pull the lever for Rubio if forced to choose between him and Hillary, but it’s by no means with any enthusiasm I’ll vote for Rubio because of his stand on the immigration issue. On most other things he’s fine, but he’s lying through his teeth on his newly-found concern about the American worker and I don’t trust him as far as I can throw the White House on this issue.

6. Emery Incognito Says:
   February 29th, 2016 at 8:10 pm

   Rubio is the best of the electable Republicans right now, and I’ll judge him vs. Hilary on the basis of his governing proposals in October, not now when he’s pandering to the right wing. In a couple of years, he might be able to put through some sensible immigration reforms, as well. The Gang of Eight work shows he can be sensible, even if he has to disown it today.

7. Bento Guzman Says:
   February 29th, 2016 at 8:35 pm

   “. . . he might be able to put through some sensible immigration reforms, as well.”
   I know you do not mean “enforce the immigration laws passed by the congress”, Emery.
   That is a non-starter. Obama could only do what he did by exec order. There is no political demand for “sensible immigration reforms” outside of the the elites in DC, the faculty lounge, and corporate boardrooms. There is no political space for this to happen because the elites have betrayed the American people, again and again on immigration.

8. Emery Incognito Says:
   February 29th, 2016 at 9:26 pm

   I read an interesting Boston Globe article relating how simpler language resonates. Cruz is quite literate, he speaks at a 12 grade level. That isn’t surprising given his Ivy League education. Kasich and Rubio are pretty literate, at a 10th grade level. And then there is Trump who speaks at a 4th grade level. He uses lots of one syllable words and short declarative sentences, like he is reading bumper stickers. Rubio and Cruz and the other guy would be well advised to dumb it done a bunch. That way they may have more appeal to the GOP base. Trump’s strategy is to pretend he is a good old boy who just happens to be rich. Seems to be working.

   https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2015/10/20/donald-trump-and-ben-carson-speak-grade-school-level-that-today-voters-can-quickly-grasp/LUCBY6uwQAxiLvvXbVTSUN/story.html

9. Bento Guzman Says:
   March 1st, 2016 at 12:39 am

   Your 09:26 showed a Flesch-Kincaid reading level of grade 5.6. Emery.
   I don’t think that you can judge Cruz, or even Trump properly.
   5.6! Jeebus if I had a kid that only managed a 5.6 on Flesch-Kincaid, I would’ve drowned him in the bathtub.

10. Emery Incognito Says:
    March 1st, 2016 at 5:58 am

    Keep it simple stupid.

11. justplainangry Says:
    March 2nd, 2016 at 10:47 am

    Rubio is the best of the electable Republicans right now

    If eTASS supports Rubio, then you know he will be bad for the country. And we all need better now after the lawless rule of 0baminus Rex.

12. justplainangry Says:
    March 2nd, 2016 at 10:48 am

    Keep it simple stupid.

    That you are, eTASS. That you are.

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