Do you know that Donald Trump has actually “annoyed a lot of people in person”? I’ve read articles by them. So what?

Cruz annoys people who play the “establishment” game that so many voters on the right have said they don’t want their elected officials to play. He’s going to annoy a lot of people who do play that game. So what?

And very brilliant people also tend to “annoy” other people who are not quite as brilliant as they.

I think his attack on Cruz may be another iteration of his posture as the tough guy who will speak truths that others are too nice to say. That’s his immigration shtick.

With Cruz: his attack seems mean-spirited, but possibly true. I like Cruz much better than Trump on issues, and better than Rubio. But I have heard from lot of different places that Cruz has annoyed people in person: Senate colleagues, Princeton classmates, fellow Supreme Court clerks.

A friend compared him to Richard III of England. There are “Ricardians” who insist that he was gravely libelled by Thomas More and Shakespeare, but as my friend pointed out, everyone turned against him eventually. There had to be a reason. As there may be with Cruz.

Trump H8’ers gotta H8. I do not.

Bye.”

Leaving, A’Barge? That’s like watching the garbage take itself out.

And as far as being a “true neo-con” goes—you are a newcomer here, and have no idea what I’m about or why I call myself that, but the main reason was always that I’d become a conservative, a new conservative. I wear that badge proudly, and I’ve written scads of other things about what I believe neocons stand for (the category “neocons” is on the right sidebar, with a list of links).

I am not of any wing of the Republican Party, and couldn’t care less about those wings and what each of them thinks. I think for myself.

As far as your comment “All the eGoP peck-sniffs just get so precious about that ‘crass’ Trump” goes, if you think that’s what this piece is saying, then you are a very superficial thinker and reader.

As for this: “He is not our gangster overlord to fight the eGoP Elitists, he is our murder weapon,” I say “Be careful what you wish for.” Trump may end up being the death not just of the eGoP Elitists, but the suicide of conservatism and the right, for generations. He is also a big government guy. You better just hope he doesn’t want your property for a nice real estate development, either.

You call that “groveling”? I call it gracious. There’s nothing groveling about it.

And if Cruz attacked her, you’d call it “nasty.”

And if Trump did either thing, his supporters would call either of those things “masterful, brilliant, what an alpha male would do.”

If you study this blog, you’ll see that during 2008 I defended Palin, nor have I trashed her since. But I do think that it’s really humorous and ironic that she would counsel Cruz (directly or indirectly) to “stay in the Senate and House, that’s where you’re most effective.” First of all, he’s not effective there without a Republican president and enough fellow-conservatives there to support him, which hasn’t been true so far. Secondly, of course, she left the governorship where she would have been most effective, and would have retained her own political viability for the next cycle. Since she quit, she’s drawn crowds and been a reality TV star, and lost a great deal of the support she once had. Yes, there are still many people who follow her and like her, but nothing close to the numbers there used to be. A lot of people lost respect for her when she quit the governorship. Right now, I think she sees her chance to latch onto the coattails of a media favorite and crowd favorite and become relevant again.

You seem to have a lot of personal animus towards Cruz, by the way. “Smarmy”? You remind me a bit of those people who disliked Bush because he reminded them of “spoiled frat boys” they had known.

Cruz quickly grovels: Mr Cruz later said: “I love Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin is fantastic. Regardless of what she does in 2016 I will always be a big fan.” via the Telegraph.

And that’s before Palin actually starts attacking Cruz. The speech is a rhetorical masterpiece and contains the explicit warning – stay in the Senate and House, that’s where you’re most effective. Cruz, to be fair, wears his fiercely independent Conservative purist streak with pride. Problem is it reads as ‘permanent grid-lock’ to most neutrals, even sympathetic ones. Cruz is famously hated by most of his own party’s leaders, as Cruz is quick to remind us. Is he planning on getting elected and running with a ‘doesn’t work well with others’ profile? I think not, He’s become the Alan Grayson of the Republican party. Not. Going. To. Be. Pres.

All the eGoP peck-sniffs just get so precious about that ‘crass’ Trump.

He is not our gangster overlord to fight the eGoP Elitists, he is our murder weapon.