Let’s name the entire thing off.
The GOP presidential race is over, can all of us agree on that? Spoiler alert: Trump gained. It wasn’t even shut.
Yeah, I do know the outdated saying, it’s by no means over ‘til it’s over, however you realize what? It’s over.
Could something have been clearer after the Wednesday night time debate on the RINO Fox Business Channel that no person watched among the many also-rans, has-beens and never-weres?
What did the headlines all say concerning the seven – seven! – candidates who confirmed up on the Reagan library in southern California?
They “sparred.” They “duked it out.” That’s the lede reporters write a couple of debate when no person stood out and nothing occurred to vary the trajectory of the struggle.
And it’s not just like the race was very a lot unsure earlier than the talk.
As Trump’s spokesman identified afterwards, when you took the ballot numbers of the opposite seven candidates and added all of them collectively, they’d nonetheless be 20 factors behind Orange Man Bad.
The political scrubs and jay-vees all went into that debate understanding these numbers. It was just like the sequence final week between the Red Sox and the Yankees. The solely factor at stake was avoiding ending useless final within the division. (Another spoiler alert: the Red Sox misplaced.)
In California, the seven dwarfs had been attempting to limp in the direction of the following one, to someway meet the RNC necessities to make the third debate, every time it’s, wherever it’s.
Nobody desires to be the following… Asa Hutchinson. Who will probably be eradicated subsequent? Mike Pence? Krispy Kreme Christie? Whatisname – the governor of North Dakota?
It’s humiliating to be the primary lower in both coaching camp or the presidential marketing campaign. You wish to be Trump’s final sparring associate – this cycle’s Ted Cruz. It means a much bigger contract to turn into the token Republican within the inexperienced room on one in every of state-run media’s cable networks.
Maybe that’s why Dana Perino requested the silly “Survivor” query. Ron DeSantis shot her down, simply as he demolished the Charo-sounding Colombian leftist who was imported to ask some questions direct from the ESL School of Broadcasting, like “Why have you fleeped?”
So you had one of many three moderators from Great Britain, one other from a failed Third World narco-nation, and one native-born citizen who worships the bottom all members of the Bush household stroll on.
No surprise the candidates didn’t get requested any questions on points Americans truly care about, say, Bidenomics, or the Afghanistan debacle, or the sinister connections between COVID, the CIA and Fauci….
Somewhere Wednesday night time, Candy Crowley and Chris Wallace had been smiling. They couldn’t have accomplished a greater job themselves of sandbagging Republicans!
Incidentally, it wasn’t simply Trump who counterprogrammed towards Faux throughout that unhappy two-hour debate. Bill O’Reilly went on Tucker Carlson’s Twitter feed to debate the parlous state of American media.
“They’re all afraid,” O’Reilly instructed Carlson. “Talent’s scared across the board.”
But so long as you attempt to make Republicans look unhealthy, you’ll in all probability get one other contract. That was one other one of many classes from the talk, so-called.
If this GOP marketing campaign had been a boxing match, the referee would have already stepped in and stopped the struggle – TKO, technical knockout.
The winner wasn’t even again in his personal nook when he gained. He was three time zones away, in Michigan, addressing an viewers of auto employees.
And but Trump nonetheless delivered the most effective traces of the night time:
“The only time Joe Biden has ever gotten his hands dirty is when he’s taking cash from foreign countries – which is quite often, actually.”
“Crooked Joe Biden is back like a wretched old vulture trying to finish off his prey.”
“Joe Biden only cares about enriching his own family. I care about enriching your family. That’s why I did this.”
Why can’t any of the opposite Republican candidates provide you with soundbites like that? Is it that tough? As Casey Stengel used to say of the 1962 Mets, “Can’t anybody here play this game?”
Speaking of baseball once more, if the talk had been a late-season sport, the headline would have been:
“Seven candidates mathematically eliminated after latest loss.”
For months now, Faux News has been attempting to prop up one or one other of the GOP pretenders. For some time it was Sen. Tim Scott, flush as he’s with Larry Ellison’s thousands and thousands. But his marketing campaign is DOA. Then it was Nikki Haley, however she has a really low ceiling within the polling.
Occasionally the Faux RINOs attempt to resuscitate Gov. Ron DeSantis, who’s, let’s face it, a sufferer of circumstance on this struggle. But irrespective of how a lot the Murdochs attempt, they will’t appear to get DeSantis any traction both.
So now they’re once more floating the identify of VA Gov. Glenn Youngkin. Virginia has off-year legislative elections, so he’s out of pocket till not less than Nov. 7. But, simply because the Jets want a brand new quarterback, the never-Trumpers desperately want a brand new candidate now.
Update: as I write this, Youngkin has materialized dwell on Faux, doing commentary of the House impeachment inquiry. He’s sitting proper there within the D.C. studio with one of many innumerable blonde anchor cupcakes.
Will Youngkin be the following… Brock Purdy? Maybe, however for each Brock Purdy, there’s a dozen bust-outs. Joe Louis used to struggle the “Bum of the Month.” Will Glenn Youngkin be Trump’s subsequent Bum of the Month?
Stay tuned. Or, if it’s just like the Wednesday night time debate, do what all people else did. Don’t keep tuned.
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