(Libertarian-for-hire and Nick-Gillespie-fashion-stunt-double, Liz Mair)
In case you're unfamiliar, Liz Mair is one of those Conservative-henchmen-for-hire who spend most in their profession lives dancing back and forth between being a paid teevee pundit and Republican campaign advisor. And this week it was Liz's turn to be gifted a New York Times column so she could burnish her campaign consultant credentials by telling America what a bloody great thing it is that Mark Sanford has decided to fling himself into Donald Trump's Political Bug Zapper.
Mark Sanford Is the Biggest Republican Threat to Trump
He is unlikely to be defined by Never Trumpism and more likely to campaign on the threat of runaway deficits and debts.As a Conservative-henchman-for-hire, it is very important for Mair's future employment prospects to continue to pretend that somewhere at the bottom of the gargantuan shitpile that is her Republican party as it has existed during her entire adult life, there must be a Pony of Budgetary Restraint.
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He is the latest Republican to challenge President Trump for his party’s nomination. He also becomes the latest Republican to be instantly dismissed and jeered and even have his sanity questioned in some quarters.
But Mr. Sanford enters the race in a vastly different position than Bill Weld, the former Massachusetts governor, and Joe Walsh, the former representative from Illinois — one that could make him a more formidable challenger to Mr. Trump...
Unlike Mr. Weld, Mr. Sanford has been a big-name player and an elected official in Republican politics in the Trump era, the Tea Party-dominated period that preceded it and the two decades before that. He remains beloved by many conservative activists, who know he’s been serious about reining in wasteful spending, targeting debt and the deficit, and supporting free trade.To be clear, Republicans have never given one good God damn about "reining in wasteful spending, targeting debt". Republicans care about tax cuts for the wealthy and gutting social programs for everyone else -- two utterly depraved goals which are each served by Republicans doing what Republicans actually do when in office: using massive tax cuts for the wealthy to run up colossal deficits, and then demanding that Democrats pay those debts down with equally massive cuts to programs which help the poor, the sick, the struggling, the elderly, the young and basically anyone who isn't a wealthy Republican donor.
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All of which Liz Mair knows perfectly well, just as she knows perfectly well that Sanford's candidacy is doomed in the cradle. So what exactly is the point of cheering for Mark Sanford to dive into Donald Trump's Political Wood Chipper?
Liz Mair wants a "bigger voice in the room" (what room?) "speaking" (speaking to whom, exactly?) on behalf of a few hundred Beltway media Republicans (all of whom apparently now get to publish guest columns in The New York Times anytime they please) who want an even larger stage on which to impotently exhibit their superior morality by continuing the pretense that floating out there somewhere in the cosmos is a lost strand of Fiscal Conservative nucleotides just waiting for someone to retrieve it and braid it back into her party's DNA.Good. I don’t think this is, or should be, about defeating or weakening Trump. It is, and should be, about making sure that those of us who want free trade back and debt and deficits reined in have someone with a bigger voice in the room speaking for us. https://t.co/U2jnAHtNIm— Liz Mair (@LizMair) September 8, 2019
In other words, Liz Mair wants Mark Sanford to run as her Virtue Signaling candidate.
To take a conspicuous but essentially useless action ostensibly to support a good cause but actually to show off how much more moral you are than everybody else.Which is something I thought Conservative really, really hated.
And anyway, isn't impotently exhibiting your superior political morality on a big stage for cash why Satan gave us Politicon?
This is quite a roster. pic.twitter.com/U2NcNhI7bi— Dave Levinthal (@davelevinthal) September 10, 2019
I'm Not Going To Politicon
7 comments:
David farookin Crooks was born Aug 11, 1961, a dark day of a solar eclipse. A Leo without a Sun.
In 2021 NYT dumps him. In 2024 he's confined in a mental institution...if they revive him after his incident.
Sanford's
"more likely to campaign on the threat of runaway deficits and debts."
Yes, that is exactly what those farmers bet the farm on with Trump to use big republican government to intervene in the hollowed Free Market. Telling China to pay more for our exported AG products.
Declare a trade war that loses their markets altogether only to use republican socialism to give farmers other Americans money to make up for not selling their products anymore.
While,, Caol Mining corporations drain money from company to go bankrupt, take the pension money and not pay their employees their last paychecks they worked for.
Why not run against trump after voting and defending al the republican spending like his tax cuts. He had to force the county to borrow money to pay out the cuts so the checks would not bounce.
I think there is more important things going on that needs all our attention.. As the firing/quit of the Bolton Caterpillar upper lip.
It is most important right now for everyone to let Trump know. My Senator Ben Sasse is available. trained in the arts of boot licking in public. I s highly experienced in talking at people, answering questions with information that has nothing to do with the question asked.
Sasse would be one of Trump's best sidekicks.. Signal to the Mid west how he cares by choosing Sasse. Sasse has earned this promotion by Trump. To National Security Adviser.
Sasse has already wrote his book so that is out of the way.
Not to forget, Sasse is not a very good golfer so he would never have to let Trump win. Very nice fit for Trump's ego.
Help Trump pick Sasse to replace Bolton. Unless you want Russian Ambassador Kislyack.
Oh, lookie, lookie, Driftglass! This was the last letter to the editor in today's New York Times print edition:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fxze8ynebfkxdx8/00letterBrooks.png?dl=0
I hope that warms the cockles of your heart! And wtf are cockles, anyway?
I'm embarrassed for the NYT when I see a boob like Mair on the Op-ed page. Her only qualification as a consultant is that she's a ignorant and crude as the voters her clients are trying to attract.
mark sanford has a role in the netflix mini series the family.if you have'nt seen it take look
I thought that Politicon poster was from The Onion. The only one I want to hear from is Al Franken.
I rarely glance at, much less read The Times.
With all the competition in higher education. The right wing children who are / have been indoctrinated into the dittohead fold. Are having such a rough time getting into universities on their flat Earth home' private schooling. grades. They were told God will provide.
the purchasing of university entrees to bribe their passing for a diploma without the work or knowledge. To be able to be given those executive corporate jovs with some inkling of ability to justify it.
Just is not working out.
With the help of Koch Brothers deep ideological pockets. Creating a entire political right wing corporate welfare job placements. An entire industry for the wayward useless inheritance babies the rest of us are to be ruled by.
This right wing industry provides zero GDP. But these parents can feel better their children can be leaders and provide for themselves (feeling s).
Their think tanks expend how to get elected, how to confuse and lie to asses. Basic deceit for corporate profit.
Skills that respectable institutions of higher learning doesn't teach or enhance like the corrupt in wealth wants for their kids.
Even in their religion(s). Self profit is what they interpret the word as. So they require the Pat Robertson, Fallwells For a haven to justify their sins.
There is nothing the Tomi Lahren epitomizes worth listening to, supporting, other than the welfare institution of republican party. How she tries to speak with experience and authority without any of it.
What ever the republican party may stand for at the moment. It's flush with the resources Jim Jones did not fully exploit.
It can't go bankrupt. The free market is not in play to correct it. It operates mostly tax free, on tax free billionaire welfare and NEVER has to truly face and be confronted with it's failures.
They needed Citizens United ruling to overwhelm and undermine the very constitutional rights the proclaim they stand for.
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