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No, no! Haven't you heard? They've got a deep bench!

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Huey Long was the 1930s Cajun version of Hugo Chávez, with all the good and bad that applies. Chuck Colson was a Watergate crook. Teddy Roosevelt quit the Republicans because of people like Brooks and Rubio. This guy's deluded.

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To hell with Father Divine, give us a candidate who embodies LADY Divine.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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As a brony I'm offended that the author would suggest that the esteemed "Pony Q. Unicorn" would be a candidate for the GOP.

However, I do agree that David Brooks is a butt nugget.

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Yes, that is David Brooks on your emm ess emm Sunday morning teevee shows

I can't figure out who the audience is for these shows. Here's what I was doing while Brooks was blathering: skiing untracked powder because 1) I got my butt out to the resort early, and 2) I knew that the one lift serving an entire valley (Silverado, at Squaw) had been closed the previous day and made a beeline there.

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Just add something about the next six months being critical and you could replace Tom Friedman, also, too.

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Splitting the GOP into teabagger, evangelical, and establishment...Rubio is in first place in the "GOP-Establishment" "party".

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You're talking about the inventor of the "Applebee's Salad Bar" meme...

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In Dowd's case the unit would be "column-yards".

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I'd watch the shit out of that.

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I think he pulled Chuck Colson out of his ass. I don't remember anything else about him besides the fact that he's a crook. Maybe he meant Jack Kemp?

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So the Bush doctrine then?

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Kasich is "surging." He seems the most likely to appeal to the country club set. Marco seems like he's the thirsty kid who caddies for you at the country club, and sucks up hoping you'll tip him well so he can go buy some fancy boy boots.

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Stay thirsty, my friend.

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Same formula could apply for any thought Bill Kristol has ever had. "Say, you know who'd make a great VP and makes me tingly in my bathing suit area?" That fucktard is responsible for foisting Sarah Palin on the unsuspecting American public.

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That was an odd choice to pull out of his ass. I almost think he meant to say Jack Kemp, but he got into Aunt Peggy Noonan's vodka.

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