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From The Reporter’s Notebook
Iowa Gov. Terry Brandstad said Tuesday that “it would be a big mistake for Iowa to support” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in the Republican presidential primary. Branstad’s opposition to Cruz has potential to impact the Texas senator’s chances in the Iowa caucuses. But TPM’s Caitlin MacNeal notes that Cruz also has notable supporters in the key early state—Rep. Steve King (R-IA) serves as the national co-chair of Cruz’s campaign.
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “There’s little question that the 2016 GOP is the party of Sarah Palin. Donald Trump is simply the successor who is bringing what she started to fruition—the Joshua to her Moses, the Umar to her Muhammad. This is not simply a commentary on the colorful, antic quality of this political cycle. It’s rooted in the same basic themes and beliefs: a mix of grievance and aggression, sharp-tongued impatience with cosmopolitan thinking and ‘political correctness’, paeans to the righteous resentment of hard-working white folk, and all packaged in a media savvy gift for gab.”
Say What?!
“In hindsight, a few of the thoughts I shared, while well-intended, may have come across as more motherly than what they would expect from their state representative.”
– A GOP lawmaker straight-up asked a group of teenagers if they were virgins….
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “Lets say that you prove, PROVE that Israel isn’t stumbling into her policy of oppression and apartheid, but has been planning it for 68 years and executing to plan. What exactly does that change? Will the Israelis abandon the plan because you pointed a light on it? Will the world not condemn the actions already condemned merely based on current conditions and not motivation? Will the young Palestinians finally understand their position and acquiesce? Will America turn on the Jews? I simply submit that the results visible now are condemnation enough and we don’t need to know motivation. The reason I point out the youth of the Palestinians is to be able to say that their current day reality is all that they need to know. Knowing the past before they lived doesn’t change the present for the people under the boot of Israel’s military. They don’t need to go back 2,000 years nor 68 years to know that what they are experiencing today is wrong. They are young and impatient and knowing history will not change that. Talking about 1948 plays into Israel’s hands by allowing detached intellectual arguments about the not-now. It is just more delay.”
Related: How Israel and Palestine got to this explosive moment.
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What We’re Reading
One of the dumbest cliches in politics. (Mother Jones)
The full text of Sarah Palin’s bizarre Trump speech. (Buzzfeed)
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