Donald Trump Jr: “Now, listen, in this country I’m the son of a billionaire, I can’t even have an opinion anymore. I could be Albert Einstein and they would discredit me as a horrible scientist. It doesn’t matter.”
You’ll hear a lot today about how since 1322 or whenever it is, only three men have lost the New Hampshire primary and gone on to be president. But definitely pay attention to who the three are: Clinton, Bush and Obama. In other words, the last three presidents, going back 24 years. So yeah, the New Hampshire primary ain’t what it used to be.
The makings of a president. From Buzzfeed’s McKay Coppins …
But to those who have known him longest, Rubio’s flustered performance Saturday night fit perfectly with an all-too-familiar strain of his personality, one that his handlers and image-makers have labored for years to keep out of public view. Though generally seen as cool-headed and quick on his feet, Rubio is known to friends, allies, and advisers for a kind of incurable anxiousness — and an occasional propensity to panic in moments of crisis, both real and imagined.
It’s hard to think of a better quality for a president than to lose your cool and panic at clutch moments.
I mentioned this McKay Coppins Buzzfeed piece in my previous post. But it’s worth revisiting, even as I add the caveat that no single reported piece can be treated as definitive. Having said that, it is hard to imagine anything beside child molester or pathological liar that could be a more devastating critique of a presidential contender, especially one that is widely held among those close to Marco Rubio.
The key line is: “Though generally seen as cool-headed and quick on his feet, Rubio is known to friends, allies, and advisers for a kind of incurable anxiousness — and an occasional propensity to panic in moments of crisis, both real and imagined.”
Prime members, get your questions in here!
So prominent GOP campaign surrogate and one-time rock star Ted Nugent just went on a wild anti-Semitic Facebook rant blaming Jews for gun control.
Bizarre. Man who attacks anti-Rubio protestor dressed as a robot at Rubio event turns out to be Rubio’s New Hampshire campaign chairman.
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High Court doesn’t even wait for the case to go through the lower courts before calling a dramatic halt to President Obama’s Climate Change program.