On the one hand, she says what everyone else (including me) has said – Trump is a wild dog the GOP set loose in their own backyard, and now they’re upset that he’s barking (or biting) too often:

“For all the Republican establishment’s self-righteous bleating, Trump is nothing more than an unvarnished, cruder version. For years, it has fanned, stoked and exploited the worst angels among the nativists, racists, Pharisees and angry white men, concurring in anti-immigrant measures, restricting minority voting, whipping up anti-Planned Parenthood hysteria and enabling gun nuts. 

 How lame was it that after saying he was a crazy choice, Rubio, Ted Cruz, Paul Ryan and John McCain turned around and said they will support Trump if he’s the nominee?”

Then, on the other hand, she says it’s all kind of a hoot:

“After watching Hillary Clinton, for whom campaigning is a nuisance, and Barack Obama, who disdains politics, it’s fun to see someone having fun. Like Bill Clinton, Trump talks and talks to crowds. They feed his narcissism, and in turn, he creates an intimacy even in an arena that leaves both sides awash in pleasure. It’s easy to believe him when he says that, unlike President Obama, he would enjoy endlessly negotiating with obstructionists and those on the other side of the aisle. 

 That’s the wicked fun part.”

Therein lies the Trumb-rub, to me. Donald Trump is inarguably the bastard son of the arranged marriage of the trailer park Tea Party and the Southern gentry of the formerly-dignified Republican Party. No argument here. Nope. 

But he’s the media’s bastard son, too. They – we – made him as surely as the Tea Partiers did. We’re his parents, too. 

And, like all parents, we can’t look away from our child, however much he’s turned into an evil little monster. 

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Well, after literally years, they still haven’t charged Ornge’s Chris Mazza, a long-time PC enthusiast. But former McGuinty deputy chief Laura Miller, who caught the OPP in perjury, and didn’t do a damn thing that was even remotely criminal? The OPP set land speed records, on that one.  

And, during the last election, the selfsame OPP ran attack ads against he Ontario Liberals. Not against their main opponent. 

Now, today, this. The OPP “association” actually  sponsoring the Ontario PC conference. 

Never saw them do that for Ontario Liberals. Funny, that. 

  

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Three things:

1. Don’t talk publicly about making sausages.
2. It’s messy and complicated.  Looks like a leaping green fish or something.
3. They sound like they’re trying to convince themselves.  Never a good thing.

What Brown did was remarkable – he wanted something, he worked hard to get it, and he actually took over a political dynasty. They said he couldn’t do it, but he did it.

But you don’t win elections with logos.  You win them with better ideas, a better team, and a better story.

He has the party he wanted.  Does he now have the better ideas, team and story he needs?

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Oh, look. The far-Left aspiring terrorist – who tried to kill a bunch of people, and very nearly did – considers me his “nemesis.” Good.

The far-Right despises me, too.

I’d call that a good day, wouldn’t you?

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Here are the possibilities:

• It was a huge success.
• It was a huge failure.
• Um, er.

In such circumstances, what else is there to do but launch a www.warrenkinsella.com Highly Scientific Poll™?  Vote now,vote often!

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In all seriousness, however, the United States of America has now fully and inarguably devolved into an enormous hillbilly trailer park, in the process making a family squabble between Duck Commander and Jase about the annual turkey cook-off on Duck Dynasty look like Pericles enumerating the principles of Athenian arts and culture in the Ekklesia.

Somewhere, Vladimir Putin is laughing his ass off.

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…but it’s also pretty bad when the best your party can do is haul out of a crypt, as your voice of accepted wisdom, the clueless vulture capitalist who was eviscerated by that black crypto-Muslim guy who was secretly born in Africa to Satanists.

President Clinton, here we come.

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Heard this one on the way in. Thirty-year-old memories of ichiban, St. Louis, Sick Dick, law school exams. They were gods, at the height of their powers. Michael loses some notes, but it’s still great.

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Or, as someone said on Twitter, like he’s in a hostage video.  Or, how our dogs look when they realize they are going to the vet.  Or, wondering if he left the stove on before he left to tuck The Donald in for the night.

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