Rollin' with the Rajun' Cajun

The Rajun' Cajun still cracks me up. He even took a shot at my favorite Congressional ninny. Speaking of Hillary, he said "Maybe she just didn't want Louis Gohmert rifling around in her emails."

Now, I don't approve of the way Ms. Clinton has handled this whole deal, but keeping Gohmert away from you is a pretty damn good reason for just about anything.

And it has just been announced that Rand Paul is in. No surprise, the way he has been hammering Hillary for the last five months. I think Jindal will fail to launch. Huckabee will stay in long enough to squeeze another book out of it. Carson will spiral into the sun, making Herman Cain look like Adlai Stevenson. Trump and Palin will join forces in a new non-reality show. Cruz's head will explode. Marco Rubio's real birth certificate will be found, revealing that he is only 27. Perry will spend the election appealing his felony conviction in Texas. The rest of the clown car will go back home, except for Walker and Bush. Walker will stretch out to a huge lead, but Bush will chip away with vastly superior resources. It will be crazy tea party versus mainstream GOP, and the winner will be...crazy tea party. Walker will face whoever the Dems can throw out there, after Hillary lets the email/Benghazi/etc./etc. nutjobs convince her it isn't worth it.

Bibi is declaring victory. I wonder if he fully appreciates how close his stunt over here came to costing him that election. If not for diving to the hard, hard right in the last days, he would have gone down.

[chancellor]

Bibi is declaring victory. I wonder if he fully appreciates how close his stunt over here came to costing him that election. If not for diving to the hard, hard right in the last days, he would have gone down.

I'm prone to believe that his speech over here combined with his move to the hard right is what won him the election. Given who he's going to have to ally with to form a coalition, I fully expect the next government to be even more hardline. All this assumes the recent projections hold, and that's a pretty big assumption at this point.

[Lucky]

I'm prone to believe that his speech over here combined with his move to the hard right is what won him the election. Given who he's going to have to ally with to form a coalition, I fully expect the next government to be even more hardline. All this assumes the recent projections hold, and that's a pretty big assumption at this point.

Chance, you're a lot more plugged into the international political scene than I am, but it seemed to me that his position prior to accepting the invitation to speak here was quite strong...so strong that he called the election early to take advantage of that strength. But he misjudged the impact of his severely damaging relations with a sitting president. He didn't lose his very conservative base, but he wouldn't have lost them anyway. With less than a week left before the election, polls showed him four seats down. That's when he went uber-righty, talking about American-funded leftist groups, Arabs taking over, never-gonna-be-two-states, going on facebook to say the media is suppressing his message...essentially freaking out. If not for all that, and a furious get-out-the-vote effort, he would have been in trouble. As it is, he is no lock to put together a government. He was up by a seat the last time I looked.

Anyone who calls this a win for Bibi is whistlin' past the graveyard. I don't think we'll see him accepting any Boner invitations any time soon.

[Lucky]

Looks like Bibi picked up 30 seats. It's still comical to hear him say "against all odds, we won a great victory", when he picked the time and place of the fight.

I'm curious what effect his conversion to the single state doctrine will have on international affairs. Pretty cynical to convert on the last day, but that shows how desperate he was.

Every president I can recall has supported a two-state solution, most recently George W. Bush and Obama.

[chancellor]

Chance, you're a lot more plugged into the international political scene than I am, but it seemed to me that his position prior to accepting the invitation to speak here was quite strong...so strong that he called the election early to take advantage of that strength. But he misjudged the impact of his severely damaging relations with a sitting president.

He was already sliding before accepting the invitation; I'm doubting Bibi believes his slide was accelerated by the speech. More to follow...

With less than a week left before the election, polls showed him four seats down. That's when he went uber-righty, talking about American-funded leftist groups, Arabs taking over, never-gonna-be-two-states, going on facebook to say the media is suppressing his message...essentially freaking out. If not for all that, and a furious get-out-the-vote effort, he would have been in trouble.

He gives his speech here, then goes nuclear, reverses his slide, and maybe saves his bacon (yes, pun intended...). Mix a false belief that correlation equals causation with a politician's ego, and voila! We have a hard turn right. Not to mention the favors he's going to have to toss out to form a government...

As it is, he is no lock to put together a government. He was up by a seat the last time I looked.

Oh, I agree. The assumptions that he's already won are way too premature.

[Lucky]

Yeah, I didn't figure in the politician's ego thing. Discount everything I said accordingly.

It's too much to hope this whole thing will help him develop a little humility, I guess.

[chancellor]

It's too much to hope this whole thing will help him develop a little humility, I guess.

Stop it!!! You're killing me here!

[onejayhawk]

Not premature after all. It was as bad as November here.

A humble politician. What a concept. Kirk could have used it to melt a computer.

J

[Lucky]

Hey, did the President try to nuke Charleston and nobody post anything about it on RJ?

[chancellor]

Hey, did the President try to nuke Charleston and nobody post anything about it on RJ?

Given my awful experience in that city, I'd actually support a 3rd term for Obama if he did that.