A Visit to the Clown Car

I was very pleased to read that Mitt Romney decided not to make a 3^rd run for the Presidency. Having Mr. 47% on the Clown Car would surely have tipped it over.

It seems however that he is keeping a very close eye on the inhabitants of the car.

Speaking at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, Mr. Romney said that he would never have predicted that the GOP front-runner would be The Donald and the Dem leader a Socialist. Well Mr. Romney, no one else would have expected either. He is certain that The Donald will not be the party’s nominee. (From his lips…)

Whether he has the backing of Mitt or not, Trump is still riding high in the polls. In the Suffolk Univ./USA Today poll he is 10% ahead of Carson and Fiorina and Jeb Bush is moving down.

The poll included a one-word description of Trump and Fiorina.  Based on the results, the GOP has a problem.

Ted Cruz continues to show how unqualified he is to be President.

He has successfully alienated his colleagues in the Senate to the point where only a few of them were willing to sign the letter he wrote to give to McConnell, telling him not to consider a spending bill that did not defund Planned Parenthood.

The spending bill passed, it did not remove funding for Planned Parenthood, and the government will not close down, especially since the President has been waiving his veto pen in the direction of any bill that defunded PP.

Rand Paul who is also running for President (with a 2% rating in the polls) said about Cruz: “Ted has chosen to make this really personal and chosen to call people dishonest in leadership and call them names, which really goes against the decorum and also against the rules of the Senate, and as a consequence, he can’t get anything done legislatively,” Paul said in a Tuesday night interview with Fox News. “He is pretty much done for and stifled and it’s really because of personal relationships, or lack of personal relationships, and it is a problem.”

Cruz also has been saying that he has “..spent much of my adult life working in law enforcement”

Of course that statement caught the eye of a reporter (Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post) who after analyzing his career, wrote an article that shows he has worked in law enforcement for 6 of his 18 working years.  Why would he feel it necessary to exaggerate his credentials? I guess he did not realize that people are listening and the facts are in the public domain and so can be checked.

Jeb Bush continues to believe, even as his poll numbers remain in single digits that he will be the nominee, even after dropping from double digits.

With Rubio ahead of him in the polls, Jeb came out swinging in an interview, attacking Rubio for among other things missing votes in order to campaign. (Rubio has missed more votes than any other Senator this year.) Bush will need more than Rubio’s missed votes to overcome the deficit provided by his last name and his abysmal record as Governor of Florida.

Kasich, Huckabee, Jindal, Christie and Graham are still in the Car, sporting their 1 and 2% numbers from primary voters.

PS. Kevin McCarthy may have shot himself in the foot with his ‘Benghazi committee is succeeding…Clinton is dropping in the polls remark’. Democratic Senators have sent a letter to Boehner asking him to disband the committee. There were rumblings that the 50 or so Tea Party members would not accept him as the new Speaker, how do they feel now? Stay tuned the election will be held on October 8^th.