July 20, 2016 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
I applaude your courage. I myself couldn’t make it past Rick–the “p” is silent–Scott.
1The funny thing is that the Republicans trust Donald Trump – a man who thinks lying to his investors is “truthful hyperbole.” I expect he thinks of campaign promises the same way. As for any promises he made to Mike Pence, Chris Christie, and the rest of the would-be remoras, well, shark’s gotta snack, you konw?
2What’s sauce for the goose . . . .
So Trump can’t trust Cruz to be honest and/or do what he says he’s going to do? Well, the rest of us can’t trust Donald Trump to be honest etc. etc. So I guess we’re square.
After he got booed off the stage, the commentators were marveling about how Trump’s team had let this speech get past their readers. Huh? Do they honestly think Cruz let Trump’s handlers SEE his actual speech? Bank on it: the one they PASSED didn’t have a nodding acquaintance with the one he GAVE.
Ah. Revenge for having your father accused of having a hand in JFK’s death. It must taste so sweet.
3Ted Cruz wants to be president so bad, and he has so few scruples, he’d sell his own grandmother for a few thousand votes. I’m glad that the Republicans have finally seen that and accepted it for what it really means about him. Now, on to Chris Christie, Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee and all the rest…
4Sheep were made to be sheared. And Ted & Donny are as good at shearing sheep as they come.
5Cruz grabbed all the headlines… poor, poor Mike Pence.
The largest newspaper in Oregon, on it’s webpage, has a huge photo of Cruz with the headline “Ted Cruz endorses Republican values, not Donald Trump, during National Convention speech”.
The only mention of Pence on the main page is a small link that is titled “Mike Pence couldn’t properly pronounce ‘yuge’ during his VP acceptance speech”.
ROFL! What a bunch of clowns.
6oh the tweets have started:
Wow, Ted Cruz got booed off the stage, didn’t honor the pledge! I saw his speech two hours early but let him speak anyway. No big deal!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 21, 2016
7I’m of two minds on this. When it was discovered Melania’s speech had a plagiarized portion, Trump said all publicity is good. So maybe he thought this was a good publicity stunt. OTOH he loves himself so much maybe he thought it impossible that Cruz wouldn’t come around. Well, it’s schadenfreude either way.
8I can’t believe I’m saying this, but give the smarmy weasel a break on this one. He did what he needed to do to get on stage and tell folks to not vote for Trump. He may have done it out of spite and snot-nosed hissyfittedness, but he done a good thing.
9Things are pretty bad when the man responsible for bringing “odious” back in to general use does something less than despicable, and his wife has to be escorted off the floor for her own safety by Ken Cuccinelli, of all people. Feeling some sympathy for any of these people is a weird sensation …
10Wally – me too!
Though I question his motives, Ted Cruz, as always, marched to the drummer he hears in his own head. He took center stage, dropped trou, squatted over the GOP punchbowl, and deposited a truly magnificent turd. I loved it!
And the horrible thing he said? “Vote your own conscience.” It’s sad that that’s considered traitorous.
11If someone mocked my spouse and insinuated my father helped assassinate JFK, he would be my enemy into eternity. However, Cruz was not motivated by that, he can’t believe or accept he lost.
12Love for Drumpf is not only blind,but, stoopid.
13Some think Cruz was trying to be strategic, position himself for the 2020 election cycle. https://newrepublic.com/article/135366/ted-cruzs-betrayal-donald-trump-brilliant
I say Cruz makes a better Judas than he does a Jesus, and will never successfully lead anything.
Nice to see the bunch of smug but scared RNC attendees upset again, though.
14Self described greatest deal-maker Trump cut a Yuuuge deal. He allowed Cruz to upstage and embarrass him and his VP in prime time.
15Chris Christie says Ted was “selfish.” Bwahhaaaahhah! Pot meet kettle.
16So many screw ups in so little time! No one seems to know that they are supposed to monitor — closely — what goes down on paper and what is said on stage before the bleep hits the fan!!! Is that ever telling!!! Absolutely no “feel” for responsibility!!! These people should never get anywhere near the codes for nuke war!!!
And worse yet, the crowd hasn’t quite figured out that the lack of responsibility ended up insulting THEM!
17I suspect that Ted “Calgary Kid” Cruz suspects that the Donald’s campaign is going to be a YUUUGE fiasco and decided that he doesn’t have to play nice. Besides, he realizes that he’s up for re-election in two years.
Would that the Democrats had a worthy of giving Tedito a well-deserved drubbing and we could again have a senator that works for the people of Texas and not for monied interests or their own ambitions!
18I agree with Wally. As must as I detest Cruz, he landed one!
19Lunargent, your description of Cruz’s dump on Trump is exquisite! I’ll be laughing at this one all day.
20What do you want to bet that he submitted one speech for vetting, then just changed the thing when he went onstage.
Trumpf’s tweet later was the only way he could possibly respond.
21@WA Skeptic – Cruz says – and the media corroborates – that he stuck to his prepared speech. He only appears to have ad libbed by “thanking” the New York delegation for starting up the boos against him. Paul Manafort wouldn’t admit to it, but the ghost of a smile on his face when interviewed this morning raises the strong suspicion that he organized state delegations to boo at critical points in Cruz’s speech. So there’s your “unity” nominee with a campaign manager who takes a very cynical approach to party unity.
22Re the current Repub party, check this out:
https://carm.org/signs-practices-of-a-cult
Re Cruz, note number 12.
23Who wears gloves to a food fight? Donnie has fake wrestling connections. So, break out the Jello and let Melania and Heidi get down to the real issues: “my plagiarist wife can beat your Goldman-Sachs psycho any day.”
Key-reist. These Drumpf culturally-familiar affuenza retards ARE the Palins.
24Elizabeth Moon, I think you’re right; Cruz is just looking toward the next election, and I’m thinking probably 2020, not so much 2018.
25In recent decades, the presidential nominees of both parties coming out of their conventions enjoyed positive bumps in their poll ratings for a few weeks afterwards. The most notable exception in recent history involved George McGovern in 1972. Some weeks ago, I posed the possibility that Trump might exit his convention with a NEGATIVE BUMP. Donald’s speech tonight may move the needle downward even more – one can only hope. Now others are talking about the same thing – notably Nate Silver.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trumps-convention-is-flirting-with-disaster/
26Is it over yet?
27@LynnN – At a glance, that’s a terrific link. I’m looking forward to checking out the whole website further. Thanks very much.
28@JAKVirginia – Stick around. Donald promises to drag Chris out front of the convention tonight for full frontal nudity.
29UMPTY!!! Ewwwww….
30What would he do? Act out the Trump/Pence logo?
(OK. That was bad. Bad. Bad. Bad.)
31Pence stood in front of no god and no one that matters last night and said Drumpf had our ally’s backs. Meanwhile Drumpf tells an interviewer he would decide on a case by case basis which of our dues paying NATO allies would be covered and which non-paying NATO allies wouldn’t.
32@EPO – Tell our Americans descended from Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Polish families that we’ll “think about” defending those countries when Russia decides to violate their shared borders. Who’s the traitor here, Donald?
@JAKVirginia – Ah, yes … poetry in motion …
33I am delighted that Ted Cruz seems to have blown his political career to smithereens last night, instead of positioning himself for the next election; but I have to hand it to him for sticking it to Donald Trump for insulting his wife and family. Just this once, for just this one issue: Go, Ted!
34That Other Jean, Tio Dork Cruz loses major points for leaving his wife on the convention floor to fend for herself as he incited the masses.
Seriously? What kind of guy does that?
Most probably Heidi Cruz can actually wield a roundhouse kick to defend herself, unlike her hubby, El Chubby de Flub. But….
again … the “family first” snacilbupeR sure have a strange way of showing it.
35Ted Cruz is smarter than you think he is. He is hedging his bets: in 2020 he can either claim that he didn’t endorse Trump, currently bankrupt, scorned and divorced, OR he hope that the national memory doesn’t go back that far.
36Well, I despise Cruz, but I would not support anyone who insulted my spouse and daddy either. He was the only GOP candidate as scary as Trump, he actually means what he says. I heard on the radio today that he could still be looking to be POTUS in 2036….he would only be 60. One of the speakers said that was the scariest thing he had heard in a long time.
37Scumpf was most likely lying when he tweeted that he knew what Oozy Croozy was going to say.
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