Remember four years ago when Rick Perry dropped out of the presidential race and then got back in?

It must be a Texas thang.

Don’t count Ted Cruz out, Honey.

Ted Cruz floated the possibility of restarting his presidential campaign if he wins Nebraska’s GOP primary on Tuesday and avoided saying whether he supports Donald Trump’s bid for president.

Cruz, who suspended his White House run last week, said he does not expect to win Nebraska’s primary but is leaving the door open.

He doesn’t expect to win, but if he does, he might stay in the race.  Translation into the Sane: Please, please, for God’s sake, don’t forget my name. Please.

Come on, Nebraska, Remember the Cruz!

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox is not a Donald Trump fan.  In fact, he cusses like Cooter Brown while calling Trump “a false profit.”

“Wake up Americans, he’s a false prophet,” said Fox in an iTunes preview of the Kick Ass Politics interview to be posted on Tuesday. “Think about it, analyze what he’s proposing. Count the amount of lies he says in every speech, everyday he lies and lies with figures because his sole interest is to do personal business. To get greedy, to get more money. To put the Trump name everyday in the world.

Trump is “a hated gringo” who could take us to “a war and not just a trade war.”

No shoot, Sherlock.

Bernie Sanders burst on the scene talking about a revolution. But for any of Bernie’s ideas to see daylight, much less work, an actual revolution was needed, where the voting populace rose up in a body and swept away the Ancien Régime – starting with the centrist, third-way, DLC, blue dogs in the Democratic Party – en route to crushing the GOP and taking back the House and the Senate, so that President Sanders could lead a liberal Congress to sweeping reforms unprecedented since the early FDR years.

Unfortunately, most people viewed this as more of a metaphorical revolution, where the conversation got moved far to the left in anticipation of winning just for showing up against a fragmented Republican Party. In fact, the true revolution has already happened: Antonin Scalia died with a Democrat in office. In order to lock the revolution in place, all we need do is elect any Democratic President, then a whole plethora of evil can be undone: SCOTUS decisions, like Citizen’s United and Buckley v Vallejo, Heller, Michigan v EPA, and a host of unconstitutional states’ laws – basically, the entire ALEC playbook, plus bathrooms – can be shoved back into the festering pit of sewerage whence they came.

What this leaves is Bernie Sanders at the head of a Revolution of One because, while he correctly read the mood of discontent with the choices, he ended up not being that choice, so much. What’s more,this outcome was predicted last fall, by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), “…a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to research at the intersection of religion, values, and public life.”

Last November, PRRI released their 2015 American Values Survey aptly named “Anxiety, Nostalgia and Mistrust.” In it, they asked specifically about the appetite for continuing the Bush and/or Clinton “dynasties.” Here is their summary of those results (emphasis added):

More than six in ten (61%) Republicans—including 64% of likely Republican primary voters—and nearly seven in ten (69%) Tea Party members say that electing another Bush or Clinton would be bad for the country, compared to 42% of Democrats overall and 39% of likely Democratic primary voters.

Further on in the summary, they characterize the state of the Democratic race, saying Hillary Clinton was supported by 55% of Democratic respondents, while Sanders and Biden (who dropped after the survey was conducted but before the survey was published) total about 40%.

To date, the popular vote percentages in the primary race: Clinton 56, Sanders 42

To date, the pledged delegate percentages in the primary race: Clinton 55, Sanders 45

Latest national poll released May 5, Clinton v Sanders:  Clinton 54, Sanders 42

What this tells us is that, since Sept-Oct of last year (the period of the survey), the pro-Clinton / anti-Clinton numbers have not changed. Thus we can characterize the “Revolution” as more of a protest, whether against Hillary qua Hillary, or as an avatar for more-of-the-sameism. While conceding that Bernie Sanders qua Bernie Sanders has done very well, Bernie Sanders as the Clinton alternative had a national hard ceiling he never broke through.

I encourage you all to read the survey, it’s a compelling snapshot of voter attitudes, with much that is cautionary, but MUCH to build on, during the second half of the Clinton “dynasty.”

Okay, so Donald Trump ain’t picking Chris Christie to be his vice president.

No, sireee.  But don’t let your guard down.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will serve as the chairman for Donald Trump’s transition team should the billionaire businessman win the presidential election this fall.

“Gov. Christie is an extremely knowledgeable and loyal person with the tools and resources to put together an unparalleled Transition Team, one that will be prepared to take over the White House when we win in November,” Trump said in a statement announcing the decision.

So, be prepared for a whole helluva lot of bridge closures in DeeCee if Trump wins.

You can hardly blame North Carolina for being so concerned about bathrooms.  After all, they are full of crap.

North Carolina on Monday filed a lawsuit against the federal government in response to a letter from the Justice Department that gave the state until the end of the day to scrap a controversial law regarding access to public bathrooms or risk losing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding.

To his semi-credit, Governor Pat McCrory explains that he understands how the federal government can say that you can’t have black and white bathrooms, but the toilet stops at transgendered people.  Why?

“We can definitely define the race of people. It’s very hard to define transgender or gender identity,” McCrory said.

Yes, indeed, Governor, you can see if someone is black or white, but you cannot see winkies or home plate. Obviously, this is way too complicated for your average Republican Governor who is drooling for an excuse to see genitals.  Or maybe just drooling.  I dunno.

Don’t Republicans have enough people to hate without adding people who need to pee?