Remember that we told you about the Women for Trump Tour in North Carolina?
Well, we sent a spy.
Far be it from me to judge women in Trump’s terms, but there wasn’t anyone on that bus that Trump would hit on.
I dunno. It seems to me that everybody there was either (1) on the bus or (2) taking pictures of it.
I want to thank our brave war correspondent, Steve.
Just when you thought Trump couldn’t get any lewder and Louie Gohmert couldn’t get dumber … they grab a shovel and head for China.
Pastor Louie has an explanation for Trump’s video.
“Trump has said some things that are very vile back when he was supporting people like Bill Clinton,” Gohmert opined. “But if you’re Bill Clinton’s big buddy like he was at one time, you’re going to talk like Bill Clinton. And I think we need to forgive him for talking like big Democrats like Clinton and other foulmouthed people.”
Yes, Louie says it’s Bill Clinton’s fault.
But, Louie contends, all that’s behind Donald. He got saved and doesn’t act like that now. And, according to Louie, we know Donald got saved because, “James Dobson tells me he’s become a Christian.:
Holy Mother of Fried Okra, once you have James Dobson’s stamp of approval, Jesus bows to the side and lets you into the protected class of Americans who sin no longer because they get born again again the very next morning.
Louie amplifies …
James Dobson tells me he’s become a Christian. And so, look, we forgive him for the past because he’s asked for it.”
No, see, that’s the whole deal, Louie. He didn’t ask for it. He just grabbed it.
Thanks to Fred Farklestone for the heads up.
Paul Ryan is dancing on the edge of a coin.
He says he will support Trump but he won’t campaign with him. What the hell is that? That’s like saying, “I want you to be president but I do not want to be seen with you?”
Trump dumped on him.
Personally, I think Paul Ryan should start packing up the Speaker’s office.
Ryan and Trump are the same guy inside. Same guy. Both are weasels.
Wow! It’s been a crazy couple of weeks. Trump has melted down in ways entirely predictable yet still awesome to witness. And he has done so on an international stage. No longer were his petulance, his childishness, his ignorance and his repugnant salaciousness merely the province of inside-baseball pundits and breathless online commenting update-mongers. Right there, in front of God and everyone, Donald J Trump showed his true colors.
Again, this is not a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention. The surprise is in how many people haven’t been paying attention. But in the last two weeks from the first debate, the numbers have returned where they were in late August, and the race appears all but out of reach for the Trump campaign.
As we know, early voting has been underway in some states for the past several weeks, and more are being added to that total all the time. So votes are being banked in advance of Election Day for both candidates, but they are being banked while the SS Trumptanic is well down in the polls, and sinking fast.
GOTV stands for “Get Out the Vote,” the end-game for all elections. Every voter you’re reached out to, every regular voter for your party, anyone you’ve identified as a supporter is now your responsibility to get to vote. Every one you are able to convince to vote ahead of time is one less name you have to worry about on Election Day proper. All of this takes an outstanding data operation, and a dedicated and motivated group of volunteers to execute the plays that the data calls for.
Trump has neither of these things. He had depended on the rank and file of the Republican Party, starting at the top with the RNC, to carry out a function that he never thought was all that critical – the fabled “ground game.” In politics, voter identification, persuasion and GOTV are the ground game, while messaging, especially through media, is called the “air game.” Trump’s understanding of the mechanics of campaigning is limited to the air game and personal appearances, exactly the way he has conducted his whole life of adolescent attention-seeking cum adoration-mongering. Actual work is something you contract out and sometimes pay for.
And this is why he is done, because the actual work of winning a campaign occurs by getting people who are for you at home, to get dressed, get in the car, drive to someplace they only go to once every 4 years, if that, maybe stand in line, and finally vote. Or to fill out a bunch of forms to receive and return a mail-in ballot.
But Trump has outsourced that to the national, state, and county organizations of the Republican Party. Saturday, it was reported, the RNC suspended a huge mailing operation on behalf of Trump, the “Victory Project.” And precinct-level volunteers who were doing this long before he raised his orange coif and will be doing it long after it sinks back into tabloid oblivion will also sit on their hands rather than lift a finger to help him. In 2004, I witnessed suburban Republican women, the mainstay of their local Party, walk out of a speech by Obama’s Senate opponent, Alan Keyes, when he started in on his misogynistic abortion rant.
How fast do you think they are heading for the exits, now?
As the AP has just reported – Speaker Paul Ryan is basically telling them to do so. It’s everyone for himself; the lifeboats are on the davits, dangling: Senators and Congressfolk first, if you please.
In the end, this will make exact Electoral College vote totals difficult to predict. Hillary will win the states she’s expected to, as we discussed in May. Several toss-ups will end up in her column thanks to the disparity in GOTV. It’s hard to predict how regular GOP voters may split their vote between now and Election Day because, from what we hear, THERE ARE WORSE TAPES OUT THERE for Donald Trump.
Is there anyone left who would be surprised?
Headin’ them up and movin’ them out.
Being your trusty source of all thing very cool is a hard job but thankfully we have friends around the nation to help.
I am happy to announce that the Women for Trump bus is still rolling this morning and is all the hell over North Carolina.
10 a.m. All Green Recycling, Inc., 321 Atando Avenue, Charlotte, NC
12 p.m. Old Kmart Parking Lot (Gaston Co.), 3580 E. Franklin Blvd., Gastonia, NC
4 p.m. Hardee’s, 610 Blowing Rock Road, Boone, NC
We are also promised that …
Congressional wives have broken away from their husbands’ campaigns from as far as Texas, Montana, Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, etc., to “stump for Trump” in this critical swing state.
Aside from the fact that I seriously doubt this election hinges on North Carolina, I think it’s real interesting that the congressional wives aren’t being named in the press release. I also suspect that’s because most of them have packed their bags and gone home instead of having a charming and cheerful dinner at Hardee’s in Boone, North Carolina, lovely though that might be.
If you can make any of these events, we’d love to see pictures.
Thanks to Steve for the heads up.
Just when you start gasping as much as Trump sniffles, there’s more.
There are people who say they have a tape of Trump saying the N word. I don’t think we need to hear that. I think we already heard it when he said the Birther word. The B word is nothing more than the N word dressed up to go to church.
However, there’s a guy who is willing to pay the $5 million breach of contract fine for anyone who leaks it.
“If a $5 million ‘leak fee’ is what stands between truth and total Trump implosion, sign me up,” said David Brock, the founder of American Bridge and a leading Clinton ally, in an email to BuzzFeed News.
Brock was referring to a tweet from producer Chris Nee, who said she’d been told Apprentice staffers were intimidated by a $5 million “leak fee.”
The thing I have to admit I’m kinda guiltily enjoying is the Trump – DeNiro fight. I can’t wait to hear DeNiro say, “You talking to me?” Jon Voight (?) has lined up behind Trump. Nobody feels the need to line up behind DeNiro. He’s a grown up.
