http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/02/1417620/-Wapo-s-Jennifer-Rubin-Admits-GOP-Voters-Are-Morons
The latest WaPo 'thinker' to step-up to the plate is the reliably mendacious Likud cheerleader Jennifer Rubin, an 'entertainment lawyer' who specializes in setting her own hair on fire and then blaming it on President Obama.
In her latest diatribe, Rubin sets out a plan-of-action for the non-Trump passengers of the GOP Klown Kar. And after all, who doesn't want the advice of a woman who predicted that Romney landslide?
It's Jen's first bit of advice that really made me sit-up and take notice:
1. They need to call attention to Trump’s bizarre ideas. The audience is not just low-information voters, but also no-information voters who have been attracted to the show. Unless they see other candidates react and hear why Trump’s remarks are silly, they may not grasp it independently. And if he does not answer the question (because he has no answer) the other debaters should point it out.
Keep in mind, this is presumed (or at least, potential) GOP voters Rubin's talking about. I mean, the politically disengaged aren't likely to watch at all. The hugely boosted viewing figures aren't the GOP goobers tuning in, but people like me who detest the GOP and wouldn't miss the car-crash for the world.
But notice Rubin's automatic assumption: that the viewers the candidates must win over, the natural GOP constituency, are '...not just low-information voters, but also no-information voters who have been attracted to the show...', in other words, idiots and Fox 'News' viewers...but I repeat myself.
Of course, we here at DK already knew this but it's interesting to see a GOP-booster just flat-out say it.
Rubin continues:
2. Mockery and humor go a long way toward debunking the Trump mystique. His totalitarian style, ideological flip-flops and aversion to facts are fodder for a witty candidate.
Uh...yeah...you've flagged the problem right there, Jen: you don't have a witty candidate. Not for nothing is it called the Klown Kar.
The rest of Rubin's advice is by-the-numbers: mention Trump's bankruptcies; point out the positions he shares with Hillary; point out that the world is more complex than The Apprentice (I'm paraphrasing)...but one bit of Rubin wisdom made me laugh:
It’s also worth pointing out the money he inherited. His grandfather and father built up quite an empire. Isn’t he, as Ann Richards put it, the guy who was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple?
Gee, Jen...how unlike your last GOP dreamboat. Remember him?
The hilariously out-of-touch Mittens, son of the former president of American Motors, Governor of Michigan and US Secretary of HUD?
Mittington Thurston Howell, with his dancing horse tax-write-offs, his car-elevators and his Cayman Island and Swiss bank accounts? That guy?you can't really argue against this not all are morons but those that are ring in at the top of the class. this guy and now the doctor neither has laid out a specific anything except that they are specifically racist and bigoted and these days all you need to qualify in the party of stupid is the ability to say the most ludicrous asinine things with a straight face and you're in. like Glen Beck told his followers Beck: 'If you take what I say as gospel, you're an idiot.' at least he warned his morons GOP keeps it on the DL it's their nature.
http://ourfuture.org/20150512/ben-carsons-13-craziest-beliefs
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/the-absolute-trumpest-121328_full.html#.Vec1XvlViko
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/03/30/37168/beck-idiot/
