Well, it sounds like, according to you, if I do my own thinking, I’m ignoring inconvenient polls, and that’s bad. But if I use the yardstick of RCP, I’m not doing my own thinking, and that’s bad.
Seems like whatever I do with polls, besides look at them exactly the way you want me to, is bad.
I guess what you want me to do is let you do my thinking for me about polls. But wouldn’t that be bad too?
Apparently Trump wants the U.S. government to step in and protect him from Big Bad Rich Lowry who is saying Mean Things about him.
That oughta win over the GOPers looking for a tough guy to lead them. 
Then who would?
Out of the people running? No one.
Is this a guessing game? Scott Walker? Glenn Beck? Alex Jones? Charles Koch himself?
While simultaneously showing that he doesn’t understand that the FCC had no jurisdiction on that broadcast.
Headlines of two of the top 5 “Most Read” stories when I checked out the FCC story.
Donald Trump’s slide in the polls is beginning to look real
Donald Trump says he didn’t speak to a half-empty room. But he did.
He even cut himself off from one of the news networks that gets the best share of Republican eyeballs. Sure many of his supporters had self imposed one but he needs the voters still watching to win. It’s been a banner week in Trump campaign headquarters.
Yesterday I asked my boss if he and his wife were still supporting Trump. He said no, but didn’t elaborate on what in particular had finally turned them off.
Latest Florida poll: (PDF: http://business.fau.edu/departments/economics/business-economics-polling/bepi-polls/download.aspx?id=5925
Trump: 31.5%
Rubio: 19.2%
Bush: 11.3%
By the way, in the latest Fox poll, 65% of likely Republican primary voters said that they feel betrayed by the Republican party.
It isn’t a coincidence that Trump+Carson+Fiorina+Cruz+“Don’t know” equals 65% in that same poll.
The fervent hope of some Republicans that these voters will somehow change their opinion once the actual primaries roll around is silly.
It’s been 25 years since he’s been remotely insightful.
Come to think of it, it’s been about that long since National Lampoon became irrelevant (and almost that long since it folded).
I like the man, sorta kinda. His memoirs of silliness in the movement ring true, human. Saw the same thing, myself, but that isn’t all I saw. And a guy who brags that he used to be a pot-smoking hippy protester but then wised up and became an alcoholic whore in a three-piece suit…
Still, funnier than David Brooks. So, there’s that.
For some reason, really funny conservative humorists are extremely rare. Dennis Miller is not funny . . . Mallard Fillmore is not funny . . . Rodriguez is not funny . . . Wayne Stayskal is not funny . . . none of the “Christian comedians” are funny . . . Sam Kinnison was funny but not really very political . . . not even O’Rourke has been very funny since his NatLamp days. Why is that, I wonder?
Here’s my basic take: you can be funny by poking fun at people who are sufficiently famous/notorious that they won’t (or at least shouldn’t) even notice that you’re poking fun at them. Punching up, as the saying goes. And if you poke fun at lesser targets, it really only works if you do so in a way that at least seems to recognize your common humanity. (This helps even when your jokes are of the punching-up sort.)
To the extent that Republicans punch up, they do it at people they’re driven batshit crazy by. (Obama, Hillary, etc.) It’s hard to be funny about people who make you foam at the mouth with rage. But most of the time, they’re punching down. And not only is that never funny, but they’re mad at those people (or should I say Those People), too.
When the crux of your politics is to identify enemies and tear them down, there’s no humor to be had there.
That’s such a low bar, it might as well be buried underground.
Hey, I’m trying to be generous, here! OK, not very good at it…
Well, I don’t know about that; Polish jokes and Italian jokes and such are usually funny, even if such jokes are fundamentally ignorant.
Well, I don’t think (I could be wrong) that any Polish-Americans are running for the Republican nomination, so maybe they are smarter than we think…
Look for the guy in the silk bowling shirt.