Category: Mike Jurney

Sometimes I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.

Sometimes I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.

There’s been a lot of coverage over the last 24 hours on the Cruz/Fiorina announcement, and it’s sounded a universal note of confusion.  The consensus seems to be that it’s a weird decision that doesn’t make any sense, but… it’s not.  It’s neither of those things.

Two things seem to be at the top of the wtf list:  1) Why Fiorina? 2) Why now?

1) To peel as many votes away in California as possible.  She’s from there, she’s got non-zero Republican support there, and Trump needs every California delegate to clinch the nomination.

2) Because after Cruz’s poor performance on Tuesday, he can no longer clinch the first ballot.  His only path is to deny it to Trump.  See point 1.

From the article: ‘Ted Cruz is the champion of “constitutional conservatism,” which is what we’re calling the losing…

From the article: ‘Ted Cruz is the champion of “constitutional conservatism,” which is what we’re calling the losing side at Gettysburg this century.’

There’s a baked-in assumption in our current discourse that Cruz’ manifest unctuous awfulness means there’s no way he can secure the Republican nomination, but I feel like nobody’s remembering that this country elected Richard Nixon.  Twice.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a44109/press-ted-cruz/?click=my6sense

Diamonds and Pearls was an incredibly important album for me.

Diamonds and Pearls was an incredibly important album for me.

I know that’s a little weird, for a couple of reasons, but there was a very formative year for me where that tape was in my walkman every day. In that narrow slice of time, that particular work of his was as close to my heart as any music before or since.

The world is different without Prince in it.

http://www.tmz.com/2016/04/21/prince-dead-at-57/