{"id":531,"date":"2020-02-29T01:09:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T06:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coldfury.com\/?p=531"},"modified":"2020-02-29T01:09:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T06:09:59","slug":"on-a-roll-picking-up-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/on-a-roll-picking-up-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"On a roll, picking up speed"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Nolte is feeling the Bern<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s one clich\u00e9 the idiotic pundit class gets right it\u2019s this one: candidates matter.<\/p>\n

Candidates matter more than issues, and they matter more than whatever real or contrived sins shimmer in their past.<\/p>\n

A young inexperienced black radical who spent 20 years in a racist church should not have beat a respected war hero, but that\u2019s exactly what happened in 2008. Why? Because No Drama Obama was the better candidate, the alpha male, the one who wasn\u2019t the neurotic who quit the campaign to go and save the economy.<\/p>\n

A New York billionaire who used to be a Democrat and who never held elective office had no chance against 16 seasoned Republican politicians, and he kicked their collective butts. Why? Because Donald Trump was the better candidate, the alpha male, the one who was never caught off guard, who knew how to fight the media, who stood his ground and made us laugh. He was pure competence.<\/p>\n

Sure, some of us vote on the issues, but in the end, in the age of mass media and TV \u2014 and history proves this \u2014 it\u2019s the candidate who matters. And all this talk about \u201clanes\u201d is pure psychobabble. \u00a0There\u2019s only one lane in presidential politics: the Competency Lane, and a Jurassic Marxist owns that lane. Why? Because\u2026<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Warren is a shrill neurotic, Pete Buttigieg is a platitude-spewing dork, Joe Biden is as shockingly corrupt as he is past his prime, Amy Klobuchar has all the charisma of a clock radio, and Mike Bloomberg is a humorless, sour-faced dwarf.<\/p>\n

Bernie\u2019s Bernie. He\u2019s tough, hard to catch off guard, comfortable in his skin, actually believes in something, and that\u2019s why he\u2019s winning.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How important can “voting the issues” really be anyway, when everyone already knows that the winning candidate’s platform will end up tossed out the window and forgotten around, ohhh, five minutes or so after the victor checks into his new Oval Office digs anyway? Hell, the one and only President we’ve had in years who even tried<\/em> to make good on at least some of his campaign pledges is Trump, and just look at how little credit he gets for the effort.<\/p>\n

I’m telling you folks, Bernie could quite easily fall ass-backwards into winning this thing. Horrible as he is in all ways great and small, he’s the only Democrat-Socialist generating real energy and excitement out there, even if that passion is strictly limited to the stupid, the ignorant, and the ill-informed. Nonchalantly assume it can’t possibly<\/em> happen, and you could well end up with the same stunned, despairing expression splashed across your mug as our adversaries were sporting the morning after Election Day 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Nolte is feeling the Bern. If there\u2019s one clich\u00e9 the idiotic pundit class gets right it\u2019s this one: candidates matter. Candidates matter more than issues, and they matter more than whatever real or contrived sins shimmer in their past. A young inexperienced black radical…<\/p>\n

Would you like to know more? On a roll, picking up speed<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16,30,68,71,83,89,106,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assholes","category-believe-it-or-else","category-commies","category-leftward-ho","category-life-in-a-once-great-nation","category-our-enemies","category-read-and-heed","category-good-and-hard","category-we-are-soooooo-screwed","wpcat-9-id","wpcat-16-id","wpcat-30-id","wpcat-68-id","wpcat-71-id","wpcat-83-id","wpcat-89-id","wpcat-106-id","wpcat-120-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}