Emailgate

I was a defender of Nixon, for a while.  Some of my liberal friends at law school read every single word that was printed about Watergate, so I had to match them in order to make a case.  I remember every day it was something new.  Week after week.  It was overwhelming.

We’re a long ways away from that on Emailgate, but that’s where we’re headed.  Pulitzers are available, and the press is starting to sniff around.  Right now nobody would put serious money on Hillary.

Here’s a prediction.  Lincoln Chafee will be the Democrat who challenges her on Emailgate.  Either at the October 20th debate or before, he’ll call her out.  In his mind she is a political hack who voted for the Iraq War for purely political reasons.  She deserves to go down, and Lincoln Chafee is the man with the guts to do it.  Like his father, he’s a decent and patriotic man, and one with courage.  Go Lincoln.

My wife makes me go to a chick flick now and then.  There’s a geezer chick flick out with Meryl Streep called “Ricki and the Flash” that we saw a couple days ago.  There’s a political angle to it, so I wrote a review and sent it to AT.  I’ll print or link to it tomorrow.

Good cc today.  Wyoming Rep. Tyler Lindholm will be calling Senate Majority Leader Eli Bebout soon.  We’d like Eli to sponsor the bill in the Senate, and try to find out exactly what Senate President Nicholas’ problem is.

Virginia Delegate LeMunyon will provide Biddulph with a list of competitive House and Senate races in the coming November election.  Dave thinks he did some good with his robocalls in a primary race, so he wants to pitch in in the general.  A good strategy.

Georgia Senate Majority Leader Bill Cowsert is hosting his South Carolina counterpart at a box for the Georgia-South Carolina football game next month.  He says he can arrange to let South Carolina score a touchdown if we get a commitment on our Resolution next year.  So if you see something funny happening in that game you’ll know the deal was cut.

Gary Banz and Dave Guldenschuh are working closely together in Oklahoma.  With Dave’s help, Gary Banz will get Oklahoma next year.  That’s going to happen.

There’s a real similarity between the 2012 Republican primary and this time.  A big name, well funded, establishment favorite that the conservative wing of the party doesn’t like.  Conservatives were desperate for an alternative to Romney.  How the hell do you think Herman Cain, of all people, could be the leader for a week or two?  And Crazy Newt Gingrich, a complete nut, is then the leader for a while?  It was anybody but Romney.  But there wasn’t anybody.

The animus against Jeb! is much stronger, and more widespread, than it was against Romney.  Trust me on this one. I’m talking, in part, about myself.  It’s because he’s a Bush, and we know what the Bushes have done to conservatism.  Bush I squandered the conservative political legacy of Ronald Reagan.  Bush II ruined the Republican brand for a decade.  This is almost personal with these Bushes.

So Jeb! can’t win like Romney did.  Which means he can’t win.  The field is too strong.  He’s not that good.  So when Bush faces reality, who’s left standing?  If Kasich’s still on his feet he’d be a favorite to make it to the final round, a mano y mano with Rubio or Walker, or Cruz.  The old steel cage death match.  May the best man win.  Good theater.  Good politics.

In the mean time we have the Trump spectacle to enjoy.

Just make sure to watch from a distance.