We're going to Pakistan to sow soccer balls together.

That must be some fertile soil.

Where do you think soccer balls come from if not soccer trees?

Soccer bulls.

Holsteins, probably.

Damn auto-correct isn't catching my poor grammar.

I just watched that episode of Married With Children this week!

I'm still surprised Kasich wasn't chosen as the establishment candidate. He did the best job of pretending he could appeal to moderate voters, and could have been a swing-state threat, but he turned out to be the Invisible Man. Almost as surprising as Jeb!'s complete failure to launch. It's like the GOP would rather choose someone they despise rather than someone they can't remember.

In any other election Cruz would be the Tea Party outsider candidate, not the establishment pick.

I think this more cements that it's the Donors largely via their astroturfed Tea Party who have become the de facto establishment. They're not scared of Trump because of his rhetoric, they're scared of him because they don't own him. He would fuck over every other bully in the playground if it meant getting what he wanted and nobody is entirely sure what that is. But the one thing he is proving is that the fear and hate they've been sowing is useful and I'm sure, in their eyes, they'd be foolish to try distance themselves from that.

I think this is what happens when you court the likes of the Tea Party.

They're the motivated extremists (though not necessarily extreme about the same thing, but still far to the right of the majority) that reliably turn out for the primaries. They want a strong man candidate who will punish whoever they think has been causing them and/or the country harm. For years, they've supported more and more bomb-throwing vitriolic candidates who have rolled back taxes for the rich and promised to end gay marriage, stop whatever "liberal" policy they fixate on, keep the government from taking their guns, etc.

Unless a state/district is very red, these candidates aren't electable. Out of the town halls full of supporters, they can't come off as rational or sane. If they try to moderate, their previous statements haunt them and/or their supporters cry foul. On a national level, you still have the extremists running the table at the primaries, so you end up with candidates who repulse the majority of voters.

I don't know how the GOP can extricate itself from the mess it's in, and if it does cause the party to change, it won't be done quietly.

Really the new anti-LGBT law should be the main story here. Was gonna post it but distractions.

Sexy, sexy distractions.

I wish.

I'll post it on the main.

I have my shirt ready for November.