Jay Cost is having daily glorious meltdowns on Twitter over this. Worth reading.

Neocons -> Democrats is basically a done deal at this point
Paleocons -> bend the knee is also a done deal (most of them are cheerleading to begin with)
Various Laffer curve-obsessed people -> I have no idea
George Will -> is actually important because he represents a lot of those very specific bad opinionmaker types. No idea
Kristol -> will bend the knee, because of course he will
Peggy Noonan -> TRUMP lawn signs everywhere

Considering about a this of your list are essentially fabricated non-stories, Microbet is looking pretty good.

BTW,

California Republican Presidential Primary
KABC/SurveyUSA
Trump 54 (previous poll last month: 40)
Cruz 20 (32)
Kasich 16 (17)

That last poll was the one where Cruz and Kasich were both leading in parts of the state. In this poll, Kasich is still somehow within 7 in the Bay Area and would probably win at least a couple of districts, but that's about it. When Trump wins Indiana tonight, all he'll need to do to reach 1237 is to hit triple digits in California which seems like a lock.

Did I imagine Black Friday too?

I Think I'm Going To Be Sick ...

It's looking increasingly like adanthar will be right: Barring a last minute political earthquake - or divine intervention - Donald Trump will be the GOP nominee. My confident prediction of a brokered convention and chaos in the GOP will go up in flames.

When it comes to great (incredibly astute) political predictions, I'm zero for 2. My first epiphany was predicting Democrats would hold on to the Senate in the 2014 mid-term elections. (We all know how that one turned out ...) Second was my prediction, as far back as last July or August, that no Republican candidate would get the necessary 1,237 delegate votes on the first ballot which would result in a contested convention and a Republican crackup. Great prognosticating ...

Never one to give up hope, I'll make my next great prediction: Donald Trump will be elected our 45th President! (Hopefully I'll be 0 for 3 after the second Tuesday in November.)

On the plus side our football team will still be National Champions of college football, so all is not lost.

so much wanting. bush signed the sofa bro.

They always say; the third time's the charm

So who the hell is TRUMP going to pick for VP? Christie and Gingrich are the obvious two, but Susana Martinez looks like a dream fit. It's hard to imagine she wants it, though.

Not to mention that trump surrounds himself with extremely incompetent yes men, which would worsen pretty much any situation imaginable.

I think this will be a big sign on how we should expect Trump to do in the general. Any normal retread Republican is not the answer he needs. He is going to need to balance out his ticket and pick someone totally off the wall that will appeal to Dem populists. I'm not sure who that someone could be, but I imagine a Trump-Sanders ticket could beat Hillary.

I'm sure Bernie will jump right on that, as will any other magical GOP+10 unicorn

TRUMP is the populist.

He needs a strong conservative to unite the ticket.

I would say Nikki Haley might be the dream VP for Trump. Of course she doesn't like him though.

Scott Walker would be a good fit for him. But he endorsed Cruz.

I just have a hard time seeing Trump picking a woman as his VP, even if it seems like good politics. He's such a chauvinist, in fact I can't imagine a woman wanting to share the ticket with him.

Is it off the wall to think Ben Carson? One of the few people Trump goes out of his way to say nice things about on the stump. And he would fit with the outsider theme.

It's not off the wall to think about Carson.

But, Trump has explicitly said he wants a politician to be VP.

If Trump wants to play the "Black" card for ticket diversity; Tim Scott would be a huge win for him.

So Obama gets blamed for the pullout date set by Bush? The one where if we had troops remain they would have been subject to regular Iraqi law?

Here's an amazing ad from 1964. Imagine replacing "Goldwater" with "Trump," and this entire ad is absolutely devastating.



(From Rachel Maddow's show)

Some sort of "Conservatives for Hillary" SuperPAC needs to run ads exactly like this fall. Not some focus grouped bull**** with scary voiceover text, but a simple ad of a real Republican white guy in a suit saying that the presidency (and the Senate!) is too important to go to some nutjob, and it's better to vote for the liberal socialist pantsuited one than the orange ball of rage.

only going for 5c on predictit

[Q UOTE=Noze;49940842]So Obama gets blamed for the pullout date set by Bush? The one where if we had troops remain they would have been subject to regular Iraqi law?[/QUOTE]

It was a common argument in these parts that Obama was responsible for Bush establishing the withdrawal date (until things went to ****.)

His daughter? The Trump blood is all that matters it seems. Only half kidding.

Ugh, another period joke? Sexist much?

Wat?

When TRUMP is President, America will have blood coming out of its whatever.

fyp.

Trump just suggested that Ted Cruz's father was involved in the JFK assassination during a Fox News phone call in