I don’t even understand half his comments.
probably just me.
68 with three kids? don’t know what that means.
PJ, what happened to you?!
Author and political satirist P.J. O’Rourke stated Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump “will finally be exposed as a double agent,” criticized GOP presidential candidate Texas Senator Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)
for “dragging in all these tired, sick, old social issues” and said of Cruz and Trump, “I really do hate it with this immigration stuff” on Tuesday’s broadcast of “CNN Tonight.”
O’Rourke said, “Cruz could actually get...nominated. I’m assuming that Trump will finally be exposed as a double agent, and will have to be stuck in a Chappaqua safe house, or wherever Hillary has got Bill stashed. But Cruz could actually get the nomination, and that would just be a disaster for the Republican Party. He’s dragging in all these tired, sick, old social issues, get out of here. Stop it with the stuff about the gay marriage, stop it with the — I’m a 68-year-old guy with three kids, I’m supposed to raise my own children? Come on, I need immigration.”
He added, “bring in a boring guy. Okay, Republican candidates are supposed to be boring. We’ve got several that’ll do just fine, there’s Jeb. Kasich is a perfect example, a good boring governor of a purple state, very popular governor of a purple state, lots of experience in the House of Representatives, and he’s polling at like no percent.”
O’Rourke continued, “that’s what being a Republican is all about is low energy. We want a smaller government, a more efficient government, a government that doesn’t poke its nose into everybody’s business. We would like the government to go, not away, but to go back to the other end of the room, and sit down.”
PJ’s fifteen minutes were over 20 years ago.
PJ has always been a funny guy.
You have to read between his lines to get a lot of his schtick.
Never once found this guy funny.
I’m 62, no spring chicken But these GOPe old farts need to go.
Good grief.
>> I’m assuming that Trump will finally be exposed as a double agent <<
Finally? I thought he clearly was exposed as such during the first “undercard” debate, by C. Fiorina.
I remember P.J. O’Rourke.
His last book was bad, I let that slide. But this is his `shark-jump’ moment: O’Rourke concluded, “if Donald Trump gets the nomination, if Donald Trump makes me vote for Hillary Clinton, ....”
Here’s your hat Pee, what’s your hurry?
Was he trying to do a Dennis Miller impersonation? P.J. at his best was worth a dozen Dennis Millers.
I hope he was just having a bad day.
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He used to be funny, now I don’t think I will find him funny anymore......
Parody is better done in writing.
It means however, that he is, unfortunately, a party-first, (R)epublicrat.
Nearly every single word in that book applies perfectly today to the open border, free-trade, illegal alien cheap labor, death-of-Main-Street, growth of Wall Street, anti-Nationalist clique of cocktail sipping traitors that surrounds him. Yet they all proudly wear uniparty uniforms, with interchangeable (R) and (D) labels.
Substituting Hastert, Boner and Ryan for O'Neil, Wright, Foley and Pelosi should be obvious by now, except to those who believe their own press and live off the accolades in perpetuity, and fills the same role at Rolling Stone that David Brooks fills at the New York Slimes. I guess it is possible that he does not realize what the word token means, or perhaps he does, and is just comfortable with his station in life.
Mr. O'Rourke is firmly in that chattering class, has been for most of his career. And that class greatly fears the Barbarians at the Gate. No, not the make-believe southern gate where foreign barbarians cross at will, that gate has all but vanished thanks to uniparty cheerleaders ( of which just one side has ever caught O'Rourke's attention ), but the very real philosophical gate that exists at the Beltway around the District of Criminals. Everyone that approaches the district lacking their groupthink is a Barbarian.
In reality, folks like P.J. O'Rourke who hide behind labels like Libertarian, are nothing more than 'slow-downers', the type that will press lightly on the brake pedal as the car heads toward the cliff, and the only thing they will ever accomplish is delaying the destruction of America - a wee bit longer.
Thomas Paine he is not.
If he's a double agent, what's that make the Human Tortoise in the senate and the Bearded Clam in congress?
Never a word of explanation or hope, really bugs me.
Leni