Cooke and EveningStar are just angry that they can’t silence opponents like in the good old days— something they’re openly lamenting with the death of “Pope” Buckley, who surely would have excommunicated all these vulgarians.
Wow.
This is so spot on.
I enjoyed this article.
National Review sure ain’t the magazine it used to be.....
Is this about Cruz or the Republicans or both ... hard to tell, but bad satire is that way.
I'll be voting for Donald Trump in November.
Is the NR claiming Trump is any of those?
Of course, the Cruzers titter like prepubescent little girls at such crap.
Maybe the story of how Cruz's lovers used to peg ole Teddy in the Senate cloakroom........
I have been so sad, William F Buckley must be turning over in his grave. He could use satire and actually make a cogent point... Cooke, not so much.
The GOPe - which most certainly includes NR and especially the Brit editor, Cooke - is like a demon or alien, kicking and shrieking as DT commands them to get the he’ll out of your sanctuaries.
Charles C. W. Cooke thinks Trump’s the bad boyfriend, the drug addict, the liar, the abuser... What? Was Hitler used too often to have impact?
It’s just nasty name calling without any supporting facts... but it reminds me of how I feel about National Review...
Many of us kept thinking the Review would give up their hate... That they would realize their magazine represents the views of the 3% of Republicans who supported Jeb Bush... They would start to sense that they are the extreme.. out of step with the rest of us.
It’s time to see that they’ll never change. It’s time to give up on them and move on... give up the old abuser...
Obviously Carol not only stole his heart away, she also ran off with this writer’s brain.
poorly written, isn’t it Cruz who’s reputed to have girlfriends? Perhaps the writer is just too cool for me.
Perfect! That’s exactly what most of his “endorsements” have said -”oh, but he can change.” This despite the fact that there is nothing in his 70 years that gives any evidence of such “change.”
This year "Carol's boyfriend" is Cate Blanchett. Or actually it's Rooney Mara.
I have to wonder, though, if our English friend thinks he's discovered anything new.
Most elections involve hoping, expecting, wishing, dreaming that the candidates we vote for will turn out to be better than their records and behavior leads us to expect.
When was the last time you voted for a presidential candidate and assumed that everything you knew about your candidate indicated that your choice was truly destined to be a superior president?
So yeah, people try to convince themselves that Trump will turn out to be better than their record gives them grounds to believe, but that's true when it comes to Cruz or Kasich or Romney or McCain or Bush or Palin or Obama or Kerry or either Clinton.