We cats didn't opine on President Obama's final State of the Union address — not because we didn't love it (as an uplifting call to citizenry and a deft smackdown of obstructionist Republicans, all at the same time), but because blogging on the SOTU doesn't get much better than this.
Now here we all are, a couple of weeks out from the Iowa caucuses, and races are tightening and candidates are slugging it out in both parties. But as always, we're finding a lot more to chortle about on the Republican side. (We assume that the Democrats will work things out in Philadelphia after the best woman wins.)
Meanwhile, we continue to be fascinated by Donald Trump's "birther" attacks on Rafael Cruz, Jr. Back in the day, we were amused that the teabags, convinced that Obama was Kenyan, would so illogically excuse Ted's Canadian roots, but we didn't really think it would become a — well, a thing. Now, thanks to The Donald's ingenious argument ("The Democrats will sue!"), it definitely is that.
And Cruz is losing his grip on the whole situation by babbling about Donald Trump's "New York values." (What New York values is he talking about? Trump's divorces? If so, then Mark Sanford, Bob Dole, Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, John McCain and many, many others will have to excuse themselves from the Republican Party.) And then, of course, L'Affaire Goldman is starting to loom large.
All in all, it looks like tonight's debate could be unexpectedly exciting. But we cats are thinking beyond it, to the evening of February 1. Our thought is that while the Goldman loan is just more evidence of Rafael Jr.'s hypocrisy, it's the Canadian question, and the way Trump is pushing it, that will cause Cruz more problems.
Cruz is supposed to have a sounder Iowa ground game than The Donald. But if his caucus-goers, worried about the birth issue, start faltering in their support, who's their second choice? Most likely, Trump. Which means that that excellent GOTV effort for Cruz could end up giving Trump the edge. And because a razor-thin victory for one of the top two passengers in the clown car — with the rest of the clowns closely bunched way back in the pack — is our dream Iowa result, we cats PURR.
(IMAGE: Chan Lowe, South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
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