We cats have always kept tabs on our favorite paranoid friends who post over at Free Republic not just because they amuse us (at least, to a point), but because they show us how little the GOP establishment and the lazy pundits who serve as their stenographers understand the base of the Republican Party.
Latest case in point: Following Baby Marco Rubio's smackdown of the hapless Jeb! in last week's debate, the media are falling all over themselves to tout Baby Marco's nomination prospects. Why? Because the Republican establishment has just decided (and is no doubt dictating it line by line to compliant journalists) that Baby Marco could just possibly satisfy both the elites and the hoi polloi.
Sorry, folks, thanks for playing.
See, we had a vague memory of the Freepers going after Baby Marco when his effort at comprehensive immigration reform went up in smoke — the Freeps being absolutely, positively and totally in favor of Donald Trump's wall. So we decided to check on them to see how they were feeling about Rubio lately.
Answer: They still hate him.
Sample representative comment: "Rubio is a nonstop pathological liar and easily the most devious creep in the field." Short list of only acceptable candidates: "Cruz, Carson or Trump. That’s it. One of those three, preferably Cruz, or I shall not vote for the Republican candidate." Winning the support of billionaire Paul Singer has only hardened the Freepers' hearts against Baby Marco. Singer is pro-"amnesty," pro-"sodomite marriage," you see.
So... how do Rancid Pieface and the GOP back-room deal makers think they're going to get around the party's teabaggy base? They never address this. They just skate around the subject and presume it goes away at some point. From the time we cats have spent reading the Freeps, we think the elites are living in Fantasy Land.
Nope, if the media are so convinced that none of the "outsiders" — Trump, Carson, Fiorina — can snag the nomination, they're looking at the wrong Hispanic guy. Watch Cruz. In the meantime, we cats HISS.
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