What are they going to do with all those leftover exclamation points from the Bush campaign?
Answer: Give them to the Freepers. Yes, our favorite friends over at Free Republic, one of the Internet's most paranoid corners of what passes for right-wing thought, are positively giddy that The Donald has vanquished the $130-million-dollar-man from Florida and chased him from the race. Their posts are so heavily punctuated they could find immortality on this blog. Sample: "The guy was just NOT likable!!!! W. was likable!!!!!" Sheesh.
But if you're assuming that the Freeps are ready to call a truce and fall into line with whatever post-Bush candidate the frantic Republican establishment tries to foist on them, think again. They've tasted blood, and they want more.
The next victim on their list: Baby Marco Rubio, who has been gobbling endorsements from old-timers like Bob Dole and Orrin Hatch and from new-timers like Dean Heller and Tim Scott and Nikki Haley.
The Freepers are unimpressed, because gosh, they hate Baby Marco, and they hate the endorsers almost more. This semi-vulgar Freep comment pretty much says it all: "Rubio, with our ball-less RINOs in Congress, will implement total amnesty for untold tens of millions of illegals." Hm.
All of which makes us wonder: Where will Baby Marco win? Because he can't keep losing these states and spinning it as some moral victory.
The last we checked, Nate Silver & Co. had Donald Trump at a 65 percent chance of winning Nevada tomorrow. And Super Tuesday? Goodness gracious. Trump leads in every survey except for one little poll that had Rubio up by, like, two points in Minnesota. And Pundit World seems to have just suddenly discovered the same thing.
A lot can change in a week, but for now, it seems like Donald's in the driver's seat. Fasten your seat belts, Cleveland. It's going to be a bumpy July. We cats PURR.
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