It has been said that successful politics, in general, is dependent upon the consumer holding a short-term memory. Last night’s GOP debate debauchery is most certainly evidence of that.

It was only a few months ago when every single non-CNBC analyst, including media and ironically Fox News punditry, widely panned the October CNBC debate as a ridiculous presentation of intentional attacks upon presidential candidates.
However, will we see a similar reaction to an almost identical presentation last night? Most likely not. So, we must ask ourselves, what has changed?
Allow me to highlight the final two questions put by Fox News moderator Chris Wallace as an example. These questions were less than 3 minutes apart:
Question #1 – “Senator Rubio … Please look at Mr. Trump and tell him why he’s unqualified to be President?”
~ 3:05 later ~
Question #2 – “Senator Rubio, will you support the party’s nominee even if it turns out to be Donald Trump?”
To say the Fox News team was at least as bad as the CNBC team would be an intellectually honest statement. The entire media enterprise has devolved into a race to the bottom, and in complete honesty it’s not the fault of the candidates on the stage – they are being set up to look like abject idiots. (more…)




Every remaining visible flare is now shooting off in rapid sequence. The enemy is now entirely behind the wire. Fix Bayonets, and switch to “full auto”, the stakes cannot be higher. If we fail, we lose our republic.



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