Bread. Circuses ... Are You Not Entertained !!?

  The first GOP primary debates were the night before last. There's your circus.  All of the pundits have kneaded the dough thoroughly, thrown it in the oven and there's your bread. Butter has been provided in abundance.

  Somehow the imagery of gladiators in the arena comes to mind. Up in the emperor's portico sits the Triumvirate of Billionaires: Murdock, Ailes and Zuckerburg.  Joining them are their RNC concubines and FoxNews attendants.

   Down in the arena is their arch enemy Billionaire Trump surrounded by a group of praetorians with their own ambitions of taking the trophy of Trump's head and assuming his place as the champion of the cheering hordes. Actually they are there to serve as fodder for this grand spectacle of rival elimination. The plot is to promote the compliant and obedient praetorian  Bush to co-consul by helping him defeat the Billionaire Trump.   But a funny thing happened on the way to the slaughter.

BTW:  How about that final Jon Stewart show... the finger on the pulse of America?
Nope, I didn't see it either.

Sanitized Sounbites and Bumper-Sticker Rhetoric

"Sanitized Soundbites and Bumper-Sticker Rhetoric" .... and we are indeed sick of it.

   This is the REAL DEAL. This is how leaders act. She's not a stepford candidate. She's not an establishment Republican but can meet them with equal force. She doesn't play the media game. Even spittle prone Matthews had time to swallow his saliva. He baited her and she didn't bite. Instead she bit him.

  Like it or not she also has the female edge and steals Hillary's thunder. The Republicans need to take a long look at the advantages of the first woman elected President being a Republican.  But that's only a fringe benefit far behind her professional class demeanor.

   I would love to see Fiorina debate Trump. That could spell his demise because she could match him, maybe surpass him, as coming across as level-headed. Eventually Trump would let his brashness get him in trouble.