Stage frights

Say what you will about Ronald Reagan, he looked like a President. Not a soul on his stage last night measured up.

Air Force One was a fitting backdrop. You couldn’t imagine any one of the candidates walking down those steps and representing the United States of America.

Trump’s act wore thin. And it didn’t take three hours. Three minutes was plenty.

Fiorina had a nice slapdown of Trump. But she’s so icy she makes you doubt global warming. One TAPster said she’d make Hillary Clinton look warm and cuddly. And she’ll have a hard time explaining how she got rich running a great company into the ditch.

Marco Rubio is coming on. In the last debate, he looked like a candidate for senior class president in high school. Now he looks ready to be senior class president in college.

John Kasich has some sense, so he has no chance.

Ben Carson again proved that brain surgery ain’t politics.

Jeb! made it clear he has only two things going for him: his last name and $100 million.

The rest are apparently on just for sheer zaniness. And they deliver. You just can’t get enough Paul, Cruz, Christie and Huckabee.

As the afore-mentioned TAPster observed, it’s not just that none of the candidates are Ronald Reagan, “None of them are Richard Nixon! Or Spiro Agnew even!”

Democrats should calm down about Clinton. Unless she gets deleted by her email servers, she should beat anyone in this crowd. And if she does suffer user error, there’s always Uncle Joe.

 

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Stage frights

Say what you will about Ronald Reagan, he looked like a President. Not a soul on his stage last night measured up.

Air Force One was a fitting backdrop. You couldn’t imagine any one of the candidates walking down those steps and representing the United States of America.

Trump’s act wore thin. And it didn’t take three hours. Three minutes was plenty.

Fiorina had a nice slapdown of Trump. But she’s so icy she makes you doubt global warming. One TAPster said she’d make Hillary Clinton look warm and cuddly. And she’ll have a hard time explaining how she got rich running a great company into the ditch.

Marco Rubio is coming on. In the last debate, he looked like a candidate for senior class president in high school. Now he looks ready to be senior class president in college.

John Kasich has some sense, so he has no chance.

Ben Carson again proved that brain surgery ain’t politics.

Jeb! made it clear he has only two things going for him: his last name and $100 million.

The rest are apparently on just for sheer zaniness. And they deliver. You just can’t get enough Paul, Cruz, Christie and Huckabee.

As the afore-mentioned TAPster observed, it’s not just that none of the candidates are Ronald Reagan, “None of them are Richard Nixon! Or Spiro Agnew even!”

Democrats should calm down about Clinton. Unless she gets deleted by her email servers, she should beat anyone in this crowd. And if she does suffer user error, there’s always Uncle Joe.

 

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