The GOP is like a pumpkin past its prime...

Smitty: Tancredo flees GOoP (we need Ted Cruz as our Van Helsing)

Rush Limbaugh: Cruz explains the concept of winning

Kevin Williamson: We could do a lot worse than Cruz

Funny what people will read into things. I don't think I've ever argued otherwise. https://t.co/nPJ2PhEef0

— Kevin D. Williamson (@KevinNR) October 31, 2015

Instapundit: Black Conservative Republican (Ted needs Allies), that scary budget sailed right through the Senate (it was like something evil was promoting it), Dems seek to block Omnibus, and a Ted Cruz Army of Davids

EBL: Maybe that scary budget deal will be addressed in the debate and the Mambo Kings Sing Songs of Love (Is Spengler crazy to suggest this)

Mark Steyn's Halloween Horror (Ed Driscoll says the scariest 3:19 ever filmed) and Ted Cruz Punches Back

DaTechGuy: Why Ted Cruz' Debate Speech Worked

Michelle Malkin: Ted Cruz nails media selective fawning

Instapundit: Hope and Change baby! and Roger Simon: Jeb needs an intervention and when you have lost Kathleen Parker too

Hillary Hypocrisy

Instapundit: Seriously?

Instapundit: Fallen Angels was just science fiction, right?
Mark Steyn: Who's jumping the shark?

@charliespiering #CreateYourOwnCaption #HillaryLemonade #HillaryVodka #HillaryDrinksABit #HillaryCocktail @rsmccain pic.twitter.com/dPl9LmiVui

— Evi L. Bloggerlady (@MsEBL) July 27, 2015

Smitty: A Village Is Visited By An Idiot

And it is a wee bit early to be despairing John. A certain candidate has problems of her own. At the state level it's not that bad. But after all of that if you are still feeling stressed: Have a Drink (better make it a double)!

If you want to know why certain candidates get traction, look at the behavior of some of the incumbents. Still, don't give up the fight. We only have one planet country to fight for.

EBL: Separated at Birth: Bill Clinton and...?

Instapundit/Ed Driscoll: Bill and Hillary Clinton's destruction of Monica Lewinsky, Hillary's upside down reforms, and what Carly would do
Rush Limbaugh: Hillary is so bad Obama's talking about running and Paglia nails it on Clinton
Hogewash: Carbon footprints are for little people

Hillary's new look —a $600 haircut? http://t.co/7LqbP9vMVQ pic.twitter.com/Epnatzr8Me

— The Hill (@thehill) July 29, 2015

The Donald, Hillary, and Jeb

Rub A Dub Dub

Smitty: Three Candidates In A Tub
Mark Steyn: The competing interests of Saudis, Iranian and Canadians

EBL: How Jonah Goldberg stopped worrying and learned to love The Donald

DaTechGuy: Remember The Donald Doesn't Need The RNC

TOM: Gawker, why we hate them
Smitty: Friday Ficton
Wombat: Mark Steyn: The Enemy Within
Camp of the Saints: The House of Special Purpose
Instapundit: Was he into hunting?, a pack, not a herd, Gone With The Wind, Hiram residents hold watch, Gawker!, looking for populism in all the wrong places, and where Birtherism began

You think this Trump attack on McCain is not orchestrated to appeal to a certain segment of the GOP base?
Instapundit: Trump does punch back twice as hard and the media goes out of its way to protect those on the left
Smitty: Ted's Testicles and McConnell's Soft Hands

So will conservatives become the new gays?

Super Gay Emeritus John Waters says separation is for losers

Yet conservatives are being driven into the ghetto of isolation (so are they are the new gay): Smitty sees hope and opportunity in this. 

EBL: John Waters predicted decades ago that gays would never be satisfied and this gay stuff is getting mighty complicated

Kevin Williamson: Ayatollah Roberts

AoSHQ: Let's Play Some Calvin Ball

Darleen Click: Resistance is Futile!

DaTechGuy: Who knew everyone was bigots and dopes before...

Instapundit: Look how quick Elena Kagan evolved!  and judges on justices (they can be as caddy as well...)
Rush Limbaugh: What Kennedy and his four cronies have unleashed, the prospect of normalcy makes gay activists sad, and Christians are the left's true target (Islam will get a pass)

Brooke Baldwin Apology Tour Rule 5

Brooke Baldwin revealed how clueless she is with an assine comment about veterans being behind the #BaltimoreRiots. It is not true, she did not have a scrap of evidence to support such a conclusion, and she just blurted it out on air. And it was not an innocent mistake, but a set up with Democrat Representiave Elijah Cummings (who's leadership contributions led us to this sorry state of affairs in Baltimore).

But if Smitty can forgive Brooke, so can I. She did apologize.

EBL: What did happen to Freddie Gray?

Rule 5 and FMJRA

Instapundit: Brooke Baldwin idiocy

Smitty is Searching for a Solution Rule 5

Smitty is Searching For A Fund Raising Idea: RINO Scalps!

The idea of John McCain going back to the Senate is not good…

Comanches = RINO

Rule 5 and FMJRA

Smitty: Lunch with Noah Rothman

Allies humiliate Obama, rush to join Chinese Development Bank…

No gravatas

Smitty: Asian Infrastructure Development Bank

Smitty's Hillary Camp Pain Slogans and Fake War on Women

Smitty: Her Royal Majesty Will Increase Your Chocolate Ration

TOM: Caught in a Web of UVA Lies, Sex, Lies and Broken People, and Feminists Lie About Rape.

Instapundit: Hillary does not take questions after claiming she is open to the press, UVA should expel rape hoaxer Jackie, real witch hunts, GW University makes mistake but blames and bans student anyway, why the media can't cover sexual assault, federal rules put universities in Catch 22, and man spends 7 months in jail on false rape charge.
Mark Steyn: A tale of two rapes…
Smitty: Why he wants a Cruz Administration…

Makes you wonder if there is a war on truth and men?

Lem's: No evidence of rape at UVA
Instapundit: This is not about justice, this is about setting up Hillary's War on Women narrative…
Instapundit (getting back to manufactured campus rape culture): Rolling Stone fails a police fact check, the unluckiest college president in America, and five ways to end Hillary's war on the media.
TOM: Two Women Forced To Apologize for calling Male Librarian a "sexual predator."
Instapundit: Clintons hit with racketeering lawsuit over emails...
TOM: Teach women not to rape...
Instapundit: Talk of Campus "Rape Culture" is more about unscientific hate speech

Ted Cruz Announces He is Running for President

He won't do it, but if Cruz walked on dressed as Jake E. Blues, I'm confident that Her Majesty'd be turned to stone. pic.twitter.com/1NVXoctgDN
— IGotOverMachoGrande (@smitty_one_each) March 23, 2015

Smitty: Agreed 

I'm doubtful Ted Cruz can win the nomination (although I would be pleasantly surprised to be wrong on this)--but just Ted Cruz running is important.  He will shift the debate where it needs to go and will contrast the other candidates.

Instapundit: Cruz is Running
Weasel Zippers: Dershowitz on Cruz: Off the Charts Brilliant…

@smitty_one_each @MsEBL No. This: pic.twitter.com/6JpwtdMyCD
— Don Surber (@donsurber) March 23, 2015

AmPowerBlog: 57% want a Presidential Candidate who will change Obama's Policies (Ted Cruz is definitely that guy)

Drew M. at AoSHQ
Nate Cohn at NYT on wny Cruz is a long shot

Smitty: Hillary will give you chocolate

The Other McCain's Robert Stacy McCain and Smitty are monitoring and reporting on the insane and dangerously delusional world of Radical Feminism

Feminists: Here's your #GreatWhiteDefendant http://t.co/M1K0hKMVPL #BillClinton #WarOnWomen @rsmccain @instapundit pic.twitter.com/FTtqFhJj7N
— JeSuisEBL (@MsEBL) March 14, 2015

The Other McCain:
Radical Feminism's Eternal Quest for the Great White Defendant
Hmmm (Hoge and Walker are on it, but can't we get this guy and Radical Feminists together--on a deserted island, with hungry komodo dragons and lots of snakes)

Great Comment!

Rachel Marie Stone some Margaret Sanger (a Smitty post) and Alpha Epsilon/BDT
Instapundit: Transmen hopping mad, Hillary has a track record of attacking other women and her lame excuses are catching up with her, why male gamers must defend their territory, sexual assault policies backfiring on colleges, five harsh realities, and Boren and OU broke the law and Boren should lose his job.
This woman is a real victim, these women here (as reported by TOM), here and here are not.
TOM: Sickening Desires and Feminist Wonders: Defending Hillary
TOM: Fake #GamerGate Victims
Hot Air/MKH: Camille Paglia calling out Feminists and Hillary Clinton (they should be ashamed for what they did)

Kristen Wiig Rule 5. Updated with a special Smitty request…

With Saturday Night Live's 40th Anniversary Show, why not a Rule 5 of the lovely and hilarious Kristen Wiig:

FMJRA

Update:
Smitty posted a request that I took for a Separated at Birth (mixing Spy Magazine with SNL):

Instapundit: Gail Collins comes up with a better late than never…NEVERMIND!

Twitchy: Jerry Seinfeld hits a solid Brian Williams joke at SNL 40th Anniversary  and Jim Carrey goes there too.
Instapundit: Gail Collins…oops! and Ouch…
RRG: Sarah Palin's Slam Dunk

Senator Harry Reid is so bad he makes Senator Geary in the Godfather seem like Mr. Smith in comparison...

They don't call him Dingy* Harry Reid for nothing!

Smitty: Meet Tony, Senator Reid's Exercise Instructor

EBL: Harry Reid hurt in home fitness machine accident…
TOM: Harry Reid Constituents

Just in case you need a primer on Senator Geary... vs. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington

* kudos to Rush for that.

@rsmccain @regularrightguy @AmPowerBlog Meet the Senas (alleged) #HarryReid Constituents http://t.co/VG6OYJENyW pic.twitter.com/ngJyyOqOOk
— Anjem Choudary (@MsEBL) January 14, 2015

TOM: This guy should move to Nevada (a good Harry Reid constituent and he will need the votes).
TOM: This cop should move to Nevada 

Useless performance art...

Thank you Smitty for not taking up this performance art trend (maybe Lena Dunham's grandma knitted like this but mine certainly did not)...

Tea Party and Conservatives Need to Think!

And as Smitty also notes: Let's hope the Tea Party and Conservative Members of Congress stop engaging in useless performance art and start acting smart in dealing with Democrats and Establishment Republicans. The first step should be this:

AoSHQ has more on how this would work.

Smitty: You can't handle the coffee!