Politics

Record Republican turnout in Iowa.

Ron Paul derails Ted Cruz's bid to attract libertarians by pointing out he's married to a Goldman-Sachs banker.

The CIA is probably funding this secret Cruz super-PAC.

Ted Cruz's team proves he's a neocon insider. At the least the neo-cons have control of him.

Fifteen pages of Rubio betrayal.

Establishment tells Bush to lay off Rubio.

Hillary won't release transcripts of her paid speeches to Goldman-Sachs.

Crime pays Clintons $153 million in 14 years.

Republicans aren't futile in the efforts against progressivism. They're progressives themselves.

""Having failed to roll back any major progressive program in the last 100 years, how does the GOP manage to keep the votes and donations of the rank and file flowing in sufficient quantities to keep the GOP machine in power? Highly paid and talented GOP consultants have brilliantly risen to the challenge.  There must be something that keeps the troops anteing up their votes and legwork and contributions to the mendacious Republican machine that talks smaller government but never delivers. There is. Here is how the scam works. The GOP whips up a personal hatred of prominent Democrats as a red herring to distract their own rank and file away from their lengthy record of failure.""

Divide and conquer.

"How do members of the GOP machine—elected and party officials, government employees and contractors, lawyers, consultants, and lobbyists, keep the gravy train rolling?  Not by proposing to roll back the very same progressive big government that the rank and file basically supports.  That would likely involve losing elections which would threaten to cut off the money spigot.  Rather, the GOP machine deliberately distracts the rank and file’s attention away from ideas, issues and policies, and manipulates the masses into personally hating the leading Democrats du jour."

This is why I say they would rather be the minority party of big government than the majority party of small government.