Character used to matter, a lot, on both sides of the aisle.  Now?  Not so much.  Think about these words – one of the seldom time that I will lift an entire post by Jerry Molen at the Daily Interlake (emphasis mine):

OPINION: ‘Once upon a time…’ (It’s not a fairy tale; it’s American history)

Once upon a time… we relished the thought of honesty. We cherished the stories of our first president speaking the truth when it came to chopping down a cherry tree. Now it seems one who may run for the office of president of the United States can lie and for some it doesn’t matter.

Once upon a time… we shunned those liars and prevaricators of truth and deception. Now we celebrate them, elect or hire them and even cheer them rather than demand truth and ethical behavior.

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And not just because they may show results that I don’t like.  It is well known that the polling industry hasn’t been doing all that well the last few cycles with results that didn’t match reality.  Think Brat over Cantor where the TEA Party guy (Brat) was predicted to get swamped by the #3 guy in the US House.

Cantor got schmucked (I do love Yiddish words!); so much for “polling”.  And Trump was supposed to beat everyone last week in Iowa – so much for that.  So when I saw this at RedState, my eyes bugged out:

Was leaked an internal poll from a campaign (SORRY CAN'T SAY WHICH ONE) showing New Hampshire:
Trump 32
Gilmore 17
Kasich 12
Rubio 11
Bush 9

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) February 8, 2016

Seriously – Jim Gilmore?  

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Shot:

Marco Rubio: Let’s dispel with this notion that Barack Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing.”

Chaser:

Jeb Bush: “My pledge to you: When I’m president I will not blame Barack Obama for a single thing,” he told listeners at the Nashua Country Club in Nashua, N.H. “The day that I’m sworn into office, I’m on watch — whatever it is.”

Sorry Jeb!, this doesn’t make it.  Much of the malaise of the country is due directly to Obama’s policies that have festered for the last 7 years and for the last two (and the remaining one), he’s only stepped harder on the accelerator in transforming America for the worst.

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Hello Friend,

Tomorrow we in NH have the privilege to cast our votes in the first in the nation primary. I hope you will join me in voting for Senator Ted Cruz. I believe Ted Cruz has the ability to lead our country back to traditional conservative values in the way that Reagan did after the disastrous Carter years.

Early in the primary process I had the opportunity to hear and/or meet many of the republican candidates. Last summer I threw my enthusiastic support behind the man who most distinguished himself as a genuine conservative with proven backbone to take on the establishment in both parties.

Key factors in my decision were:

• BACKBONE – as a freshman senator in DC he stood up for the conservatives values he was elected to represent even when he had to stand against the establishment leadership of his own party. HE WILL STAND FOR THE VALUES HE BELIEVES IN. He has proven that!
• CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATIVE – as a constitutional lawyer, as a Texas Solicitor General, as a senator and as a candidate he has clearly articulated constitutional values that I believe in and that our nation was founded on.

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It is First in the Nation Primary Day in New Hampshire. Tomorrow the phone will ring less, the mailbox will not runneth over with shiny circus-like campaign literature, and the digital froth in my email, well…this morning I woke to this from NHRebellion:

BREAKING NEWS: Jeb Bush calls for Overturning Citizens United to stop Super PAC spending

Did you spit your coffee on your keyboard? Sorry about that.

The not so breaking news is that NHRebellion is a front for another item on the progressive punch-list, but this? It’s a punch line.

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“The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.” – Thucydides

Don’t you always love how anti-gun politicians point to the European Union as examples of how gun laws in these United States should be? “Well, in Europe…” or, “In Australia…” the diatribe always begins. Then, when they dig into the comparisons, its always about, “gun deaths.” Never about the level of other kinds of violent crime, resulting in death or serious injury that Europe experiences on an annual basis. European nations are somehow the shining example of how gun laws for America ought to be. The biggest flaw in that narrative is that none of those European countries have anything that even remotely resembles this nation’s second amendment. Anti-gun libs never address that simple morsel…unless it is to get rid of it.

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