Peter Pan For President

The WaPo puzzles over the popularity of Mayor Pete, now third in polling behind Biden and Sanders; Ann Althouse summarizes.

My take: Democrats always pine for the next JFK. They want a candidate who is young, charismatic, smart, and unburdened by a legacy of policy decisions that might antagonize one faction or another. The attractive blank slate! Past players in this role include Gary Hart, Bill Clinton, Howard Dean, John Edwards, and of course Barack Obama. (John Kerry sort of fits the template as well. As the war hero who turned war against the war and did nothing thereafter, Kerry induced a 60's flashback that made everyone else feel young again, so he had that going for him.)

What I find more interesting is whether Mayor Pete and Beto can survive each other's presence in the same lane.

Comments

[clarice]

Two down, one to go, JiB. Hopping for a beagle trifecta.

[clarice]

that is Hoping.

[Texas Liberty Gal]

JIB - That is great news about Lady - I bet Jazz shows up soon!

Here's the article Rush was talking about. The Police Union is not happy -

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas-county/2019/04/17/texas-police-unioncalls-dallas-das-removal-decision-not-prosecute-certain-crimes

[Jim Eagle]

Clarice,

You know the area. Can you imagine a little Beagle walking over the HD bridge in the early hours of the morning or late at night to get over by Grand Haven? I mean that is some adventurous wanderer.

[Extraneus]

Interesting video, fdcol.

[Jim Eagle]

If you are a Mom & Pop shop or even a Walmart in Dallas you should be livid at the DA decision. Walmart has a loss prevention division and their own cops but Mom & Pop don't. Devastating for them. I am surprised the local CoC isn't in the forefront here, not the LEO community.

[Dave (in MA)]

I once had a Shiba Inu named Nikita

What's the rest of the limerick?

Fingers crossed for Jazz...

[henry]

That’s how you make a food desert.

[hoyden]

Thank you, JOM, for helping me celebrate 30 years clean&sober. I'm humbled by your outpouring of support.

[Jim Eagle]

henry,

Happen to be watching the goalpalooza fest between MC and Spurs? Most damn incredible game I have seen in years.

[Old Lurker]

Jack, looking on Amazon, I was impressed with how many dog tracking collar devices there are now.

You going to make me send you a set for your birthday?

[Dave (in MA)]

That Dallas no-prosecute crap sounds pretty similar to what's going on in Boston. https://rollins4da.com/policy/charges-to-be-declined/
The mind boggles.

[henry]

JiB, been working. I’ll find the goals later.

[Buckeye]

I may have to watch Bruins vs. Maple Leafs tonight.

Get an idea of what we are up against.

Word on the street says be very afraid of Boston.

[henry]

Blues are folding as usual.

[Gentlejim]

MM,
That POS should catch bullets. Wouldn’t be surprised if he makes his way back to his terrorist brethren.

[henry]

CNBC

Attorney General William Barr will hold a press conference to discuss Mueller report at 9:30 am ET Thursday

[henry]

@pzf

BREAKING NEWS: Car 2 Go app has been hacked in Chicago.

About 100 Mercedes cars missing. Many being used to commit crimes.

Police have arrested at least 12 people so far.

[Extraneus]

Why would anyone want to live in Boston after reading that?

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

Veritas finds evidence of Chase "debanking" conservatives

https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/04/16/debanking-chase-bank-says-moral-character-a-reason-why-they-dont-do-business-with-those-types-of-people/

[Dave (in MA)]

Certainly not me, Extraneus.

[Narciso79]

Yes she's some kind of community organizer, picked by soros like our legal version of Cortez, aramis ayala.

Took my mother to lunch for her birthday, they has shock top on the menu.

[James D.]

That Dallas no-prosecute crap sounds pretty similar to what's going on in Boston. https://rollins4da.com/policy/charges-to-be-declined/
The mind boggles.

"Wanton or malicious destruction of property" is one of the offenses DA Rollins will no longer prosecute.

I wonder how long that policy would last if someone rolled up to DA Rollins' house and started smashing all the windows just for the hell of it?

[Jane]

Oh I'm so happy you found her jib. One to go!

[MissMarple2]

Back from Alldi's, where you really can get good deals. Besides Smithfield ham steaks for 2.89 and OJ for 1.69. they had potted tulips, Easter lilies, and hyacinths for 3.99 each, potting soil (50 lb. bag) for 2.99 WITH plant food included, and all sorts of bargain priced grills, garden furniture, and clleaning and storage items. I am going to see what my daughter thinks we need.

On the radio the afternoon guys were saying that yesterday Indianapolis had 12 shootings in 16 hours. The violence is getting terrible- gangs, road rage, domestic shootings, etc. Mayor Hogsett ran on crime, and they think if he doesn't do something he will be in serious trouble.

All I ever see him do is make publicity appearances at churches and such. What a mess.

[Extraneus]

We have the answer, James:

In the exceptional circumstances where prosecution of one of these charges is warranted, the line DA must first seek permission from his or her supervisor.

[Jane]

The country has gone to hell. We better figure out what to do about it.

JAzz come home!

[MissMarple2]

Look at this:

Maggie Haberman
‏Verified account @maggieNYT

Unless DoJ releases the report between now 6 am, journalists will not have had time to digest what is in the report before attending this press conference and asking questions about what is in the report.

My pal Rosie comments:

Rosie memos
‏ @almostjingo

🤣 By digest she means manipulate and collaborate on how to spin. No one cares what you think about the report #TeeItUpMaggie

[Porchlight]

Congratulations, hoyden. That is wonderful.

[Porchlight]

Shows you how much they need this investigation to never, ever be over. Hanging on every aspect of the report release and complaining about the timing of the press conference. Get over it Maggie.

[MissMarple2]

Victoria Toensing
‏ @VicToensing
2h2 hours ago

Watch hubby and me on @seanhannity tonight 4/17. Discuss @MuellerReport. Illegitimate investigation from the get go. No crime committed so Mueller team tried to get @realDonaldTrump to err. He outsmarted them. #maga

[Narciso79]

I know you might have to subscribe to read it:

https://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/an-interview-with-norman-podhoretz/

[Buckeye]

I wonder how long that policy would last if someone rolled up to DA Rollins' house and started smashing all the windows just for the hell of it?

Hey JamesD. Busy tonight:)

[Old Lurker]

MM, what are the odds that none of the Angry Trump Hating lawyers on Mueller's team have not already, or will at 9:01 am, release to selected reporters cheat sheets to all the firecrackers in the Barr Report?

This is not SCOTUS releasing a long opinion to everybody at the same time. As Ken Starr predicts, this will be a tour d force of Trump hate and tidbits, and those thugs are not going to just wait for readers to find and report on them.

[Old Lurker]

Here. Hold my beer...

[henry]

From twitter:

WOW! WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING IN CALI?

Citizens of Laguna Beach met to vote on the patriotic decals on cop cars that "offended" illegals.

Not only did they vote to keep the decals, but after the vote the group of Californians broke out into the National Anthem.

https://twitter.com/righthookusa/status/1118517232957632512?s=21

[henry]

@CNNPolitics

JUST IN: Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe to make 2020 announcement in an interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo at 9 p.m. ET cnn.it/2UHSnU8

[Narciso79]

Yes the clown car is full up:

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=380914

[Momto2]

Congratulations, hoyden. What an amazing great accomplishment!

Prayers for Jazzy, JIB, I bet he is regretting his actions now that he's separated from not only you but the other dogs as well. Those silly noses cause all sorts of trouble!

[Narciso79]

That's why that wanker perottet rankles:

https://babalublog.com/2019/04/17/an-anniversary-of-heroism-and-shame-the-bay-of-pigs-2/

[lyle]

Sol Pais esta muerta.

In other news who names their kid Spanish words for “sun country”? I guess she could have had it changed herself.

[lyle]

Good luck finding Jazz, JiB. I’d be inconsolable if my Jazzy was missing. But the chances of her running off are practically nil. She has the nickname of “big baby” for a reason...

[Porchlight]

BREAKING NEWS: Car 2 Go app has been hacked in Chicago.

Come on, driverless cars! What could go wrong?

[Narciso79]

Speaking of:

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2019/04/16/watch-sullivan-torch-fantasist-malcolm-nance-he-spreads-so-many

[Tom Bowler]

The attractive blank slate! Past players in this role include Gary Hart, Bill Clinton, Howard Dean, John Edwards, and of course Barack Obama.

TM! How could you forget Jimmy Carter who, if I'm not mistaken, remains a blank slate to this very day!

[Porchlight]

Bill Weld's actual campaign logo:

It's a weasel. Or a fisher cat. Or something.

[Extraneus]

So when should we start the Dem nomination pool?

[Porchlight]

Ext, I figure we probably have about six more candidates yet to drop.

[henry]

Tom Bowler, then there was Dukakis. Shorter than Snuufalofagus, yet shown in a basketball uniform. (My dad was on the Swarthmore basketball team at that time, Dukakis was not). His nothingness shown clearly when in spite of sitting on a dozen telephone books, he couldn’t see over the lip of the tank turret. He was the model of blankness for “bunny ears” Kerry.

[clarice]

Come home, Jazz. Come home.

[Extraneus]

I'll work on a spreadsheet. So far, here's who's in:

Cory Booker (D)
Pete Buttigieg (D)
Julian Castro (D)
John Delaney (D)
Tulsi Gabbard (D)
Kirsten Gillibrand (D)
Mike Gravel (D)
Kamala Harris (D)
John Hickenlooper (D)
Jay Inslee (D)
Amy Klobuchar (D)
Wayne Messam (D)
Beto O'Rourke (D)
Tim Ryan (D)
Bernie Sanders (I)
Eric Swalwell (D)
Elizabeth Warren (D)
Marianne Williamson (D)
Andrew Yang (D)

[henry]

@TheBabylonBee

Weird: Everyone Who Attended Bernie Sanders' Town Hall Has Reported Their Wallet Missing

https://twitter.com/thebabylonbee/status/1118635247325929472?s=21

[henry]

Ext, McCauliff is announcing tonight.

[Jim Eagle]

OL,

Believe or not by I have GPS enabled collars but I don't use them here in Florida, that often since they are fenced in with an invisible fence. Its called Whistle. In Southampton, I have used it a number of times to find them.

[Jane]

Did Swarthmore admit men back then? Wasn't it an all woman's school for a while?

[lyle]

Mayor Buttplug and his “wife” have announced they’re “having a baby.”

Biology. How does it work, again?

[Extraneus]

Biden has an alphabetic advantage.

[Jim Eagle]

Thanks, everyone for your thoughts and prayers for the Beagles. One down, one to go. He is the one I worry about. He is strong. The type to not back down from a snake, gator or bobcat.

But if we can find Lady, then we can find him. He must be somewhere so deep in the woods no one can see or hear him. Praying to St. Francis Assisi as I write this.

Beagles. Never let them leave home without you:)

[Porchlight]

Hang in there, Jack.

[Porchlight]

For you, lyle:

[Tom Bowler]

Right! How could I forget about Dukakis, Henry! Especially with that memorable tank turret shot which probably was the thing the did him in.

I suppose Kerry might qualify as a blank slate, considering that his crowning achievement over a lifetime in politics was getting James Taylor to sing "You've Got a Friend" to the French. His slate was retroactively blanked.

God almighty, Massachusetts can really turn 'em out!

[henry]

Jane, Swarthmore was Hicksite Quaker from the get go. Always coed. Both my parents were there when Dukakis was. Carl Levin was in my dad’s class as well. Bryn Mawr (paired with Haverford for men) was the Orthodox Quaker women’s college until going coed in the 70s.

[Tom Bowler]

Bruins and Leafs at 7:00.

[Jim Eagle]

My housemate at my first project in So. Maryland was a Swarthmore grad in engineering 1968-69. He’s the guy who kept his Formula B Brabham all over the house and who crashed at Limerock burned his hands and legs and escaped the nun nurses to drive all the way back towing a torched race car.

Not an all girls school back then.

[Jane]

Thanks Henry. I wonder why I thought that.

[Catsmeat]

Hoyden, congratulations on many years of very impressive discipline. You should be very proud.

Hang in there, Jack—Jazz will be back. Are the dogs chipped?

I’ve been agreeing with many here, and in this particular case I also include Sundance who is so often cited here by MM, that Mueller was a straight shooter in some senses but that he was also going to do absolutely everything he could do that was still “on the books” to get Trump to do something that could be colorable as obstruction. It was like a bullfight, with the multitudinous figures as picadors, and Mueller as the matador. But no matter what they did (solitary confinement for Manafort, Roger Stone’s dawn arrest, raiding Cohen’s office), Trump would never really charge. He was like Ferdinand in the 1938 children’s story, who being the brawniest of the young bulls is brought to Madrid to the bull ring, where he refuses to fight, instead sitting in the middle of the ring and “smelling all the flowers in the lovely ladies’ hair.” I loved this story as a child, and wasn’t pleased as an adult to learn it was all meant as a pacifist allegory on the Spanish Civil War. That said, Trump couldn’t be goaded, and so they all had to go home (“and the matador cried because he couldn’t show off his fine cape and his fine sword”).

[Extraneus]

Nice, Catsmeat.

[Extraneus]

Pete Buttigieg: America Not Full, Send More Immigrants to South Bend

[Extraneus]

Is that him welcoming them?

(Click to open.)

[lyle]

So, no colorectal gestation, huh, Porch?

[D]

Hoyden:
Congratulations on a courageous accomplishment over 30 years.
JIB:
Praying for Jazz’s return.
Love that Barr and President Trump got the jump on the Dems wrt the release of the Mueller report.

[D]

Catsmeat:
An excellent analogy.
Giuliani was pivotal in my opinion in telling Mueller to go pound sand👍
Weissman was probably so pissed that he couldn’t get the President under oath!

[Beasts of England]

I'm sure that Buttplug and his friend 'having a baby' will endear him to middle America even more!! To steal a line from Ace: it's gonna be an early night for Trump! lol

[Buckeye]

JiB

In the middle 70s my best friend and roommate after school raced Formula Ford.

He had a side business building race engines. The Formula B engine was a higher performance version of the Formula Ford engine.

I did a lot of wrenching at the time and we rebuilt several B engines.

Rememeber Formula B well.

[D]

Buckeye:
Did you go to Mid-Ohio at any time?

[D]

Mayor Pete is going to be too busy changing diapers to act as President.

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President:

Team Mitch
‏Verified account @Team_Mitch
10h10 hours ago

Today, we’re officially launching our re-election campaign. Check out our first video below and visit our new website here: http://teammitch.com #KYSen

[Texas Liberty Gal]

JIB- I pray that God guides Jazz back to you!!!

[peter]

Praying for Jazz's safe return.

[peter]

And boy is that AOC video scary.

[Extraneus]

Hinderaker:

BIGOTRY IS POPULAR

Being anti-American and anti-Israel is working well for Ilhan Omar. The Star Tribune reports that she is far and away the biggest fundraiser among Minnesota’s eight House members:

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., at the center of a national commotion for her remarks about Israel and the 9/11 terror attacks, raised more than $830,000 in campaign cash during her tumultuous first three months in office, far outpacing the rest of the state’s U.S. House delegation.

***

Donations poured in from across the country. About $400,000 of the $417,000 in itemized contributions reported by her campaign, including small-dollar donations given through the ActBlue fundraising platform, came from outside Minnesota.

Omar’s haul is around three to five times as much as other Minnesota House members have taken in.

[Buckeye]

Buckeye:
Did you go to Mid-Ohio at any time?

Been there dozens of times.

Ran the Formula Ford typically 2 races a year at Mid-Ohio. Other tracks were Elkhart Lake, Nelson Ledges, Watkins Glen, Road Atlanta, etc.

We frequently rented Mid-Ohio for testing and practice.

[Jim Eagle]

Great news. Jazz is back.

Had to over the bridge to same area they found Lady. He is limping a little. Better than being a victim of a snake or gator. Also tired. Not even interested in eating. Which is a first.

So, this proves that both Lady and Jazz walked over the Hammock Dunes toll bridge. No tolls in that direction😎

[Extraneus]

Cenk Uygur is going to take over the country? Lemme at him.

If this Justice Democrat thing was real, why wouldn't the other Dems be kicking their asses by now?

Btw, mayhap that video was dated. Here's from 12/2017:

Justice Democrats Confirms Cenk Uygur’s Resignation

[Buckeye]

Good to hear Jack!

[henry]

All puppies accounted for, excellent!

[henry]

Buckeye, you ever run Blackhawk Farms?

[D]

JIB:
It was the prayer to St Francis that did it!

[Beasts of England]

Great news, JiB!!

[Extraneus]

Jack, I turned my fence up to the max when I first installed it, and my German Shepherd only had to feel it once and never went over the line again, even when it wasn't connected. She'd chase deer right up to the edge and stop on a dime, and she hates deer.

If your dogs can handle the max shock and still dare to cross the line, I don't see how an electric fence can work.

[henry]

@zoetillman

A new wrinkle: Rep. Nadler says he's been told Congress won't get the Mueller report until *after* AG Barr's press conference tomorrow, and he's not happy about it twitter.com/RepJerryNadler…

https://twitter.com/zoetillman/status/1118645673539375106?s=21

[henry]

More from zoetillman:

A senior DOJ official confirms that the Mueller report will be delivered to the Hill between 11am and noon tomorrow

[henry]

From “muh Russians” to “muh spin” just like that.

[Jim Eagle]

Buckeye,

The funny thing was that the race was on Saturday, and when the other 3 housemates woke up on Sunday we had the radio on while making breakfast and heard a report about a local man in a crash at Limerock. They noted what hospital he was in. I called them and some Sister there who said he had checked himself out and how upset they were.

An hour later he pulled into the driveway. Stayed in bed the rest of the day. So not my first experience with independent rebels😇

[clarice]

I hope no one reports those pups for failing to pay the toll. So glad they are back..

[Buckeye]

Buckeye, you ever run Blackhawk Farms?

Yes, and Road America too.

I was crew chief for several years.

One thing I became proficient in was swapping Hewland gear sets in the dark.

Gearbox lube is nasty, hands would stink for a week:)

[Another Bob]

“I finally got tired of taking showers at the marina”

Talk about first world problems...

[henry]

Buckeye, I just checked tire air pressure, push started the car, and manned the fire extinguisher on pit stops. At Blackhawk. Other tracks I hosted the dog at puppy camp until the team got back. ;)

[Extraneus]

Nadler says he's been told Congress won't get the Mueller report until *after* AG Barr's press conference tomorrow, and he's not happy about it

Heh.

[lurkersusie]

JIB, happy the dogs are home.

Slap on the wrist
Jack Posobiec ✝️
@JackPosobiec
BREAKING: OIG Horowitz to admonish FBI CI for not paying attention to sources used by Christopher Steele in applying for Carter Page FISA. Also plans to cite 2013 Page history with FBI -
@OANN