{"id":3085,"date":"2016-02-02T09:49:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T14:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3085"},"modified":"2016-02-02T09:49:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T14:49:23","slug":"good-news-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3085","title":{"rendered":"Good news \/ Bad news"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m giving the caucus results from Iowa a mixed review.<\/p>\n

First, the good news. Iowa has a well-established history of favoring pious nutjobs that the rest of the country rejects about 30-seconds after they begin speaking; a victory there is the kiss of death. Remember Rick Santorum? Mike Huckabee? Does anybody take either of those guys seriously anymore? No.<\/p>\n

So … Happy Trails to you, Ted.<\/p>\n

The bad news is that Trump didn’t win in Iowa, which means he’s not the craziest Republican of them all, and still in the race.<\/p>\n

The even worse news is that the two Republicans who might have been plausible presidential candidates — John Kasich and Jeb Bush — are probably out of the running now. Since ‘socialist’ is a toxic word in American life, the presidency is probably Hilary’s to lose — an unimaginative hack whose sole qualification is that she’s not certifiably crazy.<\/p>\n

Whoever wins, the country loses.<\/p>\n

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