Romney much cheaper headline than Newt, vulgarian concludes

Time-share mogul and tasteless tie line namesake Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney and not Newt Gingrich because if he endorsed Gingrich he would have been expected to donate millions to the Sheldon Adelson Memorial Newt Gingrich PAC. And Trump is all hat (or petroleum product-based hair-like substance, as the case may be) and no cattle.

Obviously.

Mitt, on the other hand, is not in desperate need of Trump's alleged riches.

Easy choice if you're the nation's most craven media whore and don't really care who is president so long as you get some headlines.

Oh well. At least Trump only questioned Obama's birth certificate. Romney, at his Las Vegas rally Wednesday night, accused Barack Obama's very DNA of being un-American.

And that, then, is just some of the high cheese your Gleaner tossed around in this special Nevada's Dumb Caucus edition of The Agenda: 

Comments

[Observer]

Aha! Hugh Jackson (on the left) shares the podium with Patrick Coolican, who is strongly suspected of being a sane person.

Don't you know that the media's quest for balance says that if you put up one leftist, you must automatically balance that out with a Tea Party loon or a birther or Bircher. Two rational people at once? That's not balanced.

And what's more, you criticized Donald Trump's hair. Hugh, you're lucky that Patrick Coolican didn't punch you in the nose. And that's the bald truth.

[ColinFromLasVegas]

Enjoyed it, Gleanster.

What mystifies me about this Nevada caucus thing is it is slowly being reduced down to nonsensical political theater. I get the impression the Tea/Republicans don't even take it seriously and are just going through the motions.

The only thing that is newsworthy about it so far is that a person who is full of themself all the time, is always referred to (even by him) in the third person ("the Donald"), is a certified failure as a businessman, and an avowed "Birther" endorses Mitt Romney? Not sure if you saw that four minute news debacle, but watch Mrs. Romney. She CLEARLY looked uncomfortable on that stage and gave signs she wanted to be somewhere else. "Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, thanks, the Donald, for your kind endorsement, it is much appreciated, you are the best thing to happen to Nevada since Bugsy Siegel, nice hair do too, by the way, but I...um...I gotta go, um, shine my shoes, no, wait, I gotta do my nails, I gotta bet it all on red, I gotta feed the cat, no, wait, I don't have a cat, um, um, um...." It was painful to watch. Don't matter what political party you are from. It was certified stupidity. And if you ask me, President Obama's reelection people just JUMPED all over it with ads. That four minute political theater definitely helped President Obama's reelection chances.

Another thing, and you pointed it out on your show, is the fact this clown cast of candidates, not one of them really delves into any Nevada specific issues. Which means they definitively toe the ultra-conservative line.

For example, back in South Carolina, Mr. Romney was asked by Governor Haley about the Yucca Mountain Project. Mr. Romney told her it should be opened and all the nuclear sludge waste should be promptly Hefty bagged and put in lead lined dipsy dumpsters for IMMEDIATE transport to Yucca (or however it's packaged and sent), I got your back, Governor Haley, sure, we'll get it out of South Carolina and ensure WE TOTALLY FUCK UP NEVADA FOR NOW AND EVER.

I make a prediction. Mr. Romney will avoid any reference to Yucca while campaigning here. And, if you ask me, people need to pay attention to that fact.

Anyways, I just hope news commentators pay attention to local issues and nail their asses to the wall with pointed questions, and getting their answers about stuff like Yucca Mountain down on record for all to see here in Nevada.

[Goldy]

The entire Republican primary is a reality show that makes Jersey Shore look like a Joris Ivens documentary. I feel dumber just discussing it.

Just let Mitt-Wow get the nomination and serve him up to Obama in November.