2015.12.22
advent day 22
Ted Cruz, looking like a more-weaslish Nathan-Lane, has some of the savviest and most daring PR/campaign stuff we've seen... from the crude photoshop of him as a gangster, to that almost-self-parody like tv spot - there's a winking, almost hip, knowigness to it all that's lacking on the democratic side. Some of it looks to spring from the candidate himself; between his half-assed Yoda and Darth impressions to his more impressive re-enactment of Billy Crystal in Princess Bride, there's a kind of media aware hipster-geek vibe that may resonate with the swing youth vote in a way Hillary won't.
The safest bet for the Democrats would be a block-splitting third party run of Trump; (they say Hillary stacks up pretty well against him if he were to get the nomination as well) --- without that, Trump has said enough extreme things and gathered so much attention for himself that he makes the Cruz Rubio et al sound more sane.
The cure for anything is salt water- sweat, tears, or the sea.