Brit Hume in 2012 referred to Trump as "zany; so don't count out this crop of Democrat characters

Beto on his road trip

O'Rourke's 'Medicare for America' plan just another government takeover of health care  "Presidential candidate [Bobby] O'Rourke is proposing an alternative to the socialist "Medicare for all" plan being pushed by Bernie Sanders and several other major candidates. He's calling it "Medicare for America" - a stealthy attempt to eventually bring about full government control of the health care industry." . . .
. . . "In reality, even O'Rourke admits his plan gets us to total government control eventually.

"It's the boiling frog scenario where we, the health care consumer, are the frogs. "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain taking over your health care." Meanwhile, bureaucrats will look to sabotage the private insurance industry, making sure that "Medicare for America" morphs quickly into "Medicare for all' ".

By golly, Beto could be the guy in this movie!

Dems Go Third Party  "I’ve long been forecasting that the Democratic Party was headed for a replay of its last big crackup, when it nominated George McGovern for president in 1968, and he carried only one state. So far, the Dems’ big field of candidates makes me think something slightly different:
"I still think the Dems are headed for a debacle, but it seems to me that the party has already splintered.  The candidates attracting the most attention look to me like third-party candidates, the sort who run against “mainstream” politicians only to vanish from sight and memory. The difference is that, this time, one of these characters may well win the nomination." . . .

We got a foretaste of this third-partyism during the Obama years, from the error-drenched global pronouncement in Cairo to the quest for a strategic alliance with the Islamic Republic of Iran.  The new candidates invent history as it suits their mood, and many of them want to defend tyrants like Maduro and Khamenei.

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Please allow this digression: "SPECIAL TO ADAM SCHIFF: You represent Los Angeles, where people are defecating in the streets and living in tents. Why don't you try to do something about that instead of lying every day about Donald Trump?" Roger L. Simon — co-founder and CEO emeritus of PJ Media