Charles P. Pierce on Rubio - "When a goat sings opera, you don't worry about whether he's off-key."

[kpete]

Charles P. Pierce on Rubio - "When a goat sings opera, you don’t worry about whether he’s off-key."

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a18660358/rubio-cnn-gun-debate/


To be honest, I do give Marco Rubio a little credit for showing up to Wednesday night’s CNN town hall in Florida. Not as much credit as I give his senatorial counterpart, Bill Nelson, who complimented Rubio for his presence and then noted that Governor Rick Scott had not put in an appearance. Governor Bat Boy, of course, is expected to run against Nelson this fall, so that was a nice double-axel and Nelson stuck the landing.

Jake Tapper also gets points for keeping a difficult event largely on the rails. Granted, Rubio found the inevitable rake to step on when one of the survivors treed him on why he still takes contributions from the NRA, but he did cop to an evolving position on background checks and on whether we ought to raise the age limit on someone’s ability to buy an AR-15. As we often say around the shebeen, when a goat sings opera, you don’t worry much about whether he’s off-key.”…

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Before we move on to Dana Loesch’s continuing contribution to national mayhem, we feel that we should educate folks a bit on the AR-15, the weapon of choice for all your high-end mass murderers. (Stephen Paddock had 14 of these bad boys in his suite when he opened fire on that country music crowd in Las Vegas.) It is often said that the “AR” in AR-15 stands for “assault rifle.” Au contraire, you elitist European-style socialist. The “AR” stands for “Armalite Rifle,” Armalite being the company that manufactures the weapon of choice for all your high-end mass murderers. As it happens, the AR-15 also was the weapon of choice for the Provisional IRA through most of the modern Troubles in Northern Ireland. It was so popular that it became a synonym for all violent resistance to British rule. (Google “Armalite and ballot box.”) This being Ireland and all, there even was a song about it. Sing it with me now!

“”And it’s up in Crossmaglen that's were I long to be/

Lying in the dark with a Provo company /

A comrade on my left and another one on my right /

And a clip of ammunition for me little Armalite!'””


Now that’s market penetration.”

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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a18660358/rubio-cnn-gun-debate/

[Javaman]

1. no more like a corpse becoming only slightly less dead, but still dead never the less. nt