Over the bar at his cozy shebeen, Mr Pierce weighs in on the pie fight

[hifiguy]

"Ezra Klein does a great job demonstrating that Tailgunner Ted Cruz is more of a truthless reptile than even I thought he was, although young Ezra seems to tear up the language to avoid pointing out that the Tailgunner is a truthless reptile and, instead, contents himself with pointing out that Cruz's mock tirade against CNBC's debate moderators was wrong on the facts. It was stone bullshit, all the way down, and so has been every appalling squawk from these people about having been thrown to the wolves of Rick Santelli's television network.

I have come to the conclusion that it is very easy to be a Republican presidential candidate. First of all, to paraphrase J.R. Ewing, once you give up truth, the rest is a piece of cake. Second, and most important, you really only have to memorize one answer."

Much more of Charlie at http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a39304/republicans-liberal-media-palinization/

"Complete Palinization" deserves an award for best neologism of the last six months.

Even more of Charlie on the gobshites at

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a39277/republican-party-plutocratic-economics/

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a39262/who-won-cnbc-debate/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Pierce has such a way with words...

I like "Every candidate is a self-contained universe of erratically orbiting awful."