Even Ben Carson Wouldn't Vote For Himself

From Politico:

"But, right now, when you have something that is against the rights of women, against the rights of gays, subjugates other religions and a host of things that are not compatible with our Constitution, why in fact would you take that chance?"

Poynter Post On Hillary's New Press Strategy

Hillary's been spending time in church.

She swears (not literally)

Before church Sunday in Washington, "Clinton said from the pulpit, she received some advice from Dr. J. Philip Wogaman, the former Foundry senior pastor who’d served the first family. 'He basically said, if you’re going to read and listen to Romans: 12, you gotta to be nicer to the press,' said Clinton, to laughs from the congregation. 'I will certainly take that to heart.' She also said she’d put the counsel 'into effect.'" (The Washington Post)

Ah, right. Don’t expect a born-again Donald Trump in a skirt. As Bill Clinton biographer David Maraniss says about an alleged new strategy to be warm and cuddly, it confronts her own “purposefully encrusted calculation built up over years and decades of defensiveness." (New York Daily News)

Trouble is she's also announced a plan to be more spontaneous. I sort of have a degree of sympathy for the Clintons. I can't think of a couple that's gone through more trials by public fire in my lifetime. I understand the reticence to be voluble with the press. But now Hillary's media strategies are just getting more awkward all the time.

Uh, Gov Walker? You're Not Running Against Barack Obama

High school graduate Scott Walker seems to think he's running against the incumbent President, not those other Republicans.

“I think his absence of leadership of speaking out on this issue as a leader – it doesn’t matter whether you’re a governor, a county executive, a mayor, or president of the United States, when people are going after the men and women in uniform… it is the duty of the president to stand up and say something about that, to speak up,” Walker said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

And it helps if you're accurate on the facts, like acknowledging the President did "stand up and say something about that..."

Obama called the widow of a slain Texas sheriff’s deputy earlier this month to offer his condolences.

“They put their lives on the line for our safety,” the president said. “Targeting police officers is completely unacceptable – an affront to civilized society.”

Sarah Palin Endorses Scott Farkus for President

The former Alaska governor thinks knowledge is less important that toughness.

“I think I'd rather have a president who is tough and puts America first than can win a game of Trivial Pursuit,” Palin said during a Sunday appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

So I guess she'd be cool with this guy:

Farkus & Palin in 2020!

Bobby Who?

This might be a big deal - if anyone knew who Bobby Jindal actually is.

Best Sentence You'll Read Today

From Dave Weigel's piece on Rand Paul's Northwest Passage,

"If this ends up between Trump and Hillary, I'm gonna volunteer for the Mars mission."