Somehow I doubt Team Amnesty, which never tires of trotting out polls they claim demonstrate that 138% of Republican voters want amnesty and only fringe kooks oppose t, will be talking about this too much.

The poll finds New Hampshire Republicans divided on who they want to see as their partyÂ’s nominee in 2016. Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey leads the pack with 21 percent followed by U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., with 16 percent. Former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida is in third with 10 percent followed by U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., with 8 percent and Rubio with 6 percent. Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania is tied with two Texans -- Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz -- in sixth with 4 percent each. Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin takes 2 percent. Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and two Ohio Republicans -- Gov. John Kasich and U.S. Sen. Rob Portman -- all take less than 1 percent.

This is a major step back for Rubio who took 22 percent in the Granite State poll back in February and 14 percent in an April one. His net favorability with New Hampshire Republicans dropped from 50 percent in February and 51 percent in April to 33 percent in this most recent poll. There is some good news for Rubio as only 2 percent of New Hampshire Republicans say they will never vote for Rubio.

Just so we're on the same page, 6% is significantly less than 22%.

I wonder what Rubio could have done between February and now to have lost so much support. Must have been his support for sugar protection legislation. Yeah, that's it.

As Andy suggested the other explanation could be that as everyone knows New Hampshire is a blood red GOP state. Perhaps a more purple state would be kinder to Rubio.

So you know, good luck with those ideas Marco.

And yes, you know and I know that Christie is pro-amnesty but that's not exactly what most voters think of when they consider him. Yet. Rubio owns amnesty and is reaping the, um, rewards of that.

I'm not saying Rubio is done and can't recover (I doubt it but I'm not saying it) but this notion that the there's a repressed majority of Republicans who are dying for a leader to come along and free them from their anti-amnesty conservative overlords is nonsense.

From the GOP revolt against the Bush-Kennedy-McCain amnesty bill of 2007, forcing McCain and Romney to move right in 08/12 and the damage done to Perry's campaign by his "you don't have a heart" appeal for the Texas Dream Act, and now this, it's abundantly clear that GOP voters don't want anything like amnesty.

It's also clear that GOP elites simply don't care.

Related: Congressman Luis “I have only one loyalty, and that’s to the immigrant community.” Gutierrez says he has 40-50 House Republicans ready to vote for amnesty. I wish I could think he's lying but my guess is he's low balling it.

BTW-Can you imagine if a Republican ever said, "I have only one loyalty, and that's to the Christian community" or "the white community"? That person would be rightly pilloried and hounded out of polite society. But Gutierrez says it and remains a Democrat in good standing who Republicans like Paul Ryan enjoy working with.

It's like only one side is actually fighting these battles.

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(DISCLAIMER: This piece refers to "men" and "women" as a group. The Author understands that this large group of human beings contains many divergent beliefs and points of view. The Author uses the generalities to preserve rhetorical clarity, not to suggest that all males or females are interchangeable. I feel like I shouldn't have to point this out, but given the topic, I'm going to make it explicit anyhow.)

This article makes a dandy primer on why men are increasingly opting out of marriage altogether, especially blue-collar men. That probably wasn't the intent of the article, but it does a splendid job of making the case nonetheless.

The article is a fascinating study of female psychosis. It is a very valuable one for men to read, because it illustrates with crystalline clarity many of the pathologies currently at work in the half of humanity without a Y chromosome.
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Happy Friday.

I had a post done up, but Firefox ate it when it crashed on me. Oh, the President is gonna have a presser at 3pm Eastern. That was in it. Also, something something drone strikes in Yemen killed 12 yesterday, hey remember Obama's speech about not drone striking so much anymore. And Obamacare sucks, say several Democrats running in vulnerable elections next year.

Anyway, have a good weekend.

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Good evening, Morons and Moronettes...

As you heard, Maetenloch's dad had some medical trouble lately, and so we're giving him some time to get squared away before throwing him back in. He's chomping at the bit to get back at it (and that's why we love him, seriously), but I'll do my level best to entertain you for the evening.

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Sorry, I head a roundup post almost done and my computer, which is awful, ate it, because it gets hung up on just writing these words (already had two delay signals, made it three) and I have to constantly jam buttons on it.

Sorry I'm done. And I'm buying a new computer. This is a piece of shit and I will discuss my feelings about this brand when I have put it in the trash.

RDBrewr suggests this piece by Victor Davis Hanson as a tonic for the blues. His take is that Obama, like plagues and droughts, shall too pass.

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Must read piece by Kevin Williamson that is as bracing as it is dispiriting.

I won't quote much of it for two reasons: First, Five Feet of Fury, from whom I stole it, has a good teaser quote to pique your interest. I could also steal her quote but what are we, barbarians?

The other reason is that the first quarter of the article attempts to elucidate the precise nature of the conservative (or rather rationalist) objection to the sinister and alien figure of one Barack Hussein Obama, the Prophet Who Stuttered. I think that's advertisement enough.

The end is about Obama's increasing resort to Banana Empire tactics in asserting, without the pretense of a legal justification, his power to refashion the law as suits his political interests as he whims it.

So I'll cut a very brief quote:

President Obama and his admirers choose to call this “pragmatism,” but what it is is a mild expression of totalitarianism, under which the interests of the country are conflated with those of the president’s administration and his party. Barack Obama is the first president of the democracy that John Adams warned us about.

Democracy never lasts long,” Adams famously said. “It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”

Read the whole thing. If you get bored (hard to imagine), you can skim a bit as he recites the Bill of Particulars in his brief against Obama's lawlessness and tyrannical impulses, and then slow down again for the conclusion.

Part of my disgust at the GOP is that they continue to strategize about politics while Obama is claiming power plenipotentiary to do, well, whatever he likes.

I am aghast at the alleged "Fourth Estate" for not so much as arching an eyebrow at this; but what can I say about an alleged opposition party also being quiet as churchmice?

Update: Even as I was writing this, Obama's leftist cultists are now pushing the idea of Our Dear Tyrant amnestying all illegals by executive fiat.

Do not forgive them, even if they know not what they do.

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When I'm not being a bitch and arguing with you guys I'm actually being spectacularly unpleasant to other people.

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"I don't have any information." Of course you don't, darling.

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Via Hot Air, there are only so many times one can say "I'm quitting this party and will henceforth only support third party candidates."

Well, I have said it. Many of us have. We mean it. And it's over.

Go ahead and do what you like, GOP. The divorce is final.

Done.

Members of Congress have been on recess for only a few days, but it already seems the time away from Washington means more support for a pathway to citizenship among some Republicans.

In the past few days, two Republican members of the House of Representatives — Daniel Webster in Florida, Aaron Schock in Illinois — have expressed preliminary support for a way to legalize undocumented immigrants and allow them to eventually earn full citizenship. Even the House GOP whip, Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), announced support for legal status, although he stopped just short of supporting full citizenship.

Meanwhile, in more Donzo news, Chuck Shumer says he doesn't mind the Republicans' piecemeal strategy (passing small separate bills on immigration), because he intends just to collect them all up into a single bill which will be "conferenced" with the Senate, and then he'll deliver amnesty just as the Gang of Eight has long plotted.

I guess this is why I'm not terribly political anymore, or it seems as if I don't care as much. I don't. I knew this was coming, I knew there was nothing to stop it.

There will be a third party and there will be a 20 year period of Democratic dominance.

It is unavoidable.

So I have retreated into a sort of philosophical take on it all. Politics isn't fun when you always lose and worse yet your team plays to lose, because secretly they have a great deal of affection for and allegiance to the other side.

There's no point plotting this move and that move; all moves are failures and result in the same dismal outcome. I don't know if it is an effective strategy to just retreat into the completely impractical/philosophical, but I do know I have no interest in playing a ludicrous game in which there is only one set of permissible moves and only one permitted outcome.

I don't want to play this pretend-game. There is no point to this pretend-game, except to snooker people into thinking they have some input into the system, which they do not.

For those of us who are done: You may have our acquiesensce but you will no longer have our votes.

Gerbil Out Party: I wrote this to rockmom:

rockmom, they are determined to do this.

It's like I say about gerbils. Gerbils will always get out of their cages because all they do is plot 14 hours per day how to get out of the cage. They have no other thoughts. They have no other goals.

You cannot control something that is plotting every waking hour to escape the cage.

The Republican Gerbils want this, they will never stop wanting it, they will never stop, period.

I'm tired of fighting with them. At some point, you just accept that the Gerbil wants to be free to be eaten by the cat. And you let him go.

Because you have better things to do with your time than minding a Gerbil all day long.

You know, all these months that Mickey Kaus has been saying "Hey, don't go to sleep, we have to fight amensty," I've been thinking one thing: What's the point? It's kabuki. It's nothing but a never-ending string of "breakthroughs" and "dramatic compromises" and "billions of new dollars for border security" all with the exact same goal, to con us into acquiescence.

It's always the same deal, they just try to think of somewhat different ways to say it. Like a very bad tv show. Which it all actually is, in a very real way.

But I don't want to watch this crap. And I've said so continuously.

So I'm done.

Gerbil Credit: Steve_in_hb wants credit as he first explained the Gerbil Principle to me. Except he said Hamsters. I changed it to gerbils "to make it my own."

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