by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, March 1 (“Super Tuesday”). By the way, get ready for a slew of ads in states all across America tying Republican candidates to Trump. This is going to be fun. 🙂 Oh yeah, and you’ve gotta love George “Felix Macacawitz” Allen campaigning for Tea Partier Marco Rubio, along with GOP “attack dog” Barbara Comstock. What a trio! LOL
- Rubio, Cruz sprint to halt Trump on fateful Super Tuesday
- Trump’s rhetoric on Muslims plays well with fans, but horrifies others (Very disturbing that Trump’s bigoted rhetoric would play well with one American, let alone millions.)
- Scuffle between Secret Service agent, photographer at Trump rally turned nasty
- Rubio and Cruz are the real monsters: Liberals should be rooting for Trump — and he’ll be easier to beat come November (Agreed that Rubio and Cruz are horrendously bad, but I’d say that Cruz would actually be the easiest to beat in November.)
- What to Watch for on Super Tuesday (“Trump isn’t the only 2016 hopeful who can start writing a Super Tuesday victory speech. Clinton has a chance at her own near-sweep tonight, particularly given her dominating performance on Saturday in South Carolina, where she crushed Sanders by nearly 50 points—and, more importantly, by a 6-to-1 margin among black voters. “)
- Report: Donald Trump Requested That a Group of Black Students Be Removed From His Rally Before It Had Even Started
- There’s no more denying Trump’s campaign of hate: How he built a coalition of America’s bullies, xenophobes & bigots (What’s horrifying is that there are so many “bullies, xenophobes & bigots” in this country. Too bad we can’t, as Trump likes to say, “get’em outta here!”))
- GOP’s convention Hail Mary: Can a convention-floor deal stop Trump? Would it even be worth it? And will we see Romney’s return? (“The last line of defense for the anti-Trump GOP is a brokered nominating convention, and it wouldn’t be pretty”)
- The GOP race has become an embarrassing reality-television show (A really, really BAD reality TV show, that is.)
- The dangerous worldview at the core of Trump’s intimidation (“Donald Trump would see his election as a mandate for his adolescent concept of strength.” Not just any adolescent, but a really nasty juvenile delinquent/schoolyard bully.)
- Republicans face a moral choice: Will they oppose Trump’s bigotry?
- Voters shouldn’t reward Trump’s assault on democracy (Agreed, although I really don’t think that extremist theocrat Ted Cruz is any better, and Tea Party nut Marco Rubio is barely any less awful.)
- Supreme Court won’t hear bay cleanup appeal (Good, now let’s proceed with Saving the Bay!)
- Iranian hard-liners losers in parliament, clerical body (Good news, but still a long way to go in that theocratic police state.)
- Obama Didn’t Create Trump (“The GOP’s opposition to Obama did.” Correct. Nor has Barack Obama been “divisive” in any way; that’s just the right-wing echo chamber’s absurd narrative.)
- Samantha Bee Skewers Lazy Democrats Who “Built” Donald Trump (“‘If you didn’t vote in 2010, you built that,’ Bee said on her show, Full Frontal, while pointing at a photo of Trump.” Agreed that there’s no excuse for no voting in ALL elections, not just the “glamorous” ones, and that it has been actually killing Democrats, who really tend to be “presidential-only” voters.)
- Virginians head to polls for Super Tuesday primary
- McAuliffe vetoes ‘Tebow bills’ to open school sports to home-schooled kids (Such a ridiculous bill, glad Gov. McAuliffe vetoed it.)
- ‘I need your help tomorrow,’ Clinton tells crowd at George Mason
- McDonnell tells Supreme Court he never exchanged official acts for gifts
- Virginia Sen. Donald McEachin files papers to run for Congress (And immediately becomes the favorite to win this seat.)
- Senate narrowly approves bills to protect war monuments, firearm rights (More veto material. This, by the way, is why we need a Democrat as governor, to counterbalance the crazies in the General ASSembly.)
- McEachin threatens impeachment of local judge for misconduct
- Clinton fires up Hampton Roads crowd in final pre-Super Tuesday rally
- Trump criticizes Cruz, Rubio at Radford rally
- At Regent, Carson says voters will ‘take another look’ after Super Tuesday (Maybe, but it won’t be at Ben Carson!)
- McAuliffe balances governing — and delivering — a state
- McAuliffe official says ethics council gave ‘unqualified approval’ for free Redskins suite (Hmmmmm….)
- House of Delegates abandons bill to restrict refugees (One nasty bill down, many more nasty bills to go. Meanwhile, most progressive bills have been killed. This GOP-controlled House of Delegates is THE WORST.)
- Jesse Matthew to enter guilty pleas in Graham and Harrington cases
- Army sergeant accused of killing wife, Pr. William officer, held without bond
- A decent day before showers move in tonight, light snow possible late this week
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