The celebrities aren't going anywhere. Outside of the U.S., they have no money, fame and certainly no power. Nobody cares about them. Remember that these are the same people who say they are part of the party of tolerance and diversity and that free speech is something that should be championed, at least until you disagree with them.

Wouldn't it be nice if the Freedom of Speech was taught in colleges?

It is, and you can write anything that parrots the Progressive agenda.

An open letter to Senator Ted Cruz and Senator Marco Rubio:

Gentlemen, I believe the games are over.  You each have sadly taken the bait from the "media" debate moderators, and have attacked each other without remorse.  It has diminished each of you in my eyes, and in the eyes of many Conservatives.  That in turn has made the race for the GOP nomination more of a reality TV show than a process to select the leader of the free world.  This has to stop NOW.  You each, in your own way, carry the Conservative mantle.  I frankly don't care what happened with the Gang of Eight, or who supported what ten years ago.  Those days are OVER.  What matters NOW is who you are as men, and what you will do in the future on behalf of this great nation. 

You are both running against a charlatan.  With the exception of his bravado about the border, Donald Trump has yet to give a full-throated embrace of Conservative ideals.  He embraces the use of Eminent Domain to give one citizen's property to a private party; he recently said we need to "open up" the libel laws, effectively making the First Amendment a thing of the past; he has admitted to "buying" politicians, and has contributed over $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation, and hundreds of thousand more to the very politicians who fight to this day against Conservative causes; and he has supported gun control and the assault weapons ban, making the Second Amendment yet another part of the Constitution that would be at risk under a President Trump.

The fight should be against Hillary Clinton, and her socialist/progressive agenda.  However, you have an impediment in Donald Trump that is preventing you from taking the fight where it belongs. 

I implore - no, as my preferred GOP presidential candidates, I insist - that you both cease and desist from the fighting between the two of you, and that you join forces to overcome the impediment in Donald Trump so that one of you becomes the candidate who can defeat Hillary Clinton in the general election. This detent must begin tonight at the debate hosted by Fox News.  The National Review Online article by Randy Barnett provides you both with the way forward, while preserving the right of the GOP electorate to select their preferred candidate, and eliminating the chaos of a brokered convention.

I expect to see two leaders on the stage tonight.  Please don't disappoint me.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/432261/ted-cruz-marco-rubio

I remember when his Dad was PM.  He was a train wreck too.

As someone who lived through Senior's term as PM, I still cannot say the name without needing to spit on the ground afterwards.  Junior is on course to complete many of his father's worst projects.

OK, so assuming it comes down to Trump vs Hillary, with everything that is on the line (SCOTUS, Obamacare, future of the nation, you know little things, etc.) - who do you pull the handle for?

'Gimp

I typically vote for the most electable conservative candidate.  I honestly don't think Trump is electable.  However, the Democratic Death Star will be aimed at whoever the GOP puts up, and Trump seems to have stronger deflector shields than Rubio or Cruz.  While Trump is not reliably conservative, he is also not reliably liberal.  He cancels himself out, I think.  Which makes him the kind of blank slate that Obama was and is:  He is whatever a voter wants him to be.  That has not worked out well.

I know, I haven't answered your question.  Let's just say it would be really, really repugnant to me to vote for an adulterer who is also a childish bully, and give him the nuclear codes.  I have eight months to swallow the bile he raises in me.  We'll see.

So what you're saying is that they are just indoctrinated, brainwashed far leftists that can not think for themselves?

No.

If I had wanted to say that, I would have said they were just indoctrinated, brainwashed far leftists that can not think for themselves.

But I didn't. That was you.

But I would urge caution before just painting roughly 1/2 of the electorate that way. It's kinda what they do as well, making a caricature of the other side's positions for the sole purpose of attacking them.

As an aside, I'm kind of in the air on who to vote for in today's GA Republican primary. I think Kasich would make the best president, but it seems like a wasted vote at this point. Among the remaining four, I find Rubio least distasteful. What to do?

I'm not opposed to making a living while not having to work at a factory.  Working at a factory isn't as enjoyable as some of you seem to think.

As for making this country great again, it's still pretty awesome.  The average American is a blooming idiot.  How else can you rationalize the president we have now, and worse, the guy leading the 2016 race to the White House?  Several years ago I went with my wife to her high school reunion.  While she was socializing I was talking with another spouse of a classmate.  He said he worked on a Ford assembly line.  The money was decent but each day was pure hell.  This guy was pretty low-key, clean cut and seemed down to earth.  He explained that the vast majority of the people he worked with were rough cut, crude, immature and prone to violence.  That there was always some drama on the shop floor with guys arguing and fighting.  He just wanted to go to work, do his job, and go home.

My only experience with factory work was a short stint at a Quaker Oats (owned by PepsiCo) plant.  It was a sweatshop filled with much of the same type of people mentioned above.  If it was my only way of supporting my family I'd have found a way to make it work.  But it's certainly no way to enjoy life.