Sometimes I get Bai-curious, because he’s less obnoxious than the other keepers of the flame of conventional wisdom, but I have to wonder now if he’s on the Christie payroll:
BAI: — [H]e’s the best pure retail candidate in the field. And that’s why I think “The Union Leader” endorsement does matter at this point, because I think the establishment does have to congeal somewhere and he’s got a lot of strengths as a candidate.
Bai also believes this was an amazing zinger:
Christie, in NH, with one my favorite lines in a while, on entitlements. "I said to Huckabee, 'Where's the money coming from, dude?'"
— Matt Bai (@mattbai) December 1, 2015
I’m guess Bai thinks it was a great line because Christie said “dude”, which is groovy hepcat slang, and more importantly because it involved cutting entitlements, which may be the Village’s number one fetish. It’s safe to say that the cutting entitlements is not reg’lar Americans number one fetish and that most would not know why this was such a cool thing for Christie to say. Atrios once wrote of the far right:
I’ve written before that I think part of the problem that conservatives/Republicans face is that their mythology has become a bit too complex for mere mortals (people who don’t listen to Limbaugh and read The Corner obsessively) to comprehend. They reference rogues’ gallery of enemies and various “bad things” that most people have never heard of.
Serious centrist pundits now face the same problem: their mythology has become too complex for most voters. That’s one of the many reasons that their opinions matter less and less.
(h/t Josh)