In today's snapshot, i-Phone, social media world, all of this could be true - or perhaps - none of it is.
In my ever-shrinking world, Lando's little nook, a serious candidate for the Presidency does not say things such as this. Nor is there a debate about it because it is so civilly and intuitively true. But, here we are nonetheless.
Trump is a product of the Facebook-Twitter universe, to a big extent. Anything for attention, good or bad.
Some highly skilled professional entertainers do not desire 24/7 limelight. Tom Hanks for one.
Some others do crave the limelight, and will do almost anything for it. Brucelyn Jenner.
But then comes the political class. Once they had their own place, language, channels of competing for attention. The national media consisted of a few papers, a few national networks, a few national news magazines. Those channels in turn doled out attention, for fairly conventional reasons.
Before that, royalty had courts, that arranged favors, audiences, etc.
Today anybody needs to be a Jester, to get their face and their agenda into the public.
The Clerk in Kentucky gets her 15 minutes of fame, and the Huckster and Cruz rush there, to be by her side on camera.
The Huckster is a Pastor/Politician and The Cruz is a Constitutional expert (along with Obama and Levin, other Constitutional experts).
But above all they are entertainers worthy of media attention. Anybody wonder what is the deal, with the Trumpster?
Rick Perry ought to climb down from his Campaign Steed, and admit "I can't keep up with this sh!t anymore. I'm just an olde fashioned Texas country boy."
