When Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman stepped up to the podium at the Akron Press Club luncheon, the well-behaved partisan audience got a closeup of the prototypical Un-Trump.

Casual open collar, lean, unthreatening, a sweep of gray hair betraying his boyish manner, a regular guy – all of it Un-Trump evidence of his selfie as a “Common Sense Conservative”.

As it happened, even his speech as the candidate for reelection against former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland followed the safest route, narrowly content to tell us what everyone in the room already knew: Good grief. There’s a drug crises in the […]

The past week’s winner of the Grumpy Abe Linguistic Lunacy (GALL) award goes to Gov. Kasich  for the hubris of his comments during  his interview with the New York  Daily News editorial board, which endorsed his presidential candidacy.

As reported by Plunderbund from the interview’s transcript, Kasich,  so full of himself , puffed:

“You know, it’s amazing that I know all of this stuff, isn’t it?  Cause there ain’t nobody else who can come in here [that] could answer any of this.”

Ain’t that a fact?     But you can know a lot of  things when  you make things up.