This is going to hurt newsstand sales...

That picture—that face—is the stuff of nightmares. I'm getting it on pillow cases for everyone I hate on my Christmas shopping list. Oh, and Mark Halperin, who literally wrote the a book about the 2008 election, said "likable enough" was a reference to Stuart Smalley. Um... nope:

And if you're one of those liberals who was looking forward to Trump getting the GOP nomination—because he would lose big and destroy the Republican party—this piece by Jonathan Chait at New York will cheer you right up. A taste...

Donald Trump would probably be the worst candidate any major party has ever nominated — grossly uninformed, disorganized, personally and ideologically repellent to a majority of the public, and so unreliably attached to its core agenda he could potentially blow the party apart. Ted Cruz would be a much better choice. But there is a huge gap between “much better” and “good.” Cruz would not be a good nominee. He’d be very, very bad.

And lastly...