Virginia Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling (R) told the Richmond Times Dispatch about a meeting requested by Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R), the man who outmaneuvered him for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.

“Losing has liberated Bolling, loosening his image and his tongue. The loyal Republican who deferred to others defers no longer. Bolling is especially direct in expressing his distaste for the negative image the GOP projects and the just-say-no issues promoted by its new titular leader: Cuccinelli. This is an uncharacteristic role for Bolling — he is refusing to endorse Cuccinelli and will decide by mid-March on an independent candidacy that could sink Cuccinelli’s — and it is generating attention from an unlikely quarter.”

Said Bolling: “It’s like he’s written off trying to reach mainstream voters.”

Chris Wallace called out National Rifle Association CEO
Wayne LaPierre on Fox News Sunday for saying that President Obama’s children face the same threats to their security as other school children.

Said Wallace: “You really think that the president’s children are the same kind of target as every other school child in America? That’s ridiculous and you know it, sir.”

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Donald Trump ripped into Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) over his suggestion that Republicans needed to “stop being the stupid party,” The Hill reports.

Said Trump: “He was stupid for using that term. Because that term is so obnoxious, and so good for the other side, he should not have used that term. That term is going to be living now for a long time, and they’re going to have his face on television using it.”

The Cloakroom: The 10 dumbest things Republicans have said so far this year.

“Anybody on the Republican side even thinking or talking about running for president in 2016, I’ve said, needs to get their head examined. And the reason I say that is, we’ve lost two presidential elections in a row, we need to be winning the debate of ideas, then we’ll win elections.”

— Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, interviewed on Fox and Friends.

Politico says that “since he started exploring a run for U.S. Senate in December, in the face of tougher media scrutiny that was bound to follow, Booker is showing the unmistakable symptoms of glass jaw syndrome.”

“He’s learning the hard way that a Senate race fought in multiple major media markets is different than a citywide one on his own turf. His sensitivity to perceived slights in news coverage is raising questions about how easily the high-flying mayor can make the transition from the mostly adoring national media coverage he’s received over the years and the friendly confines of his 1.3 million Twitter followers.”