Is Donald Trump now applying the GOP's "Texas Strategy" to the Midwest? (Vanity!)

BobL | 8/15/2015 | BobL (self)

[BobL]

I hear you, it does come across with a mild racial undertone, but then trying to dance around it winds up with our side getting defeated, or nearly defeated, as in every presidential election since 1988 (just barely winning 2000 and 2004). I could have put in third person with words such as “it appears”...oh well.

But the key is not what I think, because who am I? The key is whether the Republicans have ENOUGH BRAINS to try to meet the needs of their base voters, and are capable of doing so even with the media calling them racist the entire way through - as will be played against Trump, and probably very soon (heck, we’re already called xenophobic for wanting border security).

I would simply like the see the GOP actually try to win, rather than tiptoe around ‘divisive issues’, as defined by the media.

[9YearLurker]

I would too—I’d just leave the “Southern Strategy” term alone.

Again, you’re doing him a disservice—even with just the headline here on FR.

[deport]

Trump hasn’t called it such but the media does play with words.

Cruz and the SEC strategy......

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=cruz+sec+strategy

[BobL]

Thanks. You’re history is better than mine...I was thinking of the present, where the GOP has a lock on the south by running conservatives that campaign and (usually) govern as conservatives...rather than listening to their up-north ‘advisers’. But I see the racist connotation in the history of that term from the past, after looking it up.

[9YearLurker]

Maybe you can get the moderator to help you change your headline and tweak your text.

[BobL]

Perhaps “Texas Strategy” instead?

[BobL]

Admin,

At the request of Lurker and myself, might you change the title of this posting from “Southern Strategy” to “Texas Strategy”, as I didn’t realize that the term “Southern Strategy” was so racially loaded.

Thanks, Bobl.

[BobL]

Thanks Admin! I should have researched the term a bit before using it.

[9YearLurker]

I’d take issue with the GOP Hispanic strategy having much potential either in the near term or the longer term.

But how about referring to Trump addressing the “Silent Majority”, as he revives another old phrase?

[9YearLurker]

Oh, sorry—just logged in and realized you’d already addressed it with the Admin, etc.

You make some good points in the piece.

[BobL]

Thanks and appreciate the advice.

[BobL]

“I’d take issue with the GOP Hispanic strategy having much potential either in the near term or the longer term.”

I think that short term we can talk border security and have common ground. Hispanics seem to agree on the need for securing the border, it’s more the GOP elite, Dem leaders and “Hispanic Activists” (i.e., Dems) that want the country to keep getting flooded. That’s why Hispanics voted as they did in the South, in 2014. No one talked deporting, at least in Texas, but they all talked about securing the border, and it did not drive Hispanics away from Republicans.

But once we have the wall and agree that we’re securing the border, the next steps will create some friction - as families will be dealing with people having to head home (under Trump’s plan at least) with no promise of being allowed back on a permanent basis.