Posted on 12/30/2015 10:11:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Issue
If Donald Trump's campaign approach seems familiar, it should. Ironically, the New York mogul is borrowing from the populist playbook that propelled George C. Wallace's 1968 independent campaign for president.
If you're looking to place a friendly wager on which Republican candidate will win Alabama's GOP presidential primary March 1, the smart money has to be on either Texas Sen. Ted Cruz or New York businessman Donald Trump.
Cruz has been barnstorming the South, campaigning in Alabama and other states participating in the "SEC Primary," when the biggest single haul of GOP convention delegates will be awarded. Cruz is aiming his message at evangelicals in particular, the same group that has propelled him -- for now -- to the top of the pack in Iowa.
It's a smart play. In the two most recent Republican presidential primaries, the GOP's evangelical wing delivered Alabama to Rick Santorum (2012) and Mike Huckabee (2008), rather than to eventual nominees Mitt Romney and John McCain, respectively. But Cruz can't take Alabama's Republican delegates for granted.
To the extent Trump is similar to any major political figure of recent memory, he most resembles Alabama's own Gov. George C. Wallace.
Wallace was, by the standards of his day, a liberal on race relations until he lost the Democratic Party's 1958 nomination for governor -- back when that was tantamount to election -- to John Patterson, who ran on a segregationist platform and had the endorsement of the Ku Klux Klan. According to Seymore Trammell, Wallace's finance director, Wallace vowed never to let that happen again.
The man who African-American attorney J.L. Chestnut recalled as "the most liberal judge that I had ever practiced law in front of," reinvented himself as the politician who promised "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." (continued)
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Trump is Jesse “the body” Ventura on a national level. We have been reduced to that.
That is a happy thought
To what do you attribute his crowds everywhere he speaks?
Trump’s cabinet will be more diverse than Obama. Silly.
Obama had crowds
That was almost before my time. But I do remember some things about Wallace. His being shot by a sniper, crazy person, who?? (can’t remember) and having to spend a good part of his life in a wheelchair. Pray that does not happen to Trump.
Stardom. The American public wants a Star/King.
Serious (series) question…what happens to a mind when it makes up lies and believes them…or digests others’ lies for political purposes? How long before a mind like that goes completely off the rails? Not kidding, the left are on very dangerous mental ground. We may have to “deal” with them in the future. Zombie-assed liars.
Trump is the Winston Churchill of modern day America,
minus the stylized, courtly, and overly polished exterior of the 19th Century British Gentleman.
Decatur, TEXAS??????
TRUMP is leading by five, in TEXAS. Democrat ugly paper. Must be McClatchy? Feeling the sweat, methinks.
This was /is the fate of Larry Flynt; erstwhile owner of Hustler magazine. He gets wheeled out every election year. By next summer, Larry will offer at least a Million Dollars to anyone who can dig up the worst dirt on the GOP nominee. Always the GOP nom being the target, never, ever does he target democrats. Larry has had decades to sit and stew over his fate.
I voted for Wallace in 1968 while stationed in Vietnam!!! My first ever vote!!!
Trump is not a racist. He’s a fraud. He’s a former funder, praiser, and supporter of the Clintons. He’s a man who has always said what suits the moment to enrich him financially, and not to empower him politically. There is no evidence he cares about race, and his three wives could surely vouch for his fondness for foreign women.
OOPs memory wrong? Was it that someone shot at Wallace? I do remember in like Flint was shot and in a wheelchair. But Wallace, no? LOL as stated prior, was less than 10 yo and oblivious to politics at the time. At that age I was just getting into American Bandstand and the new, evil rock and roll :-) Motown, Elvis, etc The good old days.
Oh goody another editorial by the nameless and blameless
They are not conservatives mostly, no. Many are people who haven’t really been involved before, without any fully formed ideology.
More flailing by the ‘pundits.’ They just don’t get it, and probably never will.
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