Posted on 10/25/2015 11:07:12 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A huge majority of Republican voters prefer an outsider candidate to one with experience in Washington, and most see political rookies Donald Trump and Ben Carson as possible general election winners, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll.
Carson tops the field as the most positively viewed candidate among Republicans, the poll shows. …
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I’m not a Republican, and i want one of the outsiders, too!
The message that consistently fails to sink in is that the GOPe has failed, and repeatedly failed, over and over. Republicans often figure out how to win elections, but then routinely fail when required to govern. The “next old fart in line” method of party nomination is gone. The concept of allowing the media to select our candidates is gone. Insider cronyism and family-political dynasties are gone. Attempting to decapitate frontrunners proves how out of touch the GOPs truly is. I may donate to candidates, but will never donate to the GOPe.
We know little about the mind of Carson. He goes off on these tangents...like the Hitler thing. Why use Hitler as the example when the British were coming to confiscate the colonists weapons.
Republicans are tired of being betrayed by the GOPe.
The GOPe defines governing as being just like the Democrats in terms of eroding the Constitution and expanding government. Not a failure in their eyes; such people are for a de-facto one-party centralized government anyhow.
None of that came to pass. Republicans went to Washington and disappointed. They squandered their opportunities. This would be repeated for the next two decades. Bob Dole, George Bush, John McCain, Mitt Romney all had their opportunities to right the ship and they failed.
It's time for an outsider like Donald Trump. Politicians have failed us.
What has surprised me is the times I have seen folks on the forum this year talk about Trump not having any political experience.
As a Conservative, it has always bothered me to see career politicians grow very wealthy while serving on a salary in Washington, D. C.
They go farther Left every year there, in general.
I want people to go to Washington, serve ten years or so, and then go back to the private sector.
It doesn’t bother me at all that Trump hasn’t spent a decade in Washington, D. C.
I’ve seen what that did to others.
We don’t need a conformist to the GOPe dogma this time around.
I know how he thinks. He’s just there to siphon off the liberal white guilt-ridden Republikans.
Exactly as the Framers intended, no “career” politicians...
They recognized it was just a “morphing” of the jokers who surrounded the monarchs doing their deeds to keep him on the throne
They call it Public Service as if we asked for what they “serve” us
Call them as they say a “servant”
So a servant answers to a Master...
Is it US, or elsewhere....
The Politicrats are like a Fraternity, watch Mr. Smith goes to Washington and itis very similar to today...
Early Warning movie about what was to come unless we stopped eating trash from them and saying...
NO
Yes, your views and mine are on the same track. Thanks.
Politicians are who got us in this mess. Anyone who thinks politicians will get us out of it are delusional.
I agree. Good one...
To the extent that Carson recognizes the existential threat that Islam poses to the US Constitution, I be all for electing him instead of the anti-semite H->.
Yes!!! Go Trump!
There is definitely a Conservative revolution brewing in the USA... Republicans would be smart to get on the right side of that revolution....
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