Campaign conventional wisdom proves ignorant

The Times of Washington ^ | November 15, 2015 | Victor Davis Hansen

[TBP]

The current presidential campaign is blowing up lots of political myths.

The Republican field is far more diverse, although the candidates see their ethnicity as incidental rather than essential, in bumper-sticker fashion, to their personas. The candidates include the young (44-year-old Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal and Marco Rubio), the ethnically diverse (Mr. Cruz, Mr. Jindal, Mr. Rubio and Ben Carson), and successful outsiders who do not have political backgrounds (Mr. Carson, Mr. Trump and Carly Fiorina).

In contrast, the Democrat candidates appear far older, are all white, and are all political has-beens. Multimillionaire Hillary Rodham Clinton alone boasts of her female status (in a way her Republican counterpart, Mrs. Fiorina, does not). But Hillary is neither young nor a fresh outsider. She represents half of a tired Clinton dynasty, whose old-boy network of Wall Street-Washington insider, big-money politics goes back well into the last century.

[TBP]

Interesting analysis. Conventional wisdom is usually wrong.

The Establishment and their pet media do not see the uprising that is going on.

[Not now, Not ever!]

I think we will have a lot of blood on the floor in 2016, and it will be well deserved.

[FourPeas]

I think the establishment sees the uprising, but it believes it holds all the cards. No doubt they think the obscure nomination rules work in their favor. Also, the establishment is more than happy to allow the Democrats to harass the Tea Party.