Posted on 03/17/2016 2:57:57 PM PDT by onyx
I don’t follow Twitter, but I’d love to have seen that. I think a lot of the professional commentariat *pale* compared to some of the analyses I see on FR.
The fact is, Hillary’s support is extremely weak. I got a vivid reminder of that tonight when I came home. It was a postcard flier to go vote for Hillary in the Democrat caucus here. The kicker—it was only addressed to my wife. I was not included. That tells me the Hillary campaign has already written off the male vote, which I think is correct—no male would vote for her. So she must be banking that she essentially get every female vote. That’s not going to happen. And then on top of that she has to assume no erosion in the traditional Democrat base.
If Cruz is the candidate, they can pull out the typical villification campaign, you know, Cruz will push your grandmother off the cliff in her wheelchair, etc. And that will work. All the brainwashed little Rats will vote for Hillary.
But that won’t work with Trump. And he is going to go right after their once core constituencies, in particular the blue collar and union voters, who all know the Democrats have screwed them over and over again since Obama got in office. They’ve lost their jobs to illegals, they’ve seen their employers go under because of regulation and high taxes, they’ve seen industries like coal get shut down, they’ve had their medical coverage totally screwed up by Obamacare. Trump is going to capitalize on that and they are going to vote for him in droves.
Again an emotional based nonseical opinion present as “fact” by the Media Establisheemnt.
This is what is actually driving Trumps success. It not nihilism, it is not punishment, it is realism.
Since 1988 Conservatives have faithfully pledges their treasure and time to the GOP. Despite elections successes in 1988, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2010 and 2014 what have Conservative gotten from the GOP?
Prosperity? Nope worse economy since 1979.
Reduction in Government-nope as expensive, corrupt, incompetent, intrusive and bigger then ever
Supreme Court? Nope as far left as it has ever been.
A Nation secure? Nope at risk in a dangerous world. Military broken, exhausted and overextended.
A respect for rule of law and the Constitution? Nope. Government, and society, is more lawless then it has ever been.
A healthy growing vibrant society? Nope stagnant, or in decline, everywhere in every way.
So, it not Nihilism, it Realism. It is a realistic assessment that doing the same thing again this year electorally is going to continue this decline and degradation from DC.You can only overcome inertia in any system with force. So we need to force DC out of it denigrate path onto a new path. So why Trump rather then Cruz?
I know this falls on deaf ears with 100%ers at NR, Red State and other “Conservative” media but the fact remains, we are a Constitutional Republic that rests on the notion that the people’s Representatives in Government know how to compromise and negotiate.
This feeling that Cruz will ride into DC and dictate the Conservative Media’s 100%er terms to everyone else there is simply wishful thinking. What is more probable is Cruz would be a GOP Carter.
Carter was the same sort of religious political puritan who went to DC and assumed he would dictate his political dogmas to everyone there. The record shows how badly that idea failed.
“Conservative” politicians talk a good game and then go to DC and accomplish nothing. After 30 years of fail, it is time to try another solution. The winning candidate is, brace yourselves.... going to have to cut DEALS! And some times those deals require..compromise!!!
Another fail point for the “Principled Conservatives” is they think only as far as the election. Then once they win their purity candidates go to DC and fail against the inertia of the DC/Media political machine. 1988-1994-1998-2000-2002-2004-2010-2014 are all example of where this “Next election” mindset has failed.
Trump is merely the 1st wave of a multi wave assault. Cruz might do for a follow up wave, he is not a 1st wave candidate. Without Trump to lead the way, the Cruz boat would of either been ignored because it was irrelevant, or been shelled into oblivion by the $10s of millions of GOPE attack ads.
The 1st wave job in any assault is to shatter the defenses and open the road for the follow up waves. No matter how flawed you think the vessel is, Trump is the best 1st wave political assault team we have had to hand in my lifetime.
We need to use Trump for all he is worth to shatter the corrupt, “my party right or wrong” mindset that grips vast swaths of the electorate. Break that inertia, get the people thinking outside the party label box and real change is possible. Do not an we slide into a stagnate European style decline that will not end in my lifetime. Cruz shares that agenda point but is not as well equipped by background and media following to achieve that break through as Trump
We either win this now or we have little chance of ever doing it again politically. Once we win we must relentlessly stay on the attack election wave after election wave until we are dead.
I am really not willing to leave this fight to my kids and grand-kids. We have let the ship of state drift since Reagan in the hands of the “smart people”. We failed and must redeem that failure.
This is our generation’s “go” time
BRAVO! Well Said
FIX the problems. For 30 years the “Conservative” machine has talked and talked and talked and talked and done NOTHING.
We out of time for more talking.
Great post, LS.
I often wonder how many liberals pose as doctrinaires in order to prevent unity...
C’mon, isn’t “trying” a verb? Doesn’t he get a trophy for participation? /s
-PJ
You mean I said you were ugly and had a high screechy voice?
-PJ
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