The media can either talk about conservative challengers to moderate RINOs or it can talk about a celebrity named TRUMP that low information voters already know.
Which do you think the media would prefer to cover?
The challengers to Hillary aren’t making much press either. Has that field ‘failed’?
It’s good for ratings and good for sucking up all the air in the room. Trump certainly looks better than Jeb but the media would rather be able to talk about Clinton vs. Bush round II. Shutting the conservative Republican challenges to Bush out of the primary coverage serves that end.
In short, no.
Rich Lowry, your slip is showing. Go home and tell Mrs. GOPe, your Mama, to fix it for you.
“The rules of gravity say Trump will come back down to earth.” Politics does not equal gravity.
He under estimates Trump. Trump reminds of all people, Huey Long. When he was shot, the FDR crowd breathed a sigh of relief. FDR could never have out demagogued Long, and Long had given up the white suit and stem-winding style by August, 1935. I have seen a news-reel of a speech he gave at that time, and Huey looked downright presidential. Trump has the ability to tone it down, too, and still come across as strong.
Rich Lowry’s parking his log cabin over at Polutico now? I guess NRO chased away so many conservatives that they have to find an audience somewhere...
No, this -has much to do- with Trump speaking up about the border!
The vacuum is not the other GOP candidates.
The vacuum is the whole GOPe!
Mark Steyn said it perfectly on "Rush" this week:
You've got two political parties. One delivers what its constituency wants (welfare and big gov't). The other doesn't deliver what its constituency wants (freedom and limited gov't).
End of story.
“Good analysis?”
No. Rich Lowry sounds like a jealous teenage girl.
Which come to think of it makes sense.
So, now Rich Lowry is writing for Politico? Why doesn’t he just quit his job with that fake “conservative” rag that one used to be pretty good—twenty or thirty years ago.
He belongs at Politico.
This is stupid. It’s way to early to judge the field. Some of the single digit dwellers could catch fire. New people could jump in. We aren’t even at the beginning yet. Who knows what could happen. If this were a football game, we’d be at Wednesday practice now.
Rich as continued to expose himself and his magazine as the boringly predictable folk who stand for more of the pap we keep getting explained to us, as the great unwashed masses who must be led to our eventual Presidential candidate, who meets the desires our the deep-pocketed masters, but who will go forward to lose yet another race.
Of course, if it's JEB, it matters not, as he could run on the same ticket as Hillary, though I'm uncertain who would be at the top of that ticket, as both are worthless.
Sometimes all you need is just a few key words:
“vacuum, underwhelming, showman, not caring, cavalier disregard, bizarre, bully”.
That should save some from reading the whole article.
I'll give that little twerp some REALITY.
It's this.
The GOP-e got alternately bent down and grabbed their ankles for Obama, or got on their knees, Lewinsky-style, for him, and refused to stand up against him, even as he attempted to "fundamentally change" the United States.
Even after they were elected in landslides to stop him; and lying through their foul teeth, had campaigned on stopping him.
And now they feel guilty. Ha! Made you look.
They don't feel guilty: but they've been CAUGHT.
What to do? Accuse Trump, of all of the things Obama was really guilty of, but they never called him out on.
It's just like the press is an obedient lapdog under a Dem administration. But let a Republican get in office, and -- as quick as Clark Kent exposing himself in a phone booth -- they're SUPERDUPERREPORTERGUARDIANSOFJUSTICEANDTRUTHTM, challenging EVERY word which comes out of the President's mouth, including 'the' and 'and'.
Because, after all, the American people have entrusted them with a sacred task...
They are all scared $hitless of Trump’s candidacy.
The Dems are actually starting to imagine Trump as president and how he would destroy their progressive gains. They are ruthless and without honor or morals... Trump should actually fear for his physical safety!
The GOPee are so scared of Trump they will cheat him out of the nomination using any underhanded method they can come up with. If he manages to get the nomination they will give him no support and will actively campaign against their own nominee. They will even stoop to convincing some GOPee stooge to run 3rd party.
The problem for the Dems and the GOPee is that Trump will unearth all the dirt on them both and air their dirty laundry 24/7 for the world to gawk at... They may be able to destroy him but like the old cold-war era MAD defense doctrine they will also destroy themselves at the same time.
If Trump can pull it off against such great odds then we will have a last chance to restore our republic....
It has come to this... that the last chance to save ourselves rides on a very powerful but also very flawed man.. Britain once was at just such a point and miraculously was saved by an abrasive blowhard drunkard named Winston.
National Review’s Achilles. This is as good as they get, and it’s still swill.
Let’s dig Bill Buckley up and bring him back to life. Hoo doo, paddles, galvanic response, zombie virus—whatever it takes.
So the editor of National Review is now writing for Politico, a left wing rag run by Washington Post rejects.
Is there any doubt that the ruling elites are all part of the Uniparty?
Bush is throwing sand in his own eyes, no bully required.
None of them get it. It doesn’t have a thing to do with Bush or Christie or Kasich except they’re in the them camp of the ‘us or them’ feud.
That’s it, no fancy analysis needed.
"Now, this has much to do with the media, and with Trump’s unique qualities as a showman"
Because this has everything to do with lame personalities (with the exception of Newt) that we really tried to like and support ... but damnit .... they just didn't TALK to us ... just AT us.