Posted on 04/17/2015 6:09:41 AM PDT by cotton1706
There will be a crowd of candidates going after the conservative vote in the primaries and one person going for the steady 20-30% establishment vote. Bush will only be a token presence in the first primaries except for his money. That will be used in abundance to smear the leading conservatives in the earlies as each noses ahead of the others. In the meantime most of the conservatives will be spending their own money cutting up the other conservatives. Bush will be concerned to keep any one conservative from winning more than one or two primaries. When they all are knocked out of effective contention by the serial whack-a-mole wins Bush will be the last man standing because, by not really contesting the earlies for himself he has no dirt on him and will win by default after which he can lay out for the election and permit his favored Democrat to win that. That was McCain’s strategy, and Romney’s. It is in the Republican Handbook for Managing Elections.
It is not bad negotiating if the gope is getting what they want
Yep. Good post.
Note to Breitbart - no one cares what Trump, a liberal one day, a "conservative" the next, thinks.
But wouldn’t a Cruz/Trump ticket be FUN???
Not yet...and never will be.
I don’t want Trump to enter the GOP primary. I’d rather he keep his powder dry.
I want him to enter the general if the GOP foists a Jeb on us. At that point, we might as well go for the downs because there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between Hillary & Jeb. Trump may be able to run under one of the parties that is set up on the ballot in all 50 states.
That will be a real contrast!
Fair point. A la Carson, Cain, Bachmann, etc.
Little difference than from the Hastert-Frist-Lott era.
Sell-outs to the establishment, as they ignore the citizenry.
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It is so bad now that 1-inch-away-from-bolting Mark Levin is writing another book.
Can Hannity be far behind?
Do they have a record of Hilary’s private server traffic?
It would be fun as long as Trump doesn’t think it is a Trump/Cruz ticket.
Of course.
I like Trump and would vote for him. He’s not afraid of the press.
“What does he do in politics other than run his mouth all the time?”
What exactly or how exactly is he supposed to communicate? What did he say that is not true? All the others “run their mouth all the time”. I hope he gets in.
This election will be a good test to find out who Trump really is. For years, he has talked a good game, but accomplished nothing. This has made him an enigmatic figure. With reason, people could view him as being anything from a lightning rod, acting on the behalf of the GOP-e, to a self-aggrandizing blowhard, to a frustrated agent of change against the status quo in the Republican party. All portrayals are simultaneously justifiable, and also lacking real evidence.
The problem is that, since 1984, the Republican party presidential field has held a sad pattern. A single establishment candidate, lacking in any real appeal, ideas, or prospects, going up against a field of the most God-awful non-establishment candidates imaginable. The only possibility of a general election win has been to hope that the Democrats select someone even worse than the GOP-e candidate, because the non-GOP-e Republican primary candidates have been essentially unelectable.
This year, that pattern changes. First, the Republican base appears to have had enough, and will not simply go along. Second, and in conjunction with the first, the establishment selection is getting no traction at all. Third, and most importantly, the primary field consists of two real, solid, alternatives, in Walker and Cruz. In fact, the next tier of non-GOPe candidates (Jindal, Paul, and maybe Rubio) are (very) arguably better than any non-GOPe candidates since Reagan. While it is quite debatable that the 2nd tier is any good, what isn’t debatable is that the election cycle is fundamentally different than any over the last 30 years.
What is happening is simple. The Reagan generation is coming into their own. Walker, Cruz, Jindal, and the rest, were all shaped with Reagan as the model of Republicanism, where the Doles, the Bushes, the McCains, the Romneys, were the imposters.
Where does this leave Trump? For the first time, he can positively affect a Republican primary. Or, he can negatively affect a Republican primary. He has considerable presence and influence. And we can now find out who he really is.
Trump & Perot, neither one had or has a plan other than well placed homilies.
They could even fold a fitted sheet.
Little did she know that wobbly is in the GOP's genes.
-PJ
Trump has never been a politician. Therefore he can’t be blamed for any policy failures. He has never had a chance to set policy either in congress or in the executive branch. If he gets elected president, then and then only he can be blamed for any policy failures or run his mouth off without follow ups.
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