Posted on 09/15/2015 9:43:43 AM PDT by jimbo123
A majority of Republican registered voters want either Donald Trump or Ben Carson to be their party's 2016 presidential nominee, according to two new national polls from the Washington Post-ABC News and the New York Times-CBS News.
Let that sink in for a minute. Neither Trump, who made his name as a real estate mogul and reality star, nor Carson, a renowned pediatric neurosurgeon, have run for any office prior to their presidential candidacies. Both men have staked the entirety of their campaigns on the idea that they are the furthest thing possible from a traditional politician. And it is working for both of them. Big time.
While the rise of Trump tends to dominate the headlines, polls like these from WaPo and the NYT provide a reminder of the big picture here for the Republican party. And that big picture is simple: The GOP establishment is on the run, and there are few signs that its members have any sort of coherent strategy to deal with the massive uprising within its ranks.
It's not only that 53 percent of Republican voters (in the Post poll) or 50 percent of GOP voters (in the Times poll) say they are for either Trump or Carson. It's also how few Republican respondents in those same surveys say they are for the establishment choices. Jeb Bush, the man everyone assumed would be the race's front-runner, clocks in at 8 percent in the Post poll and 6 (!) percent in the Times poll. Scott Walker, the guy who was supposed to challenge Bush for the top spot, takes 2 percent in both the Times and Post polls. TWO percent.
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And if voters in your party had any brains, Hillary would likewise be at 8%.
Maybe it is time to elect a person who has not held a public office. We have elected mostly those who have held public office and the result really hasn’t been that great.
Kick out ALL establishment repubics!
Not NEARLY deep enough. Deep enough would be a complete shunning by every American to the point they couldn’t buy their own food and had to scrounge for bark.
>>Hillary would likewise be at 8%
Give it a few weeks, that’s where she’s heading<<
A general election with a socialist as the democratic candidate? It might be the first time since Walter Mondale that a candidate openly admitted to wanting higher taxes and bigger govt. Question is, does Sanders have a chance to win?
Sadly I think Bernie does have a chance to win. This is not the electorate of the 1980’s. Lots of voters (particularly the young) now believe that government SHOULD do more and that “the rich” and “wealthy corporations” do NOT pay enough in taxes.
And when the Chamber of Commerce keeps pushing crony capitalist schemes like this trade deal and Ex-Im, their numbers grow.
Some 95% of all the personal woe in this world is self-induced, in some manner or another.
Whether by bad judgment, or lapses of judgment altogether, or because of malice intent gone horribly wrong and ricocheted back to its source, the one crime that in inevitably punished throughout the Universe, is stupidity. This goes by many names, may it be Destiny, or Fate, or Kismet, or Karma. Maybe it is predetermined, maybe it is not, but there can be some pretty serious bite marks in the Gluteus Maximus.
The Republican Establishment has not earned the sobriquet “the Stupid Party” for nothing.
We know that the RNC/GOP is owned by The Cheap Labor Express. They have been paid to betray the citizens.
Of course they are in deep trouble.
The democrat establishment got caught in the same trap as the Republican establishment. Sanders was put up as a foil to make Hillary look moderate. Unlike the Republicans, they didn’t have anyone surface to take on the establishment, and now they are stuck with the hard left Washington insider.
Obama was basically a newcomer also.
Not deep enough trouble.
For the effete elites, trouble is running out of the proper wine pairing with dinner.
Bingo. Centuries ago, we didn't have a permanent political class. We actually had people elected to office who didn't live their whole life in the political realm. They were part of the real world interacting with others in the real world. Somewhere along the way the political classes morphed to where we now have 2nd and 3rd generation children of politicians vying for office where their primary qualification is that they were born to the political class.
***Neither Trump, who made his name as a real estate mogul and reality star, nor Carson, a renowned pediatric neurosurgeon, have run for any office prior to their presidential candidacies.***
Hmmm.
Just like
Washington
Eisenhower
Grant
Hoover
Taylor
They BETRAYED us after the midterms!
What do they expect???
Norm, I love how you think.
Add up the anti-establishment candidates, and you get way into the 60% range.
WE HATE YOU JOHN BONER AND MITCH MCTURTLE!
Biden and Warren losers? The question is who will the RNC put up against them. Remember Romney, McCain and Dole?
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