Posted on 04/29/2016 8:41:16 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
Donald Trump’s damage to the Republican Party, although already extensive, has barely begun. Republican quislings will multiply, slinking into support of the most anti-conservative presidential aspirant in their party’s history. These collaborationists will render themselves ineligible to participate in the party’s reconstruction.
Ted Cruz’s announcement of his preferred running mate has enhanced the nomination process by giving voters pertinent information. They already know the only important thing about Trump’s choice: His running mate will be unqualified for high office because he or she will think Trump is qualified.
Hillary Clinton’s optimal running mate might be Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, a pro-labor populist whose selection would be balm for the bruised feelings of Bernie Sanders’s legions. Running mates rarely matter as electoral factors: In 2000, Al Gore got 43.2 percent of the North Carolina vote. In 2004, John Kerry, trying to improve upon Gore’s total there, ran with North Carolina Sen. John Edwards but received 43.6 percent. If, however, Brown were to help deliver Ohio for Clinton, the Republican path to 270 electoral votes would be narrower than a needle’s eye. [SNIP]
Trump would be the most unpopular nominee ever, unable to even come close to Mitt Romney’s insufficient support among women, minorities and young people. In losing disastrously, Trump probably would create down-ballot carnage sufficient to end even Republican control of the House. Ticket splitting is becoming rare in polarized America: In 2012, only 5.7 percent of voters supported a presidential candidate and a congressional candidate of opposite parties.
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Your post reminds me of the PATCO (air traffic controllers) strike. They were subject to federal authority.
Reagan told them to back to work or be fired. All the political writers and the GOP, Dems said, “You can’t fire them!
Perhaps emboldened by what passed for Uniparty support then, they refused to end the strike.
Reagan fired them. Jaws dropped. A week or so later, people understood he meant business and gave him the respect he demanded.
Go Trump. Win win win.
Poor George, he doesn't even get his base ball articles right anymore.
We’re certainly getting to see who all the goofballs are, aren’t we?
To be honest, I still find him to be well-educated and erudite. Wonderful writing style.
But the scales have fallen from my eyes in terms of the content of his writing and his disdain for working-class Americans. He has NO UNDERSTANDING of life outside the hallowed halls he has paced his entire life.
Gawd what a pathetic piece of sh*t for a human being.
Hey George, I was going to add my two cents but it seems that the previous 91 FReepers have already done a DAMN good job. Way to go FReepers.
I guess it will take a while to fumigate, de-bug (security), replace all the letter "T" on computers, replace the paintings and restore the Winston Churchill bust to the oval office.
I expect Trump to reside at 1100 Pennsylvania Ave while all the re decorating goes on.
George Will writes a Trump loss would end GOP control of the House.
Why didn’t it happen when Mittens lost?
After all the twit wrote voters don’t split tickets in a polarized America.
In 2012, the same voters who re-elected Obama also re-elected a Republican House.
DUH
More hog excrement from King George:
“Both sensibilities have their uses, but this is a time for prudence, which demands the prevention of a Trump presidency.
Were he to be nominated, conservatives would have two tasks. One would be to help him lose 50 states — condign punishment for his comprehensive disdain for conservative essentials, including the manners and grace that should lubricate the nation’s civic life. Second, conservatives can try to save from the anti-Trump undertow as many senators, representatives, governors and state legislators as possible.”
I know we are not supposed to use profanity, but do you think Jim would mind if I called George Will a pompous A$$hole without the dollar signs?
Wouldn't be prudent.... ugh.
“The GOPe is in full panic mode”
Desperate people do desperate things. I am praying for protection over Donald and his family. Believe me what happen at Costa Mesa and today in Burlingame is nothing. Wait until the convention.
“Donald Trump’s damage to the Republican Party”
The first part of the opening sentence is hilarious. As if the party hasn’t been in crisis for several years. Trump may be a symptom of the mess, but he is certainly not the cause.
George Will practices saying “Hrumpf!”
That bowtie must have been tied to tight.
FYI, the NYT Xword puzzle, and the Chi Trib puzzle as well, seem to include A$$, regularly in the required puzzle answers. I’m shocked every time 1/2 :-)
These weak-kneed sissy party pukes make me sick.
Wonder if Geo. Will has ever seen a laser scanner operate? Har!
The congress already passed the law to build the wall and fund it. Quite a bit of it is already built, and it has been successful where it is. Obama stopped construction. I don’t have any doubt that Trump or Cruz would start it up again.
The problem though is that cow is already out of the barn. I live in Texas. When my son was born, the nurse took me to the incubators and said let me show you which is yours. I said, I think I got it. Out of the 15 babies in the room, mine was the only non-Hispanic.
Let me offer an anecdote. I work in a two man office. There’s just my self and my secretary, a Mexican-American woman, born in the USA who happens to be the same age as I am.
I got married late, and my wife and I had a son who is now in college. My secretary comes from a very large family. She was the 12th of 13 children. She got married, and had three kids. Her kids now have four kids. Five years from now she may have 10 grandkids.
So my wife and I have grown from two people to three over the last 50 years. My secretary and her husband has grown from two to 11, and it is likely the next four kids born will be born to her family rather than mine as my son is likely to finish college and work a few years before he gets married. I would even say it’s likely that her grandkids may have five kids before my son has one.
Anyway, the demographic bomb has already gone off.
In the 80’s I was always a delegate to the state convention. I had a falling out over the party’s refusal to nominate Mexican-American candidates on the state slate. (Bush paid attention to this. No one else did). We are lucky enough to have every statewide spot filled by a Republican right now. But get a load of this. In a state where a majority of public school children are Mexican-American, this is our current officeholders.
Governor — Greg Abbott
Lieutenant Gov Dan Patrick
Attorney General - Ken Paxton
Comptroller - Glenn Heger
General L:and Commissioner - George P Bush
Secretary of Agriculture Sid Miller
Railroad Commission - David Porter
Railroad Commission - Christi Craddick
Railroad Commission - Ryan Sitton
The Railroad Commission is important to Texas because it is in charge of oil industry regulations. Don’t ask me why.
Maybe the party deserves to die. They certainly have been brain dead to ignore the ballooning Hispanic population which if ignored will extinct them.
One more note. My secretary of course has a huge family with ten living siblings and dozens of aunts, cousins, nieces, etc. They all keep track of each other on facebook. I would guess the family has between 50 and 100 voters on that site. It is an anti-Trump, Trump is the Devil never ending list of insults forum. Every cartoon, insult, caricature against Trump is posted again and again. There’s not a day goes by that there aren’t three insults against Trump. This is a middle class family and my guess is they vote about 50 - 50, but if anyone supports Trump[ on this family thread, they won’t speak up.
Can Trump reach these people? If he can’t he won’t win, and may lose horribly. Dopes he have the organizational skills to even try? He hasn’t demonstrated it yet.
George Will needs to stick his face in some Cheetos and say, “I’m putting on the red hat and making myself look like The Donald.” Glenn Beck has taken the Cheetos and George Will too.
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