Posted on 08/01/2016 4:39:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
It will never blow over.
No matter what happens in November, things are not going back to the way they were.
If they try to force it back then the Party will melt away and a new Conservative party will take its place.
The new party should be called the Patriot Party.
Bernie Sanders should not have happened. He was (and more obviously so in retrospect) a foil placed to illuminate the "inevitable" candidate and when his campaign took off he was ill-equipped to deal with it and the party unwilling to help him. He did not come out of nowhere but his fans did.
Trump at least was more explicable at the outset from the ruling class perspective: a WWE-esque reality television star that would be a momentary passion of the unwashed more accustomed to Honey Boo Boo than to the intricacies of the Beltway Sport of Kings. Let the little people rave, the pros would soon be along to take the dangerous toys out of the kiddies' hands.
Yeb!'s campaign taking a nosedive into a rickety tumbrel full of poo should have been a warning. He too was "inevitable", a keeper of arcane insider spells necessary to keep this immense joke of a government tottering along. There are a lot of three thousand dollar suits and cushy slush funds and golden parachutes riding on the continuing willingness of the sheep to be fleeced for their betters. And it is here that the commentariat failed most signally: declaring that revolt was not an option is not the same as making it so.
Hence their current confusion. Schlichter gets it here, but nobody's listening. The ruling class packages a candidate A as a "conservative" who is not, a candidate B who is "liberal" but just as much a comfortable insider, frames the discussion, sets the terms, performs the customary media incantations and the magic just isn't happening. It's obviously somebody else's fault.
That the Republican Party sucked so much that it took frickin’ Donald Trump to make it viable again.
“Trump is also for trade protectionism which was the cornerstone of the Republican Party platform up to the time of the second WW.”
Trump understands these simple facts of life, and everyone else who condemns him for not being for free trade is just being ignorant (and, I believe, willfully so - they’re not that stupid, they just think that everyone else IS).
Odd no in school taught any of the vast down of free trade like de industrialization.
If all other admonitions fail, remember- ABC!
Anyone But Clinton!
“Odd no in school taught any of the vast down of free trade like de industrialization”
Nothing. I don’t get it.
You tell us. Maybe "traditional Republican candidate acceptable to conservatives" is a better way of putting it than "traditional conservative."
If you're saying they weren't all traditional Republican candidates or acceptable to conservatives, you could be right.
If you're saying that all of them weren't traditional Republican candidates acceptable to Republicans, that could be going too far.
Good article.
Your source please? Because this is what he wrote in 2008:
McCain for President
By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, October 24, 2008
Contrarian that I am, I’m voting for John McCain.
From http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/23/AR2008102302867.html
Yep
None of my family want to vote for him and we are conservative.One part of the family will vote against him because they think he will blow us up.
My point is that NONE of them are “traditional conservatives”. I take issue with the author’s suggestion that the recent run of Republican candidates come anywhere close to that standard.
Your description “traditional Republican candidate acceptable to conservatives” is almost there. I would say “marginally acceptable” instead. That would perfectly describe those candidates.
Implied in my comment is the obvious lack of electoral success experienced by the people I mentioned (Bush II barely made it in, and Bush I couldn’t make it on his own). I forgot to include Dole, he belongs there as well.
In this day and age, “traditional Republicans marginally acceptable to conservatives” aren’t likely to ever become president.
I had high hopes that Cruz was going to be the traditional conservative who is also electable, but he succeeded only in driving people away from him, in stark contrast to the Reagan phenomenon.
Trump is neither a traditional Republican nor is he a traditional conservative.
But he has other things going for him that put him far ahead of his Republican rivals, and hopefully will allow him to forever erase the Clinton/Obama stain on our country.
What else is he going to say publicly? He wanted to keep his Fox job. Sarah Palin was just too icky for him to support. Jerk.
I provided a source about Krauthammer, in his own words, voting for McCain in 2008. Since you didn’t provide a source, I can only surmise you don’t have one.
So you think his dislike of Palin (who was only going to be a mere vice president) was enough for him to vote for a man he despised to become president with all the power that entails and then to lie about it? That doesn’t even make sense.
Well said. If Trump could hammer at the horrible Hillary/Obama economy, and leave these side issues alone, I believe he could - will win!
Yes, just as I believe he’ll either go for Hillary or probably sit home. I don’t like him, I don’t trust him, and By Golly, I’m standing by my opinion!
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