Worth reposting as an example of what to do the polar opposite of. For anyone, Trump or Cruz Fan alike
““What you need to be doing is finding out who your county GOP chair is, who the establishment activists are, and you need to cordially and politely be warming up to them. Then, you need to be in the meetings, the social events and gatherings helping them all understand why Trump could work for America.””
It is little wonder this writer/political activist worked for a losing campaign because he suggests nothing less than asking your torturer for more voltage and a baseball bat to the knee.
A guy like trump does not have to play by GOP rules. He has more F-You money than the entirety of the GOP combined. The GOP at the local level is as corrupt as the GOP at the national level. How does any thinking individual suppose there can BE a corrupt national GOP without a corrupt structure underneath supporting it?
What is Eric going to do? Go hat in hand to tell a bunch of people whose job it is to keep people not “of the body” (see Landru/Star Trek) out, that they need to simply look at the situation and put themselves out of job for the good of the opposition?
Sometimes I think people are really that stupid. Other times I think they are paid plants. Either way you do not ‘rationalize’ or ‘work with’ your enemy like Barry and the Mitch/Jonbon idiocy. You subvert and destroy it. Utterly.
Trump has 10 Billion reasons he can do that if he chooses to. Whether that ends in a good thing for America is an entirely different argument.
I agree with you about trying to influence the Party, at least around my neck of the woods. However, there are locales where the gop-e is not as strong and where committee people can be nudged off of Carson or Jindal or Fiorina or even Rubio with the better arguments. If they’re not going Bush/Kasich/Christy, then there is no other alternative than a conservative.
“A guy like trump does not have to play by GOP rules. He has more F-You money than the entirety of the GOP combined.”
I had a boss who was a multi-millionaire. One Monday, I told him, “I just flew back from Palm Beach. You should’ve seen the yachts parked out in the marinas there. They looked like scary sleek white Star Destroyers from Star Wars.”
He just smiled at me and said, “I know you think I’m rich, but there’s rich and then there are those guys down in Palm Beach who are ‘F-You rich’. They want to insult you with how rich they are.”
I’m more than certain that one of those yachts belonged to Trump.
But if Trump can invest some of his billions into sticking it to the gop-e, all I can say is, “All hail the F-you rich!”