Link to article: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-12-22/why-trump-and-cruz-aren-t-forbes-or-cain
Bloomberg is a gun grabber. He doesn't deserve any page hits.
Al Hunt actually wrote this?
This ‘outsider’ meme is duplicitous.
It hides the fact that it’s the *positions* of the establishment that are disapproved of.
Moderate voters are not just wanting ‘outsiders’, they want what they consider good policy.
For cheap labor purposes, Malcolm Steve Forbes is for amnesty for illegal immigrants. This is his biggest weakness, and why I was glad that he didn’t become POTUS.
There's always speculation about why it is that the conservative candidate loses the nomination.
People assume that there's some great conservative alternative in the field who was cruelly and unfairly crushed by Dole or McCain or Romney.
Facing up to the fact that the real existing conservative candidates weren't the kind of people who win presidential nominations or elections would be a step in the right direction.
Things are different this time. But the question's a valuable one: Why aren't Trump and Cruz Forbes and Cain (or Robertson and Keyes or Gramm and Dornan or Bauer and Buchanan or Santorum and Huckabee or Paul and Hunter)?