Posted on 01/10/2016 2:15:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Veteran GOP strategist Alex Castellanos, a self-confessed "card-carrying member" of the Republican establishment, has written an interesting take on the coming presidential primaries.
Snippets:
...our most likely matchup is Cruz v. Trump down the home stretch....
Today, Cruz has one-third of the GOP, Trump has a third, and the remaining establishment third is split between Rubio, Bush, and Christie. Even if the establishment lane comes together, it's still two against one. The GOP has become an outsider's party. Trump's legacy and that of the 2016 "outsiders" will be lasting. For the near future, the GOP will be a more Trump-like, populist party, not the evangelical party of Ted Cruz.
Whether it is an angry and dark populism that rails ineptly against Washington, or an optimistic and visionary populism that decentralizes our outdated top-down government, empowers people bottom-up, and opens up America's economy to the future all remains to be determined.
If Ted Cruz and not Donald Trump were to become the Republican nominee, there is increasing concern among the GOP Washington establishment, in which I confess card-carrying membership, that he would lead the GOP to ruin....
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
Stupid.
Opinions are like rectums...everybody has one.
20% is a third? Must be that new math where what's important is you feel good about your answer.
Keep talking:
Ted Cruz’s Surge is Real: Now Leads in California
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3380276/posts
Common Core.
Love him or hate him, Trump has controlled this campaign’s issues and attention from the date of his announcement to run. That goes for both parties.
He has led. Not just in polling.
Nick Gillespie is a tard. Nothing irritates me more than the siren song of libertarians who portray themselves as being above the partisan fray with their phony tone of moderation. Anne Coulter had it right when she did a town hall with John Stossel and his Ron Paul flunkies when she said with all that’s going on in the world what do you people ask me about? Legalizing pot.
Free Minds and Free Markets. Give me a major break. You can’t have free markets if you don’t have a country so Gillespie can take his immigrant love fest views and shove him where the sun don’t shine. Go vote for Johnson and pleasure yourself with your < 1% electoral returns.
“Veteran GOP strategist Alex Castellanos,...”
Translated: some guy that doesn’t have a real job and pimps for the establishment GOP.
In the 27 years of the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama era, what of worth and note has been produced from Washington DC? What is "inept" is this mindless adoration of the DC Media class for it's self.
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