Tuesday, August 18, 2015 1:29:17 AM · by 2ndDivisionVet · 48 replies
The Daily Beast ^ | August 18, 2015 | Kristen Soltis Anderson, Republican Pollster
This wasn't supposed to happen. It was supposed to be Jeb vs Hillary!
Posted on 08/18/2015 12:05:17 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A Fox News poll released on August 16th, showed Donald Trump continuing to enjoy a dominant lead in the Republican race for the 2016 presidential nomination. Trump polled at 25 percent in the 17 candidate field, well ahead of retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson who was in second place with 12 percent support. Ted Cruz was in third place at 10 percent, with no other candidate in double digits.
Trump’s commanding lead is no longer surprising, given that he has been comfortably ahead in several recent national surveys, released from multiple different polling firms. What makes the Fox News poll so frightening for GOP strategists, however, is that Trump’s nearest competitors are not establishment favorites like Jeb Bush, Scott Walker and Marco Rubio. Instead, if Trump falters, Ben Carson or Ted Cruz appear to be next in line to ascend to the top of the GOP pack.
Pundits have long argued that Donald Trump will eventually fade as voters take a more sober look at the Republican options and cease their reckless flirtations with candidates on the fringe. However, that “conventional wisdom” is predicated on the notion that Republican voters both want to win in 2016, and that they recognize that choosing a more moderate candidate is their path to victory.
However, the Fox News survey suggests that GOP voters are disinterested in choosing one of the Republican establishment candidates with extensive experience governing. In fact, given their preference for political outsiders like Trump and Carson, Republican voters may even see elected experience as a liability. “If you’re part of the government, you’re part of the problem”, they reason. The notable exception to that adage is Texas Senator Ted Cruz, whose main accomplishment as senator has been as an obstructionist who keeps the U.S. Senate from getting things done.
Republican party leaders have spent the better part of the last two decades stirring up their base with anti-government rhetoric. That strategy has helped them win victories over Democrats, but not without consequences for establishment GOP politicians, who are now facing the wrath of the anti-government voters they helped cultivate. With GOP voters looking at Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Ted Cruz as their potential saviors, its pretty clear that the angry mobs are not just upset with Barack Obama.
They have grabbed their pitchforks and torches to go after the Republican establishment as well. Jeb Bush and Scott Walker may not have noticed yet, but Republican voters aren’t looking for somebody with executive experience as governor. Instead, they are looking for a candidate with little or no experience, because they have been conditioned to virtually reject the idea of governing at all.
It’s the people who are putting them in that position. What’s so hard to understand?
This wasn't supposed to happen. It was supposed to be Jeb vs Hillary!
Hahh, exactly.
The Lunatics have taken over the United States! The entire world is in danger. America must be saved. They cannot be allowed to retain power. The situation is extremely desperate and dangerous!
-— Ted Cruz, whose main accomplishment as senator has been as an obstructionist who keeps the U.S. Senate from getting things done. -—
When Obama is trying to push the country off a cliff, obstruction is a good thing.
You know what I always say.
When you are in a hole, put down the shovel, pick up the pitchfork and torch, go find the bad guys, pitchfork'em to death, throw them in the hole, burn'em up and then pick up the shovel and then shut up.
SSS=Pitchfork, shovel, shut up.
Oh, us crazy pitchfork carriers...
Lunatic is living as if all is well and everything is moving swimmingly along... Lunatic shrugs its shoulders at evil and curses the good...
I don’t give a hoot about what people have to say
I’m laughin’ as I’m analyzed
Lunatics Anonymous, that’s where I belong
Sure ‘cause I am one, ‘til my strength is gone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxkjvKBPQjo
“And don’t you forget it knothead..
If you had any idea what I want to happen your head would spin off like a top..
And I am not alone.. I want to see heads roll.. pensions cancelled.. Unions SQUASHED.. illegrants shipped by train to the Rio.. AND thats not all..
If this guy knew the angst he is talking about it would scare the bejesus out of him..
Actually a big part of America would start sucking their teeth..
OBAMA opened the flood gates.. of DE-DEMOCRACY...
The democrats have stepped in “IT” its on their hands..
I am not amused.. its not cute or cuddly..
A hard rain is gonna fall.. OR I WON’T BE HAPPY(politically)....”
Most excellent! More please!
I would love to see the Perinos and Roves “unite” behind Trump.
Pray America is waking
From a “progressive’s” point-of-view, everyone not a “progressive” is a lunatic. PURE PROJECTION!
While Hillary, Gore, Biden and Bernie sit and chuckle at the whole debacle.
The 'leaders' did NOT get the message then; so I doubt they would now.
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Proud to be a Lunatic.
The lunatics are on the (White House) grass.
How about this idiotic statement, “Republican voters aren’t looking for somebody with executive experience as governor.”
That is ridiculous, do they think Trump has zero executive experience? What they mean is Republican voters are not looking for someone with POLITICAL experience necessarily. Besides that their wonder boy who is in office now had no executive experience of any kind that was worth mentioning when he was installed in the white house.
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