Posted on 09/06/2015 9:08:45 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
A few people have asked me to elaborate on the thought I tried hurriedly to express at the end of the This Week roundtable. Here it is: Republicans have a problem, while Democrats have a crisis. Clinton, Hillary
Republicans have had an exciting summer fling with Donald Trump, and are about to embark on a fall romance with Ben Carson. It will be little delicate to unwind those relationships. But it will happen, I believe—probably sooner rather than later (I'd bet against either Trump or Carson winning a primary).
When it comes down to selecting a nominee, the GOP finalists are likely to come from a group encompassing Carly Fiorina, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, John Kasich, Scott Walker, Chris Christie, and Jeb Bush. One is a former CEO of a major high-tech company; two are impressive young senators from big states (Texas and Florida); three are governors, and one a former governor, who won election and re-election in major states that Barack Obama carried. It's a reasonable field. All that has to happen to produce a good nominee is that one of the qualified candidates rises to the occasion.
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Kristol on ignore, along with his sponsors.
There Are None So Blind As Those Who Will Not See
Billy Crystal has more cred.
From later in the Article: "Who tells the Bride when the weddings off?"
She WHO WOULD BE QUEEN is NOT GOING TO BE HAPPY.
The first and most egregious mistake a real conservative can make is in mistaking anything Bill Kristol says, writes or does as anything remotely connected to conservatism.
He is from the same mold as Kraut, Wallace, Will et al.
Not worth thinking of them as anything but DC establishment apparatchiks.
Maybe Bill needs to drop the dry martini and crudities and hear from those of us who understand what is evolving before his closed mind and eyes.
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At least the Honeymoon won’t happen.
Does this fool really believe - other than Cruz or Carson (who is marginal, in my opinion) that we, the people want any of these RINOs he’s trying to force upon us? Where’s the barf alert. We’ve had governors who were presidents - and most were horrible - with the exception of RR, who also had some serious missteps with amnesty for one, and Senators haven’t faired better. This is a different era and these buffoons still have rocks in their collective heads.
I’m guessing that Bill will tell her. He’s got a lot of experience ducking thrown lamps.
Someone give me a pin to let some hot air out of Kristol’s stuffed shirt. Tired of having to put up with all these RINO “droppings”.
Watch out the two crime families will be out gunning for the donald
It depends on who’s FBI files Hillary is still holding.
“Republicans have had an exciting summer fling with Donald Trump, and are about to embark on a fall romance with Ben Carson.”
In your wild-ass dreams. Sorry Bill, but you don’t get to pick our candidate, not this time. We are picking the ONLY CANDIDATE who has promised to clear the country of Illegals, and Carson just came out for Amnesty.
It’s time you clowns get that through your THICK HEADS.
Kristol is flaky at best.
Bill Buckley is dead.
However, Kristol is totally clueless with what's going on on the Republican side. He needs to get out of the Beltway for a while. But he's so much the establishment insider that I don't think even that will help.
He seems to be comparing the current situation with what happened four years ago when we had our flings with Herman Cain and Michelle Bachmann. There is no comparison at all to that situation except even then, the Republican rank and file were desperately casting for alternatives to the establishment anointed one (in that case, Mitt Romney). However, neither Cain or Bachmann were able to sustain momentum more than a few weeks. And we will never know how Cain would have turned out had he not been run off by a sex scandal.
Donald Trump has been going strong all summer long, with overflowing crowds at rallies and dominating the news cycle in a way that is unprecedented this early in a presidential campaign. He has been leading all the establishment candidates in polls by at least a 3-1 margin all summer long. And he's accomplishing that despite another outsider leading most establishment candidates by a 2-1 margin (Carson). Cain and Bachmann never came close to that.
Add up the Trump/Carson polling numbers and we are talking close to a 10-1 polling lead over most establishment candidates.
So no Bill Kristol, voters are not going to "come to their senses" this fall and fall in line with the establishment candidates being served up to us by a GOP that has utterly failed us in every way since Ronald Reagan.
A populist conservative revolution is under way and right now, you are on the wrong side of it.
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