Ronda ? Eww.
Posted on 12/11/2015 5:47:14 PM PST by Kaslin
I have a history with Donald Trump. Having rescinded an invitation from him to a gathering in August after his comments on Megyn Kelly, I watched as Trump supporters descended on social media, my radio program, my phone number, and my mailbox to express their outrage. It was weeks before my children could check the mailbox again. I still get random and assorted hate mail over the incident.
Despite that history, when this election season is concluded, Republicans are most likely going to owe Donald Trump thanks. This season of Trump has fleshed out and forced out some rules of politics that only applied because they had never really been tested. Like Howard Dean in 2004 proving that the person with the most money does not really always win, Donald Trump is proving that the Republicans with the most veteran Republican political consultants do not always win.
In fact, at this writing, Jeb Bush hovers around three percent in the polling and has gone from multi-thousand dollar fundraising dinners to just trying to fill rooms with people. Had Trump not entered the race, Bush would have faced a traditional field and probably been much more competitive. That different, traditional field tends to line donors up with establishment picks. People forget that the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan has only nominated one person since 1980 who backed Ronald Reagan in the 1980 primary cycle. That was John McCain.
George H. W. Bush, Bob Dole, George W. Bush and Mitt Romney all opposed Reagan in 1980. The party the media decries as a bastion of the far right has rarely nominated a candidate for president explicitly of the right. What is more, the political consultant class within the Republican Party has come from those moderate candidates who most often lose. From team Dole to team McCain to team Romney, their consultants have stayed within the upper ranks of elite Republican consultants and continue losing. They are now losing to Donald Trump.
Trump's presence is forcing the Republican Party to finally come to grips with three things. First, its consultant class is fat, comfortable, and commissioned. If a Republican wins, the consultants make millions. If a Republican loses, the consultants make millions. Many a beach houses have been bought by Republican consultants who have never had a major candidate win. The consultants get commissions for their mail, their advertising, their marked-up phone surveys and so much more. With the threat of Donald Trump rising, these consultants are risking their reputations, careers and livelihoods as the men and women who could not stop Donald Trump. Picking apart the carcass of the Bush campaign to make their beach house payment will not go over well if they do not stop Trump.
Second, Republican donors are finally being forced to choose between the lesser of two evils that they always try to force on conservatives, or be exposed as rank opportunists. In both 2008 and 2012, the base of Republican voters was told they must kneel before McCain or Romney and suck it up. Both times, the donor class candidate lost. Now the donor class candidates are losing to Trump, and the alternative to Trump, Ted Cruz, is a man the donors loathe. So either they will force themselves to unite with someone they do not care for, or expose themselves as the ones who really do take their football home when they do not get their way.
Third, Republican politicians are finally being held accountable. Trump would not exist as a candidate but for feckless Republican leadership in the face of an aggressive agenda from President Obama. Even now, Republican leaders are hoping Marco Rubio will unite the establishment while Ted Cruz is left in the shadow of Trump. Many Republicans have decided not to attack Trump because they think his continued presence hurts Ted Cruz. But they will very soon find themselves having to decide if they can continue that risk. Every day exposes them as being more interested in power than principle.
Republicans will owe Donald Trump thanks. He has finally forced the GOP to come to terms with its identity and its accumulated, unseparated chaff.
I did say in my last paragraph of #38 that Cruz is my candidate. God bless!
I see whut you did there.
You know,I was hoping to never see that thread title ever again.
I would rather see a full frontal nude of Helen Thomas (sp),then see that damn thread of Bush pictures.
I really appreciate you tipping me off on that.
I was sleepy but still wanted to point out the Bush-bot attacking you, before I went to sleep.
The crazy characters coming up here and trying to correct them drew my attention away from the link, which in ordinary circumstances I would have caught right away.
I hit abuse right away.
Thanks again.
I thought you were gonna ride the white lightning for that post. I got suspended for a month just for posting a link to a dude dragging his butt across the floor like a dog. At least your link will live on in my history box... for the next two weeks.
And, yes, I’m familiar with the Bushbots. We should all take the time to appreciate their contributions of them and their fearless leader. How he failed to rein in the size of government, how he failed to secure our borders and left my neighborhood to turn into a crime-infested barrio somewhere in Old Mejico despite being 1,100 miles from the border at Laredo. And lastly that he left such a strong Conservative legacy that two Democrat agents (McQueeg and Willard) followed in his steps, gracefully losing to the worst Communist-Mohammadan dictator ever.
Thanks Dubya ! Do I miss you, yet ? No bleeping way !
Me too
It could of if not been for both of our catches, yours and then mine that seeing your reply before my bed time.
I really thank you for that catch.
I reacted fast seeing your comment and got it deleted as soon as I could.
impy and nfhale and me have a bond, we met in ~ 2009 wars against war against Bushbots here ,
We survived all these years together as FRiends regardless of our differences on minor back and forth.
Thanks again. Feel free to send me FRmail on anything you want to discuss as FRiends,
RE “...We survived all these years together as FRiends regardless of our differences on minor back and forth...”
Way I see it - If you can’t peaceably disagree occasionally and “agree to disagree” without it turning into a verbal UFC Cage Match, then it isn’t really friendship, correct?
I think a lot of folks just get too emotionally wrapped up in these things. We all see the direction the country is going, we all care about it, but so much of it is beyond our control.
We each have a small sphere of influence - and responsibility - and we should concentrate on that, and do what we can with it.
I won’t ever get into p*ssing matches over any of these politicians. I know who I’ll support, and leave it at that. I’m pretty sure God will handle the rest.
What’s wrong with a Death Cage Match ? ;-D
If it’s Ronda, I’m in...
Ronda ? Eww.
George H.W. Bush ran against Ronald Reagan in the 1980 primaries, but after the primaries when Ronald Reagan won the nomination Ronald Reagan chose him as his running mate.
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Saying Reagan chose Bush is a bit generous.
I think it was more like shoved down his throat by the GOPE.
Remember McCain took a ‘break from campaigning’... so did Romney. Wonder what that was all about?
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It is looking more and more like they wanted Obama to win so they could pass whatever he wanted and pretend to be against it.
This Omnibus bill proves they are not weak. They are complicit.
“Cruz’s past confirms Cruz’s promises — I am willing to vote for him because I believe in reality.”
TDS in full force. Trump’s deceiving us about everything, but a career politician and lawyer is the personification of truth. Yeah, I’ll buy that.
“TDS in full force. Trump’s deceiving us about everything, but a career politician and lawyer is the personification of truth. Yeah, I’ll buy that.”
Government lawyer/politician...that’s the only job Ted has ever had. Reminds me of Senate first term Community organizer/lawyer Obama, no executive experience, absent from his job to run for higher office on the taxpayer $$.
Listen up, now...
Klingon women are rumored to be pretty wild...
I do like a strong, square jaw on a woman, don’t get me wrong (I’m not a fan of the “oval” shaped head like Lisa Kudrow or a weird head with pointy chin like Reese Witherspoon), but I don’t care for protruding boney craniums with receding hairlines. :-P
“...don’t care for protruding boney craniums...”
Gasp!! You...you...you... CRANIALIST ....!!!!
You DO realize you just offended several million Klingon and Romulan “Undocumented Aliens”, right???
RE “...weird head ...”
Well....There was this groupie chick in Hoboken years ago see, and... never mind... some things are best left in the past...
Meh. Left out the women with the Cro-Magnon forehead, like Jennifer Garner. That’s not a good look, either. Of course, you’d think someone with a big head would have a big brain, and yet she married Ben Afflack. So much for that theory.
He speaks of Ronda Rousey, DJ, FORMER UFC Wimmin’s Champ. She endorsed Bernie for President, then got knocked the f out! There’s a lesson there.
Re: The Klingon Chicks, WB B’Etor, Lursa is a dog.
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