It’s amazing how so many Freepers don’t understand that “making deals” is EXACTLY the same thing as McCain’s “reaching across the aisle.”
Agreed. “Makinf deals” reminds me of Gingrich sharing a bench with Pelosi to do a PSA.
Precisely what Donald John intends to do...reach across the isle. When America objects, he’ll throw one of his hissy fits and tell them, “I’m President! I’ll do whatever the hell I want. You’re a bunch of Losers!”
Bump. I used, three or four weeks ago, to have a certain comfort factor with Trump as a viable second choice, based on his anti-GOP-E rhetoric.
Now I think he may be more like Dick Nixon, who in 1969 energized conservative Republicans still smarting from Barry's massive defeat at the hands of the GOP-E and LBJ acting in concert, won the White House by defeating liberal Dem Hubert Humphrey (with the help of sectional candidate George C. Wallace, who carried the South) -- and then dumped the conservatives completely, fobbing off some of his young conservative activists like Kevin Phillips and Ralph Whalen with smalltime appointments, of the kind Anne Gorsuch later on famously called a "nothingburger".
(Nixon did the same thing with George H.W. Bush, saying that Bush was the kind of guy who was a nuisance, always around and always enjoying "access" because of all the people he knew, so that the way you got rid of him was to appoint him to something.)
Whalen got it after a few months and left after six months, then went out and told everybody by writing a book, Catch the Falling Flag.
The point of mentioning this history of Nixonian politics is that I think it foreshadows what we could expect from a Trump nomination and victory.