Ha!
Posted on 01/20/2016 12:29:24 PM PST by ghost of stonewall jackson
Worse is the prospect that one of them might somehow win. Very few presidents are so terrible that they genuinely endanger their own nation, but Trump and Cruz would go there and beyond. Trump is a solipsistic branding genius whose "policies" have no contact with Planet Earth and who would be incapable of organizing a coalition, domestic or foreign.
Cruz would be as universally off-putting as he has been in all his workplaces. He's always been good at tearing things down but incompetent when it comes to putting things together.
So maybe it's time for Establishment Republicans to actually do something. Yes, I'm talking to you state legislators, or local committeepersons, or members of Congress and all your networks of donors and supporters. If MoveOn can organize, if the Tea Party can organize, if Justin Bieber can build a gigantic social media movement, why are you incapable of any collective action at all?
The Republican Party is not as antigovernment as its elites think it is. Its members no longer fit into the same old ideological categories. Trump grabbed his lead with an ideological grab bag of gestures, some of them quite on the left. He is more Huey Long than Calvin Coolidge.
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Brooks is a gasbag.
The New York Times: dispensing good advice to conservatives since NEVER.
This guy is FOS!
Ha!
Just vote for Sanders , Brooks, to go along with your votes for Obama.
Very few presidents are so terrible that they genuinely endanger their own nation, but Trump and Cruz would go there and beyond.
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Total Bull Obama. Has Brooks been living under a rock for the last eight years?
The very fact we still have a country is a miracle - no thanks to Obama.
Another in a long line of foaming at the mouth personal attack pieces without a shred of evidence to back up the accusations. Just keep screaming the accusations hopping against hope that today’s screed will accomplish what yesterday’s failed to do.
Odd how the “Conservative†media sounds JUST like their Leftist counterparts these days. Full of bile and hysterics, void of any articulate, rational points.
Liberals’ favorite “conservative”
No Brooks is the guy who wrote how sharply dressed, and articulate, Obama was when he met him in 2008.
Brooks got a woody over 0 in 2008 and hasn’t lost it since. His brain died of oxygen deprivation years ago.
I am no fan of Donald Trump, but I know exactly why so many people support him. The big-government globalists in the GOP who keep you on their payroll to write this crap have lost the support of the grassroots voters.
““I remember distinctly an image of—we were sitting on [Senator Obama’s] couches, and I was looking at his pant leg and his perfectly creased pant,” Brooks says, “and I’m thinking, a) he’s going to be president and b) he’ll be a very good president.” In the fall of 2006, two days after Obama’s The Audacity of Hope hit bookstores, Brooks published a glowing Times column. The headline was “Run, Barack, Run.”
Watching the Liberal meltdown has been a joy so far this election year.
“Cruz would be as universally off-putting as he has been in all his workplaces.”
Hey. That’s what Trump says too.
Brooks and Trump agree about Ted Cruz.
However, the truth is that Cruz could line the boulevards leading to the inauguration with crucified environmental activists and Trump could extend the Mexican wall to Berkeley and still neither man would cause a fraction of the damage to the country that 0bama and his clown car of socialist activists has.
Yeah like some GOP state legislator from Idaho and the Republican Mayor of a small town in Alabama are gonna stop the Trump Express.
Oh well, you people shouldn’t have flooded Americans neighborhoods with foreigners. Now it’s going to cost you!
Translation: GOP Elites must force people to accept the mark of beast 666.
Brooks is correct about one thing...that the GOPe would love to have just one RINO candidate right now! Currently, if Trump has ~35% (34.8% RCP Ave.) and has ~20% (18.8% RCP), then if one RINO GOPe candidate were to remain, it’s possible that RINO might have close to 45%...probably less as some voters would peel off to both Trump and Cruz. Nonetheless, there is a chance after the field clears in a couple of weeks that a GOPe candidate could emerge with polling results close to that of the Donald.
The lesser players (Santorum, Paul, Fiorina, Huckabee) will certainly be dropping out after IA/NH. Carson and Paul will soon follow! Depending on performances in IA/NH, three of the remaining four RINO candidates (Rubio, Kasich, Christie, Jebra) could be given their marching orders by the GOPe and one finalist could emerge...take your pick! Personally, I would bet on Rubio.
So, by mid-February we might see Trump at ~40% +/- nationally, Rubio at 35%, Cruz at 25%....all will be well funded and viable heading into the bigger stakes primaries.
What happens then is anyone’s guess, but there would be no lock for anyone...slugfest to continue! GOPe vying for nobody getting over 50% of delegates...
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