Posted on 02/10/2016 9:14:12 AM PST by NRx
It's hard to imagine the New Hampshire primary going any worse for establishment Republicans.
Desperate to find a candidate to coalesce around in hopes of stopping the populist insurrection of Donald Trump and the conservative uprising championed by Ted Cruz, the establishment instead got the opposite: a three-way split decision between John Kasich, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio that ensures an extended, nasty and expensive fight simply to emerge as the third guy in the top tier.
The goal for most unaligned establishment Republicans heading into the eight-day gap between Iowa's caucuses and New Hampshire's primary was that Rubio emerge as the clear-cut favorite for their wing of the party with a second place finish -- behind only Donald Trump — in the Granite State. Rubio seemed on his way to doing just that until Saturday night's debate when he just kept repeating the same line about President Obama knowing exactly what he is doing.
That brain glitch, which was seized on and exploited by Chris Christie, stopped Rubio's momentum — a fact he acknowledged in the wake of his disappointing fifth place finish on Tuesday.
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Chris is testing out a template for the rest of the campaign season. His next headline wlll be “How South Carolina Turned into a Nightmare for the Republican Establishment?”, and so on.
Thanks for the detailed information. Cruz has the most consistently conservative record. Unfortunately, a number of voters have concluded that conservative values does NOT include threatening people (VOTER VIOLATION shaming, scaring letter), or sending out lying information (dozens or more letters giving 55% as one’s voting record).
2000: Clinton turned his political appointees into Civil Servants, unprecedented. Now they have permanent status and Union rights. Bush was intimidated into letting it stand. New GOP pres. has to whack the bureaucracy hard and not wilt before the inevitable rat & media outrage.
Actually no, you shouldn’t be happy. The three establishment candidates will now follow Trump’s lead attacking each other and the outside candidates with Democrat talking points, essentially writing the Democrat press releases and commercials for them come the general election. But please, enjoy the three ring Trump circus you have brought us.
“We need Trump and Cruz to continue as 1 and 2 or 2 and 1 throughout the South. If they go into the convention with 60%+ of the delegates, we win. Those two guys will figure out how to combine. Indeed, that may be the plan even today.”
The GOPe plan is to give Senor Jebbie the nomination in a brokered convention.
I like your tag name “Uncle Miltie”. Isn’t that what Milton Berle was called. He was one of the funniest!
I will. And you enjoy the last 26 years of debauchery and decline your mindless worship of the GOP Political Establishment has brought the USA.
Thankful many of us are smart enough to realize we can no longer live with you on the Mindless Political Bot Plantation.
Cruz appeals to evangelicals. I can see him winning a few southern states.”
He appeals to more than just evangelicals, Sonny. But thank you for your always keen insight.
Cruz leads Hillary only in the Fox News poll. In three others, the outcome is mixed:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_cruz_vs_clinton-4034.html
I imagine Cruz will do well among conservatives, as well.
That could add a few more Southern states.
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As a matter of fact Cruz is the biggest threat to stopping Hillary, he has no chance to win the general, but could win the nomination.
Pssssssssssssstttttttt!!!!!!!!
Head-to-head, Cruz leads Hillary by 7 pts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZKuzwPOefs
Had they displayed some intelligence and willingness to listen to the Main Street rank and file, had they shown some inventiveness and verve in fighting Obama and his E.O.'s, they might have been worth keeping around a while.
Fail.
The Klintonx </FReeperspeak> worked very hard in the 90's to politicize the Civil Service, setting up "change agent" rings to "improve" the Civil Service (get rid of the white guys who'd pulled the load since President Arthur's administration in an apolitical way) and reorient (corrupt) the C.S. to the Clintons' corrupt and politicized way of doing business.
Exhibit A: James Hansen. Exhibit B: Joe Wilson and wife Valerie Plame.
That all said, I didn't know the Clintons had put numbers of their partisans into the Civil Service by appointment.
The next GOP President needs to do a RIF in all agencies to make these people go away. Cruz's idea of abolishing the Departments of Education and Energy would RIF almost 100% partisan 'Rats.
LOL -- quit crayfishing, will you? ;)
Hey, is there room in that lifeboat for Brooksie and Jennifer Rubin?
Politicizing the Civil Service was a major Clinton project on which the Evil Duo enjoyed complete press immunity. I wrote a letter about it to Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas) and got a clueless response from "somebody" on staff, signed with the senator's autopen, who had interpolated into my letter a desire for employment by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which was ridiculous. I had pointed to the NOAA website where the actual politicization process was outlined by the Administration itself ("change agents", all Hispanic or black, leading critiques of the "too pale, too male, too stale" </off Hillary> existing Civil Service workforce; secret treehouse membership lists in consciousness-raising Clintonista client groups within agencies, etc.).
A good start on ridding the Civil Service of these people would be to RIF both the Departments of Energy and Education, which are doubtless >100% 'Rat in their personnel and orientation, as per Ted Cruz's suggestion.
Refusing to touch the damage done by the Clintons was doubtless Karl Rove's idea; he is supposedly the arguer-in-chief against any Clinton indictment or investigation. He told the Bush people that it would be destructive of the Bush agenda (reducing the military for another "peace dividend" appears to have been the main pre-9/11 agenda) to let Slick back into the spotlight, since Clinton would then suck all the air out of the room, especially with help from his MSM cohorts.
At least people still see the incongruity of a conservative politician's behaving like a Clinton.
If Beastwoman had done what Ted's accused of, it wouldn't have caused a ripple. Maybe worth a footnote in a Cilizza article or a note-in-passing (period) on "Morning Joe".
Wrong. Enforce the laws and encourage the hell out of self-deportation, and you start to let the swamp gas out of the demographic 'Rat balloon, while age and experience slap the stars out of the Millennials' eyes and begin their education as 40-something young conservatives.
Nowadays young people think and sound like Alec Baldwin. In 15 years they'll sound like Mel Gibson on a drunk.
Let citizens work out the social issues, politicians should stay focused on the above [jobs].
Yeah, let's stay focused on budget fights and tax breaks and debt-ceiling issues behind the vanguard leadership of Yurtle the Turtle and John Boehner -- wups, Boehner's gone. Wonder why? Because it still isn't the Tea Party's turn yet, let's stay focused on Chamber of Commerce agenda. Let's help Paul Ryan! The RiNO's were right!
Yeah, sure they were. How's that been working out for us?
Tell me, how do you inspire people to follow a party that operates like Boehner did, that never addresses the social issues but concedes them all to the 'Rats? Who told you that social issues were a loser for the GOP? Why do you want to give all those issues away so you can concentrate on getting tax breaks? Because these demographic issues are "ball game" issues. And you want to throw in the towel on today's game, just leave the field, and then start playing tomorrow's ball game with seven players?
Just to clarify my point. I should have said, “Unfortunately for Cruz,”
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