Posted on 02/13/2016 12:50:30 PM PST by TBBT
Few professional analysts seriously expected six months ago that Donald Trump could win the Republican nomination. But after Tuesday night, it is a clear possibility.
How much of a possibility? To get that answer right, it is important to understand some things about the Trump phenomenon.
Perhaps most important, Trump's campaign is not a Tea Party phenomenon. While there's been a tendency to try to lump Trump in with various G.O.P. insurgencies of the last few years, that role is best filled by Sen. Ted Cruz, who really occupies the "Tea Party lane" of the G.O.P. primary more cleanly.
Instead, Trump is a part of a much older insurgency within the G.O.P., dating back to the 1992 Pat Buchanan campaign and even to some internal debates within the Nixon administration. Candidates in this vein, such as Gov. Mike Huckabee and Sen. Rick Santorum, have argued from varying angles that the economic libertarianism of the G.O.P. is a tough sell, and should be pulled more toward an economic populism that allows for increased redistribution and for helping the "little guy" who has been left behind in the era of globalization. It is because of this confusion that so many of the early attacks on Trump - from questioning his conservative bona fides to making fun of the way he talked - fell flat. Trump's voters simply didn't care about these things.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
After SC, the Cruzty theme song.
“Trump’s Ceiling of Support May Be Limited”
Didn’t they ‘report’ this six months ago.
Hey, sweetie.
He’s peaked. Highest negatives. Can’t beat Hillary.
LOL...Whatever...
From “he can’t win” to “maybe he can”.
Nobody is allowed to sing that except Don Meredith or another Texan.
I’m not Don, but I am a Texan and the party ain’t over until the Fat Lady sings.
She’s not even practicing yet.
Elections are not won by convincing the majority of Americans. They are won by motivating enough voters to vote for you, or by getting enough vote-counters to cheat for you. IIRC, Bill Clinton won in 1992 by getting 18% of registered voters motivated enough to vote for him. If all of the people who show up, or would show up, at Trump rallies actually vote for him in November, he would be a shoo-in.
FD: I’m a Cruz man.
Oh, he can definitely win the nomination.
That’s when it gets scary.
Don’t ya just love it when the enemy has a surprise coming.
Obama's and the GOPe Machtergreifung is relentless these days. I wonder why they bother?
Are there that many clueless voters in the US these days?
I bet the others running on both sides wish their ceiling was as “limited” as Trump’s.
Super-domes have really YUGE ceilings.
Sure it is. We just don’t know how high as of yet.
“Sen. Ted Cruz, who really occupies the “Tea Party lane” of the G.O.P. primary more cleanly. “
WHICH ‘TEA Party”
The first thing you all better face is that the ‘tea party’ label has been hijacked by open border/free traitor lobbyists...YES, I mean Tea Party Express and Tea Party patriots, who recently endorsed Cruz. Local grass roots tea parties want nothing to do with these scammers! Wise up!
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2016/02/pay-attention-people-you-are-being.html
Has anyone kept track of how many names this troll a*****e has used so far?
There seems to be a large number of clueless voters...I see them here often.
But the GOPe is not Trump’s enemy. They much prefer him to Ted Cruz.
Ted is just so dang stubborn.
They prefer someone who can be ‘worked with’ or reasoned with or bought.
America is in serious trouble. Only someone dramatically different can fix it. But he cannot do it without an overwhelmingly patriotic Congress. Getting the right person in the WH is the first job followed by filling Congress with the right people.
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