Posted on 09/23/2015 7:06:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Summer is over. And Donald Trump is -- still -- at the top of the 2016 Republican primary field.
That makes lots and lots of Republicans with an eye on winning the White House in 2016 (or even 2020) very, very nervous. That unease -- and its origins -- are explained brilliantly in this paragraph, taken from a broader piece entitled "The GOP is Killing Itself," by former Bush administration official Pete Wehner:
The message being sent to voters is this: The Republican Party is led by people who are profoundly uncomfortable with the changing (and inevitable) demographic nature of our nation. The GOP is longing to return to the past and is fearful of the future. It is a party that is characterized by resentments and grievances, by distress and dismay, by the belief that America is irredeemably corrupt and past the point of no return. “The American dream is dead,” in the emphatic words of Mr. Trump.
Wehner, whose honesty and insight about his party and its prospects I've praised before in this space, nails a sentiment I've heard expressed by countless Republicans in the Summer of Trump. The concern is that a candidate like Trump is running a campaign based on the 1980 electorate, not the 2016 one....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Most informative, thanks.
Well, we don’t call it the Washington Compost for nothing.
My problem with Carson is; I’m not sure he has the stones needed for the job. I know he’s a smart guy, buts he’s been a healer, yea, he started out on the wrong path, and maybe some of tht is still inside.
But I just don’t know. I like Cruz, I was for him from the beginning. But Trump, I’m liking more and more. We need someone in the top stop that not loves and believes in this country, but can fire it up.
In that regard, that’s Trump. Might be Cruz, but Trump definitely can do that. I think they’d both make a great ticket.
The Corporatists’ drive to socialize FOOD was the most embarassing. Every $100/mo they got .gov to pay for with EBT was another pair of sneakers or phone or TV or whatever consumer good those pesky eating costs were depriving them of... and introduced tens of millions of Americans to going on the Dole.
Good points!
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