[2ndDivisionVet]

What a laff!

[Calpublican]

The WaPo will get no click from me.

For those who feel likewise, let me fill in the remainder of the article for you:

“blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and more blah.”

[freespirit2012]

Except if you look at any of the last dozen polls— trump does better than any other Republican candidate against Hillary or Biden or Sanders.

[puppypusher]

Well!If the Republican Parth loses the next election the. The game is over.All we’ll be is a broke socialist paradise with different sections of the nation seceding from the present country into more manageable nation states.

The U.S.cannot survive taking in the numbers of poor refugees while spending exorbitant amounts of money to build a larger government to provide security from terrorist who are embedded with those same refugees.

We also will be spending more on national security and social services for our own citizens,mainly ageing baby boomers .

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The bizarre part is the Republican leaders actually believe this claptrap. For example:

The way to get the Hispanic vote is to *pander* to Hispanics. Like the Democrats did to get the black vote.

But you can see the results of doing this in the declining Hispanic vote, of candidates who *believed* that pandering would work. It *obviously* doesn’t. This was pointed out in that article. So the GOP-e wants to “reinforce defeat”, by doing the same mistakes again and again.

Why? Because Hispanics actually think before they support a candidate. They are smarter than that, which is why they are not a monolithic voting bloc.

But conservatives know how to attract broad numbers of Hispanic voters. By offering them the same conservative things they offer everyone else. For the simple reason that Hispanics *also* want these things.

For example, stopping government policies that inhibit small business. Ethnically Hispanic Americans have a really good grasp of entrepreneurship. They see owning and building a small business as a great way to get ahead in the world. This also means that they like low taxes and a business friendly environment.

But the Republican leadership doesn’t comprehend these things, even for the white vote. They cater to enormous multinational corporations. Not small business, and not the party rank and file.

And this is why they are such weaklings and losers.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The message being sent to voters is this: The Republican Party is led by people who are profoundly uncomfortable
* * * * *

with standing for the rule of law and doing anything to impede the flow of illegal aliens into the country.

[relictele]

The Republican Party is led by people who are profoundly uncomfortable with the changing (and inevitable) demographic nature of our nation.

Amazing how some in DC can read minds.

Moreover, the demographic nature wouldn't change if someone would stop letting all the illegals in.

[CriticalJ]

It seems that the only ones who are panicking are the establishment leadership and the media.

[headstamp 2]

“The concern is that a candidate like Trump is running a campaign based on the 1980 electorate, not the 2016 one.”

Yes, a campaign based on the American people and not on the needs of Washington lobbyist cartel.

[BobL]

“Consider that the white vote as a percentage of the overall electorate has dropped in every election since 1992 — and dipped to 72 percent in 2012.”

I won’t deny that White voters are a lower percentage of the electorate than in earlier elections - but on the other hand, I’m not sure that I agree that IGNORING THE NEEDS OF WHITE VOTERS is such a good strategy, considering that they’re still 72% of the electorate...and my tag line (for 6 months) and my home page agree with me.

...and perhaps that’s what sets Trump apart from other Republicans. Trump knows that whites ALSO vote.

[Conserv]

Complete and utter bull.

Cizzilla is the one in full blown panic mode.

Trump would most likely increase the percentage of our white vote AND pull in a sizeable chunk of the black vote(maybe 25%).

But, and this is a huge but, Trump needs to grow the hell up first... and I don’t know if he’s capable of it.

[Lopeover]

GOPe can go F*** themselves. He was incredible with Sen. Tim Scott in North Carolina! HD Video Quality (720) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD6mE5Q4SWg&index=1&list=FLLR0KZJRLxO4vVbc4-lAyjw I am going to write a letter & send money! And YOU should too! 🇺🇸

[nathanbedford]

[I filed the following reply on August 28 recognizing the incipient shift of the establishment away from Jeb Bush to Marco Rubio which was not difficult to foresee considering Rubio's manifold talents as a politician (not excluding treachery) and Jeb Bush's equally manifest deficiencies. Now the same argument for expediency, that is, electibility, are advanced by a leftist.]

Whether by accident or by coordination both Charles Krauthammer and Rick Lowry on the same day have maneuvered toward Marco Rubio as the new establishment answer to Donald Trump.

It is interesting that both of these pundits identify immigration as the key issue. Lowry argues, "In the argument with Trump over mass deportation, clearly Bush is right." By extension, one assumes that Marco Rubio whom conservatives see as a rank betrayer on this issue, is also right. Marco Rubio has disqualified himself in the eyes of informed conservatives when he betrayed his Tea Party base to sleep with the Gang of Eight on immigration. Ever cynical, the Republican Establishment believes that informed conservatives amount to only such a small minority within a minority that Marco Rubio's evident onstage skills will ultimately prevail with less well-informed conservatives and independents.

Revealingly, the establishment argument over immigration inevitably reverts to alleged electability. Republicans cannot win, the argument goes, without a respectable showing on election day in the Latino demographic with the breakpoint usually put at about 40%. Antagonize Latino voters on the issue of immigration, they warn us, and lose the national election. Who better to soothe the misgivings of Spanish-speaking people of color than a Latino with matinee idol looks who has associated his name with amnesty?

The establishment's reverting to arguing electability is revealing because it betokens their cynicism on every issue beyond immigration. We dare not shut the government down, the people will blame Republicans and nothing, not Obama care, not bankrupting the country with runaway debt, is worth an election.

No principle is worth losing an election, fidelity to no promise is worth losing an election, adherence to oath and Constitution is not worth losing an election. It is not worth losing an election to repeal Obamacare. It is not worth losing an election to save the country from bankruptcy, it is not worth losing an election for any cause by shutting the government down or even appearing to be associated with a shutdown done by Obama. It is not worth it to defend the people against the bureaucrats, to defend the people against executive tyranny done by executive order. It is not worth it to oppose leftist judges, leftist attorneys general, leftist IRS agents, leftist schemers in every dark bureaucratic corner of the Obama administration. Nothing dear to conservatives is worth it.

It is however worth risking an election by offending the conservative base; it is worth risking an election to keep faith with crony capitalists; it is worth risking an election to keep the border open whether in the Oval Office or out; it is worth losing an election by serving K St. at the expense of Main Street; it is worth risking an election to presume on the faithfulness of the conservative base while betraying it to billionaire campaign contributors. Is worth risking an election by cutting secret deals with Obama to betray conservative constituents.

It is even worth risking the security of the nation to abandon the constitutional mandate to advise and consent to Obama's secret dealings enabling Iran getting the bomb. When Marco Rubio slipped in between the sheets with a Gang of Eight on immigration he did nothing more than reveal shortly after his arrival in Washington that he was a quick study. Now the pundits Krauthammer and Lowry nudge unwary conservatives in the direction of Marco Rubio. Soon every establishment Republicans will argue that winning the election is everything. Implied: principle is expendable.

Principled informed conservatives reply, winning with cynics and opportunists is worth nothing. Winning with establishment Republicans is the equivalent of losing.

If demographics is destiny in politics, conservatism has perhaps only this election cycle before it is swept away by a cynically contrived flood of Democrat voting immigrants. Now the very people who caused this, especially the Bush family, and those who at least condoned the Democrats practicing immigration politics, raise their own misfeasance as reason to continue them in power. Properly translated into honest English the GOPe is saying, we have created an immigrant population that must be appeased, we have created a monster which must be fed.

Informed conservatives know this is our last chance.

[bigbob]

I could care less if the GOP kills itself

[Nifster]

I hopethey need a change of underware.

We need a change of leadership

[Lopeover]

People need only watch Don Trump in South Carolina with Senator Scott to know that this man is destined to be the next President of the US!

I am going to write him a personal letter & send him money!

HD Video Quality (720) here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD6mE5Q4SWg&index=1&list=FLLR0KZJRLxO4vVbc4-lAyjw

[DaxtonBrown]

“The GOP is Killing Itself,”

No, “The GOPe is Killing Itself,”

No one will give a toot if Jeb blows away.

[AdaGray]

These people are so bubble-bound they have absolutely no clue what is really going on.

[Ultima]

Facts:

1) Except in the very odd/exceptional election year of 1964, the Dems haven’t cracked 50% of the whites in a Presidential election since 1932.

2) Once the ‘64 election was over, the Dems understood that they would never win another Presidential election again unless the Republicans REALLY screwed up...or unless they changed the electorate in a dramatic way.

3) The Dems, courtesy of Bobby Kennedy who wrote the law, and Teddy Kennedy who pushed it in the Senate, passed the 1965 Immigration Act. That law dramatically reduced immigration from our then-traditional large sources of immigrants - England, Ireland, Holland, Germany, etc. - and replaced them with vast numbers of Turd Worlders...whom everyone knows vote around 80% for Dems, and will continue to do so for the rest of their lives, as new immigrants have traditionally done.

4) As a result of the ‘65 Act, and due to the Dem’s outright lying in ‘86 regarding an effective (or any) fence, there are now probably 30 - 40 million illegals in this nation. Note that the (probably low-ball) figure in 2005 was 11 million...we have 2-3 million come in every year, so simple math says that the number is actually somewhere between 31 and 41 million). If any substantial portion of these people ever become citizens, then the Dems will have accomplished a complete shift of the electorate, and will be virtually invincible on the national level. Every state will become like California, both politically and economically - which is to say, overwhelming Dem and broke. But at least if you don’t like California now, you can leave for a better place without much trouble - where are you going to go if EVERY state is like that?

5) Every Republican, and every Conservative voter MUST UNDERSTAND that if such a state of affairs comes to be, NO OTHER ISSUE WILL MATTER AT ALL, because we will ALWAYS AND FOREVER lose on those issues. Immigration is THE issue of this election, and this election is as critical as the 1860 election was - and for the same reason, because it will determine whether this nation continues on as it has existed in the past, or becomes a new and unrecognizable entity that simply occupies the same geographic territory.

Please wake up, and help others to do so by sending them this post (or recommending “Adios America” to them). It really is THAT important.

[octex]

Does the WAPO employ anyone that has common sense? I truly can’t remember reading a posting from that rag that was not false and laughable.

[ballplayer]

Well then the White vote has a choice to make I guess,just accept the cess pool the country has become and vote,but why the hell if this article is true,should they vote for Republicans,you might as well go full hog and vote for Hillary if that is what the country wants and has become.
I am a dinosaur,65 ,so I for one will go down swinging and vote For Ted Cruz,the rest can go to HELL!