Posted on 08/26/2015 7:14:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON -- Every sulfurous belch from the molten interior of the volcanic Trump phenomenon injures the chances of a Republican presidency. After Donald Trump finishes plastering a snarling face on conservatism, any Republican nominee will face a dauntingly steep climb to reach even the paltry numbers that doomed Mitt Romney.
It is perhaps quixotic to try to distract Trump's supporters with facts, which their leader, who is no stickler for dignity, considers beneath him. Still, consider these:
The white percentage of the electorate has been shrinking for decades and will be about 2 points smaller in 2016 than in 2012. If the Republicans' 2016 nominee does not do better than Romney did among nonwhite voters, he will need 65 percent of the white vote. Romney did even slightly worse among Asian-Americans than among Hispanics. Evidently minorities generally detected Republican ambivalence, even animus about them. This was before Trump began receiving rapturous receptions because he obliterates inhibitions about venting hostility.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Cry ‘Havoc’ and unleash the poodles of Will!
Great minds think alike, and so do ours!
You might like this:
Wait until Attorney General Trey Gowdy, appointed by president Trump, uncovers the truth.
I didnt read the article yet, but FU Will.
Ok now I can maybe stomach reading about this a hole.
Nope I was wrong Will is dumb a$$.
That’s what I said about McCain, and early on that looked like the sage prediction.
The primaries and caucuses roll around, and all of a sudden these types have start accumulating delegates and the next thing you know, they’re the nominee.
I don’t necessarily see Bush making it this time, but I don’t count him out as the leader of the rest of the pack. One RINO or another will win that tier IMO.
Dear George Will,
Hittin' the bottle already? We tried it your way in almost every election you insufferable douche bag. In fact the only time we didn't try it your way, our guy thumped the enemy. Twice.
Who the f*ck decided that you and Krauthammer were anything except retards is beyond me. F'all ya'll.
Has Georgie Will written anything critical of his wife’s candidate and do they share the checks?
Pray America is waking
Wasn’t Will often on the phone with Nancy Davis Reagan?
Many of us have better things to do with our time than read Will regurgitating liberal talking points for the umpteenth decade. With all due respect.
#Cuckservatives.
It is possible that George will is right, although its unclear that we can do anything about it. Trump has the money and the skill to carry out his plans at least to the extent possible. All we can do is keep him from winning, if trump decides to run we can’t win without him assuming we ever could win with him.
The leftist media will of course paint anything and everything we do as racist in accordance to the democratic party playbook by which they now operate. Trump may be an easier target they think but it really doesn’t make much of a difference in the long run no matter what we say or do.
As long as they control the microphone and have something to offer (paided for from the sweat of our labor) people will believe this, and the republican party will be doomed for generations until the country financially collapses under the weight of trying to support the democrat’s promises.
Unfortunately that may take such a long time we might as well form a new political party with a new face. For now throwing one last hail-marry to prevent that fate is better than trying to delay it.
NICE!
That blovicator is not right.
Isn't a snarling face - like the one Obama painted on the Democrat party - exactly, precisely, indubitably what we need at this time, at this moment? Hasn't playing the weak "nice" kid on the playground doomed us in 1996, 2008, and 2012? Isn't it time we "get in their faces" a bit?
Yes. He should throw another dinner for Obama. That would cheer him up!
"In the real world :G H W Bush was better than Dukakis
and would have been better than Bill Clinton
GW Bush was better than Gore and John Kerry
Anybody would be better than Hillary
Anybody would be better than Biden
You sound as if you are stuck on stupid"
Something tells me that you can't quite bring yourself to just say "You must vote for Bush or any other (R)INO to save the country" as they do every four years ( or sometimes two ).
That 'Lesser of Two Evils' argument sure sounds rational on the surface, or does it? Well for starters, it accomplishes one thing with absolute certainty - history will repeat again and again as the (R)epublicrats continue to serve up a plate of sh!t and compare it to the (D)ummycrat plate of diarrhea and say to us: Now pick one!. Yum. In essence we become enablers, keeping these (R)epublicrat schmucks in power forever.
No it's not really rational or logical thinking at all, it's quite the opposite. And before you go off on a lecture let me say that I *have* made this same stupid 'Lesser of Two Evils' selection as well, in all the elections up until 2012. Back in 1992 which you kind of mention, I set aside my cognitive dissonance and pulled the lever for Bush41 for a 2nd time, even though that was not the same man that ran against Dukakis, not by a longshot. Furthermore, this required me to ignore the substantial arguments that Perot made: jobs leaving the country ( 'sucking sound ) from NAFTA, the empty Socialist Security lockbox full of IOU's, his pressing of the Vietnam MIA's. It was a mistake to vote for Bush41 for a huge list of reasons but none moreso than the fact that the illegal alien invasion was then underway.
Now let me try a creative argument and offer an alternative to this endless cycle of kabuki political theater ( I promise that there is a point to this so please hang in there ). All these past elections what we should have been doing instead was 'Thinking Outside The Box'. You see, all along we were doing something in electoral politics that we would never do in our real lives. We were willing to entrust the 'nuclear button' to the lesser evil but at home we would never get boxed in to that choice. Try these on ...
POINT#1 ... Now imagine someone is looking over your shoulder and reminding you that these things are out of your control and insisting you must choose the drug addict or whomever in order to save your relationship with your daughter. THAT is exactly what the (R)epublicrats have been doing to us every election since 1984. And it is why I suspect that so far in this cycle there is a lot less of that peer pressure around here. People are realizing the argument is wearing thin.
POINT#2 ... But, the real point here is that the 'Lesser of Two Evils' is a false dilemma. The young Captain Kirk showed us the way with the Kobayashi Maru when he reprogrammed the computer. The solution is merely 'Thinking Outside The Box'. With my son or daughter I would grab the druggie or drunk and escort them out the door with extreme prejudice ( e.g., Al Bundy style ), and on the deck of the Titanic I would reach into the lifeboat and toss off two of the least deserving passengers and tell the crewman: "Now there's room for all three of us". It's a harsh world.
Rather than enabling these (R)ats all these years we should have been defying them. Now we have a serious chance of taking them out of the picture once and for all, and the unlikely catalyst is Trump. I ask you, is it really logical to continue down that same path as before or grab the machete and hack a new one of our own? Keep in mind that the path we are on truly means oblivion with another amnesty that will surely erase all our votes for every election after this one.
We are literally witnessing the reprogramming of the Kobayashi Maru computer scenario right before our eyes. The evidence is found in the vitriol and apoplectic hysteria flowing out the mouthes of every one of these talking heads. The good news IMHO is that while not perfect, Trump is the most likely candidate to siphon off some of the (D)ummycrat voters, and this is valuable because each such crossover is essentially worth TWO votes ( decreasing the enemy and increasing the good guy by one each ). As Obama most recently netted +5 million total in 2012, it is absolutely crucial that the (R) candidate can recreate the Reagan Democrat phenomenon and persuade 3 or 4 million to come over.
The icing on the cake would be for us to finally being able to turn the tables back on them and force the (R)epublicrat shills to have to face the 'Lesser of Two Evils' dilemma.
Another column of George Will slamming Trump—without mentioning that his wife works for Scott Walker.
Will has no integrity or credibility at all.
Hey George Will ....welcome to Me-Gyn Kelly’s bitchfest ....... tell her you wear the pants in journelism but they zip up on the side.
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