Posted on 10/05/2015 10:31:37 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
That's my prediction for 2016 in a nutshell. We have two extremes in our politics today. On the right are furious populists, on the left socialist misfits. Neither represent a majority. As always, the center is the key.
Kasich and Rubio are mainstream conservatives. Kasich's record and Rubio's rhetoric line up quite nicely. Either of them will have natural appeal to the center, where elections are won. The other plausible candidate, Ted Cruz, is essentially a mainstream conservative. If he is extreme it’s because of his style and the measures he advocates, not the outcomes he seeks. The Church Lady and other pundits worry that the Trump purported appeal to nativism will tarnish the Republican brand. Nonsense. The winning candidate will be the brand.
While the Republicans will not nominate an extremist, the Democrats will. Like Wilson before him, Obama has taken his party far to the left, too far. The political pendulum is just starting to swing to the right, but Obama will demand that the Democrat candidate resist, and run for his third term. Hillary, Biden, and Sanders will comply with his wishes, or lose the essential black vote. This is a recipe for disaster. Centrist voters will have a clear choice. A center-right conservative vs. a hard core leftist.
And hardcore the Democrat will be, we are assured of that. All the whack jobs on the left are becoming more shrill and militant, and Hillary and the others feel they have no choice but to embrace them. The D's have endorsed Black Lives Matter, and there's a great chance that could blow up in their face. Soros money is at the ready to spread on the flames, and the next police shooting of an unarmed black, justified or not, could be turned into another urban conflagration....
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I will vote for Trump or Cruz.
The rest can pound sand.
” Neither represent a majority. As always, the center is the key.”
If the center was the majority, Romney would have won in 2012. The key for Republicans is the base. The key for Democrats is the Republicans putting up candidates who do not represent the base.
The idea that the center wins elections is false.
2012 voter turnout was 57%...meaning 95 million people didn’t vote.
Romney lost by a ‘landslide’ 5 million votes.
Run a conservative candidate who can attract a mere slice of the non-voters, and its a lock.
Either of them will have natural appeal to the center, where elections are won.
Really?
Barack Obama won the last two elections.
He is so far to the left that he is not our of the zip code he is out of the State..........
The writer is living in the past...with a lawless president that ignores elections and rules by executive action...with every major policy he has implemented doing much more harm than good.....we have reached a “tipping point”. Someone like Trump could take the middle(if there is one) and both ends.
“I feel America may still be too conditioned to find anything other than centrist to be radical.”
We don’t have a radical in the race, unless it is the one who pledges to make American great again.
They were not leading by the margins Trump is.
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