Posted on 01/08/2016 9:58:52 AM PST by xzins
GOP leaders increasingly see South Carolina as their last best chance to stop Donald Trump's populist political juggernaut.
On Wednesday, influential South Carolina Republican Katon Dawson issued a plea for former President George W. Bush to step into the ring in the Palmetto State's Feb. 20 primary. Bush is quite popular among South Carolina Republicans, and Dawson called his involvement a potential "game changer."
"If {George W. Bush} engages, it will matter for his brother {Jeb Bush}, but really, it will matter for the entire team," Dawson told Bloomberg News.
The Palmetto State appears uniquely positioned this cycle. While it follows Iowa and New Hampshire on the primary calendar, but is already drawing intense attention from candidates and pundits alike.
The pro-Jeb Bush Right to Rise PAC recently announced a $4 million TV ad buy in South Carolina.
On Tuesday, Rubio's Conservative Solutions PAC unveiled its first TV ad there, touting the Florida senator's strong support for the U.S. military. The dollar value of that ad buy was not announced.
owery, the conservative InsiderAdvantage pollster, says it's obvious the GOP establishment won't be doing Trump any favors.
"The establishment Republican Party -- most of whom I know well, and I'm not putting them down -- but they make their bread and butter out of controlling people, or at least being hired to help them package themselves.
"So far, Trump has basically thumbed his nose at all of them and doesn't need them," he adds. "So of course they're all going to band together -- because this is their last stand."
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Trump is essentially creating a new third party within the Republican Party.
Yep. He’s turning it into a populist party.
The middle class working party.
versus the elite, entitlement, and poverty uniparty
17 Nov 2015
On Tuesday, in an unwitting and probably grudging admission that Donald Trumpâs power is not going to erode any time soon, Politico published an article acknowledging that efforts by Katon Dawson, the former chairman of the South Carolina GOP, to form a super PAC for the express purpose of derailing Trump have found no donors willing to commit.
Dawson acknowledged, âI specifically did not find the right donor to get me to go to that effort.â
Agreed. Perhaps if they had not been so protected, but allowed to grow up in the “real world” they would have developed at least some form of survival skills instead of depending on the government to be their “parent” from cradle to grave. So many times I note how difficult it is to get through to some people even in plain, ordinary language. they simply cannot grasp the inferences of anything outside of their basic ingrained “training.”
Dr. Spock being read to congress is an indication. Why not a history book, something from our past as a nation which woefully, far too many “legislators’ are ignorant of? Such stupidity in full view is one of the reasons I turned away from the senator in question.
Every time I hear “Well, they know more about it than I do,” as an excuse for refusing to learn something, I cringe. They openly admit they are unwilling to even try to question or think for themselves.
Yep he’s turning it into The Voice of the People party,— The ones that have been ignored for too long.
Look at the bright side. Such as it is...
When the consequence of their actions comes back to bite them in the SHTF world they created, they will be removed from the gene pool. This is as nature intended. They are unfit, self selected for extinction and so the world emerges better for their loss.
TLDR: Law of the jungle, baby..
LOL! Enjoyed it!
And so it was planned he'd command F Troop.
Except historically I just HATE that term “populist.” They were 19th century quasi socialists who wanted rampant inflation, government ownership of businesses, and isolationism.
I, too, was raised on the same definition as you, but now it has become more like “average people”.
So, maybe I should just say “The average Joe’s party.”
Illustrating how losers just can’t win for losing.
Yeah, sorry, it’s just the historian coming out in me. Like using “Nazis” to describe pre-1900s German leaders. Just silly.
GOP-E is down to using Cruz to take down Trump...followed by taking down Cruz, who will be much easier to destroy than Trump.
Wanna invent a new term together?
Populationists? Egalitarians? Civilianists?
LOL. How about just “Americans.” BTW, where are you?
Those figures look absurd to me.
I’m not in agreement with them either.
Those guys do it for a living, so they know their stuff. They live and die by them. I sure don’t grasp their angle on it.
I appreciate the mention.
The GOPe has picked a REALLY bad state to be the one to try and firewall Trump, in fact, I’m not sure the GOPe could have picked a worse state for their cause. South Carolinians are Trump’s kind of people and Trump is their kind of guy.
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