Posted on 02/18/2016 3:40:42 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Donald Trump is now the Republican Party's establishment-lane candidate
By Philip Bump February 17 at 9:47 AM
If you look at past polling, we've reached the stage of the year where past presidential primary winners had largely already been identified. On Feb. 17, 2004, John Kerry held a huge lead among Democrats that he'd keep. In 2008, Barack Obama and John McCain each led his party on this day, and would keep on leading until their conventions. The year 2012 is the only exception, with Rick Santorum having seized the GOP lead from Mitt Romney -- and Romney seizing it back two weeks later, for good.
In each of those years, we had more primary elections under our belts than we do now, but, with the exception of the 2008 Democrats, we also had less stability. Donald Trump will have led in Real Clear Politics' polling average nationally, save a day or two when he was tied with Ben Carson, for precisely seven months this Saturday -- the day he is likely to win South Carolina's Republican primary on a perhaps-unstoppable run to the nomination.
How'd he do that? Weirdly enough, by becoming the choice of the Republican center -- the group that was supposed to be trying to pick among Jeb Bush, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie right about now.
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That’s why they are throwing all their support behind him!!!
Seriously, can anyone else detect the latest media meme? Trump is the establishment choice? It is stunning how obviously in-sync they all are. And blatantly displaying it like never before.
Does this mean that National Review and Red State would be behind him, too? That would be interesting.
this guy lost me with his 2012 analogy to this year....at this point in 12, Newt was taking the lead and went on to win SC by more votes than were cast in Iowa and NH combined. The guy is making an analogy and can’t even get his premise right.
100% Bulls***.
The establishment hates Cruz, but they fear Trump.
Pray America wakes
The article re-defines the word “establishment” out of existence.
When Karl Rove, John McCain, Mitch McConnell et al give him their blessing, then I might say Trump is establishment.
Inviting the coyote to invest the hen-house. Don’t think so.
Trump the Establishment candidate? LOL. I guess this is making lemonade out of lemons for the GOPe. In other words, when rape is inevitable, lean back and enjoy it.
New CBS national poll show Trump lapping the field at 35/17 and beating Cruz big with moderate Republicans and by 5 with very conservative Republicans. It’s over Cruzers.
TRUMP: I WAS PART OF THE ESTABLISHMENT
http://dailycaller.com/2015/08/12/trump-i-was-the-establishment-video/
Goldman Sachs Teddy and Heidi are the favorite Bought OFF
hacks with a Wall Street Crony Capitalist.
https://www.crowdpac.com/blog/cruz-clinton-wall-street
Ted's Top sugar Daddy , Robert Mercer owes the IRS 6 to 10 billion in back taxes for illegal trades .
Mercer needs to WH to make that Tax Bill go away.
Geez Louise.
First he’s a democrat, now he’s GOPe.
Is it me, or has the silly season become even more so?
He stated these DC snakes like Cruz are always begging for money and
selling themselves for kick backs !
Goldman Sachs Teddy is the number Wall Street Male hustler !
Ted has sold himself to a NY Hedge Fund Billionaire- Tax Cheat !
Strange title...nothing to do with the article.
My comment would have been like others here: If Trump were the Establishment choice, and the Establishment had virtually all of the tickets to the last debate, why did the Establishment boo Trump and cheer Bush?
I figured they were trying some reverse psychology on his, like telling your little kids to scream as load as they can and get muddy...which makes them say to themselves that it’s now fun, since mom won’t be getting mad.
Anyway, the article points out something important - when you take out the hard right (very conservative and Tea Party voters), Cruz’s support is only 10%...he cannot even reach the middle of the Republican Party, he’ll have a heck of a time reaching the middle of the country in November, should he get the nomination.
The comic makes me recall the famous Network comment:
I’m mad as hell and I am not going to take this anymore.
I think the Trump thing has really tapped into that vein. It transcends ideology. It happens when those who were told for years they had the power to change things in their vote and have seen it be nothing but a tranquilizer. If he had run as a dem, he would have been not as successful as he could not have over come The Machine over there. In the GOP he has a somewhat better chance to win the nomination and election yet will face such a fierce battle with the legislature he probably will not be successful without resorting to Obama like tactics to get his ideas through. That is unfortunate. On the other hand, at least we should not have another few terms of a dem anti american liberal.
He has laid out what he broadly believes and that is in someone who is a nationalistic patriot. To him, everything is a deal up to the point the otherside wants the win win. He will not go there. He is not a social conservative IMO, at best he leans in that direction but is mostly live and let live. On abortion, I believe he is not pro abortion, rather he would rather it be a state issue and not something he wishes to personally address. I have problems with that but his stances on trade, immigration, and his being self funded make me lean in his direction. If there was a party called Nationalistic Pragmantises he would be in it.
Someone has to blow up the DC cesspool of insider graft; I don’t see any other on the horizon with the will to do it.
Your premise falls flat. Cruz took out a secured loan which was paid in full. Trump took out several times that, to the tune of BILLIONS secured by junk bonds and has yet to pay it back. Trump has also bragged about paying off politicians with bribes and his business is built on kickbacks and tax dodging. Who is the crony capitalist? That’s your guy, fool!
That is sacrilege. You are not supposed to say anything negative about Saint Cruz.
Politicians talk and Capitalists do.
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