“Interesting how important the details are this time. The GOP process is quite strange, seemingly designed to prevent another Ron Paul insurgency from bothering the likes of Mitt Romney”
Yes. It was designed for that.
And yes, Trump us Romney, in more ways than one.
He’s the 2016 Romney, new and improved.
I don’t think Trump is Romney. Trump has broken the process as set up by the party elite. I am off the Trump team at this point but I love the fact that he upset the political class. I have my own issues with his campaign in recent weeks, but despite that I have no allusions he’s on the same side as the consultants and DC elites. Trump has always been his own man for good and bad. He’s got a lot of friends on the left but also on the right. And almost universally his friends were who could get him something. Not necessarily likeminded. He’s largely been supportive of the insurgent tea party since the early days showing up at rallies and events dating back to 2009 and 2010. He and I disagree on a host of issues but agree on a number too.
Oh sure thing with the DC politicos swearing they will never vote for him
Actually, if you read “Cruz - Can He Win” put out by Cruz’s superpac, he went into the race to be the new Romney. Their whole approach was based on the notion that Romney was such a horrible candidate that enough conservatives stayed home that Obama got elected. So they sent Cruz out as the man would could consolitate all the conservatives, evangelicals, libertarians, Hispanics, etc under one big tent. He would be a better Romney than Romney was, and he’d win.
Well, that ain’t happening. Trump is a force never seen before, the conservative-leaning pragmatic populist who doens’t need the RNCs money or machinery and doesn’t care what they think. He is beholden to no one but himself, unlike Cruz who’s strings are being jerked by his big=money donors.
This leaves the RNC somewhat powerless and forced to attempt to make a flawed first-term Senator with a checkered conservative history into “A Romney that can win.
That ain’t happening either.