Posted on 03/09/2016 3:33:19 PM PST by Kaslin
Who is to blame for TrumP?
McConnell
Boehner
Romney
Rove
Murphy
Cornyn Why does TX keep him?
Is that enough?
Yes, there is a lot of parallel between Trump and Perot. And a lot of the same underlying reason for their support.
A major difference: Perot ran on a third party ticket in the general election, siphoning votes from the R nominee, while Trump is running as a Republican and is getting the R votes in the R primary to become the R nominee.
If Bloomberg would have run as an independent, he would have been a spoiler, but he wisely chose not to runm.
Trump may lose, but he’s doing it as a Republican.
Perot was just a spoiler playing out his Texas sized grudge against the Bush family.
Last time, when Romney was winning the primaries, there was talk of preferential or ranked voting systems, in which voters rate the candidates in order, and the votes are given a weighted tally.
So if Romney (or Trump) really was the last choice of those who voted for the other candidates he wouldn't come out on top, even if he had the largest number of first place votes.
It's an interesting alternative. The problem for the people who propose it is that Trump or Romney may not actually be the last choice of people who vote for anti-Trump or anti-Romney candidates.
What conservative media types?
Ross did not want the job.
Ross was trying to block NAFTA. Really was. He saw what was coming.
It's existential. If they weren't headed for their own downfall they wouldn't be GOPe.
The RNC, McCain and Romney’s failed campaigns created Donald Trump. He’s said that many times.
I am starting to have difficulty in determining what a “Conservative” really is!
I have always considered myself a conservatiive, but I am first and foremost an “American”.
I am starting to believe that many of us have forgotten our common values, being more focused on our one or two “principaled” interests.
The RATS are Rats. I do not believe they even worry about being Americans, because they hate what America stands for, and the GOPe, along with the DNC and MSM, are busy looting the carcase of America.
And through it all, all of the “principaled conservatives” are totally focused on killing off the other “principaled conservatives” in the name of “conservatism”.
And we call the GOPe the “Stupid Party”?
Perot was not a spoiler. The GOP still hasn’t fixed the main issues he ran on. Ross was a gun grabber, but he was right about the national debt, budget and trade. The GOP has failed on those issues.
You are right. They want Rush to ruin his career like Eric Fatasserson.
I can name several unpopular former Republican Presidential candidates-Dole, McCain and Romney-that nobody around FR will defend after their defeats. We don’t even defend the ones that win. The idea that criticizing Trump will ruin his career is a joke. Within a year or two win or lose Trump will be as popular here as any of the others.
The margins in talk radio are very tight these days. Rush isn’t going to attack the base of the party. It would kill him financially.
Considering, up to a point, the field was filled w/ ‘Me too’s, is it any wonder??
Instead of treating the ‘debates’ as an opportunity to showcase their ideas, they decided to go on the attack (that = NO ideas in my book).
IMO, w/out DT there would BE no ground-swell that we’re seeing, no rising up of the electorate, no talking re: wall, no talk of amnesty, etc.
So, yeah, you had/have the low individual #s in most of the field. People get fed-up w/ the ‘chance of yellow rain’ and their pant-leg being wet. /s
At least he's been an antidisestablishmentarian. The establishment is where the money is. Rush is always talking down the party elders.
I have to work so I only get to hear Rush once every so often, but every time he is taking calls somebody is always bitching to him about why he isn’t exposing Trump.
Rush asks them who they are backing and it has been Cruz every single time.
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