Posted on 11/17/2015 6:42:53 PM PST by M. Thatcher
Donald Trump and Ben Carson have demonstrated more staying power than anyone predicted. But now, after the terrorist attacks on an American ally, Republican elders think their party's flirtation with inexperience is nearing its end.
The reemergence of foreign policy atop the Republican agenda will force voters to reevaluate the outsider candidates, particularly as both Trump and Carson display a lack of knowledge about national security and the terrorist threat, party stalwarts said.
"The losers are going to be Donald Trump and Ben Carson on national security," said Katon Dawson, the former chairman of the South Carolina GOP. "As the Republican base sobers up, they are the two, if this story lasts a long time, it's going to hurt."
Indeed, in interviews with current and former GOP chairs, veteran operatives, lobbyists and strategists, the long-held conviction that neither Trump nor Carson will win the Republican nomination has only strengthened since the attacks in Paris last week.
Fred Malek, who has advised multiple Republican presidents and is not affiliated with any contender this cycle, said the inexperience Trump and Carson reveal in their rhetoric will drive GOP primary voters toward another candidate.
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With Trump it will be the complete opposite. Paris got Trump elected (Ann Coulter said it and I agree)
They wish, but that won’t happen because people who really believe in national security know that it starts with borders and immigration.
The gop-e advisors are the losers.
LOL!
What has happened has made me like Trump even more.
The GOPe try to spin everything but most of us aren’t buying. They’ve controlled things long enough and they’re a big failure. TIME FOR CHANGE.
Absolutely YES re Carson, but who do they think they’re kidding re Trump ? LOL
Katon Dawson and Fred Malek are on board The Cheap Labor Express.
This is a propaganda piece meant to influence voters toward one of their amnesty candidates.
Considering this batch of GOP ‘leaders’ decisions in the past 10 years, they are the LAST people ‘with experience’ or without I want near power.
Take random people fro twitter and I would have more faith.
What alternate reality do these GOPe idiots inhabit? I have never seen so many delusional people infest one group...
LOL!
FU Fred Malek
a lack of knowledge about national security and the terrorist threat, party stalwarts said
Kick Ass and take names, in other words KILL ALL OF THEM
That is all we need to know and you buffoons in the GOPe ruling class are just plain stupid.
Half right. Carson goes
Well, there are the lib Dem voters...
It might end Carson’s.
ROFL...is this the Onion or an SNL skit?
Incredible! Once again we see RINO’s behaving like Democrats in that they believe BS will save their sorry butts.
The GOPe is dreaming, its Trump who suggested weeks ago that when he saw strapping young men and no women with them he thought terrorists were infiltrators. Trump observed that they should be fighting for their country.
Trump said “This may be the greatest Trojan Horse of all time”
Trump has that Vision Thing the GOP as a whole lacks.
Trump polls will go up, he want to bomb the Shit out of ISIS.
Everyone on our side feels the same way.
Yea and they vote REPUBLICAN. Thus our current batch of idiocy in DC. See Thad Cochran for details.
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