Posted on 04/06/2016 2:44:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Kate Smith is on sabbatical.
I have a hunch that Trump supporters won’t compromise with the compromise candidate. Trump supporters want the establishment GOP out of power, not Ryan or Rubio, or any other Romney/Bush clone. A so-called compromise candidate keeps the GOPe in power. The only way I can imagine the GOPe can keep the Trump vote, with their “compromise” candidate is if they offer Trump the VP slot, and it is hard to imagine Trump agreeing to it, although I suppose he might hold his nose and do it, rather than let Hillary win.
But fact is, with any candidate but Trump, it is not really a compromise because the establishment wins, and this movement that has coalesced around Trump is about ridding ourselves of the globalists, the crony capitalists, the lobbyists, the corrupt Democrat-lights.
Much has changed since 1880. One is that the People will not tolerate the party insiders (Stalwarts in 1880, GOPe in 2016) thwarting the voters. If the GOPe thinks it can spring a James A. Garfield on us, it is nuts.
Garfield's rise was similar to Polk's in 1844. It couldn't happen today. Certainly not with Paul Ryan. A presidential candidate has to have some kind of personal appeal or pull. He or she can't simply be somebody pushed by the party machine into the race in the middle of it.
I have a hard time remembering 1880.
Now, 1814 I remember quite well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSTKE85yXl4
Within five years, Grant would be dead of throat cancer. Essentially penniless, Grant worked furiously at writing his memoirs, a masterpiece whose sales allowed his widow and family to live in comfort. He died days after finishing them.
Blaine was the 1884 nominee, only to lose to Grover Cleveland.
Well, that and "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion." Blaine lost votes because of that unguarded anti-Catholic remark by a supporter.
The irony there -- which I just learned today in wikipedia -- is that Blaine's mother and half his family were Catholic.
Blaine, Blaine, James E. Blaine; the continental liar from the State of Maine!
The actual battlefield was at Chalmette, just down river from New Orleans.
Yeah, I’m sure you are correct.
I can see why he used NO, though. Helped make the song a hit.
1880’s Convention, if anything, resulted in a better choice for the GOP. Grant was a disaster as President, incompetent and with rampant corruption on his watch. Blaine was similarly regarded as corrupt, and he was the first Republican nominee (in 1884) to lose for President since John Fremont in 1856, which was the reason for his loss to Bourbon Conservative Democrat Cleveland.
Garfield was one of the more accomplished members of the House (and was Senator-elect). It’s unfortunately he didn’t get to complete two full terms as President, as he could’ve been one of our better Presidents.
There is a big difference in 1880 and now. I doubt more than a very few people were aware of what happened until much later, now the people are instantly aware.
The book Destiny of the Republic discusses this in detail. After reading it, you realize that Garfield’s assassination was a true tragedy for the nation. He was a man about which there was much to admire.
Under Rule 40, it must be a current candidate. And I suppose this would include those who may have “suspended” their campaign but remain candidates. If they change Rule 40 before the convention, then watch out.
It didn't bother so-called liberals here in Colorado to use a constitutional provision born in religious bigotry to block one school district's voucher plan because, horror of horrors, some parents might use their voucher in a parochial school.
The only way this scenario could conceivably work would be to find a candidate that was simultaneously acceptable to all factions. Garfield, improbably fit the bill, respected and acceptable to all. A compromise in the best sense of the word.
Ryan is tied to the Establishment, and is Romney’s former running mate. He is closer to Blaine than Garfield. (Full disclosure, I went to college with Ryan, didn’t know him, but our Venn diagrams overlapped considerably)
As a thought exercise, can anyone think of a different Republican that Trump, Cruz, and establishment types could all actually rally around? I can’t.
Only the locals call it the Chalmette Battlefield.
RE: As a thought exercise, can anyone think of a different Republican that Trump, Cruz, and establishment types could all actually rally around?
Jeff Sessions? Respected and always referred to by both Trump and Cruz. And he’s still younger than Bernie Sanders.
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