Posted on 04/29/2016 8:41:16 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
Donald Trump’s damage to the Republican Party, although already extensive, has barely begun. Republican quislings will multiply, slinking into support of the most anti-conservative presidential aspirant in their party’s history. These collaborationists will render themselves ineligible to participate in the party’s reconstruction.
Ted Cruz’s announcement of his preferred running mate has enhanced the nomination process by giving voters pertinent information. They already know the only important thing about Trump’s choice: His running mate will be unqualified for high office because he or she will think Trump is qualified.
Hillary Clinton’s optimal running mate might be Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, a pro-labor populist whose selection would be balm for the bruised feelings of Bernie Sanders’s legions. Running mates rarely matter as electoral factors: In 2000, Al Gore got 43.2 percent of the North Carolina vote. In 2004, John Kerry, trying to improve upon Gore’s total there, ran with North Carolina Sen. John Edwards but received 43.6 percent. If, however, Brown were to help deliver Ohio for Clinton, the Republican path to 270 electoral votes would be narrower than a needle’s eye. [SNIP]
Trump would be the most unpopular nominee ever, unable to even come close to Mitt Romney’s insufficient support among women, minorities and young people. In losing disastrously, Trump probably would create down-ballot carnage sufficient to end even Republican control of the House. Ticket splitting is becoming rare in polarized America: In 2012, only 5.7 percent of voters supported a presidential candidate and a congressional candidate of opposite parties.
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George Will has become Glenn Beck, with an expanded vocabulary. Seriously, he needs to get back on his meds ASAP.
A bit arrogant Will? Time to retire.
I think I prefer keeping butt heads like Will out of the media.
ZTo paraphrase what Ma Richards once said about George H. W. Bush, “Poor George. He cain’t hep it. He was born with a silver pen in his ass!”
Geez, Will is fully detached from reality. Who’d a thunk it?
Geez, Will is fully detached from reality. Who’d a thunk it?
Using the comparative weenie always loses theory, Brown would be a gift to Trump, who wouldn’t look like a winner compared to that bum?
How can you denigrate punchbowl turds like that?
George and Ted have the same goal - thwart the will of the People....
| Just because Will spouts $10 words doesn't make him intelligent. In fact, his whole schtick is to make everyone believe he's the smartest guy in the room while babbling nonsense. I analyzed Will's con game in The Tower of Babble vs. the Tower of Trump. |
I’m OK with this if it ultimately leads to the Romanian solution for removing the nomeklatura.
(note to George Will:) I don’t think Trump damaged the GOP, I believe the fault lies flat in the laps of Boehner, Ryan, McConnell, and just about every other Obama-supporting, open-borders loving congressman and Senator with an R after his/her name.
“I hope Kristol gets locked away for his own good.”
I’m hoping he retires to the library with a whiskey, a Luger, and one bullet to do the right thing.
“I truly believe most of those that say they will never vote for Trump are supporters of open borders and illegal aliens pouring in.”
I think they are invested in the whole neocon globalist agenda, of which open borders are but a part. Military aggression, eradication of national identity and the middle class are parts of it too. The whole Bush NWO, basically.
These guys are headed down the path of the Dixie Chicks. Look at the online ratings, Fox down, Levin -5.6 trend, Kelly unwatchable for many. Krauthammer totally suspect. Will, once a reasonable voice, spouting comments like one verging on dementia. Trump has chashed the traitors out of the conservative closet...and they are naked RINOs. What a huge political change.
I’ve noticed. Trump is taking a sledgehammer to the neocon hall of mirrors.
George Will needs to relocate - to another country. Take your thick glasses and your stupid bow-tie to the totalitarian rat-hole of your choice you little twerp and don’t ever come back.
That’s fine, President Trump can live in New York.
what if clinton picks sanders?
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