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| GOP Should Use Trump, Not Abuse Trump |
| 2016-03-09 |
| Maybe it's because I'm a latecomer to Republicanism, having first pulled the R lever in 2003 for Arnold Schwarzenegger in the California recall election, but I'm confused. I thought one of the first duties, if not the first duty, of a political party was to win. If you don't win, everything else, every policy, every theory, every idea, is air. That was until I joined the GOP. I had read about the Spanish Inquisition and the Black Death, but now I know what real bloodletting is about. The attacks on Donald Trump by his fellow Republicans have been, to put it bluntly, waaaay out of proportion. If -- as Trump himself said in his press conference Tuesday after winning handily in Mississippi and Michigan -- Mitt Romney had attacked Obama with half the vitriol he has attacked Donald Trump with, Romney would be president today. And then there's the conservative punditocracy, so many of whom seem to be suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome -- or perhaps it's Trump Envy (for which I wouldn't blame them). But I ask -- as someone who would gladly vote for any Republican candidate still running and probably any of the thirteen who dropped out -- what exactly do they find so terrible about Donald Trump? Yes, Lord knows, he can be embarrassing I remember when the whole world was making fun of Americans for electing a movie actor as their president (though I suspect we will be seeing less of that) and maybe he isn't the most conservative of conservatives (wasn't John Roberts supposed to be that?), but he is clearly one of the more politically shrewd candidates to come along in a while -- and not just for a non-politician. Just the way he is turning post-primary victory speeches into quasi-press conferences, monopolizing the media, reinvents the game. And he is expanding the Republican vote. GOP been chasing "Black" and "Hispanic" vote for decades---I doubt, they even remember that there are white bluecollars What most surprises me, however, is the approach taken to Trump by his enemies, those known under the rubric #NeverTrump and those better heeled who have blown millions on nauseating and evidently useless attack ads painting Donald as Mussolini with a bad haircut. People who had it their own way for very long, are often surprised when balked. It's not Trump, it's everybody whom he attracts: people who played by the old rules, instead of exploiting the new rules. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #6 Establishment, about Trump and his brown shirts, You still think you can control them? |
| Posted by: Ebbineng Gluling4166 2016-03-09 14:51 |
| #5 Well, Trump certainly is using the GOP. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2016-03-09 11:01 |
| #4 More on Niel - now Cruz's finance director. from wikipedia: "Niel Bush in 2011 incorporated an accounting firm called LehmanBush with veteran China lawyer Edward Lehman. LEHMAN BUSH is a full service investment, strategic planning, advisory organization established and existing under the laws, policies and regulations of the People's Republic of China which creates value to clients by identifying, evaluating, and executing investment and advisory services in China. Clients are varied and diverse; international and Chinese organizations, high net worth individuals and private investors who wish to seek to expand their market positions and financial returns through carefully vetted investment programs in China and around the world. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2016-03-09 09:13 |
| #3 ...see, they're all dirty one way or another. That's what the Donks figured out a long time ago, principle was something you tied up your opponent with while you pursued power. Without power, principles only get you a side mention in your obituaries. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-03-09 08:54 |
| #2 Neil Bush - Mister Silverado criminal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Bush just joined the Cruz campaign. Why this man is permitted to go on TV and lobby for anybody after being convicted of the Silverado crime that cost the US taxpayers 1.3 billion dollars to bail out that bank alone... on TV without repaying the taxpayers 1.3 billion - is a crime in and by itself. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2016-03-09 08:19 |
| #1 Republicans are true to form. They eat their own. Media and establishment especially. They would rather lose and vote for Hillary to keep their system intact. Like England, no way. They have several parties to chose from but the oligarchy rules as it does here. |
| Posted by: Dale 2016-03-09 07:40 |