C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
"The REAL reason the nomination of Trump calls the GOP's judgement into question:"
There are three fundamental reasons why the likes of Trump will be the nominee:
A field of weak GOP candidates.
A dysfunctional republican party in disarray.
And a failure on the part of republican party bosses to comprehend the anger among the social right, libertarians, and the TPM to the Omnibus Budget agreement passed last December:
“And what didn't make it into the deal:
Any provisions on acceptance of Syrian refugees, for which Republicans have been clamoring since the Paris terrorist attacks last month.
A provision halting funding to Planned Parenthood, for which Republicans had been pushing since a series of undercover videos were released this summer.
A lift of the congressional ban on gun-violence research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a priority of Democrats.”
In the middle of the night, Congress unveiled a massive, trillion-dollar budget deal — here's what's in it
The poor judgment on the part of the GOP, therefore, was to assume that the rank and file would dutifully fall in line behind the likes of Bush or Rubio, where a significant number of republicans perceived such ‘establishment’ candidates as being part of the ‘problem’ that resulted in the budget agreement.
The irony of all this, of course, is that Trump is now ‘the establishment,’ where republicans support him for purely partisan reasons, the notion of Trump the ‘outsider’ or Trump the ‘reformer’ long swept away in the sewage of republican partisan politics.
Trump, Romney, McCain – it makes no difference; it’s still the same republican party and the same failed, wrongheaded republican agenda.
There are three fundamental reasons why the likes of Trump will be the nominee:
A field of weak GOP candidates.
A dysfunctional republican party in disarray.
And a failure on the part of republican party bosses to comprehend the anger among the social right, libertarians, and the TPM to the Omnibus Budget agreement passed last December:
“And what didn't make it into the deal:
Any provisions on acceptance of Syrian refugees, for which Republicans have been clamoring since the Paris terrorist attacks last month.
A provision halting funding to Planned Parenthood, for which Republicans had been pushing since a series of undercover videos were released this summer.
A lift of the congressional ban on gun-violence research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a priority of Democrats.”
In the middle of the night, Congress unveiled a massive, trillion-dollar budget deal — here's what's in it
The poor judgment on the part of the GOP, therefore, was to assume that the rank and file would dutifully fall in line behind the likes of Bush or Rubio, where a significant number of republicans perceived such ‘establishment’ candidates as being part of the ‘problem’ that resulted in the budget agreement.
The irony of all this, of course, is that Trump is now ‘the establishment,’ where republicans support him for purely partisan reasons, the notion of Trump the ‘outsider’ or Trump the ‘reformer’ long swept away in the sewage of republican partisan politics.
Trump, Romney, McCain – it makes no difference; it’s still the same republican party and the same failed, wrongheaded republican agenda.