Sometimes I wonder if he is really a Democrat-he did donate to Democrats in the past. He is really giving the GOP a hard time right now.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/07/is-todays-gop-less-racist-than-in-1968.html
The modern GOP has been built on some tensions-between what it says publicly-or before the general electorate if you please-and what it says privately-to the base?
Normally skillful GOP candidates are able to navigate the two fields of the base and the general electorate-the sense in which they are speaking to two audiences-three if you include the 'liberal media' that they have become so skillful in manipulating.
After all, a good part of the liberal media falls all over itself trying to prove it's not 'liberal' which just means they will be on their best behavior when speaking to GOPers.
The base has been trained to understand this dynamic. So when a Republican politician wants to speak about immigration it doesn't say what Trump says-Mexicans are all smelly vermin who sell drugs and rape women-they say Of course, I believe in comprehensive immigraton reform as soon as the border is secure.
The two ways of putting it amount to the same penalty. I mean Jeb Bush is very conservative on the issue of a woman's right to choose-he feels she has little such right. But he not lumped into the same breath as Todd Akin even though if you look at this record as Governor of Florida he did seem to think that even rape victims and victims of incest should be forced by the state-that liberatraians supposedly despite so much-to a resulting pregnancy to term.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/25/jeb-bush-abortion_n_6940568.html
His views aren't qualitatively differnt from the comments Akin got in such trouble over.
This is why for me it would be a wet dream come true to see Trump win the GOP nomination. I don't believe it will happen as the GOP establishment is already closing ranks and at the end of the day I think the donor class will freeze him out.
Still, it would be a very honest candidacy in a way. He simply tells us the real GOP position on immigration without the Bush filter to make it fit for public consumption. The Bush way whether of Jeb, his brother, or his dad, is to suggest that somehow their brand of conservatism is somehow just a little nicer.
The positions aren't any different just the packaging is less polarizing.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/07/jeb-bush-doesnt-want-to-abolish.html
Trump is really frustrating the Republican party by putting it all out there for not making it less polarizing-his aim seems to make it as polarizing as possible. This makes him very attractive for a base that is licking its wounds right now-more bad news for the base is the growing momentum for the $15 MW.
So the base is in no mind to worry about making it more palpable for the mushy middle. While I assume the establishment will simply never allow an actual Trump candidacy to happen, Trump has a new Trump card: he's threatening to go independent. Again, is he a Democrat who's just messing with the GOP?
"Republicans dreaming of shooing away Donald Trump may want to think twice."
"By publicly rebuking the billionaire businessman for his inflammatory comments, the party may convince Trump to launch a third-party candidacy."
"That's a potential nightmare scenario for the GOP establishment: a populist outsider with unlimited resources attacking their nominee from the right in the general election, raising hell -- and attracting votes -- with his rhetoric on issues like illegal immigration."
"Ralph Nader, who has run for president multiple times as a third-party candidate and may have cost Democrat Al Gore the 2000 election by running to his left, said Republicans mishandle Trump at their own peril."
"The Republican Party establishment is playing with nitroglycerine when it goes after Donald Trump and tries to minimize him and exclude him," Nader said in an interview Thursday. "Because a jilted Donald Trump as a third-party candidate can blow the presidential race wide open and turn it into a three way race."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/23/politics/donald-trump-third-party/
Again-no downside to Trump.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/07/rush-limbaugh-demonstrates-why-theres.html
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/07/is-todays-gop-less-racist-than-in-1968.html
The modern GOP has been built on some tensions-between what it says publicly-or before the general electorate if you please-and what it says privately-to the base?
Normally skillful GOP candidates are able to navigate the two fields of the base and the general electorate-the sense in which they are speaking to two audiences-three if you include the 'liberal media' that they have become so skillful in manipulating.
After all, a good part of the liberal media falls all over itself trying to prove it's not 'liberal' which just means they will be on their best behavior when speaking to GOPers.
The base has been trained to understand this dynamic. So when a Republican politician wants to speak about immigration it doesn't say what Trump says-Mexicans are all smelly vermin who sell drugs and rape women-they say Of course, I believe in comprehensive immigraton reform as soon as the border is secure.
The two ways of putting it amount to the same penalty. I mean Jeb Bush is very conservative on the issue of a woman's right to choose-he feels she has little such right. But he not lumped into the same breath as Todd Akin even though if you look at this record as Governor of Florida he did seem to think that even rape victims and victims of incest should be forced by the state-that liberatraians supposedly despite so much-to a resulting pregnancy to term.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/25/jeb-bush-abortion_n_6940568.html
His views aren't qualitatively differnt from the comments Akin got in such trouble over.
This is why for me it would be a wet dream come true to see Trump win the GOP nomination. I don't believe it will happen as the GOP establishment is already closing ranks and at the end of the day I think the donor class will freeze him out.
Still, it would be a very honest candidacy in a way. He simply tells us the real GOP position on immigration without the Bush filter to make it fit for public consumption. The Bush way whether of Jeb, his brother, or his dad, is to suggest that somehow their brand of conservatism is somehow just a little nicer.
The positions aren't any different just the packaging is less polarizing.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/07/jeb-bush-doesnt-want-to-abolish.html
Trump is really frustrating the Republican party by putting it all out there for not making it less polarizing-his aim seems to make it as polarizing as possible. This makes him very attractive for a base that is licking its wounds right now-more bad news for the base is the growing momentum for the $15 MW.
So the base is in no mind to worry about making it more palpable for the mushy middle. While I assume the establishment will simply never allow an actual Trump candidacy to happen, Trump has a new Trump card: he's threatening to go independent. Again, is he a Democrat who's just messing with the GOP?
"Republicans dreaming of shooing away Donald Trump may want to think twice."
"By publicly rebuking the billionaire businessman for his inflammatory comments, the party may convince Trump to launch a third-party candidacy."
"That's a potential nightmare scenario for the GOP establishment: a populist outsider with unlimited resources attacking their nominee from the right in the general election, raising hell -- and attracting votes -- with his rhetoric on issues like illegal immigration."
"Ralph Nader, who has run for president multiple times as a third-party candidate and may have cost Democrat Al Gore the 2000 election by running to his left, said Republicans mishandle Trump at their own peril."
"The Republican Party establishment is playing with nitroglycerine when it goes after Donald Trump and tries to minimize him and exclude him," Nader said in an interview Thursday. "Because a jilted Donald Trump as a third-party candidate can blow the presidential race wide open and turn it into a three way race."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/23/politics/donald-trump-third-party/
Again-no downside to Trump.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/07/rush-limbaugh-demonstrates-why-theres.html
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