Yes times are tough to be a GOPer. Trump is in line to win most states. He's now been endorsed by Chris Christie, Paul LePage, Jan Breuer, and now Jeff Sessions-who was supposed to be a Ted Cruz guy.
Nate Silver has been waiting for the party to decide on Marco Rubio. But some are beginning to decide on Donald Trump.
Again, The Party Decides theory is not a bad one at all. I believe this is usually roughly how a nominee is chosen. But the theory has to be adjusted to A Healthy Party Decides.
http://www.amazon.com/Party-Decides-Presidential-Nominations-American/dp/0226112373/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1456746357&sr=8-1&keywords=the+party+decides
But the 2016 GOP is anything but a healthy party. Indeed, it's not clear that they are a party at all. Scott Sumner himself said he's never in his lifetime seen a party so humiliated-and he remembers the 1968 Dems. Actually he might remember the 1964 GOP which was a rough one as well.
"The implosion over Donald Trump’s candidacy that Republicans had hoped to avoid arrived so virulently this weekend that many party leaders vowed never to back the billionaire and openly questioned whether the GOP could come together this election year."
"At a moment when Republicans had hoped to begin taking on Hillary Clinton — who is seemingly on her way to wrapping up the Democratic nomination — the GOP has instead become consumed by a crisis over its identity and core values that is almost certain to last through the July party convention, if not the rest of the year."
"A campaign full of racial overtones and petty, R-rated put-downs grew even uglier Sunday after Trump declined repeatedly in a CNN interview to repudiate the endorsement of him by David Duke, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Trump had disavowed Duke at a news conference on Friday, but he stammered when asked about Duke on Sunday."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/divisions-within-gop-over-trumps-candidacy-are-growing/2016/02/28/97b16010-de3a-11e5-8d98-4b3d9215ade1_story.html
Nate Silver has been waiting for the party to decide on Marco Rubio. But some are beginning to decide on Donald Trump.
Again, The Party Decides theory is not a bad one at all. I believe this is usually roughly how a nominee is chosen. But the theory has to be adjusted to A Healthy Party Decides.
http://www.amazon.com/Party-Decides-Presidential-Nominations-American/dp/0226112373/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1456746357&sr=8-1&keywords=the+party+decides
But the 2016 GOP is anything but a healthy party. Indeed, it's not clear that they are a party at all. Scott Sumner himself said he's never in his lifetime seen a party so humiliated-and he remembers the 1968 Dems. Actually he might remember the 1964 GOP which was a rough one as well.
"The implosion over Donald Trump’s candidacy that Republicans had hoped to avoid arrived so virulently this weekend that many party leaders vowed never to back the billionaire and openly questioned whether the GOP could come together this election year."
"At a moment when Republicans had hoped to begin taking on Hillary Clinton — who is seemingly on her way to wrapping up the Democratic nomination — the GOP has instead become consumed by a crisis over its identity and core values that is almost certain to last through the July party convention, if not the rest of the year."
"A campaign full of racial overtones and petty, R-rated put-downs grew even uglier Sunday after Trump declined repeatedly in a CNN interview to repudiate the endorsement of him by David Duke, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Trump had disavowed Duke at a news conference on Friday, but he stammered when asked about Duke on Sunday."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/divisions-within-gop-over-trumps-candidacy-are-growing/2016/02/28/97b16010-de3a-11e5-8d98-4b3d9215ade1_story.html
Ok, so these are symptomatic problems. One trouble with the GOP is they never get beyond reacting to this or that symptom for a larger malady. They never even ask themselves if this could be a larger malady.
I mean you can go on all day about how unsuitable Trump is as a nominee but the question the GOP should ask itself is how did it get here? How is a Donald Trump in this position where he's going to win most Super Tuesday states tomorrow?
Listen to Norm Coleman for an answer:
“This is an existential choice,” said former senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota, who is backing Rubio. Asked how the party could unite, Coleman said: “It gets harder every day when you hear things like not disavowing the KKK and David Duke. It’s not getting easier; it’s getting more difficult. . . . I’m hopeful the party won’t destroy itself.”
"I'm sorry, but when did Norm Coleman call out Steve Scalise, the third ranking GOP member in the House, who has a history with David Duke? Duke campaigned for him in the past.
Explain to me why it's wrong for Trump to not disavow Duke, but it's ok to have a friend of Duke as you're third ranking member in Congress?"
Could there be a mixed message here?
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