The lack of a consensus “establishment” candidate has apparently stopped many donors from giving to anyone, and that in turn feeds the overall weakness of the various “establishment” candidates. Republican elites may be on the verge of their biggest repudiation in decades, and they are fast running out of options to stop that from happening.The American Conservative
The Desperation of Republican Party Elites
Daniel Larison
Another way of putting this is that the political concern is in jeopardy of getting trumped by a basic responsible concern for the welfare of the country. I think we saw some of this back in 2008 when Barack Obama was able to capitalize on a combination of the complete implosion of the Bush administration on every level and concerns about the temperament and suitability of both McCain and Palin to peel off traditionally right-leaning elites. It wasn't just Colin Powell who defected, but William Buckley's son and the offspring of Dwight Eisenhower and many big-name investors and capitalists.Booman Tribune
There's a point where folks will actually give up on the GOP and vote for the Democrat, and it's really not that big of a leap to put your trust in the Clintons. You kind of know what you're going to get and they've got a record of basic competence.
Zachary Werrell helped take down former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Speaker John Boehner. Now he’s taking on the entire Republican establishment.In These Times
Meet the 24-Year-Old “RINO Hunter” On a Mission To Purge the GOP of Moderates
Waleed Shahid
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"I was turned on to politics in high school by Rep. Ron Paul’s (R-Texas) 2008 presidential bid. As a hardcore libertarian, I was appalled by the lack of conviction and principle in the Republican establishment. "
This little libertarian pos should just join the libertarian party instead of polluting the GOP with that stuff... he worked with Brat and won in the only district where that stuff can fly today along with the Stars & Bars its everywhere down there.... big deal... try taking that decrepit message outside suburban Richmond and see how it goes moron....
@Matt,
Either flee the boat or take it over ;)
I love it. I absolutely love it. Burn it all. Please register GOP and for the Donald. It would greatest thing to see him utterly destroy the GOP "Elite." I don't even care if Trump actually becomes President and does something really stupid like a "paying off the national debt" whatever that means because Trump means the END of the GOP establishment and likely of the entire GOP.
If Trump isn't the old school radical Republican Nationalist I believe him to be but just another fascist crook then people by will be begging for Bernie in 2020 so it is a big win. You cannot be stumped with voting for the Trump. He is the perfect weapon.
I don't if either the Radical National Socialist/Fascists/AltRight or the Bernie Sanders/FullTankies/AltLeft wins. As long as the Neoliberal establishment is purge and hopefully violently (lawful violence aka hanging for treason after a nice trial) it will be a good day.
The GOP is now a radical party which has mobilized previously unmobilized fringe elements of society, displacing the more traditional conservative voters.
This idealistic/romantic view that "the GOP has been taken by cronies and we must root it from all evil" of the Tea Party commanders in chief and clowns ala Paul Ryan, Ted Cruz et al. is reality Faux News and the likes has conformed through years of non-sense propaganda. Now it has escaped their control as politics have moved further and further to the right thanks to their own doings.
The GOP has been traditionally, except for some odd periods, an elitists crony capitalist party, with some 'moderate' conservatives voting out of dislike of liberal values or according to their privileged status (they want to conserve the status quo, as they are privileged by it) not some cesspool of idealistic libertardians and scrambled eggs. Not saying it was a likable party (the reactionary mentality is built-in when you want to conserve and crush those under you as soon as things don't go as you would like) but it wasn't a radical party like it is now.
Politics (in the USA at least) are based on fear as demonstrated by recent studies (http://www.vox.com/2015/4/24/8489065/politics-negative-partisanship-fear), and this sort of garbage is what you get when you act based on fear. That said, based on the motto that "worse is better" (things have to get much worse to get better and remove the cognitive dissonances and incoherences plaguing the public minds), I would welcome this new era of a disintegrating GOP base, pushing the country a closer to a completely dysfunctional status, steep by steep.
Well in the batshit crazy wars Democrats/liberals are holding their own against Republicans/conservatives, especially on college campuses of late. If you add the anti cop screeds along with the gender nutters and race baiters on the left, my guess is that the silent majority will go rightward in huge numbers come election day, obliterating the so called Blue Wall narrative and give Trump a Reaganeske landslide.
Given how many old line, non-crazy Republicans seem willing to defect to Clinton to defeat the yahoos, do you think there is any chance that if Sanders grabs the nomination - which is admittedly still a longshot - Clinton would run as a third party centrist candidate?
Hey, Dan, what you label as yahoo, crazy Republicans were simply mainstream only several decades ago. The real newly minted loonies are on the left as I described above. It's a coalition of the fringes, which won't hold together with a million gallons of Crazy Glue. And your so called non-crazy Republican electorate does not exist other than with politicians themselves, so you can take it to the bank that Republican, and swing voters too, will vote for the Republican "nutter" nominee in droves. I got Nate Silver on my side on this too.
Clinton and Rubio are pulling way ahead in the betting odds here. Clinton wins the general by a good margin.
https://www.electionbettingodds.com
LOL, Tom:
http://polling.reuters.com/#!poll/TR130/type/smallest/filters/PARTY_ID_:2/dates/20150815-20151106/collapsed/false/spotlight/1
...btw, if Rubio did get the nomination, which he wont, then I agree, Clinton will annihilate him.
For you, Tom:
Trump surges (now @ 42%) among likely Republican primary voters: Reuters/Ipsos poll
http://news.yahoo.com/trump-surges-among-likely-republican-primary-voters-reuters-213521679.html
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