Trump did all of America a favor by keeping Cruz away from the White House.
On Friday, February 26, 2016 at 7:33:41 AM UTC-6, MJ wrote: > > > February 20, 2016 > > *Win or Lose, Donald Trump Just Did the GOP a Yuuuuuuge Favor *Thomas L. > Knapp > > Fresh off his plurality win in the South Carolina primary, Donald Trump > looks stronger than ever in his bid for the Republican Party’s 2016 > presidential nomination. Whether or not he goes the distance to the > nomination and then to the White House, he’s done the Republican Party a > major service by helping it put the Bush dynasty in its rearview mirror. > > Nobody doubts Trump’s willingness to say unpopular things in politically > dangerous venues. But some observers felt that it might have been a bridge > to far even for Trump to bust Jeb Bush’s “my brother kept us safe” balloon > in South Carolina (uber-hawk Lindsey Graham’s stomping ground) the week > before the south’s first major primary. Would this be the mistake that > brought his campaign to grief? > > Nope. Trump won the primary handily, Jeb ended his campaign … and from > this point on Republican candidates for the presidency and other offices > will finally feel free to openly disown or at least quit feigning > nostalgia for the eight nightmare years of George W. Bush’s > administration. > > Dubya’s legacy 9/11, two failed wars in the Middle East and Central > Asia, and the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression may not > have been entirely his fault. In fact, I think most reasonable people can > agree that bad luck and bad advice were major contributing factors. > > But what happened happened. It destroyed any chance of victory John McCain > might otherwise have enjoyed in 2008, then dogged Mitt Romney’s heels in > 2012 as well. Sure, Romney was the weakest Republican nominee since Wendell > Willkie anyway, but the Bush legacy certainly didn’t do him any favors. > > The GOP’s rut really goes back to 1990, the end of the Cold War, and yet > another Bush White House. Ever since, the party’s establishment has had to > work overtime, with the aid of convenient menaces (Saddam’s invasion of > Kuwait, 9/11, etc.) to keep its post-WWII raison d’etre maintenance of an > expensive gravy train for its military-industrial complex backers on the > rails. This meant marginalizing, at every opportunity, the party’s > non-interventionist wing, most famously in the persons of Ron and Rand Paul > over the last three election cycles. > > Those non-interventionists could be marginalized, dismissed and put to > pasture because they owed a modicum of loyalty to their party. But the > Donald knows no loyalties except to himself, and perhaps to his own view of > the truth. By stating that view and not paying for it with the loss of a > major presidential primary, or with a hit to his overall nomination > prospects, he has set the Republican Party free … if free is what it wants > to be. Which remains to be seen, and is a question almost certainly > weighing heavily on the minds of Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. > > http://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/4808#2hKWIZzbFgsHqlFD.99 > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
