blauSamstag wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Can you believe that that windbag is ahead in the Republican Presidential polls?
Absolutely. He says all the things that the base likes to hear.
And the base is capable of selecting a candidate, but not capable of electing a president.
My crazy pipe dream right now is a Trump v. Sanders race, because Sanders could win that with his eyes closed.
Trump has made noises about a 3rd party run. If he does that i could kiss him on the lips myself, because he'll split the right wing and guarantee a democratic win.
I just hope we don't end up with Hillary. I don't need or want a corporate democrat who used to be a young republican and campaigned for Goldwater, who gets almost all of her campaign funds from high finance orgs.
Donald Trump has been more than happy to play the role of the Frankenstein monster the Republican party had created by promoting and encouraging reactionary populism found in the tea party, with all it's barely concealed racism, nativism, and conspiracy theories. Now, that monster has come home to destroy it's maker. For those mainstream Republicans like Bush, Paul, and the others who know that Trump would only lead their party down the road to a Presidential defeat of epic proportions, they only have themselves to blame, as they had either taken part in stoking this angry, paranoid base that so loves Trump, or they had never spoken out against it.
As far as Hilary is concerned - unless there's some candidate out there who will come out of nowhere to pull a Barack Obama on Hilary, I suspect she's probably going to be our first woman President. Personally, I'm a Sanders guy myself, but I don't see him winning against Clinton in the long run, as his age, his blunt honesty, and the fact that too many Americans have been convinced that socialism is the devil's fruit, would all be counted against him. Man, I wish Elizabeth Warren would run, because she'd make Trump - like all of Wall Street - crap his pants.
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-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer