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As opposed to all the policy ideas Bernie and Broom Hilda are espousing?

 

Even the media can't ignore her warts, including an FBI investigation that's just now getting interesting.

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Right. I know you have watched the Dem debates. Right?

 

Bernie Sanders isn't espousing policy ideas?

 

Not the ones he wants to hear.

 

Then turn off the music. His opinion has to be stripped of all value before it changes.

 

March 15 is when things start to get really real.

That is when Republican primaries start becoming winner-take-all.

Make no mistake: the majority of Republican primary voters are still actively hostile to a Trump nomination, as is the establishment. Him winning a minority plurality of delegates in a small potatoes state is an optics problem but not a practical one. If his 30% can win him all the delegates from Ohio, it becomes a lot more real.

Trump's problem is that his unprecedentedness cuts both ways. Early wins usually led to the nomination because the party was incentivized to try to build momentum narratives and strengthen the candidate. When the early winner is general election toxic, and is hijacking the party despite being hostile to it most of his life and disagreeing with most of its platform, there is no such incentive and there are mechanisms in place to defeat him.

 

Your points are well-taken, but the problem is that no one palatable is emerging as a real alternative. At what point does the party simply bite the bullet and get behind Trump? And does that happen before March 15?

 

I definitely agree Clinton is a problematic candidate. Her high unfavorables aren't insurmountable, but they are a major drag on her electability. She has some strengths too, though, and she is the only big-kid candidate left on the list. Cruz is yet another cynical asshole exploiting the religious right's inability to tell when they are being manipulated. Rubio is Obama without charisma. Trump is a cynical asshole exploiting the narrow demographic of "dumb people who mistake muddled populism for pragmatism."

Shouldn't have wasted Romney on a lost cause.

 

When do Christie, Carson and Fiorina GTFO?

 

The only way I see that happening *ever* happening is if Trump starts picking up support and breaking 50% in some major contests. If he is still in the 30s, they can go all the way to the convention knowing non-Trump delegates still outnumber Trump delegates and go from there. The earlier convention this year helps.

 

You underestimate how excited some on the left are about Bernie Sanders. He is inspirational to many.