Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

Republicans don't riot.

 

You don't need to pull votes away from Trump. You need to prevent his plurality from giving him winner-take-all states. 2000 votes in Missouri last night would have prevented Trump from getting a number equal to about 3% of the total he needs.

That said, I don't see what uniting around Cruz would do, because they don't want him to get it either. They want Kasich to win some Northeast states.

 

Jesus, GOP, buy some fucking mirrors.

 

Kasich needs greater than 100% of the remaining delegates available to win the nomination without a convention fight.

 

The Republicans have won the popular vote in one of the last six Presidential elections. They are a minority coalition that prospers because its minority consists of more dependable voters than the Democrats, who for a variety of reasons just don't turn out in the non-Presidential years. The GOP cannot afford to split their coalition. Their only play is to let Trump take the nomination, take their down-ballot lumps in November and hope to recoup in 2018.

 

And the Democrats are going to nominate the weakest candidate since Dukakis. McGovern was a substantial person of consequence but a bad candidate at the time. Clinton is Someone who is known to most Americans and is liked by a minority. She is Nixon, paranoid, introverted, mistrustful. Convinced of her brilliance and correctness, she does what she wants to do out of the sense of her own infallibility.

 

Ronald Reagan could come back from the dead and there would still be no potential candidate around whom the party could unite.

 

The Republicans created their electorate, the electorate is now deciding to be led from within.

It's like when Moses came down from Mount Sinai and found the Hebrews dancing around the Golden Calf.
Have you not listened to a word I've uttered, said Moses? What part of 'with a mighty hand and outstretched arm' did you not get? I'm gone for a week and you worship idols? Well fuck you, go back to Egypt and be slaves.

 

Oh, I think he understands it perfectly.

 

Or he comprehends it all too well

 

So there's still a chance?