This is all self-inflicted. All these dumb airheads with money where their brains should be, bungled this party up so bad that now they are reaping what they have sown and are so stupid they cannot even comprehend how they did this to themselves.
I warned with Romney back in 2011, when people criticized him for embracing the hard line on Chinese currency manipulation. I said, "if something like this is not done, working class voters will rise up and demand real full on protectionism". I would like to find the post, but I don't feel like digging through 32,000 posts to find it.
And then Romney loses and what is it all blamed on. Immigration, immigration rhetoric.
And any talk of China vanishes, the WSJ Editorial Board/COC people had the night of the long knives and suddenly everyone is for comprehensive Immigration Reform and China shilling. Because obviously if we pass amnesty, Hispanics are going to love keeping the Bush tax cuts, cutting spendin and all the rest, when they know from 2004, that Bush won the Hispanic vote through spending and expanding gov't, which also DOA for the most part (with the exception of Trump ironically).
Republicans don't want it, the 2013 polling was skewed by the reluctance to attack Rubio by Rush and others. 2013 was an aberation, the polling before and after looks exactly like it did in 2006 and 2007. So that meant that there was a large base, the same one Romney road to victory in the primaries or at least a portion of it looking for a candidate who shares those views, some of them are pretty moderate on other issues. But all the establishment guys suck, thus ensuring that base went to someone the establishment had no control over. What they should have done was find a way to minimize the damage, to get other minority votes on board, to divide and conquer and restrain the excessive rhetoric without embracing the policy. Cynical yes, Nixonian yes, but guess what such tactics by the GOP got them into this mess, so getting cold feat now is out of the question for the establishment hacks. Now, the risk is a nominee that not only disagrees on the issue, but has no concern about tone.
Now that they have made this mess, they are now going to run to the Democrats, play the innocent "moderate driven out" line and then pray Hillary gives them some of the crumbs. They deserve Trump, not as the nominee, but as President. There solution is as dumb as the actions that caused this mess and for that they also deserve a far right extremist GOP that wins every other election without them. We live in a two party system and the Dems won't win forever. Just remember, the GOP they leave behind is more conservative by 1 for everyone that leaves.
