Down to One.....Kasich Quits!

[SEVERUSMAX]

Well, the last candidate passing for sane in the GOP field is gone. Ohio Governor John Kasich, whose comparative sanity was inversely proportional to his popularity during the primary process (this is the Republican Party, after all), has ended his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, leaving Donald Trump as the last joker standing. Of course, the GOP is a classic case of the saying that "in the land of blind men, the one-eyed man is king," except that in this case, the blindest man of all wins.

What a joke my nominal party has become! Well, this RINO is re-registering at the first opportunity! I refuse to ever again be associated with a party that has now thoroughly and completely betrayed the legacies of Lincoln, TR, and Eisenhower. Party of Abraham Lincoln my ass!

 

[sr71plt]

We'll have to watch for two things now. Will Sanders, inevitably not getting the nomination, use this high point for him to also withdraw in a position of strength to influence the Democratic program and will there be a third-candidate push outside the official party by the core of the Republican Party to at least give the state campaigns a center of conservative Republican support.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

We'll have to watch for two things now. Will Sanders, inevitably not getting the nomination, use this high point for him to also withdraw in a position of strength to influence the Democratic program and will there be a third-candidate push outside the official party by the core of the Republican Party to at least give the state campaigns a center of conservative Republican support.

They would be stupid not to....if Trump wins, they would lose Congress in 2018 by landslide margins....if Hillary wins in a two-person race, she could sweep the Senate and possibly the House, too.

 

[Hard_Rom]

If Billy's wife makes Bernie her running mate, it might save her from some righty nutbar assassination attempt. Kill her and you get some hippy lefty in. The devil you know...

 

[Iceprincess12]

Just like the Agatha Christie novel. This countdown is fun! Can't wait for the "none" part (election over)

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Well, now you're getting the mettle of these leading lights of today's pathetic excuse for a Republican Party. Who will utterly discredit themselves by joining the Dark Side (aka Trump)? So far, we've got Sean Hannity, Reince Priebus, Ann Coulter (remember when she thought Hillary better than McCain), Sarah Palin, Ben Carson, John Boehner, Paul LePage (the man was already a disgrace), Chris Christie....who else is left? These folks will be completely disgraced for all time. They should not be given any respect or credibility, even in the Right's miserable circles (well, maybe Boehner, if he can realize that Trump is worse than Cruz, whom he denounced).

Generally, the only way to save the GOP now is to defeat it this November. Irony, huh, but only those Republicans who have the good sense to oppose Trump now, refuse to "rally around the banner," will have any respect given to them anymore by the public at large. Remember, the youth of today will soon be the majority of voters....they can and will remember who backed Trump and who wisely denounced him. Win or lose, his supporters will be disgraced forever and his detractors will gain at least some grudging respect as willing to oppose pure malice when they see it.

 

[dan_c00000]

What a joke my nominal party has become!

You're going to be really disappointed when the members of your "party" start lining up behind Trump in a few weeks.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

You're going to be really disappointed when the members of your "party" start lining up behind Trump in a few weeks.

Only my party until I can get re-registered.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

And that took three minutes, tops, online. I'm officially a registered Democrat, for the first time in my life.

 

[Hard_Rom]

A catastrophic defeat could drive the Reps further to the dark side. When the Conservatives up here imploded after the Mulroney years they fractured into more fundy types and typical cons. Eventually they reconciled but with a decided shift even further right. Leading to the Harper regime.

The collapse of the fed NDP from opposition to also ran has resulted in the Leap Manifesto. A huge step left and green.

http://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/what-is-in-the-leap-manifesto/

Might be best if it is close but still a win for the Dems.

 

[sr71plt]

I'm looking for Trump to suspend his campaign tomorrow, with the comment, "I just wanted to show I could do it. You are all losers and I'm the winner. Catch my new reality show, You Can Fool the Dumbest Third of the Electorate All of the Time, to air on the new Trump TV channel starting this fall."

 

[phrodeau]

I'm looking for Trump to suspend his campaign tomorrow, with the comment, "I just wanted to show I could do it. You are all losers and I'm the winner. Catch my new reality show, You Can Fool the Dumbest Third of the Electorate All of the Time, to air on the new Trump TV channel starting this fall."

But if he did that, he would be obliged to announce support for a different candidate, and he's burned all those bridges.

 

[sr71plt]

But if he did that, he would be obliged to announce support for a different candidate, and he's burned all those bridges.

No he wouldn't. Suspending your campaign doesn't oblige you to do any such thing. Of all of those who have been in this race, I think Hillary is the only one he's previously endorsed.

 

[RUlookingup]

I'm looking for Trump to suspend his campaign tomorrow, with the comment, "I just wanted to show I could do it. You are all losers and I'm the winner. Catch my new reality show, You Can Fool the Dumbest Third of the Electorate All of the Time, to air on the new Trump TV channel starting this fall."

Wouldn't that be fun. Too bad. The jig is.up. Prepare to be hoisted by.your own petard lefties.

 

[dan_c00000]

And that took three minutes, tops, online. I'm officially a registered Democrat, for the first time in my life.

Congrats! Welcome to the right side of history.

Seriously though I think this is the first election where both sides agree that moving to Canada is a great idea.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Thanks. Anyway, with Bernie now mathematically toast, it's down to a corporate lawyer notorious for double speak and a real-estate tycoon who actually wants a fascist police state. Guess I'll have to vote for the corporate lawyer, rather than risking putting in the new Hitler.

 

[dan_c00000]

Thanks. Anyway, with Bernie now mathematically toast, it's down to a corporate lawyer notorious for double speak and a real-estate tycoon who actually wants a fascist police state. Guess I'll have to vote for the corporate lawyer, rather than risking putting in the new Hitler.

I'm shocked that the Donald could focus his attention on this one thing for so long. There are two things that really get me about this whole thing:

1. The GOP has been, for years, calling Obama a "king" and saying he'll run for a 67th term. Well clearly that's not happening. And now, with the Donald, someone who is clearly interested in declaring himself king the GOP is hedging it's bets and thinking "at least he'd be our king, right?"

2. As the party of "personal responsibility" how is the GOP going to deflect the blame for this? They can't. They are 100% responsible for unleashing the Great Talking Yam. No Obama. Not Hillary. Not the DNC. Not liberals hiding in the closet or under the bed.

The GOP inflamed and dumbed down political discourse so much that the Orange One (or one like him) was the inevitable outcome.

How can the base ever trust the GOP again? They can't. They literally destroyed their own party. Revolutions always eat their own children.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

One of the few positives about Donald Trump is that he is proof that the Tea Party is weak, too. Not only did they fail to primary him as they did with others, thus making him the most prominent non-Teabagger to defeat such efforts, but he beat their handpicked candidate, Ted Cruz, decisively. The Tea Party is now a spent force in this country, and that is perhaps what they mourn most of all.

Oh, they might do a third-party challenge with a new unholy alliance of Establishment and Tea Party folks, but the fact that an Establishment guy, Mitt Romney, is their likely champion speaks volumes about the Tea Party's real strength in this country now. They are like expired milk, sour and about to be dumped.

 

[dan_c00000]

Oh, they might do a third-party challenge with a new unholy alliance of Establishment and Tea Party folks, but the fact that an Establishment guy, Mitt Romney, is their likely champion speaks volumes about the Tea Party's real strength in this country now. They are like expired milk, sour and about to be dumped.

That Teadahist-Establishment fusion candidate was Marco Rubio and things turned out well for him.

The problem is (and you seem smart enough to hopefully shed this idea) the Teahadists were never anything more than an astroturf movement funded by the Koch brothers to rile up the "working" man with a bunch of racist BS about "those people" getting mortgage relief.

 

[sr71plt]

They've been strong enough to unseat Eric Cantor in the congressional district next to mine and install a zany Teapartier.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

They've been strong enough to unseat Eric Cantor in the congressional district next to mine and install a zany Teapartier.

That and Ted Cruz are basically their last hurrah. They weren't able to beat the Donald, and that is a major sign of weakness.