On a serious note, it looks like the Trump rebellion might be coming to an end. The 9/11 remarks Trump is making seem calculated to boost Jeb’s anemic approval ratings. As you probably have heard, Wall Street donors are sticking with Jeb as their GOP candidate, and Trump looks ready to comply.
The End of the Trump Rebellion?
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I wish it were so, but I don’t think Trump’s going away just yet. I’ll be (pleasantly) surprised if he doesn’t say in the race through the initial state primaries in February 2016.
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Boost Trilogy’s poll numbers?
Mere outrage over mentioning Shrub and 9/11 without genuflecting isn’t going to push Trilogy to the top. If Shrub were truly an asset, we’ll be seeing his face everywhere to bring out the faithful to the primaries. “Elect me, get some that Shrub magic once again!”, his appearances would say. Trilogy is a terrible anemic campaigner, his brother’s record aside.
Trilogy only gets the nomination if the other candidates trip over themselves and hug landmines, which could still happen.
It’s been 14 years and Osama Bin Laden is dead, thanks to Obama. Trump is neither Bill Maher nor the Dixie Chicks and this isn’t 2001 or even 2004. Rudy Guliani’s presidential ambitions have long died and the youngest voters may not even remember 9/11. They do not remember the halycon days when you still say farewell to loved ones at your gate and do not feel pangs of pain upon seeing the Twin Towers in background shots. My American Facebook friends of all political stripes shared pictures of rainbows over the city instead of remembrances of trauma.
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I agree, Bush is the most blah candidate ever. But there is literally no alternative, so the party is forced to boost him.
I’ve been saying for a long time that Republicans have no viable candidate, and I was right. That’s why we are seeing the eruption of complete crazy.
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Trump was correct in pointing out that the right-wing sauce – Bush kept us safe – is sickening.
Right after 9-11, all the Republicans could say: “Clinton was in office for nine years; we were here for must nine months” – insinuating that Bush’s failure was not his own.
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Correction: “Clinton was in office for eight years …,” etc.
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Jeb is the blandest least inspiring candidate ever.
Trump vs Sanders is a fascinating race if you don’t have to live in the aftermath of one of them actually winning.
Clinton v Bush is a sign of democratic decline (fitting since democracy is in decline in most of the world).
I’m still weakly in favor of Clinton (since the republicans are still being held hostage to the bible crazies and the democrats don’t seem to be able to field anyone else – Biden is fools gold).
Part of my wants to hibernate and have someone wake me when it’s all over.
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if the ultimate choice is Trump vs. Sanders, you might want to turn your hibernation into a Rip Van Winkelesque slumber — with the caveat that since you might wake up in 20 years into a world where two terms of a Trump/Carson administration OR a Sanders/Warren administration has been followed by two terms of a Carson OR Warren Presidency and its aftermath, you might want to go to sleep with a glass cyanide capsule tucked under your toungue, just in case…
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While you were indulging in a bit of political augury over an election which will take place over a year from now, I was out voting. Today is Election Day after the longest election campaign in Canadian history – a grueling 78 day marathon which left the party leaders exhausted. At least I don’t have to look at conservative election campaign literature anymore, photo shopped pictures of Justin Trudeau smiling approvingly at dead babies or women wearing niqabs. Prime Minister Stephen Harper ran his campaign on values, bifurcating the electorate into “old stock Canadians” (his words), hard working white Anglo Conservative supporters versus “recent immigrants”, conservative code for lazy, importune, probably jihadist, brown folks who prefer the Liberals or NDP (nominally socialist) parties. I have no idea how the election at this time (Oct. 19th 5 pm) will turn out. While the election polling over the last few days indicates a Liberal minority government based on voter intentions, it all depends on voter turnout. The trend over the last few years has been a decline in an already low voting turnout among millennials who prefer more progressive parties while seniors who tend to vote conservative show a continuing strong presence at the voting booths. This self disenfranchisement of youth will have a strong effect on government polity going forward.
Will this election vindicate the election gurus who contend that campaigns are lost or won by Low Information Voters who vote based on name recognition?
Will dynastic politics in Canada be followed by a dynastic match up in the States in a Bush vs Clinton showdown to be followed in eight years by a probable contest between Chelsea Clinton and George P. Bush, Jeb’s eldest son?
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