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WhoIsNumberNone

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Mon Oct 26, 2015, 12:32 PM Oct 2015

TYT: Analyzing The Campaign Strategy Of Establishment Republicans



If Jeb Bush dropped out of the Republican primary, it would free up millions of campaign dollars to flow to other establishment contenders. Who would take his place? Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola (Think Tank), Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show Podcast), and Mark Sovel (The Lip TV), hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

"Republican insiders have secretly hoped for months that Trump and Carson would collapse under the weight of their own incompetence, but that’s not happening. And it’s not going to happen either. Republican voters, to paraphrase Mencken, know what they want and are getting it good and hard. And what they want, it seems, are politically inept blowhards.

A report in the Washington Examiner illustrates just how panicked the Republican establishment has become. “This weekend was an inflection point in the Republican presidential race,” writes Byron York, “a moment in which some significant part of the GOP establishment came out of denial and realized Donald Trump might well become their party’s nominee.” On MSNBC, Joe Scarborough related that he no longer hears “anybody saying [Trump] can’t win the nomination.””*

Read more here: http://www.salon.com/2015/10/20/the_gop_establishments_impotent_panic_why_they_cant_make_donald_trump_ben_carson_go_away/
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TYT: Analyzing The Campaign Strategy Of Establishment Republicans (Original Post) WhoIsNumberNone Oct 2015 OP
" politically inept" < Inept enough to be in spots 1 and 2. jtuck004 Oct 2015 #1
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