How their resentful attitude galls the crack cadres of campaign consultants who brought conservatives halfhearted standard-bearers like
John MaverickMcCain
... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former
foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution...
and Willard
MittRomney
...former governor of Massachussetts, the Publican nominee for president in 2012. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals....
to do sham battle against Barack Obama
...Dreams of My Sainted Father
in 2008 and '12, then return to the safety of the US Senate and a beachfront mansion in La Jolla.
The peasants are revolting!
And all on behalf of a bloviating billionaire whose conservatism and party loyalty are suspect.
Now, after months of whistling past the graveyard of Trump's seemingly inexorable rise and assuring themselves that his candidacy will collapse as voters come to their senses, a CNN poll released Wednesday showing Trump now lapping the field has the GOP establishment in full meltdown mode. The survey shows Trump with nearly 40% of the primary vote, trailed by Ted Cruz at 18%, Ben Carson
... a neurosurgeon who is under the delusion that being brilliant qualifies him to be president....
and Marco Rubio tied at 10%, and the also-rans (including great GOP hope Jeb Bush) limping along far behind.
Their panic was best articulated last week in The Daily Beast by GOP consultant Rick Wilson, who wrote that Trump supporters "put the entire conservative movement at risk of being hijacked and destroyed by a bellowing billionaire with poor impulse control and a profoundly superficial understanding of the world . . . walking, talking comments sections of the fever swamp sites."
Some might take that as a backhanded compliment. Can the GOP really be so out of touch with the legions of out-of-work Americans -- many of whom don't show up in the "official" unemployment rate because they've given up looking for work in the Obama economy? With the returning military vets frustrated with lawyer-driven, politically correct rules of engagement that have tied their hands in a fight against a mortal enemy? With those who, in the wake of the Gay Paree and San Bernardino massacres by Muslims, reasonably fear an influx of culturally alien "refugees" and "migrants" from the Middle East?
If we could ever rid ourselves of these thieving, 'elite' beltway party vermin, perhaps a new momemorative monument would be in order.