Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forum10 reasons Hillary Clinton will beat Donald Trump
This week, we saw examples of no less than 10 reasons that Hillary Clinton is going to sweep to victory in November:
1. The economy is good enough. The jobs report (160,000 jobs created, the unemployment rate steady at 5 percent) is not stellar, but there is no sign yet of a serious downturn. Conservative economist Doug Holtz-Eakin emails, "The other good news from the employer survey was that average hourly earnings rose by 0.3 percent; up 2.5 percent over the past year. The workweek edged up modestly. Put together, average weekly earnings rose solidly." Unless there is a serious economic crisis (as there was in 2008), the incumbent party has the strong upper hand.
2. Donald Trump is so reckless and scary on economic issues that he scares even Republicans. He bizarrely suggested he would negotiate the sovereign debt of the United States. That is a default and has never been attempted in U.S. history. His recklessness on this is likely a preview of things to come.
3. The GOP is badly divided, if not on the verge of a split. It is Politics 101 that the party in turmoil (Democrats in 1980, for example) loses. Already, donors are closing their wallets, and Republicans, including two past presidents and both halves of the 2012 ticket, are refusing to endorse Trump.
Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-hillary-clinton-will-beat-donald-trump-20160506-story.html
Cha
(295,899 posts)Hillary's policies and character.
And this is from Jennifer Rubin.. doesn't she carry water for repubs as a rule and really doesn't like President Obama. I may be thinking of somebody else?
DT is a loose cannon/Tourette syndrome and can't shut his donut hole no matter how much the M$M give him free air time and attempt to soften his image.
Washington Post
Jennifer Rubin writes the Right Turn blog for The Washington Post, offering reported opinion from a conservative perspective.
Yep, this is her!
Mahalo, TexasT~
GreydeeThos
(958 posts)An enthusiastic group of Republicans has managed to push Trump into the nomination over the better judgment of the party leaders. They are going to be shocked to discover that the only people voting for Trump is the same group that got him nominated. The math is simple:
Half of Republicans voting in primaries = 25% of voters in the general election.
When Hillary wins with a 60/30 margin (Greens and Libertarians are going to do well), the defeat will be the end of the Republican Party.
stopbush
(24,376 posts)for a while. It would mean decades of D victories across the country.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)All the more reason to support the most qualified candidate which entered this race, we are very lucky in the DNC, we have this candidate. I can't even imagine Trump as president, a nightmare.
stonecutter357
(12,682 posts)spooky3
(34,300 posts)amazing.
was going to point that out. This is written by a Republican.
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)Thanks!!
SharonClark
(10,005 posts)fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)Longish read...
Stop Trump, then remake conservative politics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/05/06/stop-trump-then-remake-conservative-politics/
"In the 2016 election cycle, two things have happened simultaneously. Conservatives need to separate the two in order to understand the fix they are in and how to work their way out of it.
First, an unstable, thuggish demagogue arrived on the scene. In the wasteland of American culture, where manners and civic education have deteriorated, he seized the imagination of alienated, economically stressed Americans, turning their anxiety into hatred of foreigners and breeding a certain nihilism. He demands that his adherents ignore what is before their eyes and place their faith in one person with all the answers (none of the facts, however), which he insists are simple and quick.
Second, the GOP discovered (in part, through Sen. Ted Cruzs collapse despite perfect mechanical execution) that there is no majority supporting the Reagan agenda. Certainly, Cruz was a politician of limited talent and imagination, but if he could not sell the three-legged stool to the masses, perhaps there are no masses receptive to that sort of stuff. Even in a GOP primary, there is no majority looking to roll back gay rights or give huge tax breaks to upper-income Americans.
Now, those who oppose Donald Trump dont necessarily oppose him for the same reason. Moderates, conservatives, secular Republicans and religious conservatives have figured out that he is a dangerous character, one whose temperament precludes entrusting him with the powers of the presidency. It is disappointing, stunning even, that some Republicans cannot or will not recognize the magnitude of his mendacity. Opportunists such as Newt Gingrich are to be expected, but Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) have fallen in line as well. We had hoped they were made of sterner stuff
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Her Sister
(6,444 posts)She understands the mistakes the Republicans have made forever now! Very self aware!
This is all daunting and complicated. Many people have a financial interest in keeping conservatives angry and invested in bad causes. Ignore them. The scorecards are meaningless, the CPAC straw poll is nonsense and the talk radio audiences are entirely unrepresentative of the country or even the party as a whole.
The undertaking begins with stopping Trump. Beyond that, people of good will and common sense can work either within the old Republican Party or in a new (Hamiltonian? Reform? Opportunity?) Party. Unless conservatives get their act together, we will become a one-party, ever left-drifting, country, at least at the national level.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/05/06/stop-trump-then-remake-conservative-politics/