Friday, December 11, 2015

The pariah at the Republican funeral

Washington Times ^ | 12/10/15 | Wesley Pruden 

The Republican elites sound like the man who was so beset by troubles and miseries that he hitchhiked to New York because there wasn’t a building in his hometown tall enough to jump from.
The elites have tried insult, argument, persuasion and begging, but nothing has persuaded Donald Trump to go away. The more the elites belittle, tease and taunt, the higher he flies in the public-opinion polls.
The Donald clearly enjoys playing the elites, like a cat toying with a mouse. He knows how to manipulate their fears of an independent candidacy if, like Rodney Dangerfield, he “don’t get no respect.” The odds strongly suggest that he can’t win the nomination, but some of the professionals with a history of mismanaging campaigns are not any longer so sure that he can’t.
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Donald Trump’s rambunctious language upsets many people, but rough times invite rough justice. The elites cannot wrap their brains around the incontrovertible fact that these are rough times. Treating the Donald and his followers like pariahs invites a Republican funeral next November. And no flowers.
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