Quote:ordnance11 wrote:Ah. It's the voter base, then. Trump seems to be so popular and all that they're worried they'll all get voted out if they close ranks against him.Quote:Black Aeronaut wrote:I doubt if the entire GOP is counting on a Trump victory. The GOP leadership has decided to let the Senators and congresspersons in contested elections to disassociate themselves with Trump if it means holding on to their offices. The GOP leadership have issued statements of supports that are truly masterpieces of evasion. One of them is the Ayotte evasion.. You have the speaker of the house holding his nose will stating he will support the nominee. Then you have Priebus blithely saying that everything will be fine and the GOP will take back the White house. I've been wondering what has he been smoking when he says these things. The most dangerous ones are folks like Mitch McConnell. He believes that a Trump win will enable the GOP to enact policies to their liking and appease the base. He also believes that Trump can be managed. So did Franz von Pappen. Trump is not someone you manage. And add the latest brouhaha concerning Curiel.
The trouble is that the GOP is now counting on a Trump victory, otherwise they may not be so successful in courting campaign fund donors in the future. It's like sponsorship in NASCAR. If the driver or his team is really fucking up, the sponsors threaten to take away their support. Only instead of trying to sell products, they're trying to sell a policies.
Yesterday Trump was trying to act presidential. I doubt if he can keep up with the effort. He's tried it before reverting back to himself. And imo, the only votes he's going to get are from the Archie Bunker crowd.
So if it came to to unpopular candidates, the question is going to be who will least damage the country. I made a mistake in not voting in 2000 because I though one was as bad as the other. Boy I was wrong. Dead wrong. Won't make that mistake again.
Worse, still, are all the Tea Party meat-heads supporting him. They probably liken the greatness he's promising to the post-WWII days. Of course we'll never get that back. That was a very unique time where we were just coming out of a depression, and then the biggest and most industrialized war started, necessitating what was a complete replacement and upgrade of our military's hardware.
That meant jobs for anyone who wanted one on top of all the combat pay all the sailors/soldiers/marines/airmen got. Sure, during the war no one could buy much. Rationing and all. But immediately afterwards? Everyone wanted everything. Houses. Cars. TV sets. All proudly made in America because no one else had the same quality of manufacture as we did at the time, except maybe the British. On top of all that there was still the occupation of Germany and Japan. (Not so sure about what was going on in Italy at this time, but eh.)
It was, in essence, a very rags-to-riches time for us. And in all seriousness, the only thing that's going to bring about a similar enough rejuvenation is if aliens invaded and we handed them back their asses and had to create some kind of Solar System Defense Forces in the process. Which should show people just how out of touch Trump's supporters are, as if the rampant racism, sexism, and general bigotry weren't enough of a clue.