Miscellaneous Thoughts on 2016
by Ross Dothan
NOV 12 11:37 AM, 2014
http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/12/miscellaneous-thoughts-on-2016/?comments#permid=13311433
I'll repeat my prediction here, first made on election night 2014, that, in spite of their overwhelming victory, the GOP has not basically changed from a party which lives from, fosters and perpetuates, social conflict and political ignorance through the multitude of "nut cases" in its midst.
There is no "reform conservative" renewal of the GOP, as much as Douthat and Brooks would like to talk it into existance. To think that Marco Rubio is the best the GOP might have to offer in 2016 is just too pathetic for words.
The "nut cases" in the GOP, including Cruz (and Huckabee, btw) will dominate the primaries and will continue to make the GOP a laughing stock on the national level. And with their current majority in both houses, the GOP will continue to pound away at repealing ACA, and will focus on devisive issues to feed the ignorance and prejudices of their core constituents, and thus fail the test of actually governing at the national level.
Having supported Hillory Clinton in 2008 until the "bitter end", even I am not enthused by the prospect of her candidacy in 2016 (her statements on Syria recently demostrate a complete unawareness of our mistakes in the Middle East), but in a face-off between Hillary and Marco Rubio (or Paul Rand), she will be obviously the superior candidate, in intellectual capacity, experience and stature.
There is no "reform conservative" renewal of the GOP, as much as Douthat and Brooks would like to talk it into existance. To think that Marco Rubio is the best the GOP might have to offer in 2016 is just too pathetic for words.
The "nut cases" in the GOP, including Cruz (and Huckabee, btw) will dominate the primaries and will continue to make the GOP a laughing stock on the national level. And with their current majority in both houses, the GOP will continue to pound away at repealing ACA, and will focus on devisive issues to feed the ignorance and prejudices of their core constituents, and thus fail the test of actually governing at the national level.
Having supported Hillory Clinton in 2008 until the "bitter end", even I am not enthused by the prospect of her candidacy in 2016 (her statements on Syria recently demostrate a complete unawareness of our mistakes in the Middle East), but in a face-off between Hillary and Marco Rubio (or Paul Rand), she will be obviously the superior candidate, in intellectual capacity, experience and stature.
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