{"id":15315,"date":"2016-03-08T19:32:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T02:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=15315"},"modified":"2016-03-08T19:32:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T02:32:23","slug":"republicans-to-party-like-its-democrats-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2016\/03\/08\/republicans-to-party-like-its-democrats-1968\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans to Party Like it&#8217;s Democrats&#8217; 1968!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/08\/opinion\/its-not-too-late.html\">David Brooks goes all &#8220;Re-Create 68&#8221; on us<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Which, I&#8217;m supposing is the result of a 43 percent Trump delegate count with a 33 percent Cruz delegate count getting side-stepped by&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2016\/03\/07\/3756777\/could-mitt-romney-actually-be-the-2016-republican-presidential-nominee\/\">Mitt Romney<\/a> &#8212; and after a convenient change in the rules to disavow the 8 primary win threshold.<\/p>\n<p>The most striking comment here is around David Brooks:<\/p>\n<p><em>This isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t about winning the presidency in 2016 anymore. This is about something much bigger. Every 50 or 60 years, parties undergo a transformation. The G.O.P. is undergoing one right now. What happens this year will set the party\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trajectory for decades<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth mentioning that Rush Limbaugh is taking to the Donald Trump bandwagon.\u00c2\u00a0 As opposed to Glenn Beck, who isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Theoretically, the two pillars of conservative talk radio would be sliding into opposite directions as&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/political-animal-a\/2016_03\/gaming_out_the_republican_conv059850.php\">whatever the hell is about to transpire in this hypothetical worm-hole commences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/what-are-anti-trump-republicans-to-do-here-are-four-options\/2016\/03\/03\/d1676116-e16d-11e5-8d98-4b3d9215ade1_story.html\">Wait<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Option 3: Support a center-right, third-party candidate for president who would represent a civil rights Republicanism and hold the core message of the party in trust for better days. This approach would depend on finding a strong candidate who is willing to engage in an important but (given the history of such efforts) losing effort. A Mitt Romney candidacy would smack too much of an establishment bent on revenge. In contrast, Mitch Daniels, the former governor of Indiana, would carry a winsome, disciplined, conservative message. Former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice would stand for everything Trump does not \u00e2\u20ac\u201d gravity, dignity, character and serious moral purpose<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh my god, it&#8217;s Dick Morris&#8217;s fantasy 2008 &#8220;Hillary versus Rice&#8221; campaign finally come to fruition!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Brooks goes all &#8220;Re-Create 68&#8221; on us.\u00c2\u00a0 Which, I&#8217;m supposing is the result of a 43 percent Trump delegate count with a 33 percent Cruz delegate count getting side-stepped by&#8230; Mitt Romney &#8212; and after a convenient change in the rules to disavow the 8 primary win threshold. The most striking comment here is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15316,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15315\/revisions\/15316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}