An enormous day for the GOP looms on Tuesday as primaries in Florida, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, and North Carolina are on the slate for the second Super Tuesday. If reality television star Donald Trump has another big day he’s probably on his way to becoming the GOP’s plurality candidate heading into the convention.
It honesty doesn’t appear anything Trump says or does has any negative impact with his cult followers so it’s hard to imagine the violence at his recent rallies steering his core groupies from voting for him.
Trump has a chance in winning all five states with two of these in Florida and Ohio having favorite sons Marco Rubio and John Kasich fighting for their presidential survival tomorrow. Even if Kasich wins Ohio, the only fathomable path he or Ted Cruz have to the nomination is through a brokered convention and a fractured Republican party.
Not since the days of the Election of 1912 with Teddy Roosevelt bolting the GOP to run as the candidate of the Bull Moose Party has there been so much rife involved with the GOP’s presidential nomination process. Perhaps, Perot in 1992 might qualify, but even with Perot it wasn’t as if a rogue canidate was holding the party hostage as Trump currently is doing with his nonsensical rhetoric.
Of course, both in 1912 and 1992 these paths led to Woodrow Wilson and Bill Clinton being elected as minority presidents. Which of course is exactly what Trump is on course to replicating in 2016 if he continues to behave like a four year old with the benefactor this time being either Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders.
If you’re a presidential historical junkie tomorrow possibly will be one of those days you circle as being clearly significant as far as the direction of contemporary American politics.
Mix it up a little. I want to get your views on the Thunder too.
I will. But this Trump thing can’t be ignored. Like the Wall Street Journal—I’m all over it. But this is a Thunder blog–so once this second Super Tuesday is in the books, I’ll focus back in on the Thunder. I’m think maybe a book like Michael Lewis wrote in 1996 called Losers would be fun because this GOP tournament has been one for the ages and genuinely gives all of us a closer feel as to how many clueless knuckleheads we actually have in America currently.
Losers II ? Would that be a copyright infringement?