It's MY family's party, or no one's party! |
After decades of playing with fire on race, religion, and gay baiting, the GOP Establishment and its First Family, the Bushes, seem perhaps now acutely aware of the consequences of such an unwise strategy. The implosion of their party, and its split into a true reactionary nativist party, and an overtly patrician plutocratic one.
What would be a good official name for the rump plutocratic party?
Just call it what it would be, "The Party of Bush."
(WND) - First, the Republican Party made Donald Trump sign an oath of loyalty by pledging to support its eventual presidential nominee and not run as a third-party candidate.
Now, the establishment GOP may be planning to do the very thing it made Trump promise not to do: bolt from the Republican party and run a third-party campaign.
Mark McKinnon, former President George W. Bush’s chief media strategist, suggested a scenario to NPR the GOP elite might follow if it looks like Trump will win the party’s presidential nomination.
“The Republican establishment completely freaks out. They get together and say, this is unacceptable, but it looks like it’s going to happen. So we go off, and we create a new Republican Party as an Independent candidacy and draft somebody who’s tanned, rested and ready to go and with a lot of money, somebody like Mitt Romney,” speculated McKinnon. Read more.
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