http://crooksandliars.com/2015/08/dear-robby-mook-political-establishment
While we fully anticipate a competitive primary and general election, the reality is that the GOP brand continues to erode by the day. Last week’s GOP debate put a spotlight on the problem, leading The Washington Post to conclude that “much of the Republican field has now taken positions that are at odds with mainstream American opinion.”
Poll after poll shows that the positions they hold are out-of-date and out-of-step with everyday families - and the nature of the GOP primary will only exacerbate the divide between the candidates and the general public, particularly key swing voters. Furthermore, many of the leading GOP candidates are relying heavily on their Super PACs rather than building a campaign field organization they control.
No, it is not true that "the GOP brand continues to erode by the day" -- and if it were true, the conventional wisdom mongers in the mainstream press would just shore up the GOP, as they always do.
The Republican Party should be embarrassing itself now, but what's happening instead is that Donald Trump -- a pure product of the GOP's media wing, otherwise known as Fox News -- is embarrassing himself, while the GOP is successfully conveying the impression that his words and deeds have nothing to do with the party.
Also, Trump is braying at such a high decibel level that the extreme positions of other candidates -- Scott Walker and Marco Rubio rejecting a rape-and-incest exception to a ban on abortion, for instance, or current Iowa 2nd-place challenger Ben Carson saying that Planned Parenthood sets up shop in black neighborhoods to in order to practice eugenics -- aren't being noticed by the vast majority of voters. Trump's cranked-to-11 style is preventing these statements from getting scrutiny. In that way, he's helping to minimize the erosion of the GOP brand.
i agree he is doing them a favor while his rhetoric is labeled crazy, comical, disgusting and without specificity but all you hear at every story on the primary or republican chances and candidates Trump continues to suck the oxygen out of the room. he's either changed the meaning of campaigning or their base is willing to be led by anyone obnoxious and without a plan.
the republicans now have no plan either but Trumps no plan is more attractive so how do you compete with each other when neither has anything to compete against but bluster and half baked uttering's that are inconclusive nothing from nothing leave nothing recognize
he claims he'going to bring jobs back from those countries his party outsourced them to but no meat on that bone as to how other than "i'm rich. everybody loves me, i'm a business man and will be the greatest jobs creator ever" still no meat on that bone. and yet this pig with all his makeup is their number one choice and still in the poke and they are buying.
