That would be “insult the base, lose”. John Kasich keeps saying that Trump can’t win – like this Sununu-anointed pol can, running single digits in the polls against Trump’s double digits and Lindsey Graham relegated to the “little kids” debate table? Methinks that insulting ANY Republican and losing their vote would be, interestingly enough, a losing proposition. But Graham goes there, and almost (??) throws the race card (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) says GOP front-runner Donald Trump is doing so well in the polls because nearly half of Republican primary voters think President Obama is a Kenyan-born Muslim. “Well there’s about 40 percent of the Republican primary voter who believes that Obama was born in Kenya and is a Muslim,” Graham told Boston Herald Radio on Friday, according to BuzzFeed News.
“There’s just a dislike for President Obama that is visceral. It’s almost irrational,” Graham added. Graham said Trump will not get 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency if he doesn’t grow support with the Hispanic community. “He can’t grow this party,” Graham said. “He represents a level of intolerance and … cartoon policy that won’t sell.”
Yeah, well it doesn’t seem that your policies are pretty much clunkers for all of the attention and push that voters are giving you right now, eh? Maybe Trump can’t grow the Hispanic community (opinion, not fact, John) but irrelevant as it seem, at least here in vast majority white NH, you can’t even “grow a community” that can “rise with you” to even a decent showing. But you do show a bit of hubris in castigating Trump for that which you can’t do either
The South Carolina senator promised “Hillary Clinton will clean [Trump’s] clock” and Republicans will lose “badly” if the party nominates Trump.
Maybe, maybe not, but you’ll not even get that chance. While you’re just failing badly and if things continue the same, you’ll continue be stuck at the kiddies table and as an asterick by the end of the campaign (re: also-ran, and maybe even with a question mark after that).
(H/T: The Hill via American Thinker)
