A Lot of Whining
For bitching and moaning I don't think the current field of Republican candidates has been surpassed. Among the biggest complainers have been the poll dominaters themselves, Trump and Carson. There is of course a big difference between those two. Trump is a master of media manipulation and relishes the chaos he has unleashed. Carson is completely inadequate to meet the tasks of running for President and genuinely suffers from a martyr complex.
Trump used to threaten he would run as an independent if he wasn't treated fairly, whatever that means, but then he made kissy kissy with the party and signed a pledge not to be naughty. He's again hinted he might go out on his own, this is one of his weapons of leverage to get what he wants. He will never do it because he will never spend the three to four hundred million dollars of his own money it would take to make certain he was on every ballot in every state.
Ben Carson has now said he might run as an independent if the party has a brokered convention and pulls it's "shenanigans" to lock him out. Carson doesn't have the money to run as an independent nor would he be able to raise it through other sources and even if he did the end result of that campaign for him would be about one percent of the vote. Carson's protestations of shenanigans is further demonstration of his ignorance of the political process and history itself. Brokered conventions were once the norm. The parties created our modern primary system to try to avoid it and for them it has been more or less institutionally successful but there is nothing nefarious about a brokered convention. The only real problem is they can no longer have the pleasure of smoke filled backrooms.
All of this sniveling and premature whining about brokered conventions is absurd. It falls in the realm of improbability that given the large number of people running for the Republican nomination that one of them would not emerge the victor in the delegate count and become the nominee before arriving at the convention.
It would be a lot more fun if it were a brokered convention and I for one would love to see it happen but alas I do not believe it will. Rest assured we will have what all party conventions have become, a four night snooze fest marked by the unremarkable.
Trump used to threaten he would run as an independent if he wasn't treated fairly, whatever that means, but then he made kissy kissy with the party and signed a pledge not to be naughty. He's again hinted he might go out on his own, this is one of his weapons of leverage to get what he wants. He will never do it because he will never spend the three to four hundred million dollars of his own money it would take to make certain he was on every ballot in every state.
Ben Carson has now said he might run as an independent if the party has a brokered convention and pulls it's "shenanigans" to lock him out. Carson doesn't have the money to run as an independent nor would he be able to raise it through other sources and even if he did the end result of that campaign for him would be about one percent of the vote. Carson's protestations of shenanigans is further demonstration of his ignorance of the political process and history itself. Brokered conventions were once the norm. The parties created our modern primary system to try to avoid it and for them it has been more or less institutionally successful but there is nothing nefarious about a brokered convention. The only real problem is they can no longer have the pleasure of smoke filled backrooms.
All of this sniveling and premature whining about brokered conventions is absurd. It falls in the realm of improbability that given the large number of people running for the Republican nomination that one of them would not emerge the victor in the delegate count and become the nominee before arriving at the convention.
It would be a lot more fun if it were a brokered convention and I for one would love to see it happen but alas I do not believe it will. Rest assured we will have what all party conventions have become, a four night snooze fest marked by the unremarkable.
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