10-21-2016, 12:17 PM
(10-21-2016, 11:54 AM)bfine32 Wrote: The thing that frustrated me the most (well not really as a lot of things have frustrated me), is why didn't the members of Republican establishment that denounced Trump (Ryan, McCain. Romney...) not get behind McMullin.
By simply denouncing Trump those few voters that agree with them and simply vote simply on Party will just not vote or hold their noses and vote for Trump.
My theory is that he represents what is going to leave them behind. Were he to be elected, he'd be the youngest POTUS ever. He'd be the first POTUS of Gen X. He doesn't have experience as an elected official, but he has experience that is really vital to the job of POTUS. He is the new guard of the GOP and they are the old, and that concerns them. They aren't willing to embrace that yet.
This is just my best guess. Ryan is himself a Gen Xer, so he kind of throws a wrench into my thought process, but I'm fairly certain that for a lot of them it is a death grip that they have, unwilling to give way to the new.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
