tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512362.post3654687298470513392..comments2024-03-10T13:59:19.230-04:00Comments on xpostfactoid: For Hillary, a siren song from the rightAndrew Sprunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17601269968798865106noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512362.post-49590161898052413262016-08-02T19:02:11.454-04:002016-08-02T19:02:11.454-04:00I think you both make really good points. I can ha...I think you both make really good points. I can hardly get past the fact that with a person like Trump as the opponent there would be any way Clinton could lose. But I understand no one says that.<br />I am not sure where to look to find out who would be the Republican candidate if Trump dropped out or was dumped. I heard Stuart Stevens say on MSNBC last night that the Republicans could replace him with Pence. But why would it not be Cruz? It seems different for the VP to be selected to replace/assist the president than for him to be selected to replace the candidate. That takes the voters completely out of the nominating, I think! I know very little.JStewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13536615953892557419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512362.post-42430496045850023862016-08-01T09:29:24.788-04:002016-08-01T09:29:24.788-04:00I think there's another problem with trying to...I think there's another problem with trying to craft policies that might appeal to Republicans. If the recent past is any guide, Republicans will never, ever vote for anything proposed by Clinton, nor will they be open to compromise. At least as of today, Mann and Ornstein's indictment still holds true:<br /><br />“The Republican Party has become an insurgent outlier — ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.” The only thing that's changed since Mann and Ornstein debuted their diagnosis is that now the "Freedom Caucus" is an insurgency within the insurgency that makes it even harder to do anything but avoid defaulting on the national debt or shutting down the government, and even that is extremely hard.<br /><br />President Clinton won't be able to change that. If Paul Ryan can't control his caucus, how could Hillary? If he announced he was setting aside "the Hastert Rule" how long would he remain Speaker? If there's ever going to be minimal comity between a Republican House and a Democratic President, it's the Republicans who have to move the farthest. Geoff Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17117921607237662932noreply@blogger.com