October 29, 2015
Prospects of a 2016 GOP Crackup
As they say down south, it’s time to throw the dead cat on the table. The 2016 presidential election is about a year off. As of now, all sides on the right side of the nation’s political divide can agree on one thing: the GOP is a fractured affair. Is a GOP crackup in the offing? A crackup similar to what the party experienced in 1964? Is Trump going to play Goldwater to the establishment’s Rockefeller? Or will Rocky’s incarnation prevail this time?
What happens to the GOP, if after a long, contentious elections process, Republicans fail to produce a nominee? What if Republicans produce a brokered convention, instead? Given that no Republican now (that includes Trump) commands anywhere near majorities in state polls, a brokered convention should be on the radar. It would be the first time for Republicans since 1940. Then, Wendell Willkie, a New Deal Lite dark horse, was picked by delegates as the...(Read Full Article)