GOP Establishment Wants to Bring Back Romney to Fight Trump and Carson

Regardless of how you feel about Donald Trump and Ben Carson, you have to admit that their popularity is emblematic of a major sea change among conservative voters, just as Bernie Sanders represents a significant shift among liberal voters (full disclosure, I can’t stand any of them). Both cases reveal that the average American is absolutely tired of dealing with establishment politicians. They’re sick of being lied to by smooth talkers that don’t really have their best interest at heart, and don’t fulfill any of their promises.

These voters think that they’ve finally found an alternative in these candidates. As you might expect, the GOP establishment is not taking this development very well. Their race is not going according to plan. Their main man Jeb Bush was supposed to have this one in the bag, and no matter what they do they can’t seem to get their voters to take an interest in him.

You’d think that a light bulb would go off in their heads, and they’d realize that their voters are tired of getting screwed, and that maybe they should go ahead and start looking for candidates that at least resemble what their voters are looking for. However, that’s not in the nature of any establishment force. They are “immovable,” which is practically the definition of “establishment.”

Instead of adapting to a changing electorate, they will do everything in their power to maintain the status quo. Not surprisingly, this desperate attitude often results in incredibly stupid ideas and decisions .

According to other Republicans, some in the party establishment are so desperate to change the dynamic that they are talking anew about drafting Romney — despite his insistence that he will not run again. Friends have mapped out a strategy for a late entry to pick up delegates and vie for the nomination in a convention fight, according to the Republicans who were briefed on the talks, though Romney has shown no indication of reviving his interest.

Yes, they would rather throw their lot behind a known failure, rather than let Carson or Trump win. They claim they are worried that these candidates won’t be able to beat Hillary, so they think that turning to someone who couldn’t beat Obama is the answer to their problems.

This is typical establishment behavior. They refuse to accepting the fact that they are no longer relevant, and no longer wanted. Instead of changing, they just keep reinforcing their previous failures. Moreover, they think they know what the people want more than they do, so they ignore any sign of popular discontent.

Meanwhile, people like Trump and Carson are both still dominating the polls, with Trump taking a massive new lead according to Reuters.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – After a week in which he hosted Saturday Night Live and stood center-stage at a Republican debate, Donald Trump is surging among Republicans likely to cast votes in the party’s presidential primary.

According to the five-day rolling Reuters/Ipsos presidential poll, Trump has leapt some 17 percentage points among likely Republican voters since Nov. 6, when he was essentially tied with Ben Carson at about 25 percent. Trump now captures 42 percent of those voters while Carson has fallen off slightly.

Among all Republicans – not simply likely primary voters -Trump holds a substantial edge over Carson, at 34 percent to about 20 percent, according to the Reuters/Ipsos poll.

When you add up the poll numbers for Trump and Carson, it now amounts to well over half of Republican voters. In other words, more than half of all Republicans are rebelling against the GOP establishment, with only 4% saying they would vote for Jeb (I wonder how many of them even like Trump, or if they’re just desperate for somebody who isn’t such a boring shill). Perhaps now the GOP will learn to start catering to this new electorate, though I doubt it.

They are the establishment after all. They don’t learn from anything, they just keep floundering in the face of reality until it kills them. At some point, this new populist movement within the GOP is going to overrun the old guard, or simply render them impotent within their own party. Even if Trump and Carson lose, the writing is on the wall. The GOP establishment, (which largely consists of a bunch of neocons) is facing its final days.