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GreatGazoo

(3,937 posts) Thu Jul 9, 2015, 07:57 AM Jul 2015

The GOP's Trump Problem -- the GOP's 2016 Hispanic strategy is being torpedoed by the Donald

Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, John Ellis Bush who speaks Spanish at home to his Mexican wife.....and then Trump.

Assuming Trump is not just batshit crazy (a big jump admittedly), Trump's strategy, his only hope, for getting the nomination is to destroy the party's vision for rolling conservative hispanics in with their loyal angry white male voters. The GOP knows they have done extremely poorly with groups outside of socially conservative whites and they see the rising proportion of Hispanic voters as a new segment for their agendas. Trump doesn't fit into that, at all.

Trump likely knows that.

A poison pill is a strategy that tries to create a shield against a takeover bid by another company by triggering a new, prohibitive cost that must be paid after the takeover.

Trump seems to be executing the political equivalent of a poison pill strategy believing that if he does enough damage, puts enough of a wedge between the GOP and hispanics, that they will have no choice but to abandon diversity and go back to their dog whistle racism. In other words if Trump lays down enough hateful landmines between GOP voters and hispanics then Cruz, Rubio and Bush won't be viable candidates for the GOP.

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The GOP's Trump Problem -- the GOP's 2016 Hispanic strategy is being torpedoed by the Donald (Original Post) GreatGazoo Jul 2015 OP

As spineless as many Democrats are to attacks Republicans have a similar problem. gordianot Jul 2015 #1

Well he may get rid of this group pennylane100 Jul 2015 #2

Trump may get something for going away GreatGazoo Jul 2015 #3

Y'know, if Trump wasn't doing it TlalocW Jul 2015 #4

gordianot

(15,238 posts)

1. As spineless as many Democrats are to attacks Republicans have a similar problem.

Reply to GreatGazoo (Original post)

Thu Jul 9, 2015, 08:11 AM

Jul 2015

Where Democrats cave in to threats Republicans find no threat they are not willing to embrace.

pennylane100

(3,425 posts)

2. Well he may get rid of this group

Reply to GreatGazoo (Original post)

Thu Jul 9, 2015, 08:12 AM

Jul 2015

but there are still several more clowns that are far more electable than him. If I had to pick one candidate that did not make me puke, just nauseous, I would pick Pataki.

GreatGazoo

(3,937 posts)

3. Trump may get something for going away

Reply to pennylane100 (Reply #2)

Thu Jul 9, 2015, 09:29 AM

Jul 2015

TlalocW

(15,384 posts)

4. Y'know, if Trump wasn't doing it

Reply to GreatGazoo (Original post)

Thu Jul 9, 2015, 09:48 AM

Jul 2015

Eventually another one of the candidates would. There was an article that showed decades of quotes that were all along the lines of, "The GOP needs to do a better job reaching women and minorities," that different republican mucky-mucks said after a republican loss. They don't know how to campaign to non-white men.

TlalocW

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