Is Mitt Romney To Blame For The Rise Of Trump?

Republican strategists, who are the one's most responsible for figuring out what to do about Donald, have typically tried to use the old "failed Obama policies" as a reason for explaining the GOP anger that's leading to Trump's meteoric rise.  Since Democrats are responsible for the same explanation as it relates to the rise of Bernie Sanders, both parties have taken to the assumption that America is basically angry but for different reasons.

What the basic voter in both parties knows for sure is that universal economic complaints that ushered in the Obama presidency have lost several voices since the wealthy are not complaining a bit, but are bleeding the benevolence of the Obama years before somebody inevitably pulls the plug on the whole money making machine.  No one really trusts that the money machine will ever truly be dismantled even if its forced to distribute its output a bit more equitably.  Smart people understand that the machine must be forced to produce more just to move towards this mythical, mystical concept of equity that so many are striving to achieve.

Translation, the rich will get even richer if the rest of us have any hope of mere stability.  Add capitalistic wisdom with political frustration and Donald Trump might be the most obvious answer for president, explaining a presidential view of Trump that's catching more momentum each day.

Of course this probably is more a result of that loser Mitt Romney (Trump's words, not mine). If Republican strategists are really using the failure of Obama angle to explain Trump, its probably because they understand that a lame duck Obama is still seeding the dissent of the right.  President Obama gets universally described by the right as a failed president despite news reports of Obama victory after Obama victory that keep occurring since the landslide republican sweep of congress during midterms.

Sure, the middle class is still hurting even thought the country seems to be on the rise.  Yes, our educational system is stuck in flux between the Bush years and the Obama/Clinton support of Bush policies that are slowly losing favor despite few prominent opposing plans to do education differently. Health care is in similar disarray given the infancy of universal health care in America, but none of these issues are the reason Trump keeps rising in the polls.

Trump is the guy that will hopefully make a losing party feel like winners once again.  The entire field of republican candidates were pegged by power brokers for what is perceived as their anti-Romneyesque natures.  In other words, these are supposedly electable candidates with crossover appeal designed to wow the electorate and win one for the GOP.

As it relates to straight WOW factor, nothing beats Donald Trump.  In fact, every other candidate in the republican field has a platform so similar to the other candidates in the field that neither of them will be able to make a case that they are the best voices for the republican ideology because the sales pitch comes across like the adults on a Peanuts cartoon. "Waa wa waa waa waaaaa".  Most Americans could recite the tenants of trickle down republicanism in their sleep. Rand Paul is the only real deviant in the entire group of republicans,  but not on economics.  Hillary will pound this point into the ground for the next year until somebody in the GOP comes up with a form of capitalism that takes care of people better.

"I will police the Iran deal, not rip it up"

WE HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF PEOPLE

                                         ......and you can't rip up the Iran deal.

Correction!  True Trump deviates as well since he has a background in liberalism that might make him the greatest of crossover candidates among the field of republicans if he is able to survive and conquer the primary season.  He has already begun to spill the beans on some aspects of his liberal side, yet, he seems media savvy enough to avoid specifics until he no longer has an option, which could be somewhere near the last month of a general election in reality.


Do You Want To Win Or What?

What Donald Trump has unveiled is the extreme weakness in the republican field which was compiled for one particular purpose; overcoming the charisma that killed them for two presidential cycles.  Right or wrong, every losing party is always working on the last election even at the consequence of recognizing current and future trends of importance.  America appears to be a nation of young people concerned about a future being squeezed between the palms of corporate greed and congressional cronyism that makes it all possible. Republicans responding to the call for charisma could be the equivalent of chasing after echoes from the past versus the visionary populist passions of our present political climate.

Thanks Donald!  I knew going to that
wedding would pay off eventually.

This all means that Trump can and might actually represent the GOP, a party determined to put forth a  candidate charismatic enough to accomplish what Barack Obama did on the way to the white house.  What they won't likely recognize is that we've moved on from Hope, Change and charisma and need a president who can continue to grow the economy and share the wealth at the same time.

This sounds like an opportunity for a true moderate like Hillary Clinton to succeed, but the forces designed to derail presidential cake walks are hard at work placing thorns in her path.  As the potential first woman president, she should expect no less.  If Hillary wins it all, she might in fact owe a debt of gratitude to those who toughened her up to both win and perform in the role.
History is aligning for her first presidential "thank you's" to go to a cantankerous media and to her old friend Trump who are both unknowingly conspiring to provide an assist of a lifetime.