By Michael Walsh
December 26, 2015 | 2:55pm
To hear the patronizing wise men of the Republican Party tell it, anyone who would vote for Donald Trump for president must be deranged. “Trumpkins,” they call them, mental midgets and xenophobic troglodytes who’ve crawled out from their survivalist caves in order to destroy the Beltway Establishment.
How their resentful attitude galls the crack cadres of campaign consultants who brought conservatives halfhearted standard-bearers like John McCain and Mitt Romney to do sham battle against Barack Obama in 2008 and ’12, then return to the safety of the US Senate and a beachfront mansion in La Jolla.
The peasants are revolting!
And all on behalf of a bloviating billionaire whose conservatism and party loyalty are suspect.
Now, after months of whistling past the graveyard of Trump’s seemingly inexorable rise and assuring themselves that his candidacy will collapse as voters come to their senses, a CNN poll released Wednesday showing Trump now lapping the field has the GOP establishment in full meltdown mode. The survey shows Trump with nearly 40% of the primary vote, trailed by Ted Cruz at 18%, Ben Carson and Marco Rubio tied at 10%, and the also-rans (including great GOP hope Jeb Bush) limping along far behind.
Their panic was best articulated last week in The Daily Beast by GOP consultant Rick Wilson, who wrote that Trump supporters “put the entire conservative movement at risk of being hijacked and destroyed by a bellowing billionaire with poor impulse control and a profoundly superficial understanding of the world . . . walking, talking comments sections of the fever swamp sites.
No one ever said voters are smart.
Fuck em….we’re here were trumpeted get used to it
The silent majority shall make Donald trump our next president.
CNN looked at the numbers and did interviews. Many Trump supporters have never been to caucus. It is a lot more than just casting a vote and it is doubtful that they have the ability to stick with it. Newbies looking for an outsider. .
Caucus goers and establishment types overlap quite heavily in Iowa. New Caucus goers in 2016 will overwhelm and heavily outnumber previous Caucus goers. Hence the establishment will be schlonged.
Iowa Caucus has lots of credibility… Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, Dick Gephardt, Tom Harkin…