Do You Cease to Be an "Outsider" As Soon as You Win an Election?

Politics & Elections
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When Ted Cruz first ran for the Senate, he was regarded as the Tea Party candidate, boldly standing up to establishment, moderate GOP candidate David Dewhurst.

When Marco Rubio first ran for the Senate, he was regarded as the Tea Party candidate, boldly standing up to squishy moderate establishment GOP candidate Charlie Crist.

But now that both guys are running for President, a huge chunk of the people who used to like them all seem to have embraced Donald Trump!

Looks like, if you ever win any kind of election, you’re now an insider, part of the corrupt system, and can’t be trusted any more.

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Welcome to the mindset of a large portion of the American electorate.

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Note that over half of Republicans have as their first choice someone who’s never held elected office.

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I was thinking the same thing. Is Rand Paul an insider, or is he still an outsider? (An outsider, if you consider his chance of winning the nomination! Haw! Haw!)

But the question’s a good one. When does an outsider become an insider?

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It’s a Catch-22.
Obama ran on a platform of change and progress, but…he’s been a Washington politician.

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I think you lose Outsider status when you run for re-election.

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You’re an insider when a cigar chomping fat man wearing a top hat hands you a large sack with a dollar sign it.

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Then surely Donald Trump has always been “inside”? He runs on the premise that he’s been that guy in that top hat.

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I think second generation politicians are automatically insiders.

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I think anyone who meets his first President the day he’s born, and his second President the day he’s taken home from the hospital, is an Insider-for-Life.