Are you guys totally convinced 100% that Clinton would win then? Because my purpose for considering proposals is that Clinton can still go up and Trump can still go down, and we’re not at the point where I can just bet a million dollars on her winning. If there’s anything that can boost that even a little, I think Clinton ought to at least consider it. Blowing it off like nothing can only hurt her, considering it has no downsides.
The only stinker is for the Republicans to pick a candidate. However, the current nominee has already been endorsed by them (before) so maybe he would count.
The Bush immigration proposal (shot down by the Republicans) wouldn’t be a bad starting point. I don’t know what entitlement reform would mean. For national security, I agree it probably would happen anyway. They should add in tax reform.
But here is the tricky part - who will announce this again? If they get a big bunch of sitting and running Congresspeople to do it the bloodbath as the Trumpistas deserted them would be fantastic, and the Dems might get a majority in the House anyway. If Priebus said it and everyone else disavowed it the agreement would be useless. So I don’t see it.
I for one am not 100% convinced that Clinton will win – there’s still a pretty long time before the election.
But I’m not even 10% convinced that cutting a deal like this with the GOP Powers-that-Be will increase her chances of winning.
I’m not totally convinced she will win. But she is currently winning and the numbers are moving in her direction. But it could change.
But that’s not the issue. The “offer” that was described in the OP is nowhere near realistic. When you only have around a 20% chance of winning, you don’t ask for 80% of the prize.
Well I disagree that saying she should “consider” it means she’s giving anything up. I want her to 100% consider the 80% they are asking for so that she can grind them down to 1%. Does that make more sense?
Um, “they” aren’t asking for anything. A Daily Caller #NeverTrumper is fantasizing. He is a conservative commentator who wants Republican politicians to give him political cover. (Sad!)
The author is not much of a policy analyst. In May he wrote that Trump is like Ebola and Clinton is like malaria. (You get over malaria, but Ebola kills you.) Which is high on metaphor and low on substance. Taking fatuous stuff like that seriously is part of the problem.
McConnell and Ryan want to keep a Republican majority in the Senate and House. They would prefer if Trump is not elected, because he could damage the Republican Party more than Jimmy Carter damaged the Democratic brand, by a hefty margin. As noted earlier, Hillary Clinton might trade potential Democratic pickups for an end to obstructionism. But that deal can’t be cut.
No, not a lot.