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What Trump, Carson accomplished so far
Exclusive: Joseph Farah explains how GOP establishment's new rules backfired
09.21.2015

I’ve been waiting to write this column for some time.

What I was waiting for happened Sunday, when the New York Times finally published a story I expected sometime earlier.

The story was headlined: “New party rules fail to speed up Republican race.”

But let me summarize it for you – without the spin.

After the disastrous 2012 election, in which establishment Republican nominee Mitt Romney tanked, fairing worse even than John McCain in 2008, the powers that be within the Republican National Committee knew they would face significant challenges from non-establishment candidates in 2016. So they hatched a devious plan to ensure they could continue to nominate establishment “losers,” as Donald Trump would say – the kind of candidates that have been selected consistently by the party since 1988. While not all of those nominees ultimately lost the presidential race, they were still “losers” because they betrayed Republican principles. They had one other common denominator: They were both named Bush.

The Republican establishment correctly figured there would be many challengers in the 2016 campaign. The plan was to select one establishment candidate with high name recognition and a huge political war chest who would do well enough to sew up the nomination under new rules to speed up the process. It would help, of course, if the candidate’s name was Bush.

The new rules crafted by the Republican elite would enable their pick to win the nomination by only getting 30 percent of the vote in early primaries.

What they weren’t counting on, however, were two things – the Donald Trump factor and the shocking popularity of another anti-establishment candidate, Dr. Ben Carson.

Both of them out-poll Jeb Bush consistently – both in national polls and in state polls. Together, they virtually ensure that Bush cannot achieve 30 percent in any primary. Nationally, he polls below 10 percent, while Trump and Carson are both in high double-digits

Here’s the way the New York Times, big-time fans of the Republican establishment, by the way, reported it: “When gloomy Republican Party leaders regrouped after President Obama’s 2012 re-election, they were intent on enhancing the party’s chances of winning back the White House. The result: new rules to head off a prolonged and divisive nomination fight, and to make certain the Republican standard-bearer is not pulled too far to the right before Election Day.”

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