David Wasserman discusses what it will take to stop Donald Trump from winning the Republican nomination. Basically, it would take Marco Rubio suddenly winning a lot of primaries…and I personally don't see that happening. He ain't won one yet, nor has he impressed a lot of us as the kind of candidate that people can rally behind. Trump may owe Chris Christie a nice gift…or a position in the Trump administration. As I look at the polls, it doesn't appear as if Ted Cruz has much more of a chance than Kasich or Carson or Spongebob Squarepants.
Friends keep asking me how I feel about the election. I think my attitude was well-summarized by Doris Day when she sang, "Que Sera, Sera / Whatever will be, will be / The future's not ours, to see / Que Sera, Sera." I don't have much of a preference between Trump and Rubio. Both seemed pledged to all sorts of right-wing wish-dreams that I think would be bad for this country, especially for the poor and non-white. Nor do I have a huge preference between Sanders and Clinton.
I know, I know. I have a blog that discusses (occasionally) politics. I'm supposed to have firm opinions and to write in absolutes and say that one candidate is flawless and the other will end life as we know it on this planet. I am presently unable to get more absolute than I absolutely don't want a president who will destroy Obamacare, shit on immigrants, get us into pointless wars and torture people to show how tough we are, shred the social safety net to slash taxes for the Koch brothers and the rest of the 1% and appoint more Scalias to the Supreme Court. So either Hillary or Bernie would be fine with me and anyone on the G.O.P. side would not be.
(At one point, I thought Trump at least had a goal of replacing Obamacare with something better and "incredible." But he tends to say things that sound like not quite what other Republicans are pledging and then later "clarify" his positions into pretty much the party line. I don't trust the guy not to just be more a clone of George W. Bush than Jeb would have been.)
And I still have the feeling that there will be revelations and new issues and events that will alter the course of this election in ways no one can foresee. The death of Antonin "Get over it" Scalia changed what it's all about. Call it a hunch or the likely extension of the volatility we see before us…but I think there will be a dozen game-changers like that. Maybe Spongebob will stand a chance after all.