If you care about little things like a debt crisis and the insolvency of American entitlements in the next decade, and also don't think Sanford has a chance against Trump, why *wouldn't* you welcome him into the race if only as a check on Trump's profligate instincts?
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Replying to @NoahCRothman
Would he be such a check? Most likely outcome is that it has no effect, but it seems to me as likely that it is counterproductive in that Sanford's (likely, IMO) negligible support would reinforce those profligate instincts.
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Replying to @jsende
It forces the president to engage on terrain that he's otherwise been able to avoid since no one on either side of the aisle is talking about the debt.
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Replying to @NoahCRothman
"Forces?" I think you overestimate his chances of forcing Trump to engage him in any way. How's Bill Weld shaping the national debate?
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Replying to @NoahCRothman
1. Sanford: "We're heading for a fiscal calamity!" Media: "Yes, and it's all Trump's fault!" Sanford: "Which is why we need to cut entitlements pronto." Media: "Shall we run the pushing Grandma over the cliff ads, or hold off because he's bashing Trump?" <self-destruct>
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Replying to @jsende @NoahCRothman
2. Trump: "We're not cutting Social Security! We're not those mean old Republicans like Paul Ryan, losers, weak and now out of Congress!" Democrats: "#$$*$*#**($#!%($#(%$($#" Trump: "See you in 2024, suckers!"
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Replying to @jsende @NoahCRothman
Maybe not exactly this way, but the path from "Sanford run" to "Trump has to come up with a plausible deficit-reduction plan" seems nonexistent. It's not as if GOP voters care enough to make it a reason to reject Trump, as we now know, and...
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Replying to @jsende @NoahCRothman
absent a spike in long-term interest rates, the macroeconomic concerns which made deficits a kitchen-table issue in the 1980s & early 1990s aren't pushing it either.
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Weld is easier to dismiss because of his social liberalism, Libertarian Party candidacy, & hasn't won an election in 25 years.
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