The Morons

This from Jennifer Rubin has to be read to be believed:

It is not as though there were no GOP candidates who embraced a more inclusive, problem-solving message. One after another, however, they lost. You cannot fault the GOP for a lack of choices. There were experienced governors (current and former), a pro-immigration reform freshman senator with a panoply of creative ideas, a female former CEO and so on. The voters have rejected the vast majority of them. Were they all bad candidates with inept campaigns? It is hard to imagine so. Is it all the doing of one evil genius who is destroying the party and ruining its chances for electoral domination? Trump is clever but no genius; he merely saw what was there and seized the opportunity.
In short, you can blame the often spineless RNC, the other candidates, the media and a dozen other factors, but in the end the GOP voters (or the voters choosing to cast ballots in the primary contests) repeatedly have chosen Trump — after hearing his rhetoric and getting a full look at his ethical and intellectual shortcomings. No, it’s not a majority of the GOP who are embracing him, but it sure is a healthy plurality of voters. You want someone to blame for the GOP’s dilemma: Blame the voters.

Let's take a step back, deploy a little more 'fair use' and read a previous paragraph:

 To be clear, a positive, inclusive message was directly taken up by leaders such as now-House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and a gifted Senate class of freshmen in 2014. They were and are inclusive, bubbling with ideas. They won races across the country outside of deep-red enclaves. Even without a hope of passing legislation with Obama in the White House, Republican policy-designers are attempting to, as Ryan likes to say, “set the table” for the 2016 election. They did not do all this because an autopsy report told them to do it, but because savvy, brainy pols figured out that the GOP was headed for extinction if its base continued to shrink and it remained unceasingly negative.

Setting the table, yeah sure. I thought W was setting the table in 2003-2004 and then nothing, nada, zip.

This why the GOP is in this mess. It delivers nothing.

Jennifer Rubin blames the voters, that is the audience for rejecting establishment candidates. She loathes Ted Cruz, of course, and just loves Jeb! Bush and later Rubio. Heck I loved Rubio too, but it was not to be.

Bottom line, when the audience rejects you, the audience isn't wrong, you're wrong.