I had the Whigs all wrong, and I had them wrong from reading American history. It was not made clear the revolutionary Whigs are separate from the political Whigs that came later and used the earlier name for their fighting the power and not for wearing powdered wigs themselves. The wig on Jeb! is bogus they didn't wear those. They were only around for some twenty-five years. I thought they were concurrent with Democrats from the start. Until the Whigs a one-party system had been operating. The Whig party was a reaction to Jacksonian politics. No wonder they yearn for a one-party system, it's how they started, a catch basin was needed to collect all fiercely minded political crackpots bent on using government for their purposes, and has been needed for the same reason steadily throughout. The Whig party fell apart on its own, split, couldn't handle the issue of slavery expansion into territories.
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I wasn't aware Cantor's opinion was all that highly regarded.
Well, no, the Whigs were a development of the collapse of the "Era of Good Feelings" Republican dominancy. Single-party dominance is deeply unnatural in the American political ecology, and the Republicans fragmented into multiple personality-driven factions which eventually precipitated into Jackson's Democratic-Republicans, the proto-Whig National-Republicans, and various mayfly factions like Crawford's Radical-Republicans. After Jackson repeatedly curbstomped the National-Republicans, they merged with the remnant Federalists and elements of the Radicals to form the Whigs - who still got stomped again by van Buren. The Whigs really were the Sideshow Bob of antebellum political parties, constantly stepping on rakes. Even when they got a president into office - Harrison, Taylor - it was with a short-lived military hero who were quickly replaced upon their sudden demises by their feckless, treacherous vice-presidents.
The Whigs were more politically identifiable with modern gentry liberalism of the currently regnant Democratic Party factions. Statist, politically correct, big on constitutional innovations and "big government" economic interference.
Loser establishment endorses another. Oh boy!
Watch the media smother it with love. The pro-dem Hillary corruption hiding media want a Bush + Clinton showdown. Their corrupt coronation queen wins. (If only hacks could get Trump to go third party - an automatic win for their corruption queen) You will note the media are all nice-feels and friendly to anything Bush now.
Samuel Pepys complained that when his wigmaker brought him a wig to wear for a special occasion the wig had NITS!
Nits in it, ow ow.
Trump is a Nazi. No, he thinks he's Napoleon. No, he's Huey Long or George Wallace. No, he's a clever Democrat trying to fool Republicans.
The Republican establishment is desperate.
BTW, I love how cantor told his constituents to go fuck themselves - he didn't worry about what the Peons thought, then lost, then said 'goodbye losers' to his Republican colleagues and then went to Wall STR$$T. And yet, there are some Dumbo Republicans who'll probably still say: "Wow, if Cantor endorses Bush he must be great".
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