++Bob Costa and Philip Rucker at the Washington Post report that the establishment Republicans are concerned that the Donald and Dr.Ben are not fading as promised and none of their team seem to be having break out moments.
++As one donors explained that we thought that in the fall when the children went to school people would get serious and now we are heading to Thanksgiving and Christmas and soon it's Iowa.
++The big money is on the sidelines and Mr. Hobby Lobby says none of his Wall Street friends want to dive in because they don't see a winner.
++Republican operatives mouth the old bromides that the field will winnow out and it will boil down to establishment and outsider and the establishment will win. But there is no evidence this year that is occurring.
++The Republicans fear losses in the House, the loss of the Senate and Hillary Clinton becoming President.
++Dan Henninger today wrote in the Wall Street Journal that he will be seeing the GOP in Cleveland because nobody stood out at this week's debate and that this will come down to the convention.
++Martin Longman at the Washington Monthly has a must read about Wall Street's horror at the debate. The federal Reserve gets smashed,large corporations are accused by Republicans of crony capitalism. and corporate tax breaks for the companies are seen as hurting mom-and-pop stores. Martin writes that the hypersensitivity of the hedge fund managers is ironic but palpable with this team of Republican contenders. John Kasich is hooted off the stage by saying he would bail out the banks ,while Ted Cruz is cheered by wanting Bank of America to go down. Lobbyists for health insurance companies are openly accused of massaging regulators. And the anti-immigration themes drive the business community nuts.
++This is the party of business. Wall Street said they are fine with either Jeb Bush or Hillary Clinton but the rest of the field scare them.
++Attacks on the financial community provoked articles in the Wall Street Journal today of defending Dodd-Franks against the attacks in Milwaukee.
++But Paul Krugman in a piece today shows that Wall Street Donors are giving something on the order of 90% of this donations to the GOP and now they are horrified.
++South Carolina Governor Haley said that everyone thought with the 2014 elections that everything would be fine and that Congress would be sending bills to President Obama Veto. Instead,the Republican voters are even more outraged at Washington and that their will has been stymied.
++Charlie Black, an old-time operative in presidential campaigns,tries to be reassuring and brings out the old saws that the candidate will emerge. But no one is buying it.
++The GOP donors are already scheming on a late entry by Mitt Romney to save the day. Well, Paul Ryan was to save the day and already the Freedom Caucus has reared its ugly head again.
++ You read the slight attacks on the Donald by Michael Gerson saying that the Donald's immigration policies are absurd. But the Donald has tapped into white nationalism and immigration is just the surface issue.
++ It's the fact that older white Republican males can not handle the demographic change in America. For example, in the last two days alone,I have received about five separate e-mails or screes by white males over 65 about the young and what our educational system is doing to them. They are convinced policemen are under attacks and diversity is wrecking the armed forces.
++Ben Carson touches the religious side of the party and he gets a free pass on being business partners with a felon convicted of medicare fraud. They don't care whether his Seventh Day Adventism is nuts. They like it. He's a teflon man.
++You would think that two debates on conservative business channels would pacify the donors. But instead they are horrified by what they saw. De-regulation great but not the scale the candidates said and not in the way they described. Interestingly a particular bitter observation was made by the Wall Street Journal about the candidates dislike of the TPP, which the corporations have been working on for years with the Obama administration. They thought Trump blew the issue up and then he spent the day attacking the Wall Street Journal.
++There is panic in the City. The Business Insider has been reporting on the rallies of the Donald and that he is a force to be reckoned with. An no one knows how to deal with him.
++They are talking Goldwater defeat in 1964 and McGovern defeat in 1972. That is the talk.
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