A non-starter then is, as name suggests, a player who’s not among the starters. You may infer that he’s probably not very good.
In horse racing, a nonstarter also refers to a horse that refuses to leave the gate at the beginning of the race, therefore failing the test altogether. Here, the idea is, a nonstarter is an utter failure.
Therefore, figuratively speaking, if someone’s proposal is deemed a nonstarter, it is not very good. In fact, it is so bad that you’d better not even raise it in the first place.
In our example from the top, the message is this: Even though many Americans don’t like Obamacare, it is here to stay. To propose to repeal it is a non-starter, something doomed to fail and therefore not worth considering at all.
In other words, don’t even make the proposal in the first place, since doing so will only lead to a waste of everyone’s time.
Alright, here are more media examples for you to get a better hang of nonstarters, of one sort or another:
1. “The Arab nations must understand that the right of return is a red line as far as Israel is concerned,” said senior state officials in Jerusalem on Wednesday. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert expects the Arab League Summit in Riyadh will lead to significant changes in the Saudi peace initiative, including dropping the right of return clause.
“Arab nations seeking to advance the Middle East peace process must remove the right of return from the equation,” said the state officials. The peace initiative agreed upon by the Arab League in 2002 calls for Israel to withdraw to its 1967 borders, including the Golan Heights and Sheba Farms in the north, as well as the establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. The 2002 initiative also calls for an agreement on the matter of the Palestinian refugees.
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