Posted on 07/07/2015 12:14:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
CNN's Ana Navarro and Fox News' Karl Rove, two commentators deeply involved in Republican politics, are convinced that GOP presidential candidates who make it onto the first primary debate stage will have to confront Donald Trump and his controversial comments on immigration.
"He won't last long," Navarro said of Trump in an email to the Washington Examiner media desk. "Let's hope he doesn't do lasting damage."
Even so, she wrote in a column for CNN.com on Sunday that Trump is a factor in the race for the White House and it will serve the candidates to rebut controversial comments Trump has made in recent weeks about many immigrants being criminals and "rapists."
"My fingers twitch as I write this, but in all likelihood, Trump will participate in at least some of the Republican debates," Navarro wrote. "Initially, my advice to other candidates would have been to not take his bait and ignore the guy. But because his outrageous comments have become so public, and because he is running as a Republican, it is important for other candidates who stand on that debate stage to show leadership by unequivocally batting down Trump's offensive comments."
Monday on Fox News, Rove cautioned that the GOP candidates should be "respectful" but ready to answer for Trump.
"Every Republican had better be prepared to be asked about this because they will be asked by somebody in the media or provoked by a Democrat," Rove said. "Treat him with respect. ... right from the beginning, treat him with respect and put the emphasis on what they believe and what they would do. And if possible, never say his name."
The Republican candidates have so far offered mixed reaction to Trump. Ted Cruz has said he would not engage in attacking another Republican. Chris Christie, however, called the remarks "inappropriate."
Jeb Bush called Trump's views "way out of the mainstream of what most Republicans think."
"While I don't like the verbiage he's used, I like the fact that he is focused on a very important issue for American workers and particularly, legal immigrants in this country," Rick Santorum said Sunday on MSNBC.
The first GOP primary debate is scheduled for Aug. 6.
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There’s never any mention that mainstream Republicans are way past ready to go with Trump, after the slimy deals to defeat McDaniels and Republicans backstabbing their voting base now that they have majorities.
“Let’s hope he doesn’t do lasting damage.”
Trump could never hope to do the type of lasting damage to the republican party that GOP-E A-holes like Rove and Navarro have done.
Way I see it...
They’re peeing down their legs because of Trump.
That’s a GOOD thing.
I don’t think Cruz will be sitting quiet on immigration.
Cruz and Trump are going to mop the floor on immigration.
Two scum dwellers: Rove and Anne
GOPee beware.
Up yours, Rove. Why should other candidates have to speak for Trump? Clearly he can do that for himself.
These two are what the hell is wrong with the GOP: They’re PU**IES!
If they EVER WANT TO WIN ANOTHER NATIONAL ELECTION, these GOP dorks had BETTER get out in front of this Democrat rigging of the electorate. If they’re afraid they’ll piss off the illegals and the others being used by the Dems for that purpose because it would trigger massive civil disorder, BRING IT ON IF the outcome is that ONLY LEGAL CITIZENS will now vote. Hell, we have enough of our own homegrown issue and candidate illiterates already and these fraudulently enfranchised “voters” aren’t going to vote for REAL Pubbies or conservatives – EVER. They’re going to vote for the clowns dispensing all the “FREE CHIT”!
“Democracies cannot exist as a permanent form of government; they
will only exist until the people find that they can vote money
for themselves from the treasury and until the politicians find
that they can distribute that money in order to buy votes and
perpetuate themselves in power. Hence, democracies always
collapse over weak fiscal policy to be followed by a dictatorship.”
Alexander Tyler, Scottish Historian
One more election like the last one and we’ll be there!!
I bet the amnesty Presidental candidates are already in a back room
practicing and stuttering their responses to the immigration issue.
I predict many will lie about their positions on national TV to ease the
pressure that will heaped upon them.
The GOPee Congress is already complicit with Grecian/Kenyanesian Economics deficit budgets/spending. It will not end well.
Trump is shaking up the GOP and has its establishment picked candidates running scared. Yes, that is very good thing.
The GOP, its paid consultants, and its allies in the media will fight Trump tooth and nail because he’s exposing them for their monumental failures and backstabbing ways. True to form, Trump is performing a useful and necessary service instead of the usual babble and political posturing that we get from the GOP.
I think that we know who is way out of the mainstream, here, and it is not Donald Trump.
Those Republicans who refuse, like Karl Rove, to address an issue that will determine, absolutely, the very future of American culture, have no sense, no integrity and no future. Whether the rest of us have any future, depends entirely upon our rejecting their whipped cur approach to this issue.
“I predict many will lie about their positions on national TV to ease the
pressure that will heaped upon them.”
Rubio has lots of practice. Walker can just flip flop back to his position from 6 months ago.
There are only two candidates that represent the majority of Americans on immigration, Trump and Cruz.
Like the GOP image could be damaged any worse. What a bunch of tools.
The last thing the elites and their paid GOP shills want is a conversation about how they are selling out our country. Trump can’t be bought or bullied, so he must be destroyed.
The debates is where Trump and Cruz can demolish the quislings waving the GOPe banner.
Well said!
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