Posted on 02/13/2016 11:15:27 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Get ready for major Republican officials and large donors to begin a campaign to unite behind an alternative to presidential candidates Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) and put intense pressure on two of the leading center-right candidates to drop out of the race before the Super Tuesday GOP voting.
Today, the GOP establishment is in total disarray. There is a fair chance that the two top candidates in the South Carolina primary will turn out to be Cruz and Trump battling for first and second place with the center-right alternatives coming in distant third, fourth and fifth places because they are dividing the anti-Cruz and anti-Trump vote.
Democrats, who feel a growing unease about the Democratic contest, are ecstatic that Republicans might nominate Cruz or Trump, both of whom are viewed by Democrats -- correctly, in my view -- as unelectable. Most Republican leaders and many of the largest Republican donors feel exactly the same way, and fear great peril if the GOP nominates Trump or Cruz....
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Well if that is to be, so be it. If not Cruz, then I can support most any of the others, but never DT.
So I guess the inability to win over your own party makes you the most electable candidate now?
So I guess the inability to win over your own party makes you the most electable candidate now?
Trump will still win in 3 way race. Cruz narrowly winning Iowa was bad for the field.
I really don’t know how the Democrats can think of Donald Trump as un-electable. We are told over and over again that Donald is really a liberal Democrat, so he would be running only slightly toward the center on the Democrat side. Should do quite well, even if Republicans stay home again.
Donald Trump is doing everything the Republican “big tent” folks said they wanted to do! He has “grown in office” even before taking it!
Personally, Kasich, Bush, and Rubio are non-starters.
Trump is an unhinged lunatic. A spoiled petulant child and every FReeper needs to take a hard look at him. If he was carrying on like that in my home, I would kick him out.
Do you have Bernie signs in your yard?
The longer the race has more than two candidates running, the higher the chances for Donald Trump. If it comes down to a two man race, he will have a much harder time winning.
It is in Trump’s best interest to keep a few of the GOPe candidates in to split up the vote and give him a plurality.
Earlier today, there was an RNC fund-raiser letter that was revealed using Trump as a screen. It was clearly trying to get money for the RNC and not Trump, but a question a few people had was “How did they know I supported Trump?”
If it is in Trump’s best interest to keep the RNC favorites in the race, then I could see one of his people slipping donor data to the RNC in order to keep funding up for some of the GOPe candidates.
Politics makes sausage making look clean and sterile.
The favorite term of the GOPe. It's a daily bat signal.
LOL!
Yeah right! Wishful thinking from the Establishment Media.
Yeah people want open borders, massive spending, big government, rigged trade deals that’s engineered to destroy the U.S. and Amnesty.
They Establishment just does not realize how disliked they are outside the beltway.
I’ve studied Trump. Taken a hard objective look at him. And he’s got my vote.
I’ve looked at Cruz the same way and am throughly disappointed in the gutter politics he played in IA. I never dreamed Ted would have done that. Everyone would have said it would be Trump that did the dirty stuff - but it wasn’t. It was “the only principled candidate” in the race. What a joke Cruz has turned out to be.
Trump did the exact same thing to Cruz that Cruz did to McConnel. Trump called Cruz a liar - because he is liar.
After saying that I’ll still vote for Cruz as the nominee.
The GOPe lifted it from Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh.
The ONLY ONE UNHINGED is the GOPe.
“Trump is an unhinged lunatic. A spoiled petulant child and every FReeper needs to take a hard look at him. If he was carrying on like that in my home, I would kick him out.”
I’d get a mirror, and then a dictionary.
You are throwing a hissy fit, calling a man names, and then threatening that you would throw him out of your home. I have to laugh at what you just posted.
Greg Gutfeld is that you?
“unhinge”, “lunatic” “spoiled petulant child” (which is redundant), “carrying on”, all are the talking points coming from somewhere, I have seen those same exact words used over and over again lately.
But yes, the girly men do get a bit flustered when an alpha male walks into the room.
Was this piece written last June?
I do not like Trump. I hate this debate. I hate this election.
I’m scared the country is going to elect a crazy socialist.
I have never seen anything like it.
Then stay home and send H a congrat card fool
Trump is a fearless patriot who speaks the truth. George Bush was a total loser and a failure! Get a grip on reality! Trump is a non-partisan basher of loser politicians left or right. I liked the term he used tonight “common sense conservative”
Common sense is rarely found in the political arena. Take off the partisan glasses and use your head and not your label!
Trump is too much like a Dem you say?
Then he will get a lot of dem votes.
Better that hillary where half the electorate wants her in jail.
BUILD THE WALL!
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