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GOP leaders fear damage to party’s image as Donald Trump doubles down
The Washington Post ^ | July 9,2015 | Karen Tumulty,Philip Rucker,Robert Costa

Posted on 07/09/2015 4:50:01 AM PDT by Biggirl

The head of the Republican National Committee, responding to demands from increasingly worried party leaders, spent nearly an hour Wednesday on the phone with Donald Trump, urging the presidential candidate to tone down his inflammatory comments about immigration that have infuriated a key election constituency.

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TOPICS: Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: District of Columbia; US: New York; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; california; election2016; embarcadero; franciscosanchez; kathrynsteinle; mexico; newyork; priebus; rnc; sanfrancisco; tedcruz; texas; trump
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1 posted on 07/09/2015 4:50:01 AM PDT by Biggirl
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To: Biggirl

Gee. I don’t know what kind of an ‘image’ the GOP thinks it has but to me it certainly isn’t a good one. When I hear GOP(e), I am reminded of a pair of dirty, skid-marked under drawers.


2 posted on 07/09/2015 4:51:47 AM PDT by Gaffer
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I'm so happy Trump is doing this. He is verbalizing, publicly, many things we've discussed about the GOPe on FR.
3 posted on 07/09/2015 4:55:08 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: Biggirl

“But if this does have legs, if Trump can keep this going, it will be very worrisome.”

If “this” does have legs, it means that one GOP candidate is rising above all the RINOs and will have a real chance of winning. And THAT is worrisome to GOP insiders?!

There ya go folks, GOP insiders don’t want victory if it’s not won by a RINO.

I’m a conservative/unaffiliated, and am not a big Trump fan. That said, I can look past his “image” if he continues to champion conservative causes and American exceptionalism. I can NOT look past GOP insider idiocy.


4 posted on 07/09/2015 4:55:59 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: Biggirl

Trump has a GOPee Hell Hound on his trail.


5 posted on 07/09/2015 4:59:54 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: Lee'sGhost

He’s sure exposing the GOPe for the hypocrites they are!!!!!

It’s a giant wake up call......and I hope folks realize the GOPe NEVER had our best interests in mind......evah!!!!!


6 posted on 07/09/2015 5:01:27 AM PDT by Guenevere (If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do........Psalms 11:3..An Appeal to Heaven)
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To: Biggirl

He just makes the GOP look like a bunch of DemocRats.


7 posted on 07/09/2015 5:06:25 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Biggirl

Has the head of the Republican National Committee asked the DemocRATS to tone down the rhetoric?

Didn’t think so.


8 posted on 07/09/2015 5:06:55 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
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By all means, Trump should stop this or he will damage the GOP image as a bunch of spineless losers.


9 posted on 07/09/2015 5:09:35 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: Biggirl

Karen Tumulty walked into a bar and the bartender asked

What’ll you have....... why the Kerry face?


10 posted on 07/09/2015 5:10:07 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: Biggirl

On fox this morning they had frank luntz with his group of people slamming TRUMP.I trust luntz as far as I can toss his fat ass.


11 posted on 07/09/2015 5:12:08 AM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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HA HA HA. He is KILLING their little JEB dead!!


12 posted on 07/09/2015 5:13:14 AM PDT by The Toll
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They fear damage to their position In whatever deal they’ve had going on for thirty years. That’s not the party. That’s the corrupt leadership. If they don’t know that the party is happy to watch this, well, they don’t. They are just out of touch.


13 posted on 07/09/2015 5:13:18 AM PDT by stanne
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:: When I hear GOP(e), I am reminded of a pair of dirty, skid-marked under drawers. ::

Gaffer may have hit on something, here!

Them whitey-tighties with such “striped stains” should be called “gopes” (rhymes with “hopes”).

Useage?
A bachelor can say, “I need to launder my gopes this weekend.”
A wife can berate her husband, “Why must you leave your gopes on the floor? It’s disgusting!”

All credit to FR’s Gaffer!


14 posted on 07/09/2015 5:14:42 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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I am no fan of Trump, but I will vote for him on the immigration issue alone. He is the only one that has dared mention the problem. And it is a huge problem. Maybe the biggest problem this nation faces, simply because of the corruption and cowardliness of the political class. .
15 posted on 07/09/2015 5:14:49 AM PDT by Tupelo (I feel more like Phillip Nolan every day.)
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To: Gaffer

yup...nevermind most GOPers agree with Trump...


16 posted on 07/09/2015 5:15:56 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Biggirl

F*ck the illegal aliens!

If there feelings are so hurt, then they can sneak back across the border and have a good cry.


17 posted on 07/09/2015 5:16:04 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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Sure be nice if Previous and other Republican ‘leaders’ would spend an hour or so talking to the TEA PARTY.

...but at least Trump got his attention. That’s more than Cruz, Walker, or anyone else has been able to do.

So KEEP IT UP, TRUMP!!!


18 posted on 07/09/2015 5:16:07 AM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'about' page))
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To: stanne

....Or could it be that they are REMINDED of another GOP person with STRONG MINDED LEADERSHIP -——————> A certain Ronald Reagan?


19 posted on 07/09/2015 5:16:09 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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“If “this” does have legs, it means that one GOP candidate is rising above all the RINOs and will have a real chance of winning. And THAT is worrisome to GOP insiders?!”

That is worrisome - they’d prefer to lose than to have deal with President Trump. That is who they are, and why they’re now trying to silence him.


20 posted on 07/09/2015 5:17:12 AM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'about' page))
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