Posted on 02/27/2016 10:42:14 AM PST by WilliamIII
If somehow the GOPe drafted Romney at the convention, the base would not turn out at all. The losses to the Republican party would be of 1964 or 1974 proportions. I would vote for a few local conservative candidates but that would be it.
The Anti-Gun ticket!
Either Rubio will have a very big day next Tuesday or party leaders could well turn to Romney.
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The Republican Party commits suicide if they do this. They have had a LOT of warning shots over the bow & they just refuse to believe that many in America have HAD IT with them. They got my last “hold your nose & vote” vote the last presidential election & I’m NOT doing it again. I will not vote for Romney. Period. When they come back with “vote for Romney or you’ll get Hillary”, well big d@mn deal ‘cause if they run LOSER Romney, we’ll end up with Hilly anyway.
Willard has been circling this carnage for months, licking his chops. I think plan B after the casting of Jeb into the Crack of Doom is a brokered convention, Willard as the nominee with Cruz as a sop to the shafted conservative base.
It might work against the criminal doddering Shrill.
I'd love to be on the drugs these folks are on who write this delusional nonsense...
It must be a great place to park your mind...
“Fifth, Christie’s endorsement of Trump creates a put-up-or-shut-up moment for Republican Party leaders, movers and shakers, and major donors who must either unify in force behind Rubio almost immediately or find a late-entering candidate for a last-ditch stand.
My guess is that there are two possible outcomes to the fear and loathing of Trump that now grips members of the GOP establishment, who will now watch the March 1 balloting with intense fear.
If Rubio does better on March 1, there will be a powerful surge of establishment unity behind his candidacy and huge pressure on Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) to withdraw and support Rubio. If Rubio does poorly on March 1, there will be chaos, panic and bedlam throughout the GOP establishment, which could well turn to 2012 nominee Mitt Romney with a huge and sudden draft movement in a last-ditch attempt to save the party from Trump.”
Completely delusional. The GOPe has no practical choice but to accept Trump as their nominee. Any attempt to circumvent the will of their voters will result in the complete destruction of the party, and they know it.
Well, like I hve often said, I am sitting this election out.
However, the GOP Convention is gonna be a barn burner. I usually don’t watch Conventions but no way I am missing this one.
If its a decision between Hillary and Trump many republicans view Hillary the lesser of the two evil. It is sad, but true. I could see the republican under vote (anti-Trump people) supporting a Romney third party run, not because they think Romney can win, but because they believe it would syphon enough republican support from Trump to cost him the Whitehouse.
This Democrat clown asserts that Bernie Sanders would beat Trump by a landslide! Bernie Sanders couldn’t beat my Aunt Fanny by a landslide. Further, I don’t believe for a minute that HRC is delighted that Christie has endorsed Trump.
I think you are missing the larger point about the republican party. At its core, it is truly a minority (meaning few members) party. In the minds of many, being conservative means being one of the “few people in the country who think that way.” The party as a whole seems ok with that. Its why they are so comfortable playing “lets all just get along politics” in Washington rather than being a true majority or opposition party. I think party elders would be happy to purge all the non-traditional members from the party even if it costs the party big losses in membership as well as losing the white house. I don’t think the GOPe is worried about the destruction of the party as you phrased it. I think the GOPe would look at it as a necessary culling of the non-maintstream republican voters.
The GOPe might elect the establishment Democrat this way, but it will be a pyhric victory because they’ll lose a lot of down-ticket Republican incumbents, too.
“I think the GOPe would look at it as a necessary culling of the non-maintstream republican voters.”
which would mean “culling” over 50% of their current members if you look at the sum of the vote for Trump, Cruz and Carson, which equals the destruction of the party.
What is the definition of insanity?
If the “republicans” that we put in Congress had fought Obama like we wanted them to, as hard as they are fighting Trump, then there would be no Trump. They betrayed the voters that put them in and would rather see a dem win than give up their cushy “establishment” perks and they are powerful. They are idiots too.
I don’t believe many see Hillary as the lesser of two evils; her own current primary issues (and previously being thrown under the bus by her own party in favor of a community activist) indicate she has big problem with Dems and no sway with “swing voters”.
Eight years ago she had the same problem; everyone either loves her or hates her - and not enough people love her. There are no “undecided” with her (except the pitches she makes to voters who arrived in this country since 2008).
Romney is done; he shares the shameful distinction with McCain and Hillary of losing to the incompetent token Obama. All three lost to a teleprompter.
Funny Sarah Palin got more votes than Mittens
What election results are you looking at?
Romney/Ryan got a million more votes than McCain/Palin, and from a smaller turnout.
This is much bigger. The US is the welfare provider to the world. The globalists are suppose to win this and every election. It was suppose to be Jeb or Hillary. They win and the graft can continue.
Trump has thrown a major monkey wrench in the plan.
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