I see Republicans.
Posted on 03/01/2016 3:38:50 AM PST by Zakeet
If the GOP establishment manages to derail Trump at the convention, expect about half the GOP electorate to revolt, leave the Republican Party for good, support a third party candidacy, or just stay home on Election Day. The downstream electoral effects could be devastating, handing the White House and both houses of Congress to the Democrats with little chance of getting those disenfranchised voters back.
Now suppose these actions fail and Donald Trump is the nominee. The GOP establishment has already signaled they won’t support Trump and may actually vote for Hillary Clinton instead, effectively ending the Republican Party.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, “told colleagues they will drop GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump like a hot rock.” He even gave fellow GOP Senators permission to, “run negative ads against Trump if he becomes the nominee.” How’s that for party unity? Remember the outrage when Trump was hesitant to sign the pledge to support the ultimate nominee?
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The real blame rests on the Republican leadership in Congress. They created the vacuum that made Donald Trump possible. Absent opposition to Obama, looking with disdain upon their voters, ignoring all of their campaign promises, and governing against the will of their voters is why Donald Trump is even in the race. Porous borders, a record low labor participation rate, disdain for American culture and traditions, and a pervasive sense of hopelessness and helplessness did not register with the Beltway elite. Now the GOP is on a rendezvous with destruction. Perhaps out of the ashes a new conservative party can emerge, but the transformation will not be ‘grand’ and it won’t be the ‘old’ party.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I see Republicans.
Are the Democrats for Trump going to vote straight party in November or are they going to return House and Senate leadership to the Democrats?
McConnell and Ryan are LIARS, supported by the MSM,
and the GOP.
They are LIARS, proven LIARS who lied to get elected.
They are now saboteurs for Team Mitt Romney, in their
mutual attempt to help the DNC, 3x in a row (or more).
Trump can make a deal, buying the brand name from the GOPe and buying the rights to “Whigs” and letting them use it.
Here’s the GOPe election plan to rig the election
They are certainly dead if they keep it up, that’s for sure. If the party does survive it will only be because we are successful in forcing them out of the party, which of course would be my preference.
The tidal wave called Trump will find Senator’s begging for his support.
CNN Poll puts Trump at 49, Cruz and Marco homo under 17.
This guy, Brian Joondeph, gets it.
The Republican party has been working against the will of the people for years. How many times have we seen some state-level election, where the Republican party would not support the front-running candidate if that candidate was pushing common sense, responsibility, and other conservative values? How many such candidates went on to lose their elections to RINOs or Democrats?
The Tea Party movement should have been a clue. The Republican party disavowed the Tea Party, when it should have been embracing it and tapping into the desire of the people for smaller, less intrusive government and less "social" spending (i.e. politicians keeping people poor to guarantee their votes).
Well, the Republican party did not listen to the people, and Donald represents the voice of the people.
It can't. Us voting fodder were beyond livid when the nomination was stolen for Cochran. In spite of that, the US overwhelmingly gave the 'pubs an overwhelming victory. They cynically backstabbed us. So now the elite think it's all okay? It isn't. One has to assume the US Senate is already lost with the number of Republicans up for election who have said they won't support the candidate their constituency has chosen.
Just how dead is the elitist's Republican Party? They're not dumb. They know that Jeb's level of support is the percent that support them. They're now about defeating Republican voters. Disgusting.
They have let Obama get away with murder for seven years with hardly a whimper, they have lied to get elected, they are already putting it out there that they would rather see Hillary elected than Trump even though Trump has the support of the people..........so what are we suppose to take away from all this? It’s all about them and their power. Seems like they are just as content as long as no outsider comes in to threaten their easy life. The don’t seem to be the least bit concerned about life for us down here in the real world. I don’t care what happens to the republican party.
Looks like the Elitists will be putting a final bullet in the head of a wheezing, gasping America.
Between eight years of the most inept Republican presidency ever, and then eight years of doing nothing but kowtowing to the most evil presidency of all time, the GOP has done nothing but show us that it's worse than useless.
The Republicans (and the Democrats as well) are self-destructing right before our eyes.
McConnell, Boehner, McCain, Romney, Ryan, the Bush cartel...
They had it coming.
Trump? They made him. The Republican politicians created the conditions which practically mandated that a candidate like Trump would absolutely arise. They thought they could get away with it forever. But now they realize too late: they have crafted the weapon of their own demise.
I have said before that I cannot vote for Trump, for reasons which I shall keep to myself. But I can and do understand that one as Trump was inevitable. And that what we see from him now is the result of the Republicans having become 100% irrelevant as a party of true ideals.
Let it go the way of the Whigs. It's far past time.
I like the post just past the post you reference:
>True. But it’s also true that America is considerably more socialist now than it was 50 years, ago, despite Reagan.
Because Progressives move fast if they can or they might move slow if they have to, but they always move towards their goal. They don’t wait for “perfect”. They merely wait for opportunities. This is something that most conservatives need to learn. We’re always waiting for the “perfect” so we can make our big move and save the republic. Meanwhile, they just keep digging the foundation out from underneath.
they will come around...... they have no choice
Sadly both parties have been selling America down the road to socialism.
Restricted oil drilling allowed redistribution of America’s wealth to to OPEC cartel, the rise of islamo-Fasicism
But if you think I didn't see the GOP make him sign a pledge and no to stop him
Now Ricard you and Mark Meadows will be the first casualties because I am voting for Greg Brannon now and Mark Meadows my former business partner and neighbor.
Calling him tonight. Burr's office begged me not to and I said ball in your court
One thing not covered so far is RINOs being primaried out of DC? You’d think there’d be tons riding DT coattails but I haven’t heard of one except McLettuce.
That’s what the Whigs thought, too.
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