Posted on 03/02/2016 7:59:03 PM PST by Kaslin
That sound you hear is the noise made by the Republican Party establishment crashing and burning. The only remaining question for them is how far they will go to blow up what remains.
The GOP, as it has been known for decades, is no more. The cadres of white, upper-crust, East Coast establishmentarians has been elbowed aside by the upstarts Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. And nothing they can do from here on out will change that.
They have no viable candidate. They have no agenda to speak of. Their rationale for being has been smashed. All they have left is to play a spoiler role by attempting to deny Donald Trump the nomination.
In this, they will fail. The rules they wrote in 2012 to prevent an outsider like Trump from gaining power will now be turned against them. There is no convention challenge that will prevent Trump from giving his nomination acceptance speech as long as he has the 1237 delegates needed to win the nomination. And his Super Tuesday performance virtually guaranteed that scenario.
Bereft of any hope of stopping Trump, that won't prevent the GOP establishment from spending tens of millions of dollars anyway.
With every victory, Trump is splintering the party, evoking strong emotions from an increasingly outspoken group of detractors and from the rank-and-file voters propelling his candidacy and rendering the GOP’s Washington power brokers powerless.
“We have expanded the Republican Party,” Trump said Tuesday night, noting the spike in turnout across this year’s GOP primaries. “I am a unifier. I know people will find it hard to believe, but I’m a unifier.”
“The Republican Party has become more dynamic, more diverse,” he continued. “We’re taking from the Democrats, we’re taking from the independents. We have a lot more people.”
As usual, Trump’s words contained more than a grain of indisputable truth. But it’s his other words—the schoolyard insults and crude New York City vernacular that masks a lack of knowledge about policy, the xenophobic dog whistles so loud they sound like a bark, the attacks on Republican elders, moderation on Planned Parenthood, even neutrality in the Israel-Palestine conflict—that so many Republicans cannot abide. As they dig in against his candidacy, they are girding for a civil war not, they insist, in order to cling to power over the party but to save the ideas and principles that have always held it together.
It is a war the GOP as we know it may not survive, “a big and strong fight going on about the future of the Republican Party as intense as we’ve ever seen,” said Pete Wehner, a veteran of the George W. Bush White House who has savaged Trump of late. “A Trump victory would be catastrophic to the Republican Party and a terrible danger to the republic itself. If he wins the presidency, you may see the efforts to form a new party.”
The disconnect between the Republican establishment and its donor class and the party’s grassroots base has been widening for years, ever since Barack Obama took office in 2009. But the increasing likelihood of Trump becoming the GOP standard-bearer is tearing whatever fraying threads had held this fractious coalition together.
As Trump racks up wins, his party is splitting into two factions with immeasurable distance between them—the #NeverTrump crowd on one side and the Make America Great Again movement on the other.
The Republican Party is a huge entity, much bigger than any one man or one faction. So the chances are pretty good that there will continue to be an organization that calls itself "Republican."
But the question being asked by some in the establishment is valid: what does this new GOP stand for? Trump, and Cruz to some extent, have been all about blowing up the party, breaking from the past, ignoring longstanding GOP positions on vital issues. In short, Trump has no clue what his campaign stands for. Whether by design or by simple ignorance, Trump will be the Republican Party standard-bearer not because he stands for anything specific, but because he has promised to change things.
If what's left of the GOP establishment carries through with their threats to upend the Trump campaign, it will be a massacre in November regardless of who the Democratic Party nominee might be.
Amen to that.
They have no agenda to speak of
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Oh, they have an agenda.
To keep The Cheap Labor Express running.
The most important thing in this election to the RNC/GOP is preventing us from electing anyone who would enforce the laws on fraudulently documented foreigners or their employers.
The citizens want the illegal alien inundation stopped.
The GOP has been actively working against us for decades.
The masks are off, we see who stands with the citizens and who sides with the illegal aliens and their employers.
Cover for Cruz - the establishment’s “anti-establishment” candidate ...Levin and Beck’s insane ranting against Trump are proof of this ... screaming crybaby Levin is off the rails for the globalist trade deals and open-borders ...
This liberal GOP is now finished. I propose Sarah Palin as the new party Chairman. I want Rinsed penis run out on a rail. I want the party MONEY-— ALL THE MONEY. Trump will be President. There are no more NEO CONS!! RINO season is open. God Bless America and God Bless Donald John Trump.
If what’s left of the GOP establishment carries through with their threats to upend the Trump campaign, it will be a massacre in November regardless of who the Democratic Party nominee might be.
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Your posts indicate this would be acceptable to you Kas.
What’s ironic is the same people fighting Trump so passionately are the same people who have folded like cheap suits before Obama.
They want to stop Trump but they couldn’t stop Obama?
No wonder no one takes them seriously.
I don’t think the Republican party is dead, rather there will be an internal upheaval that will (hopefully) purge the GOPe and de-RINOize the party.
Just think, a real opposition party, one that does push back, politicians that uphold their pre-election promises and take their Constitutional oath seriously. Sorta like a fantasy, one of those feel good movies.
Astute observation.
It seems to me that Trump is somewhat like Willkie in 1940, an outsider taking over the party with undefined goals. Incredibly, FDR outlived Willkie.
WENDLE WENDLE WENDLE...... It is not Rinsed penis, it is RANCID PENIS. Sorry to have to correct. ;-)
Excellent post and I agree 100 percent
Nah, after the hostile takeover and purge and restoration the GOP will be GREAT again.
I see you have read the GOPe talking points.
Willkie——now there’s a name I haven’t heard in years.
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I never thought of that one. What a contrast to the Dems Debbie "Miracle Whip" Shultz!
Much like the stark contrast would be between a First Lady Melania and the First Uruk-Hai we have now
“A Trump victory would be catastrophic to the Republican Party and a terrible danger to the republic itself. If he wins the presidency, you may see the efforts to form a new party.”
There are no words to describe the inherent delusional insanity harbored by these people. Its like they speak another language altogether and inhabit an alternate universe. After watching the Bush clan and their neocon henchmen dismantle what was left of the Republic brick by brick for over thirty years, including witnessing their collaboration with Bubba Clinton, the monster Hussein and their commie Marxocrats take big craps on the Constitution day in and day out, year in and year out, without restraint or complaint, the idea that we are only just now seeing the collapse of the Republic due to the elevation of Trump is stark raving mad and nucking futs, that’s all there is to it.
You are soooo right. I messed up. Thanks and God Bless this Nation.
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