Posted on 01/05/2016 6:40:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Republicans are admitting that if Ted Cruz or Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination, they will destroy the GOP for a generation.
Politico reported:
One growing worry about Trump or Cruz, top party officials, donors, and operatives across the country say, is that nominating either man would imperil lawmakers in down-ballot races, especially those residing in moderate states and districts.
"At some point, we have to deal with the fact that there are at least two candidates who could utterly destroy the Republican bench for a generation if they became the nominee," said Josh Holmes, a former chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. "We'd be hard-pressed to elect a Republican dogcatcher north of the Mason-Dixon or west of the Mississippi."
"Trump and Cruz are worrisome to most Republican candidates for governor, senator and Congress," said Curt Anderson, a longtime GOP strategist and former Republican National Committee political director. "Some will say they are not worried, but they are."
What Republicans are suggesting is that a Trump or Cruz victory in the Republican primary would wipe out down ballot GOP candidates and incumbents. A Trump or Cruz nomination would be so bad for Republicans that there would be nothing left of their party outside of their red state strongholds.
It could be argued with a great deal of merit that this process began long before the 2016 and that the Republican Party has been shrinking itself down both numerically and geographically for more than a decade. The 2016 election has changed from a contest to between Democrats and Republicans to occupy the White House to a question of whether or not extremist Republicans are going to burn their party to the ground.
Republicans are openly worried about Donald Trump and Ted Cruz destroying their party. At a time when they should be concerned about potentially facing Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders in the fall, GOP leaders are instead trying to prevent their party from total collapse.
It doesn't really matter who emerges from the Republican free for all as their nominee. The Republican Party is consumed by internal conflict and a complete lack of unity that they will be the underdog in the 2016 general election. The question isn't can Republicans win back the White House. Instead, Republicans are wondering whether or not they will have a party left after Trump and Cruz get done with them.
Destroy the Olde Dusty Whig Coalition. It has outlived it’s usefulness, and has become corrosive.
Let’s look down ballot in 2012 with the lovable moderate Romney. Somehow we won 5+ seats in 2010 and 2014 with conservative campaigns and candidates, but 2012 was a cluster-f. We lost so any easy Senate pickups because of the lackluster idiots on the top of the ballot.
Let’s see... The left is worried about the destruction of the Republican party. Trump/Cruz must REALLY be over the target!
LOL, Cries from the deck of a sinking ship.
A generation may not be long enough.
What alternate universe are these talking heads and party apparatchiks living in?
They appear to be totally detached from the objective reality which the voting public has to live within every day...
Second party. The GOP is a Uniparty with the Democrats.
So tired of headline hyperbole.
Democrats admit Hilary is the spawn of Satan.
Burn it down !
The GOPe are the WHIGS; they’ve managed to destroy themselves!
Good grief, the GOPe has done this to themselves. They should thank the likes of Juan McCain and Pansy Graham. Bone certainly gets an honorable mention.
Remember when they were saying the same thing about a Ronald Reagan win?
What, split the Uniparty into two parties again? How scary for the totalitarian left.
They are together because they are the top two in the polls. The GOPe can’t control either.
The GOP needs to be destroyed forever.
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/03/26/quotes-of-the-day-2036/
Reagan cant win, Ford says. That’s the 1976 version. The 1980 New York Times version, with the nearly identical headline: “Ford Declares Reagan Can’t Win.†Ford was really quite sure of himself: “Every place I go, and everything I hear, there is a growing, growing sentiment that Governor Reagan cannot win the election.†New York magazine: “The reason Reagan can’t win. . . . †“Preposterous,†sociologist Robert Coles wrote about the idea of a Reagan victory.
The founder of this magazine worried that Reagan simply could not win in 1980, and several National Review luminaries quietly hoped that George H. W. Bush would be the nominee…
Well, many of the their written positions are very close to each other.... what's your point?
If one man, a Trump or a Cruz could destroy the GOP, the GOP does not
deserve to exist.
The tombstone is already up....
They should form their own party.
They could call it the RINO party.
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