Posted on 08/18/2015 4:30:56 AM PDT by HomerBohn
After more than a year of treating their most passionate voters like they dont matter at all, the Republican Party is no longer even trying to hide its disdain for conservatives.
The surprise success of Donald Trump has thrown the GOP into disarray, ruining their carefully conceived plans of sending Jeb Bush to the general election. And instead of taking a step back, assessing the situation, and letting the voters tell them what they want, the party is desperate to regain control of the election.
You do not benefit by trying to draft behind Donald Trump and hope that he collapses and his low-information supporters run into your arms, Rick Wilson, a top Republican strategist, said on CNN this week. This is a guy who is increasingly leading a fraction of the conservative base into a very dangerous cul-de-sac. He is promising things that he can never deliver. And it is time for Jeb Bush and other folks to start posting up and really comparing and contrasting Donald Trumps rhetoric with the reality.
This is how GOP insiders are beginning to talk about the base. Its not enough now that they are attacking Donald Trump; they are now turning that venom onto his supporters. They talk about how Trumps numbers have peaked, how he cant win the nomination with only 20 percent of the vote. What they fail to understand is that no other candidate can succeed without that 20 percent.
If the GOP is dead set against throwing their support behind Trump, theyd better figure out a way to lure his voters back to one of their favored candidates. Insulting them calling them low-information supporters is not the way to go about it. Especially when theres no indication that the label fits.
There is a tremendous opportunity here for Republicans, and they are letting it sail right past them. Trump has energized a portion of the base that hasnt been this excited in a long time. Why would you fight that? Why, unless his message is so wildly off-brand that he doesnt fit into the party? But if thats true, then Republicans no longer serve the needs of conservative Americans.
You can throw a thousand criticisms at Trump and still have room for more. Hes far from the perfect candidate. But his message resonates for a reason. Conservatives arent desperate for a reality TV candidate; theyre desperate for someone who is as fed up with the BS as they are. And, as his campaign has exposed, that BS is coming from the Republican Party as much as it is Obama and Clinton. -
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So is Hugh Hewitt...a moderator at the next debate. I'm going to watch him like a hawk for any hint of Kelley-like bias, and cease listening to him if he shows it.
That is right. Death throes.
I agree. Trump (or a CONSERVATIVE) is the only way the GOP survives. The GOPe does not understand that, to Conservatives, there is little difference between GOPe and the leftist dhimmicrats. I’m no longer going to vote for a GOPe candidate. The GOP cannot threaten me with “anything better than hillary” because I no longer believe it. The GOPe candidates are simply watered down dhimmicrats. I will be a part of neither.
How is he any different then than all the Republican Party promises of the last 35 yrs? If Trump were to follow through on two or three of his major issues he would be doing more than the Republican Party has since 1995.
Isn’t he the one that said Trump supporters on Brietbart.com want to rape his teenage daughter?
And now he’s saying Trump pays Ann Coulter for anal...
The fool.
The death knoll of the sycophantic Republicrat Party!
Rick Wilson represents the thinking of the weasels that have destroyed the Republican Party by making it the party of cronyism and willing servants to the Democrat-Communist Party.
You are right, a slight correction.
Rick Wilson, is a disgusting enemy of the people.
bump
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