Und I think that it is just about time that we had one!
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 don’t 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 Trump’s rhetoric with the reality.”
This is how GOP insiders are beginning to talk about the base. It’s not enough now that they are attacking Donald Trump; they are now turning that venom onto his supporters. They talk about how Trump’s numbers have peaked, how he can’t 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, they’d 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 there’s 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 hasn’t been this excited in a long time. Why would you fight that? Why, unless his message is so wildly off-brand that he doesn’t fit into the party? But if that’s 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. He’s far from the perfect candidate. But his message resonates for a reason. Conservatives aren’t desperate for a reality TV candidate; they’re 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. -
“Rick Wilson, a top Republican strategist”
Republican hack and enemy of the people is more like it.
Gee, imagine Trump is promising things that he can’t deliver. How different from the rest of the party that is.
Lo and behold, we finally agree!
They've been infiltrated by the "progressive left," just as the public schools, universities, Catholic Church, unions, Boy Scouts, etc. have been taken over. All part of a long range plan - - a plan that failed in the Soviet Union and will fail here as well.
With Katlyn, I meant, Bruce Jenner, how do we know that Jeb doesn’t already have one of those thingys that Hillary claims will win her the election ?
Is that what they are referring to being ELECTIBLE ?
“no better than Hillary without a dress.”
That is a visual nightmare.
The reality is that both the Dems and the GOP are in their own death throes.
Oh, well, according to George Will, we’re just the “vulgar, unwashed masses” so our opinions don’t matter.
These same folks utterly despise the Republicans who actually want to win- Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich (before he "evolved"), Ted Cruz, Donald Trump.
If ¡Yeb! gets the nomination, I'll either stay home, or vote for the Democrat nominee and pray for the Rapture.
If they choose to bestow he nomination onto Jeb Bush, I may either not vote or vote for Sanders or Warren or Biden - ( Hillary is going to be forced out) - one thing is for certain, I will NOT vote for another RINO
I agree.
Und I think that it is just about time that we had one!
No lie
If he's not the nominee he goes 3rd party and Democrats win due to the split in Republican votes. Sure, it's gonna be a helluva party from now to election day, but we are all going to wake up with a massive hangover.
I agree. Things are VERY bad for the Democrats. Whether you like them or not, at least the GOP has strong young candidates that will be there for the next quarter century. On the other hand, the Dems only have old '60's rejects who are close to their deathbeds (Hildabeast, Bernie the Red, John "I served in Vietnam" Kerry, Algore, ALL are near 70). The Dems bench is in the back dumpsters behind abortion clinics.
Are you a betting man?(woman) . . . . . .
As opposed to the GOPe standard of promising things they have absolutely no intention of trying to deliver.
As opposed to promising things they have no intention on delivering! (I'm talking to you Mitch! and John!)
I think Rubio is a $h!+bag too. Winning the White House is irrelevant if we lose the culture.
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