Posted on 01/16/2016 6:32:06 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Republican National Committee members, meeting here Friday, said they will support New York billionaire Donald Trump if he wins the GOP's nomination.
Beating Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton is more important than worrying about Trump's impact on the party, those leaders said. Some GOP leaders have expressed concern that caustic statements by the GOP front-runner could damage the party with women and minority voters.
"Whoever it is, we'll get behind them and do our best win the White House," said Glenn McCall, a Republican National Committee member from South Carolina.
Cindy Costa, an RNC committeewoman from South Carolina, said she came away impressed with Trump's economic expertise after chatting with him backstage before a recent campaign rally.
"He was such a gracious gentleman," said Costa, who has not picked a favorite in the GOP presidential race. "The Donald Trump sometimes that we see on stage is a little bit different from the real man."
Just a few weeks ago, Republican leaders fretted about how Trump's rise could hurt the party with women and minority voters, who did not back the GOP in 2008 and 2012.
But Trump has remained the leader in Republican polls since August, and the Iowa caucus is less than three weeks away.
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They are realizing the alternative is Cruz. Cruz is much scarier to the GOP-E than Trump.
Here a couple of links (when I paste tweets they are difficult to read)
1) Link to Hill story that I saw on Drudge:
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/266140-trump-taunts-cruz-over-citizenship-lawsuit-i-told-you-so
2) Link to Trumps twitter
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump
Trump, like other Liberals, also believes that the Supreme Court has the right to make the law, as evidenced by his remarks in the gay marriage controversy. Trump is a very smart guy, but he is no conservative. He is a Liberal.
I think Trump is actually doing a pretty good job of convincing people like me NOT to vote for him.
I’ve known New York bullies all my life. Can’t stand them. Can’t stand people whose first reaction to anything is to ridicule, belittle, all with foul language. They are blowhards that will be the first to squeal when the suffer the slightest pin-prick.
Trump’s “That’s offensive” to Cruz is a perfect example. What, bully can’t take a little language less than adoring of his perfectly white (orange) person?
Trump’s New York Values are not my values. Never will be. Hopefully, there are enough American’s who will reject this liberal masquerading as a populist. Trump is the white Obama: untested, untrustworthy, and big on talk. He simply lacks the oratory skills.
........lol, all he has to do now is breathe!
Thank you!
I found it stunning that Cruz would even go there. He could have gone generic and nothing would have been said. I also think he stretches the truth a lot. Rubio gave a list of items that he switched on and I believe at least 1/2 of them. The problem with Cruz is he is a bit arrogant and won’t fess up to making a mistake. Oh he pretty much flung his hand in disregard over the Goldman Sacks things.....like don’t worry about it you little serfs.
You’re probably right - he’d have to back off one of his policy positions to lose, and he doesn’t know how to back off.
I guess the GOPe is trying to play nice, so at least some of them keep their jobs after November...but I’m Trump takes notes.
I remember decades ago a person telling me that there was this vast conspiracy between the Dems and Reps to make sure that no ‘outsider’ got elected. Then Reagan got elected and it scared the hell out of them as he was positioned to put an end to it, but they were still (just barely) able to get enough control over him to not be stopped (the assassination attempt helped tremendously).
I kind of wrote it off as yet another conspiracy theory, but it lingered in the back of my head since then. Then you see this Amnesty push and the Republican leaders hell-bent on flooding the country with people they know will vote Democrat, and you scratch your head. Then you see what’s going on in Europe, were EVERY major political party supports flooding their countries with ‘refugees’, and criminalizing opposition to that policy, and you realize that something is definitely going on there, and likely something similar here.
And now Trump comes along, ready to break some eggs, and they know it’s not even worth trying to get Trump into that club as their MAIN WEAPON now is the flow of money, and that doesn’t work with Trump. That’s why I think the reaction has been visceral, showing total hatred and contempt towards him...wanting him silenced, and probably dead.
To a lot of us, it really does seem like an overreaction, when they could have said something like the following in response to him:
1) “We agree, a properly designed wall is probably a good idea, considering what is going on down there and particularly with all these children from Central America now coming in, but we’re not sure trying to have Mexico pay for it makes sense. But there’s room for discussion.”
2) “We agree that critical technologies have been lost to China and that China has been subsidizing at least some of their exports, so perhaps we revisit our trade policies with China with an eye towards what’s best for the United States.”
3) “We agree, lots of jobs have moved to Mexico because of their much lower labor costs. Perhaps we review our labor, environmental, and safety laws to see what can be down to lower costs on our side of the border, so manufacturers will not have such a strong incentive to move down there.”
4) “We agree that the terrorist attacks done in the name of Islam, by Muslims, are greatly disproportionate to their numbers, so we should investigate what is driving these attacks and take the needed steps to keep Americans safe from these attacks. Some people may object to as it likely will involve trying to understand their religion better, and may result in some policies directed towards Muslims, but increasing terrorism is simply not acceptable in the United States.”
(maybe I’ll post this as a vanity)
They’d better. Trump wins Iowa & NH, it’s highly likely he’s the nominee. All the banter about other candidates is like pissin’ in the wind. Facts are stubborn things.
Thanks GOP for stating the obvious. What is the alternative? To NOT back him? Can you imagine the consequences of that!
So you like the current “orator”?
That was my tagline at the beginning of the campaign.
Exactly my point.... Trump represents the Uniparty that all on this forum claim to be disgusted by. The man has no thought out principles that aren’t anything more than a wetted finger in the wind and totally absent of a moral compass.
Amazing isn’t it.
First they try and get another Bush in the WH and when that doesn’t work they start talking of getting Hillary into the WH when that doesn’t work they now talk of getting Hillary’s good fried Trump into the WH.
Sounds like both Bush and Clintons have something that needs covering up.
If they can’t get a Bush or Clinton in the WH to do the cover up the only choice is a Clinton ally to do the cover up.
Problem for the GOPe, Donald J. Trump has already tried to help his good friend Hillary create a “new and Improved” version of the “spontaneous” lie with talking points straight out of the Obama DoJ.
Someone might want to inform Rush Limbaugh his good friend DJ Trump has already laid the groundwork to blame “Right wing extremist hate speech” for the attack in Benghazi.
Actually, it was a slam at Trump. Trump is the white Obama circa 2008 - an untested populist who had no real intention on doing what he says, but fooling a lot of people.
The only real difference other than the color of the skin? Obama could actually string three sentence together without some weird stream of consciousness ramblings.
Cruz's entire campaign has been funded by his New York Wall Street / Banking Billionaires buddies .
Cruz plats the evil lib NYC card for this naive zealots ,the utter nerve of this hypocrite. David Mercer the Mysterious Wall Street Hedge Fund Billionaire who owes 6 Billion dollars to US treasury for shady off shore trading .
Mercer needs to WH to make his 6 billion dollar IRS bill go away.
Goldman Sachs who employs his wife and she help write that treasonous /anti Constitution TPP disaster.
Tpp puts Goldman Sachs puts in charge of its new overseer , the World Bank that it controls thanks to its former execs are in charge
Cruz the brilliant lawyer files fraudulent Sec reports to hide his campaign funding from his true pals and owners .
Goldman Sachs and Citibank so he can run a phony populist senate campaign . You have been played , fooled ,and sucker punch by a DC insider power couple , Ted and Heidi playing the oldest scam in the book , the phony outsider card.
You sound like Bernie Sanders. Sheesh, FR has become Occuply Wall Street now.
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