"Who - Does - Number Two - Work for?"
Posted on 02/28/2016 3:24:59 AM PST by Altura Ct.
Republican voters need only look to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to understand that GOP lawmakers will willingly sacrifice the White House in order to save their own hides.
As the Republican Party begins to accept the very real possibility that front-runner Donald Trump will be their presidential nominee, McConnell “laid out a plan that would have lawmakers break with Mr. Trump explicitly in a general election,” The New York Times reported.
Despite his overwhelming victories thus far, leaders of the party think Trump will lose in the general election and will hurt Republicans down-ticket.
According to The Times, resistance to Trump “runs deep,” and a “desperate” behind-the-scenes “mission to save the party” from the real estate tycoon stalled out. As a result, “two campaigns have drafted plans to overtake Mr. Trump in a brokered convention.”
The newspaper said the effort to “unite warring candidates behind one failed spectacularly.”
An overture from Senator Marco Rubio to Mr. Christie angered and insulted the governor. An unsubtle appeal from Mitt Romney to John Kasich, about the party’s need to consolidate behind one rival to Mr. Trump, fell on deaf ears.
Kasich in particular has drawn the ire of GOP power brokers, having struggled to compete in the first four states to vote.
“He’s just flailing his arms around and having a wonderful time going around the country, and it just drives me up the wall,” a senior Republican senator said, according to The Times.
Several senator said McConnell was “especially vocal” about how Kasich was being irrational.
If Trump is the nominee, McConnell allegedly has told Senate colleagues, “We’ll drop him like a hot rock.”
And he may treat Trump’s loss in the general as a given, allowing senators to distance themselves from the candidate and run negative ads against him.
While still hopeful that Mr. Rubio might prevail, Mr. McConnell has begun preparing senators for the prospect of a Trump nomination, assuring them that, if it threatened to harm them in the general election, they could run negative ads about Mr. Trump to create space between him and Republican senators seeking re-election. Mr. McConnell has raised the possibility of treating Mr. Trump’s loss as a given and describing a Republican Senate to voters as a necessary check on a President Hillary Clinton, according to senators at the lunches.
All of which suggests that when it comes to political theater, the best is yet to come in the 2016 election. At the very least, it’s going to be an interesting spring and summer.
Yurtle is a fool, or he’s desperately afraid that Trump will fire his worthless hide in 2017, along with the rest of the treason lobby in DC.
As sick as this is, we shouldn’t be surprised. We always knew they would go to any lengths to retain their power.
Wow that’s funny you mention that as I recently read his biography. What happened was he was found in a stolen car and the judge gave him two options: Go to jail or join the military, so he join the paratroopers, 101st Airborne Fort Campbell Kentucky. He actually got his patch, but he started screwing up, constantly missing bed check as he would be playing clubs in a band. Then the final straw was they caught him masturbating in the mens room in a stall, so they gave him an honorable discharge on the basis he wasn’t suited for the military.
Agreed 100%. They’ll be talking impeachable offenses before Trump finished giving his inauguration speech.
“...You really want Rubio? He’s the only other option. He’ll pass Amnesty for sure. The country will be toast.”
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How quickly we forget Ted Cruz who is the sole man of true & proven conservative conviction remaining in the race. IMHO we will be looking back at this time with a profound feeling of regret that we let our opportunities pass.
Boy, you couldn’t have chosen a better handle, if you think Trump supports Hillary for president.
Does this mean McConnell is Endorsing Cruz?
Oh I forgot, that Rubio fellow I still sniffing Butts in the Senate like the good Ankle Biter he is.
"Who - Does - Number Two - Work for?"
I’d assume the Times reported this to throw more gasoline on the Trump v GOPe feud. Which they have. That doesn’t make what McConnell said any less true or disgraceful though.
“McConnell needs to be dislodged”
On net, the Repubs would have been better off if Grimes had won.
LOL!!! Brilliant post.
Question to any Kentuckian. Does your state allow for recall of Federal Senators? If so, right about now would be a good time to set the wheels in motion imho.
JMHO
Mitch McConnell would also drop Ted Cruz like a hot potato in the event Cruz is able to secure the nomination. The uniparty insists on a heads-I-win, tails-you-lose election.
Thanks Jim, I can’t believe that took 136 posts.
Oh please. He has personal ties to lots of people of every bend. I am a businessman and a spirit filled, born again, tongue speaking, bible believing Christian and I too have ties to people of every stripe. I love Cruz. I live in Houston, TX and voted for him to be our US Senator but I'm tired of Cruz supporters making junk up in an attempt to trash Trump. Jesus Christ didn't just come to the Jew and the Just but to the sinner as well. It's this legalistic crap Cruzites are spewing that has me believing without doubt that Cruz will not be the Republican nominee. Christians love the sinners into the Kingdom. We don't do as Muslims and the self-righteous do and force them into it. My hope is Donald Trump will support and defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies both foreign and domestic as well as do everything he can to return us to the place where it is taken seriously.
Would? Hasn't he already dropped Ted numerous times? Remember... Cruz is not liked by the republican leadership in Washington. In fact he is hated. Why would anyone expect that to change?
I’m with you.
Mitch the Bit*h can ESAD.
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