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The GOP Should Steal the Nomination from Trump
National Review ^ | March 18, 2016 | David Harsanyi

Posted on 03/18/2016 5:37:44 AM PDT by reaganaut1

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The Republican party is not a direct democracy. It crafts its own rules, and it can change them. Here are questions that Republican delegates should be asking themselves: Is it worth upsetting a bunch of angry, marginally conservative voters who often have a minor fidelity to the doctrines of your party? Or are you prepared to put your political infrastructure and full weight behind a cartoonish George Wallace–like character who’ll probably inflict more damage than you could ever hope to repair?

RNC chairman Reince Priebus says that he expects every GOP presidential candidate to uphold a pledge to support the eventual nominee. Considering what we heard in Senator Marco Rubio’s concession speech, I find this difficult to believe. At best, Priebus is going to have a bunch of politicians tiptoeing around Trump in tacit nonsupport. And if enough big-name Republicans end up supporting Trump, it only accentuates the need for a new party.

An ABC exit poll — with all the usual caveats about the unreliability of exit polls — said that six in ten non-Trump-supporters say they would “seriously consider a third party if he became the GOP’s nominee.” The more disgust his big-government positioning and ugly rhetoric generate, the higher that number rises. And there are a number of rational reasons to support such a run.

For starters, Trump supporters are already very angry about everything. It’s not as if they could be any angrier with the establishment. Once Trump is gone (and he’ll leave with no coherent movement), these voters will either have to come back and look for alternative candidates with compelling messages, or leave the party altogether.

In the short run, a third-party candidate might insulate down-ballot candidates from Trumpism. You do remember Todd Akin, I’m sure?

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: New York; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cruz; cruzers; davidharsanyi; election2016; gope; marklevin; nationalreview; newyork; tedcruz; texas; trump
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1 posted on 03/18/2016 5:37:44 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1

Who is this douchebag?


2 posted on 03/18/2016 5:40:00 AM PDT by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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To: reaganaut1

I wish I could see real numbers on their circulation for the past year. After Against Trump, saying blue collar whites should die, and now openly advocating theft of the nomination, I can’t imagine more than 1,000 people are still signed up for this garbage.

What a shame. William F. Buckley Jr. was one of the all-time greats. His magazine is a total disgrace to his name at this point.


3 posted on 03/18/2016 5:40:12 AM PDT by 20yearsofinternet (Border: Close it. Illegals: Deport. Muslims: Ban 'em. Economy: Liberate it. PC: Kill it. Trump 2016)
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To: reaganaut1

National Review has fallen off the cliff!


4 posted on 03/18/2016 5:40:19 AM PDT by SIRTRIS
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To: reaganaut1

[In the short run, a third-party candidate might insulate down-ballot candidates from Trumpism]

MIGHT is a very YUGE word.


5 posted on 03/18/2016 5:40:54 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: reaganaut1

Forgive the GOPe, they know not what they do.

They are about to wake a sleeping giant who is very, very angry.


6 posted on 03/18/2016 5:41:06 AM PDT by IncPen (Hey Media: Bias = Layoffs)
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To: reaganaut1
....... or leave the party altogether.

Careful what you wish for. For me, it won't "just be leaving the party." I'll take ALL of my down-ticket Republican votes with me. More succinctly, not one damned Republican I'll vote for if they deny him the nomination if he has the minimum delegate majority they set.

7 posted on 03/18/2016 5:41:09 AM PDT by Gaffer
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.... The Republican party is not a direct democracy. It crafts its own rules, and it can change them...

Just like it changes its RINO/GOPe candidate campaign promises to 180° opposite of what voters were promised if elected.
The American GOPe RINO is on the political endangered species list.


8 posted on 03/18/2016 5:41:26 AM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prosecution 2016)
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To: reaganaut1

Go ahead and nominate a Cheap Labor Express candidate.

Every Republican down to dog catcher will suffer.


9 posted on 03/18/2016 5:41:53 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: reaganaut1

Since when is Phyllis Schlafley a marginal conservative? Since when were Romney and McCain NOT marginal conservatives at best?


10 posted on 03/18/2016 5:41:56 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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Voters don’t decide the nominations; delegates do — preferably in smoke-filled rooms where rational decisions about the future of a party can be hashed out. .
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A third party would also help sink Trump and elect Hillary Clinton. Electing a weakened and corrupt Democrat that Republicans would unite against in Congress is a far better reality than allowing a charlatan to hollow out a party from within.

Here you go: This is what the true voice of the GOPe sounds like.

11 posted on 03/18/2016 5:42:27 AM PDT by Dahoser (Separation of church and state? No, we need separation of media and state.)
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To: reaganaut1

Whether the GOP nominates Trump, or steals the nomination away from him, we’re watching the demise of this historically great party.

Some of us are busy building the principled conservative alternative.


12 posted on 03/18/2016 5:42:51 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: reaganaut1
So I guess FR is just a "marginally conservative" website.

Can you be any more out of touch?

13 posted on 03/18/2016 5:43:05 AM PDT by King of Florida (A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.)
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NRO conservative impostors offer no clear alternative to Trump.

They hate him but can’t offer one good reason why any one would vote for the establishment.

In case its escaped David French’s notice, the insurgency taking over the party commands 80% of the vote.

That’s a lot of people and Trump commands half of that these days.

And who do the Bourbons of the GOP represent?


14 posted on 03/18/2016 5:43:25 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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Read the whole article and did not find ONE policy reason why Trump "must be stopped".

Not one.

WHY must he be stopped?

15 posted on 03/18/2016 5:44:07 AM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: gr8eman

Lol...you read my mind!


16 posted on 03/18/2016 5:44:38 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aiderai)
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To: reaganaut1

If these people get anymore paranoid about Trump they will be appealing to the UN to intervene.


17 posted on 03/18/2016 5:46:01 AM PDT by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo.)
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To: Dahoser
"Electing a weakened and corrupt Democrat that Republicans would unite against in Congress....."

I have absolutely ZERO confidence that that would happen. ZERO! NONE! NADA!

Which is EXACTLY why I'm voting for Trump.

18 posted on 03/18/2016 5:47:29 AM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: reaganaut1

It’s not Fascism when they do it.


19 posted on 03/18/2016 5:47:33 AM PDT by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: cincinnati65

“WHY must he be stopped?”
Because he is not in the club or on the payroll.


20 posted on 03/18/2016 5:47:50 AM PDT by glasseye
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