The 5 stages of GOPee grief about a Donald Trump Presidency
My observation is that the Trump fever has broken as the Trump supporters have begun to see a possible victory and have begun to chillax.
Plus, they finally realized there is a yuge upside to having a growing, energized, expanding, more inclusive Republican party than the one that was dying in place not quite a year ago...
Plus, they finally realized there is a yuge upside to having a growing, energized, expanding, more inclusive Republican party than the one that was dying in place not quite a year ago...
“We are not doing anything in the interest of party unity,” said Katie Packer, founder of the anti-Trump Our Principles PAC, which put out a blistering anti-Trump ad Friday afternoon. “We do not think there is anything noble about wrapping our arms around a candidate who isn’t a Republican, doesn’t have a serious policy agenda and has not secured a majority of Republican votes.”
“I’m willing to do anything in my power to stop Trump from hijacking our party,” Packer continued.
“One advocate of the stop-Trump-at-all-costs approach is Stuart Stevens, a former senior adviser to 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney. Stevens said he’s witnessed the slow acquiescence to Trump by party insiders, but he says he’ll never play along. He said that even if Trump reaches 1,237 bound delegates before the convention, Cruz should use his delegate advantage to block him anyway.
“You should do anything you can that’s within — anything you can legally — to try to win an election,” he said.”
Both Katie Parker and Stuart Stevens are Romney’s people.
Romney is a big participant in the Never Trump plot to defy and disenfranchise the voters.
As reality sets in they are coming to accept the certainty that one way or another, change for them is in the wind.
Their utter contempt for Cruz is now slowly beginning to over-ride their resentment of a Trump the outsider who promises to end their gravy train.
They know that Cruz is intransigent.
But as they say “Hope springs eternal in the human breast”.
So they still retain a slight hope that they will somehow find a way to corrupt President Trump.
Just as they themselves have been corrupted and in turn have helped corrupt so many others.
It looks to me like the Bush wing are the main holdouts, while the rest of the GOP can see the handwriting on the wall. Witness yesterday where Rubio made peace overtures while Jeb was still trash talking.
My personal theory is that the Bushes have a lot they want to keep hidden, as do the Clintons of course, and both dynasties would rather have Hillary in the White House protecting their secrets than Trump in there exposing everything.
Remember how a big bunch of Bushistas glommed onto the Cruz campaign the minute Rubio crashed and burned? I think they’re the ones trying their best to keep Cruz in this until a contested convention, knowing full well the end result of that is a Hillary presidency.
Apparently this was never the feeling of the base or they wouldn't have been voting for him. I think the writer meant the GOP establishment.
Thank goodness!
Cruz has injected a level of vileness to this campaign that, frankly, should never be part of any campaign. Aren’t the candidates supposed to be using their campaigns to convince the voters that they are the best for the job, rather than viciously attacking their opponents?
The people have decided that Trump is the man for the job. The next few primaries will confirm that.
It is now time to focus on the Democrat side of things. It looks like Hillary is going to be the nominee. A candidate who is not afraid of violating political correctness will be able to hit her hard on her record. No real world experience, appointed to the State Department on the basis that she was a first lady and wanted the position, spectacular failures as head of the State Department leading to deaths of American citizens, violations of national security with details still being uncovered—there is ample material to attack Hillary on her record. And on the emotional level, Hillary’s screechy yelling hardly makes her appealing.
Someone alert atheists George Will, Karl Rove, Charles Krauthammer and S.E. Cupp.
Let’s revisit this opinion Wed. a.m.
I hope the Cruz fever breaks for some of the long-time FReepers who are still pining for a contested convention and a Cruz nomination that elects Hillary.
Party quizlings talk big. But in the end they aren’t doers. They will go along get along because that’s the only thing they know. Just like these traitors did with Obummer.
Is that the case—or have they simply gone underground, like Priebus has been for some time, pretending to be resigned—but really working on Plans Q, R, and S?
“And it’s been clear almost from the beginning that Donald Trump has the ability to assemble a nontraditional bloc of supporters. … The ability to cut across traditional party boundaries — like ‘80, ‘92 and 2008 — will be key, and Trump is much better positioned to achieve that.”
And this is a GOOD thing!
They’re not in it to win it. They are getting positioned to pick up the pieces after November.
Trump will never win over the tut-tut-ing lace cuff and snuffbox ‘conservatives’ like Krauthammer but all those who actually want to keep the country from turning into a latin american swill pit will come on board. All the rentiers and position-seekers who initially bet on the wrong horses will follow in time.
The closer Trump gets to 1237 delegates, the more the establishment types will sidle up to him. They don’t want to be on the outside if/when the power shift occurs.
If the numbers show nominee Trump well ahead of Clinton, those who thrive on being close to the DC Power Person will even become more vocal in their support.
Many of them have been playing the Power Games for decades.
KYLE CHENEY and BEN SCHRECKINGER are delusional or they’re both clueless liberals. Maybe they should give George Will a call...
Did they ever rea)ly want to stop him? They didn’t do anything.