Posted on 10/11/2016 5:46:38 AM PDT by detective
The stream of down-ballot Republicans breaking with the Trump campaign over Mr. Trump's past vulgar language has now been capped by the notice from House speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) that "he will not defend or appear with" Mr. Trump, and that "rank-and-file" Republicans are on their own "to do what's best" in their districts. Ryan's counterpart in the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), for his part, is giving the presidential campaign controversy the silent treatment: "I don't have any observations about it." But The Hill observes: More than a dozen senators have either rescinded their support of the GOP nominee or called on him to step aside.
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All information from news organizations will become unreliable in the days before the election, just as in time of war.
The MSM has turned itself over to Hillary.
Well, I have come to the conclusion that the national GOP must die. My hope is that Trump wins and remakes the party in his own image or just starts a new one. That said, I will not be voting for my Congressman, Leonard Lance in NJ 7. He’s a typical RINO. Talks conservative and votes GOPe. If they don’t want to support us, I no longer support them. I have enough trust in Trump to be able to negotiate deals with anyone, but traitors need to be dealt with and Ryan is a complete POS traitor to the cause and to Trump.
The silver lining is that there's going to be a real DC housecleaning. The trash was all lined up; they must have known the coup attempt was coming. Pray that sane undecideds wake up and realize a Trump victory is the only way to get rid of the Dems who've backstabbed them.
Senator Portman was way ahead in the polls and he (rather smugly I thought) said he could support Pence but not Trump. I now hope Portman loses, and I'm sure a lot of us Deplorables feel that way. OH is now in play for hillary because the 'pub establishment in this state doesn't respect their voters.
I will not be voting for any down-ballot Republicans. My senator, Pat Toomey, has refused to endorse Trump. So has my congreeman, Pat Meehan. I owe them nothing and that’s exactly what I am giving them.
#IfRyanIsSpeakerTheGOPgetsNOVOTES
Just the headline of this piece is a lie.There was no “panic attack”.
This was a pre-planned orchestrated attempted take-down of the nominee chosen by the party’s voters. All concerned should be sanctioned and drummed out of the party immediately.
Without a ton of verbage, Paul Ryan is destroying the GOP purposely!!! The Republican House memebers need to vote to get rid of as House leader right now!!! For goodness sake, spineless Republicans through this traitor, Paul Ryan into the nearest garage can...he is actively destroying all of you and the country!!!
It may hurt Ryno. He’s in a tight race with the Dem opponent and he lost some Trump voters this past week.
[I will not be voting for any down-ballot Republicans. ]
Same here.
Trump for POTUS.
The rest of the ballot I will pull the lever for the Independent parties.
[That said, I will not be voting for my Congressman, Leonard Lance in NJ 7.
Same here, although mine is Chris Smith in NJ 4.
A career politician whose name is ALWAYS on the Yay/Nay vote lists with the usual Dem and RINO scum.
Hugh Hewitt today is saying the republicans are in trouble with Trump and that they may ask him to resign and something about Pence quitting the race. I thought Hewitt came to his senses but I know he is just trying to undermine the candidate again but be sneaky about it.
From the article:
“a weekend poll indicating that 74% of Republican respondents want “party officials to continue to stand by Trump” and by noting that “several top Republican elected officials” were booed when they publicly renounced Trump over the weekend. The author also reminds readers of the political cost to Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for not endorsing Donald Trump at the convention.
Mr. Kraushaar ominously suggests that “Trump supporters could punish new defectors ... by leaving the down-ballot portion of their ballot blank.” The fracturing in Trump's down-ballot support could thus have devastating consequences, according to Mr. Kraushaar:
But now the GOP has to worry that by impulsively breaking their Faustian bargain because of a decade-old videotape, they may have cost themselves control of the Senate.”
The word panic did not refer to the preplanned coordinated attack on Trump by the Republicans. It referred to the down ballot Republicans who were panicked into betraying Trump.
“Trying to win the hearts and minds of Democrat voters. It won’t work though because Democrats already have their own candidates and are loyal to a party. Plus , never trust a traitor, even if he/she betrayed your enemy.”
Arlan Spector learned the lesson at the end of his Senate career when he switched parties to give Harry Reid a veto proof majority. The Democrats threw him overboard for a lifelong Democrat in the next election.
Jim Jeffords, switched from Republican to Independent in 2001, after being reelected in 2000 as a Republican. He caucused with the Democrats, giving them a 51 vote majority (the Senate was 50-50 after the 2000 election with VP Dick Cheney the tiebreaker). Jeffords retired in 2006. When he gave his farewell speech on the Senate floor he did not get the traditional Senate sendoff with dozens of colleagues taking the floor to pay tribute. Only one Republican Senator, Chuck Grassley, took the floor to honor Jeffords. Bernie Sanders was elected to replace Jeffords in the Senate.
Democrats have a long tradition of treating turncoat Republicans poorly. Any Republican who believes he or she will benefit from helping Democrats or switching sides is delusional.
“The word panic did not refer to the preplanned coordinated attack on Trump by the Republicans.”
The headline was “Will Paul Ryan’s panic attack hurt down-ballot Republicans?”. I stand by my statement that the headline is in itself a lie.
The down ballot Republicans should be panicked. If their party had been willing to acquiesce to the will of their voters and get behind Trump’s movement the entire party would now be preparing for a stunning victory in a few weeks.
“And it looks like some Republicans such as Ryan and McConnell are working with them.”
To his credit McConnell is laying low in the weeds instead of joining Ryan in feeding the media frenzy. Mitch is a survivor and knows there will be hell to pay if Trump should squeak out a win. Ryan on the other hand is fully committed to a Trump defeat. If Trump should win, it is difficult to see how Ryan can remain leader of the Republican Party in the House, much less the Speaker should the GOP retain the House.
Naturally Ben Shapiro just threw in the towel saying it is over. He cited Hugh Hewitt comment from this morning. The RINOs are doing everything to defeat Trump and not a criminal known as Clinton.
“I stand by my statement that the headline is in itself a lie.”
I interpreted the headline as saying Ryan and the people behind this were trying to get the down ticket Republicans to panic.
Ryan and the others were trying to create panic.
Correction:
“more than a dozen RINOS have rescinded”.............
I will not vote for Portman. He is every bit the traitor as Paul Ryan.
“The people” are members of the DC Uni-Party. They do not represent Republican constituencies or conservatives. They are there for their share of the loot and power.
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