Posted on 11/04/2016 12:58:10 PM PDT by C19fan
They assured each other he had no real shot of winning the presidency. They said he would be an embarrassment to the Republican Party and drag down the rest of the party with him, both in 2016 and for years to come.
To be sure, many arguments of the so-called “NeverTrump” movement in the Republican Party were based on mere principle. But some were more political pleas — that he was bad for the party, electorally speaking, and that Trump-inspired doom lay ahead.
It hasn't happened — at least, it hadn't as of the race's final week. Trump appears to be within shouting distance of winning the presidency, and the Republican base is as united in voting for him (87 percent of them are behind him) as Democrats are in voting for Hillary Clinton (also 87 percent), according to Friday's Washington Post-ABC News tracking poll.
In other words: It looks like the NeverTrumpers are leading a movement without a real base. And no matter what happens on Tuesday, they'll have a mess to clean up.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Every 2 weeks? I guess hot water is free where you live!
I hope each and every RINO in Congress and purist Conservative Republican in Congress who failed to support Trump get flushed out of office. Even a Democrat would be better than these insidious Quislings.
They can caucus in one bar and drink themselves silly.
Nobody will be paying any attention to them.
Who said it was a hot shower.
ok...you got a point!
The Washington Post attempts to divide Republicans days before Election Day. On FR, it succeeds.
I disagree. It was based on principles. The NeverTrumpers are in two camps...the open borders Romney crowd and the holier-than-thou McMormon crowd.
I’d say it’s based purely on culpability.
These enemies within are worse than Hillary. They pretended to be conservative, but have constantly worked with Democrats to destroy this country. They are despicable traitors, and I am glad to see them outed.
All that’s left is to take out the garbage, but I’m afraid even Donald may be hard-pressed to find enough dump trucks—the refuse will fill a continent.
George P Bush is claiming that he is voting Trump and the rest of the Bush family is voting for the corrupt witch. I say George P is only publicly saying that he is for Trump because if he said the truth, that he too is for the witch, he would never be elected to even the least important position in the least important part of the Texas state government.
George P thinks he will become Governor and run for President. I will never, ever vote for him or any other Bush. Not ever going to happen.
National Review takes the place of Peggy Noonan at the top of my neverread list. About 6 years into Obama, Noonan started writing articles against him, as if she had never succumbed to his infinite international charm in 2008. Soon, if he’s elected, we’ll see National Review writing pro-Trump stuff. Fit only for the recycle trash.
Trump is going to win, and these jerks have outed themselves as Democrat operatives.
They’e got nowhere to go except to the party that aligns with their ideology.
Rich donors tried to shove amnesty down our throats just after the 2014 election. They posted a $100 million+ ad-buy that targeted FNC, FNB, and rightwing talk radio ("American" Solutions was the front group.) The conservative opinion needle on amnesty moved not a single percentage point.
I haven’t opened NRO in almost one year. DOn’t read that Johah Goldberg, George Will and the others. Krauthammer? Done. Glenn Beck, never. These guys are losers. Total.
Or when it rains.
They are willing to drop $100 million for one policy.
The entire NeverTrump costs them peanuts compared to that. These are tiny, cheap operations, with less than 100 not-too-huge paychecks between them all probably. They can keep NeverTrump, or whatever it turns into, operating for next to nothing forever.
They don't get any bucks unless they have the political influence. There is no going back for either the country or the GOP after this election. National Review conservatism is something to read about in history books. The Democrats are the party of the rich, big business, open borders, free trade, and endless war. No need for a GOP with the same agenda.
A "President Hillary" would be a disaster of biblical proportions. She is an unwrapped mummy left over from another age that can't handle the crisis that are coming.
The future belongs to radicalism from all sides not the septuagenarian Weekley Standard editors or Wall Street Mitt Romney.
No, they are the mess we have to clean up.
I have never before looked forward to such a menial task.
And after January, we need to "drain the swamp" (or more accurately, "pump out the cesspool."
I’m voting against Utah’s incumbent Governor (Gary Herbert) and Senator (Mike Lee). Quislings both.
That, and the possibility a bunch of them are Hastertites...
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