Posted on 02/27/2016 6:53:34 PM PST by cotton1706
The Times piece also describes the intense pressure on Gov. John Kasich of Ohio to leave the race, and Kasichs equally intense refusal to do so. But perhaps the best gauge of the panic setting in comes from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell:
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. Trumps 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.
That is a drowning man grasping at straws. There is almost zero chance that the Republicans would be able to hold the Senate if Trump is the electoral disaster that McConnell apparently fears. And Republican senators running anti-Trump ads? Any senator who took that course would alienate a good chunk of their own base, ensuring their defeat.
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I’m for that. I’ve thought Ryan was an idiot every since he developed his “budget” when Romney was running.
I’m for that. I’ve thought Ryan was an idiot every since he developed his “budget” when Romney was running.
1) Leaving candidates in the race to force a split convention when it is obvious the vast majority clearly want Trump.
2) Run attack ads on Trump in the General Elections from any Republican PAC or Individual RINO.
3) En masse endorse or support Hillary Clinton during the GE.
4) Have Romney or any other GOPe candidate join the Primary race or General Election as a 3rd Party Independent (which would only elect Hillary).
I understand politics gets ugly when people are desperate, and most likely the DC gravy trains from the do nothing Donors/Lobbyists/Globalist/RINOs will become blunted, but to undermine and trash your own front-runner/potential nominee in this manner is insane, completely ridiculous, and deceitful to as to just who's their on (Uniparty, afterall?).
This is the United States of America. Let the PEOPLE decide!
Well put. Thanks!
A front runner who has created the very coalition the GOPe always told us we should strive for
More blacks
More Latinos
More Jews
More Asians
More women
Polls show Trump has done just that
Prediction: if Trump is the nominee, the down slate Republicans will join the Trump bandwagon because they know that everything the RINOs tried to unseat and derail Trump failed miserably. And if Trump wins, you don't want to be one of those politicians in office that opposed him. Trump knows how to deal with disloyalty.
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