“How the GOP Can Stop Donald Trump: Do Nothing”
That should be a slam dunk. They’ve done nothing for years.
Whistling past the graveyard.
CC
Doing nothing is what the gop does best. Closely followed by backstabbing, treachery, obfuscation, and “reaching across the aisle.”
Well, they may be on to something here. Look how well the strategy of no strategy worked for Obama in stopping ISIS.
>>It’s the strategy of no strategy. It moves right to acceptance, saying that there just isn’t anything that can be done about Trump. Maybe he does have a ceiling of 30 percent or so of the party (around where he is now in the polls), and if that’s true, what Republicans need is an alternative. One alternative, not 12. Someone who can begin to consolidate that other 70 percent around him.
But if you mention Cruz as that one alternative, the same GOP establishment starts squawking, “Noooo. You aren’t listening to us! We mean an alternative that we approve of.”
I disagree. Trump is too good with the media to be stopped by an enemy that sits in place. Dumb tactic.
I support Trump, but Trump is a battlefield general. Anyone who wants to defeat him must do it on the battlefield. They just haven’t found the right attack yet.
Same as with Robert E. Lee. If they’d sat still with him (as McClellan virtually did), then the next thing you know, he’d have been taking Washington, D.C.
It took them 3 years to figure out Lee’s vulnerability. I expect it will take as long with Trump.
Silly me, I thought this was a Country and Government of the People, not the GOP, Dem, media etc.....
They’re still clinging to the notion that Trump can’t get beyond 30 percent, yet they think that someone like Bush with 7 percent and win over another 63 percent, or Rubio with 12 percent can win over another 58 percent.
That’s rather delusional if you ask me.
Why do they automatically assume that Trump has a ceiling that he cannot move beyond, and it’s the sky’s the limit for everyone else.
Just because Trump hovers in the 30-35 percent range, in no way implies that he can’t go beyond that. If he wins in IA, NH and SC, the sky is the limit for him. The truth is, people like a winner, and if he starts winning, there will be no stopping him, and 99 percent of the gop will go his way, leaving the gope in the dust.
Look at some of his other works.
http://theweek.com/authors/paul-waldman
Don’t think he’ll be voting Republican.
Cruz has exactly the right approach to Trump. Obey Reagan’s 11th Commandment and concentrate on running against Hillary.
Either Trump will self destruct or he will be our next President.
” But by now it seems pretty clear that the voters who like Trump actually like Trump. It isn’t because they haven’t learned enough about him, and it isn’t because they haven’t thought enough about their loyalty to the party. He’s the one they want.”
No we have thought about our loyalty to the party and decided to be as loyal to them as they are to us. LOL!
The GOPe is on a path to self destruct, and I love it.
If they Do Something, they will self-destruct FASTER, because the Republican electorate is in the mood to screw them. For them to do anything obvious is to risk the deserved backlash of their grass roots.
If they Do Nothing, they will self-destruct SLOWER because either Trump will win, or the consolidation will be around CRUZ, another disestablishmentarian!
Their only path to victory is named Rubio, and he’s toxic with Amnesty and can’t win.
Checkmate, Rove. You inglorious and assured bastard.
Every hour of every day there’s a new “Dump Trump” article with some “strategy” for stopping the Trump juggernaut. It’s boring.
There has NEVER been such a deluge of opinion on how to stop Obama and the Marxist Democrats. Maybe if the GOPe(or whoever else)had put just a fraction of their effort into THAT endeavor instead of bashing Trump 24/7 perhaps the country wouldn’t be in such dire straits.
We are not now and never have been loya to a party. We are loyal to America.
Coming next is a 12-step program for admission of powerlessness over Trump. Take it one day at a time, folks.
Yeah I would bet the farm on that number if I were you.