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Time for GOP Establishment (and Trump Supporters) to Unite Behind Ted Cruz
Townhall.com ^ | March 4, 2016 | David Limbaugh

Posted on 03/04/2016 5:20:08 AM PST by Kaslin

Mitt Romney's speech against Donald Trump is not likely to win many converts. Romney's remarks will just further vindicate and entrench Trump supporters.

Romney, though a good man, is quintessentially GOP establishment and has shown, by his speech, that he still doesn't understand the role he and his colleagues have played in bringing about the Trump surge.

During campaign season, these guys always seem to get it. They profess to understand how destructive President Obama's agenda is, but once they're elected, they lose their will to fight, which makes many conservatives believe they didn't believe their own rhetoric in the first place.

I know, Republicans tell us that the GOP leadership has done all it can to stop Obama but there's only so much a congressional majority can do. That's also what they said about congressional minorities when they were a minority.

Regardless, they haven't presented their case to the American people with conviction during the past seven years, except in the runup to elections. They didn't point out Obama's evil intentions and often denounced those who did. They didn't rally around Ted Cruz, Mike Lee or a handful of others who tried to stymie Obama. Instead, they chose to ridicule and marginalize these fighters.

Even to this day, the establishment fails to understand the legitimate concerns millions of Americans have over illegal immigration. Establishment types arrogantly and unfairly slander border hawks as nativists, suggesting their opposition to open borders is race-based.

It's not about race; it's about our national sovereignty, the rule of law, protecting jobs, protecting Americans against criminal elements and jihadis, and stanching an invasion of people who will further burden our welfare state -- not assimilate, not embrace the American idea -- and vote almost solely Democratic.

A sovereign nation must control its borders and encourage immigrants to assimilate and embrace the unique American experiment. But Democrats are for flooding the borders for all the wrong reasons, and large swaths of the Republican establishment have affirmatively aided and abetted them.

We've watched as Republicans have allowed many of Obama's budgets to sail through under the radar, on the pretense of just waiting for the next election. Our guys don't even talk about entitlement reform anymore, though they were telling us just a few years ago that we were about to go bankrupt.

The Republican Party has been so tone-deaf to these real concerns that some Republican voters are furious enough to have chosen a wildly flawed solution in Donald Trump. One person on Twitter said she is so disgusted she is going to vote Democratic for the first time in 40 years.

It is tragic that true conservatives, however, are being lumped in and punished for the betrayals of centrist Republicans. Trump supporters are adamant that no elected official escape the blame. Their solution is to burn the house down and rebuild it around Trump, even though they can't be sure what he'd do when elected.

People wonder why they would turn to someone like Trump. The GOP, after all, has stood for moral principles, manners and adult behavior, and Trump seems to exhibit none of those things. In many ways, he is the opposite of conservative principles, in demeanor, lifestyle and his personal conduct in the campaign.

But in their disgust at the Republican establishment, they are throwing out true conservatives and also certain conservative principles and values, as if all of conservatism has been tainted by a party that betrayed its base.

How else does it make sense that even valid, troubling criticisms of Trump seem to help him more than hurt him?

I think it's because this disaffected class of voters wants someone unorthodox enough to break the rules, someone brash enough not to be deterred by the niceties that have prevented establishment Republicans from distinguishing themselves from Obama in bold colors rather than pale pastels. They're seem not only not offended but invigorated by someone who'll hurl profanities and refuse to apologize even when he owes an apology, because they think it's going to take someone like that to resist pressure to betray them once he's elected.

And though the establishment has finally awakened to the intensity of the discontentment among the party rank and file, it still doesn't believe the angst is legitimate. The establishment is still in bitter denial and wouldn't support a person advocating many of Trump's ideas even if he were a paragon of moral rectitude.

If establishment Republicans were the least bit repentant about their betrayals, truly believed in the conservative principles embodied in their party's platform and were realistic about stopping Trump, they'd quit posturing and unite behind Ted Cruz.

For the way to defeat Donald Trump is not to deny him a majority and steal the nomination from him at the convention; that really would be the end of the party. It is to embrace the closest thing to a Reagan conservative since Ronald Reagan, before it's too late. But truth be told, they probably hate Cruz worse than they hate Trump.

I wish Trump supporters would consider this when they wrongly lump Cruz in with the establishment, and I wish they'd simmer down long enough to recognize that Cruz represents the answer to their complaints far more than Trump -- and with none of the baggage.


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To: Kaslin

These are the facts. Live with it.

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Fact is he’s running and the question becomes can he get the delegates to be the nominee.
If he can’t then his birth place becomes a mute point as it won’t matter. If he gets the
nomination then we’ll most likely see some court actions should he should he win in Nov.


61 posted on 03/04/2016 6:12:45 AM PST by deport
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To: Kaslin
His suggestion is only to accomplish what mitt and the gop want.

They have no intention of backing Cruz or rubio, and the joke will be on the voters again.

They plan for paul ryan.
The super pac has been created to recruit him.
Everything else is a lie.
62 posted on 03/04/2016 6:15:52 AM PST by novemberslady
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To: Mr. K
>> We would have had Yeb! if not for Trump - so be thankful for that. <<

Jeb was polling a distant 6th place and in single digits. How exactly would "we have Yeb!" if Trump wasn't in the race? Are you assuming EVERY Trump supporter would have switched to Jeb? If they did, that says more about Trump supporters than it says about Jeb.

63 posted on 03/04/2016 6:16:33 AM PST by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: Kaslin

Limbaugh=GOPe and oh by the way so is Ted Cruz.


64 posted on 03/04/2016 6:21:48 AM PST by jpsb (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismark)
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To: Kaslin

Not going to happen. Romney gave this thing to Trump hands down.


65 posted on 03/04/2016 6:22:59 AM PST by Lady Heron
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To: JBW1949

Neither can Trump


66 posted on 03/04/2016 6:24:35 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed theThe l ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kaslin

Not on your life Limbaugh.

I won’t vote for Cruz. He disgusst me.


67 posted on 03/04/2016 6:24:42 AM PST by dforest
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To: Godebert

68 posted on 03/04/2016 6:25:11 AM PST by King of Florida (A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.)
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To: TTFlyer

You noticed that too. David must be running Rush now. LOL


69 posted on 03/04/2016 6:26:10 AM PST by dforest
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To: tennmountainman

That is true, and it means Trump has not locked up the nomination, as he likes to make his fans to believe.


70 posted on 03/04/2016 6:28:52 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed theThe l ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kaslin

“but once they’re elected, they lose their will to fight”

What’s the evidence that they had the will to fight before the election?


71 posted on 03/04/2016 6:29:59 AM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown, are by desperate appliance relieved, or not at all)
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To: Kaslin

Why on earth would we abandon Trump. I’ve abandoned the talking heads and looking for new ones that are less inclined to be anti-trump and more inclined to be circumspect.


72 posted on 03/04/2016 6:32:05 AM PST by Fhios (Going Donald Trump is as close to going John Galt as we'll get.)
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To: Kaslin

Time for the 59% man to get behind the 20% man!


73 posted on 03/04/2016 6:32:12 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Donglalinger

Lol!


74 posted on 03/04/2016 6:32:54 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: jch10
I want someone who gets things done. That leaves Trump
And Mussolini made the trains run on time. That's getting things done.
75 posted on 03/04/2016 6:33:37 AM PST by Johnny B. (Donald Trump: the choice of the Jerry Springer generation!)
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To: Kaslin

Unite behind the second place guy?


76 posted on 03/04/2016 6:35:01 AM PST by kanawa (....It's the seriousness of the accusation)
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To: Kaslin

Trump supporters aren’t led to believe Trump has locked up the nomination.

But Ted acts like he has as he lets us know with his plodding never ending victory bloviations.


77 posted on 03/04/2016 6:35:19 AM PST by dforest
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To: Kaslin

The GOPe SHOULD have gotten behind Cruz in time to help him in SC and Super Tuesday.

I think it’s too late now, the fools.


78 posted on 03/04/2016 6:38:29 AM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Kaslin

Trump/Kasich 2016


79 posted on 03/04/2016 6:43:04 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Kaslin

Dear Jim and Freepers:

I am deleting Free Republic from my computer. Free Republic was an Oasis for conservatives to share their views and thoughts in a rational, respectful and thoughtful way. I enjoyed the exchange of ideas and perspectives.

Very sadly, it has turned into a place for irrational ravings, slogans, mob mentality and cheap plagiarism. I’m not putting all into those categories as there are some fine folks here, but as evidenced by the Trumpbots taking over threads, what used to be a wonderful forum for ideas and thought has turned into a sad parody of itself.

I know, don’t let the door hit you in the ass, but I won’t be here to respond.

Regards to those with brains left here.


80 posted on 03/04/2016 6:52:50 AM PST by Pirate Ragnar (Libs put feelings first and thought second.)
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