Posted on 02/29/2016 10:27:27 AM PST by Citizen Zed
Plouffe’s assessment that a general election with Trump on the ballot is hard to predict and that Trump “could lose in a landslide or win narrowly.”
Then again he might WIN in a LANDSLIDE!
The question I have is centered around his first two
years in office. Will the GOPE facilitate the changes
the electorate wants to make by putting Trump in office,
or will they fight him every step of the way. Thereby
throwing away the best chance we have of seeing the
change we believe Trump exemplifies.
Perhaps we can hold the House and Senate for four years
but it’s up for grabs in just two, and what would be
the point of holding it if obstruction is all we see.
I will go back and read the whole post but when I got to the word “realignment” it hit me like a brick that the GOPe have wanted a middle of the road candidate for years! Why are they not supporting DT? I think it’s because he doesn’t take advice from anyone except his lawyers. LOL
That's about it. And there are lots of us longtime conservatives likewise who cannot stand Trump.
See post 35 as Exhibit A.
I will vote for Trump. Ted Cruz is my first choice, but I would vote for my neighbor’s cat over she-who-shall-not-be-named. So Donald Trump will do.
I will vote for Trump, but rally behind him? After he calls Ted Cruz the Biggest Liar he’s ever known? (presumably a Bigger liar than Hillary Clinton?). Well sorry Trumpmaniacs, I don’t owe the Donald diddly squat.
If the “Very Conservative” elites cared so much about “conservatives” they’d have been screaming at congress for the last 8 months (or more) as loudly as they are screaming at Trump and his supporters now. And they’d be screaming at this year’s congress as much as they’re screaming at the voters. Congress will be doing things this year. And they could have already shown this year that the Republican party is conservative. If the establishment isn’t able to get conservative things done when they control congress, then they aren’t much use.
It’s hard for me to see how these people are concerned about conservative ideas and values. It’s easy for me to conclude that they are concerned about staying in charge and have no intent to govern as conservatives.
The men's room at Grand Central works for me.
I would say the Republicans have not been a Conservative party since 1989 with the exception of the rally in 1994. That rally was quickly throttled by Bob Dole and his RINO cohorts in the Senate who undermined Gingrich and the conservative insurgency. They blocked the marriage amendment and undermined the government shutdown.
Huge undiscussed variable. Hillary’s indicted, Crazy Joey steps in and draws away male blue collar voters.
I was thinking the same but it seems to me they went even more full lib after the impeachment of BJ Clinton failed.
Not heights, he has flat out said he doesn’t want Cruz supporters to support Trump.
Trump just makes shit up as he goes.
Yes that is a really big factor. I'm thinking "End Times" therefore politics is dead and I need to focus on higher things.
Works for me!
The “conservative” DNA has long since been purged from the Republican Party and the party Liberal’s are committing FRAUD each time they make such a claim. It is nothing more or less than a criminal organization that should be prosecuted as such under RICO laws!
Good riddance!
Silver is almost 100% data based. Not a whole lot of opinion is his various analyses. He’s also very accurate with his predictions. That being said he’s been on his Twitter feed the last few weeks talking about how a number of statistical precedents have been broken so it’s possible that this election and Trump are a black swan event.
I was a Cruz first, Trump second initially but he will never get my vote, I will vote for the most conservative candidate. Trump isn’t a conservative at all.
I will vote for Gary Johnson or the Constitutional party candidate.
One or two more elections, and they would wrest control from the Mitch McConnels and John McCains of the world.
And now it will probably all get pissed away.
Just who would wrest that control away? Cornyn? Alexander? Corker? Graham? Ayotte? Collins?
Cruz has zero influence, Lee is controlled by Hatch and Romney. Nothing will change from within. Only major external influence can change direction. That has to be Trump.
That’s unfortunate. Stuff like that is completely uncalled for.
“Then there is that nasty little piece of tissue that has the nasty habit of following the unaware out on their shoe.”
And that kind of crap is exactly why Donald Trump’s Orc army of mindless hatchet men deserve zero support, other than a perfunctory flip of the voter switch to prevent Hillary from being coronated. After that, we owe you zilch, zippo, nada. I will fight every autocratic non-conservative blunder Trump tries to bully through congress. You guys are the true nasty little pieces of tissue.
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