Posted on 07/10/2015 11:45:14 AM PDT by jimbo123
The trouble started more than a week ago. Chris Christie was three days into his presidential campaign on July 2, yet he kept getting thrown off message with questions about Donald Trump. The New Jersey Governor, known for his attitude and bombast, flashed a frustrated glare at reporters. “I’ve said this now about eight or nine times. I’ll say the same thing again,” he said on the street in downtown Nashua between campaign stops. “The comments were inappropriate.” That much was clear.
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“When Donald trump speaks about Hispanics, if I’m the smart Republican that stage, I’m going to rally and defend Hispanics and be their voice and become their champion,” says Ari Fleischer, the former Bush White House Press Secretary who co-authored the party’s 2012 autopsy calling for more outreach to Latino voters.
“My advice to Republican candidates is to say the truth: “Trump is not representative of the Republican Party. He doesn’t reflect our values and isn’t focused on the best interests of the country or the party.” And then they’ll have no reasons to answer Trump questions again,” said Tony Fratto, the managing partner at GOP firm Hamilton Place Strategies and a former Deputy White House Press Secretary in the Bush 43 administration.
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I wouldn’t put anything past them, they will use Mississippi tactics if necessary.
What I don’t get is the “moderate” “big tent” crowd is the group trying its hardest to push out other Republicans. How hypocritical is that? Clearly by “big tent” they mean make room for more liberals by pushing out conservatives (not that Trump is a conservative — I just don’t know what he is exactly, but he deserves an equal chance to everyone else). They want to push out everyone who disagrees with their liberal brand of Republicanism.
They are too scared of losing the Hispanic vote. Illegals are not entitled to vote anyway. What are they worried about?
They’re already planning for when they have amnestied all those illegal aliens.
That’s what they are worried about.
They have no intention of enforcing the laws.
What's the Re-Elite Party gonna do, refuse to field any candidate in 2016?
The GOP is in deep trouble all created by their own corruption. And all it took was one guy who can't be bought off who's standing up and stating the ugly truth.
We have entered in to a historic period where our so-called leaders and so called representatives are being publicly exposed for exactly what they are.
It’s all about the amnesty.
They want to push out anyone who does not agree with abandoning the rule of law and surrendering the country to fraudulently documented foreigners.
Trump is not representative of the Republican Party.”
That part is true. He is representative of the people, exactly as he should be and they don’t like it.
Christie has his good points, but I don’t think he’ll make it far. Especially fighting his own party...he’s just jumping on the bandwagon, everyone thinks they have to bring Trump down, and it’s laughable that all they are doing is handing him more support...on a silver platter.
I like the last comment, if you’re fighting Trump, you’re NOT fighting Hillary. Excellent. They all need to realize that...
That is the absolute truth and it's time that somebody addressed it instead of cowering in a bubble bath of political correctness.
The fact that other Republicans are distancing themselves from that comment instead of applauding it and addressing what they plan to do themselves about protecting our borders, clearly shows that the Republican Party has lost their way and are the modern day equivalent of "Neville Chamberlain" to the Democratic Party. Any Republicans running away from this issue are cowards and spineless appeasers.
The Republicans have a couple of qualified candidates— Walker and Cruz.
New tactics? How about “QUIT LYING TO YOUR BASE” RINO’s. How about the tactic of taking on the lying tyrants in government...oh wait, that’s most of the GOPe.
Do your job Boehner. Do your job McConnell.
I don’t care if Trump isn’t a “real” Republican or some kind of Democrat plant.
As far as I’m concerned all of the GOPe are Democrat plants.
Hear Hear!
Trump and Cruz are currently on my short list.
I have come more and more to think/believe the Bush family is a ‘all for me/us and the Saudi family/oil’ bunch. Give credit for papa Bush’s service in WWII. However, there were thousands of other guys who died in US planes and thousands more who fought the enemy and were killed my brother being such a guy on Okinawa. As a WWII overseas vet I am fed up with the publicity making out that Bush1 was a special kind of WWII hero.
“Trump is not representative of the Republican Party. He doesn’t reflect our values and isn’t focused on the best interests of the country or the party.” ____________________________________________________________
Ok, maybe Mr. T isn’t what the full fledged GOP thinks of itself as, but he running as a Republican...I can see several things wrong here:
(1) He was probably a Democrat, and likes Clinton, and other Democrats, I like some Democrats to, like the ones who stand up for what they believe in, so that makes me a bad bad Republican....
(2) How many other candidates that have had a D or an R behind their name have changed parties???? so that makes them a bad bad D or R...
(3)And when Christy Crème had his arms wrapped around ‘slob boy’ and his head up ‘slob boy’s’ A$$, that made him a RINO basically the same thing as a Democrat....
(4) Christy Crème thinks he’s the only one that can ‘tell people how it is’??? No he’s not and therein lies the problems...Christy Crème is not liked, people are tired of listening to him ‘flip-flop’ before he knew he ‘flipped-flopped’ and now he’s crying wolf...poor, poor Christy Crème...
Republicans have two good candidates right now: Walker in Cruz.
The GOPe and their “wise consultants”
Still Out of Touch with the American People
This is why so many are sitting out elections. You are nothing but a bunch of pansies, you’ve let the MSM back you into corners when you should’ve been speaking out DECADES ago. AGAINST immigration free-for-alls, lotteries, “affirmative action” “Diversity” nonsense. Nothing more than cheap labor and discrimination against your base. And yet you’ve learned nothing. Surely you haven’t realized your “outreach” to blacks accomplished nothing.
If you want Latino votes, independent votes, moderate votes, and the non-voters, STOP the pandering and campaign on issues that people actually care the most about:
Jobs/economy
Schools
Safety
National security
Families
Taxes
Pandering to Latinos based on the immigration issue is foolhardy. You really think they want more competition for jobs from cheap labor? You really think they don’t care about the aforementioned issues? Give me a break. Stop listening to your ignorant, overpaid “consultants” and the MSM, stop playing the MSM Gotcha Games and concentrate on the issues your base and “moderates” care about.
You’ve been losing your asses with these GOP Lites. Wake up.
The more the Republicans whine about Trump and try to stop him, the more they look like stuck pigs. Let’s suppose the Clintons have put him up to this (which I suspect/ he’s donated $$ to them over the years). They could just ignore him and go about their business. OR they could listen to him and ride his coattails - he’s kind of like the kid who says, “But Mom, the Emperor has no clothes on,” and he’s obviously hitting it out of the park as far as naming what’s really going on. I celebrate that, but I would not vote for him.
I think whining and trying to control him make THEM look like idiots and it makes THEM look like they support him, frankly.
Like trying to control the alcoholic sister-in-law.
If you are smart, you'll hook up with him as a running mate. If you are smart. Ahem.
I'm one "Republican" who will vote for Trump.
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