Posted on 10/16/2015 12:38:02 PM PDT by GonzoII
Donald Trump increasingly looks unbeatable in the Republican presidential nominating sweepstakes unless the GOP establishment can persuade a bunch of candidates to drop out early, conservative commentator Pat Buchanan said Friday.
Appearing on “The Laura Ingraham Show,” Buchanan said the dropouts likely will have to include Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor who previously looked invincible but whose fortunes have sagged under months of a withering onslaught by Trump.
“At some point, he does become an impediment to the establishment getting a comeback plan,” Buchanan said.
Trump, the billionaire real estate mogul and reality television star, continues to hold large leads in national polls and early state surveys. Buchanan said it is increasingly apparent that establishment forces cannot take Trump down with so many credible alternatives.
“It’s looking very, very difficult to see how they’re gonna take this nomination from The Donald,” he said.
“It’s looking very, very difficult to see how they’re gonna take this nomination from The Donald,” he said.
Buchanan suggested the establishment has a shot if it coalesces around a single candidate. And the best hope appears to be first-term Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, he said.
“He’s back in the pack, but he looks like the third horse coming around the far turn,” he said.
Trump terrifies the establishment, Buchanan said.
“He is not under any measure of control or discipline,” he said. “He’s a very entertaining candidate, and he’s full of verve and life. And I think he’s more disciplined than he was in July. And he’s putting on a great show.”
Buchanan compared Rubio to Rep. Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican whom many are trying to entice to become speaker of the House of Representatives. He is “a likable guy,” as is Rubio, Buchanan said. But if Ryan becomes speaker, he almost certainly will pursue the same policies on trade and immigration that turned grass-roots conservatives against outgoing Speaker John Boehner, he said.
And if Trump does take the nomination?
“All of a sudden, a lot of folks he was unaware they were supporting him are going to suddenly be around him. They’ll all be gravitating there. This city is full of people who want to work in the White House and in government and in the State Department and Defense and everything.
“And the closer Donald gets to that nomination, the more he’s going to hear from them.”
Secretariat. Belmont.
We are seeing the political equivalent. People in both parties an everywhere else are royally PI$$$$$ed!
This is why we are in very dangerous times.
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Coalesce around the water boy. Ok, then. Go for it!
The establishment has no come back plan. For them its full speed ahead with any certain loser they can convince to take the fall. The Marxists must survive in order to bring about the One World Government so long sought after by the Bilderbergers, Tri-Laterals, GOPe & other various Agenda 21 types. They are already more than two generations behind schedule. There is no stopping them now...at least in their opinion.
So their whole reason for dropping out would be to stop Trump? Gets crazier every day.
If/when Trump becomes the nominee he better throw his weight around the issue of the Diebold and electronic voting machine ‘irregularities’... put the fear of God into anyone scheming to cheat the vote via electronic fraud.
Every now and then Pat is right.
I’m closer each day to supporting Trump. The possibility is real that he can do much of what he says, and just the POSSIBILITY of that so enrages and frightens the left/right power structure in Washington that nothing they attempt to stop it will be surprising.
A cornered animal...
They always have the ace card. I have little doubt they’ll play it if it comes down to it.
the pundits can’t comprehend the game being played is not the game they always play. Pat left off the only thing that actually matters at this point.
That is charisma. No candidate besides Donald Trump has an ounce of charisma. The public is tired of dry cods that spout meaningless platitudes and reel off numbers that are for show.
Vigor, excessive energy, humor, attack on the hated press and disliked congress trump all the ideology and wonkiness. Reality of person is also demanded and provided. Excepting Ben Carson and Bernie Sanders there is a dearth of personality in the other candidates....... dry cod wonks all
The Jeb Bush plan of split and sneak is working for everyone BELOW Trump. It is just the public as a body that has told the establishment to engage in a biologically impossible mechanical act.
Pat is right more often than not. True, he has plenty of baggage. I'm proud to say that I supported him and ran as a Louisiana Delegate for him in 1996. Didn't make it, but he won the primary here.
People asked me what the hell I was doing supporting him instead of Bob Dole or Phil Gramm. My reply was that he was the ONLY candidate that had a chance against Clinton. Dole sure didn't do the trick.
The coalescence isn’t going to happen, at least not yet. Carson is not an Establishment pick. Neither is Cruz. Neither is Rand Paul. So, you take Fiorina, John Ellis Bush, Jindal, Pataki, Gilmore, Santorum, Graham, Huckabee, Kasich and Christie, throw all the support to Rubio, and you get maybe 35%. Might work in Florida, though probably not. Maybe California. Nowhere else. Trump throws EVERYthing into play, including the Northeast.
I don’t support Trump, but I could see him picking up a stray ironic hipster vote here and there from those who regard him as their “one Republican friend.”
Carson just implodes if you share with people what he's actually said on the campaign trail, so really, the establishment's choices are to back Cruz or just watch Trump walk away with it. Neither choice is acceptable to them.
What an awful time for a campaign bundler... So much money that's not hitting the table as donors wait to see their candidate pick up steam.
The pundits do not understand THEIR opinions were and are THEIR opinions. They do not infuse opinions on others.
(for those in rio linda, a pundit urinating on you leg does mean it is raining.)
interesting analogy Secretariat won the Belmont by such a huge margin, I think even the owners were stunned
In some ways, he may occupy a political spot similar to Eisenhower. Run as a Republican, but transcend any label.
Imagine if you will a world in which Trump supporters switch to Rubio. :-)
Rush was talking about the amount of money Sander’s is pulling in.
$25 million, most of which was from donors giving less than $200. That is more than the GOPe picks combined.
Trump is having the Unions start to court him. They have been screwed the GOP, betrayed by the Dems.
Both parties are in trouble, and they know it. When people on top of the power structure get threatened, they will do anything to protect themselves.
If I was Trump and Sanders, I would get some good security that was loyal to me, and me alone. Don’t trust the uniparty.
Not even on Twilight Zone.
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