Posted on 11/25/2015 9:36:21 AM PST by springwater13
As the combative mogul enters his fifth month at the top of the GOP field, attempts to derail him remain anemic, underfunded and unfocused — and they are likely to stay that way until the Iowa caucuses in less than 10 weeks.
Most of the party’s financiers and top strategists are sitting on the sidelines. Many are reluctant to spend money against Trump after watching others fumble as they tried to handle his counterpunches. Others, citing past elections, remain confident that the race will eventually pivot away from him early next year.
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“I’m not sure someone wouldn’t do better to take their money and threw it off a tall building,†said Henry Barbour, a Mississippi-based operative unaligned with any of the campaigns. “I think the voters who are for Trump are not going to move off from Trump.â€
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>> Others, citing past elections...
There has been NO past election in my entire lifetime (~six decades) that has any predictive power whatsoever for this one.
The only thing even remotely similar to this election cycle and Trump’s disruptive candidacy was Ross Perot in 92, and even that has such significant differences as to be worthless for predicting any outcome this time around.
Looks like those GOPe donors are well and truly screwed.
This is rather like 1967-68, hopefully without James Earl Ray OR Sirhan Bishara Sirhan.
If the GOP manages to nominate a Hubert Humphrey equivalent (like Jeb), they will lose, badly.
But, like Mayor Daley and the other Democrat barons of 1968, the GOPe is going to fight like hell, including fighting dirty.
Nothing will bring down Trump. Attacks on him only make him stronger. People aren’t looking for another politician to be president...they’re fed up. Trump’s numbers will continue to rise.
What’s so hard for them to understand that it’s the PEOPLE who like Trump.
>> This is rather like 1967-68
I don’t see the similarity.
Who was the Trump of that primary cycle?
The split among the rest of the GOP field is their undoing. They cannot ‘join forces’ against Trump and then turn on each other without being hypocrites.
The Reagan admonition of “Thou shalt not criticize thy fellow Republican.” is ringing in their heads and they cannot do that lest they alienate all the Trump supporters in the process.
They are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Iowa Caucus is just a little over two months away and they are scared to death that Trump will take Iowa and New Hampshire a week later..............
Only 67 days left when reality hits all the anti-Trump pea brains. Tic toc tic toc tic. ...
Until some other candidate gets real on trade and immigration, I believe you’re right.
Dear GOP-E donors:
Trump is not going to go away.
Say hello to your nominee.
And who would believe them even if they got real after waiting this long.
These idiots really think that if Trump fails, the people will vote for Jeb?
The only one who will benefit is ROVE and the Consultant Class.
Trump’s candidacy has put a torpedo below the consultant class’s waterline. (In a just world, he would get the Presidential Freedom Medal for that.)
At this point, they are so discombobulated, they don’t know WHAT to think.
The GOPe resembles a decapitated chicken: no ability to see or think, but still able to run around flapping its wings.
Sadly I see the more vocal Cruz supporters will start more openly becoming allies with the GOPe as they start to realize that the S.S. Trump is not going to run itself into an iceberg for their benefit.
The uniparty oligarchs have been doing this for a long time and they’re very good at it. If they can’t win the nomination, they’ll put their resources into the general behind hitlery. Some sort of pathetic unity ticket. For the children.
I wouldn’t bet a plug nickel on a Trump presidency. Just the way it is.
I have vivid memories of what Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of doing. That whole spring of 1968 was a violent one, with Martin Luther King being killed before Easter, and RFK killed before Memorial Day.
Notice I say ‘convicted of doing’. Jury is still out on whether Sirhan was under drugged hypnosis for his part in that assasination. Midazolam: the Forget Me Now drug was introduced in 1976, but there may have been versions around long before that.
Well, Librium came to market in 1960, and Valium was approved in 1963. Both are benzos similar to Versed (midazolam), but don’t have quite the same response.
Go Trump Go!
We can win without your support. Stay home!
Go Trump!
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