Posted on 12/12/2015 11:19:12 AM PST by Kaslin
With the Iowa caucuses getting closer and Donald Trump continuing to lead in the polls, the Republican Party power brokers are getting desperate.
It certainly looks like the GOP establishment will stop at nothing to wrest the party's nomination away from Trump. On Monday night, a group of moderate insiders met with Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. They discussed the possibility of a brokered convention in Cleveland next July if Trump swept through the primaries with a delegate lead. The hope among the establishment is that the moderates will unite behind a candidate like Jeb Bush to defeat Trump in a one on one match-up.
It is quite ironic that these political insiders are plotting a brokered convention since there has not been a dramatic Republican convention since the 1976 showdown in Kansas City between President Gerald Ford and conservative challenger Ronald Reagan. After Reagan's two terms, the establishment has controlled every nomination process until this one.
Of course, the only reason for this urgent meeting is that the establishment desperately wants to defeat Trump. They truly cannot stand the notion of a nominee like Trump who is a straight talker and is politically incorrect. More importantly, these insiders can't control Trump for he is a billionaire who doesn't need their money. This is a notion that truly frightens them for if nominated and, heaven forbid, elected President, he could take away their precious hold on power.
Trump is a very different kind of candidate and that upsets the GOP insiders like Priebus and McConnell. Obviously, they are disgusted that Trump is dominating the discussion and the news coverage. The latest controversy involving Trump's call for a ban on Muslims entering the country only generated more media coverage for his presidential campaign. It is also translating into higher poll numbers among Republican voters. In the latest CBS/New York Times poll, Trump leads as the choice of 35% of the respondents, more than double the 16% support received by his nearest competitor, Senator Ted Cruz. Instead of derailing his campaign, the continual stream of media driven controversies only generates more support for Trump.
While the positive poll numbers are currently boosting The Donald, he cannot rest on his laurels, since there is an ongoing plot to dethrone him as the front runner. Thus, he keeps saying that he will remain as a Republican candidate as long as he is treated "fairly." He wants to keep the threat of leaving the Republican Party on the table, as an option.
If Trump does bolt, 68% of his supporters would support him as an Independent, according to a new poll from USA Today/Suffolk University. These results must be very disquieting for the leadership of the Republican Party. Either they embrace Trump and allow him to become the party’s nominee or they try to steal the nomination from him and turn Trump toward a third party run that will likely kill the chances of the establishment's candidate.
The party's elite also has to contend with another outsider, Dr. Ben Carson. While he is not leading the race like Trump, he is still in the top tier of candidates. Like Trump, Carson has not been embraced by the party's establishment wing. Needless to say, Carson was furious when he learned of the secret Republican leadership meeting. "I will not sit by and watch a theft. I intend on being the nominee. If I am not, the winner will have my support. If the winner isn't our nominee, then we have a massive problem," said Carson.
Congratulations to both Carson and Trump for bucking the party leadership and causing them so many headaches. These selfish insiders have done tremendous harm to the GOP and their power base needs to be demolished. Otherwise, it will be the end of the Republican Party, as true conservatives are sick and tired of being used, abused and ignored.
Hope so he has every one after him so he must be right.
If we had had the internet back then JFK would not have been from Camelot and it would not have been as easy to cheat.
The internet has changed things dramatically. The internet is neutralizing the media very effectively.
It simply is not as easy to cheat as it once was. Trump has a lot of eyes and ears. That is not to say that this is going to be a cake walk but this levels of instant communications levels the playing field.
They hate Cruz even more than Trump, the GOP Beltway folks. Murdoch is right - it will be in their own best interests NOT to move forward to try to destroy either of those two. We are wise to their ways; we are sick to death of the get-along pablum candidates they’ve been running, and we are not going to play reindeer games with them this time around.
I just can’take trust anyone named Reince Priebus. Sounds like he was raised in a gold-plated crib.
I believe the GOPe has the courage to take out one of their own who will not tow the line. We saw that with another election. However, they are totally gutless or likely in cahoots with the Rats.
The point is that Trump could win ALL of the primaries and still not have the delegates to win the nomination without GOPe controlled superdelegates support.
These sons of bitches have it set up this way for the very reason that THEY control who gets nominated, the voters are be damned.
Interesting that you should say that, considering they won’t stand against Obamacare
The Whig Party is panicking to early. Very ungainly.
Trump/Palin '16
They should kill the RINOs, not the party.
You can call the new Party what you want. I say the “American” party would work well.
How are you going to get all the Republican voters to make this “new party” win? Black Magic?
Ask the Whigs.
If Meitch and his boys steal this I will vote for the third party candidate most likely to screw everyone
Then why only have representatives from Bush and Rubio? Why not include everyone’s?
Haley Barbour and Mitch the Bitch
Prostitutes for the Democrat leadership.
I suggest you get them all to vote 3rd party in that case so that you get counted as a protest vote rather than assumed not being interested.
I do not know what you mean by “only have representatives from Bush and Rubio.”
Ask the Abolitionists.
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