Posted on 01/10/2016 11:16:22 AM PST by RoosterRedux
GOP Strategist Alex Castellanos: "No Takers" For My Anti-Trump Campaign; "Too Late" To Stop Trump Posted on January 10, 2016
Veteran Republican consultant Alex Castellanos tells Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd he has been unable to convince major Republican donors to fund an anti-Trump campaign ad blitz. Castellanos said there were several factors but the possibility of Cruz being elevated by Trump's demise was something the establishment did not want to risk.
"No takers," Castellanos said about his anti-Trump campaign.
*snip*
"Is it too late," Chuck Todd asked?
"It's too late," Castellanos conceded.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Yeh that’s why they have been trying to destroy Trump. Nice try but no ceegar. :-)
They failed. Now they’ll fall in line. And so will Trump, the notorious deal-maker. It’s as sure as the sun coming up in the morning.
The misquote is deliberate, the GOPe doesn’t want to win.
I fear neither party wants to be be in charge when the grenade they’ve been playing hot potato with goes boom.
Atlas Shrugged is now non-fiction.
Yep. We've [s]een little signs here and there.
Since the first of the year:
Priebus '100 percent' confident he can rally GOP behind Cruz or Trump
Reince Priebus thinks Donald Trump has enough 'crossover appeal' to win the general election
yep.
If Trump does nothing but get the wall built and start the deportations, then he’ll have done more good than the last 4 Presidents in office.
I am keeping my expectations fairly low. But seeing him as someone who cares about his public image, I find it hard to imagine Trump reneging on that much at least. Can you imagine the field day that the MSM would have if he broke that promise? All the people he campaigned with now slamming him and yelling about betrayal? I don’t think that he’d want that for himself or his kids.
Pretty much everything else is subordinate to that issue to me, so if Trump does that much, everything else is gravy.
Allow me to expand a little. I’ve been slamming and taunting a lot of Cruz supporters lately, and I want to make it clear that it’s not because I hate Cruz or most of his supporters; I simply find the behavior of a certain few to be absolutely abhorrent and damaging to Cruz, who I like, and will not shy away from calling them out on it.
Having said that, I have the somewhat dubious luxury of my primary vote not mattering by the time it gets around to me, and that’s assuming that I’ll be able to register in the new state by then. I could try to influence my family in Iowa, but the best I can do with them is influence them NOT to caucus because they’re GOPe all the way. Anyways, this gives me the chance to try to step back and be objective.
This election is a gamble no matter who you support. Support Cruz, and you run the risk of him being unable to do anything but symbolically resist the corruption in DC, and that’s assuming that he gets elected at all. He hasn’t solidly shown the willingness to fight the liberals using every tactic, underhanded and otherwise, that we desperately need. And there are the ties to Club for Growth and the like that may compromise him.
Trump, on the other hand, has shown himself to be a real scrapper and is willing to go to the proverbial mat with the liberals, the establishment, and the media, and he has broad appeal even to many traditional D voters. But if what you see is what you get with Trump, he is a moderate populist. And he’s bound to hold positions that we don’t like, even if he’s correct on many of the major ones.
Cruz is high(er) risk, high(er) reward. It has to be very close to a perfect electoral storm in order to get him into a place where he can implement a conservative agenda with no strings attached, and if he fails, we’re stuck with Sanders or Hillary, and the GOP establishment will take steps to make sure that such a popular uprising against them will NEVER happen again without us breaking off to form a second party.
Trump is low(er) risk, low(er) reward. It’s looking like it could shape up for him to ride the populist tide and get whatever he wants done in the first 100 days. No Bernie, no Hillary. The question being whether what you’ll get is good enough.
Romney part 2 is already leading in the polls.
It’s no surprise that these people won’t give money to an anti-Trump effort. These people want from. He’s there ultimate dream candidate.
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