Posted on 01/16/2016 5:15:10 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Donald Trump may be a maverick and even an embarrassment to Republican establishment types. But if he becomes the party's presidential nominee, they're all for him.
Trump's rise had troubled insiders, the political pros who organize and fund campaigns, for a host of reasons. He didn't pay his dues by doing the unglamorous work most party regulars endure. He's winning without the GOP's intricate network of fundraisers and grassroots operatives. And his insults of Mexicans and view that Muslims not be allowed to enter this country create an image of intolerance the GOP has been trying to shed for years.
Yet the regulars are ready to do business with Trump if they must.
"Reality," explained Curly Haugland, North Dakota national committeeman. "You get to a tipping point where presumptiveness begins to kick in."
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The biggest motivator for rallying around Trump: Republicans desperately want to win back the White House, and they have an almost visceral dislike of Clinton, the national Democratic front-runner.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus laid out the stakes this week at the party's winter meeting.
"If we don't win, what happens to our party?" he asked. "Could we function as a national party in the same way?"
(Excerpt) Read more at kansas.com ...
Image of intolerance? More like proof of willfully ignorant suicide.
Sure lets give our GDP away to the entire world, our citizens wont mind living in mud huts again. Sure let's let a bunch of satanic murderers take control of the entire planet, our citizens don't mind being submissive.
He did not insult Mexicans; he impugned lawbreakers.
And his views on screening muslims “until we can find out what the hell is going on” can be gainsaid only by the delusional ideologues.
Maybe Preibus is finally seeing the light that if they steal the nomination for Jeb or a wannabbee the anger will run so deep they’ll lose the US Senate and the HOR.
I hereby sentence you to 6 months of convoluted constraints.
He's losing his appeal because with the hypocrisy of obscuring thos two bank loans, his narrative has crumbled. Without the narrative, all of those slick reasons (excuses) for earlier issues aren't quite as believable.
Grin and bear it, Democrats and liberals could live with a President Trump. Without the whole wall thing, they could agree with his values. And the wall thing takes congress for it happen...
A politically unprincipled President Trump, with a embedded political class in congress is not such a bad deal for liberals. At least they’ll get 3 or 4 shots at Supreme Court Justices that share his New York Values.
“lurking saboteurs”, bingo! The history of the office. I remember someone saying that staffers were laughing behind Reagan’s back. And who could forget the Grant administration. With the South powerless, Grant only wanted peace, but the people around him only wanted to make money on the situation.
I’d be happy if they would just fix the roads.
I’ve been saying all along that the establishment would ultimately embrace Trump. Why wouldn’t they?
Rank and file Republicans want to burn down the establishment, and rebuild on the ashes. They’ve been willing to settle with Trump for a hostile takeover. But what they’re going to get in the end is a friendly merger. A “deal” that will result only in the establishment status quo, once Trump gets what he wants out of it, which is some glory.
Trump is one of the very few “politicians” to voice an even
halfway sensible opinion on the “Muslim migrant” problem
of “Jihadists” coming in disguised amongst them. He
suggested a very sensible MORATORIUM on the knee-jerk
reaction of most of the politicians to open wide the gates
in spite of all we’ve been through. - Hillary & Obama want
those “immigrants” in here for their votes OR, even worse,
for their “enforcement” factor at the polls to keep me and
others like me OUT of the voting booth. Hillary & Hussein
Obama don’t care; THEY’VE got SECURITY!
I’d love to be encouraged by this article, but the mention of Henry Barbour kinda spoiled it for me- especially since I read something yesterday about them plotting something in Mississippi, similar to what they did to Chris McDaniel.
I trust the RNC as far as I can throw them.
Of course they could. It gets them off the hook for discussing gay marriage and abortion while leaving the door open just enough to get cheap labor.
No mystery here. Trump will give the establishment cheap labor. The question is, what will he ask for in return?
They believe that Cruz will do what THEY TELL HIM TO do”
Fixed it for you.
See Corker Bill and TPA
GOP was infiltrated yrs ago, as well as FNC
Because he won’t be THEIR liberal. What are they going to bribe him with? If he were a regular politician he could be bought; the GOPe’s issue is they have to react to him, not control him.
I'm not as sure today that is true as I was a couple of months ago. I'm expecting a Trump presidency would come to an agreement with the Rino's and we'd largely have business as usual but with a much better looking first lady.
Trump has proven he can do a deal with anybody. He'll do one with the Rinos.
Not so much, they tell you what they believe by how they act. They know with Trump it’s just a matter of price and stroking of the ego.
The idea that Cruz is some kind of master strategist is really silly. The issue isn’t about NY or ‘NYC values’ vs other values or who knew what about NY values when. All that is a bunch of BS that Cruz supporters have drudged up to try and muddy the waters.
They’re doing that because their candidate has shown himself to be a divider and not a uniter. He has written off and insulted an entire state in an inexcusably arrogant fashion.
Donald Trump is trying to win votes EVERYWHERE. He is trying to unite people and is using conservative ideas to do it. Donald Trump is trying to win NY. Ted Cruz is mired in the lazy red-team-blue-team politics of yesteryear.
Only the LIEberal wing of the party can accept a non-conservative. The rest are disgusted by the idea an avowed Clinton-supporting DUmocrat would get any traction within the party or garner any support from those claiming to be conservative.
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