Posted on 01/19/2016 4:12:21 PM PST by mandaladon
GOP ESTABLISHMENT LEANING TOWARD TRUMP OVER CRUZ These days, many Republican leaders are playing an unappetizing game of “would you rather.â€
The conventional wisdom, which once dictated that neither Donald Trump nor Sen. Ted Cruz could possibly be the party’s nominee now says that one of the two men will necessarily claim the nomination.
A weekend piece in the WaPo congealed this narrative into one tar-thick blob of despair for the GOP elite. After two cycles of defeating the Jacobins of their party’s base, the revolution is upon them. Cries of defeat and despair ricochet off of their opalescent kitchen counters and $75 bottles of “table wine.â€
The received and accepted analysis is that since Trump and Cruz did not “implode†in the way that Mitt Romney’s rivals did four years ago, they cannot be stopped. Adding to the despair is the fact that the consensus pick for the Republican elite, Jeb Bush, did a belly flop like Shamu at a matinee show. The old magic did not work. Money did not equal victory. Don’t let the nanny hear you quietly sobbing in your den.
Leave aside for now the fact that the conventional wisdom is probably just as wrong about the future as it was about the race to this point. The bladder-voiding panic has come to official Washington, which, of course, brings a smile to the faces of nearly every Republican voter beyond the Beltway.
But the elites didn’t get to be where they are because they are stupid or lazy. They made it to the top of politics because they are smart, hardworking and, perhaps most of all, adaptable.
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Baggage handler? Shine boy?
You know, I’d be inclined to agree with you, HOWEVER, jugears has set the precedent.
A complete return to the constitution is required but I don’t know I’ll ever see that in my lifetime.
Goose, gander, and all that.
“GOP establishment leaning toward Trump over Cruz”
Yes, because Trump is a liberal. He may a lone wolf politically, but he is still a liberal...and to the GOPe that is better than a conservative.
One of MeGyn's "dumb puppets". His opinion is crap unless you like GOPe and then it's golden.
Ted Cruz is such a sufferable ahole that even Sarah Palin has turned against him..tells me something
what ever way the GOPe goes, time to go the opposite way. Cruz over Trump!”
Yep, that knee jerk reaction is probably what they are counting on. Head fake.
With TPA and the Corker amendment, Cruz has shown he knows how to play ball.
The clinton donor continues to amp his willingness to make deals with the gopE of course they like him.
“The establishment favoring Trump over Cruz is not a feather in his cap. Add that to Trump’s positive remarks about ethanol, and I’m beginning to favor Cruz over Trump.”
Trump has also become an “Evangelical” this week. His picture will probably be beside the word pander in the new dictionaries. Cash for favors he said is okay in the first debate, that’s what he’s doing with the ethanol statement, taxpayers cash for the favor of giving him a vote.
That’s why there’s a crease in pants.
Agreed. If you’re being endorsed by the GOP, you’re definitely a crony capitalist, elitist stooge.
I think the two main elements are winning the presidency and getting your people in control of the county machines at the local level. Once you have the presidency, you control appointments, federal jobs, and judge’s seats, so the party has to cater to you if they want to have a hand in doling out those favors.
If you can get the county committees on your side, then you are also wielding power from the ground up, helping select the national RNC members, chairmen, party delegates, etc. If you want to fully takeover a party, you have to work both of those angles.
He’ll be an evangelical if you like evangelicals, and he’ll talk about how crazy those evangelicals are next week, if the wind is blowing in another direction.
“He’ll be an evangelical if you like evangelicals, and he’ll talk about how crazy those evangelicals are next week, if the wind is blowing in another direction.”
Yup. Just a few weeks ago when his Iowa numbers were challenged he said, “how stupid can the people in Iowa be?” As soon as his polls rise again, he’ll probably sing their praises.
thanks....
also maybe try to get some of the county election officials’ jobs back from the Soros machine we’ve read so much about (taking them over/ putting their agents in them, etc. so .... can....try to cut down on some of the voter fraud?
Yeah, the GopE loves Trump so much , the sent Nikki Haley out to undermine the front runner in the race.
Yeah, they love him alright.
Chrissie and Meggie?
Why, they’se like peas n carrots!
Hail victory.
Smash the left.
Don’t worry about it. Against any of the Dems, Clinton, Brown, Biden, or even Sanders, Trump is a landslide loser.
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