Posted on 01/27/2016 4:48:37 AM PST by 20yearsofinternet
With time running out until the first primary votes are cast, establishment Republicans have begun a ferocious round of finger-pointing over who is to blame for the party's failure to stop Donald Trump.
The chiding, once limited to private conversations, is now erupting in public view — with campaigns, operatives, donors, party officials and conservative intellectuals arguing over why something hasn't been done to stop the man who has been leading nearly every state and national poll since August. Trump, many in the GOP's upper ranks are convinced, would lead the Republican Party to an epic defeat in November, with consequences all the way down the ballot.
"This whole thing is a disaster," said Curt Anderson, a former Republican National Committee political director and veteran operative. "I think I'll write a book about it."
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(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
The media and that clown circus you put up.
If Trump and Hillary are the best the powers can field in a country to 350,000,000, we are so screwed.
AAA+ post.
That’s what you guys get for propping up Jeb
While GOPe types like Mitch McConnell were patting themselves on the back, Main Street started assembling the ingredients for a major dollop of whoop ass.
Over 60% of the polling to date has gone to candidates not supported by GOPe.
Try looking in the mirror you gutless, spineless,no good RINO wimps. Who gave us Trump? Why all of you did—but you will never admit it.
Take a flying flux off a long pier.
This Politico article exposes GOPe groupthink, which persists in misreading its own party’s Conservative base. Focusing solely on who is to blame for failing to oppose Trump, the Republican establishment still offers no active opposition to destructive Democrat policies. Had these pompous windbags spent even half this energy fighting Obama for the past seven years, there would be no political vacuum for Donald Trump to fill. The popularity of Trump and his acerbic manner is a long-delayed reaction to Republican cowardice and complicity.
Love watching Politico go bananas! An assemblage of banal, trite, lazy DC hacks; a circle-jerk of the dumbest monkeys in the National Zoo, complete with old tire swingset Peter Principle playground that the dumbest of them instinctively know to stay with Politico rather than accept career advances elsewhere, because they don't have to work hard, or much at all.
Fox w/ Megyn played a really dumb game plotting how to set Trump up this time. Trump chose choice #2. Trump wins. Fox and everyone else loses. Jebbie can wail at the debate about Trump's refusal to show up. No one will be watching.
And Trump told everyone the move a long time ago. If it is a bad deal you walk. Right there in front of god and everyone he walked.
Answer: The GOPelite, Obama, Hollywood, The Democrats and the Media...
Your description of folks in DC is much to kind. Folks here are far less competent than that.
I think you are correct. The GOP betrayal of McDaniel was a steeling moment for me, proving that the GOPe is nothing more than the country club wing of the Uniparty. Damn them.
The only ones the GOPee pukes thought they could roll over was us the conservative base.
Well guess what-—they got rolled instead by us so pretty much now they are totally useless except for complaining and wasting resources. How does that crow taste you GOPers? Out with the old, in with the bold.
The GOPe forgot the conservative base and are paying the price.
Someone find a GOPe and smack them upside the head— oh wait Trump is doing that.
Strangely Trump may not be a conservative but he is appealing to a broad spectrum of the voting public.
The GOPe have been treating Trump as a joke- but now that he may actually win a couple of states they are panicking what a bunch of elitist assholes
I think we give people too much credit for strategizing. Maybe it’s just a matter of personality vs personality and that’s all it’s ever been.
Back before Trump even threw his hat in the ring I was telling everyone who would listen that the establishment had no chance of foisting their choice on the GOP this election cycle.
I even picked Cruz as the man to watch. Nobody could have foreseen Trump in those days.
They’re deluded in thinking they still have control of this process.
Ronald Reagan walked out on Gorbachev, and that tactic soon led to a winning settlement. Reagan's mistake was not also walking out on Tip O'Neill.
The GOPe created Donald Trump because the would not represent their base.
at the core of modern history lies this remarkable pattern: Over the past five centuries, Anglo-American society has entered a new era-a new turning-every two decades or so. At the start of each turning, people change how they feel about themselves, the culture, the nation, and the future. Turnings come in cycles of four. Each cycle spans the length of a long human life, roughly 80 to 100 years, a unit of time the ancients called the saeculum. Together, the four turnings of the saeculum comprise history?s seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and destruction:
*The First Turning is a High, an upbeat era of strengthening institutions and weakening individualism, when a new civic order implants and the old values regime decays.
*The Second Turning is an Awakening, a passionate era of spiritual upheaval, when the civic order comes under attack from a new values regime.
*The Third Turning is an Unraveling, a downcast era of strengthening individualism and weakening institutions, when the old civic order decays and the new values regime implants.
*The Fourth Turning is a Crisis, a decisive era of secular upheaval, when the values regime propels the replacement of the old civic order with a new one.
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