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Republicans point fingers: Who let Trump get this far?
Politico ^ | 01/26/16 | ALEX ISENSTADT

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."

*snip*

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; gope; trump
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To: 20yearsofinternet

You bozos did it yourselves.

You (both parties, everyone) have been selling out America for the entire last generation.

EVERYONE.

Trump is standing up, and saying America first.

He is the first one to actually say that. In an entire generation.

He is the first.

First.


41 posted on 01/27/2016 6:22:34 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: 20yearsofinternet

The Republicans are too stupid. Trump is ahead of them by leaps and bounds.


42 posted on 01/27/2016 6:24:15 AM PST by dforest
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To: dforest

Trump is trying to prove he is the biggest star in the Debate not Kelly. None of these talking heads would dare challenge Hillary or Obama in a similar manner. They all worked around the clock to get Obama elected twice.


43 posted on 01/27/2016 7:14:58 AM PST by FreedBird (id)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

FR not respecting the huge Tony Perkins endorsement of Cruz, they dont want it on the front page, not given the same respect that the Falwell for Trump was given.


44 posted on 01/27/2016 7:18:17 AM PST by Chauncey Uppercrust (JESUS IS FOR CRUZ......BACKSLIDING CHRISTIANS FOR TRUMP)
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To: 20yearsofinternet
Who let Trump get this far they ask?

People like George Will, Charles Krauthammer, Megyn Kelley, John McCain, Jeff Flake, especially John Boehner and Mich McConnell for starters, oh yeah, Reince Priebus...et al.

45 posted on 01/27/2016 7:18:25 AM PST by yoe
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To: 20yearsofinternet

I love this article so much it should be illegal.


46 posted on 01/27/2016 7:26:44 AM PST by Personal Responsibility (Trump/Cruz 2016)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

Who let Boehner, McConnell go as far as they did and still do?


47 posted on 01/27/2016 7:52:12 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittancez)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

The GOP-e is responsible for their piss-poor popularity among their constituency that shows them to be weak and vulnerable and has attracted a predator who seeks power, privilege and attention. All they had to do was drop the “e” and respect their Conservative base BY DOING WHAT YOU WERE SENT TO WASHINGTON TO DO. Of course it would also help if you didn’t change primary rules to benefit the “e” or spend RSNC money sent to you by Conservatives against Conservatives in Republican primaries. I’ve voted R in every primary and election for over fifty years, the only democrats I voted for ran as Republicans. The only use I have for the Republican party now is that it’s a path to election for Conservatives. When they successfully stop that, I’ll have no use for them at all.


48 posted on 01/27/2016 8:18:34 AM PST by duffee (CRUZ 2016)
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To: 20yearsofinternet
"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."

ESAD after you drop your nose from the vertical.

49 posted on 01/27/2016 8:21:00 AM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: 20yearsofinternet
TeaParty: Free Bwian! Free Bwian!

Anderson: Wait until weepubwickan overlord Biggus Pweebus hears of this outwage you wabbid wapscalians!

{ centurions snickering }

50 posted on 01/27/2016 9:08:28 AM PST by HLPhat (Preventing Global Cooling one tank full at a time!)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

Let’s see: let’s betray the People who put us in office, dip our hands in the lobbyist slush fund, lie down and die whenever Obama snaps his fingers and give in to blackmail, and then blame the first person whose armoured tank crossed our red line!


51 posted on 01/27/2016 11:53:24 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Who can actually defeat the Democrats in 2016? -- the most important thing about all candidates.)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

They enjoyed watching the base go bananas for long enough already.


52 posted on 01/27/2016 2:57:17 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: 20yearsofinternet
FLASHBACK: Ronald Reagan Skipped Last Debate Before IA Caucus---Went on to Win in Landslide
53 posted on 01/27/2016 3:00:08 PM PST by gg188 (Ted Cruz, R - Goldman Sachs)
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"Right to Rise has done more to advance the candidacy of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump than they ever did for Jeb Bush," said Joe Pounder, a senior Rubio adviser. "Donald Trump doesn't need a super PAC. He's got Jeb's." ("I'm willing to bet we've spent more than any other Republican campaign or organization has to date," Paul Lindsay, a Right to Rise spokesman, shot back.)

Great name wasted on this guy:


54 posted on 01/27/2016 3:07:11 PM PST by x
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