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"The GOP Is On The Verge Of A Meltdown": Senior Republicans Threaten To Vote For Hillary
Zero Hedge ^ | 02/29/16 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 02/29/2016 4:12:35 PM PST by Enlightened1

With Donald Trump set for a yuuge victory in tomorrow's Super Tuesday slugfest - oddsmakers see 80% chance of Trump being the nominee - tensions are mounting dramatically within the Republican establishment. As The FT reports, many mainstream Republicans believe Mr Trump would struggle to beat Hillary Clinton and are urgently rallying around their man Rubio with some senior Republicans saying privately that they might consider voting for Mrs Clinton if Mr Trump were to end up as their party nominee as one conservative commentator exclaimed "we are on the verge of a real meltdown in the Republican party."

Trump's lead in the polls over his GOP nominee 'peers' continues to grow...

Source: RealClearPolitics

As The FT reports, while Mr Rubio and Mr Trump ramp up their attacks on each other ahead of the March 1 primaries, Republican grandees and lawmakers are turning to the Florida senator as they become increasingly worried that the property tycoon could lock up the GOP presidential nomination within three weeks.

They fear that a victory for Mr Trump could fatally fracture the party and prevent them from winning the White House in November.

 

Many mainstream Republicans believe Mr Trump would struggle to beat Hillary Clinton, the clear Democratic frontrunner after her resounding victory over Bernie Sanders in South Carolina on Saturday, given the comments he has made about Hispanics, Muslims, women, disabled people and people who have criticised his campaign.

But, as the following chart shows, it's far too close to call...

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bernie; collapse; default; downticket; elections; hillary; republicans; rubio; sanders; threaten; trump; trumpdisaster; trumpwasright; uniparty; vote
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To: Enlightened1

Appears like the GOP-e are cut from the same cloth as the “true conservatives”.


41 posted on 02/29/2016 4:25:18 PM PST by upsdriver (I support Sarah Palin.)
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To: Enlightened1

Would these be the same Republicans who do not get along with Ted Cruz?


42 posted on 02/29/2016 4:25:48 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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To: Enlightened1

Any republican who would vote for Hillary!
is no Republican!


43 posted on 02/29/2016 4:25:49 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Salvation

They would rather keep their cushy positions and perks for themselves than do what’s actually good for the country. I can’t wait to vote against a few of them tomorrow.


44 posted on 02/29/2016 4:26:50 PM PST by dandiegirl (BO)
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To: Enlightened1

So let me see if I have this right——they’ll vote for Hillary if they don’t get their way.

And then they wonder why we are all FED UP.

.


45 posted on 02/29/2016 4:27:44 PM PST by Mears
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
You cannot say that Trump is a liberal when the party he is on the verge of representing will not support him.

Oh, as I keep reading here, that is because they are the "vessel of conservatism," I state with all due sarcasm, irony and derision of anyone who could possibly fall for that view after the overwhelming evidence that GOPe is controlled by con artists.

46 posted on 02/29/2016 4:27:56 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Enlightened1

These folks can never ever ever again tell us to suck it up and vote for their guy.


47 posted on 02/29/2016 4:29:06 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: SkyPilot

: ) Nice reference. This is an election year to be remembered.


48 posted on 02/29/2016 4:29:11 PM PST by PGalt
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To: Yashcheritsiy
I’d say something about them taking their balls and going home, but...you know.

How about their ovaries, then?

49 posted on 02/29/2016 4:30:17 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Enlightened1
"The GOP Is On The Verge Of A Meltdown": Senior Republicans Threaten To Vote For Hillary

Voting with their vaginas, as Susan Sarandon quipped.

50 posted on 02/29/2016 4:31:05 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Helicondelta

I’ll give you names who just stated tonight they will never vote for Trump if he is the nominee.

Gov. Cristie Whitman and, former adviser to Bush and Romney, Dan Senor


51 posted on 02/29/2016 4:31:14 PM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Enlightened1

Must keep Establishment gravy train rolling.


52 posted on 02/29/2016 4:31:29 PM PST by uncitizen (Investigate Scaliagate!)
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To: inchworm

Then they just need to change their party affiliation and be kicked out. Dumb As*es.


53 posted on 02/29/2016 4:32:06 PM PST by Catsrus (I callz 'em as I seez 'em)
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To: manc
"doe snot"

snot coming out of their whatever...

54 posted on 02/29/2016 4:32:19 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Enlightened1

Now that Cruz and Rubio are an item, I’m sure there’s a place at the GOPe table for Teddy.


55 posted on 02/29/2016 4:32:36 PM PST by heights
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To: Enlightened1
With Trump’s ascendancy, it’s possible that the parties will re-orient their views on war and peace, with Trump moving the GOP to a more dovish direction and Clinton moving the Democrats towards greater support for war.

What utter BS.

Trump has vowed to rebuild the military and restore its morale, after it has been decimated by Obama the GOPe who voted to cut it again and again (and then passed Sequestration that placed the burder on 50% of all cuts on the military budget alone).

Trump will be a friend of the military and a strong America. These neocons and establishment liars are grasping at straws. They just don't want the borders secured.

http://conservativepost.com/what-trump-said-about-our-military-in-alabama-scared-all-our-muslim-enemies/

“I will rebuild our military. It will be so strong and so powerful and so great… that we’ll never have to use it. Nobody’s gonna mess with us.”

Donald Trump

56 posted on 02/29/2016 4:32:41 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Enlightened1

Hmm... wonder how Limbaugh, Hannity, O’Reilly and Levin would vote?!


57 posted on 02/29/2016 4:32:42 PM PST by maggief
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To: Enlightened1

If they are going to vote for Hillary they should just become Democrats in name as well as fact.


58 posted on 02/29/2016 4:33:19 PM PST by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Enlightened1

Christy Whitman, eh??


59 posted on 02/29/2016 4:33:21 PM PST by goodnesswins (Alinsky.....it's what's for dinner)
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To: Enlightened1

This kind of talk shows what is really most important to them.

And it’s not America.


60 posted on 02/29/2016 4:33:43 PM PST by Iron Munro (Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth -- Mike Tyson)
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