Posted on 03/01/2016 3:38:50 AM PST by Zakeet
If the GOP establishment manages to derail Trump at the convention, expect about half the GOP electorate to revolt, leave the Republican Party for good, support a third party candidacy, or just stay home on Election Day. The downstream electoral effects could be devastating, handing the White House and both houses of Congress to the Democrats with little chance of getting those disenfranchised voters back.
Now suppose these actions fail and Donald Trump is the nominee. The GOP establishment has already signaled they won’t support Trump and may actually vote for Hillary Clinton instead, effectively ending the Republican Party.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, “told colleagues they will drop GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump like a hot rock.” He even gave fellow GOP Senators permission to, “run negative ads against Trump if he becomes the nominee.” How’s that for party unity? Remember the outrage when Trump was hesitant to sign the pledge to support the ultimate nominee?
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The real blame rests on the Republican leadership in Congress. They created the vacuum that made Donald Trump possible. Absent opposition to Obama, looking with disdain upon their voters, ignoring all of their campaign promises, and governing against the will of their voters is why Donald Trump is even in the race. Porous borders, a record low labor participation rate, disdain for American culture and traditions, and a pervasive sense of hopelessness and helplessness did not register with the Beltway elite. Now the GOP is on a rendezvous with destruction. Perhaps out of the ashes a new conservative party can emerge, but the transformation will not be ‘grand’ and it won’t be the ‘old’ party.
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SPOT. ON. EXACTLY CORRECT.
““Party loyalty has limits.” Radio host and editor Erick Erickson declared, “I will not be voting for Donald Trump at all.”
PRECIOUS QUOTE. To rephrase: Party loyalty is good and fine, providing ONE OF MY PEOPLE is at the top of the ticket.
“The real blame rests on the Republican leadership in Congress. They created the vacuum that made Donald Trump possible. Absent opposition to Obama, looking with disdain upon their voters, ignoring all of their campaign promises, and governing against the will of their voters is why Donald Trump is even in the race.”
People forget that virtually EVERY REPUBLICAN in Congress ran on supporting border security and killing Obamacare. We gave them BIG MAJORITIES to do just that. They gave us the finger and DEMANDED that we support Jeb, or Rubio.
WE ARE NOT THEIR PUPPETS and this column is EXACTLY RIGHT. The GOPe, if they have HALF A BRAIN, will APOLOGIZE to Trump, get behind him, and if he’s in a good mood, maybe keep some of their power and their jobs.
At this point in time the trash heap of history is too lenient for these people unless it includes their ultimate destitution and ostracization.
Trump single handedly created a third party. Instead of using it for himself, he has pushed the establishment elite into it.
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This is something I really had not realized, but I do believe you are correct! Everybody says that 3rd parties cannot win because they don’t have the apparatus, name, etc. of the two existing parties, but if Trump co-ops the Repubs & they have to go elsewhere, then the 3rd party downside is negated to great extent. Frankly, I think the ‘uniparty’ types in Repub clothing are going to migrate to the Dems.
Meanwhile the Democrats are nominating a known criminal for lack of anyone else (other than a raving socialist idiot), and they’re supposed to be the healthy party?
Later
Our President is going to be the People's choice...not the Party's choice and it's going to be a USA first again....just like when we started.
King Obama....You're fired.
No one wants to say 51%....amusing....because I’d bet on it.
Makes sense.
“He even gave fellow GOP Senators permission to, “run negative ads against Trump if he becomes the nominee.” How’s that for party unity? Remember the outrage when Trump was hesitant to sign the pledge to support the ultimate nominee?”
So what. That’s only good common sense. The race for the President and the races for Senators are state level races. If Trump is running well in a state, then the Senate candidates will get as close to him as they can. If Trump is running poorly, then why shouldn’t the Senate candidates distance themselves? Running for office is not a suicide pact.
Great post. You nailed it exactly! I don’t see why Cruz supporters don’t get it. Trump is our hope and chance to get rid of establishment which 86% of Americans detest anyway. The revolution is coming. Trump is our Lech Walesa. Perhaps we can rename ourselves to the AMERICA FIRST PARTY.
Yeah, I remember a decade back all the talk about the "great bench" the GOP had, with superbly qualified Governors and Senators waiting in the wings to assume higher offices after GWB moved on.
Where did they all go?
Perhaps they are rhinos, or perhaps they see the futility of fighting at the federal level.
the anti-establishment vote may spill over into Senate and House races and cause the Dems a very big day in November.
DC elites of both parties might prefer a corrupt Hillary - she'll allow DC elites to keep stealing from the American people.
I agree that the GOPe is dead, but I think they know it. This is why today they actually are saying they want to run a GOPe third party candidate, can you imagine them even saying this? Yep, they’re dead Jim.
If we help Democrat ‘switch’ voters understand Trump needs Republicans in Congress to achieve his goals, they’ll help us. They’ll vote down the ticket with us.
They're going to return the House and the Senate to the Democrats.
If there's one thing Reagan Democrats hate more than anything else, it's their local Republicans.
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