Posted on 03/02/2016 1:55:39 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Even as major Republican donors coalesced Wednesday around a last-ditch effort to halt Donald Trump's march toward the GOP presidential nomination, resignation was setting in among some onetime Trump critics.
"It is too late," Republican media strategist Alex Castellanos, who had unsuccessfully urged top GOP contributors to back an anti-Trump campaign earlier in the cycle, wrote in an email. He went on:
"If our self-indulgent Republican party establishment had really wanted to prevent a takeover of the GOP, they should not have gorged on political power while they failed to do anything to prevent the decline of the country. Our leaders could have led. They could have done more than say 'no' to Democrats while offering no alternative."
"They should have stood up for the change Donald Trump is bringing now but they didn't."
Now, Trump has earned the nomination. He won it, fair and square and we should respect that. Donald Trump whipped the establishment and it is too late for the limp GOP establishment to ask their mommy to step in and rewrite the rules because they were humiliated for their impotence.
"If Trump is going to be our nominee, as I believe he is, it is our mission to support Trump and make him the best nominee and president possible."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
What did Romney say he’d do about each of your points?
Was all this in that email also?
“Now, Trump has earned the nomination. He won it, fair and square and we should respect that. Donald Trump whipped the establishment and it is too late for the limp GOP establishment to ask their mommy to step in and rewrite the rules because they were humiliated for their impotence.”
Woah
Its just a flesh wound.
Don’t patronize me please. Civil discussions always turn nasty because of people who post as you do.
To be perfectly accurate he is a populist/pragmatist. But he holds several “liberal” positions.
Just to be clear what we talking about.
Irrelevant, then was then, now is now.
Oh, I won't! (pats you on the head)
To be perfectly accurate he is a populist/pragmatist. But he holds several liberal positions.
True. That's why I pointed out he's a mixed bag, a Populist.
Isn’t this the guy who was ripping Trump just a few months ago?
Sounds like he is beginning to listen to the voters. For once.
This is my last vote for a Republican if it is not for Trump. The establishment has had a stranglehold on this party since 1994. They have controlled every aspect of both local, state and national conventions.
This is the one opportunity to beat these guys at something that slipped through their hands. Once one of their goons win you can count on the fact that they will tidy up this problem by doing what the Democrats have done to their party. Super Delegates etc.
This game in Washington has got to come to a stop. We have to try something different.
We will never get this opportunity again. They will control us from this point forward.
BIOYA.
#PresidentTrump!!!
It might be irrelevant to you but it isn’t to me. Romney was worse or not on the record on all your grievances.
Where is Mrs Clinton on each item on your list?
Give it till after the weekend/through the 8th. A bunch of primaries then. Or perhaps through Florida on the ides of March. After that it will probably be OVER
“Mr Trump is going to have a hard time coraling conservatives, mark my words.”
You could be right. Surely you know better than anyone how you are going to vote and you have your heels dug in. That’s totally your right. Maybe Trump shouldn’t even try to sway the Conservative above all else group (how is that NOT party before I country) It seems many hardcore conservatives won’t be swayed. Perhaps Trump should focus on the larger portion of the population who prefer Hillary not be elected.
Ted Cruz is no great physical specimen. For a relatively young guy, his gut tells me he can’t take care of himself!
” Everyone has the right to choose their candidate but the under handed attempt to take the nomination if Trump wins is an affront to all Americans. It says the elite not the people will choose leaders.”
Exactly! We should still have the old ‘quote of the day’ award.
Hannity and some others are all surprised at how nasty and deceitful Marco Rubio is being with his constant anti Trump tirades. THEY KNOW who own & operates Rubio, we’ve been there before.
Gang of 8, SAME PEOPLE..Grover Norquist, Cesar Conda, with a little SPLC thrown in and a BUNCH of Singer, Koch, Club 4 growth, FAKE TEA PARTIES RUN BY LOBBYISTS.....MONEY!! Norquist called those of us, who wanted no part of their amnesty, racists and BITTER ENDERS.
From 2013. (Notice the mention of TALK RADIO HOSTS)
Headline: Grover vs. the Bitter Enders
(Grover trying to give Rubio & the gang of 8 political cover )
NRO ^ | April 9,2013
[snips] Grover Norquist is known as an anti-tax crusader, but in the coming weeks he will be just as much a pro-immigration crusader, combating what he calls the bitter enders who oppose comprehensive immigration reform.
Norquist says that hes trying to counteract the effect of a handful of radio talk-show hosts who talk loudly.
In short, Lopez argues that anti-comprehensive-reform forces are often also pro-abortion, pro-eugenics, and pro-sterilization. ATRs leaders have put the Lopez study in front of every prominent social conservative leader they know.
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2013/04/bitter-enders-unite-guess-whos-behind.html
Exactly it’s time to put on their big boy/girl pants, act sane and rationally and support Trump. Instead of being controversial and hostile against the People’s Choice. They have foisted enough mediocre candidates upon we the People, and its time for them to step back and let the People make the choice, rather then try to act like slave masters and tell us we can only vote for their choice. Tyrants.
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