Mitt Romney is the human embodiment of the Republican Party’s Trump terrors

washingtonpost.com ^ | March 3 at 9:42 AM | Philip Bump

[Trumpinator]

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What Trump has done is revealed how little power is left in the Republican Party. Trump doesn't need donors, as he likes to brag. His dismissal of Romney's speech is the dismissal of the guy who knows he was being used. Trump, like most big donors, secretly understood that he was being used, and now he's more than happy to point it out.

...snip... But perhaps Romney's biggest objection is that Romney is a product of the Republican establishment and he recognizes the threat posed by Trump.

If Trump wins the nomination -- which is more likely than not -- the Republican Party will stumble. If Trump wins the presidency, he will have enormous say in what the party looks like from top to bottom. The party will still have enough power to facilitate Senate, House, state and local races nationwide. But it will be an appendage of Trump. If Trump endorses a Herman Cain for Senate over a sitting representative who has worked his way through the system for two decades, what's the party going to do?

The paths worn down over a century, paved with contributions from donors and with routes driven by endorsers, will be handed over to Trump.

That's the party's fear. And it's a valid one.

[thirst4truth]

I did not vote for Romney, so happy I did contribute to his loss. uh oh Kaslin is going to come after me for saying that.

Cruz is more my man, but I am so pissed Romney has raised his ugly head without being invited, if I get to vote in the primaries, Oregon's is in May, I am now voting for Trump, just to spite Romney, the bastard.