Posted on 03/08/2016 10:44:16 AM PST by RoosterRedux
A top Republican consultant whined last week, "Donald Trump is hijacking the Republican Party."
Really?
This is a common and almost comical complaint these days from the establishment wing of the GOP, the same people who have hijacked the party pretty much since the end of the Reagan era.
In his disgraceful rant against Trump on Thursday, Mitt Romney even unveiled a new strategy by the establishment: Keep Trump from getting a majority of the delegates (though he is very likely to win a plurality) and then steal the election from Trump at the convention. Ironically, these are the same people who were making fun of the Democrats for "rigging" their nomination process to favor Hillary Clinton.
What is clear is that the party's brain trust, such as it is, is doing everything it can to disenfranchise millions of new Republican voters and deny Trump the nomination.
Romney and the Republican elites keep scratching their heads after each election loss and wonder why voters have concluded that the GOP doesn't "care about people like me." After listening to the way the GOP brain trust disses Trump voters, maybe these working-class folks are right.
I'm not taking sides in this race, and I have policy disagreements with Trump. But I did say publicly last week, to the consternation of many friends and colleagues, that what impresses me greatly about Trump is he is attracting millions of blue-collar, working-class Americans back to the GOP. They are abandoning the Democrats. Hallelujah, right?
But all I heard from conservatives was: Why are you standing with these "low-information voters" who don't seem to understand what a fascist Trump is?
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They don't care if they win or lose the election. It's all about keeping their country club prosperous and in control.
“Romney and the Republican elites keep scratching their heads after each election loss and wonder why voters have concluded that the GOP doesn’t “care about people like me.” After listening to the way the GOP brain trust disses Trump voters, maybe these working-class folks are right.”
Exactly. They expect people to sit down, shut up, and believe and embrace whatever they’re telling them.
For a better understanding of how Conservative Donald Trump really is Trump: Metaphor For American Conservatism.
Trump has about a third of the Republican vote so far. Not exactly a revolution.
Romney/Rubio or Romney/Kasich or Romney/Cruz or Romney/Ryan! The GOPe has a wide selection. lol
While Trump is gaining the votes of many blue-collar democrats, he is concomitantly disenfranchising tens of millions of principled-conservative republican voters.
Your enemies hate him.
Your enemies are silent on his main competitor.
1 + 1 = 2
...reasons to vote for Donald Trump.
It sure is a movement that doesn't want to have the nomination stolen from us. Did the American Revolution have a third of the people involved? No. Most revolutions don't. What they have is a significant minority that gives a damn about the outrages they face.
Just think. Maybe we're the 47% of voters whose support Romney couldn't be bothered campaigning for.
Trump has about a third of the Republican vote so far. Not exactly a revolution.
Remember, the last American Revolution had about the same breakdown. 30 percent for the Patriots, 30 percent for the British elite and 30 percent uncommitted either way....
On the other hand, for every woman who votes for Clinton because "It's time we had a woman in the White House", there's a woman who will vote for Trump because he is a celebrity.
Thank you, 19th Amendment.
......Meanwhile....how many *SEVERELY CONSERVATIVE* candidates have 'disavowed' what the GOPee/RNC/MSM is trying to do, with this disenfranchisement and VOTER INTIMIDATION?
Because we all know that these candidates are better than this. And that they "should all agree, disenfranchisement is wrong, and the GOPee is abhorrent".
IF the GOP survives, before the next cycle the GOPe will be coming up with their own version of the Democrat Superdelegate scam.
It makes absolute sense if you are part of the oligarchy. Wake up people!
So you’re ok with Romney stepping in and getting the nomination? Maybe Cruz will benefit, probably not. The ends justify the means?
It makes sense when you realize the folks running the Republican Party, and who have been running the party for decades are in the minority opinion of the party members. Trump is growing the party by going against their orthodoxy, for him to succeed, means the control of the party by their world view comes to an end...
Ant’s and Grasshoppers for those who have seen bugs life... Trump is swelling the ants and reminding them who has the power, the grasshoppers must crush this at all cost.
Wait.....what???? No....that's exactly what the GOPee/Midge McConnell, John Bonehead and Lyin Paul Ryno have done.
I cannot freaking believe that I'm reading such a post, on this forum. Unreal.
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