Disenfranchising Millions of New Republican Voters Makes No Sense

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[Grampa Dave]

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.

[grania]

Romney is telling the 47% whose votes he wouldn't campaign for how to vote. Doesn't that tell us everything we need to know? Romney and his fellow sleazeballs want to lead the Republican Party. They don't want to represent their voting fodder.

They don't care if they win or lose the election. It's all about keeping their country club prosperous and in control.

[Faith Presses On]

“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.

[Ohioan]

Trump has rattled the cages of some powerful poseurs, who depend upon "politically correct" taboos to avoid exposure as poseurs for an intellectual significance, they really do not have. It goes deeper than merely questions of policy. He is a threat to undeserved reputations and the exploitation of unjustified positions.

For a better understanding of how Conservative Donald Trump really is Trump: Metaphor For American Conservatism.

[BigBobber]

Trump has about a third of the Republican vote so far. Not exactly a revolution.

[stocksthatgoup]

Romney/Rubio or Romney/Kasich or Romney/Cruz or Romney/Ryan! The GOPe has a wide selection. lol

[DaveyB]

While Trump is gaining the votes of many blue-collar democrats, he is concomitantly disenfranchising tens of millions of principled-conservative republican voters.

[Jeff Chandler]

[DoughtyOne]

Your enemies hate him.

Your enemies are silent on his main competitor.

1 + 1 = 2

...reasons to vote for Donald Trump.

[grania]

Not exactly a revolution

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.

[abigkahuna]

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....

[Jeff Chandler]

While Trump is gaining the votes of many blue-collar democrats, he is concomitantly disenfranchising tens of millions of principled-conservative republican voters.

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.

[Jane Long]

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.

......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".

[Buckeye McFrog]

IF the GOP survives, before the next cycle the GOPe will be coming up with their own version of the Democrat Superdelegate scam.

[deweyfrank]

It makes absolute sense if you are part of the oligarchy. Wake up people!

[stratboy]

So you’re ok with Romney stepping in and getting the nomination? Maybe Cruz will benefit, probably not. The ends justify the means?

[HamiltonJay]

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.

[Jane Long]

While Trump is gaining the votes of many blue-collar democrats, he is concomitantly disenfranchising tens of millions of principled-conservative republican voters.

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.