Posted on 03/11/2016 2:22:37 PM PST by Innovative
The Republican Party needs candidates to stay in the presidential race in order to force a brokered convention and deny front-runner Donald Trump the nomination, a former senior aide to President George W. Bush said Friday.
That strategy will surely alienate some of Trump's supporters, said Sara Fagen, now a partner at public affairs firm DDC. But while Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who trails Trump in the delegate count, would have a tough time against Hillary Clinton in a general election, he would keep the core of the party together, she added.
"Donald Trump fundamentally breaks the Republican Party, and it is not the same party moving forward ever again," she told CNBC's "Squawk Box." "That is a worse prospect for most Republicans than Ted Cruz or a weakened Marco Rubio or some other scenario."
Fagen said it is possible but unlikely that a Republican with "enormous stature" like 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney or House Speaker Paul Ryan would be put forward if Trump enters the Republican National Convention without the required number of delegates to lock up the nomination.
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Screw the Republican Party! I am concerned about America, not Republican Elites.
In what universe does this pinhead live? Mitt lost a very winnable election. And his endorsement is poison - it costs the endorsee more percentage points than it takes away from Trump.
Stong Ditto!
And the problem is ....?
GOOD!!!! It is just like the DEMOCRATS anymore!!
Time to take it back.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2002/02/19/usat-prescott-bush.htm
http://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/s&l/
http://www.inthe80s.com/sandl.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/112703A.shtml
http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/01/26/neil_bush/index.html
More bloviation from the Inside the Beltway crowd. Blech!
KcuF them.
Dole, Bush, McLame, Romney....
The RNC, GOP-e, GOP, et all have forever poisoned the well of potential supporters and can go to hell, as far as I’m concerned.
I will never contribute to any of those jackals again...
She’s got it! And the sooner, the better.
THe R party left many of us long ago.
She’s got it! And the sooner, the better.
THe R party left many of us long ago.
The GOPe sat a-straddling the wall. The GOPe was TRUMPED! and they had a great fall. Then all the Bush-Trojan-Horses and all the Bush Money Men, could never put the GOP together again!
The party needs to be fundamentally broken. Purge out the rino goper uniparty esablishment leadershop and their coward enablers.
Fumigating a rat’s nest “essentially breaks” it too. But only the rats miss it.
GOPee Brokeback Mt.
The Republican Party should have taken care of the leg of the stool that is Traditional Values.
If the American Christian culture is dead, America and the Republican Party are dead.
Is the establishment that deluded? Do they really think that ROMNEY!!!!! has great stature with party members. If ever there was a case of holding your nose, it was with Romney!
“Donald Trump fundamentally breaks the Republican Party, and it is not the same party moving forward ever again,” she told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “That is a worse prospect for most Republicans than Ted Cruz or a weakened Marco Rubio or some other scenario.”
Oh, and that bit about “with “enormous stature” like 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney or House Speaker Paul Ryan” - that is a bunch of crap. Romney lost a LOT of stature by letting Obama beat him, and Ryan lost a LOT by giving Obama everything that he wanted in an omnibus bill. Put your faith not in men, but only in G-d.
The loyalty pledge works both ways. The GOP got snookered.
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