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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After passing a trillion dollar budget allowing funding for 300,000 Islamic refugees, I say the Republican Party needs to be laid to rest.
Wrong!
The GOPe has been broken since Bush41. It's simply that Republican voters did not have an available vehicle onto which they would mount their counteroffensive. Trump is that vehicle.
The funny thing is that the Trumpsters will end up owning the Republican brand. Sara and her ilk plan to start something new.
It’s true.
Trump is going to break and utterly destroy the open borders, globalist, free trade, worlds policeman, muslim coddling part of the GOP
Dear GOPe arse hats,
There is a difference between a “contested” convention and a “brokered” one. You mislead us into believing that if no candidate has the needed majority you will support the candidate in second place to Trump, namely, Ted Cruz, in a contest at the convention.
What you really mean is that you will render the entire primary process null and void and foist upon us Romney or Bush or Ryan or someone from your elitist set.
Let us tell you this LOUD AND CLEAR, go ahead and try it and you can definitely count on the party being broken. Without a doubt, 1,000,000,000% we will abandon you and you can be a party of nobody but the Bill Kristol’s, Karl Rove’s, Mitch McConnell’s etc. of the world. Good luck running for dog catcher with that crew.
Best regards,
Flipping Out Like Wilson every damn time I hear this elitist nonsense brought up.
Desperate people desperate to hang on to power and influence no matter how destructive they are to the country.
They will roll the dice on a brokered convention if they can, figuring why not torch the place before they are evicted?
They still —— STILL-— do not get how many of us lifelong Republicans cheer when they say that this would “break” the Republican Party. They apparently have read no history of the Whigs, and how they disappeared because they had no reason for being. It’s not enough to say “we’re the alternative” if your alternatives are the same as theirs.
Indeed, why is there this fascination for a governor who lost re-election, couldn’t get nominated one time, got nominated then lost the general the next time? I have never in my life in a word association game had “Romney” with “Iconic Republicans.”
The guy can’t do math. If the race stays 3 or 4 way, Trump wins the nomination with continuing small pluralities in WTA states. It needs to be a 2-man-race for Trump to lose enough states to lose the nomination.
Oh it’s a chick? That explains why she can’t do math then.
The party broke itself when it decided to lie do its own base and try to co-op the Demicrat Party’s platform. And now they’re wondering why the base is Walking away from them. Stupid.
When Cruz loses, there is no need for the “core” of the party.
What Trump would break is the stranglehold that The Cheap Labor Express has on the Republican Party.
<<< “Donald Trump fundamentally breaks the Republican Party” >>>
The Republican Party needs broken.
Anyone or anything “Ex-Bush”: GTFO!
Bullshit. Most Republicans? You mean "most Republicans in office", running after the gravy train whenever the lobbyists ring the dinner bell?
Because I don't think most Republicans mind change if it isn't destroying their country, economy, jobs for the middle and working classes and our position in the world.
Remind me again FAGan, how you and your party, including Dubya, in control of the government from 2001-2007, cut deficit spending and rolled-back liberalism?
We are NOT electing a political party, we are electing a ‘git-r-done’ leader. I repeat....we are NOT electing a political party, we are electing a ‘git-r-done’ leader!
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