Posted on 03/18/2016 5:37:44 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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The Republican party is not a direct democracy. It crafts its own rules, and it can change them. Here are questions that Republican delegates should be asking themselves: Is it worth upsetting a bunch of angry, marginally conservative voters who often have a minor fidelity to the doctrines of your party? Or are you prepared to put your political infrastructure and full weight behind a cartoonish George Wallace–like character who’ll probably inflict more damage than you could ever hope to repair?
RNC chairman Reince Priebus says that he expects every GOP presidential candidate to uphold a pledge to support the eventual nominee. Considering what we heard in Senator Marco Rubio’s concession speech, I find this difficult to believe. At best, Priebus is going to have a bunch of politicians tiptoeing around Trump in tacit nonsupport. And if enough big-name Republicans end up supporting Trump, it only accentuates the need for a new party.
An ABC exit poll — with all the usual caveats about the unreliability of exit polls — said that six in ten non-Trump-supporters say they would “seriously consider a third party if he became the GOP’s nominee.” The more disgust his big-government positioning and ugly rhetoric generate, the higher that number rises. And there are a number of rational reasons to support such a run.
For starters, Trump supporters are already very angry about everything. It’s not as if they could be any angrier with the establishment. Once Trump is gone (and he’ll leave with no coherent movement), these voters will either have to come back and look for alternative candidates with compelling messages, or leave the party altogether.
In the short run, a third-party candidate might insulate down-ballot candidates from Trumpism. You do remember Todd Akin, I’m sure?
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Who is this douchebag?
I wish I could see real numbers on their circulation for the past year. After Against Trump, saying blue collar whites should die, and now openly advocating theft of the nomination, I can’t imagine more than 1,000 people are still signed up for this garbage.
What a shame. William F. Buckley Jr. was one of the all-time greats. His magazine is a total disgrace to his name at this point.
National Review has fallen off the cliff!
[In the short run, a third-party candidate might insulate down-ballot candidates from Trumpism]
MIGHT is a very YUGE word.
Forgive the GOPe, they know not what they do.
They are about to wake a sleeping giant who is very, very angry.
Careful what you wish for. For me, it won't "just be leaving the party." I'll take ALL of my down-ticket Republican votes with me. More succinctly, not one damned Republican I'll vote for if they deny him the nomination if he has the minimum delegate majority they set.
.... The Republican party is not a direct democracy. It crafts its own rules, and it can change them...
Just like it changes its RINO/GOPe candidate campaign promises to 180° opposite of what voters were promised if elected.
The American GOPe RINO is on the political endangered species list.
Go ahead and nominate a Cheap Labor Express candidate.
Every Republican down to dog catcher will suffer.
Since when is Phyllis Schlafley a marginal conservative? Since when were Romney and McCain NOT marginal conservatives at best?
Here you go: This is what the true voice of the GOPe sounds like.
Whether the GOP nominates Trump, or steals the nomination away from him, we’re watching the demise of this historically great party.
Some of us are busy building the principled conservative alternative.
Can you be any more out of touch?
NRO conservative impostors offer no clear alternative to Trump.
They hate him but can’t offer one good reason why any one would vote for the establishment.
In case its escaped David French’s notice, the insurgency taking over the party commands 80% of the vote.
That’s a lot of people and Trump commands half of that these days.
And who do the Bourbons of the GOP represent?
Not one.
WHY must he be stopped?
Lol...you read my mind!
If these people get anymore paranoid about Trump they will be appealing to the UN to intervene.
I have absolutely ZERO confidence that that would happen. ZERO! NONE! NADA!
Which is EXACTLY why I'm voting for Trump.
It’s not Fascism when they do it.
“WHY must he be stopped?”
Because he is not in the club or on the payroll.
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