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To: xzins
At this point, the RNC probably realizes that a Trump nomination would destroy the party from top to bottom, causing them to lose the House, Senate and state and local races as well. So they might consider it less damaging to have Trump run as a 3rd party candidate - at least then the party wouldn't be associated with his stupid comments and constantly changing positions, and they might at least be able to retain the House and the Senate.

Before you threaten to kill the hostage, you probably should be sure that they aren't willing to let you.

64 posted on 04/04/2016 7:13:31 AM PDT by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: CA Conservative

My purpose in supporting him would be indeed to kill the republican party...at a minimum to kill it as it currently exists.


72 posted on 04/04/2016 7:15:44 AM PDT by xzins (Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: CA Conservative

“At this point, the RNC probably realizes that a Trump nomination would destroy the party from top to bottom, causing them to lose the House, Senate and state and local races as well.”

You, and many others like you, keep making this claim. But I haven’t seen any evidence or trends in the making to substantiate this position. It seems to me, and many others like me, that it is more likely that the Republican Party will be utterly destroyed if the GOPe screws Trump out of the nomination he legitimately won.


175 posted on 04/04/2016 8:10:30 AM PDT by DrPretorius
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To: CA Conservative

The scene from “Ruthless People” comes to mind :-)


196 posted on 04/04/2016 9:00:09 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (Better questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.)
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To: CA Conservative

You mean the same GOP establishment that’s managed to marginalize themselves and alienate their base while the Democrats were being exposed as criminals and socialists? The same party elites that manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory like some team of amazing reverse Joe Montanas? The same brain trust who whine about expanding the party and then immediately attack full force the ONLY candidate they’ve had in a generation who can actually do that?

If Ted Cruz is representing constitutional conservatism...if that’s what constitutional conservatism is supposed to be now, attacking the voters, open borders, anti-American trade deals and slimy, preachy, holier-than-thou rhetoric that ends in loss after loss after loss... Count me out.


201 posted on 04/04/2016 9:07:02 AM PDT by SquarePants (Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time)
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