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[George Will]:If Trump is nominated, the GOP must keep him out of the White House
Washington Compost ^ | 29 April 2016 | George Will

Posted on 04/29/2016 8:41:16 PM PDT by Fractal Trader

Donald Trump’s damage to the Republican Party, although already extensive, has barely begun. Republican quislings will multiply, slinking into support of the most anti-conservative presidential aspirant in their party’s history. These collaborationists will render themselves ineligible to participate in the party’s reconstruction.

Ted Cruz’s announcement of his preferred running mate has enhanced the nomination process by giving voters pertinent information. They already know the only important thing about Trump’s choice: His running mate will be unqualified for high office because he or she will think Trump is qualified.

Hillary Clinton’s optimal running mate might be Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, a pro-labor populist whose selection would be balm for the bruised feelings of Bernie Sanders’s legions. Running mates rarely matter as electoral factors: In 2000, Al Gore got 43.2 percent of the North Carolina vote. In 2004, John Kerry, trying to improve upon Gore’s total there, ran with North Carolina Sen. John Edwards but received 43.6 percent. If, however, Brown were to help deliver Ohio for Clinton, the Republican path to 270 electoral votes would be narrower than a needle’s eye. [SNIP]

Trump would be the most unpopular nominee ever, unable to even come close to Mitt Romney’s insufficient support among women, minorities and young people. In losing disastrously, Trump probably would create down-ballot carnage sufficient to end even Republican control of the House. Ticket splitting is becoming rare in polarized America: In 2012, only 5.7 percent of voters supported a presidential candidate and a congressional candidate of opposite parties.

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To: Fractal Trader

George Will cannot seem to get it through his head that Trump has now won 26 states and is on course to win more.

Of course, he never says who he thinks could beat Hillary Clinton.

If the #NeverTrumpers had a plausible candidate, they wouldn’t be in a panic over Trump.

Whether Will understands why GOP voters have settled upon Trump is now irrelevant.


21 posted on 04/29/2016 8:50:30 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: hal ogen

LOL!


22 posted on 04/29/2016 8:50:33 PM PDT by donna (Radicalized Christians become missionaries; then, they tell everyone that Jesus loves them!)
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To: Fractal Trader

George writes: “Trump would be the most unpopular nominee ever, unable to even come close to Mitt Romney’s insufficient support among women, minorities and young people.”

Hmmmm. I guess George didn’t see this today:

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S. Voters finds Trump and Clinton each earning 38% support.

George, National Review, and other pundits are really looking ridiculous these days.


23 posted on 04/29/2016 8:51:35 PM PDT by vekzen
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To: Fractal Trader

Accurate title:

George Will: Vote for Hillary


24 posted on 04/29/2016 8:52:35 PM PDT by TTFX
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To: Fractal Trader

I love the way the GOP is going to try to blame Trump for their losses. They haven’t heard a thing about how disappointed we are with their sorry butts. They actually think this is just another election with them popping placeholders in the Senate and House.


25 posted on 04/29/2016 8:53:00 PM PDT by Kenny (e)
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To: Fractal Trader

Shut the F’ up George. Go back to liberal ABC where you belong.


26 posted on 04/29/2016 8:53:22 PM PDT by Bullish (Face it, insanity is just not presidential.)
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To: Fractal Trader

If George Will hates Trump that is the best endorsement Trump can get..I think after watching those cockroaches with Mexican flags set police cars on fire and scream how they want to “Make America Mexico Again” it will help Trump get a landslide victory, at least I hope so..because that sign right there, that is what the Commies want to do to America, so people will have a choice, is that what they want, for America to be Mexico


27 posted on 04/29/2016 8:53:46 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Fractal Trader

Atheist George Will is proposing Hitlery become the occupant of the Oval Office.


28 posted on 04/29/2016 8:53:50 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper (Just say no to HRC)
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To: TTFX
Accurate title:

I've lost my mind and don't know where to find it.

29 posted on 04/29/2016 8:54:02 PM PDT by Lakeshark (One time Cruz supporter who now prefers Trump. Yes, there are good reasons.)
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To: Fractal Trader

Sherrod Brown & Trump have alpha masculine voices, George Will looks like an actor from Law & Order SVU


30 posted on 04/29/2016 8:54:36 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal (Trump was born in the city, voters under Cruz feet, Cruz a man of Wall Street)
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To: Fractal Trader

What a friggin a whole


31 posted on 04/29/2016 8:54:44 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: Fractal Trader

All Will actually tells us is that Donald Trump is just not good enough for an atheist adulterer to vote for.


32 posted on 04/29/2016 8:54:46 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Fractal Trader

The GOP destroyed the party by caving to liberals instead of listening to their supporters.


33 posted on 04/29/2016 8:54:47 PM PDT by inchworm
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To: Innovative

The Republican elite and Democrat elite have more in common with each other than they do with the people that elect them.

Their philosophy is to hell with the country and what is right and wrong. Their motive is maintain their elite positions 4 more years at a time. Trump and Cruz threaten this, thus the vitriol directed at them.


34 posted on 04/29/2016 8:55:00 PM PDT by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, MUDMAN GEOLOGIST PILOT PHARMACIST LIBERTARIAN, CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR)
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To: Fractal Trader

Still a little bitter his wife isn’t milking some campaign. Probably cozy a couple million.

Pray America wakes


35 posted on 04/29/2016 8:55:46 PM PDT by bray (Trump/Palin 2016)
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To: datura
George Will needs to finish his lobotomy.

He needs Miralax.

36 posted on 04/29/2016 8:55:49 PM PDT by dragonblustar
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To: vekzen

So much for the Washington cognoscenti received wisdom Trump is unelectable.

If only Will and other conservative impostors fought Hillary with as much fervor and dedication as they’ve put into fighting Trump, we’d be getting somewhere.

And if Trump is going to lose, he can hardly do worse than McCain and Mittens. Why the panic?


37 posted on 04/29/2016 8:56:43 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: Fractal Trader

Let Hillary take Sharrod Brown. He is a disheveled bum.


38 posted on 04/29/2016 8:57:31 PM PDT by inchworm
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To: wastedyears

They should fear the people, not Trump.


39 posted on 04/29/2016 8:59:37 PM PDT by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: lee martell
George Will teamed up with Rob Gleason, our RINO GOP Chair, in 2011 to make sure a bill to assign Pennsylvania's electoral votes by congressional district (as is done in Maine and Nebraska) never made it out of committee. We had a GOP governor and solid majorities in the legislature at the time who could've made it happen.

At the very least, it would have made Pennsylvania a competitive battleground state. It is hard to tell if George Will is a GOP Quisling or just plain stupid at times.

40 posted on 04/29/2016 8:59:39 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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