Posted on 04/30/2016 7:19:58 AM PDT by detective
I could not disagree more.
The Republican establishment(including Mitt Romney's father) sabotaged Goldwater. Goldwater would not have won anyway, but Gov. Romney, Rockefeller and a few others did everything they could to destroy his campaign.
Some feel the Republican establishment helped sabotage Nixon in 1960 too, but that is another topic.
The Republican establishment hated Ronald Reagan. They barely defeated Reagan in 1976 and did everything possible to destroy him in 1980. The Republican establishment ran popular moderate Republican John Anderson as a third party candidate against Reagan.
While Reagan was president the Republican establishment tried to sabotage his presidency.
Bush, after he was elected in 1988, tried to purge the Republican Party of conservatives.
In 2008 and 2012 the Republicans lost to an unpopular candidate, Obama, who they should have easily defeated. When Sarah Palin put the McCain/Palin ticket ahead the McCain campaign began sabotaging Sarah and the entire campaign. It seemed like they lost on purpose. In 2012, Romney refused to articulate any of the important issues against Obama and was easily defeated. It was as if he wanted to lose.
The establishment wanted Jeb! to be the designated loser this year. He lined up many surrogates to help him and spent over $150 million but got no delegates.
When Jeb! dropped out, the Never Trump movement began.
Romney made his speech attacking Trump and media people were told to say Trump was not a conservative.
Cruz who I liked at the time, was endorsed by Romney and Lindsey Graham and Jeb!. Glenn Beck was sent to help him.
Cruz began to turn into a very nasty and dishonest campaigner. Maybe it was Glenn Beck, maybe it was Romney and Lindsey Graham but Cruz changed.
The Cruz campaign deliberately lied to Dr. Carson supporters in Iowa saying that Dr. Carson had dropped and that they should vote for Cruz.
Cruz supported BLM thugs when they assaulted Trump supporters in Chicago.
Cruz released pictures attacking Donald Trump's wife.
Big dollar PACs spent hundreds of millions of dollars on negative ads attacking Trump.
But still Trump won. Overwhelmingly. He attracted new voters and a new level of enthusiasm to the party.
But still they tried to destroy him. These people did not like or trust Cruz but just used him as a tool to attack Trump.
The corrupt, incompetent Washington establishment has been defeated. Many Republican office holders are now backing Trump.
Trump will revitalize the Republican Party just as Reagan did.
A BIG BUMP to That !! :)
In a LANDSLIDE !
What are your issues? On immigration and the right to bear arms Trump is conservative. But I don't have any illusions. On spending he's moderate. On taxes he's mostly conservative. On trade he's nationalist, which I call conservative but think tanks funded by billionaire traitors disagree. On defense he's for a strong military but against nation building. Neocons would say that's not conservative, but neocons are globalists so who cares what they think?
I'm willing to let spending slide for a few years if I can get border control and national right to carry in the bargain. If the border isn't controlled we're going to become a full socialist country, so that's my number one issue.
Is there any polling reported yet for the general election in New York?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.