Posted on 04/30/2016 5:45:53 PM PDT by jazusamo
Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee for president. As harrowing a prospect as that might be for some of us, the reality is that Trump can't be stopped. He needs a mere 43% of the remaining delegates up for grabs to get to 1237 and a first ballot victory. Given that he is far ahead in California, a state that awards the winner of their primary all 170 of its delegates, The Golden State will almost certainly put Trump over the top if he wins there.
So what is George Will talking about here? Will penned a column with the curious title "If Trump is nominated, the GOP must keep him out of the White House," which is about as incoherent as Will has ever been.
Were he to be nominated, conservatives would have two tasks. One would be to help him lose 50 states condign punishment for his comprehensive disdain for conservative essentials, including the manners and grace that should lubricate the nations civic life. Second, conservatives can try to save from the anti-Trump undertow as many senators, representatives, governors and state legislators as possible.
This is magical thinking. So conservatives should work to give the Democrats all 50 states and "try to save" as many down ballot candidates as possible? But earlier in the column, Will informed us that ticket splitting was rare in recent elections:
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.
How, pray tell, are conservatives to "save" good candidates if they're working to elect a Democratic president?
If Trump is nominated, Republicans working to purge him and his manner from public life will reap the considerable satisfaction of preserving the identity of their 162-year-old party while working to see that they forgo only four years of the enjoyment of executive power. Six times since 1945 a party has tried, and five times failed, to secure a third consecutive presidential term. The one success the Republicans 1988 election of George H.W. Bush produced a one-term president. If Clinton gives her party its first 12 consecutive White House years since 1945, Republicans can help Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, or someone else who has honorably recoiled from Trump, confine her to a single term.
Just one question for Will: Who will be doing the purging after the election? The pro or anti-Trump camp?
I sympathize with Will regarding Trump's toxic effect on political discourse. But if he's going to get the nomination - and he is - why should conservatives work to bring about the exact catastrophe that the writer is warning against?
Trump has apparently made George Will incoherent. And the rest of the #nevertrunp crowd isn't far behind.
I wonder if George Will and Glen Beck are related somehow??????
Will is not now, nor has he ever been, a conservative.
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Sounds like a real possibility to me.
People are afraid to say it... but George Will is a traitor...
They both have bad eyesight
“I wonder if George Will and Glen Beck are related somehow??????”
Stabby the Clown’s theology would certainly make George Will’s atheism more understandable.
The Old Guard is in denial. They're finished. It's over. Win or lose, it's Trump's party now.
“People are afraid to say it... but George Will is a traitor...”
I don’t think he has that much juice. More of a status quo sycophant, who is unable to adapt to any other environment.
A frail, endangered leaf eater.
Will can go to Canada with soulmates Dunham and Whoopi.
Or maybe better, on the other side of the Wall.
What Will fails to see is that at this time the only solution to restore American civil society is to have the present political systems parties burned down. Trump is the man for the job.
All this idiot is talking about is keeping things just as they are now.
A Lefty President and a chicken**** Congress.
I don’t know.. I think George Will and Bill Krystol are traitors...
“...cousins...”
the alphabet network ####s are making it sound like a MOSTLY peaceful protest and making trump the bad guy.
they should be tried and hanged but that will never happen
George Will was one of the “clucks” who had a private get together with Obama after he won his first term & slobbered all over him. The clown from National Review Lowery, who was also there, grasped Obama’s hand in both of his & wished the future president well....Obama must have laughed himself silly on the drive home.
They were both born out of their Mother’s ass...
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