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The GOP's 24-hour meltdown
Politico ^ | May 6, 2016 | Nolan D. McCaskill

Posted on 05/06/2016 5:01:16 PM PDT by Innovative

Trump's promise to unify the Republican Party is in tatters, as an all-out civil war grips the GOP.

Donald Trump on Tuesday night assumed the mantle of presumptive nominee and declared, “We want to bring unity to the Republican Party. We have to bring unity.”

Three days later, the GOP is tearing itself apart.

Friday brought another day of incredible division and revolt with Jeb Bush and Lindsey Graham falling in line not behind Trump, but behind House Speaker Paul Ryan, who said a day earlier that he cannot yet support the brash real estate mogul as his party’s standard-bearer.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 114th; 2016gopprimary; elections; gope; republican; speakerryan; trump; trumpgopnominee; unity
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To: Innovative

It’s not a meltdown. It’s a long overdue purge.


41 posted on 05/06/2016 7:19:18 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Innovative

Baloney wishful thinking by another RAT.


42 posted on 05/06/2016 7:38:02 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: SuperLuminal
Politico is the go-to "print" media for the Republican Establishment.
43 posted on 05/06/2016 7:45:19 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: Innovative

It is a real shame that people can't and won't see the big picture that by not supporting Trump, they are effectively supporting Hillary.

They (the GOP establishment) are fully aware of what they're doing.

They know that the country will get Hillary if Trump loses.

That doesn't bother them.

They're ON THE SAME TEAM.

44 posted on 05/06/2016 7:53:52 PM PDT by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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To: Innovative

We don’t need Lindsey or Jeb. What is in “tatters” is not the Republican party per se, but the future of those politicians who are spitting in the faces of the voters.


45 posted on 05/06/2016 7:57:17 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper (Just say no to HRC)
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To: Innovative

Actually, Laura, Bush let it slip that she likes Mrs. Bill. But everybody already knew that.


46 posted on 05/06/2016 8:52:07 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Trump-Santorum 2016)
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To: Innovative
another day of incredible division and revolt with Jeb Bush and Lindsey Graham falling in line not behind Trump

Oh gosh. loosing those two will really hurt things a lot for Trump. - N O T ! ! !

47 posted on 05/06/2016 9:12:45 PM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: Innovative

“Faux-conservative” establishment sites are going insane.
Bearing Drift, a staunch establishment site that falsely claims to be conservative, is hilarious. It’s the “revolt of the elite” over there LOL!


48 posted on 05/06/2016 9:18:25 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Diogenesis; justa-hairyape

What I want to know is:

Who’s next?


49 posted on 05/06/2016 10:01:12 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Trump: A Bull in a RINO closet.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
If the Oligarchy feels they have lost control of the Republican Party, they will run a third party candidate. Moving their support to Hillary, caused too much backlash. Bad enough we are relying on the President's Justice Department to indict Hillary for violation of secrecy laws. When she was working for the President at the time and is expected to be his standard bearer. If we also have the GOP Elites pledging to vote for Hillary over Trump, then there is no way in h3ll she will be indicted. Notice Bush and Ryan used the same lines. Cannot vote for Trump or Hillary. So they will find a spoiler that throws it for Hillary. And it won't even have to be a good spoiler, cause they are gonna use voter fraud anyways. The spoiler will just be the foil or the reason for Trump's loss.
50 posted on 05/07/2016 12:04:31 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Innovative

What really pisses me off is for years the GOP has told us peons to suck it up and vote for the nominee, no matter how odious we think they are, so we can win in November. Now it’s THEIR TURN to do exactly that, and suddenly it’s not okay! Bunch of friggin hypocrites. And they wonder why we hate them so, lol.


51 posted on 05/07/2016 3:07:44 AM PDT by Prince of Space (Be Breitbart, baby. LIFB.)
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To: Innovative
It is a real shame that people can't and won't see the big picture that by not supporting Trump, they are effectively supporting Hillary.<>And causing more rifts/fracturing.

Trump did not cause the huge rifts in the Republican Party - he exposed them and we know it's only that way because of those in the GOPe that oppose Trump - they have betrayed the People time and again and now claim that trump is the problem they created and want to nurture....

52 posted on 05/07/2016 3:41:08 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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