What’s REALLY going on here?
Time to connect a few obvious dots:
1. An attempt is being made to launch a 3rd party candidate against Trump. Bill Crystal is the public face of this movement, and it is real.
2. Mitt Romney just threw a dirt clod at Trump. It’s not just another slime attack, it’s a signal that he’s on board with the get Trump movement.
3. Paul Ryan doubled down on his anti-Trump stance yesterday.
4. Multiple other moderately high profile “Republican” politicians have also publicly signaled they are on board with the anti-Trump movement.
Clearly, the anti-Trump movement within the “Republican” party is real. They have not yet publicly launched their 3rd party candidate, but it is clearly in the works.
So how does Ryan’s move fit in with all this?
A. If you were planning to split the party you would want to blame the other side.
B. What better way than to claim you are for unity, but the other guy just won’t cooperate? In other words, it’s Trump’s fault.
C. That is what Ryan is doing.
So... What’s REALLY going on today?
Ryan is laying the foundation for a split in the “Republican” party, including an attempt to blame the split on Trump.
We won’t know for sure that a 3rd party run is coming until it’s actually here, of course. But what Ryan is doing is one of the steps along the way for this to happen.
There are others, but the highest profile potential candidates I have seen mentioned include Romney, Ryan, Bush, and Cruz. All four have taken steps in recent days to position themselves for this.
My guess is you are wrong and MONUMENTALLY wrong at that.
Republicans are swinging behind Trump at this point and not away from him.No NEW voices have been added to the anti Trump Repubs but some have left the group entirely while others while not actually endorsing Trump at this time have not said they would not. These spineless bastards say they “are not yet ready” to endorse him. This is spineless pol talk for, “I want to see how the wind blows before I take a firm position”
This ridiculous (non) controversy is a massively media ginned up nothing burger. There are, in fact far more disaffected voters on the Left than the Right.
How many times are you going to post the same thing?
Disagree.
The R Party bigs care about holding onto their power and the ability to control things. Trump only threatens part of that, I believe they’ve seen how he can be a net plus to the GOP by pulling in new voters, albeit by taking them across ideological lines they’ve not crossed before. But since when does the R party care about ideology? They just want to retain their power and that means they have to WIN.
And DJT is the right man for that job. There’s a strong draft for the downticket races behind the Trump Train!
Ryan is just a tool. He very likely will lose his primary bid and no longer be a facter 2 weeks after the convention.
I agree with your analysis.
Yeah, I agree. Ryan says we can’t solve our differences in 45 minutes. I think if part of this is to keep the message on us and not on them, it’s working. I think then, it is good.
Trump, more than ever, should get Newt as his running mate. I can’t tell you how good that would make me feel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These guys are dumb as rocks. They have no idea the strength of commitment behind this man, and it will get even greater when he reaches out to the people more and more.
I’ve been on this site a number of years, and I think many of us no the beat of what is right and what is wrong. I’ve voted for the republican because I didn’t want the other guy, but this time it’s different. I want this man bad.