Posted on 06/26/2016 1:49:19 AM PDT by Pinkbell
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has finally acknowledged that to best compete against Hillary Clinton he needs more than the bare-bones campaign team that led him to primary success. But many of the most experienced Republican political advisers aren’t willing to work for him.
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While there are exceptions, many strategists who best understand the mechanics of presidential politics fear that taking a Trump paycheck might stain their resumes, spook other clients and even cause problems at home. They also are reluctant to devote months to a divisive candidate whose campaign has been plagued by infighting and disorganization.
“Right now I feel no obligation to lift a finger to help Donald Trump,” said Brent Swander, an Ohio-based operative who has coordinated nationwide logistics for Republican presidential campaigns dating to George W. Bush.
“Everything that we’re taught as children — not to bully, not to demean, to treat others with respect — everything we’re taught as children is the exact opposite of what the Republican nominee is doing. How do you work for somebody like that? What would I tell my family?” Swander said.
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As in years past, the primary season created a pool of battle-tested staffers who worked for other candidates, from which Trump would be expected to draw. But hundreds of such aides have so far declined invitations to work for him.
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Chris Wilson, a senior aide to Ted Cruz, said the Texas senator’s entire paid staff of more than 150 ignored encouragement from Trump’s team to apply for positions after Cruz quit the presidential race. Wilson said that even now, many unemployed Cruz aides are refusing to work for the man who called their former boss “Lyin’ Ted.”
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There are polls , there are also treachery and there are results .... Nothing is written before the fight unless you decide to give up .
Some dirty croocked republicans have obviously decided to work for the ENEMY .
NEVER FORGET . God will see....
““Everything that we’re taught as children — not to bully, not to demean, to treat others with respect — everything we’re taught as children is the exact opposite of what the Republican nominee is doing. How do you work for somebody like that? What would I tell my family?” Swander said.”
You, Mr Swander, and those like you, are infected with the politically correct virus.
I was taught... if someone hits you, you hit them back twice as hard. I was taught that “sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can never hurt you”. (as in bloody your nose, blacken your eye, etc.) not hurt your silly “FEELINGS”. You don’t let people push you around. You stand up for yourself, right then and there.
This was back when men were men. Now men can use the women’s bathroom. Our president dedicates a monument to Queers. We advocate for males to be girlymen and metrosexuals. We are encouraged to get in touch with our “feelings”.
Mr Swander, and those like you, I don’t think Donald Trump would hire you. He doesn’t want girlymen like you.
To be honest, in the grand scheme's big picture, I really don't know what Trump actually is.
When I think hard about it, after a while the Little Feat song Time Loves A Hero starts playing in my head and I give it up and go pick up my guitar.
My working theory is that Trump is a force for good who would work to return US to our fundamental truths.
However, I have little reason to trust the current illusions of our kayfabed, "Made for TV" reality politics that gives evil the open gateways and smooth paths to power over US.
To explain things to my self, another working theory is that we are where we are in large part due to Reagan bringing the Bush Family into his administration. Seemed like a good idea at the time, right?
And yet, since Reagan left the building, we have watched the Bush Family and the rest undo all the good Reagan had done and had set into motion.
Experience has given reasons for me to see the Bush Family and theirs as Lesser Evil's "Good Cops" against the "other" side's "Bad Cops" so as to give the traditional conservatives reasons to drop their guard, lower their suspicions and give their donations, time, support and votes to the lesser evil side of the Uniparty coin.
Now, all these years of the Uniparty's fundamental transformation, I can see how it really doesn't matter which side of the coin comes up at the end of election day.
"Heads they win; tails we lose" no matter how many times we flip that Uniparty coin.
Looks are designed to be deceiving in our politics.
During and after the primary, Cruz and his team have given me reasons to ignore how they have presented themselves past and present to see them instead as just more of Team Uniparty's faithful soldiers.
None for me, thanks. Trying to quit. What else ya got?
I hope and pray for Trump's Divine guidance and protection and that he not make the same VP mistake that Reagan made.
Trump makes me hopeful as he seems to see reality better than the rest, but I've been fooled before...
Well they say that time loves a hero
But only time will tell
If he's real he's a legend from heaven
If he ain't he was sent here from hell
That’s just a sniveling Cruz poor loser on this thread. It’s like talking to Demonrats...does not matter what you say or what Trump does or does not do, they hate Trump. Always will. They are the never Trump idiots.
I live for a day when I get to see the press hang.
Another Cruz, bunker-dwelling, nevertrumper, Hillary supporting termite having decided that discretion is the better part of valor ...
Dave’s not here man.
It ticks me off because I did not want McCain. I respected the will of the voters and knew he was better than Obama, so I voted for him (Palin helped because I liked her). I did the same in 2012. Now the party refuses to do the same when voters reject their establishment pick.
Well. If you were a Cruz employee would you work for someone that demeaned and ridiculed Cruz the way he did? Accusing Cruz’ father as having some involvement with JFK’s assassination? That sure will win friends. What goes around comes around.
Well, if you are a Trump supporter why would you was you ever vote for Ted Cruz in the future after he “demeaned” and PERSONALLY insulted you as “low info?” What’s good for the goose, is good for the gander. Best for sore loser Cruzers to remember that because as you say “what goes around comes around”.
The WashPest still playing “nyah, nyah!” Middle school stuff.
Faced with a real man like Trump the snowflakes all run to their safe spaces and shout , he is too mean, he is too coarse, he said hurtful things about me, acting like the wimpy leftist. You either get on the train or stay on the sidelines and watch history unfold.
The continuing tantrums of the Crew Crew just reinforce my held opinion to never support the man again. That they continue this nonsense in face of a potential Hillary POTUS and her SCOTUS picks proves that there never was anything principled or conservative about the Cruz campaign.
Sen. Cruz’ dad and JFK’s assignation may have something to do with this.
Sen. Cruz’s “dad” was a Cruz campaign surrogate who was happy to smear Trump’s religious beliefs in private to Evangelical groups. I note the totally amnesia to that disgusting behavior among sore loser Cruzers.
Start naming names of companies who move our jobs out of country, and announce that he is bringing his clothing line back to the USA pronto as an example.
Sorry, You haven’t been paying attention. Trump has been hitting Carrier and Ford for months for moving jobs. And Ted Cruz? Crickets there.
Isn’t Ed Rollins running a pro-Trump Super Pac?
Experienced GOP strategists, a.k.a. long-term losers.
Riiiiiiight, as if these people have principles...
I know what you mean. The way I see it is the GOP is through no matter who wins this election
He forgot Nabisco.
Just found this even though it is a couple of days old, didn't find it posted at FR:
More damning info at the link in the title.EXCLUSIVE – #NeverTrump Convention Rebels: We Don’t Need A Rule Change To Stop Trump
A group of anti-Donald Trump Republican delegates is making one final do-or-die stand at the Republican convention in Cleveland from July 18-21.
The #NeverTrumpers are a mix of conservative-movement Ted Cruz supporters and Republicans who backed Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, and other candidates. They want to stop Mr. Trump, the winner of the GOP primaries, by peeling off enough of his pledged delegates on the first ballot to keep him below a majority, which would force a second ballot
Trump has 1,542 delegates, which gives him 305 more delegates than the majority threshold of 1,237, which he battled to cross during the primaries in order to stave off a Ted Cruz plot to wrest the nomination away from Trump on the second ballot. 95 of Trump’s delegates are already unbound, giving him 1,447 pledged delegates – 210 above the majority threshold. If enough delegates defect to keep Trump at 1,236 or below, most pledged delegates are freed by state laws on the second ballot. Then Cruz – who handpicked many delegates even in states that went for Trump – could re-enter the mix alongside Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, John Kasich, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, and other options.
Can the anti-Trumpers pull it off? Can they really unbind delegates that are “pledged”? It all depends – ironically enough for politics – on the word “conscience.”
Who Are The Rebels?
The anti-Trump rebels include supporters of different losing Republican primary candidates, but the main operatives behind the rebellion are all linked to the man who tried to broker the convention a couple months ago by manipulating delegate elections in various states: Ted Cruz.
Sneaky Cruz is working furiously behind the scenes to defeat Trump with backstabbing tactics such as Breitbart has shown in this article.
Many of the others that Trump trounced are working on this too. Jeb, Rubio et al
“Has not Obama been enough of a warning where blasphemy of the Lord goes?”
You’d think so. God will only let evil survive at the top of the heap for so long.
Let’s hope he is fed up with all of this and allows Trump to dodge all the shenanigans of voter fraud-illegals voting, machines manipulated by Soros (his company owns machined in some states so his people count them) and other devious means to Make America Even Worse.
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