Posted on 07/05/2015 8:57:40 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
How do you solve a problem like The Donald?
Top Republicans are flummoxed by billionaire businessman and entertainer Donald Trump, 69, and are unsure how worried they should be that his frequent offensive comments could taint the GOP brand and damage the party's prospects against Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
Republican operatives working in the primary campaign fret that Trumpisms, such as calling illegal immigrants from Mexico "rapists," as he did last month when announcing his bid for the Republican nomination, could doom the party with minorities and independents in the 2016 general election.
Many veteran party bigwigs are unconcerned, however, dismissing the New Yorker as a clown whose campaign will be overshadowed by the depth and quality of the GOP's White House field.
Charlie Black, a Washington lobbyist who has advised Republican candidates going back to Ronald Reagan and is officially neutral in the 2016 primary, likened Trump to Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul. He said those two candidates had "outlier" messages and garnered much attention but had no impact on the image of the eventual Republican nominees.
"Donald is a sideshow and a distraction right now," Black told the Washington Examiner in an email. "Once the debates start next month and more candidates get more coverage and interest, his prominence in the race will decline. He will end up not getting very many votes, so he will not define the brand. The nominee will do that."
At the moment, that's the consensus among wealthy Republican donors and campaign bundlers....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
It is quite simple really. Stand for something.
No one took actor Ronald Reagan seriously either.
If the republicans would stand for what they should stand for and do their jobs with republican conservative principles, they shouldn’t have any thing to fear.
What I like about Trump’s style is that he’s not afraid to speak of a truth that is inconvenient only to the slaves of PC everywhere, including the workplace.
He sounds just like me when the silence creates a tension that needs to be cut for the relief of everyone in the immediate area.
Hopefully, this will become part of the norm because PC, as long as it remains political, can’t be expected to be correct.
Because most of the gopE are now a bunch of pc pansies and are terrified of offending someone by actually speaking the truth. Which is apparently offensive now. Pander bears united.
Too many republicans are afraid of their own political shadows, or rumors thereof. They are locked into “Whipped Cowering Puppy” Mode.
Well, win or lose, Trump is nobody’s whipped puppy.
They took Reagan very seriously and he almost took the nomination from Ford but Reagan was a serious candidate.
GOPe has already tainted and ruined their brand without any help from Trump.
Candidates who ignore illegal entry into the US and who bash Trump will not get liberals to vote for Republicans, nor will that get Republicans to vote for them. After yesterday, Jeb is a goner, I hope. And I do believe Trump is creating a lot of interest.
Yesterday I was out shopping when a total stranger started telling me about a bunch of kids running up the escalator. He tried to talk to them but they couldn’t speak English.
He said to me, “I am voting for Trump”
One can almost smell the flop sweat coming from GOPe’s
Well the GOP spent years intentionally making their voters more liberal and now the voters are politicking and propagandizing like liberals to get the liberal they were programmed to want. Actions have consequences.
Charlie Black, a Washington lobbyist who has advised Republican candidates
Works for The Cheap Labor Express.
As do most of the consultants and office holders in the GOP.
They are paid to keep the borders open and the laws unenforced.
Trump is exposing them.
Just watched Huckabee on CNN make the case for illegal’s coming over as it’s okay if their seeking a better life regardless of the law.
Sick.
If conservatives are sufficiently motivated to show up and vote, the Republicans can win without a single black vote.
Conversely, if conservatives stay home, the Republicans lose. Period. That's what happened to Romney and McCain.
“I don’t think what he said hurts the field yet,” added another Republican, working for a 2016 candidate, “but if he is allowed on the debate stage and can perform like the showman he is, he is not a serious candidate; he is a self-promoter. I don’t think he cares one lick about party and that makes him dangerous to the process.
1.) Now, a showman is defined as someone who tells the truth.
2.) If Trump cares a “lick” for the country, it is possible that that could put him in opposition to the Republican party.
3.) Trump will be more at home, on the debate stage, with a group of adversaries than the ones he will face.
How puzzling! Candidate stands for conservative ideas such as a secure border, surges in polls. What a head scratcher!
An “Act of Love?” to coin a phrase?
wheat from the chaff.....we know now the chaff includes, at a minimum, with respects to Trump’s comments:
Jeb
Rubio
Christie
Huckabee
Pataki
Perry
The wheat is Trump of course, and Cruz....no one else yet.
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