Posted on 01/05/2016 6:40:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Republicans are admitting that if Ted Cruz or Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination, they will destroy the GOP for a generation.
Politico reported:
One growing worry about Trump or Cruz, top party officials, donors, and operatives across the country say, is that nominating either man would imperil lawmakers in down-ballot races, especially those residing in moderate states and districts.
"At some point, we have to deal with the fact that there are at least two candidates who could utterly destroy the Republican bench for a generation if they became the nominee," said Josh Holmes, a former chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. "We'd be hard-pressed to elect a Republican dogcatcher north of the Mason-Dixon or west of the Mississippi."
"Trump and Cruz are worrisome to most Republican candidates for governor, senator and Congress," said Curt Anderson, a longtime GOP strategist and former Republican National Committee political director. "Some will say they are not worried, but they are."
What Republicans are suggesting is that a Trump or Cruz victory in the Republican primary would wipe out down ballot GOP candidates and incumbents. A Trump or Cruz nomination would be so bad for Republicans that there would be nothing left of their party outside of their red state strongholds.
It could be argued with a great deal of merit that this process began long before the 2016 and that the Republican Party has been shrinking itself down both numerically and geographically for more than a decade. The 2016 election has changed from a contest to between Democrats and Republicans to occupy the White House to a question of whether or not extremist Republicans are going to burn their party to the ground.
Republicans are openly worried about Donald Trump and Ted Cruz destroying their party. At a time when they should be concerned about potentially facing Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders in the fall, GOP leaders are instead trying to prevent their party from total collapse.
It doesn't really matter who emerges from the Republican free for all as their nominee. The Republican Party is consumed by internal conflict and a complete lack of unity that they will be the underdog in the 2016 general election. The question isn't can Republicans win back the White House. Instead, Republicans are wondering whether or not they will have a party left after Trump and Cruz get done with them.
I would call it the rebirth of the GOP.
Yeah, sure, it’ll destroy the Republican Party just like Reagan did. What it will do is destroy the GOPe. Those cockroaches need destroying.
“Republicans are admitting that if Ted Cruz or Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination, they will destroy the GOP for a generation.”
correction: “destroy the GOPe for a generation”
Which is good.
Goody.
I can’t wait.
That’s OK Cruz will get there. Give him time :)
Trump will slash and burn, he’s as fed up as the rest of us.
Cruz is a member of the club, nothing will change.
I wonder if the reason so many of these guys stay is that if they went to the Dems they would be way down the food chain, and it would just cost them too much to switch?
I’m lol too. I saw it was from Politico and wouldn’t read beyond the teaser so I didn’t see who they had dragged out to come up with the headline. Politico is just as delusional as McConnell and his peeps.
The GOPe maybe. - Time marches on. Things change. Will
Rogers used to joke about the corruption in Washington.
- It has now reached critical mass.
Agree!!!!!!
The idiots in the establishment need to realize this is not happening in a vacuum. Real people are driving this.
shhhhh.... this is just between us. there is a deal. big D always makes deals. ;-)
shhhhh.... this is just between us. there is a deal. big D always makes deals. ;-)
I was secretly hoping that they would “destroy” it for more than a generation. We need a two party system in this country again.
“Republicans Admit That A Trump Or Cruz Win Will Destroy The GOP For A Generation”
I thought this was ok with the GOPe. They were willing to lose a few elections to get rid of the conservative voting base. Of course, I don’t know where they thought they would make up a new voter base and I don’t know why they thought the Dem party would allow them to emerge once the Dem’s had a single party state in their hands, but I never really understood the GOPe anyway. The GOPe has mucked up Presidential elections going back to the early 90s and that seems like a generation by my account. So if another generation was lost to the GOPe, it wouldn’t be a new development. It seems to me, the GOPe is more concerned about losing their gravy train. The GOPe only wants donors, not those pesky voters who are always demanding representation and responsibility.
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