Republican Donors to Walker, Rubio and Bush: Boycott the Debate if Trump Participates

PJ Media ^ | 07-23-2015 | Michael van der Galien

[Michael van der Galien]

The Republican Party’s donors have a brand new idea: let’s boycott those we disagree with! Will they never learn?

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This means that those other candidates and the Republican Party’s leadership have to be smart about the way they deal with Trump. The best strategy is to … take him seriously. Yes, even when he’s bullying everybody else and saying outrageous things about them.

You see, Trump’s current popularity isn’t about him, but about conservative anger. Conservative voters are pissed beyond measure: they feel ignored by their party, they believe amnesty for illegal aliens is all but a done deal, and they’re angrier than heck about it. Who can blame them? I know I don’t.

Instead of vilifying Trump, other Republicans have to make clear that they understand conservatives’ anger and concerns. They have to start talking about the issues he has raised — illegal immigration and the crime related to it, first and foremost. That’s why I was glad to see that Senator Ted Cruz did exactly that:

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Great, but — sadly — a large part of the GOP’s donor class and establishment don’t quite understand this:

Many national Republican officials are increasingly resigned to Mr. Trump’s looming presence. At a meeting of the Republican Governors Association this week in Aspen, Colo., donors and operatives mused about how to prevent him from hijacking the debate.

[American Constitutionalist]

Linda Graham ?

Jeb Bush ?

Rick Perry ?

Marco Rubio ?

All in the same bunch.

[American Constitutionalist]

I seem to remember also they tried to keep Alan Keys out of the debates years ago.

[entropy12]

Keep this in mind from Walker on November 2013.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/22/gov-walker-wants-to-open-the-door-to-immigrants/

[Fledermaus]

Best way to fight tyrants and Alinsky followers.

[Starboard]

It irks me that some candidates think they have more of a right to run than someone else does. Who do they think they are that they are more special?

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Those candidates are members of the professional political class and yes, they see themselves as entitled to run for higher office. Because politics is a “job” to them, it soon becomes more about their careers and less about good governance and the interests of the people. Our Founding Fathers never envisioned that one day the country would be run by professional politicians. This of course is a big problem for democracy.