Posted on 11/13/2015 5:03:26 AM PST by HomerBohn
Less than three months before the kickoff Iowa caucuses, there is growing anxiety bordering on panic among Republican elites about the dominance and durability of Donald Trump and Ben Carson and widespread bewilderment over how to defeat them.
Party leaders and donors fear that nominating either man would have negative ramifications for the GOP ticket up and down the ballot, virtually ensuring a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidency and increasing the odds that the Senate falls into Democratic hands.
The party establishment is paralyzed. Big money is still on the sidelines. No consensus alternative to the outsiders has emerged from the pack of governors and senators running, and there is disagreement about how to prosecute the case against them. Recent focus groups of Trump supporters in Iowa and New Hampshire commissioned by rival campaigns revealed no silver bullet. In normal times, the way forward would be obvious. The wannabes would launch concerted campaigns, including television attack ads, against the ÂÂfront-runners. But even if the other candidates had a sense of what might work this year, it is unclear whether it would ultimately accrue to their benefit. Trump's counterpunches have been withering, while Carson's appeal to the base is spiritual, not merely political. If someone was able to do significant damage to them, thereâ€TMs no telling to whom their supporters would turn, if anyone.
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Well no one can say the Rino’s are not still stuck on STUPID!
Curious that all of the sudden the GOPe are panicking and leaning toward a Draft Romney movement about the time the Dems are in crisis over the possibility of Hillary Clinton being indicted or losing against a strong Republican [which is NOT Romney who has already lost the general election one time].
Both ‘crises’ are likely the MSM doing their s*it-stirring.
Yeah, that’ll fix it. /s
The Two-Party System Has Jumped the Shark!
Run Mitt, run!
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