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George Will: Trump nomination would destroy GOP
The Hill ^ | December 24, 2015, | Ben Kamisar

Posted on 12/24/2015 7:15:06 AM PST by rdl6989

George Will is warning that if the GOP nominates Donald Trump for president, it would be the "end" of the conservative party.

“Conservatives’ highest priority now must be to prevent Trump from winning the Republican nomination in this, the GOP’s third epochal intraparty struggle in 104 years,” he writes in a new Washington Post column Thursday.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; fail; georgewill; gope; immigration; prreprino; prrepwill; trump; trumpwasright; whiningrino
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To: Norm Lenhart

Voting Trump is not voting Conservative.


101 posted on 12/24/2015 7:56:17 AM PST by Calpublican (A.G. Lynch: The intent of this statement is to incite violence against radical Islam)
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To: rdl6989

The same ‘Republican’ party that controls both houses of Congress yet...

voted to fund ObamaCare

voted to fund Planned Parenthood after it was revealed they were selling baby parts off to the highest bigger

voted to bring in foreign workers to displace Americans

voted to bring in hundreds of thousands of ‘refugees’ that will pose a threat to every American

that has provided no meaningful opposition to Obama for 7 years

that has actively participated in our 20 trillion dollar debt while destroying the middle class

???

That party NEEDS to be destroyed.

Keep the real conservatives. Toss out the RINOs.

DESTROY THE PARTY.

Trump and Cruz 2016!!!


102 posted on 12/24/2015 7:57:38 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: Wolfie

I think it’s more than that though. Washington has forgotten first principles, they have successfully deluded themselves into believing all the sweet nothings whispered by people who want stuff.

It’s my hope that enough elites will recognize these guys for the entitled bunch of princelings with zero work ethic that they are.


103 posted on 12/24/2015 7:58:52 AM PST by BlackAdderess (Proud member of the "vulgar unwashed masses")
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To: Jeff Head

I LOVE YOU JEFF HEAD!!!!


104 posted on 12/24/2015 8:00:20 AM PST by Lazamataz (It has gotten to the point where any report from standard news outlets must be fact-checked.)
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To: rdl6989

He says that like its a bad thing. The sooner the GOP is gone the better. Time to purge and get a new name.


105 posted on 12/24/2015 8:01:17 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: rdl6989

Where were you with Juan McStain and Mitt Romneycare, George Can’t?

The Republican party abandoned conservatives decades ago.


106 posted on 12/24/2015 8:01:29 AM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: rdl6989
A. Is George Will truly a Conservative?

B. Is the Republican Party truly a Conservative Party? (Yes McKinley, Coolidge & Reagan were Conservatives, but that is about 18+ years, out of a 161 year history.)

C. Is Trump, now awake and showing it, really less Conservative on the actual issues than Jeb Bush, Governor Kasich, Governor Christie, or others who are acceptable to George Will?

D. Or is George Will simply reflecting the hysterical approach of those Republicans who like to accommodate President Obama, when the chips are down, rather than stand up for their oaths of office? In other words, simply accommodating the Whipped cur breed, who are Conservative only in their own pretenses, but contemptible in their performance in the face of challenge.

William Flax

107 posted on 12/24/2015 8:01:57 AM PST by Ohioan
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To: BlueNgold
"....Let them go their way..."

As opposed to "Let them HAVE their way."

108 posted on 12/24/2015 8:03:55 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: tinyowl

You mean the non point is still a fabrication entirely.
The Republican Party abandoned conservatism long ago.
To a baby hive a voice in politics conservatives need to destroy one or both major parties.

Trump can’t take away a voice conservatives don’t have.


109 posted on 12/24/2015 8:04:08 AM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: tinyowl

You mean the non point is still a fabrication entirely.
The Republican Party abandoned conservatism long ago.
To a baby hive a voice in politics conservatives need to destroy one or both major parties.

Trump can’t take away a voice conservatives don’t have.


110 posted on 12/24/2015 8:04:09 AM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: rdl6989
George Will argues that the Republicans may have to let themselves lose this election in order preserve conservatism for the long-run. I see his point, but...we're out of time; there is no longer any “long run”. I am pulling for Ted Cruz, but I'll back Trump if he's the nominee. If we have another Democratic president, the damage that will be inflicted upon this country in the form of de facto open borders and a weakened military will ensure that the USA will be under Shariah law within 75 years (if not sooner).
111 posted on 12/24/2015 8:05:42 AM PST by utahagen
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To: rdl6989

Trump will destroy George Will.


112 posted on 12/24/2015 8:06:06 AM PST by TNoldman (AN AMERICAN FOR A MUSLIM/BHO FREE AMERICA. (Owner of Stars and Bars Flags))
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To: rdl6989
"destroy GOP"

It's already committing suicide and won't be missed any more than are the two Presidents Bush and thankfully no third one in view (at this time).

113 posted on 12/24/2015 8:06:57 AM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: rdl6989

George Will is to conservatism as a kazoo is to a gunfight.


114 posted on 12/24/2015 8:07:04 AM PST by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: Calpublican

I’m not saying it’s conservative per se. It’s just less liberal than voting GOP. Sadly, some are just fine with less when they could have the real deal. My Trump issues aside, he’s better than an open liberal Republican.

Regardless, I’ll be voting for Cruz.


115 posted on 12/24/2015 8:13:58 AM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - An idea whose time has come)
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To: rdl6989

Just who is this dingbat calling a Conservative Party? Do any of WTP see anything resembling a CONSERVATIVE PARTY in the DC Halls? I certainly do not, and for years I have been searching diligently for just a few members of some such party. Frankly, George, I don’t give a damn.


116 posted on 12/24/2015 8:15:22 AM PST by V K Lee (u TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP to TRIUMPH Follow the lead MAKE AMERICA GREAT)
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To: glennaro
...the hysterics of the GOPEs/RINOs -- right alongside the socialist Democrats -- will reach stratospheric heights and the wailing will become deafening.

I'm glad I don't live inside the Beltway, or in the DC-Boston Corridor. I hope you are safe.

Buy stock in Ear Plugs!

117 posted on 12/24/2015 8:20:06 AM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: rdl6989

Poor Georgie, becoming less and less relevant every day, thanks to Trump.

The DC Punditocracy does not realize this only makes more people want to vote for him.

Merry Chrsitmas


118 posted on 12/24/2015 8:20:15 AM PST by bray (Trump/Cruz 2016)
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To: bray

is George will feeling schlonged? (/s)


119 posted on 12/24/2015 8:22:43 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: rdl6989
George Will: Trump nomination would destroy GOP

And that would be a good thing. We want to destroy the GOP and we want to shake up the corrupt system.

They will rue the day!

120 posted on 12/24/2015 8:26:08 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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