Trump and Cruz send shivers down GOP spines

Politico ^ | 1/5/16 | Alex Isenstadt

[TangledUpInBlue]

With only weeks before GOP primary voters first cast their ballots, the level of alarm among establishment Republicans about the enduring dominance of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz is reaching new heights.

In private conversations with several former aides, Mitt Romney, who in March will keynote the National Republican Congressional Committee’s annual fundraising dinner, has expressed rising frustration about Trump’s prolonged lead in polls and has argued that the real-estate mogul could inflict lasting damage on the party’s brand.

In Washington and elsewhere, meanwhile, Republicans are on the hunt for a political entity that can be used to stop Trump. In recent weeks, Alex Castellanos, a veteran TV ad man who was a top adviser to George W. Bush and Romney, has been meeting with top GOP operatives and donors to gauge interest in launching an anti-Trump vehicle that would pummel the Manhattan businessman on the television airwaves.

[TangledUpInBlue]

And just who would be supported after this "vehicle" arrives? They are wetting their little panties.

[Da Coyote]

Not mine. But, then again, I left the GOP (aka, liberal light) a while ago.

[ilgipper]

So the question remains, when did the GOP develop a spine? It’s been awol for a decade.

[lakecumberlandvet]

For the GOPe, losing to We the People is worse than losing to the democrats.

[BenLurkin]

Republicans supporting them are not part of the GOP?

[Psalm 144]

LOL! True. And that is the drive that is overlooked. The Geriatric Old Plotters think that this is about Trump, and Cruz. That without those two, people would be embracing their designated corpse candidate, Jeb, this time around.

This is not so much about love for Trump or Cruz.

This is about the base wanting the Geriatric Old Plotters vaporized. Dead. Gone. Forgotten.

[dforest]

What gives me the shivers are GOPe runts who sit back and bloviate how Obama can’t use an executive order on gun control and then refuse to use their power to stop him.

Obama violates the Constitution daily, and so far they seem to have no problem with letting him rule like a dictator.

Obama should have been impeached years ago.

Instead these cowards have allowed the rights of the people that voted for them to be breached.

[dowcaet]

Amazing how these idiots still don’t get it. The Republican electorate, for the most part, is sick of the establishment. Sorry, but I and many conservatives refuse to become part of the Republicrat uniparty.

[1Old Pro]

The GOPe only has courage for one thing, fighting Americans who no longer support them.

[JoSixChip]

It never ceases to amaze me how they keep trying to put Cruz on Trump’s coattails as an outsider. It just aint true, Cruz is funded by the GOPe for a reason. Take a look at Cruz’s voting record, TPA and the corker bill are not the votes an outsider would make.

[Da Bilge Troll]

The “scaredier” they get, the happier I get!

[Jewbacca]

Stop being silly. No one falls for that kind of crap here.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Is it time to bring back the America First Party?

[Heart of Georgia]

** That without those two, people would be embracing their designated corpse candidate, Jeb, this time around.**

And they can’t understand why their well-placed stalking horses - along with hit pieces from their cohorts in the media - couldn’t pull it off this time. Makes me smile :)

[Theodore R.]

If anybody knows who could inflict damage on the GOP, it would be “Mittens” Romney (MA) and his sidekick P. Ryan (WI).

[Zuben Elgenubi]

The concern is particularly acute in the Senate, where Republicans are fighting to preserve a relatively slim four-seat majority, defending more than half a dozen seats in hard-to-win swing states.

Pure Barbra Streisand. Holding the Senate has made NO difference whatsoever.

[Theodore R.]

This is about the base wanting the Geriatric Old Plotters vaporized

Orrin Grant Hatch can smile because he is retiring in 2018. He beat the system and fooeld the uninformed of UT for 42 years.

[Theodore R.]

If you “leave” them, you can’t vote against them in most primaries. Not a good recommendation.

[ManHunter]

And the unfortunate fact is that rank-and-file conservatives constitute the vast majority of GOP members and most are unaware that the GOP and its institutions (RNC, NRSC, NRCC and associated PACs and Super PACs) routinely oppose conservative candidates and are becoming increasingly aggressive in their opposition to conservative candidates.

[SaxxonWoods]

This will panic the GOPe even more.

FromSurvey Monkey Poll of 3,700:

“Perhaps surprisingly, Trump also has the highest support among white evangelical voters—33%. Although Ben Carson did fairly well among white evangelicals (12%), the group heavily favored Trump. Cruz also did well with white evangelicals, with 2 in 10 supporting him. Rubio’s support among this group was 1 in 10. Republican-leaned voters who describe their political views as “very conservative” are most likely to support Trump (35%) and Cruz (30%) with the other candidates at least 20 points behind.”