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GOP Planning 'Firewall' to Stop Trump in South Carolina
NewsMax ^ | 08 Jan 2016 | David A. Patten

Posted on 01/08/2016 9:58:52 AM PST by xzins

GOP leaders increasingly see South Carolina as their last best chance to stop Donald Trump's populist political juggernaut.

On Wednesday, influential South Carolina Republican Katon Dawson issued a plea for former President George W. Bush to step into the ring in the Palmetto State's Feb. 20 primary. Bush is quite popular among South Carolina Republicans, and Dawson called his involvement a potential "game changer."

"If {George W. Bush} engages, it will matter for his brother {Jeb Bush}, but really, it will matter for the entire team," Dawson told Bloomberg News.

The Palmetto State appears uniquely positioned this cycle. While it follows Iowa and New Hampshire on the primary calendar, but is already drawing intense attention from candidates and pundits alike.

The pro-Jeb Bush Right to Rise PAC recently announced a $4 million TV ad buy in South Carolina.

On Tuesday, Rubio's Conservative Solutions PAC unveiled its first TV ad there, touting the Florida senator's strong support for the U.S. military. The dollar value of that ad buy was not announced.

owery, the conservative InsiderAdvantage pollster, says it's obvious the GOP establishment won't be doing Trump any favors.

"The establishment Republican Party -- most of whom I know well, and I'm not putting them down -- but they make their bread and butter out of controlling people, or at least being hired to help them package themselves.

"So far, Trump has basically thumbed his nose at all of them and doesn't need them," he adds. "So of course they're all going to band together -- because this is their last stand."

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


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KEYWORDS: elections; gop; gope; immigration; trump; trumpwasright
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To: xzins

Trump will blow through their silly ‘’firewall’ several times over.


61 posted on 01/08/2016 10:33:17 AM PST by Red Steel (Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
George Bush is a mixed bag to most Republicans.

Yeah, he wasn't quite Al Gore, and he wasn't quite John Kerry. Other than that...

...I'm trying to remember what he did domestically that wasn't a cave to libs or special interests.

62 posted on 01/08/2016 10:33:22 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

+1,000


63 posted on 01/08/2016 10:36:42 AM PST by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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To: xzins

First degree my kid got in the USAF was Business. She has a few technical certs in some specialized aircraft stuff. She got snapped up fairly quick when she left the service because of it and a year later is in the process of a Lockheed interview process. It definitely matters to have something technical or marketable.

Philosophy on it’s own, I think is worthless for job prospects unless you have a tenured position waiting for you. But how it teaches you to think gives such an edge. A lot of people simply cannot do abstraction. And abstraction is by definition ‘out of the box’ thinking. A valuable quality in any endeavor.


64 posted on 01/08/2016 10:36:52 AM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - An idea whose time has come)
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To: Red Steel

Speaking as a Cruzer, yes he will. Because the whole of the GOP machine is hidebound at best. They are nowhere near adaptable enough to deal with a guy like DT. Or Ted for that matter. Or are they smart enough.

Cunning yes. Manipulative yes. But effectively only against those who play by their rules.


65 posted on 01/08/2016 10:40:09 AM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - An idea whose time has come)
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To: xzins

Stump trump. I don't think so, Tim.

66 posted on 01/08/2016 10:40:52 AM PST by McGruff (Still hoping for a Trump/Cruz 2016 ticket.)
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To: Norm Lenhart
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67 posted on 01/08/2016 10:41:44 AM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Tickets to see Donald Trump at Winthrop Coliseum Friday night are sold out, according to the GOP presidential candidate’s event website.

Winthrop University says the coliseum seats more than 6,000 people and there won’t be an empty seat at Trump’s Rock Hill rally.


68 posted on 01/08/2016 10:42:50 AM PST by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: BlackAdderess

Be sure to study Vattel and Blaise pascal, both geniuses.


69 posted on 01/08/2016 10:44:31 AM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: xzins

NewsMax really knows how to pavlov a reaction out of the trumpoids. It’s really not much of a grand conspiracy against The Donald when a candidate’s brother gives a speech for him.


70 posted on 01/08/2016 10:44:37 AM PST by dead ("I'm up to my eyeball in virgin goats!" - Mullah Omar)
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To: xzins

And they’ll be use the best munitions the Acme Dynamite Company can provide. But fear not that will blow up in their faces as well.


71 posted on 01/08/2016 10:47:22 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: xzins

And they’ll be use the best munitions the Acme Dynamite Company can provide. But fear not that will blow up in their faces as well.


72 posted on 01/08/2016 10:47:22 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: GOPJ
That said, the GOPe might 'go democrat' and do voter fraud.

On December 12, I posted this about Republican voter fraud:


As funny as that sounds, it may be the only way to stop Trump. Make the voter fraud so yuge and obvious as to throw the entire election in doubt. Then have Congress declare that the 22nd amendment failure to qualify clause is in force and throw the election to the House to decide. Messy, but arguable.

Republicans don't need to out-fraud Democrats to beat them; they only need to fraud the vote enough to throw the honesty of the election into doubt.

-PJ

73 posted on 01/08/2016 10:50:43 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: hsmomx3

“I think all of this will backfire big time!”
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Not for Hillary! Trump is likely to bolt to third party, consequently helping her thighness. But he might just play it out as a Republican, with him anything is possible. And he might still win, even bigger.


74 posted on 01/08/2016 10:54:08 AM PST by matthew fuller (Americans want to win, especially after seven years of a muslim surrender monkey that hates America!)
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To: BenLurkin
That's pretty much it.

Anyone who will look at this thing realistically knows that the GOP contest is pretty much down to Trump vs. Cruz at this point.

Rubio, Carson and possibly Cristie have the opportunity to be factors, but that is pretty much it at this point.

75 posted on 01/08/2016 11:04:23 AM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: JPG

For what it’s worth-

http://electionbettingodds.com/


76 posted on 01/08/2016 11:06:19 AM PST by matthew fuller (Americans want to win, especially after seven years of a muslim surrender monkey that hates America!)
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To: Norm Lenhart

You are absolutely correct. Sadly, philosophy has given way to “pre-canned” or “boxed” indoctrination. People in general are too lazy to think for themselves and consequently have no skills at abstraction.


77 posted on 01/08/2016 11:10:45 AM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: matthew fuller

From Predict - looks like Cruz took a hit after NBA

Donald Trump 33

Marco Rubio 30

Ted Cruz 27

https://www.predictit.org/Market/1233/Who-will-win-the-2016-Republican-presidential-nomination


78 posted on 01/08/2016 11:11:53 AM PST by jennychase
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To: xzins

This is one of the most stupid ideas I’ve seen from them. If this is true they are even more dense then they already appear. South Carolina is one of Trump’s strongest states. He’s at 38% +15. Anyone who thinks that GW Bush is going to change that needs to have their brain evaluated. Also if they are serious about trying to stop Trump they need to pull some of the GOP-E candidates aside and get them to drop out. There is no reason for Kasich to still be in the race nor Jeb. They are losers and nothing they will say or do will get the base to embrace them. If they stay in through the SEC primary then Trump will be the nominee unless something happens and he under performs in Iowa and New Hampshire. If Trump wins both Iowa and New Hampshire he’s going to win South Carolina without a doubt and after that the die will have been cast.


79 posted on 01/08/2016 11:14:41 AM PST by Maelstorm (America wasn't founded with the battle cry "Give me Liberty or cut me a government check!".)
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To: Mollypitcher1

It’s pretty sad to realize that (with some exceptions of course) GenX, who grew up on Heavy metal, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Freddie Kruger, art the last generation as a whole, capable of thinking independently. But it appears to be true. Not that we were a bunch of Platos ourselves.

I don’t blame millenials for their circumstance per se. They can only go with what they were taught. GIGO. Very few seem to break their programming because they don’t have the tools to do so.


80 posted on 01/08/2016 11:21:57 AM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - An idea whose time has come)
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