GOP Establishment stuck on Stage 2 of Grief with Cruz, at Stage 5 with Trump

Legal Insurrection ^ | 1/22/16 | William A. Jacobson

[TBBT]

Anyone who a year ago picked Donald Trump and Ted Cruz to be the two leading Republican candidates heading into the Iowa Caucuses either (i) is a liar, or (ii) should invest heavily in the lottery because they are beyond lucky.

Certainly, the powers that be in the Republican Party were not expecting it. Here's what a Fox News poll looked like in January 2015:

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The pollster didn't even bother to ask about Trump. And Cruz was in low single digits. Now Trump is on top in the national polls and Cruz is in second place. In Iowa, three polls released today show Cruz leading, a dead heat, and Trump leading.

When Trump rose over the summer, the Republican establishment lampooned him as a circus clown who would fade quickly. But he hasn't faded, and if anything has grown in influence. Cruz, hated intensively by many of his fellow Republicans in Congress because of his willingness to take on the leadership, also was a suprise. Jeb Bush was supposed to be at the top, and then Scott Walker was the acceptable conservative candidate. Jeb has faded and Walker dropped out.

So how has the Republican establishment reacted to the fact that two people it didn't want are commanding the polling as of now?

I think the Kübler-Ross model of the stages of Grief is helpful:

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Trump. The Establishment Candidate.

[Yosemitest]

If you're backing SOCIALIST Trump for President, conducer this .

Donald Trump and Eminent Domain, August 22nd, 2015

... More, Trump has publicly defended the confiscation of private property for eminent domain, even when the use for which the property is confiscated is purely private in nature:

Trump consistently defended the use of eminent domain.
Interviewed by John Stossel on ABC News, he said:
"Cities have the right to condemn for the good of the city.
Everybody coming into Atlantic City sees this terrible house instead of staring at beautiful fountains and beautiful other things that would be good."
Challenged by Stossel, he said
that eminent domain was necessary to build schools and roads.
But of course he just wanted to build a limousine parking lot.

Once again, this is Donald Trump's vision of private property rights when he was just another private citizen.
Imagine how much more damage he could do as the leader of the Federal executive branch.

Thomas Sowell called it CORRECTLY !

...Trump boasts that he can make deals, among his many other boasts.
But is a deal-maker what this country needs at this crucial time?
Is not one of the biggest criticisms of today's Congressional Republicans
that they have made all too many deals with Democrats,
betraying the principles on which they ran for office?

Bipartisan deals -- so beloved by media pundits -- have produced some of the great disasters in American history.

Contrary to the widespread view
that the Great Depression of the 1930s was caused by the stock market crash of 1929,
unemployment never reached double digits in any of the 12 months that followed the stock market crash in October, 1929.

Unemployment was 6.3 percent in June 1930 when a Democratic Congress and a Republican president made a bipartisan deal that produced the Smoot-Hawley tariffs.
Within 6 months, unemployment hit double digits --
and stayed in double digits throughout the entire decade of the 1930s.

You want deals?
There was never a more politically successful deall than that which Neville Chamberlain made in Munich in 1938.
He was hailed as a hero, not only by his own party but even by opposition parties, when he returned with a deal that Chamberlain said meant "peace for our time."
But, just one year later, the biggest, bloodiest and most ghastly war in history began.

If deal-making is your standard,
didn't Barack Obama just make a deal with Iran --
one that may have bigger and worse consequences than Chamberlain's deal?

What kind of deals would Donald Trump make?
He has already praised the Supreme Court's decision in "Kelo v. City of New London" which said
that the government can seize private property to turn it over to another private party.

That kind of decision is good for an operator like Donald Trump.
Doubtless other decisions that he would make as president would also be good for Donald Trump,
even if for nobody else.

[FoxInSocks]

A link to the article would be helpful.

Anyway, the stages of grief don’t necessarily occur in order, or they may be concurrent, and some people may not experience all of the stages.

[chud]

The Kubler-Ross model:
1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance

[Goldsborough]

What I find grimly amusing about Trump is about how he goes on yammering about what a deal maker he is. Who is he going to cut deals with as president? The GOPe and the LibDem rump are perfectly happy cutting deals with Trump on their terms.

[BigEdLB]

Fox Poll 1/29/15:

Romney 21
Huckabee 11
Paul 11
Bush 10
Walker 8
Rubio 5
Christie 4
Cruz 4
Jindal 2
Kasich 1
Santorum 1

[joshua c]

Or Ghandi.

First they ignore you.
Then they make fun of you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win.

I am paraphrasing, of course.

[joshua c]

“LibDem rump are perfectly happy cutting deals with Trump on their terms.”

Trump is famous for cutting deals based on the other side’s terms.

[TBBT]

Forgot the link. My bad...

http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/01/gop-establishment-stuck-on-stage-2-of-grief-with-cruz-at-stage-5-with-trump/

[Goldsborough]

I’m sure you can show me some one sided business deals where Trump took all and didn’t compromise his position to the other party to the deal.

[Redleg Duke]

I see you subscribe to the Goebbels’ process. Tell a lie often enough and loud enough and it becomes the truth.

[Yosemitest]

"Tell a lie often enough and loud enough and it becomes the truth."

Isn't that Trump's MOTO ?

[Yosemitest]

"Who is he going to cut deals with as president?"

SOCIALISTS COUNTRIES, "ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS" (once he's in office), and DemocRATS !

[Redleg Duke]

Nope, but it is surely yours.