The GOP establishment capitulates to Donald Trump (it's what they do best!!)

washingtonpost.com ^ | 1/22/16 | Greg Sargent

[Proud2BeRight]

Sounds a lot like the Kerry/Obama Iran “deal”, doesn’t it. They promise a deal, they get a deal, they brag about a deal, and the US gets the shaft.

[lewislynn]

Sounds a lot like the Kerry/Obama Iran "deal", doesn't it. They promise a deal, they get a deal, they brag about a deal, and the US gets the shaft.

That's the "deal" that Cruz enabled by giving Obama/Kerry unconstitutional power to make the "deal" without a threat of veto from...Cruz

Constitutional conservative my ass. The man is a fraud and someday might have American and or Israeli blood on his hands as a result of his stupid vote...Oh wait, don't tell me. The most brilliant conservative to ever walk into the Senate chamber was lied to...and he was too stupid to know it.

[VanDeKoik]

“Cruz is a known, conservative quantity “

Most people had not even heard of him prior to 2010. He wasn’t even the leading candidate when he announced, and has never led the race at any point!

I’m sure his conservative sausage is the largest in the world. Fine, let’s give you guys that since that is frankly the only thing you care about is that he’s talked a whole lot.

Since his actual non-platitude record consists of next to nothing but a string of defeats, when it comes to this race I’m looking at what both say and how well either can fight the race.

So far? The only candidate that hits the right balance of what I’m looking for and what my expectations are is Trump.

I started out on the Cruz aide, but saw that he was a sitting duck with no fight, and that Trump was hitting all of the right issues with positions that Cruz never bothered to take himself.

So like a lot of us, we are rewarding the person that put in the effort, took the risks, and took the heat.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I suspect that internal polling has Trump in a position to spend some political capital. In other words — to late to stop his nomination.

Now he is free to do the ‘spooky things’ well before the primary is even over — if my suspicions are correct. By looking spooky to us, he can corral the Establishment and remould it.

If my suspicions are wrong, self-sabotage? I doubt that.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

‘Most people had not even heard of him prior to 2010. He wasn’t even the leading candidate when he announced, and has never led the race at any point!’

And he can try again in 2020 with name recognition, experience, and hopefully he can handle his two ‘nothing’ problems better by then —

Goldman Sachs and eligibility.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

‘... a spot that doubles down on exactly the same sort of immigration rhetoric the GOP establishment types had hoped the GOP would move away from... ‘

That confused me a little. He’s doubling down on tough border safety, right? Or am I reading that backwards?

[sergeantdave]

So here’s the Stalinist liars and propaganda trolls at the WP stirring the pot and hoping to start a fistfight between Cruz and Trump supporters.

Let’s see how many useful idiots take the bait.

[jpsb]

Bump! Go Trump!

[Chauncey Uppercrust]

“Trump will do whatever, say whatever, he has to in order to win - winning is his goal. He has no inner core of beliefs so it does not matter what he says. The GOPe is smart enough to realize he can be moved to agree on anything they want and the Dems also know he can be moved to agree on anything they want.”

You nailed it! But Trump supporters are cultish, they dont care.

Apparently Trump supporters are fine with bearing false witness also

[Impy]

No votes have been cast yet.

[Yosemitest]

For those of you backing SOCIALIST Trump for President, ponder 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.