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Inside the Republican Party’s Desperate Mission to Stop Donald Trump
New York Times ^ | FEBRUARY 27, 2016 | ALEXANDER BURNS, MAGGIE HABERMAN and JONATHAN MARTIN

Posted on 02/27/2016 6:39:31 AM PST by goldstategop

“There’s this desire, verging on panic, to consolidate the field,” said Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a former supporter of Mr. Bush. “But I don’t see any movement at all.”

Mr. Rubio’s advisers were also thwarted in their efforts to secure an endorsement from Mr. Romney, whom they lobbied strenuously after the Feb. 20 South Carolina primary.

Mr. Romney had been eager to tilt the race, and even called Mr. Christie after he ended his campaign to vent about Mr. Trump and say he must be stopped. On the night of the primary, Mr. Romney was close to endorsing Mr. Rubio himself, people familiar with his deliberations said.

Yet Mr. Romney pulled back, instead telling advisers that he would take on Mr. Trump directly.

After a Tuesday night dinner with former campaign aides, during which he expressed a sense of horror at the Republican race, Mr. Romney made a blunt demand Wednesday on Fox News: Mr. Trump must release his tax returns to prove he was not concealing a “bombshell” political vulnerability.

Mr. Trump responded only with casual derision, dismissing Mr. Romney on Twitter as “one of the dumbest and worst candidates in the history of Republican politics.”

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism
KEYWORDS: 2016gopprimary; antitrump; gope; gopeantitrump; newyorktimes; stuckonstupid; trump
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"Who - Does - Number Two - Work for?"



Steaming Pile Of Manure

61 posted on 02/28/2016 10:09:32 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: SubMareener; All

Ted Cruz is a punchline.


62 posted on 02/28/2016 10:15:29 AM PST by j.argese (/s tags: If you have a mind unnecessary. If you're a cretin it really doesn't matter, does it?)
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To: Helicondelta

The MOABH is coming on Tuesday. Lord knows I hate voting. But this will be one of those rare times where it will be enjoyable.

(Mother Of All Butt Hurts)


63 posted on 02/28/2016 10:20:26 AM PST by RKBA Democrat (Primary Teddy 2018)
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To: goldstategop

No source in this article. Got to wonder which candidate provided the data? Me thinks Trump provided it to take out Rubio. It just might work.

Monday’s Limbaugh show is now required listening.


64 posted on 02/28/2016 10:21:44 AM PST by BAW (It's gunna be YUGE.)
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To: boycott

“Cruz is not part of the GOPe.”

LOL. The brave warrior of TPA? The step n fetchit for Goldman, Sachs, Rapes, Loots, and Pillages? Sir Teddy of H1B?

Naah. He’s not gop-e.


65 posted on 02/28/2016 10:23:52 AM PST by RKBA Democrat (Primary Teddy 2018)
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To: Leo Carpathian

lol


66 posted on 02/28/2016 10:43:02 AM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: HarleyLady27

yep


67 posted on 02/28/2016 10:43:37 AM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Graybeard58

[”Mr. Trump responded only with casual derision, dismissing Mr. Romney on Twitter as “one of the dumbest and worst candidates in the history of Republican politics.”]

BURN!


68 posted on 02/28/2016 10:44:14 AM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: FR_addict

And associated with CFR and NAFTA. Her boss was Tri-Lateral Commission.

There was an article on this yesterday or so.


69 posted on 02/28/2016 10:45:41 AM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Mariner

[ Don’t these people realize that’s it’s not Trump, per se, that they are trying to stop?]

Yes, the bottom line is they’re trying to stop the 10,000+ that show up at many of Trump’s speeches. IOW, this is their war on the American people who are fed up with business as usual.

People are sick and tired of the ripoffs, the fake deals, the good old boy politics, the Bush and Clinton dynasties, and they have the MSM in their pocket to tell you to shut up and like it.


70 posted on 02/28/2016 10:48:12 AM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: goldstategop

....And the same GOP base that is turning against the GOPe folks.


71 posted on 02/28/2016 10:52:03 AM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: boycott

Plus I wonder if he was even (Cruz) allowed to run for the WH because he was born in Canada.


72 posted on 02/28/2016 10:55:25 AM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Spirit of Liberty

Could this be some of what your talking about?

http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/lepages-goal-to-destroy-public-schools_2013-05-21.html


73 posted on 02/28/2016 10:59:47 AM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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To: Spirit of Liberty

Here in Maine, Gov. LePage is only unpopular with moonbat liberals.

LePage was loyal to Christie because Christie spent both time and money helping LePage get re-elected in 2014.

LePage did not want to endorse someone else when Christie dropped out because Jebbie was still in the race. Some members of the Bush family endorsed LePage for governor in 2014. Barbara Bush even made a few TV commercials singing the praises of LePage. LePage did not want to endorse Jeb, but he also did not want to go against the Bush family because they can him some endorsements during the Maine gubernatorial race in 2014.


74 posted on 02/28/2016 11:01:21 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Politicians and diapers must be changed often and for the same reason.....Mark Twain)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Typo last line of my post...

“...because they can him some endorsements” should say
“...because they GAVE him some endorsements...”


75 posted on 02/28/2016 11:04:19 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Politicians and diapers must be changed often and for the same reason.....Mark Twain)
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To: goldstategop
Linda and Mittens represent the face of the GOP establishment.

The GOP needs to reign in "Linda an Mittens' before the base totally walks away from the party...

76 posted on 02/28/2016 11:05:18 AM PST by GOPJ ("during ... time of universal deceit, telling the truth became a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: goldstategop
While still hopeful that Mr. Rubio might prevail, Mr. McConnell has begun preparing senators for the prospect of a Trump nomination, assuring them that, if it threatened to harm them in the general election, they could run negative ads about Mr. Trump to create space between him and Republican senators seeking re-election.

So McConnell is going to rally republican senators to run ads AGAINST the republican presidential nominee?!! Stupid and evil. I hope this NYT sentence is BS.

77 posted on 02/28/2016 11:23:57 AM PST by matt1234 (Note to GOPe lurkers: I and thousands like me will NEVER vote for Jeb Bush)
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To: HarleyLady27
The thing I was thinking of was LePage has reportedly had some meeting with Maine citizens that are along the lines of ‘Sovereign Citizens’ groups. Not saying I disagree with some of their ideas, but I think they're too fringe for most people to be comfortable with.
78 posted on 02/28/2016 1:30:57 PM PST by Spirit of Liberty (Time to go Galt!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

>>Most of the RNC/GOP is owned lock, stock and barrel by The Cheap Labor Express.

They tell us that its “good business” to outsource our manufacturing to developing nations.

They tell us that its “good business” to bring in Third World workers to do our domestic service work.

They tell us that America will be an economy of nothing but highly-educated and skilled Americans doing the kind of work that people from the Third World can’t do.

They raise the price of education until it takes a loan the size of a mortgage (or more) to get that degree.

They make students loans the only kind of debt that can’t be discharged in bankruptcy to protect the lenders.

Then, they bring in H1-Bs to take those jobs because its “good business”.

Now, they tell us that its bad to elect a man who may just burn the whole political house down. They don’t understand that electing Trump is just our final attempt to avoid the need to just shoot the members of the political class.


79 posted on 02/28/2016 1:54:38 PM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: goldstategop

We should all be concerned at the rise of this fake conservative.


80 posted on 02/28/2016 3:08:37 PM PST by LouD
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