Posted on 02/28/2016 3:24:59 AM PST by Altura Ct.
Republican voters need only look to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to understand that GOP lawmakers will willingly sacrifice the White House in order to save their own hides.
As the Republican Party begins to accept the very real possibility that front-runner Donald Trump will be their presidential nominee, McConnell “laid out a plan that would have lawmakers break with Mr. Trump explicitly in a general election,” The New York Times reported.
Despite his overwhelming victories thus far, leaders of the party think Trump will lose in the general election and will hurt Republicans down-ticket.
According to The Times, resistance to Trump “runs deep,” and a “desperate” behind-the-scenes “mission to save the party” from the real estate tycoon stalled out. As a result, “two campaigns have drafted plans to overtake Mr. Trump in a brokered convention.”
The newspaper said the effort to “unite warring candidates behind one failed spectacularly.”
An overture from Senator Marco Rubio to Mr. Christie angered and insulted the governor. An unsubtle appeal from Mitt Romney to John Kasich, about the party’s need to consolidate behind one rival to Mr. Trump, fell on deaf ears.
Kasich in particular has drawn the ire of GOP power brokers, having struggled to compete in the first four states to vote.
“He’s just flailing his arms around and having a wonderful time going around the country, and it just drives me up the wall,” a senior Republican senator said, according to The Times.
Several senator said McConnell was “especially vocal” about how Kasich was being irrational.
If Trump is the nominee, McConnell allegedly has told Senate colleagues, “We’ll drop him like a hot rock.”
And he may treat Trump’s loss in the general as a given, allowing senators to distance themselves from the candidate and run negative ads against him.
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. Mr. McConnell has raised the possibility of treating Mr. Trump’s loss as a given and describing a Republican Senate to voters as a necessary check on a President Hillary Clinton, according to senators at the lunches.
All of which suggests that when it comes to political theater, the best is yet to come in the 2016 election. At the very least, it’s going to be an interesting spring and summer.
Probably won’t need the traditional GOP apparatus to win.
Well Mitch trump may just surprise jack holes like you
I agree. We should ALL begin letting it be known that we will not support ANY “down ticket” pols who aren’t supporting the nominee.
LOL-—”Blazing Saddles” ping
There are contested primaries on Tuesday in Alabama, Arkansas and Texas where RINO incumbents have conservative challengers.
“Trump, when elected, will have a Augean task ahead of him.”
Indeed he will! If an establishment puppet of either flavor were to win, the job ahead would be very simple: business as usual, in the Fundamental Transformation of America. For Trump, the task of undoing decades of the NWO Uniparty advancements, and turning the United States into the great nation it once was again, will be one of the most difficult tasks ever asked of our nation’s presidents. His proven ability to surround himself with competent individuals and delegate authority is exactly what is needed. That and prayer, lots and lots of prayer.
They are both willing to sacrifice America/The Constitution/The People to the Left in order to make their point - that they also hate America/The Constitution/The People but pretend to have some sort of "principles" that require such sacrifices.....
“Can’t the senators re-elect a new Senate Majority Leader and in effect “Boehner” him? I’m surprised they never have up to this point.”
The Uniparty is even more predominant in the Senate than the House. They LIKE what Mitch is doing. The only reason they would opt to put a different face for Leader is if the outcry from their constituents became loud enough that they feared for their jobs. THEN they would put a different face in there, with about as much difference as the swap from Bonehead to the little Munster had.
He is funding his own campaign
NOBODY owns Donald.
He is beholden to NO ONE.
He’s a brilliant business man, CEO.
He will surround himself with the most brilliant, talented America has to offer-per his cabinet and advisers. This is the kind of man we need to run the country. He Will make America great again. He will make America RESPECTED again.
The revolution many of you have wanted and predicted because we are so angry at the corrupt government is here. It’s being led by Donald. Don't let him down.
Any chance his stinking state will drop HIM like a hot rock? The bum is worthless. THIS FOLKS IS YOUR REPUBLICAN PARTY. This is what is leading the party. THIS is why I dropped out of the republican RINOcrat party. THIS is what is LEADING!!! Leading my butt. This mob could not win a war against the Marshall Islands. Worthless bums like Mitch are why the country is in the shape it is in. Instead of who the republican party would vote for, this mob would rather give the white house to the Beast. Real smart. Real, real smart. Have they completely forgotten the Klinton criminal years?????????????????????? Complete idiots leading the RINOcrat party. Complete idiots.
Bravo! Trump is our Yuuge opportunity to take America back!
I don’t know....do some homework on your own and get back to me.
Trump is a corrupt liberal democrat who talks big.
You’d think a liar like Trump would fit right in with the RINO elite.
“This Quisling oaf McConnell needs to resign. He can’t lead, he can’t follow, and he won’t get out of the way. This no different that Harry Reid.”
That’s exactly why Trump had such praise for McConnell and gave so much money to get him reelected.
Sure is funny how Trump has consistently supported the very people the Trumpsters say created the problem and now the Trumpsters say the solution to the problem is to elect the man president that created the problem.
It becomes scarier and more possible that we will have Hillary.
“Trump seems okay with Hillary as president as well. If he’s running against her, I haven’t seen much evidence of it so far, he’s had far more venom for those on the GOP ticket. Of course, he has personal ties to Hillary Clinton. They can bicker about what she may or may not have done for him, but the ties exist nonetheless.”
You really believe this uh? Well you are wrong...when the time is right, he will eat lunch and shove the lunch down her throat or up her a**!
“Your shelf life has expired. Take the hint.”
The reality is events suggest he is very relevant. The people of Kentucky decided he deserved another 6 years in office in 2014. In 2015, by majority vote GOP decided he should lead the Senate. I suspect if the GOP sustains its majority in the 2016 election, Mitch will be re-elected majority leader by his fellow Senators in January 2017.
Mitch remains a power player because:
1) He gets to decided how the donor cash will be distributed to individual Senator campaign funds.
2) He has the goods on a number of Senators - their sexual affairs, their substance abuse problems, and their personal financial issues.
3) He controls the perks his fellow Senators desire - committee assignments, office locations, and chairmanships.
4) He has the power to keep legislation desired by individual Senators from ever being considered.
As long as the four factors listed above remain true, and the people of Kentucky keep electing him to office, Mitch will retain his power no matter who is elected president in 2016.
This has been my fear for awhile now. Trump will run independent and split conservatives. Hillary will be our next president.
:: If Trump is the nominee, McConnell allegedly has told Senate colleagues, “We’ll drop him like a hot rock.” ::
ALLEGEDLY told.
Hmmmmmm.
I’m still incredulous concerning the juxtaposition of Trump’s “likely voter” polls v. his “undesirable” ratings.
Likely-voters are around 50% while “haters” are around 65%? I think there might be some manipulating going on.
To wit: “Despite his overwhelming victories thus far, leaders of the party think Trump will lose in the general election.”
Cletus wonders, why no names of these “leaders of the party”? Could this actually be the considered opinion of the MEDIA and the Uni-Party?
Yathink?
You would be wrong. If Trump wins the nomination, I think - at the least - people will vote for him in the same way people can’t NOT look at an accident on the side of the road as they drive by.
People will want to see what happens.
It’s like in Field of Dreams. People will come in droves. They might not be sure why, but they will.
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