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.
There are lots of comments here issued to M. McConnell. He had better take note, because Trump is pretty much a winner, like him or not, and if the WH is to be won, the GOP better back the winner or get entirely out of the game.
[All the vitriol here about the traitorous GOP leadership in congress (justifiably so) and yet Cruz is lambasted for not being able to get anything done there/not have any friends in Washington.
What should be a badge of honor for him is somehow hung around his neck as an albatross. On this point, Trump supporters are hypocritical.]
Hypocritical? Ya Think? It’s only like the have a log the size of a redwood tree in their eye.
These beltway dicks have no clue.
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I don’t see McConnell saying the same about Cruz. I wonder why that is?
Translation - They wear the same size Mao pantsuit...and Hillary gives her hand-me-downs to Lindsey to wear.
Trump was on Face the Nation threatening not to honor the pledge not to go third party. “They are not treating Donald Trump right.” It’s all about him- megalomaniac like Zero.
McConnell is crazy.
Leadership to lose a country for. ? Huh?
Hey Mitch, remember, it’s America First.. Not CONgre$$!!
35% with a field of 17 is overwhelming. He won every county in SC. Every single one.
You really want Rubio? He’s the only other option. He’ll pass amnesty for sure. The country will be toast.
Trump Gave $50k to McConnell to Defeat Tea Partier Bevin
You left out the part where CRuznadian gave $250K to McConnell to defeat Bevin AND McDaniel.
“I’m too old to leave but I’ll never vote again. Hole up in my “compound” with my guns and wife and wait for them to come get me, I guess.”
There’s really no where else to go. This was the last land of freedom.
Ditto, we went Galt and are just waiting, ready for the revolution after the financial collapse.
There’s no stop Cruz plan. Why is that? Maybe because bought and paid for career politican Ted Cruz is one of them?
Rubio won two counties in SC, the ones that encompass Charleston and Columbia.
With that said, turtle McConnell has his head in the sand if he's not recognizing that this Trump thing is an anti-establishment movement. Embrace it, or move out of the way, a-hole.
mitch the conservatives need to drop you like a hot potato u rino
Just what you said, I can’t believe the traitor Yertle the Turtle McConnell would be so stupid as to do this, because Repub voters will leave the party in droves, absolutely. But then again I’ve said before, that sometimes I believe the GOP treasonists actually WANT Hillary as POTUS, so this might be a part of their plan to see it happens. Either way, it’s just more evidence that this party is run by enemies of the people, they have GOT to go or we will no longer have a country. It’s crazy, it’s like they are deliberately trying to incite a rebellion.
“Can’t the senators re-elect a new Senate Majority Leader and in effect “Boehner” him? “
Ryan is no better. McConnell’s replacement will be similar.
Tell me how the GOP keeps the Senate again Mitch.
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