NEVER MIND!
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.
“Why didn’t Trump serve?”
He got a deferment because he was in college, like millions of others, myself included.
This is the modern Republican party we’re talking about.
If Trump is the nominee, all our friends in GOP Inc will need about a week to regain control of their bladders and bowels. Then most of them will go to Trump, hat in hand, and ask what they can do for him.
The behind the scenes guys are the ones who should be really worried. Trump probably won’t return many of their calls.
Louisville is a liberal town, but there’s room in it for McC too!
From the start the AL-born McC of KY called himself a “John Sherman Cooper Republican”. He has move than lived up to that liberal mantra.
Move should be “more”
When Barbara endorses Mrs. Bill, the writing will be more clear to the uninformed.
FU Turtle.
NEVER MIND!
Rush has predicted this from day one. Mitch and the GOPe will give up the WH as long as they can maintain their comfy status quo.
We just don't know. One thing is pretty certain. If the backstabbers steal the nomination from Trump, establishment Republicans aren't going to win anything.
The same people said Mr. Trump wouldn’t make it to Iowa.
I believe he will DESTROY Hillary.
I think McConnell will find that the hot rock that ends up getting dropped will much more likely be himself.
ok, maybe every district then
Yes, true conservatives always play dirty politics by lying and intimidating voters. Not to mention being silent on illegal immigration for months, even condescendingly saying ‘The American people don’t want to have that conversation.’
Trying to play the perfect conservative doesn’t work after that.
ok, I stand corrected. which state did he win all the districts? that is what I meant to say, not counties
Sounds like the demographics that go Democrat.
I think I got counties mixed up with districts. or maybe even states.
One shouldn’t post when taking cold medicine!
South Carolina. Trump probably won all the CDs in Nevada, but I don't think they apportion delegates that way there. Cruz won two smaller counties in Nevada, IIRC.
“It all comes down to this: Can Trump beat Hillary or Bernie? Almost all current polls indicate NO
. We need to nominate someone who can.”
Beating them with a RINO candidate that passes amnesty isn’t ‘winning.’
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