What are their FR nicks?
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.
That sums it right up.
These guys have been wrong about us, and they’re wrong about him. I see just the opposite happening esp if the rally and coalesce around him.
You hear these guys talk, and it’s maddening. Some guy, a Senator, said that Trump has been a democrat most his life. Untrue.
He said he gives money to democrats. He gives money to everyone.
He is going to sweep all 50 states, and those that he campaigns with and for will win too.
I’m surprised Huckabee didn’t come out and support him. IT would be the right thing to do, rather than wait.
Or the possibility that Trump might actually have coat tails, never crossed their mind.
Great post !! McTurd wants to take the will of the voters and let he and people like Linda Graham and McCain decide who the nominee of the party is. If Trump gets the delegates and these aholes don’t support him there will be hell to pay with the voters.
McConnell and his kind have been pissing on Americans in general and Republicans in particular for decades. And now We, the People are pissed off.
At McConnell and his kind.
If the McConnells of the world hadn't spent their time in politics stabbing us in the back, nobody would give two cents for Trump.
That made Rand a "never vote for" candidate for me and, I suspect given his almost non-existent candidacy, for lots more folks than I.
Do I invite who to my wedding? Is this an attempt to be cleaver? *shaking my head* lol....
Amen! And odds are Trump wouldn't be running if the RINOS weren't ****ing liars.
RINOS are useless. But I would prefer Rubio to Clinton. He can beat her. Trump can not.
RINOS are useless. But I would prefer Rubio to Clinton. He can beat her. Trump can not.
Playing dumb?
Do you invite these business associates that you don’t particularly like, do you invite them to your wedding as The Donald did in inviting the Clintons to his?
Rubio can beat Hillary, then the country is destroyed by liberals.
You want to win the battle, then lose the war.
Party is everything, eh?
Trump is not conservative on any issue.
These backstabbing jerks need to be put on notice -- any Republican candidate for Senate (or House, or Governor, or state legislature, or dog-catcher) who tries to throw the party's Presidential nominee under the bus will not get our votes!
The first thing a President Trump should do is make a deal to get rid of Mitch McConnell.
Does anyone believe the GOPe will let Cruz win? Or has the bargain already closed.
Total bull. Hendrix was proud of his service. He got out early due to an training injury leading to jump out of airplanes.
What are their FR nicks?
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