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.
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.
Wow!
How many of us know this?
That needs to be broadcast far and wide.
Remember Savage talking about the “Government Media Complex”?
Lindsey Graham already declared Hillary Clinton “a national treasure”.
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.
So Mitch will hold up the nomination for SCOTUS for Hillary. Got it!
Exactly... This is the kind of baiting that most here are stupid enough to believe. There isn’t a single direct quite from McConnell in the story.
The Strange and Possibly Sordid Story of Mitch McConnell's Military Service
"This is what we know about Mitch McConnell’s homosexuality: What is known, though extremely covered up, is that around 1964, Bitchy Mitchy McConnell was thrown out of the US Army for an incident whereby Mitch McConnell propositioned another male solider and grabbed his penis at the same time. The soldier reported this to his superiors who took action against McConnell. Mitch McConnell was thrown out of the Army for engaging in homosexual behaviors, but since he was a Senate aide in the summer, he used the Senator he worked for to pull punches and get the reason Mitch McConnell was thrown out of the Army changed from gay sex to having some sort of eye illness which it turns out he didn’t even have. The Powers That Be then buried this case so deep that it took a progressive journalist forever digging through US government records to finally figure out what was going on. He was obstructed at every turn of the highway. At any rate, what is known is that Mitch McConnell was thrown out of the US military for homosexual activity. And this needs to be shouted from the rooftops.
“When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not guilty.’
Theodore Roosevelt
“Your shelf life has expired. Take the hint.”
Agee. What McConnell doesn’t get is he will be the one dropped.
News Corp execs endorsed John Kerry in 2004.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/news-articles/news-corp-president-endorses-kerry/73371
According to the Kerry for President campaign, News Corp. President and chief operating officer Peter Chernin has endorsed the Democratic presidential candidate. News Corp. owns Fox News Channel.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/12/business/mediatalk-news-corp-donors-show-bipartisan-spirit-in-presidential-politics.html?_r=0
Gary L. Ginsberg, an executive vice president of News Corporation, has also contributed to Mr. Kerry.News Corporation is ‘’a company with diverse interests,’’ Mr. Chernin said.
Didn’t Jimi Hendrix come out as gay in the military to avoid possibly being sent to Vietnam as well?
Here in Nevada as in NH and SC, the voters came out in record numbers for Trump.
Here in Nevada last caucus total vote was 33,000, and this time 70,000. Interestingly Trump beat the total turnout number by getting 34,000 himself 46% or the 70,000
All these establishment GOP have for years told us we better widen out the base and get more minorities..
Well Trump won in Nevada with 46% of Hispanics. Nationwide its said Trump could win 25% of black voters.
Trump wins ever demographic.
Mc Turdle is I think worried that a big turnout endangers him because he has been a do nothing Senator, the dems hate him and we Goper’s despise him even more for not having the guts to really stop Obama.
Trump will make deals and you will go along with him just as you did with Obama. What your going to shut down the Government on a Republican?
If we can take out Rubio and Cruz, what makes McConnell think we can’t take out all of ‘em?
Who the hell do these NWO pieces of sh*t think they are?
Looks like we need to start a list with McConnell info to consult next time his sorry ass is up for re-election.
Let me again extend my bad wishes to the voters of Ky who put this bag of crap back into the senate.
This also means one other thing. Trump wins, McConnell will bring up Oturd’s SC nomination for a vote.
Not with a mandate it won’t!
Oh, I will probably stir the Trump people early but here goes!
I don’t like McConnell any more than any of you, but he is likely right here. What has Trump’s “overwhelming victories” looked like? No more than 35% of the vote in any of the primaries! And this was with Dem and Ind crossovers! 65% of the votes was anti Trump. If we could coalesce around one candidate we would kick Trumps butt all the way back to New York. But Republicans are hopelessly divided and Trump might very well win with 35% of the vote. Goldwater did it in 1964 and McGovern did it in 1972 and both got their tails handed to them. Unless your man can truly broaden his support we are going to hand Hillary the election.
Can’t he be impeached or something? Who ARE these Kentuckians who saddled us with this pos?
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