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.
Yeah, but we’re talking about McConnell here. Sadly, the NYT might be right on target in this case.
Forty six percent of Hispanic Republicans. The Nevada caucus was a closed caucus. What percentage of Nevada Hispanics are registered Republicans?
Nationwide its said Trump could win 25% of black voters.
Said by whom?
Then McConnell presides over a liberal fascist party, not the genuine GOP. Nobody is going to drop Trump. They will just have to get out of the way and retire into the dust bin of history, where McConnell and those like him belong.
Change is coming and the GOP elite doesn’t like it one little bit.
If they are not careful they will lose the Senate and The House to the Dems.
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Conservatives that don't already support Trump, will with few exceptions, overwhelmingly support him in Nov. over Hillary.
Record turnouts with most all voting straight party ticket will give the house and senate numbers they have never seen before.
Yeah....and the Clintionites are doing the same to Bernie.
Going to be a look of angry dims pulling the lever for Trump.
The republican party needs to be destroyed. They plainly lied to the voters on every important issue.
He bounced between college deferment (2-S) and 1-A. When he was 26 he was classified as 4-F due to heel spurs. By then he was the too old to be drafted.
“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.”
And who, exactly, would THAT be?
Cruz the Bible-thumper is out. His Elmer Gantry act won’t play well across America, nor his cheating or the fact that he was born in Canada.
Rubio - Really? Stand him up next to Hillary or Bernie and he’ll be exposed for what he is - an 11th grade self-important pretty boy, running for student council.
Kasich - His “gosh, I’m just one of you” routine gets old quick when you realize he’s sitting on 10 million dollars and been a political insider forever. Besides, no one can even remember his name, and half of those who remember it can’t pronounce it.
Carson - Nice guys finish last. Ben has fewer qualifications to be President than Admiral Stockdale. Americans have been dumbed down, but not to the extent where they’ll vote some random guy off the street into the highest office in the land.
Trump, on the other hand, DOES pull people in from the center and left, as well as disaffected voters who have seen the dirtbags in Washington feed off their supposed “public service” for decade after decade, making promises on both sides that are never, ever, kept.
But that’s not my point. Which of the other candidates has a prayer of actually winning the general election? I sure don’t see any.
I swear he is trying to provoke Trump to run third party. This way, he thinks, down ticket people aren’t effected and the presidency goes dem, which is fine by him.
Ironically, Trump probably regrets donating to Mitch the Bitch.
Any other kind?
This reach-across-the-aisle Fool is far too stupid to comprehend what’s going on. How did someone this stupid ever get elected in the first place? Somebody must have wanted useful idiot—and got one.
Can there be any doubt now that Democraps and Repubs are one and the same? One huge gaggle of freakin traitors. THEY need to go, we want OUR government back and OUR country.
“ANYONE who votes for the GOP, other than Trump,
is a FOOL.”
ANYONE who votes for the UNIPARTY is a FOOL!
Maybe Mitch & Company should sign a pledge?
Mitch is a globalist and that is a whole different ideology, values and purpose than is our American constitutional ideology and our Republic’s values and purpose.
Mitch and his friends do not care much for Americans; he disdains us as a people because we don’t accept our place in the scheme of change.
A globalist places himself atop a mountain looking down upon the earth’s human beings as herds of live stock to be managed by technocrats. Most people have no idea how dangerous and evil it is.
or not
What I find incredible is how there’s a number of very vocal FReepers who sound just like Mitch! They suffer from TDS so badly, they’d gladly bow down and accept the chains of their Uniparty overlords than see an outsider upset the DC ruling class’s plans to fundamentally transform our nation.
Trump Gave $50k to McConnell to Defeat Tea Partier Bevin
http://www.punditpress.com/2016/01/trump-gave-50k-to-mcconnell-to-defeat.html?m=1
I think old Mitch who is senile ought to retire. He’s biting the hand that feeds his campaigns.
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