Posted on 03/02/2016 7:36:25 AM PST by lodi90
In order to defeat Donald Trump, The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol admits he is prepared to hand Hillary Clinton the Oval Office. On Wednesday’s “Morning Joe,” the Republican Establishment leader laid out his plot to deprive Trump of the 50% of delegates necessary to secure the nomination. From there, the idea is to go into a brokered convention and cut a kamikaze deal that awards enough delegates to an “acceptable” candidate (who will have won far fewer votes, states, and delegates than Trump).
The problem with the Establishment brokering a behind-closed-door deal that hands the nomination to a Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)79% , is that the backlash against the Republican Party is almost certain to hand Hillary Clinton the presidency.
If a bunch of rich, angry GOP elites rob Trump supporters of their victory, the blowback will result in so many voters staying home in November, Hillary wins. As NBC’s Chuck Todd pointed out last night, at this point the delegate math is such that the only way to stop Trump is through this scheme at the convention.
As you’ll see below, that outcome is preferable to Kristol, and by extension it is safe to assume that outcome is also fine with the rest of the Republican Establishment.
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How the gods have damned us!
As stated above, yes, I hope he (Trump) destroys the establishment, too.
My God, we need this man, and we need him now!
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Yeah I guess elhombrelibre thinks we haven’t seen the anti-semite card played before and will be left speechless in the face of his brilliance.
Some wag once said that the definition of a racist was someone who was beating a Leftist in an argument. Substitute anti-semite for racist, elhombrelibre for Leftist, and it’s the same old smear.
I doubt that our little smear merchant has ever read any of the histories of the neoconservative movement written by the players themselves, he doesn’t seem particularly bright, but unfortunately for him they write about their roots in the Trotsky branch of NYC’s large Communist community. A community that was overwhelmingly Jewish.
But who knows, maybe they were anti-Semitic Jews using what elhombrelibre passes off as logic...
Poor old Dan Quayle was mocked as being dumb by the press, always unfairly.
But if there was one glaring example that proved that Quayle had bad judgement it was his choice of William Kristol as his chief of staff
The way this is all playing out we should be wondering if Quayle even had a “choice” of whether or not Kristol would be his COS.
The way this is all playing out we should be wondering if Quayle even had a “choice” of whether or not Kristol would be his COS.
Do you think for one minute, if Trump was not in the race, Cruz would be? Cruz would be utterly trashed, he would be out of the race by now
You are wrong here. All of the exit polls are showing the biggest motivator is disappointment and frustration with the Republican party. Cruz has been banging this drum for a couple years now.
If this isn't a complete take down of the inept Republican leadership, I don't know what is. Cruz shares the frustration. It just doesn't play well along side Trump's over the top "outsider" status. It's hard to "out-outsider" the orange guy with crazy hair sputtering out a string of insults and swear words every night on the news.
The GOPe has been angling for a brokered convention from the beginning. They wanted Trump to be the primary winner because he will be easier to demonize and take it away from. The time between March 15 and the convention, you are going to see so much come out about Trump that even die hard supporters like you will be relieved when they take the nomination away. It will be like the last months and weeks of the Bush presidency with scandal after scandal after negative story after negative story. Cruz on the other hand would have been impossible to take it away from. He is vetted. He has been through the gauntlet of both the Republicans AND the Democrats and survived.
Personally, I don't think they are going to give it to Bush. They are going to give it to Paul Ryan. His selection as SOTH was a trial balloon to see if he could be tolerated by conservatives. He passed the test.
DEMOCRAT Party; NOT DEMOCRATIC Party.
Words mean things people.
It was the DEMOCRAT party since 1860, why in 2015 did it just suddenly become the DEMOCRATIC party?
Because DEMOCRATIC sounds so much more egalitarian, inclusive, and populist, than just plain old DEMOCRAT party.
Check your political history; this is just a new verbal trick to manipulate a (sadly), all to ignorant public that lack any significant instruction or knowledge of the real differences between a real DEMOCRACY and a REPRESENTATIVE REPUBLIC.
A true democracy is really nothing more than MOB rule.
A REPUBLIC sends representatives (elected by all groups of the people) to speak and work for their interests, regardless of the size of their constituency.
Oh look, a Rat shill just stripped naked.
You're on the wrong website, comrade.
Glad my family and friends have always called me a PALEOCON.
Cochran's "victory" was Pyrrhic to the max.
“Donald Trump’s son gave an interview to a pro-slavery host”
Politico? Looks like you’ve found your true calling. Front man for leftwing gossip artists.
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That's one of the things I find really annoying about this situation. For decades these guys have been offering up drivel like Bush I, Dole, McCain, Romney - telling us to be patient, but when the shoe is on the other foot, they show a heckuva lot more intolerance than conservatives ever have.
I have issues with Trump, but he's already done the country a service by exposing just how deep the rabbit hole goes here and just how rotten to the core our system has become. The Republicrat DEmublican UniParty has been a massive conspiracy to give Americans the delusion they had choices and were free citizens in a democracy. Turns out it's all just been kabuki theater for these guys and real choices are the last thing they want.
Funny how these guys never showed this kind of fire in their bellies against Obama, never.
What does that tell you?
Your question should have been “do I have enough ammo”.
I think you are. You support a liberal statist for President.
Irving was actually a pretty decent sort in many ways, and the most genuine convert to conservatism of the neoconservatives. His spawn on the other hand is vile, calculating, scheming, self-serving... pure evil.
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