Posted on 03/04/2016 7:45:34 PM PST by jimbo123
From Michigan to Louisiana to California on Friday, rank-and-file Republicans expressed mystification, dismissal and contempt regarding the instructions that their partys most high-profile leaders were urgently handing down to them: Reject and defeat Donald J. Trump.
Their angry reactions, in the 24 hours since Mitt Romney and John McCain urged millions of voters to cooperate in a grand strategy to undermine Mr. Trumps candidacy, have captured the seemingly inexorable force of a movement that still puzzles the Republican elite and now threatens to unravel the party they hold dear.
In interviews, even lifelong Republicans who cast a ballot for Mr. Romney four years ago rebelled against his message and plan. I personally am disgusted by it I think its disgraceful, said Lola Butler, 71, a retiree from Mandeville, La., who voted for Mr. Romney in 2012. Youre telling me who to vote for and who not to vote for? Please.
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I don't trust Donald, but if the GOP and the DNC both hate him I'll support him.
Mitt’s rant backfired. What was the creepy guy thinking?
The GOPe sending Romney out to try to scold us back onto the reservation says a lot about the thinking inside the beltway. Who else but someone who spends his/her day with staffers and lobbyists blowing smoke up their hineys would consider Romney a venerable statesman for the party? Romney couldnt get his base to the polls, and lets face it, most of the people that punched a ballot for him were actually voting against Obama. They would have voted for anyone running as a Republican. But the good news inside the beltway is, Romney doesnt know how much more he has diminished his influence.
Why does GOPe field two Presidential losers out, Mitt and McCain, to tell us how to win elections?
The GOPe is blind to their problem. Severe denial.
The other day a local Boston radio host (Howie Carr) had on a pol named Joe Malone who used to be pretty popular around here when Romney was king.
Anyway, they had a pretty frank talk on what motivated Romney and it pretty much boils down to (besides the fear of the entrenched pigs at the trough) that every day Romney wakes up pissed off and mystified as to why people were so stupid as to not vote for him in 2012. Joe (who knows Romney) said he has no doubt it is jealousy of Trump.
It was a great piece and worth listening to if you care - probably find it on podcast for Howie Carr yesterday, March 3.
Trump voters somehow think they are getting even with The Man, the Establishment or somebody by voting Trump.
I just saw the video for the first time of Donald Trump making fun of the disabled guy who disagreed with him.
It was horrible, horrible. And then he lied and said he didn’t know the guy was disabled.
He is a ghastly human being.
Trump people: you are not getting even with anybody.
You are killing the country.
Bingo.
And speaking of "uttered," Cruz drops in his Magic Power Word "utterly" whenever he wants to impress himself further.
"You know Firebrand. This morning I woke up and thanked God that I was in the United States. I got out of bed, the bed that was made by hard working Americans from the great state of Kansas...and put on my slippers. And as I walked to the kitchen I remembered that many immigrants huddled together, hungry and half awake as they too, walked. They walked to freedom. They walked to liberty. And I opened the refrigerator...marveling at the light...the light that represented the light of God shining on the bounty...and I took out the egg..the egg that was produced by a chicken that was fed by an unsung worker who was up at 3 AM to feed that noble chicken. And when I said I was going to fry it and eat I did EXACTLY what i said I was going to do. Now...my opponent, Donald....Donald breathe...breathe...my opponent said his favorite eggs are fried eggs. Yet the New York times hinted that he might be "flexible" and that he might really mean a different type of egg preparation. Now I have just one question....can we trust a man who's can flip flop on what types of eggs he likes?
You and Mitt Romney are so very convincing.
You have a very arrogant, condescending attitude towards me as a Trump supporter.
If I am killing the country, perhaps you’d like to join me for the ride. It doesn’t look like you can stop it with your poisonous little rants.
+1000!
You’ve got issues.
Romney’s speech was extraordinarily ugly. I had nightmares last night over that and the terrible attacks against Mr. Trump (before the debate and during) who is a good American who loves America. I prayed to the Lord and committed this situation to him. I felt better today when I listened to the reasonable opinions and smoother tones of voice on my local talk radio station, AM 1250 The Answer Salem Media, Pittsburgh PA, Rose Unplugged show and Mike Gallagher show.
Absolutely correct. The disconnect is breathtaking.
The beltway elites and self-appointed gatekeepers are completely detached from the on-the-ground reality.
They're sitting up in their ivory towers in a state of profound denial and disturbing delusion.
They're totally oblivious!
Your local voting booth.
You missed your vocation! LOL!
It was to trash Trump as hard and fast as they could, it was a total disgrace, if it had been any of the candidates that was lined up to have that done to them, it would have been just as disgraceful, and this is what we are as Americans?
Is the ‘gravy train’ these people ride on more important to them than to bring in these types of ‘communistic’ low life treatments?
Think about this, this is the Democrat Playbook, this is what George Romney did to Barry Goldwater, this is what Mitt Romney TRIED to do to Donald Trump, but there is a BIG problem why this didn't work the way they planned:
We, the American Voters are running this election, make no bones about it, and we are behind our people, and I don't care who your candidate is, we are behind our candidates, and the GOPe, RNC, DNC and everyone else is in a panic!!!
They don't care about the American People, they don't care about America, they care about their power and their money and if they have to hand Hillary the nomination to stay there, they will...
I don't know about you, but I'm not about to live another term of obuma and if you don't open your eyes and see who the REAL enemy is here, that's just what your going to have happen...
Our leaders think what’s important to them is saving the party.
My values are the opposite of theirs: I’m an American, a religious believer, a conservative and a Republican.
Keep a party around that’s broken its promises and failed to stop Obama isn’t a high priority for me.
For me, what’s important is saving America for future generations.
I’m well aware Trump isn’t conservative and yet I intend to vote for him to send Washington a message and bring about needed change.
We need someone outside the system who can look at things with fresh eyes and turn the country around.
What party insiders want isn’t relevant and they don’t understand how angry the American people are. They may be content to see America go into the sunset.
That’s not the American people and what we want to see for our country. We’re not children who need to be talked down to like complete idiots to let father do what he knows best for us - when father isn’t even doing right by his children.
We’re rational adults and we don’t see any other way to get Washington to listen to us and and one way our another, it will listen.
This isn’t about Trump; this is a national movement to save America.
You have no clue what I think or why I support Trump. You sound stupid when you say you do.
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