Posted on 05/06/2016 9:28:46 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Donald J. Trump’s moment of triumph this week quickly gave way to a trying and even humiliating test of his standing as a Republican leader, as a phalanx of the party’s most respected figures shunned the man anointed as their presumptive presidential nominee.
Hoping for a moment of party unity, Mr. Trump had scarcely declared victory in Indiana when the cascade of rejection began, starting with the announcement by George Bush and his son George W. Bush, the only former Republican presidents still living, that they would not back his candidacy. And on Thursday night, Mitt Romney, the party’s 2012 nominee, said he intended to hold to his earlier pledge not to vote for Mr. Trump, according to an audio recording of his remarks. Mr. Romney said at a private speech in Washington that he was “dismayed” by the state of the campaign. “I wish we had better choices,” Mr. Romney said. “I keep hoping that things will somehow get better.”
Mr. Romney’s remarks came just hours after House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, the nation’s highest-ranking Republican elected official, delivered an embarrassing blow to Mr. Trump, declaring that he had not yet proven himself worthy of an endorsement. In Washington, the announcement was seen as giving members of Congress a free hand to deal with Mr. Trump, without pressure from the speaker to rally around him.
Mr. Trump has responded alternately with anger and indifference: He has said that he does not need or even welcome support from all Republicans, and on Thursday issued a brusque statement saying he did not support Mr. Ryan’s policy agenda.
In a Fox News interview Friday morning, Mr. Trump said he had been unsettled by Mr. Ryan’s rebuke
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Correct.
This article is purely wishful thinking and projection.
The problem is that the media fairly loathes Hillary Clinton. They would not be stricken speechless by constricted throats, if TRUMP did indeed win the General Election.
They will fight for the Marxist agenda, of course, but if TRUMP wins, to them it means only a four year delay in progress, before they can pick up where they left off, on the Marxist path to Utopia.
This is fearfully a long slog for the Left and they committed to the 40 years it would take to capture the young and the state education system that they are required to attend.
These “delays” were doubtless factored in. Obama accelerated their calendar by leaps and bounds, so a TRUMP detour is but a bump in the road.
UNTIL WE REGAIN CONTROL OF PUBLIC EDUCATION AND ACADEMIA.
My tag line works, here.
Let’s keep those postcards flowing... to Paul Ryan (and our local reps and senators)... Every Monday until Ryan and all the others are “ready” to support Trump.
It’s not over until Trump is actually the Republican nominee, not just the “presumptive” nominee. Everyone stay focused, and keep voting Trump in the remaining primaries. Keep focused until February 2017.
Postcards to:
Spkr. Paul Ryan
1233 Longworth HOB
Washington, DC 20515
This is what I’m writing on my postcards:
Support Trump2016
- or we vote DEMOCRAT down-ballot in November!
#MAGA
Yes RitaOK
Education is a major key.
I hope the cruzers realize the establishment would have turned their backs on tc also.
And he would have not been able to go outside the rep base to replace the ‘e’ votes.
Doubt GOPe wants or even cares about listening. Just as when Ryan “resisted” speakership until he said ok but you have to do it my way. GOPe knew exactly what they were doing then and trying to play same game now.
We have to remember if what I keep seeing on FR is true that Repub Party is a private biz org, then we the people are not hugely important to them in running the Org, we just are the useful tools/slaves to fund it.
Absolutely.
The GOPE are as relieved of Cruz as they hope to be soon relieved of TRUMP.
If they truly can not wrangle the Rules, or disqualify large swaths of his delegates, then they will find, support and vote for Hillary?
Go over. Go around. Or go right through the middle.
That's what I said about Romney!!!!!
Most people are not accustomed to seeing a candidate demean his opponents with very personal name-calling - little Mario, lying' Ted, low-energy Bush, etc. The tactic actually attracts some voters, but some people are put off by it. Some people see it as a sign of boldness, but other people see it as a sign of immaturity. So, there are pluses and minuses which come with that strategy and I'm pretty sure Trump knows that. The up side is that some folks will always see him as a fearless warrior, but the down side is that other folks will always see him as unfit for important leadership.
If Trump had conducted his campaign in a more traditional way, he might not have won the nomination. So, these costs may be unavoidable. It is what it is.
Alex worked in Washington for the first time in 2007 as an intern for National Journal, and has pined for his hometown ever since. He is a supple writer with an agile mind. Just consider his pieces for Politico about how voters are idiots, and for National Journal on how the media should be ashamed for portraying voters as idiots.
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