Do you seriously think that the many millions of people who voted for Trump to be the Republican nominee BECAUSE he was a non-politician and a non-establishment type, and who have known since April that he going to be the nominee, are going to suddenly turn around and vote for an uber-establishment type like Bush or Romney? Not a chance in the world. If the Republicans nominate anyone other than Trump, this will be the most massive defeat that the Republican party has ever sustained. That would be on the heads of those who undermined the will of the millions of people who actually gave enough of a damn to vote in the Republican primaries.
Trump is, for all intents and purposes, already the nominee. There is now a choice between Clinton and Trump. No other choice is possible at this point in time. Therefore, failing to support him is nothing more and nothing less than supporting Hillary Clinton.
The primaries are over. It is time to unify behind the nominee. The establishment types who demanded that we conservatives support their moderate candidates in the past, like Dole, McCain and Romney, now have to eat their own cooking. It is their cooking for two reasons: first, because the vote for Trump was a revolt against their string of failures, as well as their lies, regarding stopping Obama. Second, because now it is their turn to hold their nose and vote for somebody that they don’t like.
What is good for the goose is good for the gander. If they don’t like it, and they manage to utilize some arcane rules to thwart the will of the people, then the people will stay home and their party will be destroyed.
The sour-grapes whinery coalition better hope they fail.
If they succeed, they will set a dangerous new precedent for future Republican primaries and candidacies. Their win would basically negate the entire primary system and candidacies. The party elites would be the ones selecting the nominee.
That has really worked great in the past: Dole, McCain, Romney are the results of party elites selecting the nominee.
Trump got nearly 14 million votes in the primaries.
If the Dump Trump movement does succeed, most of those 14 million are not going to be voting for a GOPestablishment selectee.
But, the GOPestablishment don’t really care. They want the status quo and they see that more with a Clinton presidency. They think that, if she wins, they win. If Trump wins, they lose.
They have disguised themselves for years. They are less interested in being national leaders than in being close to the power structure and money tree.
If they do Drump Trump, they will also likely lose the Senate. They have 24 seats up this time. A swing of just about 5 seats would send Mitch to the Minority Office. Then, in 2018 they would likely lose the House.
But, as long as they still get their turn at the money trough, they are satisfied.
If a prez Hillary got a majority Senate and House, her actions would make Obama’s first two years seem irrelevant. Gone would be most of the Bill of Rights and a sway that would keep the Democrats in power for decades.