Posted on 08/13/2016 11:56:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
In November, Americans will elect either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton as president. All minor party candidates as well as an upstart “conservative” alternative to Donald Trump have no prayer of victory. Any Republican or conservative who does not support the GOP nominee might as well join former liberal Connecticut Republican Congressman Chris Shays and formally endorse Hillary Clinton.
There are many groups of Republicans who are aiding and abetting Hillary Clinton. The establishment Republicans such as Bill Kristol, Mitt Romney and the Bush family are not supporting Trump. There is also a group of “Never Trump” conservatives such as commentator Glenn Beck and Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse. There are also the former presidential candidates such as Texas Senator Ted Cruz and South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham who signed a pledge to support the nominee, but refuse to follow through on their commitment.
Sadly, these Trump hating GOP leaders are being joined by other groups of disenchanted Republicans. Next week, an alliance of 70 Republicans will send an official letter requesting that the RNC stop supporting the Trump presidential campaign and focus on House and Senate races, in an effort to retain control of Congress. Among this anti-Trump GOP group is former New Hampshire Senator Gordon Humphrey and former Missouri Congressman Tom Coleman.
This follows a letter by 50 former security and diplomatic officials from Republican administrations who denounced Trump and his policies. In response, the GOP nominee said that Americans should blame such officials for making the world a “mess” and “such a dangerous place.”
There is also the “Free the Delegates” movement that is still trying to use RNC rules to replace Trump as the nominee. They are contacting RNC members in an attempt to persuade them that Trump is destined for defeat and needs to be ousted. This group failed spectacularly at the RNC Convention in Cleveland, but hopes that recent Trump controversies will spur the RNC to hold an extraordinary meeting to change nominees.
All of this is happening while a few Republicans in Congress have officially declined to support Donald Trump for President. The latest defection occurred this week when liberal Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins decided to formally reject Trump and announce she will not vote for him.
Every one of these announcements gets massive attention from the liberal news media who are working overtime to give the election to Hillary Clinton. They refuse to cover the real scandals involving the corrupt, lying Democrat nominee and instead focus on media created Trump controversies. These left wing reporters just love highlighting GOP leaders deserting their nominee. It is a sad day when Republicans are being used so effectively by the liberal news media to elect a scandal ridden candidate who belongs in the big house, not the White House.
With these abandonments one would think Clinton has a lock on the election, yet the latest Los Angeles Times poll has Trump just one point behind. There is also good news in the important area of fundraising as the Trump campaign raised $82 million last month, a major improvement over the month before.
Anti-Trump Republicans are obviously ignoring this information because they want Hillary to win. In this election, Trump ran against the establishment and they cannot forgive him, so they are determined to elect Hillary. For much of the GOP ruling class, Hillary is a better choice because it will mean “business as usual” in Washington D.C. Trump promises massive change and that is the last thing the establishment wants. He also threatens the establishment’s cozy and profitable relationships in the Beltway, their globalist policies and the international trade deals which sellout American workers.
In contrast, Democrats are too smart to have any public infighting. After Bernie Sanders lost the nomination, he retired to Vermont and bought an expensive vacation home. Inquiring minds want to know how Bernie, who never worked until the age of 40 and lives on his Senate salary, can afford three expensive homes. Nonetheless, he is relaxing in luxury and is perfectly comfortable with Hillary Clinton as the nominee, even though some of his supporters remain upset about how he was treated by the DNC.
Thus, the loser of the Democratic presidential nomination urged unity and disappeared from the spotlight, while too many of the Republicans who lost the presidential race remain in the news and continue to campaign against Donald Trump. If Trump loses, all of the oppositional Republicans will deserve blame.
Never before has there been so much infighting within the GOP after a candidate has secured the nomination. Even for horrible presidential candidates like Senator John McCain in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012, the party coalesced behind the nominees and there was unity.
This election is different because the nominee is not a politician, but a businessman. Trump has never run for office before and speaks his mind openly, without politically correct talking points. He also represents the often overlooked grassroots of the Republican Party. In this election, he won close to 14 million votes, more than any other GOP presidential candidate in history. In the process, he won 37 states and three times more delegates than his nearest competitor.
In reality, his critics have a problem not just with Donald Trump, but with his millions of supporters, who have had enough of the politics as usual system and the cronyism of the establishment. These elitists are upset that the Republican voters had the audacity to actually nominate a candidate who was not selected for them by the establishment.
This election is example of the classic struggle between the people and their political overseers. The GOP elite are desperate to maintain power and they’ll gladly destroy the party, if not the country, before they allow Donald Trump to be elected President of the United States.
It’s really about keeping the Cheap Labor Express running.
They are not about to let the citizens reverse 30 years of bipartisan policy of non-enforcement of immigration laws and borders.
The illegal alien inundation was intentional.
Both parties decided decades ago that the citizens would not be allowed to keep the rule of law or their country.
Make America Great Again is being bastardized by many public entities now.
Use this link, and move to page two on to start reviewing all the businesses and other entities that are using "Make (something or someone) great again..." It's a real hoot. LINK
Then try to think of even one slogan of Hillary's, that another entity is using now. Trump is slaying it...
Well, bless their li'l ol' hearts...
Ignoring what everyone knows (or should know by now,): the definition of Insanity...
The GOPe elite are determined to add the obvious corollary to history:
Let's do it again, exactly the same way, but with new players, newer, smarter, kinder, more politically correct, who will do it right! Let's trumpet it!!
Like communism and even socialism, the lessons of history are arrogantly shoved aside.
Santayana is in the corner laughing hysterically...
Hillary’s Campaign Theme Should Be: “Make America GUILTY Again!”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3451312/posts
Hillary Clinton must be getting so jealous of Donald Trump’s marketing brilliance with his hugely successful “Make America GREAT Again” campaign theme.
At the Republican Convention, Trump’s campaign theme brilliance was further embellished: Each day of the RNC schedule was focused on four cohesive sub-themes of “Make America Great Again.”
. Monday: Make America Safe Again
. Tuesday: Make America Work Again
. Wednesday: Make America First Again
. Thursday: Make America One Again
This shows a great ability to organize & strategize – traits that will make for good leadership later. And traits desperately lacking on the Left.
So, really, isn’t it time Hillary comes up with a catchy campaign theme that encapsulates her political philosophy? How about “Make America GUILTY Again!”
After all, her entire campaign can be distilled into the following GUILT themes.
. “Make Corporations GUILTY Again”
. “Make White Males GUILTY again”
. “Make the US Military GUILTY again”
. “Make our Borders GUILTY Again”
. “Make our Police GUILTY again”
. “Make Liberty GUILTY again”
. “Make Capitalism GUILTY again.”
. “Make Successful People GUILTY again and again and again.”
The foregoing is the essence of the Clinton/Obama legacy. Notice how these thugs NEVER COMPLIMENT America. Never!
In reality, it is the “Greedy Liberals” who should be declared GUILTY for wanting to steal other people’s money for their various socioeconomic fascist agendas. After all, their programs require the implied use of government force on otherwise free individuals (e.g. if you do not pay your taxes to support their socioeconomic fascist agendas, someone will come with a gun to your house and take you to jail).
Compare Trump’s campaign theme to other recent democratic campaign slogans:
. The condescending “It’s the economy, Stupid!” theme concocted by the almost sub-human James Carville for Slick Willie Clinton’s campaign.
. The vacuous “Hope & Change” theme adopted by Obama managed to suck in a lot of gullible Obama Kool-Aid drinking sheeple.
. Hillary’s “Stronger Together” them is bland and unpatriotic. It does nothing to celebrate the individual and is all about collectivism/socialism.
. And Hillary’s “I’m with her” theme is just laughable. What does that have to do with running the most powerful country in the world?
None of these campaign themes come close to matching Trump’s theme of optimism. This is the same recipe that won Ronald Reagan his re-election with his “Morning in America” theme.
The Republican National Convention has been a celebration of optimism for America and a “can-do” attitude.
In contrast, the Democrat convention will be a celebration of whining negativity and grievances from their loose aggregation of GREEDY special interest victim groups (socialists, anti-racist racists, and feminazis).
Ironically, it is the LEFT that is the GREEDY party because they want to use government to steal from productive members in society to fund their socioeconomic fascist agenda.
And America worthless.
The gop is finished. I, for one, will never vote for any of the elites again if they continue on this never Trump path. In the past we have always heard, we have to support the candidate whomever that may be for the good of the country. Indeed I have on several occasions, Romney, McCain, and Dole to name a few. But that rule is forever gone, because of a selfish few idiots that are only loyal to their own ambitions.
I changed from GOP to independent last week.
If this continues and costs Trump the election, I would love to see him start a party with the goal of giving a voice to the people of this country. I think he could kill the current Republican party when a third or more registered Republicans followed him. We would have to live through some tough times, but as things stand, the only say we have is how fast the water boils.
Whenever we here a Republican leader mention the ‘party’ Like Trump is destroying the party, it is code for “establishment elites.”
LOL I just was waiting for the right time to use the word “code” or “dog-whistle” a favorite word of the lying liberals.
“With these abandonments one would think Clinton has a lock on the election, yet the latest Los Angeles Times poll has Trump just one point behind.”
If Trump loses, the Republican party is to blame.
And they’re done as a party.
I won’t be voting for them ever again.
BTTT
Thanks for the link. Can you say criminal empire?
I have always voted for the Republican nominee and always will as long as I live and am able to vote. Have you?
"Establishment elites" = almost anybody who managed to get elected to Congress.
If they all lose -- or enough of them lose to throw Congress to the Democrats -- how much is left of the party?
And I guess "not establishment elites" = people without serious office-holding experience.
Good luck against Hillary if that's all we have.
I have up to this point and will vote for the Presidential nominee this time. I will also be taking names of all those who think they are smarter than everyone else by denouncing Mr. Trump and will never vote for any of them for anything.
The Republicans were dead anyway.
While Trump may lose in November, there is no way any of the other GOP candidates would have won. The GOP Brand is forever in the garbage can, thanks to W, and useless candidates like McLame and Moronmney.
Florida police officers showing respect for Donald Trump:
http://realityofsense.com/2016/08/13/respect-watch-dozens-police-show-escort-trump-florida/
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