Posted on 10/12/2016 7:55:24 AM PDT by mandaladon
THE BIG IDEA: Now that it has become crystal clear Donald Trump will not quit—that he has “unshackled” himself and plans to “limp” across the finish line—some Republicans who called on him to drop out over the weekend are reversing themselves.
The senior senator from Nebraska tweeted this on Saturday:
The comments made by Mr. Trump were disgusting and totally unacceptable under any circumstance. (1/2)
It would be wise for him to step aside and allow Mike Pence to serve as our party's nominee. (2/2)
But yesterday during a radio interview she announced that she will vote for Trump after all. "He decided he would not step aside. I respect his decision," Deb Fischer told the Lincoln radio affiliate KLIN. "I support the Republican ticket, and it's a Trump-Pence ticket. … To me, it’s not a tough choice.”
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Yup.
Bennett has loyalty to the top of his ticket.
Glenn showed none when the heat was on.
He’s up by 15 over strickland. I doubt it will hurt him.
He’s a card carrying clinton/bush establishment guy.
He should go no higher than senate and should always be primaried.
Once Trump wins, I predict he will ask for Ryan to step down as Speaker of House, and say that he will veto anything Ryan sends to him otherwise.
We’re going to have to put country above party.
I’m an American first, a conservative second and being a Republican is way down my list of priorities.
That’s the way Trump thinks.
It shouldn’t be so public and shouldn’t happen this close to the election but it’s healthy for members of a national party to disagree.
If you want to see totalitarian government - which the media claims Trump will bring - look at the Democratic party (and media). After
* the email issue
* the foundation issues
* the wikileaks
* the total lack of accomplishments that have helped anyone
* Bill, women, her role in sex scandals
* many other things
After all that I haven’t heard a single DC Democrat say she cannot be president. They must know
* she can’t be trusted - by congress, by allies, by enemy, by citizens, by media
* she may go either way with TPP (important to many)
* she may do anything with the environment/energy (important to many)
* foreign leaders cannot trust her (very dangerous for the country)
* she’s likely to be pro-wall-street
* she makes money-in-politics a non-issue when Citizen’s United has been a HUGE issue for them
There have to be democrat politicians who think she’ll be worse than Trump for their state (TPP, terrorism, immigration/jobs, obamacare, etc).
There have to be democrat politicians who don’t want her to be the face of their party for at least 4 years.
But they aren’t allowed to say those things. They must follow the rulers.
I wonder how many of these “outraged” people have a copy of “Fifty Shades of Gray” in their homes?
Fake, insincere support = NO support. From Ryan to down the anti-Trump (R) ticket, they possess ZERO cred. REJECT ALL GOPe! VOTE against them!! TEACH THEM A LESSON!!
Suddenly now some of these GOPe vipers now have had a "Road to Damascus" moment after being reminded of the negative ramifications of alienating Trump supporters?
BURY THEM in their own political caskets!
>>Too little too late. The race is over. Hillary is going to win and it’s likely to be a wipe out...<<
Don’t bet too much on your forecast (and this isn’t a flame, by the way).
Trump has successfully done two things in the last 48 hours. First, by arranging the presser with the women persecuted (yes, persecuted) by Hillary, he brought balance back into the matter. Sure, he’s a potty mouth, but Hillary’s all that and more. She does it with intent to harm. Trump goes after those who’ve wronged him with a vengeance but the rest is just, as he said, locker room talk.
As to going after those who’ve wronged him with a vengeance, that’s the second success. He took to Twitter and other venues and called out the GOP candidates who deserted him over the tape. Instead of cowering and apologizing he went after them by calling for their defeat. That call had legs as the calls from his base to their offices indicated.
So, in 48 hours Trump essentially defeated a major MSM effort to disqualify him while scaring wavering GOP candidates into backing down on their calls for him to (yet again) withdraw from the race. In other words, he’s bringing them back into line and he’s prepared to jettison the ones who remain rogue.
No one else, and I mean no one, in the 17 person line-up in the primaries could have pulled this off. Anyone who bets against Trump in favor of putting Hillary in the White House had better get some good odds, because he keeps winning regardless how poor people say his chances are.
And a third longer-term accomplishment: He’s convincing the voters that politicians of both parties tend to stick together and that he’s willing to dump the whole lot in favor of siding with his voters. The question now is whether that grows his base even more, as I suspect it will. After all, he’s taking on the two most despised institutions in America, the mainstream press and DC politicians (of both parties.)
I hope he does. I still think Ryan will be a huge asset to Trump if he’s elected, but he’s walking a high wire here as the Speaker.
As GOP candidates return to the fold, Ryan will have an easier time of it. All he did was give them the rope to hang themselves if that’s what they decided.
>>There have to be democrat politicians who think she’ll be worse than Trump for their state (TPP, terrorism, immigration/jobs, obamacare, etc).
There have to be democrat politicians who don’t want her to be the face of their party for at least 4 years.<<
No doubt there are. There also have to be Democrat voters who feel the same, and while they might not say so, many could vote for Trump. Many more could just stay home.
Donald Trump was reportedly told six weeks ago about a GOP establishment plot to sabotage his campaign, one that came to fruition with the release of the infamous Billy Bush tape last week.
Expanding on his earlier comments, Jerry Falwell, Jr. told Fox Business host Lou Dobbs last night that 6-8 weeks ago he received a phone call from, “Someone who is very close to the top establishment candidates and the Republican Party, people who wanted to be president over the last four or five years.”
“He told me, he said, ‘Jerry something strange is going on. They’re meeting regularly. And they tell me it is a certainty that Donald Trump will not be the nominee on November 8th.’ And I called one of Trump’s attorneys and I told him about it. There were no more details than that. So there’s nothing anybody could do,” said Falwell.
As soon as GOP establishment insiders began to abandon Trump within 24 hours of the tape being released, Falwell knew that the whole thing had been planned in advance."
This is very revealing.
[Audio 13 minutes] Jack Posobiec/Cari Kelemen (10/11) "Explosive Revelation of GOP Coup Attempt!"
This election has been incredibly entertaining. I was not an early Trump adopter - but he has earned my respect, with his toughness, fearlessness and resourcefulness.
If he somehow manages to win this election - by connecting directly with the American people (as Reagan did) - he will have a yuuuuuge mandate.
Very exciting possibility. The odds were alway against Trump - from the beginning. But he has beaten those odds to get as far as he has!
I truly appreciate your response .... it strikes some very important points. We are up against it... and I am hoping and praying that Trump pulls it out...not because I am so fond of Trump... I am fond of the movement, the desire by many to want something better then what the establishment has done....and I know with all certainty that Hillary will ruin what’s left of our Country.
Fair points.... I am hoping and praying.... I just can’t stomach the Pollyanna thought process that some have, that all the polls are wrong when its not going Trump’s way.... we are in a tough fight... slapping a happy face on it, isn’t enough, at least for me.
When I first heard that Ryan etal were dumping Trump, I thought shouldn’t you people, who call yourselves professional politicians, at least wait to see what they voters think of this latest Trump brouhaha the way you usually do?
I mean it was almost instant indicating that they had been told to expect it and told how to react.
Ping to #9 !!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMhsMjQQzqY
A must listen!! (13 minutes or so long but explains what transpired and the players involved really well)
Post #9 on this thread needs to viral and sent to Lou Dobbs, Hannity and Drudge!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMhsMjQQzqY
Oh Lord, they wish that were the case.
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