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Republican Leaders Map a Strategy to Derail Donald Trump

Hawkeye10 said:
This is why:


GOP Establishment Club Plots Guerilla Warfare to Take Down Donald Trump - The Rush Limbaugh Show

Rush has been on a roll lately, he gets it. A lot of people in the R elite are watching their power status and income potential vanish before their eyes, and they never saw it coming.
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But that's the most bizarre part of the equation. 80% of what Trump is proposing is completely and totally in line with what the GOP espouses. There's no money in Abortion fobia and Trump doesn't care about it. He's not gonna touch it.

Military Industrial Complex? Still largely in place except instead of funding Islamic Rebels he'll be confiscating/taking over the production of oil in the middle East. Oil investers should be thrilled.

Somebody's gonna need to build that wall. Halliburton is available and on speed dial.

Need a hyperconservative Supreme Court justice? Trump's got what you need with Bill Pryor and Diane Sykes.

Really these power brokers are willing to see the GOP crash and burn because Trump's going to oppose 20% of the GOP agenda. These people are so concerned about short term gains that they're willing to sacrifice long term answers, new demographic opportunities, and the benefit of Union support from Labor. It's very short-sighted and shows just how much of a bubble these people are in, they should be embarrassed but obviously they're not.
 
reinoe said:
But that's the most bizarre part of the equation. 80% of what Trump is proposing is completely and totally in line with what the GOP espouses. There's no money in Abortion fobia and Trump doesn't care about it. He's not gonna touch it.

Military Industrial Complex? Still largely in place except instead of funding Islamic Rebels he'll be confiscating/taking over the production of oil in the middle East. Oil investers should be thrilled.

Somebody's gonna need to build that wall. Halliburton is available and on speed dial.

Need a hyperconservative Supreme Court justice? Trump's got what you need with Bill Pryor and Diane Sykes.

Really these power brokers are willing to see the GOP crash and burn because Trump's going to oppose 20% of the GOP agenda. These people are so concerned about short term gains that they're willing to sacrifice long term answers, new demographic opportunities, and the benefit of Union support from Labor. It's very short-sighted and shows just how much of a bubble these people are in, they should be embarrassed but obviously they're not.
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But with Trump you either get behind him, and it better be early, or you are out, no matter how useful you are. It is the principle of the thing. Trump i am sure laid down the law today.

We will soon see the result.
 
Did they ever do this for democratic candidate or is this just for Trump?
 
Let the GOP do what it likes to Trump, but if he wins the most delegates up to the convention, the party will die a fast and painful death if they take it away.

Trump is not really my guy, but if he wins the most delegates................he wins!
 
Hawkeye10 said:
But with Trump you either get behind him, and it better be early, or you are out, no matter how useful you are. It is the principle of the thing. Trump i am sure laid down the law today.

We will soon see the result.
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........just like any typical fascist demagogue would do.........


BTW


I would not be opposed to a President Trump...............for the only reason yall deserve what yall will get
 
imyoda said:
........just like any typical fascist demagogue would do.........


BTW


I would not be opposed to a President Trump...............for the only reason yall deserve what yall will get
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Throwing long winded undefined labels around is easy, and common.

I for one rarely pay them any mind.

I keep my eyes on the ball.

I LIKE winning!
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Throwing long winded undefined labels around is easy, and common.

I for one rarely pay them any mind.

I keep my eyes on the ball.

I LIKE winning!
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Thank you for sharing your personal opinion...........
 
Blue_State said:
Did they ever do this for democratic candidate or is this just for Trump?
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No, the Republican establishment is fighting Trump harder than it ever fought Obama. It just shows you how much he's going change things in favor of the people.
 
reinoe said:
No, the Republican establishment is fighting Trump harder than it ever fought Obama. It just shows you how much he's going change things in favor of the people.
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Getting to be very embarrassing for Romney, who has always been suspected of lying about how liberal he is. He is going to wish that he kept his yap shut re Trump.
 
GOP Is Heading For Disaster As Trump Would Be The Most Unpopular Nominee Ever
GOP Is Heading for Disaster as Trump Would Be the Most Unpopular Nominee Ever


… Donald Trump's unfavorable rating of 67% would make him the most unpopular presidential nominee in modern US political history…



ALSO:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...id-duke/?postshare=9981458584946426&tid=ss_tw
Donald Trump is the most unpopular presidential candidate since the former head of the Ku Klux Klan

Think of the most unlikable presidential nominee of the past thirty years. Now add 14 points to his unfavorable rating, and you have Donald Trump. For the record, the most unpopular nominee of the past three decades in either party was George H.W. Bush in 1992 (53% unfavorable). Trump makes Mitt Romney and his 52% unfavorable rating in 2012 look like Mr. Popularity.
The Washington Post broke down the approval ratings of all of the presidential nominees in the modern political era, and what they found was a historic level of unpopularity for Donald Trump. For example, Trump’s strongly unfavorable rating of 56% is three points higher than the highest presidential nominee’s unfavorable rating……….

How can folks think Trump has a chance………..you just don't recover from such a low favorability rate as above…………


….. because folks have made up their minds already

……which we know is very hard to change………


IN ADDITION:

‘Shocking’: Trump is such a GOP nightmare he puts Utah in play for the first time in 50 years
Shocking’: Trump is such a GOP nightmare he puts Utah in play for the first time in 50 years

“Donald Trump will meet with Republican party leaders in Washington, D.C. Monday and it’s possible the conversation will surround what his candidacy will do to the GOP. Trump is such a disaster for the Republican party, for the first time in 50 years the traditionally conservative state of Utah is up for grabs according to a recent Deseret News/KSL poll………….
SEE:
Poll: Utah would vote for a Democrat for president over Trump | Deseret News
 
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Gaugingcatenate said:
What is sad is your side will elect her despite the fact she should be in cuffs. Sad commentary for the choices on that side.

Besides, Trump will kick her, granted its like Stone Mountain monumental, fat ass right off the debate stage. It will be a no holds barred, as Trump is a no holds guy, match up. Nothing off limits and over the Hillary is not used to not being protected from all angles. Whatever Trump cannot physically push off the dais himself, he can have his regular demolition crew come in after. I think with the proper scaffolding, you know OSHA will be watching, they can get the job done.
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Very mature response, another poster obsessed with Mrs. Clinton body, to each there own
 
KevinKohler said:
So, this basically is telling me that the GOP is NOT in favor of supporting someone that, apparently, the majority of it's would be constituents support?



Pretty poor business model in a democratic environment. Just saying.
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40%* is not a majority, its a plurality. Even if he is the first among equals, the fact remians that most Repulicans do not want him to be their candidate, many vehemently so, Not to mention thats not just habbitual Repulican voters they have to worry about, they need to attract undecided voters also.

*Which is what he polls typically among republican voters
 
Moot said:
Rand Paul supporters said and thought the same thing in 2012 after the RNC changed the rules of the convention, so they wouldn't have to count some of Paul's delegates. Did it break or destroy the party then?
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The 2012 rule change is one of the reasons they're in the situation they're in today.

The GOP is made up of a few different factions. The establishment wing has continually modified the rules so that a slight plurality can control the entire party. Then the establishment allows a number of whacos on the ballot, splitting up all of the other factions. This lets the establishment wing gain a slight plurality and thus control the entire party. Throughout the 90's and 2000's the GOP establishment kept enough of a plurality that there was no danger of the lunatics running the asylum.

But the establishment has been fading. What have they been polling? 15%? Many of the moderates and pragmatics have migrated to the DNC. This means that a candidate like Trump who can unify a few of the wings of the GOP that have been traditionally ignored, suddenly can take advantage of the biased rules which have worked in favor of the establishment for all of these years. But these rules were meant to advantage the establishment, not an insurgent. All of the infrastructure, messaging, party insider loyalty etc.. is all establishment.

Trump is spectacularly incompetent. He has no leadership ability. He does whatever is better for him at the moment, making ridiculous promises that he knows he can break at any time. He has no ability to unify, has no ability to make intelligent policy choices, has no long term vision. The people currently in power in the GOP are diametrically opposed to what trump stands for. They won't trust or support him and will stab him in the back as soon as he shows the smallest vulnerability. And even if they represent a minority, the party needs it's machinery to function. Trump can't replace it and it's vastly out of touch with GOP voters. It's a recipe for an implosion.

So while you say look at all of the times the GOP survived these things, they've all been cases where the GOP has essentially plugged holes in the dam all the while letting more and more water build up. Instead of addressing the real problems, they're patched over and allowed to build.
 
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