Drive to Take Down Trump: Can It Work?

RCP ^ | 11/25/2015 | Caitlin Huey-Burns

[Duke C.]

Winter is coming. And with it, the Republican Party could see a third season of its presidential primary dominated by Donald Trump.

The collective wisdom after the Paris terrorist attacks—that voters would gravitate toward a battle-tested, policy-minded candidate with experience to lead in such turbulent times has yet to take hold. In fact, Trump not only continues to top polls, but a new survey of Iowa voters shows he is considered the best candidate to handle terrorism.

[Duke C.]

Give me a break. Most of the people interviewed in this article have been advisers to losing campaigns.

[dforest]

I have no desire to vote for any party who wants to take down their frontrunner. I will stay home on election day.

[Fai Mao]

“I have no desire to vote for any party who wants to take down their frontrunner. I will stay home on election day.”

Amen

[SMARTY]

It’s looking (again) like the GOP doesn’t WANT the WH

[CMailBag]

If this operation is a success, it is the END of the Republican party, IMHO.

[mrsmith]

Sure it will work:
Get conservatives mad at Trump’s moderate positions and get moderates mad at his conservative positions.
Divide his coalition and the Republicans end up with a moderate that conservatives won’t support or a conservative moderates won’t support.
Bingo: President Hillary.

The First Purpose of American political reporting is to keep moderates and conservatives divided so the liberals can rule.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Trump is going to win this election, or the election will default to Hillary.

It seems these “Republicans” trying to interfere are more interested in protecting their own interests, than in actually winning this election.

[samtheman]

No.

Next.

[Ken H]

The collective wisdom after the Paris terrorist attacks - that voters would gravitate toward a battle-tested, policy-minded candidate with experience to lead in such turbulent times has yet to take hold.

Guffaw! That's pretty stupid even for the collective wisdom.

[Dr. Sivana]

They are flailing and they know it. Imagine this. There is a cancer patient with a doctor who is well paid, and not terribly scrupulous. The patient begs, "Is there any way doc? Is there any way I can beat this thing?" The doctor tels him there is a 25% chance that a new treatment combined with an extreme dosage of the same of old drugs MIGHT do the trick.

It just so happens that the treatment costs as much as you have in your account, which cannot be used for much else anyway. In his mind, the doctor knows that the odds of success is more like 2%, and that due more to oter forces that have NOTHING to do with the expensive regimen. The patient doesn't know that, and doesn't want to believe it.

What does the patient say? When the treatment fails, the doctor says "We gave it our best shot, but we knew it was a tough case." On to the next patient.

[USS Alaska]

Meanwhile, his rhetoric has become even more heated and controversial. Talk of a national registry for Muslims in America, surveillance of mosques and his insistence, contrary to evidence, that Muslim Americans cheered 9/11, among other things,

'and his insistence, contrary to evidence' This is a bullshit LIE.

Many mooselimbs, living in America, did cheer the take down of the Twin Towers. We all saw it and know that it happened.

I'm a Cruzer, but lying about Trump {and all pubbies} is a msm hallmark and they just expect all people to accept their lies as gospel.

They can't understand that this is one of the reasons that Trump is doing so well.

WE ALL HATE AND DISTRUST ALL OF THE MEDIA, INCLUDING MOST OF THE FOX TALKING HEADS, WITH VERY RARE EXCEPTIONS.

[Caipirabob]

Yet something tells me I don’t patronize the media outlets these fools plan to bombard the public through. If they reach 50% of MSNBCs audience, how much of an impact will they really have? Hope I made you smile...

[econjack]

Club for Growth spent $1 million on ads in Iowa pointing out Trump's flip-flops over the years, apparently to no avail.

I have no problem with someone changing their mind, as long as it was a response to the revelation of facts rather than a compromise of principles. What I detest is someone like Hillary who says things to please the crowd in front of her at the moment and then flipping positions later the same afternoon because the audience changed...not the facts.

[ronnie raygun]

Now they will suffer the wrath of the disenfranchised lied to, middle finger in the air, spat in my face GOP voters who were promised to crush this despicable imposter's take over of America. These panzies who are in bed with the enemy are our enemy as well. Suffer the consequences a##hats!

[MNJohnnie]

Truly the GOPe is the “Stupid Party”. They learned NOTHING from

1988-win with a bad candiate on the strength of Reagan’s legacy
1992-Lose,
1996-Lose,
2000-Electorial count victory-Popular vote count lose, 2004-skin of the teeth victory,
2008-lose
2012- humiliating inexcusable lose with a pathetic canidate to the worst US President in history.

Really moronic for the GOP Leadership to go to war with its Political base.

Running a political party as if it is your own exclusive golf club is NOT how you win elections. The only reason the GOPe did anything in 20010 and 2014 was Obama is just that bad a President, and the GOPe was over run by the Tea Party movement.

And what did the GOPE do with it’s victories? Promptly went to DC and gave the Obama and the Donor Class everything it asked for. It purposely turned it back on every single promise it made in 2014 to it’s voters.

And now, when the bill is being presented for the GOPe’s corrupt incompetent defiance of its voting base, it wants to launch these absurd childish diatribe and personal attacks the candidate who is attracting hundreds of thousands of new voters to it’s party.

Insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Perhaps the GOPe has finally crossed that line from merely stupid to out right insane

[DoodleDawg]

If it works too well then he’ll go third party.

[captmar-vell]

I agree,

If its a choice between a clinton and a bush I will not vote (for the first time ever) I will stay home.

They intend to force feed us a safe loser GOP candidate that if he doesn’t lose to Hillary then will govern just like her,

[Zenjitsuman]

Democracy they just don’t get it.

It’s the PEOPLE’S CHOICE, that is what Democracy is about.

If they can’t buy the candidate with money they say we don’t care what the base wants “F” Him we want our puppet or nothing

[bajabaja]

Hillary is “battle tested” — Benghazi for example.

You sure that is the experience we want?

These pundits, I tell ya.

[HamiltonJay]

Like having anyone but an outsider have the White House will make any difference. Gave them the house. Nothing changed. Gave them the senate nothing changed. The establishment GOP are not significantly any different than the dems. More worried about continuing to sell out this nation for their big donors just like the left.

Neither party gives a damn about America any more and that is exactly why Trump is where he is. If Hillary wins nothing changes the same power players keep on doing what they have always done... Same is true if a GOPe candidate wins. The only thing that will threaten their continued influence and power is someone else winning.

The idea Trump has a ceiling is funny, but let them keep thinking that. They have underestimated the anger of the electorate far more than they realize