Posted on 03/25/2016 7:05:26 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” conservative commentator Pat Buchanan discussed what the eventual nomination of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump could mean to the GOP.
Buchanan told fill-in host Tucker Carlson it would open up a lot of new possibilities for the Republican Party, especially if he is able to ultimately win over those who are currently supporting GOP presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz .
“I think if you get Trump as the nominee, his potential is going to those states where he did well — Michigan and I think he’s going to do well in Pennsylvania and New Jersey,” Buchanan said. “Go to those Rust Belt states, go after the Sen. Bernie Sanders Democrats, you know, white working-class folks, Reagan Democrats, and go and put together that kind of coalition. If he can get the Cruz people with him, I think you have the makings of a different, new, exciting, robust party.”
Buchanan was not as optimistic for Cruz as the nominee. He argued Cruz would lose many of Trump’s current supporters in a general election.
“Frankly, some of them came out to vote against Trump, but most of them came out to vote for Trump because he’s a populist conservative, he’s going to secure the border, make America great,” Buchanan added. “All of these things as positive, optimistic outlooks. I think if Cruz takes it away from Trump, I think an awful lot of those folks just go home.”
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the GOPe would merge with the Democrats before they would allow that to happen
It is all about money and control
OTOH,
It could end up entrenching the GOPe if he either loses to Hillary or becomes a disaster as president
“OTOH, It could end up entrenching the GOPe if he either loses to Hillary or becomes a disaster as president.”
And the world could end tomorrow...
I believe this is a movement that will not be stopped. If it’s not Donald J. Trump guiding it, then it will be someone else. The floodgates have been opened.
It Trump breaks the stranglehold of The Cheap Labor Express on the GOP, they may have an opportunity to survive.
If the Cheap Labor Express gets their amnesty candidate, watch out for Kamikazi Voters
Electing every Democrat for every office until there is no more GOP
GOP-RIP
Fully agree. Tired of the RINOS and the CINOS (Conservatives In Name Only), and all the do nothings of the GOP who just serve as dutiful servants to the Uniparty.
Yes, but the big banks, cheap-labor pimpin’ bitches like McConnell, Portman, Ryan, Graham, Priebus, Barbour et al would lose their positions of power, privilege and heavy flow of gravy from their masters. We can’t let that happen. Better to steal the nomination from Trump, let Hillary win and watch America go down the tubes.
“GOPe would merge with the Democrats before they would allow that to happen”
Heck, I’m not completely certain that has not happened already.
Only 30% of Republicans say the presidential election process is working as it should according to the latest Gallop poll out to day, a huge drop in confidence as the voting Republican base watches the Republican establishment along with Cruz and the globalist donor class with connections through Repiblican establishment operative Heidi Cruz attempt to disenfranchise their votes. The latest example is in Louisiana where Trump won the state by 4% yet behind the scenes Cruz-GOPe establishment is manipulating the delegates to give Cruz more delegates from the State than the front runner and attempting to load up the rules makers in the delegate process to throw a corrupt brokered convention to someone who is not the front runner in votes by the Republican base.
Cruz along with his Republican establushment are literally destroying the faith of the Republican base and thereby destroying the Republican Party which will lose to Hillary Clinton in a landslide if Cruz’s establishment globalists oligarchy succeed in their elitist agenda, it will also guarantee the Republicans will lose their majority in the Senate to the Democrats but the elitist establishment will still hold their positions of power which is all they care about. The Supreme Court will be lost for 25 years or more.
And Cruz is willing to play his part in this. His eventual fall from grace is gonna be brutal
I agree.
But this can’t be. The Cruznadians said Trump will lose to Hillary in the general election.
NY Times polls are accurate, right?
Even without the nomination I think Trump has changed the party. They have to do one of two things
1) Pay attention to voters
2) Find a better way to ignore voters while convincing them that they are being listened to. After this fails then pay attention to voters.
Trump (and Bernie) have put a lot of visibility to things that were supposed to remain hidden. I don’t think voters will forget (for a few election cycles.)
Trump for President.
“Even without the nomination I think Trump has changed the party”
He has certainly shined the light on the cockroaches who run the GOP. And they don’t like it!
It would certainly energize the party. It would draw in and likely maintain a lot of former Democrat voters who would never have embraced textbook Conservative economic policies.
Pat Buchanan victorious!
The ankle grabbing , gutless, panty-waists of the GOPe are saddened.
Poor Ol Pat. His brand of bomb throwing was never able to draw much a of a following, less now that he sounds more desperate in old age.
One can give him credit for leading the way for the likes of RonPaul and the latest rendition, The Donald. Too bad that way leads directly over the cliff, even though some of their ideas are probably worth using.
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