“You don’t want to bump everybody off the stage, but you have to realize your overarching goal is protecting the eventual nominee.”
Like in 2012, they've already chosen their nominee (obviously Jeb or their backup, Marco). So they're just planning how to clear the path for him. Just go through the motions while at the same time preventing their preferred guy from getting damaged. And if he's threatened, destroy, destroy, destroy! (remember how Romney instituted slash and burn in Iowa in 2012 against Gingrich, and then again in Florida after Gingrich won SC.)
“Like in 2012, they’ve already chosen their nominee (obviously Jeb or their backup, Marco). “
Bingo! Marco is already booked for the GA GOP convention. I haven’t heard of any others. He’s being pushed hard as backup to Jeb.
>> These types of articles provide great insight into the minds of the Republican Establishment!
No kidding!
It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling to remember that this is the same calculus that gave us those two formidable candidates, John McCain and Mitt Romney. Helluva sterling track record for the process, no?
“...protecting the eventual nominee”?
Really?
No nominee, yet
No agenda, yet
No campaign, yet... etc.
But they’re on the defensive.....?? What BS!! They are hide bound to tip-toe around the Liberal PC agenda, they are STILL courting ‘independents’, etc. You know they’re screwed, now.
The overarching goal is really to have an amnesty candidate.
The RNC has already been paid millions by The Cheap Labor Express to provide one.
Jebster, Rubio or somebody else, as long as they support amnesty.
Sorry I stopped reading when I encountered “Party Leaders”.
aaaaaaaaaaaand conservatives always want a good fight!!!!
The RNC method: Decide the candidate for you, then fight tooth and nail to lose the election.
Then send whining emails begging for donations.
Then insult the base.
IMHO we’re already down to 2, maybe 3, viable candidates. And they don’t include any with names like Jeb, Huckster, Marco, Crispy, etc.
This is just Scott Walker against Jeb and Marco. If we work hard enough maybe we can nominate Walker otherwise America is finished.
“.....The question is whether Bush’s civility will turn his presidential campaign into a suicide mission. After six years of the Obama presidency, many Republicans — not only the ones on talk radio — want a fighter, not a lover. Polls by the Pew Research Center have found that most conservatives want their leaders to stand by the party’s principles, not to compromise with the other side. (Liberals break the opposite way, in favor of compromise.)
There’s a path for Bush to win the GOP nomination, beginning in New Hampshire, whose contrary voters often embrace civility. It helps that independents can vote in the GOP primary there.
The path requires Bush to win solid support from a silent majority of non-tea-party Republicans, who make up a little more than half of the party. It probably requires several of the more conservative candidates — Scott Walker, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz — to knock each other out. (That’s partly how Mitt Romney won the nomination in 2012, although he faced less formidable challengers.) And it probably requires one more ingredient: a flash or two of unwonted pugnacity from the candidate.”....
Rnc/gope/rino can stfu.
CRUZ OR LOSE!
We need an ideological bloodfest won by conservatism against rino liberalism.
The GOP establishment will do whatever it takes to keep the game rigged.
Don’t forget, the Soviet Union had elections too. But the only choices on the ballot were handpicked by the Politburo.