Posted on 08/29/2015 11:29:40 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Trump told reporters following a speech in Nashville Saturday that he's going to make a decision "very soon."
He says he thinks the decision will make a lot of people "very happy."
Trump has so far refused to pledge to support the eventual Republican nominee. He says it gives him leverage.
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Trump is going to have his work cut out for him in managing the RNC if he manages to run its gauntlet and wrest the nomination from its hands. The people in charge now will backstab him, will leak, will do everything they can to prevent him from winning. Many of them are democrats at heart. They have that most primal fear, of losing their jobs.
Meanwhile, Trump would need the support of the party apparatus in the general election. They coordinate events, local get out the vote efforts, hire poll watchers, all the little things that will be needed for a Republican to win in an electorate that is getting dumber and more illegal. Virginia and North Carolina are tough states to win these days. So he could go in and fire a lot of people, but it might hurt his campaign. He is going to have to walk a fine line between taking control and getting them to do what he needs. It is a tough situation, controlling this organization that was taken over by the Bush family in 1989.
Once the election is over, if Trump is successful, he will need to fire everyone in the RNC and replace it with people who are conservative and don't disdain the base. Then rebuild the RNC. Then take control of the money, so that guys like Boehner and McConnell don't use money to keep control of congress. He is good at that kind of battle, I think he can win it, but first he has to get elected and then he has to clean house. If he does, it will become the kind of party where Cruz and Lee are the stars, not the hated outcasts.
In fairness, I don’t think the GOPe was responsible for John Anderson. He was probably funded by leftists looking to split the Republicans. The GOPe were all in for Reagan once Bush was on the ticket. Reagan didn’t want to include Bush, and fought the idea initially, but uniting the factions probably helped a lot in the general election. Where he made the mistake was in bringing in Bush people like James Baker and not dumping Bush in 1984. He, like a lot of people, thought that maybe he had convinced Bush that his way was better, after he turned the country around. Then, the poor old Gipper had to sit there and listen when Bush told us he was going to give us a “kinder, gentler nation”. As though wealth creation and jobs are not kinder to people than a handout and perpetual poverty. But I digress.
Did you lose money in one of his casinos or something? It seems like its personal with you.
Lol but I dont gamble
Donald Trump is no Ross Perot. Ross Perot had no intention of winning, and withdrew when it looked as if he would. He just wanted to help Clinton win. I am sure there was a quid pro quo in there somewhere.
A bit moronic, isn't it?
You'd think that might be the case but I'm not 100% sure about that.
Two people I know, lifelong staunch Democrats, told me they really like Trump. They each sort of apologized before they timidly admitted it. In neither case did I bring it up in the conversation. I was surprised. Plus - look at the crowd he got in Massachusetts.
But you're absolutely right about who he fires. What he'd have to be most concerned about is keeping people who would be sabotaging him.
You'll appreciate this. Was talking with a former GOP county head---big, important OH county---and he was supporting Kasich with all the usual complaints about Trump. Ultimately he said, "Well, Kasich is the only guy where I would have a job in the administration." Bingo.
Thankfully most Americans seem to have gotten a belly full of this choreographed manipulated political evil charade this time. You've probably noticed.☺
Take care.
If he wins the GOP nomination, I think you'll see him mount a very unorthodox campaign recruiting Dems, indies, everyone. It will likely be a complete restructuring of the GOP into a new party. Rove wanted to create a "new" GOP and completely failed. Not only lost the 2006 election, but killed Republicans for 10 years.
Whatever emerges from 2016, I think the Republicans as they now stand are finished. They can either reinvent themselves as a conservative AMERICAN party or disintegrate into a Dem-lite.
One of the benefits of a Trump is that he has the money to do a lot of the things that normally the RNC would do in the election. But there still are a lot of nuts and bolts to take care of that don't involve money. Experience and knowing who to talk to are important at the local level. I hope the Tea Party energy and grassroots can overcome RNC sabotage.
Oh, and this: no matter how ideologically “pure” or “impure,” there are people who want to WIN. They want to be associated with winners. We will see a LOT of GOP regulars who don’t particularly like Trump (just as happened with Reagan) latch on because they want to win, and I’m not just talking about committee chairmanships and stuff, but just the aura of being a winner. That still hasn’t died in America.
10-4 buddy
“he should ask the rest of those in the field to do the same pledge or no deal”
Actually they did, at the first debate. What he should demand is that the Republican ‘advisers’ (most of them gay, by the way) pledge to not undercut his campaign or support anyone else but him, after he, of course, wins the primary.
I think they were all honest. Unless Trump was lying and just playing games w/third party idea to have, as he said "leverage."
If he doesn't win the GOP primary and then runs as third party... that would be evidence that he wasn't lying, but it would be dishonorable.
I believe all the other candidates would support whoever wins the nomination and runs against the dems - as will I. I wouldn't count on Trump to do so; unless, again, he was lying in the first debate.
Depends on what you mean “support.” I am under no illusions that WHEN Trump wins, the RINOs will do everything they can to sabotage his campaign.
For those of you that say you won’t vote for Trump and might stay home on election day, your inaction doesn’t offset the votes for Hillary or Biden or whoever the DNC nominates.
Cruz is my choice but if Trump is the nominee I’m not going to be stubborn and act stupid.
And, I’m under no illusions that if Trump is not the nominee, he won’t do something to hurt he nominee and help the democrats.
He won’t have to. If it’s Cruz or Carson, he won’t. But if it’s one of the pols, the outrage that is building in this country will take care of the nominee-—and the party-—itself.
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