Posted on 01/19/2016 4:12:21 PM PST by mandaladon
GOP ESTABLISHMENT LEANING TOWARD TRUMP OVER CRUZ These days, many Republican leaders are playing an unappetizing game of “would you rather.â€
The conventional wisdom, which once dictated that neither Donald Trump nor Sen. Ted Cruz could possibly be the party’s nominee now says that one of the two men will necessarily claim the nomination.
A weekend piece in the WaPo congealed this narrative into one tar-thick blob of despair for the GOP elite. After two cycles of defeating the Jacobins of their party’s base, the revolution is upon them. Cries of defeat and despair ricochet off of their opalescent kitchen counters and $75 bottles of “table wine.â€
The received and accepted analysis is that since Trump and Cruz did not “implode†in the way that Mitt Romney’s rivals did four years ago, they cannot be stopped. Adding to the despair is the fact that the consensus pick for the Republican elite, Jeb Bush, did a belly flop like Shamu at a matinee show. The old magic did not work. Money did not equal victory. Don’t let the nanny hear you quietly sobbing in your den.
Leave aside for now the fact that the conventional wisdom is probably just as wrong about the future as it was about the race to this point. The bladder-voiding panic has come to official Washington, which, of course, brings a smile to the faces of nearly every Republican voter beyond the Beltway.
But the elites didn’t get to be where they are because they are stupid or lazy. They made it to the top of politics because they are smart, hardworking and, perhaps most of all, adaptable.
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Looks like Fox News is the next to go under the bus.
Captain Obvious comes to GOP Lame Stream...
Uhm.....is this an insult?
‘Bladder voiding panic”
This illustrates just how much the GOP-e despises conservatism.
The BS never stops. Fox News is playing games.
Listening to the Rusty Humphries radio show ...
One of his guest sources says more ‘major’ endorsements are coming for Trump this week. No new names mentioned.
If Trump becomes President, I won’t be surprised to see him get himself impeached, with his arrogance and predilection for saying he will do things that a President cannot legally do. And both the repubs and dems might be on board with it.
What is involved in just taking over the reins of the party machine?
(Like how the Soros/Islamonazi clique has taken control of the D party machine .... and some believe the R party machine too? I despise those evil people but they are successful at what they do... maybe we should take a lesson from them?)
After GHWB called Ronald Reagan’s domestic plan “voodoo economics,” POTUS40 selected him for VP in 1980. There remains plenty of wiggle room for Trump/Cruz 2016, the insurgency ticket of insurgency tickets.
And that would make the RINO Rovian GOPe elitists’ heads explode. I would like to see George Will’s melon splatter all over the camera lens.
They have no choice. Get on board or get left behind with their failures.
Radio news on the hour mentioned that the GOP establishment are not liking either Cruz or Trump.
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Well, now they know how WE felt in 2008 when they crammed McCain down our throats and 2012 when they crammed Romney down our throats and early in 2016 when they were planning (and still may try) to cram Bush down our throats.
what ever way the GOPe goes, time to go the opposite way. Cruz over Trump!
The establishment favoring Trump over Cruz is not a feather in his cap. Add that to Trump’s positive remarks about ethanol, and I’m beginning to favor Cruz over Trump.
There are only two I’d vote for right now, being Cruz or Trump.
Guess perfection is just not possible.
Stirewalt is a GOPe hack. He is just trying to stir up trouble. He would like to dump both Cruz and Trump and get an GOPe candidate.
Yes, but the Jacobins are the antithesis of the base.
If anything, the Jacobins live on in the current Neoconservative RINO elite.
What is Teddy boy going to do in the Trump Administration? That impeachment thing I wonder?
Thud theory is right IMO: the RINOs feel they can distance themselves from Trump easier.
http://blogs.rollcall.com/rothenblog/gop-primary-goldwater-vs-mcgovern/
“A number of Republican and Democratic strategists believe Cruz is the bigger problem for his party’s House and Senate candidates. According to this view, Trump’s candidacy would be neither partisan nor ideological, but entirely personal. Voters would regard him as a wild card, not as someone who represents the views of the GOP.
Cruz, on the other hand, is a more conventional Republican nominee, and voters across the spectrum would see him as defining his party. This would be fatal in northern swing districts, particularly in the suburbs, as well as in swing states with Senate races.”
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