GOP leaders, you must do everything in your power to stop Trump

Washington Post ^ | 24 Feb 2016

[mandaladon]

THE UNTHINKABLE is starting to look like the inevitable: Absent an extraordinary effort from people who understand the menace he represents, Donald Trump is likely to be the presidential nominee of the Republican Party. At this stage, even an extraordinary effort might fall short. But history will not look kindly on GOP leaders who fail to do everything in their power to prevent a bullying demagogue from becoming their standard-bearer.

A few days ago we criticized Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus for his assertion that a Trump victory in November would silence the doubters. “Winning is the antidote to a lot of things,” Mr. Priebus had said. We argued that winning would not erase the bigotry and ugliness of Mr. Trump’s campaign, nor remove the dangers of a Trump presidency. On Wednesday, the GOP chairman, perhaps wanting to show that he can match Mr. Trump in eloquence, responded: “That is the stupidest editorial that I have ever seen.”

So it falls to other leaders to decide if their party will stand for anything other than winning. A political party, after all, isn’t meant to be merely a collection of consultants, lobbyists and functionaries angling for jobs. It is supposed to have principles: in the Republican case, at least as we have always understood it, to include a commitment to efficient government, free markets and open debate. Now it is faced with a front-runner who, in the interval between the two Priebus comments cited above, said of a protester, “I’d like to punch him in the face.” This is a front-runner with no credible agenda and no suitable experience. He wants the United States to commit war crimes, including torture and the murder of innocent relatives of suspected terrorists.

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

1-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYZPKYecRGM VIDEO
2-https://theamericanindependent.wordpress.com/2016/02/16/the-donald-trump-rally-moment-that-just-won-him-south-carolina-and-the-nomination/
3-”A President Trump would be the best thing, not only for America, but for the entire world.

Proud, confident, bold, patriotic, outspoken, self-reliant, mega-successful, charitable, a force of nature;
Donald Trump is American exceptionalism on steroids.”

Political Correctness – The Reason The World Needs To Use Its Trump Card
Nick Adams | Feb 23, 2016
http://townhall.com/columnists/nickadams/2016/02/23/political-correctness—the-reason-the-world-needs-to-use-its-trump-card-n2123764

[spodefly]

GOP leaders, you must do everything in your power to stop Trump

Does that include assassination?

So desperate. So ridiculous.

[Truth29]

No, I meant Romney after his drive by slime and innuendo attack on Neil Cavuto’s show today.

[goldstategop]

Its not up to GOP leaders, stupid.

The smartest people in the room at the Washington Post overlook one small thing: the voters.

The American people want Trump. Is the Compost now saying their vote should be nullified?

That’s not democracy.

[hoosiermama]

Really needed your post tonight. Thank you!

[spodefly]

Like I said on another thread:

The more they go non-linear, then more I like Trump.

[IronJack]

So it's okay if the Democrats run a congenital crook and an admitted socialist, but the Republicans had better do "everything in their power" to stop a patriotic, pro-American, middle-class-supporting conservative?

I see. Thanks for the strategic advice, Post. Oh, and Leon Trotsky called. You're having dinner with him tomorrow night. Your treat.

[spodefly]

oops ... then=the ... :)

[rbg81]

Keep flapping your gums WP....apparently no one cares.

[Jim Noble]

the bigotry and ugliness of Mr. Trump's campaign, nor remove the dangers of a Trump presidency

Wow!

I can't wait!

[italianquaker]

Macaca to the post

[goldstategop]

Mittens? I still marvel at a guy who managed to lose to Obama without even trying to win.

Trump threatens to upset the Designated Loser role assigned by the MSM to the GOP and that’s why its shaking in unctuous rage.

Even if tried, the GOP establishment couldn’t stop Trump. The American people have chosen him to represent them.

Whether the Washington Post approves of it or not.

[goldstategop]

The bigotry and virulent racist pandering of the Left has never bothered the Washington Post before.

Look Ma - no double standard here!

[Stentor]

That they are owned by The Cheap Labor Express and have INTENTIONALLY been flooding the country with foreigners.

Jeff Bezos.

[drypowder]

and the DC establishment was scared to death of the Tea Party

[deweyfrank]

Just when is the drop dead date for Trump to declare as a third party candidate?

[bkopto]

This is a front-runner with no credible agenda and no suitable experience. He wants the United States to commit war crimes, including torture and the murder of innocent relatives of suspected terrorists.

Pay attention serfs: The Mouthpieces of the Global Elite are speaking!

[MarMema]

more like the bigotry, ugliness, and power-lust of the WA PO

[gopwhit]

Wow - there was a day when Katherine Graham/Washington Post was yes, a liberal paper, but it was still run by grown-ups with a hint of class. This opinion was written and endorsed by the new ownership child-journalists with no historical perspective. Is this their first election?