Posted on 02/28/2016 3:24:59 AM PST by Altura Ct.
Republican voters need only look to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to understand that GOP lawmakers will willingly sacrifice the White House in order to save their own hides.
As the Republican Party begins to accept the very real possibility that front-runner Donald Trump will be their presidential nominee, McConnell “laid out a plan that would have lawmakers break with Mr. Trump explicitly in a general election,” The New York Times reported.
Despite his overwhelming victories thus far, leaders of the party think Trump will lose in the general election and will hurt Republicans down-ticket.
According to The Times, resistance to Trump “runs deep,” and a “desperate” behind-the-scenes “mission to save the party” from the real estate tycoon stalled out. As a result, “two campaigns have drafted plans to overtake Mr. Trump in a brokered convention.”
The newspaper said the effort to “unite warring candidates behind one failed spectacularly.”
An overture from Senator Marco Rubio to Mr. Christie angered and insulted the governor. An unsubtle appeal from Mitt Romney to John Kasich, about the party’s need to consolidate behind one rival to Mr. Trump, fell on deaf ears.
Kasich in particular has drawn the ire of GOP power brokers, having struggled to compete in the first four states to vote.
“He’s just flailing his arms around and having a wonderful time going around the country, and it just drives me up the wall,” a senior Republican senator said, according to The Times.
Several senator said McConnell was “especially vocal” about how Kasich was being irrational.
If Trump is the nominee, McConnell allegedly has told Senate colleagues, “We’ll drop him like a hot rock.”
And he may treat Trump’s loss in the general as a given, allowing senators to distance themselves from the candidate and run negative ads against him.
While still hopeful that Mr. Rubio might prevail, Mr. McConnell has begun preparing senators for the prospect of a Trump nomination, assuring them that, if it threatened to harm them in the general election, they could run negative ads about Mr. Trump to create space between him and Republican senators seeking re-election. Mr. McConnell has raised the possibility of treating Mr. Trump’s loss as a given and describing a Republican Senate to voters as a necessary check on a President Hillary Clinton, according to senators at the lunches.
All of which suggests that when it comes to political theater, the best is yet to come in the 2016 election. At the very least, it’s going to be an interesting spring and summer.
Hey Mitch , You screw Trump is called tickle down the ticket Trump backers won’t vote for GOP Senators or House Members and I told you so on your Facebook page and will be calling my GOP Senator and House member Monday.
This is news?
If the DEM takes the presidency, Congress will work with the president. If Trump takes the presidency, Congress will obstruct. Impeachment WILL be on the table again.
Drop dead you sack o’ foul Kentucky sh*t.
Your shelf life has expired. Take the hint.
Stunning! They really, really, really just do not understand, do they? Down-ticket? Down-ticket losses if he's nominated? Never once thinking about the hell they'd visit upon themselves if they cheat the voted nominee out of the run? Mitch, buddy......Sow the Wind, Reap the Whirlwind. Get out of your damned DC palace and go out and see drive-by America sometime.
Somehow, McConnell needs to be dislodged and enjoy the fruits of retirement in some corrupt paradise.
Perhaps, President Trump should propose two walls be built. One on our Southern border with Mexico, and one around Congress.
That’s “Kentucky Fried Sh!t” Served up with a double-secret blend of 11 verbs and vices. Comes in Crispy and Original Recipe :0)
Another great endorsement
If it gets confirmed and the majority of US citizens WAKE UP it sure is! These guys are totally wrapped in their DC insider reality. Let's assume Trump gets the nomination. I don't even want to contemplate the results of the anger if it's stolen from him. Those newer and/or those not politically affiliated voters will be really, really over the establishment. That includes the Sanders voters. They'll vote for Trump for Pres but avoid Republican candidates who've ever sided with with the establishment. So they'll have a Republican Pres they fought against and lost the HOR and US Senate. And Trump can go trolling through the DC garbage and find some items that can be restored.
This could end up being a best-case scenario assuming Trump gets the nomination. It would send the Republican elite running for the hills.
“The New York Times reported”
That’s all you need to know.
ANYONE who votes for the GOP, other than Trump,
is a FOOL.
Eveyone in the GOP from McConnell to Ryan must
be removed for serial lying.
They will probably want Trump to campaign for them before this in is done.
Of coarse they will they are already in with the rats
Senile
If Trump's the nominee, it'll be too late to drop him. In fact, he'll probably drop you, McConnell.
Well, that burnishes Trump’s outsider status. McConnell will have to actively sabotage Trump because if Trump wins anyway, McConnell and his ilk get toastier than before. I’m a Cruzer, but I don’t like a head of the party yelling “No moves or this nigger gets it” holding the gun to his own head.
Meet the Mrs. ...
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Elaine L. Chao (McConnell)
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