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Posted on 08/23/2015 8:41:39 AM PDT by mandaladon
The geniuses in the Washington, D.C.- centered GOP establishment have a new plan to take down 2016 Republican frontrunner Donald Trump: Infiltrate his inner circle posing as an ally, then use their fabricated support of him to secretly plot to take him down.
But now they all admit: They were wrong, Trump is real, and he has a serious shot at winning this thing.
“Just like Humphrey Bogart said in Casablanca, I was misinformed,” Alex Castellanos, one such consultant, said of Trump in an interview with Bloomberg Politics on Friday. “He’s grown. He started off as the anti-Washington candidate, the angry man’s candidate, now he’s becoming not just an anti-them vote but a pro-him. He’s becoming the Make America Great Again candidate and that gives him room for growth.”
“Anybody who discounts Donald Trump—he’s going to be around through the convention now—I think is making a mistake,” Castellanos added.
From there, the conversation turned to how Castellanos thinks Trump might be taken down—and who might do it. He said:
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Look at it in business terms. Look at the GOP leaders as management and look at the voters as the shareholders. What Trump has done is effect a hostile takeover (hostile to management) by appealing directly to the shareholders. And the shareholders are overwhelming in favor of Trump's offer.
Management/the GOP doesn't know this yet but if they only look at the polls and the enthusiasm at Trump's rallies they could see that the shareholders have acceded to Trump's offer that he be made the nominee.
Management has 2 options. They can get behind Trump or they can tender their resignations (i.e. "You're Fired!).
This is an establishment guy, but interestingly, looking at it from the Cruz perspective. He may have a point in that Cruz is the guy many Trump supporters would gravitate towards should something happen to DT’s candidacy.
But this Brutus analogy is stupid. Cruz doesn’t have to “snuggle up” to the message....much of what Trump is saying - Cruz has been fighting for longer than Trump. Trump’s ability to make it an issue is unprecedented, but not his stances.
Funny, I read a piece the other day that the establishment might get so desperate that they’ll turn to Cruz. If that happens, and it’s down to Cruz V Trump, we will have BEATEN the establishment.
hostile takeover....pretty good analogy.....
Karl Rove is studying his options?
And after all, he still has 3rd party leverage (which is like saying he has accumulated shares of the GOP in the open market).
If management fights him, he can destroy them in the general election.
Of course, it will never come to that unless the GOP is suicidal...and I don't it is.
As we used to say, he's got them by the short hairs.
He's going to find that they have all expired.;-)
Unless Donald Trump commits an unforced error he will be the GOP nominee for President.
I have friends who are saying they don’t even want to watch anymore debates and just want to vote. I understand how they feel. I am not real interested in watching 8 more debates myself. Watching Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, John Kasich and other career politicians spit out the same tired crap we have heard for years is not appealing.
I’m not quite ready to say “the tribe has spoken” but soon I will.
Same way McCain took down Palin. I think this is why Trump goes with his own money and own team and treats the GOP/RNC as a PAC.
This article is science fiction. There isn’t even a shred of proof that the GOP is against Trump. He’s their dream candidate.
Management “forgets” the the shareholders are the REAL OWNERS of a company.
It's all over but the voting.
That’s exactly what happened. Management got too big for its breeches.
Should be tell these morons what happened to Brutus and the rest of the guys who “took down” Caesar? (Not that Julius Caesar was anything to admire!)
It is too early in the process for the other candidates who may really have a chance at the nomination - Walker, Bush, Rubio, Cruz - to give up and hope for a vice-presidential nod, and that's exactly what you're wanting them to do.
It is very, very, lovely to have someone running for POTUS who is not owned by the Washington MOB/CARTEL/ESTABLISHMENT on both sides of the aisle; truly understands the economy; knows how to deal with the big boys/girls around the world....does not BOW to any head of state be she/he king/queen or dictator. This man, Trump, really loves this nation warts and all, takes pride in being-an-American.
Obama let a tax cheat head our Treasury Dept....Al Sharpton owes millions in back taxes,yet is welcome at the White House.....Can you imagine a Donald Trump doing that? Neither can I. Nor can I see Ted Cruz doing any of the hateful things Obama has done or said about our country. Obama's mind set is small...the Trump mind set is large, all encompassing, not one bit racist or politically correct....Trump is up-lifting...Obama has been/ is a disaster, continuing to pull the nation down into his Third World.
They haven't even made a dent and it's driving them insane. You should see Rick Wilson's horrible, nasty posts on Twitter, or Joe Perry, whom I blocked. They are completely unhinged. Part of this is that they are about to lose their jobs.
I don’t think it matters. Trump’s got the GOP in a checkmate.
I think that's right. And has he spent any money on ads yet? If he has, it can't be much.
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