GOP Committing Suicide?

[jwoodie]

The game plan is destroying the front runners (Trump and Cruz) so that a "moderate" candidate can be nominated, then hoping that Hillary implodes and their candidate is elected. If this strategy fails, the GOP will go the way of the Whigs and be replaced by a new political party. Is it worth the risk?

 

[Mac1958]

There is an element of the party that is all too willing to burn the sucker down.

They have also convinced themselves that it will be they who can resurrect it from the ashes.

You'll have to talk to them.
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[my2¢]

Seems to me the rank-and-file are doing the burning themselves through the ballot box.

 

[amrchaos]

Civil war

Not suicide!

 

[BluesLegend]

The GOP establishment is wrecking the primary, will likely install a hand selected RINO to run, lose badly, then...wait for it...blame the base for their stupidity.

 

[Iceweasel]

Remember, there are going to be a LOT of pissed off Bernie voters too.

 

[BluesLegend]

Rush has made the point many times that Trump is doing what the GOP establishment has said it must do for decades, attract independents and democrats yet the GOP establishment is a raging caldron of hatred that its Trump actually pulling this off. McCain failed, Romney failed, Dole failed, its nothing but RINO road kill then along comes Trump who simply tells the GOP establishment the emperor has no clothes and they freak.

 

[Arianrhod]

Given the petition to let people bring their guns to the convention, I don't think it's suicide they're planning.

 

[Nicholas_1982]

The game plan is destroying the front runners (Trump and Cruz) so that a "moderate" candidate can be nominated, then hoping that Hillary implodes and their candidate is elected. If this strategy fails, the GOP will go the way of the Whigs and be replaced by a new political party. Is it worth the risk?

I am so tired of pundits and partisan hacks claiming the GoP is dying.

No it isn't. Trump is a textbook right wing politician who will win the nomination, can likely win the general election, and will pull this country farther and farther to the right.

the establishment doesn't like him sure, but the establishment isn't "The party"

 

[FJO]

Nobody can tell me that all 17 Republican contenders for the Presidency were normal people.

Obviously, a large portion of them were egotistical falsely hopeful cockeyed optimists, who would have known - if they had not been blinded by self aggrandizement - that they had not even the slightest chance.

When a party is so full of pretenders, that party is doomed to fail, due to internal strife. As we see.

When the few remaining leftovers consider their own pride ahead of their party, or more tragically, ahead of their country, they deserve to be tossed aside as unworthy for the highest office in the land.

They should get together in a secluded room, work out a deal and show a united face to save their own face and their party.

There is no other way to beat the Democrats.

 

[eddiew]

The GOP establishment is wrecking the primary, will likely install a hand selected RINO to run, lose badly, then...wait for it...blame the base for their stupidity.

 

[eddiew]

circular firing squad.....couldn't happen to a better group

 

[Nicholas_1982]

Nobody can tell me that all 17 Republican contenders for the Presidency were normal people.

Obviously, a large portion of them were egotistical falsely hopeful cockeyed optimists, who would have known - if they had not been blinded by self aggrandizement - that they had not even the slightest chance.

When a party is so full of pretenders, that party is doomed to fail, due to internal strife. As we see.

When the few remaining leftovers consider their own pride ahead of their party, or more tragically, ahead of their country, they deserve to be tossed aside as unworthy for the highest office in the land.

They should get together in a secluded room, work out a deal and show a united face to save their own face and their party.

There is no other way to beat the Democrats.

Kasich 2016

 

[2aguy]

There is an element of the party that is all too willing to burn the sucker down.

They have also convinced themselves that it will be they who can resurrect it from the ashes.

You'll have to talk to them.
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Nope....the republicans in charge right now are not listening to the people who voted for them.......and Republicans, unlike democrats, are not just going to keep voting the same greedy, corrupt politicians into power....they voted the first Bush out of office because he broke a pledge on taxes...they hold their politicians to their promises....

The people to blame are the current republican leadership....and they prove it every time they talk about using an open convention to get rid of the two guys who actually got the most votes...to put in someone who didn't run but will keep the establishment in their leadership posts in the house and the senate.....

If hilary gets in....the country is trashed...so we might as well start something new since it will be generations before we can change the direction of the country back to anything resembling sanity....

 

[JakeStarkey]

The far right and Trumpistsas are trying to destroy the GOP.

The real GOP and its mainstream politically will strangle the Trump reactionaries for good at the Convention.

 

[FJO]

Nobody can tell me that all 17 Republican contenders for the Presidency were normal people.

Obviously, a large portion of them were egotistical falsely hopeful cockeyed optimists, who would have known - if they had not been blinded by self aggrandizement - that they had not even the slightest chance.

When a party is so full of pretenders, that party is doomed to fail, due to internal strife. As we see.

When the few remaining leftovers consider their own pride ahead of their party, or more tragically, ahead of their country, they deserve to be tossed aside as unworthy for the highest office in the land.

They should get together in a secluded room, work out a deal and show a united face to save their own face and their party.

There is no other way to beat the Democrats.

Kasich 2016

I agree. He is a totally decent person, with brains and integrity not matched by any other contender in either party.

Unfortunately, Americans are not interested in either of those. Nor are they interested in knowledge and wisdom.

Americans are interested in charisma, which is nothing but just another word for bright twinkle without substance.

 

[2aguy]

The far right and Trumpistsas are trying to destroy the GOP.

The real GOP and its mainstream politically will strangle the Trump reactionaries for good at the Convention.

Yeah.....they will strangle their own base...and then think they can win the election...as Rush said,they don't care about winning the election.....they just want to keep their leadership posts in congress...they have theirs and they can deal with a hilary Presidency........so they will screw over their own, unlike the democrats....who know that power is the key and who will do anything to get that power....

 

[turzovka]

Rush has made the point many times that Trump is doing what the GOP establishment has said it must do for decades, attract independents and democrats yet the GOP establishment is a raging caldron of hatred that its Trump actually pulling this off. McCain failed, Romney failed, Dole failed, its nothing but RINO road kill then along comes Trump who simply tells the GOP establishment the emperor has no clothes and they freak.

I agree with you.
The only problem is Trump is doing all he can to lose it himself. Why? Isn't he smart enough to know what to say and what not to say? I think he is afraid he is going to win and not sure he wants to face all that.

 

[2aguy]

Nobody can tell me that all 17 Republican contenders for the Presidency were normal people.

Obviously, a large portion of them were egotistical falsely hopeful cockeyed optimists, who would have known - if they had not been blinded by self aggrandizement - that they had not even the slightest chance.

When a party is so full of pretenders, that party is doomed to fail, due to internal strife. As we see.

When the few remaining leftovers consider their own pride ahead of their party, or more tragically, ahead of their country, they deserve to be tossed aside as unworthy for the highest office in the land.

They should get together in a secluded room, work out a deal and show a united face to save their own face and their party.

There is no other way to beat the Democrats.

Kasich 2016

I agree. He is a totally decent person, with brains and integrity not matched by any other contender in either party.

Unfortunately, Americans are not interested in either of those. Nor are they interested in knowledge and wisdom.

Americans are interested in charisma, which is nothing but just another word for bright twinkle without substance.

Kasich is a dufus who, if the GOP gives him the nomination will be the next in a long line of losers.....added to the list of such famous losers as McCain, Romeny, Dole....who also didn't like the very people who were most inclined to vote for them......

 

[JakeStarkey]

The far right and Trumpistsas are trying to destroy the GOP.

The real GOP and its mainstream politically will strangle the Trump reactionaries for good at the Convention.

Yeah.....they will strangle their own base...and then think they can win the election...as Rush said,they don't care about winning the election.....they just want to keep their leadership posts in congress...they have theirs and they can deal with a hilary Presidency........so they will screw over their own, unlike the democrats....who know that power is the key and who will do anything to get that power....

If the 'base' can be strangled, it ain't the base.