Angry with Republican leaders, Donald Trump is threatening to ‘go it alone’ without the Republican party. From CNN.com:
We have to have our Republicans either stick together or let me just do it by myself. I’ll do very well. I’m going to do very well. OK? I’m going to do very well. A lot of people thought I should do that anyway, but I’ll just do it very nicely by myself,”
Trump went on to tell Republicans to sit down and shut up,
You know the Republicans, honestly folks, our leaders, our leaders have to get tougher,” Trump said during a rally in Atlanta. “Our leaders have to get a lot tougher. And be quiet. Just please be quiet. Don’t talk. Please be quiet. Just be quiet to the leaders because they have to get tougher, they have to get sharper, they have to get smarter.”
How can Trump possibly go it alone? Â He has virtually no campaign infrastructures in place. Â He has no organization. Â He needs the RPV, their resources and their ground game. Â Trump has said he could self fund but that’s not realistic. Â To get a billion dollars he would have to sell a lot of property and other investments. He doesn’t have a billion in cash sitting around. Â He needs RNC to help him fundraise.
If Trump wants all Republican leaders to get behind him, it’s not going to happen. Â Too many Republican leaders have already said they won’t support Trump. Â Those leaders include Rep. Scott Rigell (VA02) who said:
Trump is a bully, unworthy of our nomination. My love for our country eclipses my loyalty to our party, and to live with a clear conscience I will not support a nominee so lacking in the judgment, temperament and character needed to be our nation’s commander-in-chief. Accordingly, if left with no alternative, I will not support Trump in the general election should he become our Republican nominee.â€
Conservative Congressman from Nebraska Ben Sasse has made it clear he won’t support Trump,
If Trump becomes the Republican nominee my expectation is that I’ll look for some 3rd candidate – a conservative option, a Constitutionalist.â€
The former Governor of New Jersey Christine Todd Whitman when asked if she would support Donald Trump for President she said:
No, I won’t. I can’t.”
The Congressman from Florida’s 26th district Carlos Curbelo said this about Trump:
This man does things and says things that I teach my 6- and 3-year-olds not to say. I could never look them in the eye and tell them that I support someone so crass and insulting and offensive to lead the greatest nation in the world.â€
There are so many others who have also said they won’t support or vote for Trump including Jeb Bush and Lindsey Graham. Â To read more quotes from Republicans who aren’t supporting the presumed nominee can be found on the bottom of this page.Â
Perhaps it would be better for Trump to run on his own, without the party. Republicans would then be free to chose another candidate but we all know Trump isn’t going to run without the party. He made a hollow threat, and it’s not going to work. There will continue to be many Republican leaders who will not support Trump. He’ll just have to accept that or strike out on his own without the support of the party.
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Given that Trump — a businessman — hasn’t attended to financing his own business, one has to consider the possibility that it is just one more stunt.
http://m.kltv.com/kltv/db_331427/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=A9Bbl25n
Here’s the “wake up call” line: “Trump has so far shown little appetite for investing in even the basic building blocks of a modern-day White House campaign.”
Never Trump Suicide Pact
http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/horowitz-never-trump-murder-suicide-pact
Give it up, quit being pouty sore losers, put your country first. If you cannot do that, then switch parties already. Trump won against 16 other people. I could understand if it had been a really close, tight race, but it wasn’t. The denial and whining is stunning. The GOP gave you Trump. Suck it up or join the DNC.
I question whether Trump really wants the job. Inc Magazine’s recent summary of “Art if the Deal” (http://www.inc.com/peter-economy/11-winning-negotiation-tactics-from-trump-s-art-of-the-deal.html) summarizes Trump’s advice. Some relevant ones follow:
*”Protect the downside and the upside will take care of itself” — Trump’s downside is his minimum acceptable outcome. For Trump, that’s notoriety. In that context, his race is a no-lose situation.
*”Use your leverage” — Trump cautions against looking desperate. Bluff with confidence. See that in his threats to leave the GOP?
“Get the word out” — capitalize on the press’s hunger for sensational stories. This axiom needs no comment.
*”Deliver the goods” — here Teump cautions that you can con people for only so long, and even throw in a little hyperbole, but if you don’t deliver, people will eventually catch on.
If Donald Trump is operating by his own axioms, this is all a grand exercise in attention getting, with an eye to a spectacular bailout.
And people are catching on.
People said Trump couldn’t win the primaries without any infrastructure or ground game, but he did by exploiting free publicity from the press. He’s probably thinking he’ll do the same thing now. The question is whether the press will continue to give him the softball treatment he got during the primaries. Apparently not. And without that, his dedicated cadre of supporters aren’t enough to make him competitive. Really the only interesting questions left in this election cycle are: Will the Republicans dump Trump? Can the Republicans hold the House (Senate’s gone — forget that)? And what will happen in the state races, including governors’ races?
He also did so by getting lots of Democratic votes… I don’t think they are going to be there come the general election either.
Then blame the party leaders for allowing open primaries.
We’ve tried to tell them!
Softball compared to Shrillary? The only thing people are using to beat The Donald over the head with are those biased poles that continually use a higher percentage of Demwits versus republicans (usually about the amount that has Mrs. Cankles ahead). You need to delve into those polls before you put any faith into them.
The Trump campaign loved the polls when he was doing well. Now not so much.
All the Trump haters are being led by the nose on the same biased polls that they would normally be complaining about, too, my crazy, hypocritical friend. You people can keep touting those polls and all of the negative news articles from the Lame Stream Media you want. I’m just not sure which one of the two looks worse. The idiots from the LSM or those that tout their propaganda. With this election, you both will be irrelevant in the end.
Typical Trump follower. No answer, so just hurl insults.
Pointing out the fallacy of the recent polls and you hypocrisy is an insult to you. I hope your head does not explode when The Donald becomes the next president.
There’s a difference between “pointing out the fallacy” of a poll, which you claim to have done, and merely asserting the fallacy, which is what you actually did. I’m fully prepared for the 95% likelihood that we will have a bad president. Hillary has a 75% chance, and Trump has a 20% chance. It’s not pretty, but the last eight years haven’t been pretty either.
So not only are you a hypocrite, I have to spoon feed you like a baby, too? Here is a sample of the polling entities that will list their methodology without paying a fee. Open up, Precious.
Latest CBS poll of 1048 registered voters uses a sample of roughly 35% (369) dimwits and 29% (305) Republican. Do I really need to connect the dots to the 6% lead Mrs. Cankles has in this poll?
https://www.scribd.com/doc/315840399/Toplines-CBS-News-poll-Clinton-Trump
41% dimwit, 35% Republican sampling for Fox News.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/interactive/2016/06/09/fox-news-poll-national-releas-6-16/
Roughly 38%(632) demwits vs. 29%(470) Republican sampling in The Economist poll.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/docs/2016/Economist_YouGov_June_2nd_to_5th.pdf
Quinnipiac only lists demwits surveyed at roughly 43% (678). I wonder why?
https://www.qu.edu/images/polling/us/us06012016_Ugb28vf.pdf
The one outlier of these polls shows the methodology in the IBD/TIPP with roughly 47% (421) Republican, 39% (351) demwit
http://www.investors.com/politics/clintons-lead-over-trump-narrows-as-disappointment-with-choices-grows/
What is the lesson here, Precious? Polls can be manipulated and at this point in the presidential race, they mean virtually nothing unless you have an agenda. Why I should be the one pointing this out to you, instead of you researching these polls yourself, is beyond me?
Typical follower of Trump, when you are out of your depth, call names. All scientific polling assures that the group they poll reflects the group they’re trying to assess. There’s a reason all these groups poll more Democrats than republicans. Do you know the ratio of Democrats to Republicans in the voting population? I’ll give you a hint. It’s not 50/50. That’s why even the Trump Appreciation Network (Fox) polls more Democrats than Republicans. I do agree with you that some polls are unreliable in their sample selection. Rasmussen tends to systematically oversample Republicans, so you might take some comfort in focusing on their polling, as I have done in elections past, much to my chagrin. Frankly, I expect Republican turnout to be so low this cycle that these polls may end up being too kind to Trump. Like you, though, I don’t totally trust professional polling. When I really want to know where things stand, I consult the predictive betting markets, which frequently have proven superior to scientific polling. But I don’t recommend that you check that out. You won’t like what you find.
Perhaps you should put on some big boy pants if you don’t like my attitude, then. Funny, if say a Cruz/Rubio like candidate were running, I bet your support of these polls would not be so staunch. Sounds like you are still hungry, Precious.
7% more dimwits used in the sampling here.
http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/NationalJune.pdf
Of the 10,640 surveyed, 9355 were registered voters with 28% (2635) Republican, 33% (3092) demwits
https://www.scribd.com/doc/315612407/NBC-News-SurveyMonkey-Toplines-and-Methodology-6-6-6-12
41.5% Demwit, 33.1% Republican with 8.4% difference
http://polling.reuters.com/#poll/TM651Y15_13/filters/PARTY_ID_:1|2|3/dates/20160401-20160617/type/smalles
Just like touting those Lame Stream Media news articles, allowing these polls to justify The Donald’s defeat will only influence those that are too lazy to research the issues themselves. This election will be putting a lot of the blue states into play to include our purple Virginia. We know what we are gonna get with a Crooked Hillary. with her ability to collect bribes for the Clinton Crime Foundation while serving as Sec. of State, I wonder what level of corruption she can drag our country into once she is sitting in the Oral Office.
I fear our county is just barely hanging on to that cliff that the Obumbler regime has put us on, and when you add the growing threat from those peace loving muslim terrorist nutjobs that is only growing due to our porous borders and the influx of muslim refugees that cannot be vetted, I don’t know how anyone can be this obtuse about their choice for president. We know what Shrillary did as Sec. of State and we know what the Obumbler regime has done to aid the last few terrorist attacks. You should look op former DHS Special Agent Philip Haney.
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/homeland-security/268282-dhs-ordered-me-to-scrub-records-of-muslims-with-terror
Considering your thin skin, I can understand your dislike for The Donald’s demeanor, but he is the Republican nominee. Not voting for him will DEFINITELY put our country into the shiite. Makes one wonder why the GOP establishment is so afraid of him. Couldn’t be that The Donald will actually make them do what is right for America after we have had to listen to their lies since we gave them control of the House and the Senate..
I could tolerate Trump’s boorish behavior (and that of his followers) if it weren’t so transparently a cover for the fact that he and they have nothing of substance to offer. As I said, I share your skepticism of polling, which is why I said I tend to look to predictive betting for political forecasting.
We know exactly what we are going to get with Shirllary, while we have a chance with a “boorish” Trump. Whether you believe what he says a a candidate as opposed to what he said as NYC businessman in the past, at least he is taking the fight to her and Obumbler, unlike the weak McCain and Romney. If nothing else, them two proved being kind and gentle doesn’t win you a presidential race. Especially, when you are battling the Lame Stream Media.
We better get behind The Donald before we get another 4 or 5 libetard supreme court justices. I suppose you did not like his conservative list of judges he put forth? Not enough substance for ya?
Hillary will be predictably bad, but I wouldn’t be worried about global chaos or nuclear holocaust. Those would be concerns with Donald. He got some good help with his possible justices list. Too bad I can’t trust him to appoint them. Losing the SCotUS for a generation will be bad, but there are things that are worse.
That and Trump has come out and said that that list is a suggestion, a guideline, that he may or may not use to help him pick a Justice.
Like I said, obtuse.
Trump was not my first choice, but I still believe in the “Will of the People†and they have voted for him, not Cruz, or anyone else. I live in Norfolk, a democratic stronghold, and I have many liberal friends. For the first time many of these liberals voted for Trump because they don’t and won’t vote for a Washington insider.
Thwarting the “Will of the People†is a dangerous move.
I don’t know Ben Sasse, Christine Whitman, or Carlos Curbelo, so I can’t comment on their voting records, but I do know Scott Rigell’s voting record.
Scott Rigell’s voting record is abysmal. According to the Heritage Action Scorecard, Scott Rigell received a 45% rating. http://heritageactionscorecard.com/
The only other person in Virginia that has a score lower than Rigell’s is Republican Congresswoman Barbara Comstock and then right below her is Bobby Scott, a Democrat.
And yet, you have quoted Rigell as someone that should be trusted to influence the voters? What does his voting record say about his judgment?
The Heritage Action Scorecard only influences a very small amount of people… just like all issue-based “Scorecards”.
Ms. Martin used a quote made by Rigell against Trump, which I guess she hoped would influence the voters in District 2 in Virginia. I believe that the voters should be aware of Rigell’s performance in Congress before we let him lead us astray.
You mean the voters that elected Rigell to three terms in Congress? They already know about his performance.
I don’t think most folks know about his voting record. In fact, I belong to a group of 20 different groups that have now united against poor performing politicians and most of them were unaware of Rigell’s voting record.
But it shows us what we get for our hard-earned dollars and volunteer hours we give to support candidates. In terms of Rigell and Comstock, a lot of platitudes, followed by betrayal.
Blah blah betrayal blah blah. One day, you’ll realize that a super hard right political philosophy will never win you the majority needed to control the process. One day, you’ll realize that being completely resistant to compromise gets you left outside the door of the meeting rooms where things actually get accomplished.
Blah blah compromise blah blah… Comstock puts herself about as this superconservative, when she’s anything but. If we elect Republicans as weak as you are, why bother? Let the Democrats win. For examples of what conservatives expect their Congressmen to act like, look at the gentlemen currently representing the 7th and the 9th.
If you’re stupid enough to believe that you could repeal Obamacare while a man named Obama is president, then you deserve what’s coming to you.
As for the 7th, you’ve got Dave Brat. He votes “No” a lot and has very little Congressional clout.
Looking at the 9th, you’ve got Morgan Griffith, a man who knows how to play the game. He plays all Freedom Caucus to the people that eat that stuff up, but knows how to make deals and get things done when it’s that time.
It does us no good to “control” the process if the Democratic agenda rolls on no matter who is in charge.
And one day you’ll learn that squishy unprincipled moderates will never win again. We’ve tried it your way. The record of unprincipled moderate losers, coupled with faux conservatives winning and then betraying us all, is the root of Trump’s success. There is no going back. That is the lesson you should be learning. You’ll never convince the base to accept one of your squishy moderates again. Boehner, McConnell and Ryan don’t “compromise” anyway, they either cave or do nothing. Compromise isn’t the issue. Lack of will to fight is the issue, and we all know that Trump will fight. That is why he is winning.
There you go again. You put the label “squishy unprincipled” on moderates simply because they don’t think the way that you do. You can stomp your feet in a beautiful temper tantrum like this all that you want, but that won’t change the fact that your “faction” hasn’t won many elections at all (and will continue to lose them).
The “House of Cards” that you live in has no foundation, Frank Underwood.
Conservatives don’t win? Nonsense. The last full red-blooded conservative Republican candidate won in landslides. For years since then we have been subjected to one moderate after another that actually prided themselves on how they were NOT conservative, or they were a “compassionate conservative” (which was actually an insult to true conservatives). That compassionate conservative governed like a liberal moderate and left office with approval ratings in the 20’s. Yet we conservatives were told to hold our noses and vote for every one of these moderate losers. McCain? Romney? Totally phony moderate losers, but we conservatives still supported all of them because we had no choice.
And NOW, how rich the irony. It is you moderate squishes that don’t believe in anything but big government that are squealing like stuck pigs because our candidate isn’t conservative!!! How rich. And how do you react? Like a bunch of babies that just want to throw the election to Hillary because you didn’t get your way. It is you who is throwing the temper tantrum now. I will happily support Trump. He is certainly no worse than all your favorite moderate losers. But at least he has good political instincts and he will fight to win, and give us a chance to save the country. But you just can’t bring yourself to do what you asked conservatives to do in the past; support our nominee. You just have too many principles! Oh how rich. You were willing compromise every conservative principle in the book to support your big government losers though. What a bunch of hypocrites.
In the end, you will have to come to your senses and do the same thing you asked conservatives to do in the past. Vote Republican. If you don’t, the party is doomed. And don’t give me that BS that Trump is destroying the party anyway. It is you guys that are behaving like children who are threatening to support Hillary which would surely end the Republican party. Your actions are not one bit different than any Hillary troll would behave.
There you go again. Reagan made compromises. He made deals. God forbid, he raised taxes. All contrary to your current thought process. Your group of friends would only recognize Reagan as a “moderate squish RINO” in your little bubble of a world. You’ve got Dave Brat to show for your success. Huzzah. That gets you nothing on Capitol Hill. As for the state offices? You’ve got nothing again. That was a total wipeout if you remember.
Now all you’ve got left is personal attacks because you’re on the outside.You’re never to win anything close to the majority needed for you to control the process.
Want to know the reason for all of your losses, “Frank”? It’s you. Not me.
Of course Reagan compromised and made deals. Who’s against that? As I said earlier, compromise isn’t the issue. It is you that launched the personal attacks earlier in this thread by calling conservatives “stupid” for opposing Obamacare, dismissing obvious betrayals as if those betrayals were simply compromises, and then accusing people who don’t agree with you as “hard right completely resistant to compromise”. You said all that before I made the first comment in response. And now you’re offended by being called a squishy moderate?
And your biggest hypocrisy of all is your complaint that Trump is not conservative enough. I guess some of us are too conservative, and some of us aren’t conservative enough, but only you and your big government friends are just right. You are blinded by your own arrogance if you cannot see the utter hypocrisy of your accusations.
In Virginia, by “will of the people,” we are either referring to the nominating process – from end to end – or we mean the popular vote. The nominating process is not over, so in that sense, the will if the people has not been expressed. By the popular vote, 2/3 of Virginians did not choose Trump, so claiming “the will of the people” is a stretch.
More properly, we could refer to it as the expectations of 1/3 of Virginia conservatives, who voted for Trump, and those who didn’t but feel we must now show unity behind him, regardless of what Trump does or says.
“Expectations of the far right” might be a more appropriate term.
What are the consequences of crossing that group? I don’t know. What are the consequences of ignoring the other 2/3? I don’t know that either.
The statistical information you provided is limited to Virginia, which does not reflect the results of Presidential Primaries across the United States. In my statement about the “will of the people,†I was expressing the views of all Americans that voted in the Presidential Primaries, not just in Virginia.
There were 17 Republican candidates including Trump. As of June 7, 2016, Trump has received 13,406,108 votes in the primaries across the United States from Americans of all political backgrounds. In fact, Trump shattered the Republican Primary Voter record by 1.4 million votes in his favor. So, the people have spoken and the “will of the people,†based on 13,406,108 Americans, want Trump to be the Republican nominee over 16 other Republican candidates.
If the GOP had been able to convince people to vote for the establishment’s choice, we would not be having this discussion. But now, that the shoe is on the other foot, the establishment is fumbling around to undermine the very political process that they normally would have endorsed and embraced if their candidate had won instead of Trump.
In other words, and in my opinion, as well as 13,405,108 Americans the “voice†and the “will of the people†have decided, via the Presidential Primaries, that they do not want another Washington insider, or any politically correct, overly sensitive twit to be the Republican nominee.
If the GOP changes the rules at the convention or sends handpicked delegates to thwart the “will†or “choice†of 13,406,108 people that voted for Trump, they are playing a dangerous game.
Of course, this is one of the “expectations and wishes by the far left†so that they can continue to perpetuate the detrimental divisiveness that has been undermining the political system for many years.
The delegates aren’t just delivery people; the people havent spoken until the process is finished. The GOP holds primaries to determine who can win. In this case, they’re on the way to picking a candidate who never had majority support and who seems compelled to alienate more conservatives by the day.
The GOP foolishly set the conditions for the dangerous game to which you refer, and it is going on regardless of which choice they make. If they go on autopilot now, they risk losing more support than if they take action.
I know the process for electing delegates and the GOP controls who is elected to become delegates to the Convention, which makes them exactly “delivery people” for the establishment. The GOP held primaries and Trump won by 13,405,108 votes, and shattered the record by winning 1.4 million more votes than any other candidate across the country. The people have sent the GOP a clear message. Your opinion that Trump alienates more conservatives is your opinion and you are entitled to it. My opinion is that the establishment continues to alienate, not only conservatives but many liberals that voted for Trump in the primary. I live in Norfolk, VA, a lefty strong-hold and many of my liberal friends, for the first time in their lives, voted for a Republican and that Republican is Trump. The GOP have betrayed “We the People” and that is the reason that Trump has won.
And we can go around in circles over the fact that he had a historic number of votes against him. And whether the racist things he says are disqualifiers. Or the ever changing positions on issues. And on.
Well at any rate, I appreciate the fact that we can disagree respectfully. I’m pretty sure we have the same aims in the long run; it’s a shame the GOP can’t produce a candidate better than this.
Its possible that our biggest differences exist in our positions about GOP betrayal. I feel the GOP has showed poor accountability, but unlike you, I feel WE have betrayed us. That’s why I’m still registered GOP. If you feel the GOP has betrayed you, why are you still here?
Yes, Trump is politically incorrect, but he is not politically corrupt like Hillary Clinton. Trump says the things that many thousands of voters believe and are afraid to say. The establishment can’t contain or buy him, so he is unacceptable as far as they are concerned, but to millions of voters he is exactly what this country needs.
You said that Trump has made racist comments and that should disqualify him. His request to have Judge Gonzalo Curiel recuse himself was not a racist remark. I worked for Federal and State Court judges for 40 years. If you think that they are not biased based on their life experiences, you are sadly mistaken. They are human. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor in her confirmation hearings said that her life experiences would help her make good decisions. Did anyone call her a racist? Using the race card to silence Americans is old, but a lot of us still shrink away and cower when confronted even if such statements are false.
We, including all the folks that have commented on this article, have spent way to much time destroying the duly elected people’s choice, via the primaries, instead of focusing on the real threat to this country: Hillary Clinton.
So, I am not going to waste any more time trying to convince you that Hillary Clinton is the real enemy, not Trump.
In my opinion, Clinton’s judgment is not only flawed, but also illegal, which should disqualify her from holding any office. She continues to mislead the public when she says that the emails she either sent/deleted/removed/concealed were not marked “classifiedâ€
The word “classified†is not mentioned in the Federal Code. In §18 US 2701 (b), the Code states that:
â€Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under the title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.â€
This is clear and convincing evidence that Hillary Clinton broke the law. She is a lawyer and described by the lefties as a smart and experienced politician, and yet, not one red flag went up, when she handled these emails? Her lack of judgment is alarming and sends chills up my spine, as it should all Americans.
Finally, I also appreciate the fact that we can disagree. The biggest difference exists between us is that you are more concerned about discrediting Trump than you are about discrediting Hillary Clinton. The Democrats and the media don’t care what she says or does, they back her anyway. And until Republicans figure that out, we will continue to be governed by Democrats.
Have a wonderful day!
One is under investigation for violation of US Code and the other is being sued for fraud. Had I done what they appear to have done, I would already be in jail.
I’m not concerned with discrediting one more than the other. I’ve watched both lie on camera. The supposedly racist things Trump said? I saw him speak the words, and those words were over the line from where I stand.
Clinton is a candidate who behaves as though above the law, supports liberal politics, and has a voting record of support for the military while a Senator.
Trump is a candidate who switched party affiliation 5 times, and behaves as though above the law. His position on issues shifts with every interview, and he has no voting record.
Both are UnSat.
I Wish Trump would behave lie a reasonable adult. I WANT to be able to vote for him. But he won’t stop lying. He won’t stop insulting. He won’t stop fear mongering.
Both demonstrate character that is beneath acceptable. I can’t vote for anybody who says and does what they do.
You are still missing the point!
Please don’t reply to this comment because it is a waste of your time to write anything else and a waste of my time to read and respond. I am sure you have more important things to do than to argue with me. You will NEVER persuade me to think that discrediting Trump is helpful. In fact, all it will do is help elect Hillary Clinton to the White House. If getting the last word is your goal, please note that I will no longer read your responses. I will just delete them.
I’m not missing anything. Your position asserts anything is better than Hillary. Mine is that two wrongs don’t make a right.
Perhaps you’re a sys admin at Disqus and are deleting this post right now.
(Pending deletion), let me shift the question. What can the next president do that serves your interests?
BTW if your liberal friends were Democrats, shouldn’t they have voted in the Democratic primary?
Virginia has an open primary, which means Democrats can vote for a Republican and Republicans can vote for a Democrat
I’m aware, but most people, myself included, feel it is unethical. I didn’t vote in both primaries. Did you?
If both parties hold primaries on the same day, you cannot vote in both. You must choose a Republican ballot or Democrat ballot.
Quite right
Trump has become our “kamikaze candidate.” His megalomania renders him incapable of rational thought. At the very time that he should be trying to EARN respect and support through civilized rhetoric and behavior, he doubles down with boastful and irrational pronouncements. How very sad, that one immature and flawed man … and his uncritical supporters … are going to lose the Supreme Court for the next 30 years.
It can’t get any worse. Call his bluff and be done with Donald.
As always, very well said. You are sadly correct. ANY other candidate would have easily beaten Hillary.
Any other candidate couldn’t beat Trump.
Just like any other candidate couldn’t beat McCain or Romney, how did that go?
Trump abandoning Republicans would be just as suicidal as Republicans abandoning Trump. Both sides are bickering right now, but they know very well that there is only one path to victory from here. This mini-revolution in American politics was never going to happen without a fight, but I’m confident it will continue because there really is no alternative in this election cycle.
Then we lose. he’s making mistake after mistake in not being a unifying figure. There is SO MUCH that brings us together and he’s missing the mark. yes, I will vote for him and support him wholeheartedly, but i worry he won’t be successful. so much is riding on this election and I’m disappointed in his not recognizing that.
You are correct. With any other candidate we would have easily beaten Hillary. Trump refuses to even try to bring Republicans together. We’re all supposed to get in line and that’s that. It’s too bad he won’t listen to anyone and do things that might help win rather than alienating so much of the Republican base.
We as Republicans have been expected to get in line for decades now.
He doesn’t care. It’s all about him and nothing else. We have an ego maniac in the White House now. Do we really want another one?
It’s much more a matter of the Party running away from Trump. His words are only a response to Republicans essentially saying they want to go it alone. To me, one of Trump’s best endorsements is that he is universally loathed by the ruling class of both parties – the Washington cartel as Cruz calls them, the media, academia and foreign leaders. We are in Europe right now, and a good number we’ve met support Brexit, as they are totally opposed to the globalist, bureaucratic and politically correct rules and regulations coming out of elites in Brussels. I’ll grant you Trump is not the Constitutional scholar Ted Cruz is, but he has tapped into vast numbers who are fed up with the status quo, and particularly weak and unprincipled Republican leadership. I’m not sure what the right “temperament” is, but all I know is a temperament that wants to stand for America first is not a bad temperament. I have respect for these principled folks you quoted, but the more they lead folks to some kind of principled stand, they will only serve to give the globalist and corrupt Hillary a better chance to win. And I find it interesting that they reserve more energy for bashing Trump than they do for doing all they can to stop Obama and the Progessives. I guess they find it an easier stand to bash Trump than to work tirelessly to defeat Obama’s push to transform America. At this stage in the game, no alternative to Trump would serve any purpose except to give us Hillary and have a bunch of folks somehow feeling better about themselves while hastening to push us over the precipice. And if there was such a great, conservative alternative that could win, where were they in the primaries? We say we are a government by the people. The people have voted their choice overwhelmingly, and both conservative elites and establishment elites are chagrined. The answer for our side is to work to influence Trump and his supporters who we don’t think measure up to our constitutional standards, and not to vilify them.
You must know that Obama’s Organizing for America – the force that worked to take out Israel’s leaders – must be working overtime in Britain. This is bigger than all us “small people” realize and more is at stake than we know.
You got it.
There is a reason that 70% of voters disapprove of Trump. Don’t blame people for noticing that the emperor has no clothes. And unless there is a profound change in Mr. Trump’s behavior and deportment, we will definitely get Hillary. It’s up to Trump.
All those you name are left wing establishment. We need a spokesman to speak out about all of this group which includes the media. The so called conservatives are nothing more than shills for the progressives. I think there are more and more citizens that now see what has been going on for a long time.
Ben Sasse? Scott Rigell? Shills for the progressives? Riiiight……
Scott Rigell’s voting record is pathetic. From voting against a balance budget and repeal of the “death tax” to voting for almost every spending bill that comes up, reauthorization of the Export/Import Bank and TPA just to name a few things.
When you top his votes on spending on top of the record tax revenues that our Big Government has been receiving and the fact we are still running crazy deficits, somebody in Washington needs to start looking out for the American people. FYI, we have been setting a tax revenue record every year since at least 2014.
http://heritageactionscorecard.com/members/member/R000589
Sailblazer, I am weary of the 70% against him comments. Old news from when there were 17 and then 10 candidates. To pull 30% with that number of candidates was always phenomenal. When it got down to 5 and then 3, Trump garnered 70% of the actual voters. And the reason he’s received a record number of votes in republican primaries (again, with the largest field ever for a good portion of the race), is precisely because of his deportment. Where Ryan, McConnell and go along Republicans have failed us, and vent more rage and energy at a candidate trying to save America than they have ever shown towards Obama and the Democrats who are systematically undermining the nation the Funders gave us, Trump’s very non-PC toughness have given the “serfs”, the non-ruling class, hope. So called principled conservatives need to ride the wave, and work toward shaping it – not vilifying it.
The establishment is the problem. Hopefully Trump will appoint a strong conservative as his vice. If that happens and he wins we could conceivably have 16 years of conservative governance. If the public is so stupid to vote for Hillary, there is no saving the country excepting revolution.
Trump will appoint someone who will do what he tells them to do. It will not be strong conservative.