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So, Trump is giving the GOP the bird.
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…he was worried that if Donald Trump becomes the
Republican presidential nominee, he could negatively effect some
Republicans up for re-election in 2016.
If? He’s a lock for the nomination.
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IF and when Trump gets the nomination, this worm (and all the others) will get the biggest eraser sold in the School Supply Store and do exactly what Steve Schmidt** did, when Schmidt stunned Lawrence O’Donnell and proclaimed that Trump “spoke for America”…that Trump “identified the failure of Barack Obama”…that “Trump would trounce either Bernie or Hillary in the debates in the General”.
It actually surprised O’Donnell.
** The same Steve Schmidt who was canonized into MSM sainthood in the film “Game Changer”, as Schmidt (played by Woody Harrelson) invoked all of the MSM cornball faux “patriotic/America is great” metaphors in trying to control the intellectually slovenly Sarah Palin
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I’ll take ‘The Demise of America’ for $ 1000, Alex.
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Or their other option is to do something tricky at the convention and look like the cheaters they are, and that includes to a bunch of their base who are normally fine with it if directed against Dems.
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I think we need someone who can unify the party, as opposed to divide the party," the senator responded…
I don’t think Trump’s the one dividing the party. It’s the weak senators who are abandoning their own (terrible) principles by not standing with him.
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If Cornyn wants to walk back what’s the destroying the Republican Party, he should call for a vote on President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.
You can’t play racist demagogue against a black president and then complain that Donald Trump is a racist demagogue. Well, I guess you can, but your party will then collapse on a foundation of lies and hypocrisy.
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Could be worse. Could be the dreaded "blue-footed booby of doom " instead.
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Doesn’t all this very public hand wringing by Washington establishment Republicans just play into Trump’s hands? They aren’t very bright.
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"I think he certainly is a controversial figure. I think we need someone who can unify the party, as opposed to divide the party," the senator responded, according to CNN.
“It’s always important for candidates, in my experience, to be in tune with your state and not necessarily what’s happening in Washington,” Cornyn said.
Trump just hit 49% nationwide, Senator, are you sure that you don’t want to look at the current Texas polling?
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If this is what he’s saying publicly, Cornyn must be in a “Call United Van Lines - we’re being defeated” panic in private.
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I’ve been saying that since 2009, and yet it still keeps shambling along. It’s the zombie party. Mindless, bent solely on destruction and brain consumption. Pieces fall off and the body is rotting, and yet it just won’t go down.
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The GOP chairman has already gone on record in saying 'its not what a candidate says, but how they say it (or get that message across)".
Whether its Mitch or Cornyn, they clearly don’t want to be associated with a ‘yeller’. Those associations usually don’t end well.
No doubt—I can’t imagine this would be a rhetorical challenge for any halfway smooth pol. “Now look, Trump’s a very outspoken guy and naturally I don’t agree with everyone he or anyone else says. But he’s tapping into…” and so forth. Business as usual, hindquarters covered. Then when it all blows up you can say you were “expressing serious concerns” from the beginning blah blah. I mean, among the reasons I love the English language are its subtlety and ambiguity, but that multilayered, open-to-interpretation quality is also helpful if you want to be a hypocrite and talk out of both sides of your mouth. These guys may not like the hand they’ve been dealt and I don’t blame them, but they know how to play the game.
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Fortunately it seems to be focused on the poorly informed. There are a lot of them, but too few to win the general.
Everyone savor these last few remaining hours, before the returns come in tonight and put Trump on the path to a delegate lock, when it’s still possible to dream the beautiful dream of an angry, divided, blood-soaked open convention that leaves the supporters of the candidate with the most delegates feeling enraged and alienated, the party hopelessly split and, most excellent possible outcome of all, a walkout by delegates who meet somewhere else and declare themselves the real Republican National Convention resulting in two rival candidates both claiming to be the nominee.
Of course, given that I just described the 1860 Democratic National Convention in Charleston, there could be some adverse unanticipated consequences . . .
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Just voted for Bernie about 30 minutes ago, but looking forward to helping Hillary show Donnie to the curb in November. Hillary is going to get to appoint at least the next two, possibly three, SCOTUS justices. We have SCOTUS for decades if Hillary wins. I’m doing a little dance in my head about that fact.
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That would certainly be a silver lining to the black, malodorous cloud that is Donald Trump.
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Cronyn: This impacts SCOTUS nomination as I expect Trump to lose in general election. I am not overly worried though as we will just hold nomination till a Republican is in office, even if it means we have 7 or 8 justices at a given time.