Discussion: Cornyn: Trump Could Be 'Albatross' That Dooms GOPers Up For Re-Election

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Jon, you sound like The Donald sending your incumbents home is a bad thing :hankey:

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It’s a bloody seabird, isn’t it? It isn’t any bloody flavor!

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Lifeboats will be embarking later today off starboard amidships.
Women , children first. Senators last.

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No, but there are always more than enough to win the midterms. Because the people who ought to be fighting zombies get too busy, or forget, or decide it isn’t important, or are upset that the zombie battle two years previously didn’t end World War Z and make everything right.

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I guess Trump is articulating modern American conservative principles, policies and values more clearly and more effectively than others in the Republican party.

Donald Trump is also more charismatic than Ronald Reagan, smarter than George Bush the Dumb Torturer, better informed than John McCain and richer than Mitt Romney the Pension Thief.

The Republicans are scared because Donald Trump may displace Ronald Reagan’s as a conservative saint.

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“We can’t have a nominee be an albatross around the down-ballot races,”
Cornyn told CNN when asked if he was worried about Trump becoming the
nominee. “That’s a concern of mine.”


Concern for you, major hope for me.
My hope is Trump gets his head handed to him in the general election. My assumption is Trump will be the GOP nominee.

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Yes
a significant number of these on the "stop trump now’ train will be getting off at the 3/15 stop and boarding the “trump for america” train going the other direction.

But
in a race where they need EVERY white vote, even losing 5-10% of their base is disastrous. It won’t be easy on the MSM either, because the polling is going to look even more lopsided than 2012. And without a close horserace story
they don’t know how to cover politics anymore.

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Say goodbye to the Senate majority, you jug-headed pandering brain-dead asshole.

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It’s why they are looking so hard (hoping so hard) for “someone to unify the party”. Since they don’t seem to be able to find that special someone (who doesn’t actually exist), I guess they’re going to do nothing. It’s what they always do. Can’t do this, can’t do that, repeat indefinitely.

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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

this continues to be the Republican party’s problem
 it shouldn’t be about what’s best for the fucking Party
 it should be about what’s best for the country and unifying the COUNTRY


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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,”

Like you skanks did with dividing the country?

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“Trump Could Be ‘Albatross’ That Dooms GOPers Up For Re-Election”

That’s the plan!

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The Repugs have spent the better part of the last half century building this monster of racial divide. From Nixon’s “southern strategy” to Reagan’s “welfare queens” Atwater-Bush 1’s Willie Horton ad, to Sununu-Rove-Bush 2’s less overt code and GOP apoplepsy over the first non white president they never stopped de-legitimizing right up to the present day, they built this Frankenstein monster
 the KKK and across-the-board hate in all its ugliness exposed as its base.

The GOP built this and nurtured it. Now we get to watch as its creation destroys it.

Sweet!!!

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Well, duh!!

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I so love it that the ‘elite’ in t he GOP totally disavow having ANYTHING to do with the rise of Trump


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Brian Beutler over at TNR nails the establishment Republican hypocrisy:

"For instance, consider how feckless the Republican establishment’s
attacks on Trump have been thus far, and how unpersuasive a
standard-issue Republican candidate would be in a general election
campaign against him.

It is untenable to attack Trump for advancing a ludicrously skeletal
alternative to the Affordable Care Act, when the Republican Party
has no alternative of its own, and Trump’s
competitors offer little more clarity.

It is untenable to attack Trump for fiscal profligacy when nearly
all conservative elites are aligned in consensus that the country
urgently needs huge, regressive tax cuts, much more defense spending,
and absolutely no immediate cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

It is untenable to attack Trump for refusing to say how he will
provide health coverage to everyone—a pledge he’s repeatedly made—
when Republican leaders suggest their Obamacare alternatives,
which will strip coverage from millions of Americans, won’t disadvantage anyone.

It is untenable to attack Trump for promising to deport 11
million immigrants if you’ve built party politics on the impression that
the country is being inundated by immigrants, invaders, ISIS
infiltrators, and disease carriers.

It is untenable to pretend that Trump’s
promise to finance a wall on another country’s budget
is somehow less fantastical than promising to sow enough chaos in
immigrant communities that they’ll leave the United States on their own.

It is untenable to attack Trump for saying the IRS might be auditing
him because he’s such a “strong Christian” when you’ve convinced
nearly half the country that the IRS needs to be reined in or abolished
because it has been illegally targeting Christians and conservatives
in a campaign of political retribution.

It is untenable to attack Trump for being unelectable when you’ve
convinced nearly half the country that the other party’s frontrunner is
going to be indicted by the Justice Department for endangering national
security.

It is untenable to attack Trump for refusing to disavow David Duke
when a a guy who once described himself as “David Duke without the
baggage” is now the third most powerful Republican in the House of Representatives.

Remove this immense capacity for bullshit and self-deception from
the party’s political arsenal—or at least render it ineffective—and
it’s hard to envision what mobilization tools (and thus what policies)
would replace it."

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I wish I shared your confidence in the intellectual capacity of the voting public.

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Cornyn you and your caucus seal that deal. Trump is just the cherry on top.

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be in tune

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