Discussion: Forget The Pivot: <span style="line-height: 1em;">Republicans Just Need Trump To Give Them Some Cover

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perpetually waiting for a pivot on a Merry-go-Round…

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Ordinarily at this point I’d feel a pang of sympathy for a group floundering hard and praying for salvation against the odds, but then I remember it’s the GOP we’re talking about and I get happy again.

You all made your bed so you have to sleep in it… in fact, I hope Trump tosses them an anchor.

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All the Clinton campaign needs to do to blow up this latest pivot is to have some surrogate tweet that Trump is being dominated by a woman. Kellyanne Conway has Trump’s balls!

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“Kellyanne Conway has Trump’s balls!”

And she’s welcome to them. Feh!

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The MSM is trying any angle at this point to try and keep interest in this election. Yes Yes you can’t get complacent etc… But the Cake has been mixed and it’s now in the oven baking. Trump is going to lose. As this article points out. Will Trump lose embarrassingly or lose like Romney and McCain. Will Trump take the Senate and possibly the House down with him.

Trump is going to lose. But if he can make it look a lil close. He cam dangerously declare the election was rigged and refuse to concede causing all kinds of havoc and pumping his brand. This is a scary scenario with Trump.

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That sounds like a song lyric, Bob Dylan or maybe Jimmy Buffet.

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Then Cover them Trump. Cover their sorry asses.

But for those in the media, could you please–please–point out that there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between the Trump positions on issues and those of 90% of the GOP? Any candidate who uses Trump as cover should also face the consequences. He is a feature, not a bug.

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It’s funny how that’s true. All they need to do is publicly challenge his dominance in some way. Trump will immediately explode. His entire existence, personality, and “success”, is premised on being the absolute top dog in whatever he’s doing.

And not in that he’s the top dog at anything, mind you. More like in the he’s the rampaging monkey that came into the room, threw feces at everyone and everything, and then claims that this somehow makes him a “winner” because everyone in there resisted the urge to murder him.

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Chris Christie is so nervous about the imminent GOP collapse, he’s reported to be snacking constantly.

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Forget the pivot, Donnie, just build a wall.

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If he maintains his extreme views on removing 11 million people, even in a “humane” way, he loses. If he changes his policy and gives undocumented immigrants a way to citizenship, he appears to be weak and flip flopper. Either way, you can’t trust Trump. He has backed himself into a corner and is going to lose.

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Bigly yuge classy…

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I pretend to be a guitar player and I know a lot of lyrics so it could just be a mash up of no one in particular… :stuck_out_tongue:

Welp, despite what Reince says I’m a-thinkin’ maybe there’s some small measure of continuing conflict and confusion in the campaign what with all these immigration-oriented events being cancelled and so forth. I’m imagining they’re waiting to reschedule the events until Bannon and Conway get done with a Spiderman-style death match for the soul of the campaign fought out with scimitars and whips on top of Trump Tower at midnight in a thunderstorm. One will prevail—and one will die. Or maybe both will die. Or maybe it won’t happen at all and it’ll be more like a series of epic arguments in meetings and phone calls. Whatever. I just have a hunch things aren’t entirely hunky-dory with the campaign just yet.

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@mattinpa “I just have a hunch things aren’t entirely hunky-dory with the campaign just yet.”

Yep. While the pig continues to shit all over the lipstick, giving the would-be cosmeticians a run for their money. This is almost amusing, save that I fear the simmering frustration this Punch 'n Judy show will cause HO’s true believers won’t be to anyone’s benefit.

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How would a Rump pivot look to his fans? He’d risk looking like every other sell out RINO who’s ever lied to them and failed to cut the spending it would take to make the Ryan budget add up.

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Well, at least one group is quite clear on exactly what it “is going to mean for them and…their families”, namely:

“They are going to be out of here so fast, your head will spin.”

Keep up the good work, Donnie!

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“Which is probably the greatest Trump “pivot” device of all: the promise by his surrogates that his best is yet to come.”

Oh my. Now I’ve got something to really look forward to.

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