Oh, please, yellow dog conservatives, bolt. You, too, can be fit as a bull moose.
The problem is they don’t have anyone to replace Trump.
I can run down to the local Lowe’s and pick up a bidet for them. That seems like a reasonable substitute, with a little more decorum and intelligence than Donald, actually.
Thousands of politically and economically powerful people have dissected the most negative fallout from a Trump loss in the fall. Possible loss of both houses of Congress. Stricter financial laws. Other reforms they don’t care for, or those that would result in damages to their power and fortunes. The lasting negative effects into future years. I’m wondering if Trump’s Secret Service contingent is up to the task.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Cruz could be flattered into running as an independent.
Of course they COULD. At the end of the day, even though it’s the GOP, it’s just a question of people voting for things. They could–and this is not an exclusive list–
- Change the rules for nomination in a hundred different ways that would exclude Trump.
- Invite delegates to ignore state party rules “binding” them to a candidate, since many “bound” Trump delegates were never supporters of his, but simply local party officials.
- Nominate Trump and then immediately supersede his nomination with someone else’s. (This one is my favorite.)
They won’t because they don’t WANT to. Some of them because they’re like a child who doesn’t want a shot even though it will make him better in the long run; some of them because they genuinely like Trump.
The GOP can and will nominate whoever it collectively wants. The fact that that person is Donald Trump can’t be blamed on technicalities in the rules.
I think their greatest fear is loss of the Supreme Court because that’ll last for at least a generation.
Why? Only to have them complain that you installed the drinking fountain so close to the floor that they have to kneel down to use it?
Maybe try a cardboard cutout of Ronald Reagan.
I didn’t just see what I think I saw…
All of those are technicalities, like you said. The majority of GOP voters selected a proud racist bigot, it would be better for them to have another one of their vaunted “post-mortems”.
I can’t stop laughing, mainly because it reminds me of that great “Bob’s Burgers” episode where the son Gene finds a talking electronic toilet, voiced by Jon Hamm (who, unlike Trump, is about as far away from resembling a talking toilet as you can get), in the woods:
Time to focus on the more important task of stealing the November election from Hillary
Can’t they just tell him, “You’re fired!”? From the telly vision, I thought that was the way things worked.
Those who have never supported Trump, say there is only one strategy left: containment.
“I don’t see how that works,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) “We’ve made our bed. Now, we’re gonna have to lie in it.”
I wonder if Lindsey is going for the Minority Leader position after the election.
And frankly, that wouldn’t be a bad thing.
I have this feeling the GOP is going to get so desperate during this campaign they are actually going to ask for GWB to go out and rally for Trump. And if you don’t think that the GOP is that stupid, then you have been asleep for the last 35 fucking years.
It depends. Are closet cases considered minorities?
They don’t need another “post-mortem”. They need a fucking funeral.
That would be the PERFECT way to guarantee a Republican victory in Nov.
Knock off Trump and then play the oppressed-victim-sympathy card.
Hey, Lyndon Johnson was unstoppable in 64 despite his pro-equality stance, mostly because of the Kennedy-sympathy vote, and not his polices. Even Goldwater wasn’t as bad a Trump will be.