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"National Republican Senatorial Committee Executive Director Ward Baker is encouraging Senate candidates to . . . "

. . . make like good little lemmings and follow Trump over the cliff.

Its hard to believe that Repugs can be that foolish, but we can always hope. I just Trump hope doesn’t take their families with them.

Yes.

I agree; jump on the tiger’s back and ride him all the way to victory!

By the way,

“Understand the populist points Trump makes and ride that wave,” Baker writes.

Rump’s points aren’t about populism they’re about fascism. I realize they seem to be indistinguishable to a Rethug but Bernie Sanders is much more about delivering a populist message.

EDIT TO ADD: I realize I’m in disagreement with Josh on this and maybe he’s right. I’m using the term to separate Rump from what is truly a populist message.

Are those coattails or shit trails?

Did anyone tell Wade that embracing Trump means that those candidates now have to answer those questions.

And seeing how they aren’t Trump, they don’t get ‘benefit of doubt’.

So, fascism?

In other words: Adopt the fascist, racist, xenophobic, sexist.and anti-disabled persons platform?!

Well, if 25% of this country’s White demographic is fascist, racist, xenophobic, sexist.and anti-disabled persons and, most of all, ANGRY, it has to be “populist”, right?

What else could it POSSIBLY be…

Both

YEAH, baby!! Ride that wave!!

The thing is, this guy is right. Trump is riding the wave of America’s basest fears and may make it all the way to the nomination next year.

It’s imperative that we don’t allow 25% of the eligible voters to elect this guy to the Presidency. Imperative.

We can put down Trump and his inanity, but just like Sarah Palin, he’s appealing to the most vocal and the angriest among us - the ones who want smaller government, but don’t touch my Medicare set. The ones that willingly, lovingly use the highways, the schools, the libraries, the airports and all the other entities that government supplies, but want to drown the ‘management’ in the bathtub.

My husband said it right: if you’re so unhappy with the way the nation is run, try living in another country for awhile. You’ll be back. Quickly.

In the meantime, don’t discount Trump’s momentum. I don’t see anyone, anywhere in the GOP making any inroads towards discrediting him. That will be up to us, the voters, to make happen. This could be far worse than Romney’s demise last election.

this reminds me of the old joke about the people in hell which is a cesspool of shit up to their noses and when the latest dead sinner shows up to join them their advice is “don’t make a wave”.

“Trump has risen because voters see him as authentic, independent, direct, firm, — and believe he can’t be bought,”

The danger for them is that Trumpsters also believe to the bottom of their souls that YOU CAN.

GOP Memo: “Trump has risen because voters see him as authentic, independent…These are the same character traits our candidates should be advancing…”

“…by following this memo to fake authenticity and independence.”

Too bad not all 51% of voters won’t get the memo from Houston.

Except that rogue wave is rolling over a cesspit.

Shirt tails. Brownshirt tails, specifically.

Politics is about being able to adapt. The GOP campaign official is right. The GOP party apparatus and right wing establishment should line up behind Donald Trump.

Donald Trump is more charismatic than Ronald Reagan, John McCain and Sarah Palin combined. He is more intelligent than George Bush the Poppy, George Bush the Dumb Torturer, Richard Nixon the Crook, Mitt Romney the Pension Thief and Tax Cheat combined. He is quite possibly the best candidate on social and fiscal conservative issues in the last 50 years.

Look, like Palin before him, Trump excites the base. They also excite the low, the mean, and the ignoble.

Voters may say they do not like trade with China as they storm Walmart to buy all of their cheap Chinese Christmas presents. And let’s remember the TPP does not include China and is in fact a small protection against Chinese dominance in the marketplace.