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Does the Republican Party have a do over option?

Feb 27, 2016 12:33PM PST
Inside the Republican Party’s Desperate Mission to Stop Donald Trump

The scenario Karl Rove outlined was bleak.

Addressing a luncheon of Republican governors and donors in Washington on Feb. 19, he warned that Donald J. Trump’s increasingly likely nomination would be catastrophic, dooming the party in November. But Mr. Rove, the master strategist of George W. Bush’s campaigns, insisted it was not too late for them to stop Mr. Trump, according to three people present.

At a meeting of Republican governors the next morning, Paul R. LePage of Maine called for action. Seated at a long boardroom table at the Willard Hotel, he erupted in frustration over the state of the 2016 race, saying Mr. Trump’s nomination would deeply wound the Republican Party. Mr. LePage urged the governors to draft an open letter “to the people,” disavowing Mr. Trump and his divisive brand of politics.

Two of Mr. Trump’s opponents have openly acknowledged that they may have to wrest the Republican nomination from him in a deadlocked convention.

Of Mr. Trump, Mr. McConnell has said, “We’ll drop him like a hot rock,” according to his colleagues.


Reality TV...I love it.....

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I wish both parties did
Feb 27, 2016 12:55PM PST

In fact, right now I wish they'd both start new or vanish. They're an embarrassment in front of the whole world.

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Here's the reality.....get over it
Feb 27, 2016 1:03PM PST

Second paragraph of the article: At a meeting of Republican governors the next morning, Paul R. LePage of Maine called for action. Seated at a long boardroom table at the Willard Hotel, he erupted in frustration over the state of the 2016 race, saying Mr. Trump’s nomination would deeply wound the Republican Party. Mr. LePage urged the governors to draft an open letter “to the people,” disavowing Mr. Trump and his divisive brand of politics.

Last two paragraphs: On Friday, a few hours after Mr. Christie endorsed him, Mr. Trump collected support from a second governor, who in a radio interview said Mr. Trump could be “one of the greatest presidents.”

That governor was Paul LePage.

AND, you have this: But already, a handful of senior party leaders have struck a conciliatory tone toward Mr. Trump. Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the House majority leader, said on television that he believed he could work with him as president. Many in the party acknowledged a growing mood of resignation.

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RE:Here's the reality.....get over it
Feb 27, 2016 1:12PM PST
Many in the party acknowledged a growing mood of resignation.

Resignation? Trump could win, and they have to accept him and work with him?

A leader with a bunch of disenchanted followers?

You think I should get over it?

How will Republicans "get over it"?

Never mind Trump building a wall between America and Mexico....How bout digging a hole/grave for the Republican party?
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When a POTUS of the opposite party
Feb 27, 2016 1:29PM PST

wins that position, the other party, even if they have the majority in both Houses of Congress, winds up resigned to it...........that's what happens. If Trump, as a Republican, wins this election, the Republicans in both Houses WILL work with him, no matter what. They don't have to be happy.

I've been trying to tell you all along that the Republican Party isn't the GOP of 'establishment' types who 'go along to get along' anymore. It's time for that party to recognize that the PEOPLE are the ones who are demanding change because they haven't been represented for far too long. Voters are coming out in record numbers for the Republican side.....Dems are actually losing voters by either choice because they are switching sides with their votes or just flat out not showing up. It isn't just the Republican Party seeing a great divide, JP..........

Republicans might have to 'hold their nose', but they WILL get on board.......I can't see the same thing happening on the Dem side if Sanders ever got the delegates to win the nomination. The DNC will NOT allow that to happen even if they have to have HC under indictment as she accepts.

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RE:the Republican Party isn't the GOP of 'establishment'
Feb 27, 2016 1:44PM PST
the Republicans in both Houses WILL work with him, no matter what. They don't have to be happy.

AND

the Republican Party isn't the GOP of 'establishment' types who 'go along to get along' anymore

Your statements...They aren't a party who "go along to get along" BUT they will work with him?

What is the reason they "work with him"...IF not to "go along to get along"?

I've said it before...I love it when they eat their own.
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They'll work with him in order to keep their seats
Feb 27, 2016 2:45PM PST

as Republicans..........but they will all know that those seats are pretty wobbly when it comes to their next elections if they are establishment types like McCain and McConnell. People have smartened up and will replace them with true Conservative types or the fear of God will be put into them that they actually BECOME the Conservatives that they should have been all along. Like I said....some will 'hold their noses' out of their own survival instinct but Congress will finally start working like it's supposed to work.

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RE:They'll work with him in order to keep their seats
Feb 27, 2016 7:57PM PST

OR/AND he'll work with them, so that he's the leader of the majority/minority?

"Working with" is a "one way street"?

The more things change...the more they stay the same.