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Title: GOP Consultant Lays Out New Genius Plan to Take Down Trump: ‘How Brutus Killed Caesar,’ Get Close Then ‘Shiv Him in the Ribs’
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URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern ... ose-then-shiv-him-in-the-ribs/
Published: Aug 23, 2015
Author: Matthew Boyle
Post Date: 2015-08-23 07:02:43 by cranky
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Views: 2188
Comments: 14
The geniuses in the Washington, D.C.- centered GOP establishment have a new plan to take down 2016 Republican frontrunner Donald Trump: Infiltrate his inner circle posing as an ally, then use their fabricated support of him to secretly plot to take him down.
But now they all admit: They were wrong, Trump is real, and he has a serious shot at winning this thing.
“Just like Humphrey Bogart said in Casablanca, I was misinformed,” Alex Castellanos, one such consultant, said of Trump in an interview with Bloomberg Politics on Friday. “He’s grown. He started off as the anti-Washington candidate, the angry man’s candidate, now he’s becoming not just an anti-them vote but a pro-him. He’s becoming the Make America Great Again candidate and that gives him room for growth.”
“Anybody who discounts Donald Trump—he’s going to be around through the convention now—I think is making a mistake,” Castellanos added.
From there, the conversation turned to how Castellanos thinks Trump might be taken down—and who might do it. He said:
Well you have two angles to look at that—he’s sitting on a bunch of people down there on the conservative side. He’s sitting on Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). I doubt Ben Carson is going to do anything about that, but at some point Ted Cruz is going to wake and figure ‘this race is going to end and I’m never going to catch up.’ Then on the other side, the establishment side, you can wait a little longer. Whether it’s a Carly Fiorina or a Jeb Bush or a Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), don’t stand in front of the tsunami right now and just coalesce—become a better, stronger candidate so you can be in the lead when everyone turns not to Trump but to the anti-Trump.
WATCH: CASTELLANOS DETAILS NEW PLAN TO TAKE OUT DONALD TRUMP
When asked, if he were running strategy for those wanting to take Trump down, how he would do it, he compared the effort to how Brutus murdered Caesar. ” Castellanos said:
The best way to do it is how Brutus killed Caesar. Get real close, snuggle up, and shiv him in the ribs. In other words, hug the message but not the messenger. ‘We understand the frustration in America, we know why you hate Washington. Your country is on the verge of decline, it’s going over a cliff, and nobody’s doing anything about it. We get it. Donald Trump and I agree on that, but let me tell you now what we’re going to do.’ Take his energy, take his heat, and use it to fuel your engine. Turn his heat into your action and be there, you hope, when voters actually get serious about this and say ‘you know what, I agree with him but he’s not a president.’
This is the same Castellanos who just a few days earlier called for a “cleansing” of the Republican Party after what he then expected would be an inevitable collapse of Trump’s campaign. Just a few days later, Castellanos has clearly changed his tune. (1 image)
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The democrats may be evil, but you have to hand it to them when it comes to staying on message and being effective in getting what they want.
Their message is simple, and all their candidates are singing from the same hymnal:
1. All problems can be solved by more regulations and more government
2. When regulations or government are the problem, more regulations and more government is the solution
Republican (establishment) on the other hand stands for nothing - therefore it will fall for anything.
So phase one of "What Do We Do With Trump" - which involved among other things having Fox News attempt to take him down - has failed.
Phase two will be "Maybe We Can Co-opt Trump". After all, in his heart he IS one of us.
If that fails, I wonder what will phase three be?
"Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD . . . "
~Psalm 33:12a
#2. To: cranky (#0)
You could always claim he is Poppy Bush's illegitimate brother.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
#3. To: Rufus T Firefly (#1)
If that fails, I wonder what will phase three be?
The RNC has plenty of time.
Right now, the bet seems to be Trump will self-destruct (with the help of a gleeful msm) long before the primaries.
There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
#4. To: cranky (#3)
The GOP is likely to self-destruct before Trump. In my eyes, they have already done so.
#5. To: cranky (#0)
There is something Caesarian about Trump's persona.
Castellanos is laying out a straightforward political strategy. It's not especially brilliant as it is the only thing any of the consultant class will be advising the other candidates to do.
They believe that Hurricane Donald will pass in due course, leaving the fundamentals of the race they anticipated largely unchanged. However, weathering the Trumpstürm will shorten the window for any other GOP candidate to knock out Bush and his huge donor base.
What is most interesting is Trump's own real antipathy toward Bush.
NYMag's Gabriel Sherman on the worst-case scenario:
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#6. To: cranky (#0)
When asked, if he were running strategy for those wanting to take Trump down, how he would do it, he compared the effort to how Brutus murdered Caesar. ” Castellanos said:
As a consultant he stands to net thirty pieces of silver, so it seems Judas would be a more likely role model. GOPe policies are much like the actions of Judas anyway.
#7. To: Don (#4)
The GOP is likely to self-destruct before Trump.
That is my hope but I deem it unlikely.
Still, there is that hope.
There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
#8. To: TooConservative (#5)
And how would that be accomplished in a Jeb-vs-Hillary race?
How, indeed?
In a Jeb-vs-Hillary race, Trump doesn't get on all fifty ballots.
Last election, only Republicrats had presidential candidates on all fifty ballots. Neither Libertarians nor Greenies fielded presidential candidates in all fifty states.
Hard to win the electoral college if you're not on every ballot (Nv doesn't allow write-ins, for example).
There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
#9. To: cranky (#8)
In a Jeb-vs-Hillary race, Trump doesn't get on all fifty ballots.
He might. Or come close enough it makes no difference. He might do better than Perot on the ballot process if he can keep his supporters on-board and fired up.
I'm not sure what the deadlines in various states are to petition a new party onto the ballot.
#10. To: TooConservative (#9)
I'm not sure what the deadlines in various states are to petition a new party onto the ballot.
I'm not up on state and federal campaign filing laws, either.
But I'd bet real money that the Republicrat national committees have rigged it so they get choose who wins the election.
And they do that by controlling who gets on the state ballots.
There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
#11. To: cranky (#10)
The remnants of the old Reform Party are still on the ballots in many states. At least, they have been in recent years. In some states, they have fallen off the ballot. I think that Alan Keyes took over the CA Reform Party and it was still in play in the 2012 election.
So Trump, with his message about illegal immigration and bad trade deals, kind of fits that Perot/Buchanan demographic. Certainly, they would love to have a candidate with Trump's brand name to draw a bunch of new people into the old We The People and Reform Party circles.
#12. To: cranky (#10)
A recently maintained page, chock full of party and election facts:
Ballotpedia: Ballot access for major and minor party candidates
Check out the states where you only need to pay a filing fee and/or gather 10,000 signatures. Check out the Reform Party and Constitution Party listings. You might easily co-opt some of these organizations with a candidate like Trump. He would be a dream come true for them to have as their nominee.
Ballot access doesn't seem like that much of an obstacle. In some states, they do require a lot more signatures on petitions and strict rules about who can collect signatures and certifying the signatures and such.
#13. To: TooConservative (#11)
The remnants of the old Reform Party are still on the ballots in many states.
Might be.
The Libertarians were on forty-eight ballots, the Green Party less than that but more than forty, in 2012.
I don't think any other party was on more than forty ballots.
There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
#14. To: TooConservative (#12)
Ballot access doesn't seem like that much of an obstacle.
It was to every political party except Republicrats in 2012.
I don't know what has changed since then.
There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
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