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Title: The Nuclear Option: GOP Leaders Won’t Pledge Loyalty to Donald Trump
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Breitbart
URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern ... ledge-loyalty-to-donald-trump/
Published: Oct 27, 2015
Author: Charles Hurt
Post Date: 2015-10-27 08:24:35 by cranky
Keywords: None
Views: 759
Comments: 13
Just last month, Republican Party officials scurried into Trump Tower to extract a loyalty pledge from a certain unpredictable billionaire real estate mogul turned presidential candidate. Who knew that it should have been Donald Trump extracting just such a loyalty pledge from Republican bigs? In a stunning admission of just how wildly out of touch they are from actual, breathing human voters, GOP establishment insiders say that if Mr. Trump continues his unfettered march to the Republican nomination they will go to war to take him out. Asked by the Washington Examiner’s Byron York to describe how they would greet a Trump candidacy, one “leading conservative” said: “Massive resistance.” That is an unfortunate term for a Republican to be caught using in print, even anonymously. “Massive resistance” was the despicable tactic deployed by Democrats in Virginia to maintain their party’s ironclad, 90-year devotion to racial segregation. That particular case of “massive resistance” was the Democratic effort to maintain segregated public schools. And now, in 2015, the term is embraced by an influential GOP establishment strategist seeking to doom a Trump presidential bid. Is it any wonder that in the hands of these witless apes now running the GOP, the party of Abraham Lincoln has somehow become the “racist” party? It is precisely this level of stupidity, of an inability to speak clearly or market ideas effectively that has created such a vast tundra of talentless mopes into which Mr. Trump wades so effortlessly and immediately takes total command. The whole reason Mr. Trump left out there the threat that he would mount a third-party candidacy was to keep the GOP establishment on its toes. All he asked for was a promise that he be treated fairly. Eventually, he got that promise. And then signed their pledge. Not that Republican officials were, at any point in the process, operating entirely in good faith. The whole loyalty pledge was a gimmick designed to trap Mr. Trump, whom they figured would never sign such a thing and then lose support among Republican voters. Of course, they bungled the whole thing and when it was all over there was Mr. Trump standing again before yet another sea of television cameras, waving the signed loyally pledge and announcing, “I will be totally pledging my allegiance to the Republican Party and the conservative principles for which it stands.” That last part was a subtle, yet brilliant, jab about how the Republican Party “stands” for conservative principles, yet rarely adheres to them and almost never delivers on them. Mr. Trump had won again. And earned another two weeks of free media. Today, six weeks of poll numbers later, Mr. Trump remains atop the field. He is beating establishment favorite Jeb Bush by a full 20 points. And he has certainly kept his pledge. And now it is the Republicans who are threatening to fling a temper tantrum and grab up all their marbles and run home crying if they don’t get their way. Sure, the Republican National Committee makes abundantly clear that they will do nothing to undermine Mr. Trump or his juggernaut campaign. But the legion of political hitmen and henchmen know exactly how this game is played and they are the ones now plotting against him. “I don’t think Trump can withstand 10,000 points of smart negative [advertising] in Iowa and New Hampshire,” one strategist told Mr. York. “It would force him to spend money. That’s when this starts to get real for him.” But there is hope. These are the same Republican experts who assured everybody that Mr. Trump would never run. They said he would not be taken seriously. He would not play well. He would be chased out of the race by gaffes. He would get destroyed in a debate. And he would never, ever sign a loyalty pledge. Now, they say, he must be stopped because Mr. Trump might win the nomination, but he could never, ever win in a general election. Next, I guess, they will say “Well, OK, maybe Donald Trump can win the general election, but Washington will never be the same again.” Oh, a voter can dream! 
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#1. To: cranky (#0)
As they always do. They are a bunch of spoiled bastards. And they bitch that the Conservatives go away if they don't get their way. And if they run an establishment guy, and lose, they blame it on the conservatives. The establishment opposed Goldwater, Reagan, and Pat Buchanan. " GOP establishment insiders say that if Mr. Trump continues his unfettered march to the Republican nomination they will go to war to take him out. " If Trump wins, I hope he fires every one of the SOB's at the RNC! Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
It's not to their advantage. Trump is likely to loosen their iron-clad grip on their half of the one party system and put them out of business.
If he wins, I hope that is the first thing he does as soon as he walks into the Oval Office. Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
If he wins, I hope that is the first thing he does as soon as he walks into the Oval Office. Hopefully he'll have it fumigated first, don't know what communicable diseases might be floating around there. Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians!
What's most shocking is Breibart being so freaking ignorant he thinks Lincoln was opposed to slavery,and slavery was the reason for the War of Northern Aggression. The man is supposed to be educated,and he still doesn't know that Lincoln never gave a damn about slavery one way or the other,and never freed a single slave or demanded anyone in his administration free their slaves. The man he made the commanding general of the entire union army still owned slaves the day the war ended. Speaking of "Witless Apes"...... 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)
Don't worry about it. Neither stupidity nor homosexuality are contagious. 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)
I missed that point in the article. But I believe it is indisputable that despite Lincoln's personal and political views on slavery and slaves, slavery was abolished at point of arms during during his time as Commander-in-Chief. The Democrat Party pretty much owns the 'peculiar institution' and the KKK, imho. There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
No,it wasn't. He only declared it abolished in the south at a time when he had no dominion over the south or their laws. At the same time he was doing that,he totally ignored freeing the slaves in the north. The stated purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation was to encourage slaves in the south to rise up and start slaughtering the families of their masters so that Cofederate officers would desert their posts to go home to protect their families and property. It was creating another front in the enemies rear. 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)
Correct. The last state to officially abolish slavery was Delaware, after the war, when the 13th Amendment went into effect (which Delaware did not ratify). The EP had no effect on Union slave states.
I don't believe anyone believed that it did. Slavery effectively ended at Appomattox Courthouse in April of 1865. Slaves ceased being slaves at that time and became contraband. There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
When I was a kid I would have agreed with you, but in todays PC world I would have to say YES both are contagious... Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians!
Nah,they are just like bumps in the road. They stick up,so you notice them. Plus we keep electing them,so they are always on the news and tv. 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)
GOP leaders want to restrict the voter's choice to Hillary or Jeb so that they can perpetuate their position as pompous parasites. The government will not be changed from the purpose and direction it has been on for more than 20 years. The ongoing dramatic portrayal of deception of the American people will continue by actors in a government soap opera.
" now it is the Republicans who are threatening to fling a temper tantrum and grab up all their marbles and run home crying if they don’t get their way. "
#2. To: cranky (#0)
The Nuclear Option: GOP Leaders Won’t Pledge Loyalty to Donald Trump
#3. To: rlk (#2)
" Trump is likely to loosen their iron-clad grip on their half of the one party system and put them out of business. "
#4. To: Stoner (#3)
#5. To: cranky (#0)
Is it any wonder that in the hands of these witless apes now running the GOP, the party of Abraham Lincoln has somehow become the “racist” party?
#6. To: CZ82 (#4)
Hopefully he'll have it fumigated first, don't know what communicable diseases might be floating around there.
#7. To: sneakypete (#5)
What's most shocking is Breibart being so freaking ignorant he thinks Lincoln was opposed to slavery,and slavery was the reason for the War of Northern Aggression.
#8. To: cranky (#7)
But I believe it is indisputable that despite Lincoln's personal and political views on slavery and slaves, slavery was abolished at point of arms during during his time as Commander-in-Chief.
#9. To: sneakypete, cranky (#8)
No,it wasn't. He only declared it abolished in the south at a time when he had no dominion over the south or their laws. At the same time he was doing that,he totally ignored freeing the slaves in the north.
#10. To: nolu chan (#9)
The EP had no effect on Union slave states.
#11. To: sneakypete (#6)
Don't worry about it. Neither stupidity nor homosexuality are contagious.
#12. To: CZ82 (#11)
When I was a kid I would have agreed with you, but in todays PC world I would have to say YES both are contagious...
#13. To: cranky (#0)
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The Nuclear Option: GOP Leaders Won’t Pledge Loyalty to Donald Trump
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