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Title: Mark Levin to #NeverTrumpers: The “Stop Trump” effort must not extend to the general election
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HotAir
URL Source: http://hotair.com/archives/2016/04/ ... xtend-to-the-general-election/
Published: Apr 7, 2016
Author: Allahpundit
Post Date: 2016-04-07 10:13:36 by Tooconservative
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Views: 8745
Comments: 58
Via Breitbart and the Right Scoop, you can grumble about this if you’re #NeverTrump but we all understand, I think, that the vast, vast majority of the party will come around to his position by November, right? Don’t get me wrong, stalwart anti-Trumpers may have the numbers to fatally damage Trump’s chances even if they’re just five percent of the electorate. But that’s probably what they’ll be — five percent, not a third of the party despite how much fun it is to ooh and ahh over numbers like that. Never underestimate the power of partisanship, especially when you’ve got a Democrat as unlikable as Hillary topping the other ticket. And even if five percent of Republicans do end up as #NeverTrumpers, that’s not necessarily a death sentence for Trump’s campaign. Why? Because some segment of Bernie fans claim that they’re #NeverHillary: By comparison, Clinton supporters are considerably more open to supporting Sanders should he overtake her large lead in delegates and win the nomination. Just 14 percent of Clinton supporters would shun him in the general election, while 79 percent would support him, the poll found. What’s the actual number of Sanders supporters who’d sit out an election with either Trump or Cruz, both of whom will be painted by Democrats as unprecedented threats to the republic, as GOP nominee? Two percent? Remember all the Hillary fans who vowed after 2008’s bitter primary to loss to Obama that they’d never vote for him for president? How’d that work out? Anyway, click the image to listen to a preview of what conservative media’s apt to sound like this fall if Trump seals the deal in Cleveland. Levin has endorsed Cruz and has fiercely criticized Trump over the past few months (even over the Michelle Fields incident, which is unusual in major conservative media) but he’s prepared to set that aside in the name of beating Clinton. I wonder where Glenn Beck, Trump’s most strident critic in conservative talk radio dating back to last year, is on that. If anyone’s going to carry the #NeverTrump banner to the bitter end, it’s him. How could you do it under these circumstances as bad as the Republican may be, how could you stay home and allow that? Or worse, how could you vote for that? That’s a disgrace, an absolute disgrace. So you duke it out in the Republican primary process. You duke it out Republican convention. You insist that rules are rules and the rules be followed. And you call them out if they try to change them. And you fight like hell. But you do not vote for Hillary Clinton. Or you don’t not stay home. ‘Wah, my candidate isn’t nominated,’ and let the left elect their favorite candidate. Not in this election. That’s my view. Poster Comment: Levin is lowering his rhetoric against Trump. Clever. One out of four Sanders supporters– 25 percent – say they would not back Clinton in a general election if she became the Democratic nominee for president, while just 69 percent say they would support her, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll. 
If you believe Hillary Clinton is virtually as off her rocker, left-wing socialist as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), if you believe that Hillary Clinton is in part responsible for the rise of ISIS and for what took care of Benghazi and what’s taking place in Libya and that [Vladimir] Putin is on the move and that China is on the move and all the rest of it, then how the hell – how the hell could you take any steps – passively or affirmatively that would put that woman in the Oval Office?
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#1. To: TooConservative (#0)
Levin's dreams of rewriting the Constitution are fading along with Cruz's campaign.
Kind of a gratuitous shot there. This has nothing to do with Levin's pet project. The upshot is Levin isn't going to be a #NeverTrump type or continue talking like that. I expect we'll see much the same from others like Vannity and Ingraham and Limbaugh overall. And they'll also shy away from any #NeverCruz talk. The talk radio people, mostly having done so much to help Trump, don't want the blame for Trump getting the nomination. And Levin doesn't want any blame for encouraging people to be stay-homes or third-party voters if Trump does get the nomination. So they're all going for a GOP unity message. Not much of a surprise. It occurs to me that they already know the fix is in and that Trump won't be the nominee. If so, this would be a smart play to invoke fair-contest rules to try to shame the Trump people into voting for Cruz (or another nominee).
#6. To: TooConservative (#3)
Stupid people think dumb things are smart.
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#3. To: Roscoe (#1)
Levin's dreams of rewriting the Constitution are fading along with Cruz's campaign.
Replies to Comment # 3. . If so, this would be a smart play to invoke fair-contest rules to try to shame the Trump people into voting for Cruz (or another nominee
#7. To: TooConservative (#3)
This has nothing to do with Levin's pet project.
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