3402

The GOP is preparing for a brokered convention.

More than 20 of them convened Monday for a dinner held by Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, where the prospect of Trump nearing next year’s nominating convention in Cleveland with a significant number of delegates dominated the discussion, according to five people familiar with the meeting.

Considering that scenario as Priebus and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) listened, several longtime power brokers argued that if the controversial billionaire storms through the primaries, the party’s establishment must lay the groundwork for a floor fight, in which the GOP’s mainstream wing could coalesce around an alternative, the people said.

3403

Fixed that for you!

3404

I have no doubt a brokered convention would lead to Hillary being our next president.

3405

Perhaps. But I think the brokered convention is just another effect of the true cause: Conservative media and GOP leaders have spent more than a decade telling their base that brown people are scary, moderates are America-hating socialists, and we must “take out country back” from the ‘others.’

I don’t know how they recover from this.

3406

The hilarious part is how they are basically making a move that would further entrench the crazies.

'Look how corrupt they are, they’re so afraid and weak they won’t even let the person we voted for run. ’

Seriously, this would absolutely break some people. Don’t get me wrong, it is a far better option than actually running Trump, but that would get ugly and probably push more Tea Partiers into congress.

3407

You disappoint Ozymandias.

3408

Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that, namely that Trump’s actual support backed by votes evaporates once the caucuses and primaries start.

In non-Trump related presidential campaign news, I heard the most infuriating interview on NPR yesterday of candidate Ted Cruz in which he held forth on how his opposition to anything to curb global warming/climate change is all about his (faux-)concern for “the single-mom waitress.” Hey Ted, if you’re so concerned about people like her, why do you and your party oppose indexing the minimum wage and inflation-adjusting it up to where it was during Saint Ronald’s first administration? and always oppose unemployment insurance benefits extensions? and constantly call for reductions in SNAP benefits?

Fucking A-hole. If there is an afterlife, I hope he gets what’s coming to him and his ilk.

3409

The only way to help that single-mom is to make sure she can’t afford healthcare, that her kids can’t get an education and that her wages don’t increase.

Then she will pull herself up by her bootstraps and make it.

Oh and if you ever hear a politician refer to pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, remember it’s a term than means something is literally impossible - you can’t pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Somehow it became politic-speak for “try harder” when it really means “no matter how hard you try, you will fail.”

3410

Yeah, only 45% of his over 500 campaign promises. Fuckin. Worst. President. Ever.

Aka, I’m calling you out on your bullshit.

3411

If you bothered to read my earlier posts in this same thread you will see I have no dislike for Obama. I have never called him the worst president ever. So just shove that bullshit up your ass where it belongs, that is if your head can get out of it first.

Well, that was a nice friendly exchange.

3412

Bob Dole says he won’t vote for Cruz.

3413

You mean, “Bob Dole says Bob Dole won’t vote for Cruz.”

3414

Very. And somehow you neglected to justify your “campaign promises” statement.

3415

Calbuzz lays it out:

Donald Trump leads among Republicans because he has a stranglehold on the most ignorant voters in America. That’s not just our opinion, but an Actual Fact…

…Trump’s support for the Republican nomination is not defined by ideology or age or gender. It’s defined by education. Among GOP voters with a college degree in the latest CNN poll, Trump comes in fourth with just 18 percent. But he has a huge lead among non-college voters — 46 percent. No other candidate comes close.

3416

You know what , I feel no reason to justify it to someone who obviously doesn’t bother to read anything before going off like a bomb.

Perhaps the apparent fact that he made “500” promises over two campaigns is enough to illustrate my point. Based on that he has failed to deliver on 275 of them and outright lied on 22% of them.

I also would wager his success/failure/lie ratio is probably pretty standard of all presidents.

3417

Hehe, awesome. What’s Norm McDonald doing these days besides the (awesome) ads for KFC?

Edit to add: BTW, I’m old enough to know that Dan Aykroyd did that Bob Dole shtick first.

3418

While I think there is a degree of thoughtlessness and theater to the proposals that he makes, I have no doubt that once he comes up with these brilliant ideas, he’s fully on board with them. Trumps father was arrested at a klan rally in 1927 (which, lacking any details about the arrest or his release, doesn’t prove that he was in the klan but where there’s smoke…) and was forced to settle a civil rights suit against him in 1979 for refusing to rent to blacks and pressuring existing black tenants to leave his properties. Trump was also an unrepentant birther when it came to Obama. This shit is at the core of who he is as a person.

Thank you.

Yeah, they shouldn’t be allowed to skate free of this just because Trump went outside the Overton window. He is saying what they’ve been programming for years. The chickens are coming home to roost.

3419

Hehe, awesome. What’s Norm McDonald doing these days besides the (awesome) ads for KFC?

He’s a crazy Christian fundamentalist now.

3420

No way, really? He’s the last guy I would have pegged for that. (goes off to check)

3421

Bob Dole was the first person I voted for president. Didn’t vote Dem until Kerry. Always felt he was a decent man at his core.