Some factions with the Republican Party are doing their best to hand over the keys to the White House to the irretrievably corrupt pathological liar Hillary Clinton because they dislike presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.
This suicidal gesture will help Barack Obama complete his fundamental transmogrification of America. The movement is being led by high-profile Republicans like two-time loser Mitt Romney and unsuccessful California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman who have proved over the years that they understand so little about electoral politics that they would have no business directing a two-car funeral procession.
Whitman, by the way, trashed Trump over the weekend comparing him to dead fascists and suggested the Islamofascist-enabling Bungler of Benghazi would be a better choice to lead America. An informal poll taken by attendees suggested the meeting was evenly split among Trump and Clinton supporters.
Unfortunately, cutting off their nose to spite their face comes naturally to Republican Rats who understand neither the tactics needed in political warfare nor what the American Left is all about. By undermining Trump, in typical Republican fashion they are scurrying from a seaworthy ship that far from sinking is being buoyed on a swelling tide of public support. The GOP is in ascent and Democratic office-holders nationwide are becoming an endangered species. It is the Democratic Party that is on the ropes, not the party of Lincoln. The Democrats only hold a strong hand at the presidential level and -- unlike Republicans -- they won't give it up without a fight.
It is a shame that so many Republicans don't fight personally or with emotion. In the process they fail to win over and alienate constituencies that might otherwise support them in elections.
As David Horowitz argues, voters have been known to steer clear of candidates who bore them. Democrats get them excited. They use personalized, emotional rhetoric and that's how they get people to vote for them. Democrats get people to think that they "care" about them and their problems and that the opposition is evil. Horowitz points out, for instance, that Asian-Americans ought to be a natural GOP constituency. They tend to be industrious, family-oriented, and welfare-averse, but they have a habit of voting for Democrats because they believe Democrats "care" about them.
By contrast, Donald Trump for all his many faults is someone who gets what political war is about. He is also getting people who have never voted before or never voted Republican to vote for him.
It is true that Trump was not anywhere near the most conservative of the 17 primary candidates but if he honors only a fraction of his promises, that will still effectively put him to the right of both Mitt Romney and John McCain, two milquetoast establishment-backed failures who didn't want to win badly enough to dare to be conservative.
Trump is good on the issues that matter most right now. He's on the right side on immigration, national security, Islamic jihad, taxes, repealing Obamacare, and he may be onto something when he says our allies need to contribute more to their own defense.
Besides, immigration may turn out to be the defining issue in America for decades to come. In the current political environment it is reasonable to think that the immigration issue may be to the modern Grand Old Party what slavery was to the nascent GOP in antebellum days.
Meanwhile, news of the latest volunteer drive for the GOP circular firing squad came over the weekend as Romney welcomed donors to a fancy gathering out West.
Romney played host in Park City, Utah, a longtime redoubt of left-wing elitism in the home of the George Soros-backed Sundance Film Festival. This exclusive getaway at the posh Stein Eriksen Lodge for roughly 300 Republicans was touted as Romney's “Experts and Enthusiasts,” or “E2,” summit.
The conference followed Romney's CNN appearance Friday in which he blasted Trump as a racist and a woman-hater. A Trump presidency would change America with "trickle-down racism, trickle-down bigotry, trickle-down misogyny," he said, adding "all these things are extraordinarily dangerous to the heart and character of America."
The gaffe-prone former one-term Massachusetts governor of course is the father of the dreadful "RomneyCare" system in the Bay State, which served as a template for the Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare. Throughout the 2012 presidential campaign cycle Romney repeatedly pulled his punches, refusing to criticize the metastasizing socialist monstrosity that stands as the president's signature legislative achievement.
This Republican rat could have done the honorable thing and admitted he was wrong about government-run healthcare and challenged Obama's record but instead he retreated to his corner hoping the issue would just go away. He could have beaten Obama if only he possessed some courage.
This kind of cowardice is common among establishment Republicans who prefer to preserve their personal power instead of risking it by taking the fight to their enemies.
As a longtime Republican activist friend of mine likes to say, a RINO (Republican In Name Only) isn't necessarily someone who strays from conservative orthodoxy. "A RINO is a Republican who refuses to fight." For example, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, despite his liberal views on abortion and gun rights, is no RINO. He's tough. He engages his adversaries and fights for what he believes in.
There are several communities among Republicans that are trying either to oust Trump or force him to be more conservative.
Some factions within the GOP are withholding their support from Trump, the master dealmaker, in the hope they can pressure him to move right. In this writer's opinion this kind of haggling or horse-trading is a legitimate, honorable tactic and -- who knows? -- it might help Trump see the light on some issues.
But others are trying to substitute a Republican candidate of their own choosing at the approaching convention in Cleveland, a move that would almost certainly guarantee a Republican defeat in November because it would overrule the clearly expressed will of the GOP primary electorate. The voters are turning out in record numbers, energized by the undeniably charismatic Trump, and they would not accept such a thing.
Some are trying to draft an independent third party candidate. A third party candidate has never won the presidency. It is very difficult given the lay of the land and the structure of the Electoral College.
But these last two approaches, bad as they may be, don't reach the level of collaborating with the loathsome party on the other side. The Democratic Party is now a hotbed of radicalism, anti-white racism, cop-hatred, and anti-Americanism that has gone so far left under Obama that even a conventionally left-wing Democrat like former Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) who voted for ObamaCare and generally toed the party line is now unwelcome.
Backing Hillary Clinton is the ultimate betrayal, not just of the Republican Party, but of America.
To recap, Meg Whitman, now a wealthy GOP donor, more or less endorsed Hillary Clinton at the mountain retreat.
"She posed the question, 'Is it not reasonable to support Hillary Clinton?' given all the awful things Trump has said," donor John Chachas told ABC News.
Whitman, who co-chaired the finance committee in Romney's disastrous presidential campaign in 2012, told reporters she hasn't yet decided whether to join the other team. "We’ll see, get to the conventions, see who the vice presidential picks are. And then I will make that decision."
She did not indicate if she planned to donate to the Clinton campaign.
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Whitman spent much of her time at the comfy confab slandering Trump. Sources said she likened Trump to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, usually a tactic of the Left when -- and in some cases long before -- they run out of arguments.
"Look at the comments he's made about women, about Muslims, about reporters, it's just repugnant," she said on CNBC in March.
At the meeting she asked Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), whose tepid endorsement of Trump has been followed by vigorous criticism of the presumptive nominee, how he could support Trump. Ryan, who was on Romney's ticket as vice presidential nominee four years ago, reportedly gave a perfunctory explanation saying he had party obligations as House Speaker.
GOP donor Scott Keller from Utah expressed shock at Whitman's betrayal of her party. "I see Meg Whitman supporting Clinton, and I’m surprised about that," he said. "I love and respect Meg Whitman but, my gosh."
Keller said he is supporting the party's presumptive nominee. "These guys are a lot smarter than I am, and if they’re endorsing [Trump], that's kind of reassuring to me.”
Breitbart's Patrick Howley paints a bleak picture of the current state of the anti-Trump effort, reporting that:
"The dwindling #NeverTrump movement, comprised of establishment consultants, pundits, and activists, has been in a tailspin since Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol was unable to find a suitable third-party challenger to enter the race. Even obscure National Review writer David French rejected Kristol’s effort to get him to run. Kristol met with Romney about a possible third-party run, but Romney evidently is not joining the race."
Count on Romney to keep on meddling in the affairs of a party that doesn't want him or respect him.
Some factions with the Republican Party are doing their best to hand over the keys to the White House to the irretrievably corrupt pathological liar Hillary Clinton because they dislike presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.
This suicidal gesture will help Barack Obama complete his fundamental transmogrification of America. The movement is being led by high-profile Republicans like two-time loser Mitt Romney and unsuccessful California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman who have proved over the years that they understand so little about electoral politics that they would have no business directing a two-car funeral procession.
Whitman, by the way, trashed Trump over the weekend comparing him to dead fascists and suggested the Islamofascist-enabling Bungler of Benghazi would be a better choice to lead America. An informal poll taken by attendees suggested the meeting was evenly split among Trump and Clinton supporters.
