GOP source tells me "if it wasn't clear before it should be now. We have a Trump problem"

[In It to Win It]

Jacqui Heinrich
@JacquiHeinrich

Second GOP source sees below tweet, texts me “Knives are out for Kevin McCarthy, if he is under 225, expect Scalise to make a move quickly for speaker”

Jacqui Heinrich
@JacquiHeinrich

GOP source tells me “if it wasn’t clear before it should be now. We have a Trump problem”

Link to tweet

[LisaM]

1. The problem is that the GOP created Trump.

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First Reagan, dismantling the Fairness Doctrine, union busting, then the Bork and Thomas nominations, stoking the Federalist Society, dismantling mental health institutions, the dirty campaign tactics of Lee Atwater, the loosening rules of media ownership, the 2000 election and subsequent effect on the Supreme Court, then Citizens United and tearing up the Voting Rights Act, then coddling the Tea Party to get gun votes.....what did they expect would happen?

Honestly, "Frankenstein" should be required reading.

[hamsterjill]

12. Such a great post!

You have nailed it!!!

The idea that none of them have stood up to Trump (i.e., Ted Cruz kissing Trump’s ass after Trump criticized his family, Pence not standing up when Trump almost had him killed) should also be part of the equation. Republicans don’t stand FOR anything. They just go along with the bullies getting the attention and don’t fight back.

[PatSeg]

2. They should have seen it coming

It was inevitable.

[renate]

3. If I had to choose between Trump going to prison and Trump being rejected by millions of cultists

... I would pick rejection. It would hurt him so much more.

If this election turns into his name becoming a taunt or a synonym for failure within the GOP as it already has throughout the word, that is better to me than any prison sentence.

I mean, I'd still bust open a bottle of champagne when/if he goes to jail. But I just love the idea of his becoming utterly irrelevant.

[NowISeetheLight]

7. I'm greedy

I WANT BOTH!

[Maru Kitteh]

4. Oh the CRYING over at freakerville . .

It's DELICIOUS

[In It to Win It]

6. SURE IS!

[exboyfil]

5. We tried to impeach him

And you stopped us.

[Baitball Blogger]

10. Twice.

[Dorian Gray]

8. It was clear in 2016.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. Sounds like they're ignoring their anti-abortion platform.

[Scrivener7]

11. If it wasn't clear before, you might want to check your status as a sentient being.

If it wasn't clear before, you might actually be gravel.

[JHB]

13. You guys spent 50 years breeding a party that would be hot for a Trump, and NOW you figure out...

...that you have a "Trump problem"?

This has been inevitable since bomb-throwing Newt was made Speaker of the House and blowhard Rush was made National Ward Captain.

Since you turned your party over to people who had no interest in compromise and comity, who were all for "extremism ... is no vice" but have a blinkered view of what constitutes liberty.

[Emile]

14. They have only themselves to blame!

[tanyev]

15. Oh, you've had a Trump problem for a long time.

You're just now getting to a point where you might ADMIT you have a Trump problem.

[hatrack]

16. When was it not clear? When was it not blazingly, hideously clear?

[Deminpenn]

17. ETTD

as Rick Wilson said, but this time it's the entire GOP.