Could the whole question over Trumps ability to unite the party be manufactured drama?

[Agnosticsherbet]

Or even just part of the Republican's Media Domination Plan?

So far, the Republican party and Ryan's non-support support for Trump has drawn the media like crack addicts to a pusher. It has netted them continued wall to wall coverage. In ever news segment the plight of down ballot races is mentioned, drawing attention to the imperiled Republican Controlled Senate and even to House races.

If media consultants sat down before this whole thing started and plotted this process out, they could not have managed better dominance of free media coverage.

I may be wearing a tin foil hat, but this smells contrived to me.

So ask yourself, is this just part of a plan to guarantee free media dominance by Republicans?

[cyberswede]

1. I wouldn't be surprised.

They know how to generate media attention, that's for sure.

And imagine how the media will fall all over Trump once he DOES "unite" the party (that is, when all the Rs, as scripted, line up behind him). He'll be portrayed as some sort of demigod with fantastic abilities to bring people together. Ugh.

[Agnosticsherbet]

4. That is my feeling, also. nt

[DetlefK]

6. That's a very risky play.

Trump's voters are pissed at the GOP-establishment for making promises and then breaking them. And there ARE GOP-voters who despise Trump.

Trump and the GOP-establishment cannot come together and proclaim unity when the pro-Trumps and the never-Trumps are clearly NOT coming together. Both sides would start asking the question: "What kind of unity are Trump and the GOP-establishment talking about? There are still republican voters on both sides of the issue!"

Trump is appealing to what the voters already think. If Trump starts trying DICTATE the voters what to think, he becomes like the GOP-establishment. And if his voters get the feeling that he's in cahoots with the people who have let them down...

[Kelvin Mace]

2. Almost everyone in the GOP will vote for Trump

I am surrounded by Republicans at work and while they all profess absolute dismay about Trump, they are now starting to talk about voting for him since the alternative is HRC.

In the end they hate HRC more than they fear Trump. They will talk themselves into believing that he is better than her.

[DetlefK]

7. That will be a very interesting post-mortem.

If Trump loses, who is to blame? Trump would become a compromise-candidate like Romney: No real support (apart from a core base) but there's nobody else available.

1. Who had the insane idea to run Trump? He wasn't even a conservative!!!

2. The GOP lost because it wasn't conservative enough!

[Kelvin Mace]

8. The GOP establishment lost for being a tease

They talked in code about hating minorities and women. Trump speaks proudly of it and stokes the flames. He is tapping straight into white America's visceral bigotry and he will turn out the voters. The Right LOATHES HRC and independents are not very loving of her either. Add to this the DNC's scorn for Greens and Liberals and you have the makings of a Trump presidency.

[DetlefK]

9. It boils down to: Who hates whom more?

How many Greens and Liberals can stomach voting for an establishment-hawk like Clinton when the alternative is Trump?

How many fiscal conservatives, national-security-hawks and evangelicals can stomach voting for a narcissistic know-nothing like Trump when the alternative is Clinton?

[Kelvin Mace]

10. When it comes to hate, my money is on the pros

No one can hate like conservatives.

[DetlefK]

11. The viciousness in GD:P makes me doubt that. :D

[Kelvin Mace]

12. Oh, it's bad in GD:P

But thirty seconds at FreeRepublic.com on an Obama thread makes our guys look like Mr. Rogers.

[Peacetrain]

3. I am having one of those mornings

Trump stump everywhere.. maybe this is like what he did to NY.. I have never been there..but it is Trump everything .. his name everywhere.. he seems to be running his campagin the same way..

[doc03]

5. They will fall in line they were willing to vote for Satan in the flesh

they can vote for Trump if it is to keep another Democrat out of the Whitehouse.