I really can't believe the Rs are going to stick with Trump

[stopbush]

Every day is a new set of offenses and a new disaster. What must they be thinking in the smoke-filled rooms at RNC Central?

Surely, they recognize the generational disaster they have on their hands in Trump. Better to deny him the nomination by any means possible, take any bad publicity that arises, run anybody else but Trump and prepare for a defeat that will at least not take the whole Party down with the candidate.

How can he possibly shift gears or walk back the hate and stupidity he has unleashed? The Ds certainly aren't interested in turning the page on Trump. They have enough ammunition against him to feed 8 campaigns.

It is surreal, is it not?

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. I don't think they will

I smell a rat. They cannot be trusted.

Watch for a classic bait-and-switcheroo.

[floriduck]

4. Some of us can't believe so many of our Ds are voting for Hillary. I guess when you have one

life to live, you live it on the edge.

[stopbush]

12. Most Ds are voting for Hillary. Many fewer Ds are voting for Sanders.

Were it not for non-Dems being allowed to vote, Sanders would be getting trounced even worse than he is.

[hamsterjill]

8. I smell one, too.

I hope not, but like you, if it's a Republican, I don't trust it.

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Trump is the self-proclaimed master of "deal" -

Need I say more?

How would HRC do against a Mitt Romney, for example? Not so good, I'd guess.

Stay tuned............

[hamsterjill]

10. Hillary will eat Trump's lunch.

My post involved the fact that I (and others) don't trust that the Republicans will not do something "un-conventional".

Not sure why Hillary was brought into your reply, but since you did, she will do just fine against Donald.

[TheCowsCameHome]

11. ....that's assuming it is Trump.

You assume a lot.

[hamsterjill]

18. Whatever....

Hillary will be fine.

[L. Coyote]

24. Likewise. Trump is demented will be the scenario. Alzheimer's you know.

And that leaves the Dems with an old candidate against the Republican's young surprise factor. No one expects these things to be easy, and they shouldn't.

[The empressof all]

29. That's right

Trump is being given enough rope to hang himself and will be offered an elegant out before the convention. I predict medical reasons. Then they can run a more moderate candidate they couldn't get through the primaries. Classic rope a dope!

[uponit7771]

33. +1

[Cosmocat]

34. You give them too much credit

for all their arrogant, dismissive attitude toward the evil liberal, they are long standing chumps.

That is why Trump ran as an R, he knew which party was ripe to be conned.

They will continue to blindly get in line, because that is what they have done at the very least during the entirety of my adult life (since the 80s).

They are brainless pods, who are weak minded enough, or mean spirited enough, to allow a party with the singular purpose of making the rich even richer, to take their vote in order to have a GRAND OLD PARTY of bigotry, racism and general hatred.

[Agnosticsherbet]

2. Don't think they have a way to depose him. He won the nomination.

He is what the Republican party wants.

I suppose the could withdraw, but his ego is too big for that.

[pampango]

6. I suspect that is their real quandary. How do you dump him without alienating all his voters

in the republican primary. They probably figure the cure is worse than the disease at this point.

[Jack Bone]

3. they're sticking w/ him because he can beat Hillary. nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. If he can, that means anyone can.

[gratuitous]

19. Let me know if any of them post at DU

I'm trying to monetize their gullibility, and I'll put a $10 donation to DU on the line with anyone who thinks that Trump can beat Clinton in November.

[quaker bill]

7. I think they are flushing 2016

and will run to try to keep majorities in the House and Senate. Newt took a dump on him today, wait to see more do the same.

[yellowcanine]

15. "Newt took a dump on him today" Ew.

Now that is going to require some brain bleach to remove.

[wiggs]

13. Almost any R would have lost the presidential campaign anyway...high

turnout, changing demographics, poor platform, a successful dem president, a poor and ridiculous R presidential slate, etc..

However...They can (and will) focus on State races now and on congress in two years and will manage to continue to do a lot of damage to democracy, progressive agendas, science, knowledge, education, environment, vote integrity, income/wealth inequality, civil rights, infrastructure funding, safety nets, etc..

In fact and as reported, a lost presidential cause just means more money to go to state and local elections.

[Reter]

20. Any other Republican would have beaten her by 15-20 points

The fact that Trump is even (or barely behind) says wonders about her.

[UTUSN]

14. k

[Kingofalldems]

16. No way he's the nominee.

[craigmatic]

17. They're trying to show unity to minimize losses. It'll work because they all hate Hillary so they'll

hold their noses to vote for trump. If we had nominated anybody else this probably wouldn't have been the case.

[Invincibility]

22. Good analysis imo

If it was somebody else I suspect a lot of republicans would have simply stayed home. They're not happy with trump either. However their hatred of Hillary is unifying them to hold their noses and vote.

[MohRokTah]

21. I'm still scared Trump will take his ball and go home.

I'm afraid the asshole will get pissed off and quit before the convention, and hen they do something like put up a moderate or something nutty like that. Make it a real race and all that.

I won't be comfortable until the piece of shit is the official nominee at the convention.

[ecstatic]

23. Me too. He is impulsive with an untreated personality disorder

When the media scrutiny gets to be too much, Trump will pull out.

[LenaBaby61]

28. What moderate ....

Can they FIND

[Rex]

25. This was bound to happen, the party of dysfunctional had to reach a zenith.

I thought it was Dick and Dubya...no...wrong...it is Dump. He is all the confused and idiotic Me First crowd understand. The final evolution of a teabagger.

[puffy socks]

26. They will , They hate Liberals that much. Progressives thought eyes would open in 2004 after it was

proven there were no WMDs and AlQaeda wasnt in Iraq.
Nope people stuck to stupid.



It was also said that Trump would never get the nomination. That Paul Ryan would never get in line.



"How can he possibly shift gears or walk back the hate and stupidity he has unleashed?"

The Republicans simply don't care. They know they can negotiate a deal with Mr Stupidity

[LenaBaby61]

27. I HOPE...

Trump stays the GOP candidate.

He's such a horrible PERSON & candidate, and day by day he's turning into more of a horrible racist, woman-hating pig than he's already shown himself to be.

He has no vision, only filled with division and hatred for anybody other than while, rich males like himself.

Stay the course GOP. Your candidate is truly representing you as a party

[Hekate]

30. Trump is such a litmus test for the USA it's ghastly. But the GOP is going to be reduced ...

....to a bunch of aging white racists, an ever smaller constituency, and it will serve them right.

I saw Anna Navarro rip Jeffrey Lord a new one on Anderson Cooper tonight. She was magnificent: I don't think I've ever seen such a display of well-articulated fury on live tv. The Latinos are GONE.

[Warren DeMontague]

31. They don't have a choice.

Which strikes me as sort of funny, given that they're the anti-choice party.

[pansypoo53219]

32. they think he could win.

[auntpurl]

35. "The racism was supposed to be a SECRET."

I love the fact he is exposing the Republican party's dirty little secrets just by SAYING THEM OUT LOUD.

[Sunlei]

36. agree, Rs are "surreal" bizarre to back a racist. Have to wait & see if their convention 'backs' him

Some of the 'campaign suspenders' didn't release their delegates, suspended means they could come back. Republicans may pull a 'ron paul move' on trump.

Republicans are like hamsters, they have been known to eat their own creations.