Conservative groups confirmed plans to halt the rise of Donald Trump to the GOP nomination for president as the GOP continues to panic over the Frankenstein-like monster they’ve created. Trump’s front-runner status, which he so far holds by a wide, wide margin, was not in the GOP’s plans for 2016. They are desperate to stop him.
“William Kristol, the prominent neoconservative editor of The Weekly Standard, sent a memo to allies outlining how backers could get a third party candidate on general election ballots around the country if Trump wins the GOP nomination, the New York Times reported.
The group is eyeing former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., along with less prominent conservatives for the role, according to the report.”
One of the groups heavily involved in the effort to stop Trump’s momentum in the GOP primaries is the Club for Growth, which describes itself as “a national network of over 100,000 pro-growth, limited government Americans who share in the belief that prosperity and opportunity come from economic freedom.” Club for Growth is responsible for more than $2 million in attack ads against Trump that failed to derail him in Illinois and Florida.
“David McIntosh, president of the conservative Club for Growth, which has spent millions on ads attacking Mr. Trump, said his group met on Wednesday and concluded it was still possible to avert Mr. Trump’s nomination. The group plans a comprehensive study of Trump supporters to sharpen a message aimed at driving them away from him.
‘This is still a winnable race for a free-market conservative that’s not Donald Trump,” Mr. McIntosh said, adding, “It’s not a layup, but there’s a clear path to victory.'”
Other conservative groups joining the fight against Trump include Our Principles PAC and the American Future Fund, both of whom supported Mitt Romney in the 2012 elections. Together, they plan a 100-day campaign aimed at supporting and elevating a third-party candidate, and a far more conservative one, over Trump.
Honestly, though, Rick Perry and Tom Coburn? Rick Perry couldn’t even make it as a GOP candidate for 100 days against the current candidates, and dropped out of the race on September 11, 2015. Coburn has spoken out publicly not only against Trump but also Ted Cruz, who Coburn blames for the impossible expectations that GOP voters have of their elected congressmen and women, and who many far-right groups despise for being too middle-of-the-road and friendly to Clinton and Obama. Coburn was notoriously named the “Tea Partier long before the movement even had a name” by the New York Times, but seemed to soften and adjust his views very quickly when the ridiculous Tea Party strategies made the GOP look insane.
Can anything stop Trump’s momentum and save the GOP from ultimate collapse, or is it already too late? Will supporting a softer kind of crazy work for the Republican Party? How long will it be before the GOP becomes a dark and heavy footnote in US political parties of the past?
Let’s all just enjoy watching the GOP implode from it’s racist, insane inside-out, shall we?
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