LOL, GOP Secretly Claims It Can Control Trump

[kpete]

“Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus has begun stating in private meetings that the party has sway over its at times unwelcome front-runner because it has tools Trump will need to use to win a general election — voter data and field, digital and media operations that a nominee typically inherits from the party infrastructure.

Dangling access to these resources, Priebus thinks he can help steer Trump toward partywide policy goals and away from the inflammatory rhetoric that Republican officials see as divisive and dangerous, especially outside of the primary, according to two Republican sources who have spoken with the RNC chairman.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/rnc-sees-leverage-over-trump-219759

[greymattermom]

1. isn't it the other way around now?

Doesn't Trump have "sway" over the RNC?

[leftofcool]

5. Yes, because he will run as a 3rd party if he doesn't get his way.

[islandmkl]

2. Dr. Frankenstein only wanted a pet human, too...

Reince fucked up and not only opened Pandora's box, but the he broke the lid and it won't close...

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. Trump can't even control Trump.

Seriously, the man has absolutely zero impulse control. It's pathological.

Do you know how many times he's said publicly this campaign how he's going to tone down his rhetoric?

His penchant for brashness and stupidity aren't going away, ever. Let's just hope the American people realize that before November, or we'll all be suffering because of it.

[Hoppy]

4. Rinse Penis has as much political insight as Michael Steel did.

[Javaman]

6. trying to control a wild tiger by grabbing it's tail. nt

[underpants]

7. Trump does need their stuff - HIS PEOPLE will take care of it

Now, who the hell his people are no one knows.

[librechik]

8. He'll have trouble because Republicans run almost all the state "election infrastructures"

Republican governors, Republican Secretaries of State and other election officials. Voter suppression in general.

That's why our elections are so crooked. They've done a great job of controlling the physical vote machine.

They do the counting. And if they don't want Trump, they can dump him by any number of grotesque quirks in local laws no one can fight until long after the election.

It's not Democrats who do this. Not this decade.

[Gothmog]

9. Denial is not just a river in Africa

[firebrand80]

10. yeah, like NOT giving him the data is an option nt

[Mc Mike]

11. Tranq darts with a heroin-lithium-thorazine compound? nt.

[surrealAmerican]

12. If the GOP should choose to withhold this information ...

... or put conditions on its use, they will only be hurting themselves in Senate and House races.

[yellowcanine]

13. Priebus is a nincompoop way in over his head.

[hifiguy]

14. Yup, that will work out just great.

The German right thought it had hired the Austrian Corporal back in the 1930s. They wound up working for him, much to their surprise.