Growing fear inside GOP about Trump....Bwahahahahahaaa

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Washington (CNN)Top Republican officials and donors are increasingly worried over the threat Donald Trump's attack on a judge's Mexican heritage could pose to their party's chances in November -- and about the GOP's ability to win Latino votes for many elections to come.

Trump is under fire for repeatedly accusing U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is overseeing a lawsuit involving Trump University, of bias because of his Mexican heritage. Those concerns intensified Sunday after Trump said he would have the same concerns about the impartiality of a Muslim judge.

House and Senate GOP leaders have condemned Trump's remarks about Curiel, while donors have openly worried that losing Latino voters could doom them in key down-ballot races. Other important party figures, including former Speaker Newt Gingrich, are urging Trump to change his combative, confrontational style before it's too late.

The GOP's deepest fear: A Barry Goldwater effect that could last far longer than Trump's political aspirations.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/05/politics/gop-fears-donald-trump-judge-attack/index.html

[Agnosticsherbet]

1. The got what they wanted. A successful businessman who will run government like he ran Trump U.

Why should they complain.

[Skittles]

5. CORRECT

except it's GUBMINT, Agnosticsherbet

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7. My spellchecker screwed that Up.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Yet McConnell, Ryan, and the other d-bags can't wait to vote for him.

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6. did they really think they could control & contain this maniac?

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3. The monster that they have created

Karma bites.

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4. K&R. n/t

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8. Goldwater effect? Make it so.

“In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.” --John F. Kennedy

[ErikJ]

13. Except Nixon won 4 years later!

And he converted the whole south to the Republican party doing so which still gives us headaches 45 yrs later.

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15. Nixon converted the south to the Republican party?

He signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and implemented forced integration of the public school system? The inherent racism of the white south is what turned them against Kennedy/Johnson and the Democratic Party. Good riddance.

[ErikJ]

16. Yes, he is why they call it the Nixon Southern Strategy.

From Wikipedia.

Nixon's advisers recognized that they could not appeal directly to voters on issues of white supremacy or racism. White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman noted that Nixon "emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognized this while not appearing to."[42] With the aid of Harry Dent and South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, who had switched to the Republican Party in 1964, Richard Nixon ran his 1968 campaign on states' rights and "law and order." Liberal Northern Democrats accused Nixon of pandering to Southern whites, especially with regard to his "states' rights" and "law and order" positions, which were widely understood by black leaders to symbolize southern resistance to civil rights.[43] This tactic was described in 2007 by David Greenberg in Slate as "dog-whistle politics."[44] According to an article in The American Conservative, Nixon adviser and speechwriter Pat Buchanan disputed this characterization.[45]

The independent candidacy of George Wallace, former Democratic governor of Alabama, partially negated Nixon's Southern strategy.[46] With a much more explicit attack on integration and black civil rights, Wallace won all of Goldwater's states (except South Carolina), as well as Arkansas and one of North Carolina's electoral votes. Nixon picked up Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida, while Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey won only Texas in the South. Writer Jeffrey Hart, who worked on the Nixon campaign as a speechwriter, said in 2006 that Nixon did not have a "Southern Strategy" but "Border State Strategy;" as he said that the 1968 campaign ceded the Deep South to George Wallace. Hart suggested that the press called it a "Southern Strategy" as they are "very lazy".[47]

In the 1972 election, by contrast, Nixon won every state in the Union except Massachusetts, winning more than 70 percent of the popular vote in most of the Deep South (Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina) and 61% of the national vote. He won more than 65 percent of the votes in the other states of the former Confederacy. Nixon won 18% of the black vote nationwide. Despite his appeal to Southern whites, Nixon was widely perceived as a moderate outside the South and won African-American votes on that basis.

Glen Moore argues that in 1970, Nixon and the Republican Party developed a "Southern Strategy" for the midterm elections. The strategy involved depicting Democratic candidates as permissive liberals. Republicans thereby managed to unseat Albert Gore, Sr., of Tennessee, as well as Senator Joseph D. Tydings of Maryland. For the entire region, however, the net result was a small loss of seats for the Republican Party in the South.[48]

Regional attention in 1970 focused on the Senate, when Nixon nominated Judge G. Harrold Carswell of Florida, a judge on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to the Supreme Court.[49] A lawyer from north Florida, Carswell had a mediocre record, but Nixon needed a Southerner and a "strict constructionist," to support his "southern strategy" of moving the region toward the GOP. Carswell was voted down by the liberal block in the Senate, causing a backlash that pushed many Southern Democrats into the Republican fold. The long-term result was a realization by both parties that nominations to the Supreme Court could have a major impact on political attitudes In the South.[50]

[Wounded Bear]

9. Buyer's remorse...

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10. you'd think when he called them rapists and murderers there should have been some 'growing fear'???!

[Wounded Bear]

11. Self awareness is not strong in those folks...nt

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12. Well, given their views on consent, they thought at first it was a complement.

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14. I thought they liked it when he spoke his mind

He's unfiltered, untethered, and his views are outside the beltway. He's the perfect GOP outsider. What more could they want from the candidate they created?

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17. Money Latinos that vote (R) have a line even they won't cross.

Trump has made his position on Latinos quite clearly. He & the (R) will learn that they're idealized version of America has changed forever.