Donald Trump is a stalking horse for Jeb Bush

[uponit7771]

I'm throwing my hat in that arena now... I thought it would be

A repub on Maddow said tonight that reThugs are followers and that's the thing I agree with, they'll do what they're told to do so if the RNC said vote for Bush they'll vote for Bush.

His recent FEC filing is a joke, 20% of the campaign money ... much of it borrowed from himself or some shit...

is going to

DONALD TRUMP... here


This man is into the screw over if I've ever seen one, he'll take money from old people if he's go to..

your take?

tia

[Schema Thing]

1. He's not a stalking horse for anyone.

He sure looks like a Trojan Horse working for Hillary, though. Not that I think there is any deal made.


But if they run anyone but him (and I think they very well may), it would be someone like Paul Ryan or at least someone like Cruz or Kasich, who really want it. Or maybe someone completely off the radar. And frankly, it worries me a little.

[hollysmom]

2. I keep thinking money spent against him is wasted money,let him cream himself

or let him become the nominee before spending it against him. Jebby or Mitt. hmmm opor someone no one has ever heard of so that people don't hate him right away, that would be the worst. Look how long people didn't know how evil Kasich was/is. Heck there are still people who think he is a moderate. Democrats said they could vote for him, without any knowledge about hiim at all. He just didn't act crazy on TV.

[Lord Magus]

3. Some unknown that literally no one voted on would be unable to rally Trump voters around them.

These people are fanatical cultists who hate the Republican "establishment" and see Trump as some sort of messiah figure. They're not going to just fall in line after their chosen one gets tossed out in a coup.

[hollysmom]

4. when In the south I met an amazing number of people who voted for whoever their minister told them

to vote for. Much like the ministers who take walking around money in the north. Probably happens in a lot of religions, kind of like celebrity endorsements. Trump was talking about how much money people think it would take from him to drop out of the race, sounded like negotiation to me. heh. I am kidding but I am not.

[uponit7771]

5. +1, the new norm for pubs is "not crazy".... lol

[Schema Thing]

8. I agree on the money - as long as Trump is where he is, shooting himself full of holes...

the DNC and Hillary should just make it a tsunami of money flooding the congressional races.


I'm no fan of Hillary - but let's finish the GOP off if we have the chance.

[The Wizard]

6. O Henry covered this in 1907

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ransom_of_Red_Chief

[vixengrl]

7. I just made a comment on my blog about this weird feeling the Trump Campaign gives me--

the Trump campaign being a primary winner-but general election-fail bait and switch seems to give the RNC Powers that Be more credit than they apparently do have, but I worried a little to the following tune:

There is something "too good to be true" that I don't trust about this campaign on some level--like his poor-mouthing disarray right this minute is only staging for him to seem like an underdog, the way a pool shark fakes being inept at the game to con people into placing bets, before going in for the kill with a surprise fundraising apparatus and newly-discovered message discipline showing up just post-convention "bump". Battling from a six or seven point deficit to a one or two point lead for even minute would get treated in the press like "momentum", since both sides and horserace for life, etc. Which would then become the plucky outsider Trump campaign little engine that could.

How paranoid am I that I can find a narrative where this tire-fire on the landfill of life turns out a Trump success-story?

I think I am probably just being paranoid, the GOP made their bed and will lie in it, the rabble will be waaaayyy too highly roused if a switcheroo in candidates occurs at the convention, and Romney/Cruz/Trump/Walker would all walk away with their hands in their pockets if the party had the stones to try and install a "pretender" candidate. The Republican base wouldn't go along with the sham, and their dude would just lose at the polls. But making the switch would make the party look better in the long run-- "See--we saw he was trouble and tried to nip it in the bud" (albeit after all the primaries were tallied, so, our bad about that). Then they could pretend they aren't all that racist misogynist nativist fascist crap. Hell naw! Just that one celebrity novelty thing that one time! Honest!