Thread: Why anti-Trump Republicans are losing

Why anti-Trump Republicans are losing

By W. James Antle III (@jimantle) • 3/16/16 2:53 AM

Anti-Trump Republicans have gotten their wish: the 2016 GOP presidential contest has become a race between Donald Trump and Not Donald Trump.
There's just one problem: Donald Trump is winning.

It is by no means a clean sweep. Trump lost Ohio's winner-take-all primary to Gov. John Kasich by a bigger than expected margin in perhaps the
clearest example of strategic anti-Trump voting seen yet. Trump barely leads Ted Cruz in Missouri and left some delegates on the table in Illinois
and North Carolina.

Yet Trump won three and probably four out of the five states that voted Tuesday. He destroyed Marco Rubio in Florida and knocked him out of
the presidential race. Barring a reversal in Missouri due to recount, the only candidate to beat Trump last night is one with no path to the
nomination through the primaries.

While Cruz hasn't been mathematically eliminated from meeting the 1,237-delegate threshold for winning the nomination outright, Republicans
against Trump face long odds unless they can force a contested convention and beat him there or bolt the party in large numbers.

That last bit may not be such a farfetched scenario. The exit polls found that 37 percent of Republican primary voters who turned out Tuesday
would be open to voting for a third party against Trump: 30 percent in Florida, 40 percent in Illinois, 42 percent in Missouri, 39 percent in
North Carolina and 41 percent in Ohio — and these are mostly states Trump won.

The early data found that two-thirds of Republicans voting against Trump would entertain a third-party vote in November if he was the nominee.
Seven in ten Republicans overall would still probably or definitely vote for Trump and the percentage of people who say they'd consider a third
party is usually much larger than those who actually vote for one.

Still, that shows a lot of discontent with Trump, whose favorability numbers aren't getting any better.

But Trump regularly racks up pluralities of GOP voters in a diverse range of states, from Arkansas to Massachusetts to Illinois. Cruz talks about
beating Trump "again and again," as he's managed to carry a few of the states he was supposed to win and occasionally outhustle the
billionaire in the caucuses.

On the other hand, Trump has generally beaten Cruz throughout the South, which was supposed to be the Texas senator's strongest region.
He has competed with Cruz for evangelical and conservative voters, who were supposed to be the Texan's base.

The theory has always been once the field winnows, Trump is toast. Maybe. But the field didn't winnow quickly enough to prevent Trump from
amassing a large delegate lead and Trump keeps winning as it shrinks.

Trump's surviving challengers have tried to come to terms with the reality TV star's success in different ways. Kasich positioned himself as the
rhetorical anti-Trump: the man who will bring people together rather than pull them apart, the wonk who can govern with a servant's heart
rather than the inflammatory and narcissistic political neophyte whose rallies degenerate into fisticuffs.

Kasich is so in love with the democratic process it makes him want to cry. He is the son of a mailman, the grandson of a coalminer and he wants
to carry on the traditions of the father of our country. Get it?

Cruz is trying to simultaneously be the practical and ideological anti-Trump. Ideological because he was a true believer in conservative causes
while Trump was bankrolling liberal ones, the reliable movement foot solider on issues where Trump is either a very recent convert or still
suspect to this day. Practical because he is the only candidate within a mile of Trump in the delegate count and also the only one to beat
Trump under less than perfect circumstances (with apologies to Rubio's wins in Puerto Rico and D.C. or Kasich's in his home state).

But the candidate whose Tuesday remarks may have best reflected the party's challenge in dealing with Trump is the one who won't be there
anymore. As Rubio ended his campaign, he told supporters that the anger voters feel is understandable, it was predictable, it was fanned even
by the conservative movement but has most of its roots in a party establishment that has lost touch with its voters.

Rubio demonstrated a level of understanding about what motivates Trump supporters that exceeded almost anything we have heard from his
rivals during this campaign. And yet even his swan song showed no hint of knowing how to offer competing alternatives or otherwise do
anything about it.

Thus Trump continues to win.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/why-anti-trump-republicans-are-losing/article/2585953

Republicans voting against Trump should stop and ask themselves why. Are you voting against Trump because he wants to fix our treasonous trade deals that are sucking jobs, money, investment, technology out of our country? Why would a good Republican vote against a candidate who wants to fix our disastrous trade policies and one who actually knows how to do it? Bizarre when you get down to it.

Are you voting against Trump because he wants to stop illegal immigration, reduce legal immigration, deport illegal aliens and get American Workers their jobs, hours and wages back? Why would a good Republican vote against a candidate who wants to and will fix our border and immigration problems?

Are you voting against Trump because he knows how to balance a budget, bid products and projects, and bring publicly-funded deals in on time and under budget to not only get Americans more value for their expenditures but reduce expenditures and spending overall? Why would a good Republican vote against a candidate that's balanced budgets for 50 years and even when all hell breaks loose and a company gets into trouble knows how to fight for it, save it and bring it back up again?

Are you voting against Trump because you don't like his "tone" or his "rhetoric"? Why would a good Republican vote against a candidate telling the truth about many illegal aliens, many foreign Muslims wanting to come to the US to live, women with sour puss faces trying to be President, Megyn Kelly's head about to explode in an interview, or Rosie O'Donnell? Donald Trump has done more for women than any other candidate in the race. He's hired women, promoted them, put them in charge of huge projects when the idea was unthinkable, a candidate who works hard and provides well for his family including the women in his family, including his ex-wives, a candidate who has his daughter running much of his company and does so with complete confidence and respect. Why would a good Republican resent a candidate who treats women equally to men? Why would a good Repubican vote against a candidate telling the truth about our problems?

Why would a good Republican who is supposed to support American Business, American Workers, American Interests, American Sovereignty oppose the only candidate in the race for President for decades who actually wants to be President to protect American Business, American Workers, American Interests and American Sovereignty?

Either they don't have the time to sort through all the bull and don't really know Donald Trump yet, or they have other interests and goals that don't have anything to do with fixing our country. Either way, it's a sad affair. This race should already be over and Trump should be working towards the November election against the Democratic opponent. To have our party split and factioned over do-nothings like Cruz and Kasich whose positions are completely contrary to fixing our country, is just a very sad reflection of what's been going on in the Republican Party for many years.

As a lifetime Republican from a family of Republicans who have been Republicans since there were Republicans before the Civil War when the party was founded, this is a very troubling revelation about what's been going on in our party that has contributed immensely to the grave problems our country faces and that must be solved by the next President of the United States.

And here's my conclusion after years of studying these problems:

1. Anyone who supports illegal immigration is on the take with the drug cartels behind it.
2. Anyone who supports free trade treason is bought and sold by the multi-national companies behind it.

There is no other plausible explanation.

When you have "Democracy Spring" in the United States waving signs that say "liberation not deportation" to try to take down a Presidential candidate, a take-off of the Arab Spring that toppled governments in Libya and Syria, it's time to wake the hell up and realize we've got bigger problems than the "tone" of a candidate who for a media event 15 or 20 years ago called Rosie O'Donnell a "fat pig" for making fun of his hair. After all, he's a counter-puncher. You punch him, he'll punch you back. Since when did that bother a good Republican? Hell, since when did that bother any good American?

Wake Up Americans. We got one chance to save our country and that chance is Donald J Trump. If you don't understand yet why that's the truth, write in, call in, do something to get the answers. It's not just our future that depends on you getting it right, it's yours, too.

STAY TRUE!! STAY TRUMP!!