I still think he’s a bloody genius when it comes to self promotion. His name has been international for decades for no reason. Even the way he destroyed the Republican party was brilliant in media strategy and pretty much devoid of anything else. He’s not a giant sack of wind, he’s THE giant sack of wind.
The general election will be a test of just how much will the GOP bigwigs degrade and debase themselves to get Trump elected. Do they hate Hillary enough to give Trump the key to our nuclear weapons? if nothing else, Trump will make the GOP leadership crawl on their knees and lick his boots. He’ll put them thru hell just to prove he’s better than them….and the GOP will let him get away with it, all because of their hate/fear of Hillary, Sanders and Obama. they’ll whore themselves out to Trump, then do the walk of shame the next morning – sore, limping and in desperate need of a scalding hot shower all while trying to convince themselves that it was worth the abuse and humiliation. But they’re going to find that the scars won’t fade and the stink of desperation will never wipe off.
The RNC is going to have to dig deep in its coffers just to pay for the convention. With Trump donations slowing and many of the deep-pocket super pacs that were in play in 2012 (and previous years) sitting on the sideline this year, I just don’t see how ol’ Rince Preibus is going to manage this Houdini act without completely bankrupting the party.
It’s pretty clear to me that Donald does not have nearly the money he claims to have and cannot afford to “self-finance” a national election (despite his previous claims.
) Big donors who had been reliably backing the GOP for years (Koch Bros, etc.) are also looking like they are going to sit this election cycle out, except for backing Congressional candidates, which provides little or no “up-platform” support for Trump.At what point, do Republican “insiders” cut-off funding and just let it go, rather than literally (and I use that term correctly) completely bankrupt the party? When faced with the prospect of losing their offices, the Capital Hill Club, and their fund-raising facilities do you honestly think that they are going to allow Trump to put them in a financial hole from which they cannot possibly recover?
As a lifelong Republican voter, I wish the GOP would nominate a true Man of the People!
Someone who isn’t a career politician, someone with real-world experience running a successful business, an outsider who isn’t beholden to the Beltway establishment, who will focus on issues like the economy and national security and eschew the divisive agenda of the religious culture warriors…