Time For GOP Panic? Establishment Worried Carson Or Trump Might Win (draft Romney?)

[Purveyor]

By Philip Rucker and Robert Costa November 12 at 7:18 PM

Less than three months before the kick-off Iowa caucuses, there is growing anxiety bordering on panic among Republican elites about the dominance and durability of Donald Trump and Ben Carson and widespread bewilderment over how to defeat them.

Party leaders and donors fear nominating either man would have negative ramifications for the GOP ticket up and down the ballot, virtually ensuring a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidency and increasing the odds that the Senate falls into Democratic hands.

The party establishment is paralyzed. Big money is still on the sidelines. No consensus alternative to the outsiders has emerged from the pack of governors and senators running, and there is disagreement about how to prosecute the case against them. Recent focus groups of Trump supporters in Iowa and New Hampshire commissioned by rival campaigns revealed no silver bullet.

--CLIP
According to other Republicans, some in the party establishment are so desperate to change the dynamic that they are talking anew about drafting Romney — despite his insistence that he will not run again. Friends have mapped out a strategy for a late entry to pick up delegates and vie for the nomination in a convention fight, according to the Republicans, who were briefed on the talks, though Romney has shown no indication of reviving his interest.

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[840high]

1. kick

[geek tragedy]

2. Here Comes Money Boo-Boo. nt

[Gothmog]

3. If there is a deadlocked convention, I expect Romney to get back into the race

[brush]

4. They've already sicced the media onto Carson so all they have to do now . . .

is figure out how to discredit Trump.

I think we beginning to see it now with the open guffaws and snickers at the Donald's ridiculous plan, with "well managed deportation squads", to round up and deport undocumented people here.

Trump deserves that btw. I mean the specter of loaded deportation trains harkens back to the darkest days of WWll.

I think this is their opening to get rid of Trump.

[sorefeet]

5. If the clock was ticking for Biden

I thought there was a time limit on when you could enter. They were worrying about Biden being too late if he didn't hurry and decide???

[Maeve]

6. Chill, dudes

Much as I hate to take your anxiety away, Trump, Carson and Fiorina will all fade into the woodwork. Your bigger problem is that the original idea of a Bush/Kasich ticket is also faded. Start coming up with ideas for 2020.