WAPO conservative Blog on Trump

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/03/11/lets-scrap-the-gop-and-start-over/

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The lowest moment of last night — maybe the lowest of the election and in the history of the GOP — came before the debate, when Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus pledged that the RNC “is going to support the nominee, whoever that is, 100 percent.” This came on a day in which Donald Trump’s campaign, despite an eyewitness and audio evidence, denied that its manager strong-armed reporter Michelle Fields — and then savaged her as “delusional.” It comes on a day when violence yet again occurred at another Trump rally, violence that Trump has made light of or encourages (as Jake Tapper ably pointed out). It comes after a boatload of information has revealed Trump’s penchant for lying and misleading consumers. It comes when Trump has refused to turn over his tax records, preventing voters from seeing his real financial picture.

To begin with, no one asked Priebus to speak. He could literally have said nothing other than “Thanks for coming!” He’s a functionary, and no one came to hear him. He, unfortunately, turns out to be a functionary who is entirely unwilling to question, let alone condemn, the vile conduct of the front-runner candidate. The RNC now stands for no principle and upholds no standard of conduct. It exists merely to win. In doing so, it loses conservatives of good conscience who believe a party is a receptacle, a vehicle for ideas that advance the country’s well-being.

[Trump is the demagogue that our Founding Fathers feared]

The sort of soulless, amoral stance displayed last night toward a figure as dangerous as Trump suggests that whether Trump becomes the nominee or not, a new center-right party is required, one that specifically rejects Trumpism. A party is needed that embodies everything that Trump is not — inclusive, ideas-driven, programmatic, dedicated to the rule of law, rational, optimistic — for those who believe that 21st-century liberal statism is not the cure for what ails the United States.

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A third candidate is not likely to win in November, but fielding a candidate will be essential in order to turn out regular Republicans for down-ticket candidates. The excuse that a third candidate would help Hillary Clinton is misplaced. As the polls (the real ones, not the ones Trump imagines) make clear, Clinton is going to crush Trump, even in a one-on-one contest.


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Interesting...she does speak some common sense, but no mention of Bernie.