I think that the Republican Party is afraid to pull the plug

[Raven]

on Trump because they know full well what his deranged supporters will do. Go and check out the 3 Percenters just for starters. These folks and others like them hate the Republican Party and they are armed to the teeth. Every Republican leader who is silent today after what Trump did yesterday is afraid for their safety. Trump didn't just encourage violence against HRC, by implication he is inciting violence against anyone who disagrees with him and his mob.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. They can't pull the plug anyhow.

The RNC has no procedure for forcing a candidate to withdraw, and it's too late to get another candidate on the ballot in a lot of states. They're screwn.

[Raven]

3. I was wondering about that. Where can I get that information?

[Vinca]

18. I heard some Republican official - forget who - say their "Rule 9" allows them to replace Trump.

I haven't bothered to look this up because the spineless weasels would never do it anyway.

[klook]

21. Rule 9 from Outer Space

[KingCharlemagne]

23. ROTFLAMO! Thread winner! - nt

[SCantiGOP]

20. Right, when they talk of "the GOP dumping Trump"

They mean for the party to repudiate him as their leader. They have no way to take away the nomination that he won through the primaries and convention.

[Jim Dandy]

2. Putin told them they can't.

[uponit7771]

14. +1

[Iggo]

4. They're more afraid that his supporters will stay home than that they might murder someone.

[Hortensis]

17. Exactly. It'd screw the lid on the coffin, not just

DC's but many state offices'.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. They want these same psychopaths to vote for their shit candidates in 2018 and 2020. nt

[etherealtruth]

15. ... and their down-ticket sociopths this year

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

16. Exactly. because all the shit this talking hemorrhoid is talking goes sooooooo much

against what this party believes...... or at least what they'll have the rubes believe.

[unblock]

6. think of the implications of a party overturning the results of the entire primary season.

parties have candidates who lose, sometimes spectacularly so, all the time and survive fine.

but a party that overturns its own elections? what would that do for party identification? primary vote turnout? donations?

[Wednesdays]

19. That's why a lot of high-profile Goopers

are actively vying for a Hillary landslide. They're hoping that if he's beaten badly enough, Rump will never show his face again and allow them to recover "their" party.

[blogslut]

7. They are so f*cked.

They can't dump him and they can't pull his strings. At least Dubya was a compliant fool.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

8. I think they're more afraid of losing those voters. They're already their puppets...

... because they don't want to be deemed RINO's who cooperate with Democrats, thus being voted out of office in favor of some Tea Party nut.

[C_U_L8R]

9. Trump is the best they've got

and that speaks volumes

[exboyfil]

10. Lawyers are rubbing their hands

in a large number of states just hoping the RNC tries to replace Trump on the ballot. The ship has sailed (or soon will sail) in a large number of states.

Where will the dollars come from to do this?

It might work if Trump is agreeable to it, but, if he fights it, it will be a legal disaster.

[PersonNumber503602]

11. Pulling the plug on him (even if possible) would basically martyr him too

and it will cause more problems for them in the future. Which obviously most of us would say would be a good thing, but the republicans would, of course, be assholes and disagree with anything that is good for the country.

But yeah, if they cut him out totally right now, then I could see him coming back again during the next election and messing it up for them. I'm thinking that they just want him to lose so he can go back to his shitty TV show and forget his run for president ever happened.

[RKP5637]

12. To me, I doubt this could happen. He was primaried in. I think they are stuck with him. If they

somehow replaced him, and with whom, then it would be a bold broad statement that elections do not matter in the US.

His supporters would go nuts. Trump, is the only thing the GOP has going, and he demonstrates well what a disaster zone the GOP is.

In fact, they should just rename the party, it's nothing like the GOP from eons ago. It's now a bunch of radical crackpots.

Today's GOP makes Nixon look way left wing. And Eisenhower, he would get nowhere in today's nutty wacky GOP.

[Johonny]

13. Their whole house is built on lies. There is no fundation to fall back on so they're stuck with him

[Spitfire of ATJ]

22. Republican Thinking:

Never judge a man until you've walked a mile in their shoes.

That way you're a mile away and you have their shoes.