‘Despondent’ Republicans watch in horror as voters continue to back Trump and Cruz

[Katashi_itto]

With two weeks to go until the first contest of the 2016 presidential race, Republicans who fear their party has been hijacked by the likes of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz found little to comfort them in the latest debate.

Both candidates, one a billionaire developer with no political experience and the other a U.S. Senator from Texas with a reputation for clashing with his Washington D.C. colleagues, stood center stage Thursday night and, for the most part, dominated the proceedings.

More mainstream hopefuls such as former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Ohio Governor John Kasich, and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio from Florida were left nipping at their heels and squabbling among themselves.

Trump, 69, and Cruz, 45, whom opinion polls have locked in a tight struggle to win the Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses, clashed at several points, befitting their leading-men status. The left little room for rivals trying to hurriedly close the gap before voting begins for real to choose the party’s nominee for November’s general election.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/despondent-republicans-watch-in-horror-as-voters-continue-to-back-trump-and-cruz/

[djean111]

1. I think they will try and drag Mitt back, or install Jeb!, at the convention.

Just a feeling.

[Nay]

2. OH, WELL. This is what happens when you court the crazies. You get crazies

to vote for. Sucks to be you.

[LiberalElite]

3. .

[JHB]

4. Gosh, how did that happen?

[Vinca]

5. The GOP has been cultivating this onslaught of nutballs for years and years.

What do they expect? If you plant hate and stupidity, that's what you reap.

[rbrnmw]

6. Guess you guys should have thought about that,

when you let ever increasing crazy into your party. This started with the Southern Strategy and moved on from there.

[ProfessorGAC]

7. They Have Allowed Those, That Even Republicans. . .

. . .thought to be the lunatic fringe, only a couple decades ago, to take over the party.

Now, look.