(ABC) ANALYSIS: Super Tuesday Bringing Super Meltdown to Republican Party

[jpak]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/analysis-super-tuesday-bringing-super-meltdown-republican-party/story?id=37312918

This is what a party meltdown looks like.

Faced with the increasing likelihood of a Donald Trump nomination, the Republican Party and its voters are headed in opposite directions -- with destructive potential consequences the likes of which no major political party has seen in more than a century.

Republican voters are on the verge of selecting a nominee. The party establishment, meanwhile, is largely in panic mode -- with talk of a contested convention or third-party candidacies suddenly the most realistic ways to block a candidate they fear will harm the GOP for decades.

Why panic? On the single biggest day of voting until November, the leading Republican candidate is defending his decision to not immediately condemn white supremacists.

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[Vincardog]

1. And doubling down by preemptively removing black students sitting quietly waiting for his speech

[msongs]

2. repubs will have no probs with trump. they held a clan meeting in the white house today after all.

amazing that obama will even be in the same room with these people

[Vincardog]

3. tRump could not distance himself from mr. Duke and the KKK they are his base.

[world wide wally]

4. Now the rest of the Republican party has to support his racist comments publicly

[jeff47]

5. Yeah, remember how divided they were when Romney became the candidate?

All sorts of blogs and talk shows had people claiming they'd never vote for a fake Republican like Romney.

Until he got the nomination.

Then they were all-in. Because they hated Obama more than they disliked Romney.

You can expect the same thing with Trump.

[joshcryer]

8. +1

If there's anything Dems can take from Repubs it's that they unify instantly around their candidate. Dems / the left will trash their nominee all the way to election day.

[jeff47]

9. Not gonna happen

If we were all authoritarians who like to be told what to do, we'd be Republicans.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. I called this a base election back in December

officially that is. As in went to print with that.

I am all but surprised. And the Dems are in for the same soon, if not this season... they are so much into shooting themselves in the foot at this moment it is far from funny

[bemildred]

10. I remember that.

I agree, not going to be business as usual. I would not even want to guess how it's going to come out.

The parties have discovered that they are much reduced in importance, one doesn't quite know whether to laugh or cry. But I choose to laugh for now.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. for now, it is good to laugh

because we might end up crying later

[Doctor_J]

7. I think this is theater by the real movers and shakers

The republicans "melt down", allowing a DINO to win the white house. The republicans meanwhile increase their congressional majorities. The unholy triumvirate of Clinton, Ryan, and McConnell chew up and spit out what's left of eighty years of progress while keeping the Pentagon, prison profiteers, insurance executives, and banksters on the taxpayer tit.