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"You have this White House that is lurching from crisis to crisis, the image is of disarray they can't get their hands around the basic day-to-day agenda, and define the progress they have made" Republican pollster David Winston said. "One of the things that the president has is the bully pulpit; the bully pulpit lets you drive the agenda and these crises haven't let the White House effectively get there."
"This is concerning and alarming," Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa., said flatly. "We're going to have to confront these issues as a Congress."
Republicans see red flags because foreign policy and national security are at the center of the crises that have engulfed Trump over the past seven days.
Concerns about Trump's fitness to serve as commander-in-chief has been a weak spot with independents and GOP voters outside of his loyal base. These voters form the backbone of the coalition that elected the president and Republican majorities in the House and Senate in November.
A Republican lobbyist who is actively raising money for the party said the complaints have been piling up from donors. They don't think that the problem is media persecution or Democratic obstruction, they think the problem is the president.
"People are feeling it's disgust, it's shame, it's you name it, all of the above," the lobbyist said. Asked for examples of the complaints fielded, the lobbyist added: "When is this going to end? How can we recover? These are clowns.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/gop-fears-trump-will-take-the-republican-party-down-with-him/article/2623311
CottonBear
(21,596 posts)WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)And I love that most R donors aren't seeing the problem as what the GOP and Trump are inaccurately trying to push. They see the problem being at least partially what it actually is, TRUMP.
A Republican lobbyist who is actively raising money for the party said the complaints have been piling up from donors. They don't think that the problem is media persecution or Democratic obstruction, they think the problem is the president.
"People are feeling it's disgust, it's shame, it's you name it, all of the above," the lobbyist said.
Cha
(297,154 posts)WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)Cha
(297,154 posts)Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)'responsibility' in how this hot mess is going but I won't hold my breath waiting for them to accept any fault.
The party of supposed 'personal responsibility' means that it's everyone else's responsibility except for theirs... Pfft!
luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,678 posts)Actually, they're gangsters.
hatrack
(59,584 posts).
OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)As much as I'd love to see Trump led out of the White House in an orange jump suit, handcuffs, and leg irons, it's not gonna happen. He'll be here for four years and he'll run for re-election in 2020. Because:
1. The Republicans know he'll sign anything they put in front of him and they are hell-bent on repealing the 20th Century -- destroy EPA, CFPB; repeal Dodd-Frank and ACA; restrict voting to white men who own property; ban Muslims; deport Hispanics; load taxes onto the middle class while giving the wealthiest 1% all the breaks possible.
2. The Republican base loves him. His overall approval may be in the toilet but among the knuckle-draggers and mouth-breathers who voted for him, he's at 80 percent positive. They don't give a rat's ass about Russia, money laundering, or nepotism. Just so he keeps out the Muslims, kicks out the Mexicans, and puts reporters in jail.
3. The economy will help him. Obama left the economy in decent shape and it's likely to improve under Trump. Never mind his promises that will never happen -- coal mining jobs, jobs come back from overseas, and the like -- as long as most people are working they don't care about anything else.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,999 posts)tRump is fast approaching the point where he is more toxic to Republicon election needs in 2018 and beyond than he is useful to them.
This is the last year of the tRump Minority Presidency.
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)things with Medicare and so on but they obviously risk their own seats at that point as has happened to both parties many times before. Trump is also a historically unpopular president, and that is before he actually pushes hard for a project or bill or needs troops for a war.
Dulcinea
(6,629 posts)Especially point 2.
TEB
(12,841 posts)mopinko
(70,088 posts)if the money dries up, how many cd's will have no one on their ticket?
bwahahahahahaaaa.
spanone
(135,827 posts)tanyev
(42,552 posts)They should have been looking for a way to take him down then.
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)During the nomination fight, he came in for considerable intra-party criticism. As just one example, don't forget that National Review devoted an entire issue to slamming him.
Of course, if there's one thing that Republicans keep in mind, it's not to kick own goals. Quite a few of them who said during the primaries that he was unfit to be President went on to endorse him in the general election.
JTFrog
(14,274 posts)They killed it themselves.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)MineralMan
(146,287 posts)Vinca
(50,269 posts)wiggs
(7,812 posts)scenes misdeeds, behind the scenes comments, skeletons, secrets, and more. He'll sue for billions. He'll not go down without being able to claim some win or some revenge.
Dems won't be the targets, it will be those on his party 'team' who threw him under the bus.
Of course, it has been a theory by several here that before he goes down in flames infamously, he will take a huge secret 'buy out' by gop donors to step down for the good of the country (those dems are traitors, won't leave me alone! And I gave up so much to try to make america great again!!) and allow Pence to step in. This still seems valid to me, unless Pence, Ryan, and McConnell are headed to indictment too...in which case everyone will go to the mats to keep DT in office.