The GOP Leadership Is Being Duped by Democrats and the Media into Fighting Trump

The public nervous breakdown Tuesday night and Wednesday by some Republican leaders is proof positive that they, not Donald Trump, are -- and have been -- the real GOP problem. Listen to their peevish temper tantrums : **“Tonight is the beginning, not the end, of the #NeverTrump movement.” / **“After tonight the #NeverTrump movement will be expressed in all or some combination of these three ways: 1) Trump and Hillary Clinton will face a direct challenge from an independent candidate, 2) Millions of Republican voters will stay home or, 3) Trump will be sabotaged before he knows he’s under attack. In any event, Trump will never be elected President of the United States.” / ** "You have to bet on sanity....If this is one of those moments in history where for various reasons the party has to play out nominating someone who is completely unelectable . . . so be it.” (GOP strategist Stuart Stevens, a leader in the Romney 2012 campaign.) ~~~~~ What these self-styled Republican leaders are blind to is that they are not belittling Trump. They are rejecting as unfit to vote their own rank-and-file. And they have been duped and whipped into an anti-Trump frenzy by the very political and media forces they would normally fundamentally oppose. These anti-Trump GOP leaders are in reality helping elect the corrupt criminal leftist progressive Hillary Clinton, who would, as President, complete Obama's destruction of constitutional government while doubling the current $20 trillion national debt and instituting a one-payer federally controlled national healthcare system that would place 30% of US wealth in the hands of her socialist-style federal bureaucracy. ~~~~~ Is that really what any Republican wants? Are these GOP insiders so blind to their own and their Party's coming destruction at the hands of their antagonists that, like the Trojans, they will open the door and let the giant wooden deathtrap roll in? ~~~~~ Some of us who are almost genetically Republican have held on through the misspoken patriotism of Barry Goldwater. We threw our arms around a bedevilled Richard Nixon, when his own Party leadership was crucifying him because we knew him and knew his inner goodness. We patiently endured Jerry Ford, likable but inept, when we understood that Ronald Reagan was our and America's future. We may have grumbled a bit, but we worked phone banks and stuffed envelopes and organized rallies and held on -- because we were and are Republicans. We know that the Republic will survive only if we insist on Constitution, small government, low taxes and personal liberties. ~~~~~ Dear readers, these rebels, these traitors to the great causes of Mr. Lincoln's Party, may sound as if they speak from reason. They do not. Donald Trump is a Republican. He is reaching out to the entire GOP spectrum to create the unity needed to defeat Hillary Clinton. The naysayers call themselves conservatives. But they have forgotten that conservative ideas must be understood and accepted by GOP voters. When Trump speaks of walls and immigration and fair trade, he is simply turning conservative ideals into everyday goals. And if the naysayers, who like to call their more moderate Republican brothers and sisters Republicans In Name Only, sit out 2016, refuse to vote for the Trump ticket, or bolt and vote for Hillary -- it will be they who are RINOs, and worse, not worthy to be called Republicans.