Romney plotting to stop Trump at brokered convention

[KobeOwnsDuncan]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/03/politics/mitt-romney-stop-trump-at-convention/index.html

[hater]

Can't really stop the unstoppable. GOP have no leader besides a bunch of sub human loser has been puppet clowns. (mcain and Romney :lmao)

They are basically at this point a bunch of headless chickens running whichever where and.bumping into each other. You can't stop The Movement. Of course bsides a bullet of mass smear campaign.

[pgardn]

Can't really stop the unstoppable. GOP have no leader besides a bunch of sub human loser has been puppet clowns. (mcain and Romney :lmao)

They are basically at this point a bunch of headless chickens running whichever where and.bumping into each other. You can't stop The Movement. Of course bsides a bullet of mass smear campaign.

Smearing will be easy when you swim with pigs.

[baseline bum]

CROFL Romney accusing anyone of crushing small businesses. :lol

Still, Romney would likely beat Clinton in the general as long as he doesn't go teatard like in 2012 with picking Ryan.

[Nbadan]

CROFL Romney accusing anyone of crushing small businesses. :lol

Still, Romney would likely beat Clinton in the general as long as he doesn't go teatard like in 2012 with picking Ryan.

President Romney? Yeah....don't think so...

[boutons_deux]

CROFL Romney accusing anyone of crushing small businesses. :lol

Still, Romney would likely beat Clinton in the general as long as he doesn't go teatard like in 2012 with picking Ryan.

Repugs said Bishop Gekko lost because he wasn't enough of a hard right conservative asshole.

Since all the Repug candidates have essentially the same policies, Bishop Gekko would be the same.

[ducks]

Cnn said Romney attack will backfire
And cruz supporters are switching to trump

[angrydude]

Cnn said Romney attack will backfire
And cruz supporters are switching to trump

Cruz supporters switching to Trump makes a lot of sense.

In his own way Cruz is anti-establishment as well...because remember..... before Trump came along Cruz was going to be the outsider candidate.

Rubio is the neocon candidate and he's doing terrible.

[rmt]

Kasich supporters would go to Rubio.
Rubio supporters would go to Cruz.
Cruz supporters would go to Trump.
Trump supporters - the evangelicals would go to Cruz - the non-religious would stay home?

[CosmicCowboy]

Romney is a joke. He is living in a fantasy world where he comes out of a brokered convention as the candidate.

I never thought it would happen but Trump is gonna run the table and go into the convention with enough delegates to be the clear winner.

I didn't vote for Trump in the primary but quite honestly, after the disgraceful and ridiculous attacks from all the 'mainstream" Republicans I am almost rooting for him now.

Fuck it. Let Trump and Hillary go thermonuclear in the big one. It will be entertaining as hell and whoever comes out the winner can't be any worse than what we have now.

[Spurminator]

whoever comes out the winner can't be any worse than what we have now.

smh

[Aztecfan03]

Romney is a joke. He is living in a fantasy world where he comes out of a brokered convention as the candidate.

I never thought it would happen but Trump is gonna run the table and go into the convention with enough delegates to be the clear winner.

I didn't vote for Trump in the primary but quite honestly, after the disgraceful and ridiculous attacks from all the 'mainstream" Republicans I am almost rooting for him now.

Fuck it. Let Trump and Hillary go thermonuclear in the big one. It will be entertaining as hell and whoever comes out the winner can't be any worse than what we have now.

You know Trump disgracefully and rididculously attacked all of the other candidates first, right?

And Trump and hillary would both be worse than Obama.

[Splits]

Is it working?

Polls had Trump +6 in Kansas, it was just called for KKKruz and he's up 25

No polling in Maine, but with 5% reporting KKKRuz up by 13

[baseline bum]

You know Trump disgracefully and rididculously attacked all of the other candidates first, right?

He disgracefully and ridiculously attacked Obama first. LOL his birther crap was great when it was against Obama but then everyone got butthurt when he pulled it on Cruz.

[Aztecfan03]

He disgracefully and ridiculously attacked Obama first. LOL his birther crap was great when it was against Obama but then everyone got butthurt when he pulled it on Cruz.
I wished Trump would just shit the hell up during the 2012 elections, also.

[hater]

He disgracefully and ridiculously attacked Obama first. LOL his birther crap was great when it was against Obama but then everyone got butthurt when he pulled it on Cruz.

Sure Trumps birther shit was ridiculous but Obama's promise to stop the wars, close Guantanamo and bring all our soldiers home from Afghanistan was just as ridiculous or worse.

And the hope and change slogan :lmao it makes Trumps birther slogan seem like Childs play

[Sportcamper]

You know Trump disgracefully and rididculously attacked all of the other candidates first, right?


Not true…Jeb! & Kasich went after Trump early on saying that Trump did not have the experience to fix the economy...Trump responded to Kasich saying that Kasich was on the board with Lehman Bros. when it collapsed…Then Trump went after Jeb! For being weak & low energy…Trump slapped the two of them into oblivion…I have never seen anything like it…:lol

[Sportcamper]

Let Trump and Hillary go thermonuclear in the big one. It will be entertaining as hell and whoever comes out the winner can't be any worse than what we have now.

I agree :tu at least Trump & Hillary have a pair....

[Aztecfan03]

Not true…Jeb! & Kasich went after Trump early on saying that Trump did not have the experience to fix the economy...Trump responded to Kasich saying that Kasich was on the board with Lehman Bros. when it collapsed…Then Trump went after Jeb! For being weak & low energy…Trump slapped the two of them into oblivion…I have never seen anything like it…:lol

Get out of here with that weak shit.

[Winehole23]

all hell is gonna break loose when Trump pisses backwards on the voters who got him nominated/elected.

[hater]

all hell is gonna break loose when Trump pisses backwards on the voters who got him nominated/elected.

Why? This happens after every election :lol

[DMX7]

He can plot all he wants. He's not stopping the TRUMP TRAIN. CHOO CHOO!!!

[Winehole23]

Why? This happens after every election :lolthe lumpentrumpitariat won't sit still for it. their fearless leader has played on its fears and insecurities and even worse, has stoked its hopes for radical change. the disappointment is going to be louder and even more brazen than the current enthusiasm.

imagine another tea party revolt, only this time on meth.

[hater]

The dissapointment of hope and change was taken peacefully by Obamabots. Th same would happen with Trumpists

[Winehole23]

we'll see. I hope you're right.

[ChumpDumper]

The dissapointment of hope and change was taken peacefully by Obamabots. Th same would happen with Trumpistslol you would just sit there and take it.

[RandomGuy]

Pandering as contempt
There is one more explanation for all the bigwigs and pundits rationalising Trump-support, while considering themselves good people who deplore racism. Mr Trump’s critics, they contend, show snobbish contempt for the tycoon’s voters—notably older, often less-educated whites who feel left behind by wrenching social and economic changes. One congressman backing Mr Trump, Tom Marino of Pennsylvania, uses a term much in vogue just now, calling Trump voters “the unprotected”. It comforts Trump-endorsers to think they are standing up for underdogs, but they are letting themselves off too easily. Other Republicans seeking the presidency endlessly promise to protect anxious Americans, with everything from air strikes on Islamic State to curbs on work visas. Mr Trump stands out for the savagery with which he vows to frighten, punish and hurt those who he says are doing America down. That’s not protection, but vengeance.

Conservative grandees preparing to back Mr Trump are arguably the worst snobs of all. For they know that he is making promises to his supporters that are both nasty and impossible to keep. Like every tribune of the dirty right, Mr Trump thinks his voters are dupes: that is why he panders and lies to them without a qualm. If Republican bigwigs have shame or sense enough, there is still time—just—to disown him.

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21693928-donald-trump-poses-character-test-republicans-big-schmooze

[hater]

lol you would just sit there and take it.

As you did the past 8 years :lol

[boutons_deux]

"If Republican bigwigs have shame or sense enough"

"if"? are you fucking kidding me? G M A F B

they have no shame, and the only sense is ideological purity.

shame? :lol

[ChumpDumper]

As you did the past 8 years :lolI expected no change. I was pleasantly surprised at the incremental progress on health care tbh.

[TheSanityAnnex]

I expected no change. I was pleasantly surprised at the incremental progress on health care tbh.

Health Care: The insurance industry must be kicking itself for backing ObamaCare. Several have since posted big losses and it looks like Blue Cross Blue Shield got the losing end of the stick, too.Fitch Ratings (http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160224005995/en/Fitch-Blue-CrossBlue-Shield-Earnings-Lag-Public) looked at nearly three dozen BCBS companies and found that 23 saw a decline in earnings that totaled $1.9 billion in the first nine months of last year, while 16 had net losses.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan lost $622 million from January through September last year. Blue Cross plans in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Montana lost $442 billion. And those in Pennsylvania, Delaware and West Virginia lost $266 million.
The reason is ObamaCare.
Or as Fitch puts it: “Cost and utilization trends from state insurance exchanges from the Affordable Care Act have been higher than anticipated and are the primary drivers of declining earnings.”
This is a big deal, given that Blue Cross plans are often the largest provider of individual insurance policies (http://techscience.org/a/2015081104/download.pdf) in any given market. The Blue Cross plan in Michigan has more than a third of the exchange market, in Delaware it’s more than 80%, and it is almost 90% in North Carolina.
Given their size, these insurers should have had the broadest and most stable insurance pools in ObamaCare. What they found instead was that the young and healthy are avoiding ObamaCare’s overpriced insurance. If the Blues are struggling, how likely is it that the smaller insurers can succeed?
Many of the Blues sharply increased premiums this year, which Fitch says should improve earnings. Plus, the administration is planning to dole out $7.7 billion in “transitional reinsurance” money, which it hopes will keep insurers in the ObamaCare game at least one more year. They also backpedaled on requiring insurers to have a reasonable network of providers in their plans out of fear that those rules would only fuel more premium inflation.
The law isn’t getting any more popular with the public, either. An AP poll found that just 26% say they support the law, vs. 42% who oppose it. And a separate survey by NPR and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (http://www.npr.org/assets/img/2016/02/26/PatientPerspectives.pdf) found that while 15% say the law directly benefited them, 25% said it hurt them.
In short, the stars continue to align for repealing ObamaCare next year, but only if the GOP nominates someone who can win in November.
http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/obamacare-now-has-blue-cross-singing-the-blues/

[ChumpDumper]

Why did you post that wall of text?

[ducks]

Cnn said Romney attack will backfire
And cruz supporters are switching to trump