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Everyone is against Trump except his voters (those sick and tired of the establishment) and certain talk show hosts (Hannity, Limbaugh - who are only interested in beating Hillary).
Looks like it's not just GOP leadership but also the heads of the MIC that are rejecting Trump.
Donald Trump calls the Iraq War a lie-fueled fiasco, admires Vladimir Putin and says he would be a "neutral" arbiter between Israel and the Palestinians. When it comes to America’s global role he asks, “Why are we always at the forefront of everything?"
Even more than his economic positions, Trump's foreign policy views challenge GOP orthodoxy in fundamental ways. But while parts of the party establishment are resigning themselves or even backing Trump's runaway train, one group is bitterly digging in against him: the hawkish foreign policy elites known as neoconservatives.
In interviews with POLITICO, leading neocons — people who promoted the Iraq War, detest Putin and consider Israel's security non-negotiable — said Trump would be a disaster for U.S. foreign policy and vowed never to support him. So deep is their revulsion that several even say they could vote for Hillary Clinton over Trump in November.
“Hillary is the lesser evil, by a large margin,” said Eliot Cohen, a former top State Department official under George W. Bush and a strategic theorist who argues for a muscular U.S. role abroad. Trump's election would be “an unmitigated disaster for American foreign policy," Cohen said, adding that "he has already damaged it considerably.”
Cohen, an Iraq war backer who is often called a neoconservative but said he does not identify himself that way, said he would "strongly prefer a third party candidate" to Trump, but added: "Probably if absolutely no alternative: Hillary."
In a March 1 interview with Vox, Max Boot, a military historian at the Council on Foreign Relations who backed the Iraq War and often advocates a hawkish foreign policy, said that he, too, would vote for Clinton over Trump. "I'm literally losing sleep over Donald Trump," he said. "She would be vastly preferable to Trump."
Cohen helped to organize an open letter signed by several dozen GOP foreign policy insiders — many of whom are not considered neocons — that was published Wednesday night by the military blog War on the Rocks. “[W]e are unable to support a Party ticket with Mr. Trump at its head,” the letter declared. It cited everything from Trump’s "admiration for foreign dictators” to his “inexcusable” support for “the expansive use of torture."
The letter was signed by dozens of Republican foreign policy experts, including Boot; Peter Feaver, a former senior national security aide in George W. Bush's White House; Robert Zoellick, a former deputy to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; and Dov Zakheim, a former Bush Pentagon official; and Kori Schake, a fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Ins ution and a former Bush State Department official.
Several other neocons said they find themselves in an impossible position, cons utionally incapable of voting for Clinton but repelled by a Republican whose foreign policy views they consider somewhere between nonexistent and dangerous — and disconnected from their views about American power and values abroad.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/0...#ixzz41oRcyQQ4
Everyone is against Trump except his voters (those sick and tired of the establishment) and certain talk show hosts (Hannity, Limbaugh - who are only interested in beating Hillary).
....yeah..that nitch group of voters might be enough to win the GOP nomination but not the general......Trump may be the one who is non-electable
These bush idiots are still getting bribes and ruining America
It's funny how repubs thought ron paul was crazy... 4 years later they have this situation.
You are assuming that it's only GOP voters who are sick and tired of the establishment.
lol declare war
And Shillary is their flag bearer
Mary Swanson University of Minnesota
If the Republicans had acted decently the past 8 years there would not be this huge appeal for Trump. By electing congressmen who promised to vote no on every thing Obama wanted shows incompentency on the highest level.
The result of this childish behavior is Trump.
not "maybe", but is
rightwingnuts are tired of the establishment, of ALL govt, but they, because their belove ignorance base on "belief", should be tired of their own Repug assholes they were suckered into electing, who have cut the strong economic engine of taxes and govt spending while obstructing all progress, improvement for the 99%.
The GOP is getting the candidate they wanted.
Damn.
I have been too busy to listen to those pair of idiots.
I really got to give them a time slot. The comedy and entertainment value of imagining people really trusting these fools is A+
"How to argue with a liberal, I can teach you you dumb bas "
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The GOP, and the rightwingnut billionaires, don't "want Trump".
They got a candidate they don't want by buying tea bagger asshole legislators and judges at all levels, by convincing their ignorant base that St Ronnie the Diseased's "govt IS the problem" is unquestionably true, and by executing strict obstructionism and anti-Obama-the-n!gg@ hate for 7 years.
Repug establishment and the billionaires are just ing stupid, have ed up country of the 99% just like they wanted, and now are getting screwed by THEIR results.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 03-03-2016 at 08:59 AM.
You don't get the new GOP yet.
Fractured.
There are plenty of middle class white folk who want to blow up Muslims and build walls.
When people are angry they see easy solutions, you should know this.
You should know your takes are ing stupid.
Nothing is more stupid relative to your trying to hold onto your VRWC Clinton-speak in the face of the poor white trash taking over the GOP.
so stupid of you to say poor white trash takin over the GOP. They've split the GOP, establishment vs. non-establishment, but "take over"? LOL
Trump will lose by at least 10%, maybe 20%, in the election. Bernie beats him more than Hillz.
The Repug establishment, owned and operated by VRWC/1%/BigCrop, ain't goin nowhere (which suits their strict obstructionism just fine).
The poor rightwing white trash are pissed, but they don't have the $Bs to own the Repug establishment. $Bs rule America, all voters are disenfranchised, are ignored by $Bs.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 03-03-2016 at 12:57 PM.
I said take over the GOP. He looks pretty certain to be the GOP nominee and when it comes to RNC executives and committee members he straight out gets to choose several positions.
I said take over the GOP. Now you bleet about the general? You are one willfully ignorant simpleton.
poor white trash aren't taking over the GOP.
They'll get their Trump token, who will be crushed in the election, will be shown they are powerless, will re-elect the same assholes they have now, or the $Bs will give them new assholes to elect, who will keep screwing the poor white trash and the 47%.
It's all VERY simple. ALL the data supports my Big Picture, you simpleton.
Neocons are the s of the earth so if they are against someone, that person is my best friend.
That person is Trump. Hope and change.
You simply are ignorant as to what actually is determined at the conventions. That's okay a lot of people are afraid of anything outside their box.
The Repugs are willing to lose the WH, again, with Trump and spend $Bs to maintain control of Congress and SCOTUS.
Nice gross oversimplification that does nothing to indicate you have any idea what is decided at the convention. You're boring.
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