Republican Leaders Are Starting To Panic

Republican leaders are in a state of fear that Donald Trump or Ben Carson could be their party’s nominee. They had assumed that they would fade by now, but they haven’t! The party leaders believe that if either of those two were nominated, Hillary Clinton would win easily and the Democrats would take back the Senate. Some, showing loftier principles, are worried that someone totally unfit to be president might get elected, to the detriment of the nation.

To make it worse, the big Republican donors are holding back their money, either not knowing who to give it to or refusing to give to a lost cause. Some Republicans are even trying to get Mitt Romney to come in as a late entrant to the race, hoping for a brokered convention.

Philip Rucker gives the inside story in the Washington Post in an article that Democrats and anti-establishment conservatives will find unintentionally humorous, though it may send mainline Republicans into despair.

From Philip Rucker, Time for GOP panic? Establishment worried Carson or Trump might win – The Washington Post:

Less than three months before the kick-off Iowa caucuses, there is growing anxiety bordering on panic among Republican elites about the dominance and durability of Donald Trump and Ben Carson and widespread bewilderment over how to defeat them.

Party leaders and donors fear nominating either man would have negative ramifications for the GOP ticket up and down the ballot, virtually ensuring a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidency and increasing the odds that the Senate falls into Democratic hands.

The party establishment is paralyzed. Big money is still on the sidelines. No consensus alternative to the outsiders has emerged from the pack of governors and senators running, and there is disagreement about how to prosecute the case against them. Recent focus groups of Trump supporters in Iowa and New Hampshire commissioned by rival campaigns revealed no silver bullet.

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