Whose party is it, anyway, Tea Party Trumpsters? If Donald Trump can run for and win the GOP presidential nomination in 2016, then fine. But it is the GOP presidential nomination, not the Trump presidential nomination. If he's not willing to support the party and the eventual nominee if it isn't him, then why should he be allowed onto Republican primary and caucus ballots to begin with? Why not just go indy from the start? Hell, that's what he's going to do eventually anyway. Why not be honest about it upfront?:
The Virginia and North Carolina parties are in discussions about implementing a new requirement for candidates to qualify for their primary ballots: that they pledge to support the Republican presidential nominee — and not run as a third-party candidate — in the general election…
Any moves to tie Trump’s hands, though, could infuriate the mercurial billionaire, who has warned that he could bolt the party if GOP leaders treat him unfairly.
Which means "rig the system to guarantee him the GOP nomination," remember.
On Tuesday morning, Roger Stone, a longtime former Trump strategist, wrote on Twitter that the State party effort would backfire. “The kind of thing that could make @realDonaldTrump bolt the GOP and run 3rd party or Indy,” he said…
Which he's going to do anyway, so it's not like State parties or the national party have a whole lot to lose.
“Ballot access usually is regarded as party function,” said Tom Josefiak, a former RNC chief counsel. “It definitely would be left up to the State party to decide how it’s going to operate.”
Again I ask: Whose party is it anyway?
Allahpundit calls it a "dumb move":
You think Trump gives a crap about a pledge? He’d take the pledge, renounce it later, then laugh at what losers these Republican leaders are for ever believing that he’d keep his promise.
And his fans would cheer him on. “He outwitted the RINOs by making them think he’s a man of his word!”
Is that true, TPTers? You would continue to embrace a liar and cheat and celebrate his treachery and all-around violate every traditional moral value you've ever purported to stand for because he was doing it to people for whom your hatred has grown malignantly and insanely disproportional?
And you wonder why I don't scoff at the term "GOP civil war"?
Well, you'll have to forgive me, Tea Party Trump fans, but if that's the case - and I pray to God it's not - you can either kiss my ass or admit that you're idiots and gullible fools - and I would recommend the latter. Why can you not see that what Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton's trojan horse within Republican gates, is carrying out here is a hostile takeover of OUR party? And that once ensconsed in office, he would govern little if any differently from Mrs. Clinton or Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders? Or Barack Obama, for that matter? Picture your rage at that ultimate betrayal. Or is your Trump-devotion so impenetrable that you would convert to corrupt socialism? Whatever it takes to maximally stick it to Boehner and McConnell? Heck, assassination attempts would seem to require a lot less effort and would cause much less collateral damage. And then, after y'all were behind bars, maybe we could return the party and country to some semblance of sanity.
When a man who is not of a party can barge his way into it, demand to take it over or he'll gut it, and be hailed as having an unalienable right to do so, we really have embarked for the far reaches of the land of mental irregularity. To which the eminently sensible, no-brainer assertion that Republican candidates should be required to pledge loyalty to the Republican Party if they want to be Republicans - or else there's the door now - is akin to the human body's autoimmune system fighting off an invading infection.
Seriously, how can anybody have any objection to this?
And really, with Trump's universal name recognition, functionally limitless resources, and unmatched command of free media attention, what need does he have for the GOP? That thought highlights all the more that he's on a search and destroy mission for the Empress regardless of whether or not the GOP ("establishment" AND conservatives) tries to defend itself. Which is why, contra Noah Rothman, I would boycott a hypothetical Trump-Rodham general election showdown, because that would be a case of a Democrat with a "D" after her name versus a Democrat with an "R" after his name. As Mr. Spock once said, "a difference which makes no difference, IS no difference".
Here's Ted Cruz, still angling to be Trump's veep, or eventually scoop up the supporters of the man who has, at least for now, usurped him as the King of Fratricide. Why else would he be ragging on Megyn Kelly?
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