Are Republicans This Stupid?

Hand it to Hillary? Lindsey Graham says Trump win worse than GOP defeat

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Personal Liberty News DeskViews: 99

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Calling the GOP presidential frontrunner a “demagogue of the greatest proportion,” South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham believes it would be better for his party to lose the White House than its “heart and soul” by electing Donald Trump.

“We can lose an election, but I don’t want us to lose our heart and soul,” Graham said Sunday on CBS’ Face the Nation:

“If we nominate Donald Trump, and he carries the banner of the Republican Party, given who he is and what he said about immigrants, about Muslims and young women, we will not just lose the election. We have lost the heart and soul of the conservative movement. That’s what is at stake.”

If Trump does get the GOP nomination, Graham said he predicts that not only will Trump lose the general election but that his nomination will cause problems for the GOP for generations.

“Sixty-five percent of the Republican Party would like to vote for somebody other than Donald Trump,” he said. “We’re about to nominate the one person that not only would lose in 2016 but would destroy the party for decades to come. I’d rather lose without Trump than try to win with him. And if he wants to leave the party, leave.”

Graham has urged Ohio Gov. John Kasich to withdraw from the race and work to help Sen Ted Cruz (R-Texas) defeat Trump.

“John, if I thought you could win, I’d be behind you because you are the most electable candidate,” he said. “Work with Ted to deny Trump 1,237 … and if you’re not willing to work with Ted you’re hurting the cause. By Kasich going to Utah, you’re making it harder for Ted to get 50 percent.”

Graham is one of a number of influential Republicans mounting an offensive in an attempt to derail Trump in the final months of the primary season.

As the New York Times reported:

Republican leaders adamantly opposed to Donald J. Trump’s candidacy are preparing a 100-day campaign to deny him the presidential nomination, starting with an aggressive battle in Wisconsin’s April 5 primary and extending into the summer, with a delegate-by-delegate lobbying effort that would cast Mr. Trump as a calamitous choice for the general election.

Recognizing that Mr. Trump has seized a formidable advantage in the race, they say that an effort to block him would rely on an array of desperation measures, the political equivalent of guerrilla fighting.

There is no longer room for error or delay, the anti-Trump forces say, and without a flawlessly executed plan of attack, he could well become unstoppable.

What’s unclear, however, is what exactly the Republican establishment would do after derailing Trump’s candidacy and whether the embattled GOP front-runner would continue his bid for the Oval Office on a third party ticket.