Senate republican leaders admit they’re willing to help Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump

[KamaAina]

Note: This is about a hypothetical GE matchup, not the primaries.

http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/senate-republicans-admit-theyre-willing-to-help-hillary-clinton-defeat-donald-trump/23944/

With republican leaders now facing the very real possibility that Donald Trump may end up being their 2016 nominee for President, they’re forced to ask themselves whether they’d be more averse to losing the White House to the democrats for another four years, or losing control of their own party to Trump perhaps permanently. They’ve also been left to wonder if a Trump general election campaign would be an albatross around their own reelection chances. Accordingly, senate republican leadership is admitting that it’s willing to help Hillary Clinton defeat Trump if that’s what it takes to save their own hides in the process.

Mitch McConnell, the republican senate majority leader who has been perhaps more openly hostile to the Obama administration than any other figure in his party, took a pragmatic tone when addressing the specter of a Donald Trump vs Hillary Clinton general election matchup. Although McConnell doesn’t face reelection himself until the year 2020, he’s advising his colleagues who have to re-up in 2016. In a closed door meeting with his party’s leadership, he advised his fellow republican politicians to go ahead and run negative ads distancing themselves from Donald Trump if they feel it’s their own best strategy for reelection – even if that ends up handing the Presidency directly to Hillary.

The belief among McConnell and other republicans currently in office is that Donald Trump would play so poorly with moderate and even moderately conservative voters, and thus drag down the party’s chances in 2016 voting, that they may have no choice but to flatly tell their local constituencies that they’re not as extremist as Trump is so they can stand apart from him. In other words, they’re willing to essentially forfeit the Presidential election in order to retain the offices they currently hold. And they don’t think Trump would win anyway.

But not Bernie?

[Salviati]

1. That is a lot of peoples nightmare scenerio I imagine

The thought of a Sanders / Trump GE match-up has a lot of people waking up with night sweats...

[Politicalboi]

5. Not me, it's our ONLY hope

The GOP should be sweating. They'll get a pass on Hillary. And we'll still lose.

[Vinca]

2. I imagine there will be some deals cut for that GOP support.

[tularetom]

3. That raises an interesting question

Why do these guys prefer Clinton to Trump? Do they think she would be easier to manipulate? Why do they think that? Is some kind of deal afoot?

I don't know about you, but a cooperative arrangement between Hillary Clinton and Senate Republicans is not my concept of what would benefit the 99% here in the US.

And no, not Bernie. Bernie is an ideologue, they are as afraid of him as they are of Trump. They know they will be able to push Clinton around.

[Politicalboi]

6. Clinton's and Bush's do hang around a lot together

Could be a back room deal. She'll do ANYTHING to win.

[struggle4progress]

4. "Since we don't know how to govern, we need to elect somebody we can obstruct"

[Maru Kitteh]

7. ^^this^^

BINGO.