2016 Postmortem

stopbush

(24,396 posts) Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:25 AM Oct 2016

I think Trump will be asked publicly to step down by the R leadership

This is a Category 12 shitstorm that Trump has just made worse with his "apology."

I think by Sunday he will have lost all support among Rs, save for the ghouls like Coulter, Christy and Ghouliani.

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I think Trump will be asked publicly to step down by the R leadership (Original Post) stopbush Oct 2016 OP

They could ask all they want. LisaL Oct 2016 #1

And he doesn't care. Bret Baier is on the phone on fox right now saying the GOP is in Cakes488 Oct 2016 #5

He sure doesn't. LisaL Oct 2016 #6

From a procedural perspective I wonder how this would work. What a nightmare for the GOP!!!!! RKP5637 Oct 2016 #2

I feel so bad for them. MFM008 Oct 2016 #9

Same here!!! RKP5637 Oct 2016 #11

They're in a real pickle alcibiades_mystery Oct 2016 #3

Your assessment is spot on. n/t susanna Oct 2016 #12

Food for thought - asiliveandbreathe Oct 2016 #4

This author is imagining some other Trump. LisaL Oct 2016 #8

There's going to be a mutiny of preverts! DefenseLawyer Oct 2016 #7

NO!!! Don't quit Donald Cicada Oct 2016 #10

LisaL

(44,973 posts)

1. They could ask all they want.

Reply to stopbush (Original post)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:26 AM

Oct 2016

He doesn't have to listen.

Cakes488

(874 posts)

5. And he doesn't care. Bret Baier is on the phone on fox right now saying the GOP is in

Reply to LisaL (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:30 AM

Oct 2016

chaos right now in DC...hahahahhahahhahaahha

LisaL

(44,973 posts)

6. He sure doesn't.

Reply to Cakes488 (Reply #5)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:31 AM

Oct 2016

He isn't going anywhere.

RKP5637

(67,109 posts)

2. From a procedural perspective I wonder how this would work. What a nightmare for the GOP!!!!!

Reply to stopbush (Original post)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:28 AM

Oct 2016

Great!!!!!

MFM008

(19,814 posts)

9. I feel so bad for them.

Reply to RKP5637 (Reply #2)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:33 AM

Oct 2016

RKP5637

(67,109 posts)

11. Same here!!!

Reply to MFM008 (Reply #9)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:36 AM

Oct 2016

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)

3. They're in a real pickle

Reply to stopbush (Original post)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:28 AM

Oct 2016

If even 5% of their people stay home on November 8 because they think Trump can't win, the whole enterprise could collapse on them.

They have to either cut bait, or pretend he can win. Both are bad options. They're getting everything they deserve for allowing this infection to fester in our body politic.

susanna

(5,231 posts)

12. Your assessment is spot on. n/t

Reply to alcibiades_mystery (Reply #3)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 02:28 AM

Oct 2016

asiliveandbreathe

(8,203 posts)

4. Food for thought -

Reply to stopbush (Original post)

Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:29 AM

Oct 2016

http://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/10/6/13184492/flip-ticket-trump-pence-constitution

....snip...

The first step of The Flip must begin very soon — ideally, this week or next. At a joint press conference, Pence and Trump should with fanfare announce that, if they win in November, Pence will be in charge, thanks to the rules laid down by the Constitution’s 25th Amendment, which was ratified in 1967 after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

At the press conference, Trump would solemnly pledge that on Inauguration Day, January 20, he will, only minutes after taking his oath of office, step aside by invoking the presidential disability provisions of Section Three of the Amendment — much as he might step aside if he were undergoing a scheduled coronary bypass that day. He will give notice on Inauguration Day to the president pro tempore of the Senate and the speaker of the house that he is "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office."

Of course he will not win - and they all lose...