Inside the Republican Party’s Desperate Mission to Stop Donald Trump

[Volrath50]

This ... will not work out well. If anything it will cause the Trump phenomena to have more lasting repercussions for the GOP.

So the GOP establishment's plan for dealing with their voters having rejected them and chosen a candidate that basically said they were full of sh**t, is to run attack ads against the candidate their voters chose in an attempt to win them back.

Genius. Pure genius. I can't see how this could possibly not work.

[Volrath50]

Well,
If Trump is the nominee, they won't be able to save the senate. If they could hold the house, that would be a good night for them.

They especially won't be able to save the senate if they start running non-stop attack ads against Trump. That probably won't stop a Trump nomination, and it will just hurt down-ballot republicans in November.

The GOP should just accept they are probably stuck with Trump and try to make the best of the situation.

[Volrath50]

If McConnell thinks he can forever get away with flipping the bird to the base of his party, then the GOP will suffer from the consequences of this election for far more than just 2016.

Pretty much. The whole Trump phenomena is in large part because many Republicans feel abandoned by the establishment. The establishment telling them they are stupid and wrong for having chosen Trump is not going to win the crowd back over.