RNC Chairman Reacts To Latest Trump Tapes

Leadership you can count on: Republican National Committee goes dark as party devolves into chaos

This is what real leadership looks like, folks. Some of your people are jumping ship, some are lowering the life boats, and some are waiting for a decisive call from the top. And yes, anyone who's waiting is screwed, writes Politico:

As Donald Trump’s campaign unravels, the Republican National Committee has gone dark — failing to give GOP vendors guidance on whether to keep working for the nominee or to move resources into down-ballot races, and not even returning calls from party members ahead of a critical late-afternoon meeting about the way forward.

Numerous Republicans on Monday used the same phrase to describe the response of the RNC to their questions: “radio silence.”
RNC officials weren't available to comment for the story—natch! This follows Paul Ryan's complete and utter failure to make a clean break from Trump Monday. Even as Ryan insisted he would focus on down-ballot races instead of defending Trump, he bowed down to the House crazy caucus, assuring them that he still supports Trump for president. Are you effing kidding me? Sheer cowardice.

And it seems pro-Trumpers agree! They gathered outside RNC headquarters in DC Monday afternoon to pressure the party to stay loyal to Trump. One sign read: "Better to Grab a P***y than to Be One." (See the picture below.)

For real, Trump's gonna do in the GOP yet, and no one deserves it more than Republican Congressional leaders who repeatedly turned a blind eye to his racist, nativist, misogynistic comments from Day One of his campaign.


http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/10/10/1580528/-Leadership-you-can-count-on-RNC-goes-dark-as-party-devolves-into-chaos

Donald Trump Vows Retaliation as Republicans Abandon Him

The Republican Party was at the brink of civil war on Sunday as Donald J. Trump signaled he would retaliate against lawmakers who withdraw their support from his campaign, and senior party leaders privately acknowledged that they now feared losing control of both houses of Congress.

Even before Mr. Trump’s second debate against Hillary Clinton, the party faced an internal rift unseen in modern times. A wave of defections from Mr. Trump’s candidacy, prompted by the revelation of a recording that showed him bragging about sexual assault, was met with boastful defiance by the Republican presidential nominee.

On Twitter, Mr. Trump attacked the Republicans fleeing his campaign as “self-righteous hypocrites” and predicted their defeat at the ballot box. In a set of talking points sent to his supporters Sunday morning, Mr. Trump’s campaign urged them to attack turncoat Republicans as “more concerned with their political future than they are about the country.”

The pressure from Mr. Trump did not deter new expressions of resistance on Sunday: Gov. Bill Haslam of Tennessee, a former chairman of the Republican Governors Association, announced he would not vote for Mr. Trump. So did multiple members of Congress, including Representative Kay Granger of Texas, the lone woman in the state’s large Republican delegation.

But much of the party appeared to be in a state of paralysis, uncertain of how to achieve political distance from Mr. Trump without enraging millions of voters who remained loyal to his campaign.

Republican leaders in the House of Representatives offered scant guidance to their members, scheduling a conference call for Monday morning but leaving lawmakers to fend for themselves in the meantime, according to two members of Congress, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/10/us/politics/republicans-trump.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share&_r=0