# Republican elite and power brokers now on the sidelines - What's their game plan? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 21, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-elite-and-power-brokers-now-on-the-sidelines-whats-their-game-plan/746726 "2016-02-21T19:19:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-elite-and-power-brokers-now-on-the-sidelines-whats-their-game-plan/746726/1 "2016-02-21T19:19:00Z")
What’s their next move to save their skins? They are rapidly becoming beside the point. They speak for no one but the oligarchy at this point. What’s the plan for them to stay relevant and in power? [Republican elites surrender to Trump](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republican-elites-surrender-to-trump/2016/01/22/32d06fee-c10a-11e5-83d4-42e3bceea902_story.html) > [@](#): > > The Republican National Committee reacted swiftly — immediately revoking the permission it had given National Review to host a Republican presidential debate next month. “Tonight, a top official with the RNC called me to say that National Review was being disinvited,” the magazine’s publisher wrote online. “The reason: Our ‘Against Trump’ editorial.” > > That soft flapping sound you hear is the Grand Old Party waving the flag of surrender to Trump. Party elites — what’s left of the now-derided “establishment” — are acquiescing to the once inconceivable: that a xenophobic and bigoted showman is now the face of the Republican Party and of American conservatism. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2016, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-elite-and-power-brokers-now-on-the-sidelines-whats-their-game-plan/746726/2 "2016-02-21T19:53:58Z")
We warned them, right here, for years, we warned them. Keep pandering to the Hateful Base, and you will get to a place where you cannot do without them. Adapt or perish, change or die. Imagine that dinosaur, raising its saurian head and surveying the Earth that they rule. Glances at his feet for a moment, hey! What’s that strange little creature with the fur? Quick little fuckers, sure, you can crush it if you could catch one, but swift and agile. Ah, well, not to worry…hey!..Hey!..get away from my eggs!.. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-elite-and-power-brokers-now-on-the-sidelines-whats-their-game-plan/746726/3 "2016-02-21T20:21:28Z")
> [@astro](#): > > What’s their next move to save their skins? They are rapidly becoming beside the point. They speak for no one but the oligarchy at this point. What’s the plan for them to stay relevant and in power? Easy - they go shopping for Democrats. ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2016, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-elite-and-power-brokers-now-on-the-sidelines-whats-their-game-plan/746726/4 "2016-02-21T20:26:41Z")
> [@](#): > > Party elites — what’s left of the now-derided “establishment” — are acquiescing to the once inconceivable: that a xenophobic and bigoted showman is now the face of the Republican Party and of American conservatism. Wait, I thought that was in 1980. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2016, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-elite-and-power-brokers-now-on-the-sidelines-whats-their-game-plan/746726/5 "2016-02-21T20:28:01Z")
I thought it was in 1900. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2016, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-elite-and-power-brokers-now-on-the-sidelines-whats-their-game-plan/746726/6 "2016-02-22T17:55:46Z")
What I want to know is how much money will now be funneled from the Bush campaign to the others. Rubio will probably get most of it, a little bit for Cruz, but Trump doesn’t need it nor care about it. Will the establishment try to beat him up until he wins the nomination, or will it try to cozy up to him? And how will Trump react? One thing is for certain: all those National Review idiots will not be pivoting to the Dems if Trump wins, they’ll continue business as usual. Will make for good fodder in the general, I think