The Rejection of Ed Martin As U.S. Attorney For D.C. Reflects The Dying Embers Of The RINO GOP Establishment

No nominee of a Democrat President is rejected by his own party's Senators as too extreme when Democrats control the Senate.

The GOP majority in the Senate is about the last vestige of the GOP Establishment that originated with the election of Pres. Reagan in 1980 and continued on through the second term of Pres. Bush 43 in 2008.

Donald Trump came down the escalator at the Trump Tower in June 2015 as an almost “apolitical” outsider with no base of support in the Republican party. He then proceeded to lay waste to 16 candidates for the GOP nomination in 2016, all of whom represented some point on the spectrum of GOP politics from "conservative" to "moderate/liberal."

1. Ted Cruz

2. Marco Rubio

3. John Kasich

4. Jeb Bush

5. Ben Carson

6. Rand Paul

7. Mike Huckabee

8. Carly Fiorina

9. Chris Christie

10. Jim Gilmore

11. Rick Santorum

12. George Pataki

13. Lindsay Graham

14. Bobby Jindal

15. Scott Walker

16. Rick Perry

By March of 2016 he had driven everyone listed above out of the race — often in very blunt and personal fashion. He then went on to take out the Democrat-President-In-Waiting-for-12-years Hillary Clinton in a race where he was thought to be 20 points behind in the summer of 2016.

Some on the above list took note of the direction the GOP was headed after Pres. Trump’s win in 2016, and have climbed on board in a meaningful fashion. Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and to a lesser extent Rand Paul would fit that description.

Some are, and always have been, rank opportunists who moved only out of a sense of self-preservation while GOP was undergoing this transition — Lindsay Graham most prominently.

But some became outright “NeverTrumpers” — Chris Christie, John Kasich, and to a lesser degree Jeb Bush.

Thom Tillis -- who announced he would not support the nomination of Ed Martin to be U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, thereby killing it — would likley be a NeverTrumper if he was no longer in “The Club.”