Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan
Donald Trump “appeals to racism.”
“[F]rom the beginning … his campaign has profited from voter prejudice and hatred” and represents an “authoritarian assault upon democracy.”
If Speaker Paul Ryan wishes to be “on the right side of history … he must condemn Mr. Trump clearly and comprehensively. The same goes for every other Republican leader.”
“Maybe that would split the (Republican) party,” but, “No job is worth the moral stain that would come from embracing (Trump). No party is worth saving at the expense of the country.”
If Republican leaders wish to be regarded as moral, every one of them must renounce Trump, even if it means destroying their party.
Who has laid down this moral mandate? The Holy Father in Rome?
No. The voice posturing as the conscience of America is the Washington Post, which champions abortion on demand and has not, in the memory of this writer, endorsed any Republican for president – though it did endorse Marion Barry three times for mayor of D.C.
Anticipating the Post’s orders, Sen. Marco Rubio has been painting Trump as a “scam artist” and “con artist,” with an “orange” complexion, a “spray tan” and “tiny hands,” who is “unfit to lead the party of Lincoln and Reagan.”
The establishment is loving Rubio, and the networks are giving him more airtime. And Rubio is reciprocating, promising that, even if defeated in his home state of Florida on March 15, he will drive his pickup across the country warning against the menace of Trump.
Rubio, however, seems not to have detected the moral threat of Trump, until polls showed Rubio being wiped out on Super Tuesday and in real danger of losing Florida.
Mitt Romney has also suddenly discovered what a fraud and phony is the businessman-builder whose endorsement he so avidly sought and so oleaginously accepted in Las Vegas in 2012.
Before other Republicans submit to the ultimatum of the Post, and of the columnists and commentators pushing a “Never Trump” strategy at the Cleveland convention, they should ask themselves: For whom is it that they will be bringing about party suicide?
That the Beltway elites, whose voice is the Post, hate and fear Trump is not only undeniable, it is understandable.
The Post beat the drums for the endless Mideast wars that bled and near bankrupted the country. Trump will not start another.
The Post welcomes open borders that bring in millions to continue the endless expansion of the welfare state and to change the character of the country we grew up in. Trump will build the wall and repatriate those here illegally.
Trump threatens the trade treaties that enable amoral transnational corporations to ship factories and jobs overseas to produce cheaply abroad and be rid of American employees who are ever demanding better wages and working conditions.
What does the Post care about trade deals that deindustrialize America when the advertising dollars of the big conglomerates are what make Big Media fat and happy?
The political establishment in Washington depends on Wall Street and K Street for PAC money and campaign contributions. Wall Street and K Street depend on the political establishment to protect their right to abandon America for the greener pastures abroad.
Before March 15, when Florida and Ohio vote and the fates of Rubio and Gov. John Kasich are decided, nothing is likely to stop the ferocious infighting of the primaries.
But after March 15, the smoke will have cleared.
If Trump has fallen short of a glide path to the nomination, the war goes on. But if Trump seems to be the near-certain nominee, it will be a time for acceptance, a time for a cease-fire in this bloodiest of civil wars in the GOP.
Otherwise, the party will kick away any chance of keeping Hillary Clinton out of the White House, and perhaps kick away its future as well.
While the depth and rancor of the divisions in the party are apparent, so also is the opportunity. For the turnout in the Republican primaries and caucuses has not only exceeded expectations, it has astonished and awed political observers.
A new “New Majority” has been marching to the polls and voting Republican, a majority unlike any seen since the 49-state landslides of the Nixon and Reagan eras.
If this energy can be maintained, if those throngs of Republican voters can be united in the fall, then the party can hold Congress, capture the While House and reconstitute the Supreme Court.
Come the ides of March, the GOP is going to be in need of its uniters and its statesmen. But today, all Republicans should ask themselves:
Are these folks coming out in droves to vote Republican really the bigoted, hateful and authoritarian people of the Post’s depiction?
Or is this not the same old Post that has poured bile on conservatives for generations now in a panic that America’s destiny may be torn away from it and restored to its rightful owners?
Desperation Moves: Romney Plots To Block Trump At Republican Convention
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/03/2016 21:35 -0500
Only in America’s so-called democracy could a proven “loser” so vehemently and shamelessly condemn a current “winner” with the goal of overturning ‘we, the people’s’ prospective leader in favor of himself. In the latest (and most desperate) action from the neocon establishment, CNN reports Romney has instructed his closest advisers to explore the possibility of stopping Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention (by revising rules for instance). As The GOP self-immolates, perhaps Romney – as the mouthpiece of the establishment – should pay heed to Florida Governor Risk Scott who explained “I trust the voters, so I will not try to tell the Republican voters in Florida how to vote.” Democracy, indeed.
Following his attack speech this morning, CNN reports that Romney is quickly mobilizing Plan B…
Mitt Romney has instructed his closest advisers to explore the possibility of stopping Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention, a source close to Romney’s inner circle says.
The 2012 GOP nominee’s advisers are examining what a fight at the convention might look like and what rules might need revising.
“It sounds like the plan is to lock the convention,” said the source.
Romney is focused on suppressing Trump’s delegate count to prevent him from accumulating the 1,237 delegates he needs to secure the nomination.
But implicit in Romney’s request to his team to explore the possibility of a convention fight is his willingness to step in and carry the party’s banner into the fall general election as the Republican nominee. Another name these sources mentioned was House Speaker Paul Ryan, Romney’s running mate in 2012.
Because nothing says “success” like an old establishment “loser” when the American people are screaming out for change… and not this kind of change (again)…
According to the source, CNN reports that Romney does not expect Rubio, Cruz or Kasich to emerge as the single candidate that can accumulate 1,237 delegates and outright defeat Trump before the convention. So the only way to rob Trump of a victory would be to keep him from reaching that magic 1,237 number.
Most Republican states allocate their delegates proportionally, or in a hybrid format that gives delegates both to the statewide winner and at the congressional district level. This means rather than winnowing the competition down to a single Trump alternative, it could make more sense for all of the current candidates to stay in the race for a stop Trump movement, according to one source.
In addition, two senior Republican Party insiders told CNN that the convention scenario is now dominating a lot of conversation in GOP fundraising circles. To be sure, both of these sources are skeptical about Romney being able to execute this plan, but both believe that there is a real attempt underway to try to do this.
Even Lou Dobbs was shocked…
Perhaps Mr Romney should listen to Republican Florida Gov. Rick Scott:
Republican Florida Gov. Rick Scott is not endorsing a candidate in the party’s presidential race ahead of his state’s March 15 primary.
“I have made it my practice to not get involved in primaries because picking the Republican candidate is the voters’ job,” Scott wrote in a statement posted to Facebook on Thursday.
“The political class opposed me when I first ran for office, they did not want a businessman outsider, but the voters had other ideas,” he said.
“I trust the voters, so I will not try to tell the Republican voters in Florida how to vote by endorsing a candidate before our primary on March 15,” Scott continued. “I believed in the voters when I first ran for office, and I still believe in them today.”
Ah – we love the smell of democracy in the morning; or is that the burning smell of a Republican party on fire? As The Patriot Post’s Nate Jackson so eloquently sums up the farce:
Millions of Americans are fed up with the establishment of both parties. And the Republican base is fed up with nominees like Bob Dole, John McCain and Mitt Romney, all of whom lost to younger, more energetic and appealing Democrats. So naturally, the solution to that frustration yielding the rise of Donald Trump is to … roll out Mitt Romney to denounce him. That’s exactly what the last GOP presidential loser did Thursday.
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But the most important takeaway is that the messenger is deeply flawed, which will only reinforce in the minds of Trump supporters that they should stand by their man.
That said, Romney’s speech isn’t for Trump supporters. It’s to stem the tide of elected Republicans conceding the nomination to Trump without continuing to fight.
Romney lost in 2012 because he implemented ObamaCare in Massachusetts before there was ObamaCare. He was a moderate technocrat who spoke conservatism as a second language. That doesn’t mean he would’ve been a bad president; on the contrary, his generally non-ideological philosophy and his history of turning around both companies and the Salt Lake City Olympics perhaps uniquely qualified him to serve at that moment in American history. But he lost, despite the fact, as Trump said, he “should have beaten Barack Obama easily.”
Even Trump’s endorsement couldn’t save Romney in 2012.
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Going forward, Romney’s advice is simple:
“[T]he rules of political history have pretty much all been shredded during this campaign. If the other candidates can find common ground, I believe we can nominate a person who can win the general election and who will represent the values and policies of conservatism. Given the current delegate selection process, this means that I would vote for Marco Rubio in Florida, for John Kasich in Ohio, and for Ted Cruz or whichever one of the other two contenders has the best chance of beating Mr. Trump in a given state.”
Translation: Aim for a brokered convention. If Trump loses in such a way, however, it would surely drive away Trump supporters, and Trump himself would no doubt launch a third-party run after having been not “treated fairly.”
So we have many in the establishment signaling they would be just fine with a Washington dealmaker like Trump — Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee and others come to mind, but also conservatives like Jeff Sessions. And we have conservatives like Sen. Ben Sasse and a growing list of others who vow not to support Trump. Many among the conservative intelligentsia (for lack of a better word) also have declared Trump unacceptable. Meanwhile, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and John Kasich show no signs of exiting the race, even amidst growing calls on the Right for a Cruz/Rubio unity ticket.
Now we have the two previous Republican nominees denouncing the current Republican frontrunner. Are we witnessing the collapse of the Grand Old Party? And is there any way to win a gimme election this year with such a fractured party?
Source: Ben Garrison
And in tonight’s debate (the 23781st we believe), Trump destroys Romney with his response to the first question:
“He was a failed candidate. He should have beaten President Obama very easily,”
“He failed miserably. And it was an embarrassment to everybody, including the Republican Party.”
“So I don’t take that. And I guess obviously he wants to be relevant. He wants to be back in the game.”
^^^ this. “Because nothing says “success” like an old establishment “loser” when the American people are screaming out for change… and not this kind of change (again)…”
The Elite are destroying the country and then are in panic because the people don’t just bend over and take it.
This confirms the plan in place, although they don’t think it will work.
2016 Republican Party Presidential Nomination – Odds to Win (All Bets Action) – November 08, 2016 12:00 EST
Sort By Odds
Donald Trump -400
Marco Rubio +400
Ted Cruz +1000
John Kasich +2000
Mitt Romney +5000
Paul Ryan +7500
Demoncrat odds may be more interesting.
2016 Democratic Party Presidential Nomination – Odds to Win (All Bets Action) – November 08, 2016 12:00 EST
Hillary Clinton -1500
Bernie Sanders +800
Joe Biden +2000
Politics is and always has been a blood sport and no one who has been unwilling to spill some has ever won any post other than that of the lackey servant to wall street elites.Purportedly, the Donald has changed that , and the usually docile bi factional ruling party has turned from election organizer to defensive obstructor. Anyone but Donald they say. This has become so obvious and incessantly hyped by all media, that it begins to appear has just another Bernayesque mass mind fuck. Does this sound like an assessment of one who has lost all faith in the US political system? Yes? But, this time it’s different you say?
@ Back in PA Mike
Here’s a QOTD. Who was the last POTUS who wasn’t a go along to get along puppet on the banksters string?
Flash, on the list. Should be some interesting answers adding “the last”.
Trump is the people rising up against the Establishment, and in a legal and peaceful manner.
It terrifies the Establishment that the people should actually escape their chains and demand their own interests be represented in government instead of meekly accepting their natural position of subservience to them.
A 21st Century slave revolt as such, with all the same implication as one in the 19th Century.
Vivez la révolution de Trump!
“Here’s a QOTD. Who was the last POTUS who wasn’t a go along to get along puppet on the banksters string?”
Kennedy?
Didn’t work out well for him, though.
@anon Do you think Trump will really bump the bankers. The last POTUS who did and survived to tell about it was Old Hickory .
Trump= Third party
Third party votes will insure Hitlery makes it to the WH.
We are fucked (again).
Perot replay just like I said months ago.
Flash,
I think Trump is in danger of getting killed.
From many different Establishment interests, not just the bankers.
But I do think he will continue to try as much as he is able to.
Maybe I’m wrong about this, but at least he’s giving the issues attention in the mainstream of things, something no one else seems to want to do.
So Bea,
Which of the others do you want to see succeed, and how likely are they to beat Hillary if they do anyway?
None of them I’d vote for, if Trump doesn’t get it I’ll again vote third party out of principle and personal integrity.
No establishment candidates from either side for me.
Two epic “Vote for Trump” rants on this morning’s blogosphere below. Both by concerned citizens.
1.) The first one written:
http://100percentfedup.com/dear-rnc-an-everyday-american-writes-a-letter-to-explain-the-trump-phenomenon-to-the-washington-elite/
2.) The second one spoken:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5a1x0yGh38
Anon-
I would not give you a nickel for the whole truckload of them (no matter what party). They are not there to beat Hitlery.
A third party vote “out of principle” won’t get you a cup of coffee at the Waffle House. Your personal integrity has nothing to do with the criminals in this country’s political class. They don’t care if you have “integrity”. They are banking on you falling for the same old same.
Imprint this in your brain big time…..”It’s Time For A Woman”.
As much a mistake as it was to give them the vote, running the military and WH is mistake 10.0 ! There are two womenz for every man and they will embrace this crap and burn their bras (again) so get ready for 8 years of radical Feminazis spewing man hatred and tanking this republic.
I agree with flash, I always thought trump was in the race to destroy the GOP and help Hilldog win, so he can really make some money under her (oh that sounds so gross).
Whig party part II
The party fell apart because of internal tension over the expansion of slavery to the territories. With deep fissures in the party on this question, the anti-slavery faction prevented the nomination for a full-term of its own incumbent, President Fillmore, in the 1852 presidential election; instead, the party nominated General Scott. Most Whig Party leaders eventually quit politics.
Just think if he’s running against Sanders , Trump would be a sexist in addition to being a racist according to the Joos in the media . In addition to the Joos at the New York Times (Pinchy Saltzburger et el) who sold out to Carlos Slim.
I think Herman Caine would be a good running rate. 2 outsiders and 2 business men.
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Mark- Herman Caine is a Ex-Fed president, what are you thinking? Do you love the Fed ?
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) issued the following statement today regarding the 2016 presidential election:
“Here’s my message to the Republican Party leaders: Focus more on listening to the American people and less on trying to stifle their voice.”
“What’s happening in the Republican primary is the result of two things: the fecklessness and ineptness of the Washington establishment in failing to address the big issues facing our country and years of anger with the overreach of the Obama administration. And to be candid, I think the American people should be angrier than they are.”
So now Bob corker (or shall we call him bob corker-cardin) is going to pretend he is going to be part of the solution?
The short term thinking of these elites is just staggering. Do they REALLY think that if they rig this that the rage propelling the Trump movement will just go away?
Do they really think that the millions of Americans watching their livelihoods and prospects whither before their eyes will just shrug their shoulders?
I’m not saying that they will riot in the streets, but if the GOP establishment do carry this through, they are permanently crushing any trust or hope that the angry mob may still be nourishing. Push people far enough and they finally say to hell with this this and tune out, not just out of politics, but out of society in general. They begin to work against it.
Once you turn the productive members of society against you, society as a whole is toast. It will have to crash because at that point, trust will not be reestablished in old institutions, new ones must be made.
Don’t these assholes realize that everything that they are doing now is just poking a bear that is already very, very angry?
I realize that they are all amoral imbeciles, but seriously, can even THEY be this stupid?
This fairy tale brokered convention junk will be over on the 15th. Does Romney really think he’s man enough to take on trump? He couldn’t beat OBAMA.
It is interesting that neocons pursue horrific trade deals that transfer wealth from the US to the third world, and permanent warfare which serves both to weaken the US and to infuriate the third world.
Trotsky would undoubtedly approve.
It is possible that the RINOs could force a brokered convention, after all they can write the rules any way they want. I think any attempt to “stop Trump” after he wins a majority of the delegates would trigger the mass of voters to ignore anything else they said, forever.
Another article was pointing out some kind of “autopsy” conducted after the McCain & Romney losses. My best understanding is that they decided that in order to expand the base, remain relevant and involved in the election process and so forth that they would have to embrace immigration, accept and encourage diversity and similar trends. Yet here comes Trump, politically incorrect, anti-immigration, anti-TPP / NAFTA / one-sided trade deals, and he is attracting hordes of new interested folks to the Republican primaries!
It almost appears that they hate him, not JUST because he’s a bit crude, not JUST because he’s not dependent on the Party apparatus, not JUST because he’s a threat to their cozy dealings with the Democrats, not JUST because he’s not behind and supportive of their foreign wars – but REALLY because he is simply proving them WRONG about nearly everything they studied, concluded and now believe.
Administrator says: “What’s happening in the Republican primary is the result of two things:
It’s karma for that thing in that place. They wouldn’t listen to Ron, now Don won’t listen to them.