Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan
Donald Trump has brought out the largest crowds in the history of primaries. He has won the most victories, the most delegates, the most votes. He is poised to sweep three of the five largest states in the nation — New York, Pennsylvania and California.
If he does, and the nomination is taken from him, the Republican Party will be seen by the American people as a glorified Chinese tong.
Last week, Ted Cruz swept 34 delegates at the Colorado party convention. Attendees were not allowed to vote on whom they wanted as the party’s nominee.
This weekend, Cruz shut out Trump in Wyoming the same way.
What does this tell us? Cruz has a better “ground game.” His operatives work the system better. Ted Cruz is the king of small ball.
But having gone head-to-head in some 30 primaries and caucuses, Cruz has fallen millions of votes behind Trump, and will fall millions further behind after New York, Pennsylvania and California.
Cruz will soon join John Kasich in being mathematically eliminated from winning the nomination on the first ballot. His fallback strategy is to keep Trump just short of the 1,237 votes needed for victory on the first ballot, and then steal the nomination on the second.
How? Poaching and pilfering. In state after state, he is getting Cruz loyalists elected as Trump delegates. After casting an obligatory vote for Trump on the first ballot, the turncoats will go over the hill and vote for Cruz on the second ballot.
Faithless delegates are preparing to switch to give Ted Cruz a nomination that he could not persuade Republican voters to confer upon him.
Like the 1919 World Series, the fix is in.
The rules are the rules, says Republican National Chairman Reince Priebus in defense of what went down in Colorado and Wyoming.
Priebus is correct. The rules are the rules. But what is also true is that the rules have been and are being manipulated by party elites to frustrate the expressed will of a Republican electorate, and to impose a nominee other then the clear winner of the primaries.
Republican elites are engaged in a conspiracy to frustrate and overturn the democratic decision of the Republican electorate.
Prediction: If Trump sweeps the remaining major primaries, comes to Cleveland with millions more votes than any other candidate, and then has the nomination stolen from him, the Grand Old Party will be committing hara-kiri on worldwide TV.
This political race ranks among the most exciting in American history. Seventeen Republicans entered the lists last summer in what party officials hailed as “the strongest Republican field since 1980.”
Then Trump came down the escalator, took them on, and bested them all. Can Republican Party elites think they will be celebrated if they substitute their wants for the will of the voters?
A Cruz nomination would be like taking the gold medal away from the man who won it, and handing it to a runner-up. The GOP elites would be about as popular as those Olympic boxing judges in South Korea.
The deeper problem here is the refusal of party elites to realize that the world has changed.
The Bush dynasty is done. Jeb Bush, the Prince of Wales, understands this. He will not be going to Cleveland.
The primaries have starkly revealed that a new era is upon us.
Even the neocons, the dominant element among the 121 foreign policy experts who declared in an open letter that they will never work for a President Trump, testify to this.
They see Trump’s victories as a repudiation of their legacy, and a Trump presidency as the end of their post-Cold War ascendancy.
And given the disasters they have produced for America, from Afghanistan to Iraq, Libya and Yemen, the nation would be well rid of them.
Indeed, Trump’s victories, and the energies he has unleashed, are due, not only to his outsized persona but to his issues.
People believe Trump will secure the borders, halt the invasion, embrace tariff and trade policies to reduce imports, and restart the production of goods, Made in the USA, by and for Americans.
In his first inaugural, Woodrow Wilson said, “The success of a party means little except when the Nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose.”
Bush Republicans saw their “large and definite purpose” as creating a “New World Order” and “ending tyranny in our world.”
Trump seems to see repairing, rebuilding and restoring America to greatness as the “large and definite purpose” of the party he would lead. And a new emerging Republican majority seems to agree.
If Trump had been routed, as first expected, then his message could rightly have been regarded as outside the mainstream. But Republican voters rallied to the issues he raised.
To either ignore the clear instructions of its electorate, or renounce their chosen messenger, would be for the Republican Party to forfeit its future, and cling to a discredited and dead past.
What does suicide mean exactly?
In denying Trump, the GOP elite will be performing the function for which they are well paid by the war-mongers and Chamber of Commerce. The media will cheer them on. Whatever this will be, it won’t be suicide.
The average-slob Trump supporter will be told by Foxnews to eat his peas and accept the decision of his betters.
Jeb Bush knows what’s coming and is staying away from Cleveland so as to avoid any uncomfortable questions.
Native son John Kasich will be graceful in his acceptance speech. Pundits will invoke James Madison and John Adams in serious baritones about the wisdom of the republican process and the importance of blunting the irrational passions of democracy.
This farcical theater will just confirm what we already know. Make sure you get those 1040s in to the IRS kids!
So why exactly should big donors contribute to the Republican Party?
If Trump vetoes every wasteful tax and regulatory scheme?
Better to lose with Cruz or a write in candidate then Trump.
And just where will Trump get his money from? He doesn’t have that much liquid assets.
Like there is any real difference in the 2 major parties. It is all theater. Their goals are the same with slight differences in methodology.
its not suicide, the interests of the GOP party is the same as teh Dems.
Its right in front of our faces, they aren’t killing teh party, they can push Cruz and Kasich all they want but the simple fact is the status quo owners prefers Hillary over Trump. there are no parties, only owners and sheep.
The Republican establishment seems to think all Trump supporters are going to go along with whoever they choose when they stop Trump and present someone else.
At least in my case they are wrong, I’m a third party voter in protest of both Republicans and Democrats, I’ve recognized the Establishment -both sides of it- for decades now.
Maybe I’m unique as a Trump supporter and they are right about all the others.
Or maybe they don’t care and would rather have a Hillary or Sanders administration than a Trump one since that would retain the Elite Establishment as the real power and authority in the world and protect the status quo of ruling power from any interference or threat.
It’s inconceivable to me that a Trump supporter would vote for ANY other repuke. They’ll either stay home, or write-in Trump … or vote for Trump if he runs as an Independent. Whatever they choose, there probably won’t be enough repuke voters to defeat whomever is the democrap candidate ….. hence “political suicide”.
But the democraps are in the same boat. If Hillcunt steals the election from the Commie Cadaver … do you think those people will vote for Fat Cankles? I don’t! Democraps are committing their own version of Hari Cari.
This just might be the first election with FOUR candidates on the ballot.
This may be the first election where neither front runner will get the party nomination.
Kinda funny and sad at the same time.
@Stucky
Four candidates on the ballet. Now that is an interesting thought.
Cankles and Schmooze get the nomination (through hook and crook) and then Burnie and Trump (I’m drawing a blank on an insult here… forgive me) run as independents.
That culd be very interesting and I bet we would wind up with the House of Representatives picking the prez beause no one could reach the required Electoral Delegates. After the House picks Cruz (maybe, of course with the turncoats all over it could go to Cankles) the country goes apoplectic.
I might actually stay awake with my popcorn to watch that election.
The Dems and GOPs are already destroyed. Their parties are only recognized as 2 separate groups on paper, in the MSM, and in the minds of idiots who believe the MSM.gov propaganda.
Those who are better informed already know that ‘Murica is not a ‘democracy’ at all. And the past 10 years or so have continued to provide the proof that we are no longer members of a ‘representative government’.
There is a plan to continue along the NWO path and Hillary has been the chosen dicktator for some time. The MSM is driving the message of delegate swap-outs and delegate thievery for a reason — has this EVER been discussed before?
We are all being duped into believing this election-drama will eventually ‘settle’ via the delegates and through an ‘election’….
What we are watching is the coup, streaming live…
I love how the Cruzbots say Trump has no ground game, didn’t know the rules, didn’t organize. As if he had any ability to sway party hacks. The only thing Trump has going for him is the voters, and we see that the voters don’t control the nomination. Trump is going against the GOP establishment’s main policies: perpetual war, globalization, open borders, importing enemy “refugees”, “free” trade, needless antagonism toward Russia, fealty to a bogus group of “allies” (NATO) that includes a brazen ISIS supporter, medical monopolies. “Ground game” has nothing to do with it. Trump’s candidacy is a fucking mutiny. We slaves have broken out of the ship’s hold and we’re doing hand-to-hand combat with our subjugators. If the party hacks succeed in nominating someone who didn’t get the most votes, I’ll never vote for a GOP candidate ever again.
Stucky:
How do you write in Trump on a Diebold Machine?
I.C. the parties are live and well> It is the people { citizens) who are destroyed.
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prusmc – right, and hence the need for Diebold voting machines.
Iska, there may not be a Republican (GOP) Party after this election, or a Democratic Party, for that matter. Here’s a prediction — the losing party in this election will disintegrate and be replaced by something else. The winning candidate may or may not be able (or want) to hold together a recognizable ‘Party’ for more than one term.
All lies and corruption.Audit President through congress,then put the crooks in Gtmo scrubbing toilets
If it’s war that the deep state wants, then Hellary is their man.
The GOP does to its voters what the Demorats do to black voters…..laugh and say…who yah’ gonna’ vote for…surely not the other party!
I may do what I haven’t done since 1988..vote for a Republican…if Trump get the nod . If not…I’ll be written in Satan…a truly evil Presidential candidate….not a lesser one either !
Is the GOP risking suicide? One can only hope.
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I don’t claim to be a prophet and I don’t have a crystal ball, but any talk about a contested convention on the GOP side is gibberish. The media needs to hype that particular story line to keep their ratings high. If it was reported as a foregone conclusion that Trump will be the nominee, the ratings would drop in April, May, and June until the convention in July. Trump will cross the delegate threshold, however tenuous, on the last day of contests on June 7th and secure the nomination. If Cruz REALLY wants to be a hero, he should throw his support behind Trump in a rousing and dramatic speech at the convention and keep the contents of his plans quiet until the appointed time. If Cruz can be the voice that unites the party and Trump wins the general election I’d expect Lyin’ Ted to be appointed to the Supreme Court for the next vacancy. I wouldn’t mind if Kasich, meanwhile, went back to Ohio never to be heard from again. If I was an Ohioan I’d oust him in the next election for abdicating his responsibilities as governor.