Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan
Narrow victories in the Kentucky caucuses and the Louisiana primary, the largest states decided on Saturday, have moved Donald Trump one step nearer to the nomination.
Primaries in Michigan, Mississippi and Idaho on March 8, and in Florida, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina on March 15, may prove decisive. If Marco Rubio does not win his home state of Florida, he is cooked, as is Gov. John Kasich if he does not win Ohio.
Ted Cruz already looks to be the last man between Trump and a GOP nomination that has gone, in the last seven elections, to George H. W. Bush, Bob Dole, George W. Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney.
All five of those nominees since 1988 seem appalled by Trump’s triumphs, and only slightly less so by the Cruz alternative.
Not in memory has the leadership of a party been so out of touch. The Republican rank and file are in revolt, not only against the failures of their fathers but the policies of their present rulers.
Some among the GOP elites, who have waited patiently through the Obama era to recapture control of U.S. foreign policy, are now beside themselves with despair over Trump’s success.
Fully 116 members of the GOP’s national security community, many of them veterans of Bush administrations, have signed an open letter threatening that, if Trump is nominated, they will all desert, and some will defect – to Hillary Clinton!
“Hillary is the lesser evil, by a large margin,” says Eliot Cohen of the Bush II State Department. According to Politico’s Michael Crowley, Cohen helped line up neocons to sign the “Dump-Trump” manifesto.
Another signer, Robert Kagan, wailed in the Washington Post, “The only choice will be to vote for Hillary Clinton.”
Are they serious?
Victory for Clinton would mean her remaking the Supreme Court, killing all chances that Roe v. Wade could be overturned, or that we could get another justice like Antonin Scalia before 2021.
What are these renegades and turncoats so anguished about?
Trump calls the Iraq War many of them championed an historic blunder. Trump says that, while a supporter of Israel, he would be a “neutral” honest broker between Israel and the Palestinians in peace negotiations, as was Jimmy Carter at Camp David.
Trump says he would “get along very well” with Vladimir Putin, as Richard Nixon got along with Leonid Brezhnev and Mao Zedong.
Trump would launch no new crusades for democracy. He would not oppose Russia bombing ISIS. He would build that wall on the border. He would transfer from U.S. taxpayers to rich allies more of the cost of defending themselves.
Do not most Americans agree with much of this?
Yet this neocon ultimatum about deserting should the voters nominate Trump testifies eloquently to their loyalty.
With every ex-president and ex-nominee repudiating Trump, and foreign policy elites going rogue, the GOP hierarchy is saying: We will cut Trump dead, just as the Rockefeller-Romney crowd cut Barry Goldwater dead.
This is pure my-way-or-the-highway politics.
But it raises anew the question: Can the establishment stop Trump?
Answer: It is possible, and we shall know by midnight, March 15. If Trump loses Florida and Ohio, winner-take-all primaries, he would likely fall short of the 1,237 delegates needed for nomination on the first ballot.
How could the anti-Trump forces defeat him in Ohio, Florida and Illinois? With the same tactics used to shrink Trump’s victory margins in Virginia, Louisiana and Kentucky to well below what polls had predicted.
In every primary upcoming, Trump is under a ceaseless barrage of attack ads on radio, TV, cable and social media, paid for by super PACs with hoards of cash funneled in by oligarchs.
But Trump, who is self-funding his campaign, has spent next to nothing on ads answering these attacks, or promoting himself or his issues. He has relied almost exclusively on free media.
Yet no amount of free media can match the shellfire falling on him every hour of every day in every primary state.
Our Principles PAC, backed by Nebraska’s billionaire Ricketts family, has poured millions into trashing Trump. American Future Fund is dumping $1.75 million in Florida this week; Club for Growth $1.5 million.
Hedge-fund billionaire Paul Singer is backing the Conservative Solutions PAC, which has dumped millions into anti-Trump ads and plans to spend more than $7 million between March 1 and 15, with $4 million of that going into Florida. The super PAC pile-on is unprecedented.
How well Trump fares in Michigan and Mississippi, measured against how well he was doing in polls last week, will reveal just how successful super PAC savagery has been in changing hearts and minds.
Can millionaires and billionaires who back open borders, mass immigration, globalization and the disappearance of nation states into transnational collectives overwhelm with their millions spent in ads the patriotic movements that arose this year to the wonderment of America and the world?
Has that proud 18th century boast of Americans, “Here, sir, the people rule!” given way to the rule of the oligarchs?
procrastinater- I don’t see how backing a man that possesses Nazi style rhetoric
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procrastinater- I have considered backing Trump because he is “different” … but why not back Cruz, a man that has shown himself to be against the establishment by pushing back against his own party ?
Now that we know that shitcastinater is a propagandist tool, we can all ignore anything else this Cruz shill has to say.
Who Is The Real Ted Cruz?
At the same time Ted’s bulging 2016 campaign accounts and supporting Super-PACs are stuffed with big oil and gas money. He knows how to play the game.
And perhaps the ultimate hypocrisy of the native born Canadian is that his spouse, Heidi, by all accounts a lovely wife and mother, has been employed by Goldman Sachs since 2005. She is on leave as managing director and regional head of private wealth management. Heidi is a proud member of the lefty Council on Foreign Relations, advocates of one world government and the New World Order.
Heidi is not a bit player in the Cruz campaign with those credentials but rather an integral part of the campaign’s fundraising efforts. As reported by CNN last year, “She works the phones the way she worked them when she was at Goldman,” said Chad Sweet, the Cruz campaign’s chairman, who recruited Heidi to work at the giant investment bank.”
Yet we are to believe that the big Wall Street banks have no leverage over Ted Cruz? Why didn’t Heidi Cruz resign from Goldman Sachs instead of taking a leave of absence? That’s like saying Bill Ayers and Saul Alinsky have had no influence on Barack Obama.
The other inside connection that hits one like a baseball bat is the Bush connection.
Ted was George W.’s brain when he ran for President. A top policy adviser. Ted maneuvered for Solicitor General in Bush World but settled for a plum at the Federal Trade Commission. Ted’s a Bushman with deep ties to the political and financial establishment.
Ted and Heidi brag about being the first “Bush marriage” – they met as Bush staffers which ultimately led to marriage. Cruz was an adviser on legal affairs while Heidi was an adviser on economic policy and eventually director for the Western Hemisphere on the National Security Council under Condoleezza Rice. Condi helped give us the phony war in Iraq.
Also conveniently missing from Heidi’s Wikipedia bio is her service as Deputy U.S. Trade Representative to USTR head Robert Zoellick. At USTR Heidi worked on U.S.-China trade policy- the one Donald Trump talks about so much.
And Chad Sweet, Ted Cruz’s campaign chairman, is a former CIA officer. Michael Chertoff, George W. Bush’s former Secretary of Homeland Security, hired Sweet from Goldman Sachs to restructure and optimize the flow of information between the CIA, FBI and other members of the national security community and DHS. Chertoff and Sweet co-founded the Chertoff Group upon leaving the administration.
A known tactic of the intelligence community is the use of strategic communications as a “soft power” weapon against it adversaries — the creation of false narratives by the effective use of all media — social, digital, newspaper, print, etc. Combined with denial and deception, it can be a potent force. Glenn Beck and Mark Levin are abetting this.
Despite his ability to lie with a straight face (sadly Nixonian) on his support for amnesty and TPP, he got nailed by Senator Marco Rubio on the debate. Acting like a prick in the U.S. Senate was the core of Ted’s disciplined effort to bury his old school ties and reinvent himself as a modern-day Jesse Helms and supposed Conservative outsider. It’s a ruse.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/01/26/who-is-the-real-ted-cruz/#ixzz42Kl2yghw
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Trumps secret weapon-the donations he gave to the Clinton’s Foundation while Hillary was Secretary of State. He alluded to the nature of the donations at the last GOP debate and said he would be the last person she would want to go up against in the general election.
He is not the only donor that funneled money into the Clinton’s foundations through Hillary’s State Department sojourns to foriegn lands.
The Wall Street Journal reported that other large corporations, many which have donated large sums of money to the Clinton Foundation: “Among recent Secetaries of State, Hillary Clinton as one of the most agressive global cheerleaders for American companies, pushing governments to sign deals and change policies to the advantage of corporate giants such as General Electric, Exxon Mobile, Boeing, and Microsoft Corp.”
She was/is involved in influence peddling on a grand scale. The Clinton Foundation raised millions upon millions of dollars for Haitian earth quake recovery, yet only a small amount to rebuilding homes and a disproportionate amount of the money went to non-Haitian companies.
Hillary’s State Department and the Clinton Foundaton worked in concert to make a few inside connected cronies rich. International BuisinessTimes stated that governments and corporations approved by Hillary’s State Department have donated between $54 million and $141 million to the Clinton Foundation as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments to the Clinton family.
I believe the majority of her deleted emails reflected this relationship and the influence she garnered from classified information she was privy to while in the State Department. Trump knows this as well as the FBI.
BL would make a good politician.See him dance around his own bullshit. Controlled or not BL? And if supporting Trump to murder the GOP is futile why do you froth at the mouth when anything about the Trump campaign is brought up?
Iska,
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions
Which of these positions do you oppose and why?
Trump-eteer Cognitive Dissonance
1. Most Treump-eteers hate Da Joos and/or Zionism.
2. Donald LOVES Da Joos more than anybody!!
hahahahaha!
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If he wins at RNC he will clean house in November, all of the NWO fucks absolutely know this. This is why we are seeing Republican migration to Hillary Clinton, the establishment is circling the wagons.
These acts and this process is bringing our 2 party system into stark clairity.
Party 1: Professional Politicians, Globalists, Oligarchs, Neocons, Banksters, all members with a stake in the NWO.
Party 2: The rest of us.
It might not break this election cycle, but the lines are drawn, sooner or later each will have to decide which side of the line you are on.
Stuck- I appreciate the moniker Trumeteers, but it appears Trumpets is gaining wider traction among the shills, fyi.
I am confused how can Trump “love da Joos” and be Hitler, someone is off message, better check those TPS reports for concurrency.
ottomatik
Thanks. But I ain’t changin’ nuthin’ !!
Trump-eteer is, of course, a play on Mouseketeers — that Disney world of fantasy where everything is great, problems are solved in thirty minutes, love reigns supreme, and children take naps.
Trumpet-eers traverse both worlds seamlessly.
Stuck…you too read , but do not comprehend.Go sit at the back of the bus with BL.
Fully 116 members of the GOP’s national security community, many of them veterans of Bush administrations, have signed an open letter threatening that, if Trump is nominated, they will all desert, and some will defect – to Hillary Clinton!
“Hillary is the lesser evil, by a large margin,” says Eliot COHEN of the Bush II State Department. According to Politico’s Michael Crowley, Cohen helped line up neocons to sign the “Dump-Trump” manifesto.
Another signer, Robert KAGAN , wailed in the Washington Post, “The only choice will be to vote for Hillary Clinton.”
Trump calls the Iraq War many of them championed an historic blunder. Trump says that, while a supporter of Israel, he would be a “neutral” honest broker between ISRAEL and the Palestinians in peace negotiations, as was Jimmy Carter at Camp David.
Dear Editor,
I am Jewish, and therefore forbidden by my faith to rejoice in someone’s misfortune, even for individuals like Jimmy Carter, the worse (sic) president in the history of our beloved country. This peanut-grower sold his rotten soul to the enemies of the United States and Israel, Carter is an avowed anti-Semite who has no love for me or my people.
By my own admission, I’m a fair man who hates no one (although I may dislike some people) but I will take this opportunity to remind the cancer-stricken Carter to follow through with the boycott of Israeli products. He should refuse to be treated with any of the lifesaving medication that was discovered by Jews, or medical technology that was researched and developed by Jews – in Israel or any other place.
An unsolicited piece of advice!
Mr. Carter you must be treated only with lifesaving products discovered by your soul buddies, the Palestinians and other Arab scientists
What say you Mr. Carter?
Sincerely,
Joseph Ceder
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump 50m50 minutes ago
Mitt Romney had his chance and blew it. Lindsey Graham ran for president, got ZERO, and quit! Why are they now spokesmen against me? Sad!
Worried about what Trump will/won’t do if he wins the office of President? I have the perfect solution for you. Vote for Bernie Sanders in the primary and general election. He has clearly stated what he intends to do, and it includes rolling back the “police state”, rolling back the “trade” agreements including TPP, single-payer health care, and ending our invasion of countries that didn’t attack us first.
Anonymous
How ’bout you go fuck a duck? Generally, I don’t read anon posts …. fuckin’ coward.
If POTUS did not have access to nukes, and armies, perhaps Trump could be a reasonable fuck you vote. But, POTUS does. Trump is untrustworthy, a flim flam con artist, and as dishonest as the next politician and the most corrupt business exec imaginable. He has no track record beyond feathering his own nest and fleecing others. (Just like Romney). Why anyone would trust anything he says is beyond me?
As my Dad used to say, “Never buy a pig in a poke”. That is exactly what a Trump vote is. People are so desperate for change they plan to vote for anyone who claims to be different from the establishment. If you want to burn the fucking Govt down, then go to it. But take a chance on Donald Trump? How stupid of a choice is that?
By the way he acts, maybe he does have a micro-penis. People with jam never have to boast. All Trump does is boast, speech after speech. A Trump President would be a fitting end to the Empire, perhaps it will unfold as a logical conclusion.
Stucky, I owe you a beer and a handshake.
regards
Flash u get my point … trump speaks with a condescending authoritative tone towards anyone that opposes him. Give him power and who knows what he will use the military for.
As far as Cruz goes, I’m willing to concede that there are holes in his story and it’s hard to trust any politician that receives millions in donations through their super pacs … but what alternative do we have ? at this point it’s either Hilary sanders trump or Cruz … May as well load four bullets into the chamber and play Russian roulette.
If it comes down to Hilary or Trump I might have to vote for trump … Just to see if he can change anything because we know Hilary will try to keep the status quo at all costs.
No rational rebuttal of my points….no intelligent discussion of the dangerous road ahead…no pragmatic realization of the precipice on which we stand…not even any angry shouting of rhetoric. Just this:
I expect more from TBPers.
Puzzling
Why does someone quote Jesus from the New Testament, but do it in the tones of what I consider would have been exhibited by the Pharisees?
Must be some motive in that.
Stuck, anon was I and if you didn’t read the comment , why the vitriol?
shitcastinator….why didn’t you just say you were carrying water for Cruz to begin with ?But, Trump’s the warmonger, you say?
You really are full of shit. You might as well change your handle now and regroup your charade and come again, because no one on TBP can trust anything you say from here on out..
Ted Cruz wants to nuke the Middle East
http://theweek.com/articles/592964/ted-cruz-wants-nuke-middle-east
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/265681-obama-cruzs-carpet-bombing-call-doesnt-pass-muster
Sen. Ted Cruz’s calls for “carpet bombing” of Islamic extremists came under criticism from President Obama during Tuesday evening’s State of the Union address.
A month after Cruz (R-Texas), who is running for president, said that he wanted to “carpet bomb ISIS [the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria] into oblivion,” Obama on Friday dismissed the promise as unserious bluster.
“The world will look to us to help solve these problems, and our answer needs to be more than tough talk or calls to carpet bomb civilians,” the president said, during one of the biggest speeches of his final year in office. “That may work as a TV sound bite, but it doesn’t pass muster on the world stage.”
Instead, Obama called for “a patient and disciplined strategy that uses every element of our national power,” including diplomacy, international coalitions and trade.
Paulo , every vote cast is buying a pig in a poke.Are you really retarded enough to believe everything a politician thta spews from a politicos mouth?
Here is an article maybe appropriate to today’s “discussion.”
From Free-Man’s Perspective
http://www.freemansperspective.com/limit-government-abuse-americans-will-accept/
Joey
That article was posted on TBP today.
@Stucky
I absolutely love your comments. But please think about THIS possible scenario: You are at the ripe-old age of 100, on your death-bed, and you just received the news that your favorite great-grand-daughter cannot visit you to pay her ‘last respects’ because she was ‘knee-capped’ by the local Sharia Patrol for showing her bare ankles.
Then you will regret your dissing of the Trumpateers, And as you think back on the possibilities that 2016 presented, your dying words will be : “I should have supported Trump.
Paulo…..you have convinced us that you have a micro-brain.
Mahtomedi
Thank you.
Here’s the thing … for real …. I have NOT YET ruled out voting for Trump IN THEORY. By “in theory” I mean that I will not vote — because I believe I would just be voting for my enslavement, no matter who the candidate is — but, if I WERE to vote, THEORETICALLY it could be Trump.
It all depends on what is Most Important to me …. something I haven’t yet narrowed down. Is it the debt? The shitfuk economy? The Prison State? The size of government? The Surveillance State? I don’t know, yet … all are so damned formidable. (At any rate, I don’t believe Trump can “fix” any of those. In fact, he WILL make some worse … like, making government more powerful than ever.)
BUT …. IF I was a single issue voter who thought mooslim-fuk immigration was the most important thing (as per your example) then I would run (not, walk) to vote for Trump. Theoretically.
“Stuck, anon was I and if you didn’t read the comment , why the vitriol?” —— flash
How the hell was I supposed to know it was you?? I despise all “anons”.
Second, I’ve told you this before, and I know you know it … which is why you did it again ….. I am sick and tired of your fucking BULLSHIT comment —“but do not comprehend”. You arrogant and condescending little prick. As if you, and you alone, are The One Who Comprehends, and with your great and wonderful wisdom you’ll teach me what I need to know. need YOU to teach me?? Who in the hell are you kidding? Fuck you and the mighty high horse you rode in on, ya maroon.
Stuck ,you make inane comments and then get upset when someone calls you out on them…what gives big boy ? Do you need a group hug?
To admin
Never saw the article on TBP. Came in my subscribed email. sorry.
Stuck, can you expand on your single issue rant and explain to us mere mortals why the ongoing foreign invasion of our homeland is not the most important issue Americans face today?
Thanks in advance.
“Stuck, can you expand on your single issue rant and explain to us mere mortals why the ongoing foreign invasion of our homeland is not the most important issue Americans face today?”
———— flash
Well, give yourself moar credit. You are more that a “mere mortal”. You are a formidable foe. You have the ability to get under my skin better than most folks here. Except, bb.
To answer your question …
I am assuming you’re talking about mooslims. I am not yet convinced that it is a “foreign invasion”. Don’t get me wrong … even ONE more mooslim is one too many, imho. What are they now … 2% of the population? I wouldn’t vote for Trump just to fix a 2% problem.
According to U.S. Census Data, the United States admits roughly 100,000 Muslim immigrants legally each year.
80 MILLION (or, whatever ungodly number) Americans of working age without a J.O.B. seems to me to be a much bigger problem than 100k mooslims.
Again, I wish it was ZERO. Also, I’m talking short term … the next 4 four years. Those mooslms breed like rabbits and they sure as fuck could be a problem 15+ years down the line.
“If POTUS did not have access to nukes, and armies, perhaps Trump could be a reasonable fuck you vote.”
Trump is the only one of the whole Republican bunch and Hillary that isn’t in favor of or likely to start WWIII.
That is, if Obama doesn’t manage to start it first before he leaves office.
Which, looking beyond what the MSM wants you to limit your attention to, is becoming more likely by the day.
Stucky,
they’re going to be a problem a whole log sooner than 15 years.
In fact, if you pay attention to anything other than the MSM directed news, they already are.
Stucky
Sorry, but Hard Scrabble Farmer wins.
Ok. Here’s the truth: I might vote for Trump. Not sure yet if for anyone, but the fact is, If I do, I will feel like an dumbass. Much the same way I’ve felt before when I voted in the past. Until I see some real things done, if he wins, I’ll continue to think it’s all bs.
Flash- please explain in detail how the murder of the GOP (as you put it) by Trump will do anything to correct the problems in this country. Why just one party, why not both? Why give the whole dog and pony show any credibility?
Just to be blunt, What is your point?
Cheap Mex labor verses Mex wall Trump .That why they are mad.stop illegals plus new Dem voters that will keep elites in power.Thats why the skum bags want Trump out.Just think of US as third world country with no jobs,and the jobs that are there are fewer and fewer worth nada-SECEDE
“2% of the population? I wouldn’t vote for Trump just to fix a 2% problem.”
Wherever Muslims go in the west they create what I affectionately refer to as “beach heads”. They create communities within communities that are exclusive to them. They shut others out, enforce sharia and create enclaves that they use to spread their ideology. They are very much dangerous at 2% because they are an intolerant culture waging and ideological jihad on a liberal culture. Letting in fundamentalists of this type is poor political decision making at any percentage.
The comments section of this blurb were instructive, and a good supplement to the actual article.
That the GOP would be willing to actually give Hillary Clinton the White House merely to stop Donald Trump from winning it fair and square demonstrates beyond any doubt that we aren’t living in a democracy, that the GOP elites, their super-powerful and hyper-wealthy allies/donors/string-pullers, and the establishment see the American public – from those in welfare and living on the streets to the intelligentsia and the self-made millionaires – as cattle from which taxes are to be extracted and upon whom a set of legislation, for the benefit of the leadership and at the detriment of the “ruled,” is to exist, while those saw laws do not apply to the “rulers.”
As November draws near, I have been seeing more and more FB friends write about Donald Trump and the election, but what I see are either individuals who are clueless and get their information from the various mouthpieces of the department of propaganda (MSM) or who cannot see beyond a contrived Republican vs. Democrat paradigm. I at times want to force-feed them red pills, but vision is ultimately caught rather than taught.
On that note, I should really catch up on this website’s Fourth Turning posts. I read the Crisis of Trust parts, but will re-read them and read the others. Amazing stuff; thanks very much for them.
BL, my point is that the DNC does not lie.The want free shit and demand it. On the other side the aisle the GOP claims to be the party of “limited government” which is an atrocious lie.
In order to ever have any sort of victory, We the People need one banner to rally around.Two parties who draw their strength from the destruction of American sovereignty is two too many. Kill one and the Republic has a 50% chance of survival. We know that their is no force of resistance among people of the Dem party. Only the Republicans have those that might revolt.It’s a dark corner of the universe , but our only hope.
.May the force be with you shithead.
FM..Westerners together stand as men or die as punks..it’s that simple.
Sweden: 46% of women over 16 are afraid to go out after dark for fear of rape by Muslim migrants
One major concern is that many of these men remain free after offending, having been handed extremely short sentences or not having been caught at all. A news story that may weigh heavily on the minds of Swedish women, and was reported by their national media before the police stopped revealing the identity of offenders in crimes where migrants were involved to avoid seeming “racist”, is that of a brutal gang rape in a secluded park that left a woman with “life changing” injuries.
The 23-year-old victim was attacked while sitting alone on a park bench by a gang of teenage migrants. Once they beat her into submission the leader of the gang used his mobile phone to call his friends to join them and participate — eventually the woman was raped anally and vaginally six times by the group as her attackers laughed at her…
Stucky – 2% of the population? I wouldn’t vote for Trump just to fix a 2% problem
Posterity Stuck.It ain’t here but it will be.Do you have any worth preserving?
Obama Has Allowed 600,000 ‘Unscreened’ Immigrants from Dangerous Muslim Nations to Enter USA
Imam tells Muslim migrants to ‘breed children’ with Europeans to ‘conquer their countries’ and vows: ‘We will trample them underfoot, Allah willing’
: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3240295/Imam-tells-Muslim-migrants-breed-children-Europeans-conquer-countries-vows-trample-underfoot-Allah-willing.html#ixzz42MxA52AJ
Ted Cruz is ….
– cum laude grad, Princeton, 1992 (age 21)
– magna cum laude grad, Harvard Law School, 1995 (age 24)
– law clerk, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, 1996 (age 26)
– the closest clone of Ron Paul since Ron Paul
– guaranteed 100% to appoint Antonin Sculia Jr to fill the vacancy of Antonin Sculia
– the most experienced elected politician to have EVER argued as many cases in front of the Supreme Court and won
– a Republican Latino who gets Latino votes
– someone who needs to hire me as his national security advisor. Heh. I’ll straighten some shit out with that young whippersnapper.
Vote Ted Cruz.
SSS- He peaked, his home turf is over, his bible turning to an anchor….dragging him down. A victory over them Dems for him will only come about if NONE of them show up, possible but I see it as a long shot.
Cloning Ron Paul in one way only. He will be a losing footnote in presidential history. While Ron Paul was sounding that alarm about the big banks, Ted Cruz was doing their bidding. How insulting.
“Cloning Ron Paul in one way only. He (Cruz) will be a losing footnote in presidential history.”
—-Starfcker @ SSS
That may well be. I’m NOT voting for Trump. If it’s Trump and Hitlery, I’ll do what I did in 2008 and 2012. Write in Ron Paul, or this time …. Ted Cruz
Fuck it. Trump is a goddamned carnival barker, and Clinton belongs in jail. I’ll stick with the guy who supports and defends the Constitution.
SSS- Agreed, I feel better about Cruzes constitutional creds. If it comes down to Trump and Hillary, I believe Trump will pick much more conservative Justices than Hilary or god forbid Bernie. Generally I am a single issue voter, I believe (perhaps naively) Trump will defend the 2nd and appoint Justices that hopefully will to. The Dems absolutely will not, kiss the whole thing goodbye if they appoint three.
Not a fan of trump but he is no more likely to start a world war with nukes than Hillary. In fact a case could be made that a guy with more money than he will ever need, kids who seem competent, well behaved and gainfully employed, unlike most other rich guys kids, and a smoking hot wife, is rather unlikely to want to end it all.
Llpoh, trump did as expected in MI. But look at bernie. The whole rust belt votes trade deals. O Bama won in 2012 with the auto bailouts. Romney said let them rot. They never forgave him. All the polling showing Romney ahead in those states was fraudulent. He never led in those states. Hillary is in shock right now, but the result was probably predictable with how hard bernie hammered her on NAFTA and TPP.
It’ll be a brokered convention, the neocons will jump up and down, CNN will show an endless clip of them jumping like holy-rollers on crack chanting ‘Stop the Trump’ and the country will capitulate but only if Kasich is the candidate.
Trump will cry foul but then accept appointment as Secretary of State and he will supervise the building of the wall by his former company of which he will divest himself so as to have no conflict of interest.
This Thomas Frank article in the Guardian is probably as close to accurate as I can find. Want to understand trump’s success? Read this. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/07/donald-trump-why-americans-support
Even most Trump supporters acknowledge that he is not a savior, might not even get a lot of things done. However, I believe what he won’t do is just as important as the things he might do. Ask yourself, do you honestly think a President Trump would:
– Try to confiscate firearms every time a lone nut goes on a shooting rampage?
– Fiddle while Black Lives Matter loots and burns down cities?
– Send the Justice Department in to local police departments stir up racial violence?
– Order the Border Patrol to release any illegals it catches, even drunk drivers?
– Bow to the foreign leaders including the Queen Bat of England and some Saudi in a dress?
– Fly his dog to Martha’s Vineyard at taxpayer expense on Marine One?
– Light up the White House in rainbow colors?
– Babble about climate change at every opportunity?
– Refer to Islamic terrorism as “workplace violence?”
– Appoint a bunch of communist affirmative action Supreme Court judges?
– Send the IRS to take down his enemies?
– Send EPA swat teams to raid businesses violating some other country’s obscure environmental law?
– Invite Clockmed to the White House?
– Promote a bunch of women and trannies to 4 star general positions?
– Release a bunch of Muslim militants to get an army deserter back?
– Crow about green shoots while 1/3 of the country is not in the labor force?
Well we’ve already been down that road and it’s been a disaster. If Trump takes office and simply does none of the above he will instantly cement himself as a great success among modern presidents.
So it looks as though Clinton might be feeling the Bern, at least a bit. But wow the Dems have a crazy number of superdelegates–so it’s not even close. Looking at both primary systems in place, they are pretty anti-democratic, Dem’s with over a thousand super delegates and the R’s with a litany of rules that can block those with the plurality in votes. No real surprise, really wish this country had a viable 3rd party system, but it’s set up to pretty much make it impossible in national elections. So 3rd party guys like Bernie Sanders, or Ron Paul, have to sign up for the D’s or R’s to even have a marginal chance of getting noticed. Gary Johnson who? Yeah, 3rd parties are worthless at the national level. Even well known names like Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nader couldn’t move the needle.
Can’t imagine Trump not winning Florida now after this showing, so what’s left Kasich maybe winning OH?? That would be the “roadblock” Kasich winning one stinking state??? Barring underhanded crap looks like Trump will be the R’s candidate this year. The rustbelt could swing that direction, a ton of disenfranchised industry guys hate the trade deals, and loathe illegal immigration–and don’t care about style points for who can be the best actor at a podium.