Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
A Republican Party split is looking much closer after today. Trump won Florida, Rubio’s home state, and that led Rubio to drop out. However, Trump was denied a victory in Ohio, which was won by its own sitting governor, John Kasich. This will make it very difficult for Trump to win the necessary delegates for a first ballot in the Republican Convention. This Ohio victory doesn’t make Kasich a likely nominee in the least; it is just a spoiler to help the establishment pick who they want to be their nominee and that is certainly not Trump. Kasich has now won just one state so it appears that Ohio has sealed the fate of the Republican Party.
Without Ohio’s 66 delegates, Trump now faces an extremely difficult path to reach the majority of delegates he needs to avoid a “contested” GOP convention. So the establishment looks like it will win and no candidate will enter the convention with a majority of delegates locked up. So after the first ballot, they are free to vote for whoever the establishment wants. It looks like the computer may be right after all. This is beginning to appear to be a very insane situation. The last time no candidate had the required amount for a nomination was 1976. Under the rules of the GOP, all these primaries were pointless. Delegates can choose one of the candidates who ran, or someone else entirely – Romney?
With the people voting for Trump, the Republican Party may have to face a huge, strong anger backlash from his supporters. We are more likely to see a third party candidacy from Trump himself. The establishment will not have an outsider in that office so Trump might as well run third party to illustrate the corruption. The Republicans prefer Hillary to Trump any day of the week. The establishment fears ending elections that cannot be bought by their supporters, for their families might get fired from cushy jobs. Trump would not just sign whatever bill was put before him.
Obama has been a joke. Obama misses more than 50% of the morning briefings. Ever since Bush was in office and Dick Cheney actually ran the country, those in power have preferred a stooge as president. That way, they get to do whatever they want while the “boss” actually does nothing. As the joke goes, when Russia invaded Georgia, someone ran in to tell President Bush. He said, “Really? Well I didn’t win that state anyhow. Texas would be a different matter.”
Someone like Trump presents a huge threat to the establishment. They would have to assassinate him because he got in their way. The establishment might try blaming Cuba again or someone else they really do not like. The talk behind the curtain is clear— hand it to Hillary and everything remains intact.
So a Republican split is looking more likely. They have drawn the line in the sand. By no means will they accept Trump. He might as well begin forming a third party. What is going to be exposed is that we do not live in a Democracy. As long as the people vote for their groomed candidates, the pretense is fine. Now when it threatens their existence, well it’s time to bring the grapes of wrath down upon everyone. Their mistake: they assume this will all blow over. Where they are wrong is that to defeat Trump, they must expose the truth. It’s their game and they make the rules. Your vote really means nothing to them. I suspect this is step one in what the computer warns will be an entirely new political system ahead.
Clearly the Republicans do not want to win. The people with (R) after their name want to remain in power with the perks, but the party or the people who vote in that column? Pfft!
If they all rallied behind Trump, told the other has beens-never weres to get the hell back to whatever broom closet they slunk out of before this cycle and ramped it up against that harridan in man pants they’d wipe the cackle right off her face.
But that’s not what they’re doing, is it?
There is just one thing frightening about this comment: ” They would have to assassinate him because he got in their way. The establishment might try blaming Cuba again or someone else they really do not like. The talk behind the curtain is clear— hand it to Hillary and everything remains intact.”
It is absolutely true and everyone out there knows it… but less than 10% of this country’s citizens CARE that we are a banana republic now.
Good article, I voted for Trump as a protest. He has the right message but is the wrong messenger. I am so disgusted with the Republican establishment and why they didn’t see this coming or seem to care. Trump was right Rubio is a lightweight, Cruz is wacky and has no appeal outside of Texas. Kasich has no personality, the rest were losers. And now we have to accept hillary as the president. Just her demented voice is enough to make me want to go off the grid or move to Ireland or some other country. We are so screwed. Out.
Cruz just hired Niel Bush, who we as Coloradans know as Savings and Loan Slime Bag, walked away with a smile on his face, leaving us all the bill for his insider party.
Hard to win the nomination without winning the big prize in the “People’s Republic of Ohio”.
Ohio should be target number one for the south in CWII after those fukwit maroons went big for OREO in the last two elections/selections. Sold us out bigger than life and WE won’t forget it.
No, it is NOT what they will do. And I believe that the protests and dirty politics we saw in Chicago will continue to escalate through the election or Trump’s demise if he runs third party. ]
And of course, now Hillary will never be charged with a crime for fear she pulls out the “vast right wing conspiracy” audio tape again… the spineless wonks would never want her to call them bad names.
I do not know who I have less respect for: the people in this country who’ve allowed this to happen just to get free shit or the bastards and bitches in Congress who sold their principles along with their mother to the highest bidder. Every single ONE OF THEM.
No exceptions.
As Ann Barnhardt says: The fact that someone is running for national office is PROOF that they are not FIT to serve.
In my opinion, it is fair to say that this is an epic election/battle in our history.
It’s shaping up to be a struggle, similar to that of 2012, essentially between the parasitic classes, both big money and little money, vs. the host, the producers of this country.
I think the alliance of the big money elites and the FSA is going to win out. Hoping I’m wrong and this can be turned around. If not than I think we’re solidly in the end game for this country.
Ohio is NOT so simple as all that. Ohio has a lot of rural folks (including me) who are hardly Oreo supporters. Our voices just get drowned out by the riffraff in our dying cities and the gov’t lackies infesting the suburbs.
The next confrontation will be rural versus urban, not state versus state.
I also wonder about vote cooking. The line was out the door when hubs voted yesterday and when I did too. The numbers for my district seem REALLY low in comparison to what I observed.
Kasich winning Ohio really doesn’t surprise me but Rubio getting wiped out in Florida with a large percentage loss.
I expected Rubio to lose there but not by as much as he did. I also expected Cruz to do better than he did, but Rubio seems to have preempted him.
“The next confrontation will be rural versus urban, not state versus state.”
The Urban side has a large population advantage in this confrontation, and leftists seem to be gaining ground there.
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Oreo has nominated Merrick Garland for SCOTUS.
Nice to see that Armstrong has rediscovered his lucidity. Maybe he was under contract to write gibberish for only a limited period of time and can now go back to writing what he actually thinks?
What if the RINO party is nothing but the controlled opposition, and is never meant to win or get its stated policy goals accomplished? What if the whole thing is a charade, the winner was already determined and this is just window dressing to persuade a majority of the sheep that the “winner” is “legitimate”?
Sorry, stating the obvious and preaching to the choir…
Rose–I l live in a suburb of Cleveland–I actually thought Bernie was going to blow out Hillary based upon all the millenials going door to door.. You’re right it really is about urban vs. rural. The big cities are the home to the FSA and now the inner ring suburbs are as well, the blue collar further out suburbs are still hoping blindly for some kind of manufacturing resurgence and are in hillary’s camp. Rural Ohio has been left behind and I totally understand Trumps appeal–in fact I voted for him , possibly the only one In libtard Cleveland Heights.
According to BL’s families FB friends and his “clients” the GOP cannot be split, so Armstrong is wrong. Sorry.
It is rally about a major political part collapsing as well as an entire country. The debt and government finances isn’t even on the radar. It will be.
“Oreo has nominated Merrick Garland for SCOTUS.”
Has the GOP establishment come out in praise of him yet?
All that’s left of the Republican Party are a few right wing nut jobs – that want to argue about ‘real conservative principles’, and the status quo who don’t want to lose control.
The ‘Republican Voters’ have already left the Republican Party.
I think Maggie is right above. No matter how many articles I read about how the FBI will mutiny if the DOJ doesn’t prosecute Hillary, I think it is all BS. There is no way they prosecute her now if ever and she knows it and the whole circus knows it. This whole process is just a matter of going through the motions. Shit is fucked up and bullshit and will continue to be fucked up and bullshit and there isn’t a thing anybody is going to do about it and the folks in charge no that to be true as well.
Bea…we’ll remember Ohio in CWII…the problem is we’ve got to get those bastards out of the South first . Everywhere I turn there’s a Buckeye flag these days . Thankfully Clemson beat them the last time they played the Buckturds !
Greetings,
The Civil War has already begun on Social Media and if the guns & bombs version that is coming next is 1% of what I expect it will be then we are in for a real shit storm.
As a side note, an African American acquaintance of mine posted yesterday on FB that he was deleting anyone that voiced any support for Trump as it was necessary to “filter” away people that didn’t share his values. I reminded him that in America we had all kinds of “filters” in the past and that we filtered our schools, hospitals, drinking fountains, military and residential areas. We did this to ensure that we were only surrounded by our own kind and if that was the world he wished to return to then, by all means, lets begin filtering once again. Perhaps we should filter them right into the cemetery.
Peace…I think if Bernie had done better then perhaps they would have indicted her…now that she’s got things locked up…I doubt it . Obama may threaten her using it as leverage to get an appointment to the SCOTUS if she’s elected .
I am not convinced that Hitlery doesn’t get indicted. Since she has basically sewn up the nomination it is now time to indict. They had to wait to get Bernie out of the way. Brokered conventions for both the Demtards and the Repubtards is quite possible. Just think of the civil unrest and riots they would create. “Never let a good crisis go to waste”.
“In my opinion, it is fair to say that this is an epic election/battle in our history. ”
Well, since everyone is entitled his own opinion, IMO, this cycle is a little funnier than some have been but it’s still just a fuckin farce. I think that the end result has already been decided and we’re supposed to be holding our breaths, collectively until the final unveiling. Farce, with a capital fuckin F.
No offense intended with that F word. It’s just the way I write.
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Nice to see that Armstrong has rediscovered his lucidity.”
Meh. He’s still from Delaware.
Martin is just fanning flames. Like flash said last week, don’t be so lazy. Do the math
Trump has this. He has 662 delegates. Going to pick up 151 more just from wisconsin, arizona, and new jersey. Home state? 95 dedgates from winner take most new york. That puts him less than 350 away, with 16 other states to vote, including 3 other winner take alls he leads in, and 175 delegate winner take most california. Sorry, martin, save the drama for your mama.