Guest Post by Patrick Buchanan
The Wisconsin primary could be an axle-breaking speed bump on Donald Trump’s road to the nomination.
Ted Cruz, now the last hope to derail Trump of a desperate Beltway elite that lately loathed him, has taken the lead in the Badger State.
Millions in attack ads are being dumped on the Donald’s head by super PACs of GOP candidates, past and present. Gov. Scott Walker has endorsed Cruz. Conservative talk radio is piling on Trump.
And the Donald just had the worst two weeks of his campaign.
There was that unseemly exchange with Cruz about their wives. Then came the pulling of the woman reporter’s arm by campaign chief Corey Lewandowski, an atrocity being likened by the media to the burning of Joan of Arc.
Then there was Trump’s suggestion, instantly withdrawn, that if abortion is outlawed, then women who undergo abortions may face some punishment.
This gaffe told us nothing we did not know. New to elective politics, Trump is less familiar with the ideological and issues terrain than those who live there. But the outrage of the elites is all fakery.
Democrats do not care a hoot about the right to life of unborn babies, even unto the ninth month of pregnancy. And the Republican establishment is grabbing any stick to beat Trump, not because he threatens the rights of women, but because he threatens them.
The establishment’s problem is that Trump refuses to take the saddle. Again and again, he has defied the dictates of political correctness that they designed to stifle debate and demonize dissent.
Trump has gotten away with his insubordination and shown, with his crowds, votes, and victories, that millions of alienated Americans detest the Washington establishment and relish his defiance.
Trump has denounced the trade treaties, from NAFTA to GATT to the WTO and MFN for China, that have de-industrialized America, imperil our sovereignty and independence, and cost millions of good jobs.
And who is responsible for the trade deals that sold out Middle America? “Free-trade” Republicans who signed on to “fast-track,” surrendered Congress’ rights to amend trade treaties, and buckled to every demand of the Business Roundtable.
The unstated premise of the Trump campaign is that some among the Fortune 500 companies are engaged in economic treason against America.
No wonder they hate him.
As for Trump’s call for an “America First” foreign policy, it threatens the rice bowls of those for whom imperial interventions are the reason for their existence.
If the primary goals of U.S. foreign policy become the avoidance of confrontations with great nuclear powers and staying out of unnecessary wars, who needs neocons?
Should Trump lose Wisconsin, he can recoup in New York on April 19, and the following week in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware and Maryland.
Yet, a loss in Wisconsin would make Trump’s climb to a first-ballot nomination steeper.
Still, if Trump goes to Cleveland, having won the most votes, the most states and the most delegates, stealing the nomination from him would split the party worse than in 1964.
The GOP could be looking at a 1912, when ex-President Theodore Roosevelt, who won the most contested primaries, was rejected in favor of President Taft. Teddy walked out, ran on the “Bull Moose” ticket, beat Taft in the popular vote, and Woodrow Wilson was elected.
Cruz says the nomination of Trump would mean an “absolute trainwreck” in November. But, Cruz, 45, with a future in the party, would be foolish to walk out as a sore loser, as Nelson Rockefeller and George Romney did in 1964.
A Cruz rejection of a nominee Trump would mean the end of Cruz. The elites would hypocritically applaud Ted’s heroism, publicly bewail his passing, then happily bury and be rid of him.
Cruz, no fool, has to know this.
If the nomination is taken from Trump, who will be 70 in June, he has nothing to lose. And as “Julius Caesar” reminds us, “such men are dangerous.”
Trump and Cruz, though bitter enemies, are both despised by the establishment. Yet both have a mutual interest: insuring that one of them, and only one of them, wins the nomination. No one else.
And if they set aside grievances, and act together, they can block any establishment favorite from being imposed on the party, as was one-worlder Wendell Willkie, “the barefoot boy of Wall Street,” in 1940.
All Trump and Cruz need do is instruct their delegates to vote to retain Rule 40 from the 2012 convention. Rule 40 declares that no candidate can be placed in nomination who has failed to win a majority of the delegates in eight states.
Trump has already hit that mark. Cruz almost surely will. But no establishment favorite has a chance of reaching it.
With Cruz and Trump delegates voting to retain Rule 40, they can guarantee no Beltway favorite walks out of Cleveland as the nominee — and that Ted Cruz or Donald Trump does.
No matter who wins in Cleveland, the establishment must lose.
At this point I doubt there is anything that will dissuade Trump supporters from supporting Trump and probably nothing that will stop new converts to him.
Thinking people see through all the attacks for exactly what they are: A hate campaign that is directed by the Establishment to protect its entrenched interests and power structure.
More and more people are realizing that the Establishment is neither Democrat nor Republican or even American in nature, it is a worldwide ruling elite that uses all mainstream political parties in all countries for its own purposes without regard to the interests of any people or any country.
There is a growing worldwide movement against them -the Establishment- but we cannot address other parts of the world, only ours.
Vote Trump if you want to see their one world agenda stopped, or at least impeded till it can be, vote for anyone else if you don’t.
Not sure where Pat is getting his info, but Cruz sure looks/smells/acts like the establishment guy to me. To think otherwise is pretty fucking ignorant of the facts.
Anon says: “Vote Trump if you want to see their one world agenda stopped, or at least impeded till it can be, vote for anyone else if you don’t.”
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You can’t “Vote Trump” unless he gets on the general election ballot. It looks more and more to me like he won’t be. Drudge is running a headline piece from the NYSlimes rag that explains how delegates can switch after x number of ballots at the party convention–it’s a confusing and retarded process–different processes for many state delegates.
Let the rebellion begin.
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With Cruz and Trump delegates voting to retain Rule 40, they can guarantee no Beltway favorite walks out of Cleveland as the nominee — and that Ted Cruz or Donald Trump does”
Wasn’t rule 40 pushed on the convention by the party fatboys? Isn’t it more than likely that the same elites in the GOP will simply rescind rule 40 without a vote?
Pat exhibits something similar to Battered Wife Syndrome in his loyalty to the GOP after all the shit the bosses have done to him and despite everything he’s seen them do.
Silly Conservatives: the voters don’t pick presidents.
Ed, Romney, et. al. put in Rule 40 at the 2012 convention to keep Ron Paul’s delegates from voting. Now that Karma’s biting them in the ass—hahahahaha, there are none more deserving! However, the Establishment is so brazen, they’ll just change the rules again to suit their purposes.
Have any of y’all seen this?
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-03-28/dc-madams-attorney-says-call-log-bombshell-could-upend-presidential-race
http://www.ijreview.com/2016/03/572546-ted-cruz-confronted-with-yes-or-no-question-if-he-cheated-on-his-wife-just-watch-what-happens/
“Ed, Romney, et. al. put in Rule 40 at the 2012 convention”….etc.
Thanks, Teri,I remember that. I doubt this will bite them in the ass, though. They can simply ignore the rules, change them on the fly, or shut down the convention and hand the voters Mittens as the candidate.
Good links there.