The Establishments war on Donald Trump
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Title: Is the GOP Risking Suicide?
Source:
buchanan.org
URL Source: http://buchanan.org/blog/gop-risking-suicide-125128
Published: Apr 19, 2016
Author: Patrick J. Buchanan
Post Date: 2016-04-19 09:32:36 by Stoner
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Views: 2539
Comments: 27
Is the GOP Risking Suicide? 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.
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#4. To: Stoner (#0)
They're risking it, but it isn't going to happen. Donald Trump is probably going to walk away with 95 Delegates today, sweeping New York. Similarly, Hillary Clinton will defeat Bernie Sanders. The media meme will then be "Tide turns to the front-runners." Success begets success, and with Connecticut and New Jersey coming up, Trump is going to amass a huge number of delegates in primary after primary. The idea of stopping Trump at the Convention is not novel anymore, and people have had some time now to work out what that means. Cruz is creepy, and everybody but his supporters know that he won't beat Hillary. He hasn't been able to beat Trump, after all. Buchanan's article is right and the GOP knows it: if Trump is running away with it (which he will be after today), to deprive him of the nomination will mean civil war in the GOP and the loss of Congress, of everything. They've stepped up to the edge of the abyss, tested it by throwing rocks down it and calling "echo...echo...echo..." down it. They see what will happen if they go that route, so they are gradually pulling back, getting ahold of themselves, and steeling themselves to back Trump. Against Trump, Hillary is weaker than Jeb! Jeb!'s brother really screwed the pooch, but "Ieb!" never did. Hillary did. She's corrupt and uncharismatic, and has a track record of incompetence. Trump will beat her.
Oh, but it IS coming down to this. And I think it's great, because, Trump's great and Hillary is weaker, so Trump will probably win. But if he loses, Hillary is reasonably smart and won't run the ship aground. So one way we win big, but if it turns out the other way, we'll soldier on ok, if much more socially liberal.
you have just described most of your leaders in the last fifty years, why should he be singled out for assassination? Really? How is that white privilege thing working out for you? How is a fetus is not a person thing working out for you? The reset with Russia? The catastrophe that is Libya? Higher taxes? More unvetted immigrants from ISIS contaminated countries? Freebie citizenship for illegals? Even more crony capitalism? And so on, and so on, and so on. As I always say, you are a DRat.....period. You simply don't GAS about what you claim is your overarching issue, namely abortion.
For my line, all sorts of privilege has inhered for centuries, and I have an paternal concern for the poor and the servant class on account of it. Noblesse oblige.
Just what the Kennedy's believe. And just like all of you in that class the end justify the means. And just like all of you in that class you deem yourself as the ends.
#15. To: SOSO (#13)
The Kennedys are good Irish stock who made it big in America in the 1920s running rum from Canada during Prohibition. My line were hereditary warriors ruling fiefs in parts of France and Holland for a thousand years. Kennedy status was based on money earned in the 20th. My own line has little status left - and none in America - but we are what we were because of 1000 years of successful warfare. Had we not been good at it for generation after generation, we would be fertilizer. In America there is no gentry but money, but there is still military service and athletic glory, and for that, I and my line are still suited by 1000 years of selective breeding. Warriors don't care about the economic class whence people come. They care about the bravery, resiliency, honesty, and faithfulness of others. The poor are often more faithful and resilient than the monied rich. Anyway, we are all a family, the guard dog, the sheep dog and the lap dog, and each dog has his duty to the pack. The lead dog is not better than the pack - he has the responsibility to lead the pack. The Omega dog is not fodder for the pack, he still has his place in the line, still barks as a guard, still hunts. All for one and one for all. One Faith. One Law. One God. One King.
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#5. To: Vicomte13, Stoner, All (#4)
#7. To: SOSO (#5)
#9. To: Vicomte13 (#7)
but because he was a worthless, mindless, corrupt asshole
#11. To: SOSO (#9)
Really? How is that white privilege thing working out for you?
#13. To: Vicomte13 (#11)
Noblesse oblige.
Replies to Comment # 13. Just what the Kennedy's believe. And just like all of you in that class the end justify the means. And just like all of you in that class you deem yourself as the ends.
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