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Title: Is the GOP Risking Suicide?
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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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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.
You can spew whatever feces out of your mouth that you divert from their usual path, but that changes nothing. I care a great deal about human life, including babies. And so I recognize that the Republicans talk about it, but do fuck all to protect it. Democrats support abortion, but they give a REASON for that support: female liberty. I disagree with their reasoning, but they have a REASON. What was the reason for the Republicans writing the Roe opinion, then writing the Casey opinion, then putting O'Connor and Kennedy and Souter and Stevens and Roberts on the Court? Republicans lie. That's what they do. They PRETEND to be for something or against something, to claim the votes, but the only thing they ever fight to the death for is tax breaks for the rich. That's it. The rest is boob bait for bubbas. That's why I hate Republicans worse than Democrats. Democrats are principled, but some of their principles are really bad. Republicans have one principle: protect the rich. If they ran on that, they'd be a tiny rump and couldn't protect the rich, so they throw a wide net of lies, get power, and then only protect the rich. You can say "You're a Democrat" a thousand times, as though being a Democrat is equivalent to being a Satanist. To be a Republican is to be either a dupe or a liar, or a really rich guy seeking to protect his assets and to hell with everybody else. And yet, I have always voted for Republicans because I too have been a dupe, wanting to believe their routine about national security and abortion. Even when I knew they were lying (Romney), I voted for them. And in the last election after Romney, even when I knew they would not really do anything, I voted for them. And this time, I ready to pull a straight GOP ticket again, like a stupid thrall of habit, as long as Trump - who has led the pack all season - is the nominee. With Trump, I see hope of actual change because he IS a rich guy, but stands against some of the practices, and because he gets that foreign policy is the tail that wags the budgetary dog. Trump is good, and perhaps his goodness will drag UP the Republicans out of the gutter. Now, you rage away some more about how I'm a Democrat. It means a lot to you to make that accusation. You're frustrated because you're not getting your way on anything. Too bad for you.
I don't recall any REP telling the national press that his mistress was a great piece of ass as Trump did. If that is your idea of good you need help.
I don't care about people's sex lives. Never did. I think that people who DO care about other people's sex lives are asshats.
This is why you are an asshat. The post reflects on Trump's character, on his civility, on his regard for people, on his ego - not his sex life moron. No-one ever asked him about that he simply made a gratuitous comment thinking that it would impress the national press and the morons that think that he is the magnificent Donald. So put that in your asshat pipe and shove it.
Don't care. Nobody's sex life survives scrutiny. It's one of the cardinal places on which very bad people place pressure in order to manipulate and stampede other people. Which is precisely why I absolutely refuse to care about anybody else's sex life. That's between him and God, not him and me. When somebody tries to make it between him and me, then it becomes an issue between me and that somebody. I have enjoyed seeing the ongoing political destruction of all of those hypocritical Republicans who impeached Bill Clinton over a blowjob. They had mistresses, or gay sex, or pedophilia, in their own background, but they claimed "perjury" over a perjury trap they intentionally laid to get Clinton on his sex life, because they could not get him on Whitewater. They chose to create a perjury trap, Clinton blundered into it, and they tried to spring it - to remove a popular elected President from office for a lie about sex in response to a question that nobody has the right to ask anybody. The whole hypocritical structure of power was lined up to use that as the lever to oust Clinton. It blew up in their faces. They lost power. And individually the Grand Inquisitors were destroyed, one by one, for their own sexual sins. And I thought that was perfect justice. If you go after a man for his sex life, you had better be perfect. Since you're not, I will forgive him, but I will persecute you for the rest of your life, because you deserve it. That's my view. I believe that personal privacy is a human right. I think that when people penetrate it in order to play gotcha, that the criminals are the ones breaking into the personal privacy, not the people doing things privately behind their hedges and walls. I know that Republicans disagree completely, as evidenced by the Clinton prosecution, which is yet another reason why I hate them.
Don't care. 'Zactly!!!!
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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
#10. To: SOSO (#9)
As I always say, you are a DRat.....period. You simply don't GAS about what you claim is your overarching issue, namely abortion.
#12. To: Vicomte13 (#10)
Trump is good, and perhaps his goodness will drag UP the Republicans out of the gutter.
#14. To: SOSO (#12)
(Edited)
I don't recall any REP telling the national press that his mistress was a great piece of ass as Trump did. If that is your idea of good you need help.
#17. To: Vicomte13 (#14)
I don't care about people's sex lives. Never did. I think that people who DO care about other people's sex lives are asshats.
#20. To: SOSO (#17)
The post reflects on Trump's character, on his civility, on his regard for people, on his ego - not his sex life moron.
#21. To: Vicomte13 (#20)
The post reflects on Trump's character, on his civility, on his regard for people, on his ego - not his sex life moron.
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