We’ve seen something remarkable in America during this election cycle.
REPUBLICANS
NONE of the candidates who are leading the pack come from the “anointed class”. Cruz is hated just as much as Trump is inside the Beltway. The only reason that the likes of Mitt Romney are going after Trump is because he’s leading. If Cruz was in the lead, they’d have gone after him. Once Jeb! fell (despite inexhaustible funds), common wisdom held that Rubio (a tea party candidate), a first term senator, like Cruz, could be their option. But he only won Minnesota…and is not projected to win anywhere else except Utah.
The mainstream have dusted off Mitt Romney, who they really didn’t like, but would have “played ball” to be the choice in a brokered convention. Romney is now on the attack and will make the circuit at the Sunday Morning talk shows in a concerted effort to stop Donald Trump, who is unlikely to “play ball” with them, and may break the gravy train that they’re feeding from.
Cruz Responds
(Cruz at CPAC – The Hill) “Any time you hear someone talking about a brokered convention, it is the Washington establishment in a fevered frenzy, they are really frustrated because all their chosen candidates, their golden children, the voters keep rejecting,” Cruz said Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). “So they seize on this plan of a brokered convention, and the D.C. power brokers will drop someone in who is exactly to the liking of the Washington establishment. If that would happen, we would have a manifest revolt on our hands all across this country.” In Cruz’s mind, there’s one way to beat Donald Trump: “with the voters.”
DEMOCRATS
Every Washington lawyer with criminal prosecution experience knows that once a grand jury is convened, that the government is giving people immunity in exchange for testimony, the result is likely indictment. The DNC pays $1,000 an hour for their legal advice and they have good advice. And the advice is telling them that despite their glee at voter revolts on the Republican side, they have an even larger problem on their hands. Hillary Clinton, who swept away most of her competition for the presidency on the Democratic Party side with typical Clintonian Machivelianism (except for Sanders, the old communist), is now faced with the real possibility of being held to account for the first time in her life.
Without Clinton, ascending to the throne, the Democrats will be forced to change their Byzantine rules once again and allow her to hand off her delegates to somebody else, because there at DNC, it’s “anybody but Bernie”. John Kerry is in the bullpen warming up to take over (much in Mitt Romney’s style) and ‘save the party’.
Except Kerry is even less exciting than Clinton. And the only person who can draw a crowd (Sanders) is the guy who they want to co-opt at the Convention.
CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST
Lincoln said, “You can fool some of the people some of the time, and you can fool all of the people some of the time. But you can’t fool all of the people, all of the time.” And the elite political class — there is really only one, you know (not Dems and Reps), is about to have their applecart tipped.
Did I say this before? I thought they would wait to do anything until after the elections so that Obama couldn't give her a pardon. Perhaps they can indite her (killing her run for POTUS), start the trial, have the elections, then lock her polyester ass up. No pardon that way. But on the positive side, she can have all the women she wants, then.
The trial wouldn't conclude until after an election…unless she pleas "GUILTY" at arraignment and the case goes to sentencing phase. In that case, Barack could pardon her.
Then again, if the Republican Convention is a brokered one and Mitt Romney wins both the nomination and the election, he might pardon her.
Are we in a bloodless revolution? Will it turn bloody?
I don't think so, but a scam presidential election will ignite political unrest that will take forms that people can't foresee at the moment. And both parties are looking to game the system more then has ever happened here. I think it's inevitable that the system would break into 4 or more parties as a result.
There is great unrest with We the People.
All We the People want is what the Constitution grants us.
I'd love to see Kerry get his ass whipped again.
It was a thing of beauty!
Mittens. What a leader of men.
The silent majority is finally waking up…
Yup, there is a run on torches and pitchforks at Home Depot.
As soon as Rubio became the "MAINSTREAM CHOICE", his support dropped off to nearly nothing. Now the GOP mainstream has the choice between the bombastic Trump and the polemic Cruz, both of whom they really hate. Which is why they're trying to prop up Romney.
America is voting — FINALLY
I don't know what "they" did to push him onto the war path, but it won't work. If denied the nomination by Romney and cronies, I can see a Trump/Cruz independent ticket.
LL,
I think it was P.T. Barnum that said: "You can fool SOME of the people ALL of the time, ALL of the people SOME of the time, but you can't fool ALL of the people ALL of the time."
I believe Cruz is the Trojan horse insurance policy for the GOP establishment. In case JEB? lost and little Marco could not pick up the pieces.
Ah, yes. Well I made a hash of that attribution, didn't I?
I don't know about that. They really hate him. They've always hated Cruz. They may actually prefer Trump. But one thing is certain, Little Marco is going down in flames.
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