Month: May 2016

You have to chuckle whenever you hear anyone talk of Trump uniting the Republican Party.  It’s really hard to unite something you’ve pissed all over.  And what, exactly, besides Trump himself, is the party supposed to unify behind?  His political philosophy?  He doesn’t have one, all he’s got is attitude, and that attitude is repellent.

So he’s got one serious challenger left, who he hopes to take out in Indiana tonight.  Ted Cruz may or may not win the nomination, but he has acquired millions of Republican admirers.  Trump wants these Cruz voters to come around to him.  So he naturally cites a National Enquirer article to accuse Rafael Cruz of being an accomplice in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.  Way to go, Donald!  That’s the ticket!  You sure as hell know how to unite the party!

He’s like a 16 year old with a hot car and a case of beer.  He’s just got to piss people off.  It’s his nature.  If you can’t see that, and that it disqualifies him from the Presidency, you’re really not paying attention.

I learned a lot about politics after I got into the State Senate in 1982.  Among my 19 colleagues I had two with complete integrity.  Everybody else was weak to some extent.  It’s probably worse today.  As I watch Republican politicians go soft on Trump, I’m reminded of these guys.  These are not honorable men.  They are almost exclusively focused on what’s in it for me, what’s good for me?

But delegates to a state convention aren’t in it for themselves, for the most part.  There are a whole lot of state conventions still to be held, 19 by my count.  Will these delegates roll over for Trump?  I don’t think so, but we’ll see.  These are people who are paying a lot of attention to this nomination fight.   I can’t imagine these people “uniting behind Trump”.

The casual slander of Rafael Cruz, a Great Living American, won’t be the last we’ll hear from Donald Trump, compulsive arsonist.  He’s liable to keep it up all the way to the Convention, especially if he’s provoked.  As the delegates to Cleveland watch this buffoon in the weeks leading up to the Convention, they have to be asking themselves  — my vote is going to give the nomination to this clown?  That’s why it isn’t over until he gets his 1237th vote in Cleveland.

And that’s why it’s important for Cruz to keep fighting, regardless of tonight’s result.  If Trump is nominated, and the Republican Party burns to the ground, someone is going to need to rebuild it.  Handing the keys over to the Arsonist right now doesn’t help lay the groundwork for the reconstruction that must happen.  He must be resisted to the last day.  Giving in one inch to him ratifies him, in a sense.  He’s not a serious man, he’s a dimwitted celebrity.  He should never be accorded any respect whatsoever.  He is anathema.

Cruz took off the gloves today, after the attack on his father.  He called out Murdoch and Ailes, at long last.  I think he should have done it long ago.  Attack the media, all of it.  Not just Fox, although they deserve special contempt, as either apostates or whores.  But the entire media is in on the game.  I’ve lost track of how many times Trump has made some political screw up, and the entire media has willfully ignored it.  The example that comes to mind was on Feb. 21st in Vegas.  Trump tried to explain his position on the transfer of federal lands by citing his ignorance of the subject.  Two minutes later he exhorts his audience to punch somebody, and that’s all we hear.  The glaring admission he made, of his own ignorance on an important issue, was never reported.  By any media.  I googled and found it at Twitchy.com.

In crisis there is opportunity, and if Trump gets the nomination we may still have one card to play.  I talked to Biddulph about it today, and I’m enthused.  I haven’t really considered it, because I never seriously thought Trump could win.  It’s an idea that only works if Trump does win, so I’ll wait a while before I jump in.  But the ducks are in line.

It would be a political shot heard around the world.

If Clinton wins Obama’s third term, we’ll see how much ruin we have left.  I think it would be pretty ugly.  If the media gets their way, we’ll all get to see just how bad things can get.

In a way, it’s better to let the last 30 years in American politics, despoiled jointly by Bushes and Clintons, play all the way out to the bitter end.  That may be what it takes for the American people to wake up.  And having a Clinton in the White House when everything goes to hell might not be such a bad idea.

There’s nothing like getting hit in the side of the head by a two by four to get a man’s attention.

Which gets us to 2020.  Four long years, but what’s the alternative?

Back in December I got a chance to talk to Ed Meese about the ’76 campaign.  He really didn’t regret losing it.  He said they weren’t ready.

I thought the country would be ready for a new direction this year. If I was off, it was by four years.  But the “Blue Model”, as Walter Russel Mead calls it, is toast.  It just doesn’t work.  It’s run its course, and will be killed off one way or another.

In the mean time there’s Article V, and the transfer of federal lands, two issues I care a lot about, and can do some good with.  Plenty of work to do, for sure.

You see, I think I understand the arc of history better than Barack Obama does.  It doesn’t bend on its own.  We need to bend it toward freedom.

Before television, and then smart phones, a lot of people used to read.  Reading makes you think, and if you are unthinking you are vulnerable.  It’s not just the Trump cult.  The American people have given up thinking for themselves, it seems.  It’s too hard.  If they don’t wake up, they’re going to lose their country.

There will still be something called the United States of America, but that’s just a name, and a place.  Without our Constitution this country is no different than any other.  The source and expression of American exceptionalism is the Constitution.

Nothing more perfectly expresses the contempt the Democratic Party has for the Constitution than the shock shown by Speaker Nancy Pelosi when she was asked about the constitutionality of Obamacare.  “Are you kidding?” she asked.  The very idea that a law passed by Congress would be unconstitutional befuddled her.

The Clintons are no different.  They’re criminals at heart, and they would never let the Constitution stop them from doing anything.  We’ve got one party that was interested in the Constitution, the Republicans.  As far as I’m concerned, that’s the reason to be a Republican. If Trump is nominated, and Clinton elected, there will be at least five Justices of the Supreme Court who don’t give a rat’s ass about the Constitution.  Put out the lights, the party’s over.

This country’s on the verge of losing it.  Every Republican who sidles up to Trump is either a whore or an idiot, or both.  This man is a disaster.  He will destroy the Republican Party, and he doesn’t care one bit.  The Republican Party means nothing to him.  He’ll walk away from the chaos he’s created with a big smile on his face.  How many guys can destroy a political party that’s as old as Lincoln?

This will end in Cleveland, not before.  If the Republican Party is to commit suicide, 1237 delegates will have to vote for it.

I’ll say this for Lindsey Graham, he’s got balls.  Where are all the other pillars of strength in the Republican Party?  What a sorry excuse for a bunch of so called leaders.

I don’t watch Fox News any more.  I’m a CNN man now.  Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes have disgraced themselves, and everyone on their network.  They’re pathetic.

At long last Ted Cruz called out the press today, in the person of Chick Tod and NBC.  He openly accused the NBC brass as being activist Democrats.  Trump is a media creation, a brilliant example of packaging and marketing.  Once he’s served his purpose he’ll be discarded like a used kleenex.  This is all true, but getting the truth out in this media environment is hard to do.

Rather than talk repeatedly about repealing Obamacare, maybe  Cruz should explain to people on the campaign trail exactly what’s going on.  The media willfully created Trump, in an deliberate effort to sabotage the Republican Party.

It is a time for truth, isn’t it?