However, before you can see what’s going on – you first have to be willing to see what’s going on.Posted on 07/30/2015 7:35:21 PM PDT by smoothsailing
July 30, 2015
Donald Trump is leading all the regional and national polls. Two recent polls show Trump beating both Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush in Miami Florida.
Those who are open to see how Machiavellian the Republican party has become since the Citizens United decision are about to see it play out.
However, before you can see what’s going on – you first have to be willing to see what’s going on.
The ability to accept ‘what is’ has become the primary sticking point for the majority of political followers who are fraught with Stockholm syndrome and willful blindness.
Those who can accept the painful truth without agenda, have read the reason why I find myself supporting Donald Trump. I personally support him as a strategy to defeat the professional political class that is Washington DC. Conservative radio talk show host Mark Levin put it well recently when he shared:
If the hierarchy within the republican party loses an election to Democrats it’s only a lost election; they are still there, and still comfortable even in the minority.
However, if the hierarchy within the republican party loses an election to Conservatives, they are out of a job.
That’s why the professional political class within the republican party, the GOPe, are more at risk from within than without. That’s also why the GOPe work harder to defeat conservatives than democrats.
When you accept this simple truth you are able to accept the reality that unorthodox political methods are necessary in order to defeat the GOPe. That very unorthodoxy is what makes Donald Trump so valuable. Trump is the pry-bar to remove the rot within the GOPe. Similarly the lack of establishment bona fides also makes Trump a risk, and therefore a target.
On the day Trump announced his candidacy, we stated the NUMBER ONE JOB was to insure Trump knew he held support from the conservative electorate. As we enter this most dangerous phase, the phase where the GOPe takes lead on the attack, that supportive sentiment takes on an even greater sense of urgency.
Some will want Donald Trump to advocate for specific policy positions, or solutions. Those same voices will use the lack of specifically outlined solutions as a weapon against his campaign.
However, those of us with eyes-wide-open will remember the Reagan value in framing large ideas with stark contrasts, before entering the realm of the special interests. Big-tent unity is afforded in the former approach, divisiveness exists in the latter.
The GOPe approach -eliminating Trump- is dependent upon divisiveness as a tool, until they can get their guy into place. Then the GOPe will demand unity to support their guy. Mr. Donald Trump would be well served to avoid giving the GOPe the tool they want.
Candidate Jeb Bush attends Chamber of Commerce dinner with Fox’s Rupert Murdoch and Valerie Jarrett (December 2014)
The Risk Phase – As the August 6th primary debate draws closer, the GOPe will work diligently to seed -and project- a very specific, highly explosive, label onto Trump. They need to define him ASAP.
If Trump escapes the first round of debates without definition, the risk he represents grows even larger.
Right now candidate Donald Trump would do well to stay low, yet stay on message, until the debate stage itself. Various GOPe methods are going to be deployed to attach the necessary divisive label prior to next Friday’s debate.
The GOPe will want Trump on his heels as he takes center stage surrounded by the more palatable candidates to Tom Donohue (President, U.S. Chamber of Commerce and DC chess master).
The historical approach has been for the GOPe to begin pitching “social issue” questions to the guy they want removed. Questions about legalized drugs get the libertarians; questions about gender issues target women; questions about abortion and faith target evangelicals; etc. These approaches are all targeted to remove a segment of support. Political death by a thousand paper cuts.
Meanwhile within the larger Conservative movement the aforementioned fearful voices, infected with Stockholm Syndrome from sellers who tell you only a professional politician can solve political problems, will advocate for “their guy”.
Their guy might be Ted Cruz, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, John Kasich, Rand Paul or Chris Christie. Or, for the smaller fish, it might be Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, Bobby Jindal or even Rick Perry. What’s important to remember is that regardless of where the candidate lands on the slide rule of conservative advocacy, the slide rule itself is owned/operated by the GOPe.
Eventually, like Romney, all controlled paths lead to Jeb.
Dividing/Fracturing the electorate is part of the strategy to get to Jeb as overall winner with 15% of the electorate. This is why Team Donohue placed wedges (Perry, Kasich, Rubio) within the larger electoral states (Texas, Ohio, Florida). Just like Romney ’12, all controlled paths lead to Jeb ’16.
When you understand this, when you stop playing the role of co-dependent enabler; when you stop being willfully blind and recognize the political parties within DC are two sides of the same coin, you begin to see how to defeat the Donohue/GOPe plan.
Additionally, when you understand this, when you fully recognize the investment that Donohue/GOPe has put into this, you begin to see the full scope of the risk that is Donald Trump; and, as a direct consequence, the extent the professional political class will be willing to go in order to keep themselves employed and seated at the political trough.
Losing to a Democrat (Hillary) keeps the GOP employed. Losing to a conservative, or to a main street non-political like Trump, removes them.
Megyn Kelly announced last night she has a scheduled interview with Donald Trump on Monday August 3rd. Megyn Kelly interrupted her FOX News broadcast live to deliver the BREAKING Daily Beast article attack about Trump and ridiculous rape allegations.
Kelly led off her show the following evening with discussion about Trump’s attorney remarks in response.
It would appear Kelly has an interest in spotlighting Trump around an inferred position of sexism. This is not accidental.
Kelly has a history of self-promotion by making herself the story inside the story, as she did with Jeb Bush and the interview segment: “knowing what you know now, was it a mistake to go into Iraq”? etc. Megyn Kelly enjoys being the center hub amid the wheels of divisive interests.
Trump would be well advised to avoid that Monday interview like the plague.
Kelly and her staff got all day and all week long to cook up gotcha questions for Trump. Regardless, I doubt Trump is going to miss his Monday talk with Kelly.
Dead on about Megyn Kelly:
“Megyn Kelly announced last night she has a scheduled interview with Donald Trump on Monday August 3rd. Megyn Kelly interrupted her FOX News broadcast live to deliver the BREAKING Daily Beast article attack about Trump and ridiculous rape allegations.
Kelly led off her show the following evening with discussion about Trump’s attorney remarks in response.
It would appear Kelly has an interest in spotlighting Trump around an inferred position of sexism. This is not accidental.
Kelly has a history of self-promotion by making herself the story inside the story, as she did with Jeb Bush and the interview segment: “knowing what you know now, was it a mistake to go into Iraq”? etc. Megyn Kelly enjoys being the center hub amid the wheels of divisive interests.”
The Trump candidacy has revealed just how inaccurate, deceptive, and misleading, the flow of information we receive is..It is truly, proof of concept, that what they are feeding us is not a gauge of what of the majority of Americans feel about the issues.
By misinforming, and distorting, the reality they are able to project false realities, thus controlling outcomes.
For example, as pertains to Trump, had he been anyone else, he would have capitulated in the wake of the "false realities" and contrived stories.
We would have never know what the people really think.. By standing, not capitulating Trump has allowed us to see the magnitude of deception, and the hidden agendas they propagate.
We have never seen this before, at least I have not in my lifetime.
This is what is so confounding the propagandist media, political elites..Here is a poll from today that gauged Hispanic voters..You can see it is the opposite of what we have been told..
POLL: Trump Leads GOP Field In Among Hispanics, Records 34% Favorability..Closest To Trump Is Bush at 27%..others lag substantially behind.
See what happens when you speak truth??
I’m not voting for JEBra. Just forget it GOPe.
He’ll blow that swamp rat out of the water.
I am just not a fan of the snarled lipped Megyn. From her over-the-top giddiness on election night, to her “I find myself so funny, ha ha” tabloid-style *reports*, I just can’t listen to her. She’s too clever, by half.
Someone please post a recap of the Trump interview highlights, as I’m not sure I can bear to watch.
Exclusive & extensive. Answers to a long list of questions for the GOP front runner @realDonaldTrump 1130aE Sat Fox pic.twitter.com/R3YQYPBssE— Eric Bolling (@ericbolling) July 31, 2015
ROTFL
Brilliant article.
Kelly strikes me as every bit as confident (or arrogant) as Trump, but she seems to always have something to prove while Trump has already proven himself, in spades.
Megyn always wants a crack at the biggest dog on the block to show off her professional talents, for dismantling the best of show. Whether it is for ratings alone, because she is an overachiever on the job, or whether she is really narcissistic, or probably a combination, Kelly is nothing if not well prepared and incisive on an interview.
She will try to give the media miles to chew on against Trump, to be THE ONE credited with changing the course of the great primary of Trump 2016. That would be her goal.
I hope we are braced for Trump to wonder off the conservative reservation occasionally, because I think he is a moderate man from the Northeast, who is rather a student of life and hasn’t yet firmly decided for sure on fixed principles with the exception of certain applications to business, profits and deal making.
Oh, thank you for that tip off to the interview this morning on FOX.
Eye opening and thanks. I hadn’t heard about Florida tossing all 99 delegates to the first place winner. That’s a gift to Rubio and Bush, but the irony is Trump leads them both in FL. Their heads must be exploding. I fear, though, that Trump will cut a deal. He’s a businessman first.
Before March 15, all primaries are proportional. March 15 begins winner take all primaries, notably Florida and also Ohio. The winner take all primaries have been Jeb’s gamble all along. That’s the reason for favorite sons Rubio in FL and Kasich in OH; should they win their delegates can most easily be ceded to Bush when they drop out.
Thanks and I see that strategy now. It’s changing my mind about having Trump in the race, but I still don’t trust Trump. What’s to stop him from cutting a deal?
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