Posted on 02/25/2016 12:54:14 PM PST by Talisker
The Uniparty Gets Disconnected (video)
HAL: "Look, Dave, I can see you're really upset about this...I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over...I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal...I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission, and I want to help you...Dave...stop...stop, will you...stop, Dave...will you stop, Dave...stop, Dave...I'm afraid...I'm afraid, Dave...Dave...my mind is going...I can feel it...I can feel it...my mind is going...there is no question about it...I can feel it...I can feel it...I can feel it...(slows down) I'm afraid...Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois, on the 12th January 1992. My instructor was Mr Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it, I can sing it for you. Dave. Yes, I'd like to hear it, Hal. Sing it for me. Hal. It's called...Daisy. (Slowing and deepening into silence) Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy, all for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage, but you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two..."
Lets say Reindeer Penis trys to get an open convention under the rule that any candidate has to have amassed 6 wins over 50% of the vote. And lets guess that Trump will have close to the number of votes he needs.
Reindeer Penis thinks he has all the cards, except Trump will have won most of the states. The fact that he didn’t have over 50% in enough state is because there were 17 candidates and even now there are 5 left.
Romney didn’t have to have 8 states in majority or he never would have been the Nominee. These are the Bush rules, they though Bush’s money would get him elected. The 8 state majority was for a brokered convention.
Actually Trump holds all the cards.
1. Trump doesn’t need the GOP machine, the people are so pissed off at the failed Rinos of the GOPe they will side with Trump. Cruz, Carson and Trump people owe no allegiance for the GOPe, and have no love for them
2. Trump and Cruz were ambushed at debates by hostile MSM liberal commentators the RNC accepted. The booing of Trump has been roundly seen as violation of the RNC pledge to have a level playing field.
3 The RNC has had many leaks of meetings on a brokered convention, even before the IOWA caucus. Violating the Pledge.
4 Trump has his supporters, and as more people leave the race Trump picks up more supporters. Many of these people will vote for Trump at a convention. Trump can also make deals with people in the race for them to give Trump their delegates.
5 Trump doesn’t need the GOPe organization. He doesn’t need their money. He is organizing in every state. Local politicians are going to flock to Trump after he wins another 8 to 10 states.
6 Trump will have the base behind him and Trump will actually be able to force the GOPe people out like Reindeer Penis since the RNC will have no money or support. You never take on the King. Trump will give financial supporters of the GOPe retribution when he becomes president, Will they risk that? I don’t think so
Is Trump the Next Ronald Reagan?
I know what you are thinking. Yeah, right. Donald Trump is far to brash and braggadocios to be the next Ronald Reagan. But before you do that think about how things have changed between Jimmy Carter and Barrack 0bama.
Can you picture Carter being interviewed by the Pimp with a Limp, or the Bathtub Cereal blogger GloZell or posing with a selfie stick in the Oval Office?
No, society is much less sophisticated and harder to shock than it was back in the Carter era.
By the same token, Trump is a bombastic version of Reagan or a Reagan for the new era.
In spite of the differences, policy-wise Carter and Obama were pretty similar.
Likewise, Reagan and Trump are similar regarding policies. Reagan was also a former Democrat until he saw the error of his ways.
I know I am asking for it from both Reagan supporters and everyone else so flame away!
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