It Was Barzini All Along (GOP Inc. plots)

Hotgas.net ^ | March 16, 2016 | Joseph K

[CreviceTool]

There has been much talk of a bro­kered con­ven­tion these days, as the heads of the var­i­ous fac­tions that make up the crime syn­di­cate known as GOP Inc. hun­ker down in dim, yel­low rooms to plot the destruc­tion of the crass inter­loper Don­ald Trump. Until now I haven’t taken such talk seri­ously, because a plau­si­ble bro­kered con­ven­tion strat­egy requires a viable can­di­date to rally around, and none of the oafs, nin­nies, and gimps being floated strike me as viable. Bush, Rubio, and Rom­ney stink of fail­ure and las­si­tude, and the selec­tion of any one of them as the nom­i­nee would send an already jit­tery base to the mat­tresses.

[CreviceTool]

This writer, Joseph K, is very clever - seemingly on the level of a Mark Steyn.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

I like “The Godfather” reference! ;-)

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Well, we know it wasn’t Tattaglia, because Tattaglia is a pimp...

[Mannaggia l'America]

He could have never outfought Santino.

[jobim]

Joseph K. is a newly-found asset of real value.

We are now forewarned about two hugely threatening divisions of Panzar tanks
on the horizon:

1) Paul Ryan is the choice for the GOPE ruptured convention
2) the Soros-funded and etal groups are plotting mass chaos all the way to Cleveland

Whatever we can do as citizens to act for the good of the Republic we should be thinking
through. Certainly, we must keep informed first and foremost, and share information.

[DoughtyOne]

[Robert DeLong]

Great article and on sport, except for this:

Trump must have a major­ity of del­e­gates when the last poll closes.

Trump must have 1,237 delegates, not just a majority. Problem is that means Trump would have to win 69% of the remaining 831 eligible delegates left to pledge. I'm afraid they (GOPe) may already have maneuvered the Republican Party into a brokered convention. How they handle it, which I of course see as badly, will determine if the Republican Party survives. 2016 Convention in Cleveland will not look like the 1968 Democrat Convention in Chicago, will it?

[saywhatagain]

My apologies to Joseph K, however, the following bears repeating . . .

This bro­kered con­ven­tion stuff is real, folks, and Ryan is likely the guy wait­ing in the wings. More­over, Ryan is not just a pup­pet; he’s one of the guys devis­ing and imple­ment­ing strat­egy. These Mafiosi don’t like out­siders invad­ing their turf, and they will stop at noth­ing to cap Trump in a bot­tle and send him out with the Japan­ese cur­rent.

This means that you, as vot­ers, need to be smart. If you are reg­is­tered as an inde­pen­dent, in a state with a closed pri­mary, if it is not too late, you need to go and change your reg­is­tra­tion to Repub­li­can. For­get that “I’m done with the Repub­li­can Party” stuff, it’s what they want. Your anger doesn’t mat­ter if you can’t vote.

[Albion Wilde]