Posted on 05/01/2016 1:37:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
With the pivotal Indiana presidential primary only two days away, and the decisive California contest still six weeks off, many Republican officials are already privately writing off 2016. Amid the wreckage of the turbulent 2016 nominating season, they still have a challenge in front of them: handicapping which of the two flawed finalists will cause the least long-term harm to their Grand Old Party.
The conventional wisdom has been that Donald Trump is the bigger menace than Ted Cruz. Certainly, several swing-state Republican senators up for re-election in November worry about The Donald at the top of the GOP ticket more than they fear the presence of The Ted.
For some, however, there are other benefits in nominating Cruz. These are not, let me hasten to add, factors Cruz would boast about during a debate with Hillary Clinton. All of them start with the assumption – one bolstered by mock matchups in the polls – that the former secretary of state will trounce either Trump or Cruz in November. But who do Republicans want to go down in flames with?
If it’s Trump, establishment Republicans can simply walk away from the carnage. They don’t have to vote for him; they don’t really have to vote for anyone....
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
The reality is that we are seeing right now a movement in regards to Trump.
I just watched Cruz on Wallace this morning . He seemed so desperate , a little freaked out , feckless . Sad ....
I truly hope he does not so damage his reputation that he cannot find a further role in serving our country . Maybe he can join the military and become a JAG ?
it will be interesting to watch the Orange County, CA Register newspaper.... now that it has been sold....
to an outfit that publishes some very leftist, liberal papers
OCR has been drifting sometimes from conservative to ‘moderate’ for quite awhile anyway
but now?
we will see....
Whiggish corpse fumes.
Yes, boss, I read the whole thing. It was stupid. GOPe wants Ted to win the nomination and lose the general to kill conservativism.
Did you read the whole thing?
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Interesting collection of observations with no apparent bias. Carl M. Cannon appears to be more of a newsman than an opinion columnist. Refreshing change from George Will! ;-)
Does not matter what they want, its what they are about to get.
A few days and this crap is over.
Coincidentally, we all know that Andrew Jackson was ceremoniously demoted from his position on the currency. Perhaps, with time, students won't even be allowed to read his powerful statements on central banking or on the Constitution.
Let's just review a couple here.
From Page xv of "Our Ageless Constitution," here are excerpted words from President Andrew Jackson's Proclamation of December 10, 1832:
"We have received it [the Constitution] as the work of the assembled wisdom of the nation. We have trusted to it as to the sheet anchor of our safety in the stormy times of conflict with a foreign or domestic foe. We have looked to it with sacred awe as the palladium of our liberties, and with all the solemnities of religion have pledged to each other our lives and fortunes here and our hopes of happiness hereafter in its defense and support. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance to the Constitution . . .? No. We were not mistaken. The letter of this great instrument is free from this radical fault. . . . No, we did not err! . . . The sages . . . have given us a practical and, as they hoped, a permanent* Constitutional compact. . . . The Constitution is still the object of our reverence, the bond of our Union, our defense in danger, the source of our prosperity in peace: it shall descend, as we have received it, uncorrupted by sophistical construction, to our posterity. . . ."
*Underlining added for emphasis
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Yet, Jackson's wise caution in the following words, reminds us of the unique perspective early generations of Americans possessed on the Source and meaning of our Constitution's protections for liberty, as well as the need for each generation's responsibility for defending and protecting it:
“It is from within, among yourselves--from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power--that factions will be formed and liberty endangered. It is against such designs, whatever disguise the actors may assume, that you have especially to guard yourselves. You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race. May He who holds in His hands the destinies of nations make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed and enable you, with pure hearts and pure hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time the great charge He has committed to your keeping.” ― Andrew Jackson
The Cheap Labor Express has always gotten the amnesty candidate they paid for. Every election since the last amnesty.
They will not allow the citizens to elect a President who will enforce the laws and borders.
These fricking morons are totally, totally clueless.
Am I your boss? What product do we manufacture?
You manufacture and distribute Cruz propaganda and demand people read it. You seem to think you’re my boss. How’s about a raise?
Good afternoon.
“These fricking morons are totally, totally clueless.”
Methinks not clueless, but a different set of morals and objectives than we have.
5.56mm
Might as well stop right there. Trump is back within 3 points in the polls and he's only just begun going after Hillary. Like one Dem strategist pointed out, Bernie never really went after her, but Trump will "take a wire brush to her". "Crooked Hillary" is a kill shot that will last forever.
On the other hand they don't want Donald Trump because he most likely would win and their jig would be up threating their control of power.
Cruz and Kasich had both best get to their real job before they have none.
What you posted reminds me that I am sad that so many in this country are uninformed about the constitution, it’s birth and it’s importance. It seems there is very little to hold together the fabric of this country in this age of reality stars.
But the question is, what tactic will they use to ensure the endurance of Globalism?
Their control of voting machines and their ease with which they can manipulate them SHOULD be enough for Hillary in a general election.
In Costa Mesa, Trump was SO exposed. I couldn't believe it. Made me wonder was it a dry run to see how easily protesters could be used to force alternate route where sniper nests and helicopters could be everywhere.
Some here may not be old enough to remember, or many here not old enough or aware of politics then or taught any real U.S. history the last 40 years in school----But:
RFK was assassinated by sending him an ALTERNATE ROUTE after his speech upon winning the 1968 California Democratic primary.
JFK in 1963 was affected by several "alternate route" last minute changes.
I can't believe the Trump's people would ALLOW him to be so exposed as he was that day in broad daylight. The Secret Service, aka, Obama's Pretorian Guard, may have a standing stand-down order (like the Obama Border Patrol, for example, or the de facto stand-down by policemen in gang-infested cities), but isn't the reason we have campaign MANAGERS/handlers/security---to be aware of possibilities in sketchy situations? If ONE THING isn't right, if ONE THING, any one tiny detail, Trump's people need to rush him outta there. Because the Police SWAT teams of Costa Mesa and Orange County should have had control of the entire venue; instead a motley crue of Mexicans shut down the front entrance without any resistance from anybody.
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