In other words, they will pick off those they feel as the "low hanging fruit," then only Trump is left at the top of the heap, so when they to out for the kill, no conservative (social and Christians) will have a candidate to go to besides JEB or Rubio, possibly Huckabee! W let that car out of the bag when he went out after Cruz. He and the other establishment, see Cruz as perhaps a larger threat to their power (read JEB) so W's sh*tty barbs against Cruz, while saying nothing against Obama nor Hillary.
Once the establishment realized Trump was going to be lots harder and more resilient and hurling insults at him only make him more attractive to the "base," they've had to adjust their game plan. Once money began to be going off to Carson and him rising in their carefully placed poll numbers, he became enough of a force to be reckoned with, the long knives will be placed in him!
Carson's not my guy for any number of reasons, some of which are his varied statements but many people are such ardent supporters once he stood side by side at the Prayer Breakfast, and spoke truth to power, so he must be taken by another facet of the same establishment power!
I'm seeing lots of parallels between Carson's smackdown and another minority candidate off the "reservation," named Hermann Cain! The GOP establishment wants minorities kept dependent on big government hand outs just as much as liberal establishment types do, they just would rather those minorities be dependent on their big government but either way, they also have a vested interest in not allowing those who look to government for their daily sustainence, just like they don't want to close the borders to keep illegals coming to flood our jobs and way of life, never see themselves as in charge of their own lives.
That is what has so many people scared, alarmed and mad. They have finally realized that it's both party establishments that must not let ordinary Americans choose their own destiny. Both party establishment have signed on to One World Order (which Bush I let out of the bag in 1989, when the Berlin Wall came downstairs!)
If you think we're a threat to the establishment power brokers, large numbers of minorities demanding to be left alone to raise themselves up and no longer leaning on the "leaders" who are willing to take from us to hand out to the have nots to keep them looking to the establishment to keep it coming, are a Tsunami to their power!
You don't think the dirt on Cosby was never known before he began going around speaking to minority groups and telling them to stop buying their kids $200 shoes and start buying them successful reading and math programs so they can learn something!
Take a look at two other blacks who threaten the establishment theory of the role of "the Negro," Condi Rice and Clarence Thomas.
I once laid the entire blame on on the smears on them on the vicious liberals with their double standards. I now know better, it has never been only the liberal Democrats/Socialists, it is both sides of the establishment as there aren't two sides with the establishment, there is but one; the other side is US!
To go way back in history, it was both party power brokers who advanced the theory of Eugenics, blacks were inferior, needed to be controlled and not allowed to out breed whites regardless of the means involved!
To go back to Cosby, he was left alone with full knowledge of his "sins" out there to the cocktail set. His antics were accepted as "normal" in the entertainment business until another minority was rising to power by making shocking conservative statements, challenging the power brokers, Dr. Ben Carson.
The result: Carson was removed from his position at John's Hopkins, Cosby's sexual exploits were highlighted in the MSM, as the media just now learned about what a sexual deviant Cosby has always been!
Get real, folks, Hollywood and the left who embrace and champion Bruce Jenner's pathetic perversion; had no problem with Romanski's rape of a drugged child; have no problems with Jesse Jackson's and Al's children born out of their affairs; the left only becomes "shocked and offended" when the dig up dirt on those they can't threaten into silence, lest they become role models for minorities!
Well reasoned post. I wish people would keep it in mind when they are tempted to pile onto Dr. Carson.