“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!
Romans 11:31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
We have never seen a Party declare and fight an all out war on any candidate like we are seeing now. The GOP has had nearly all of the onion skins removed to reveal itself as one of the most corrupt organizations in DC. What we are watching is the fear of a Party petrified they will lose their power if an outsider was to do the unthinkable and win their Presidency. This is Tea Party times ten.
It is obvious to the Party Donald Trump can not only win the nomination, but would dominate it. Their biggest fear is they would have to fight in the election and get ugly which is not what they are comfortable doing. Worse yet they would have to fight after they are elected. They are far more used to losing with dignity than having an ugly win. They are used to being the Washington Generals to the Globetrotters as the gravy train continues to roll over the taxpayers.
The entire election apparatus is one big money machine and they can see Trump is not going to use it. First the managers have been given a big no thanks and he is basically running it himself. These managers can expect to make upwards of twenty to thirty million or more in an election plus perks. When they make 15% booking ads, it adds up pretty fast.
Managing a campaign means memorizing elevator speeches which can be given in thirty seconds telling who you are to this group and another thirty seconds saying just the opposite to another group. He organizes which group you meet and which lie you tell.
The media is expecting to make between $500-750 million on commercials this presidential season. This explains why Fox News and conservative radio does not want to see Trump win the nomination. There are hundreds of millions of radio ads that by all appearances Donald Trump would not be running. Trump would rather dominate the news and call in on the national TV programs and talk live than have a thirty second ad people will forget five seconds after they hear it. This would be a huge dent to Rush/Levin/Beck/Fox’s cash flow this year. Those obscene profit centers would become less obscene if Trump ignores running ads.
I am the only one to predict the final two would be Cruz and Trump although I overestimated Cruz at the beginning of the election. Unfortunately even though he is hated by the Sinate, he is actually an insider and now cozies up with the establishment in their need to find someone to beat Trump. His close ties to Goldman Sachs is especially troubling. He forces people who want the establishment defeated to understand when push comes to shove he will crumble to their will and everything will continue uninterrupted.
Can we end these debates? If there is a worse way to choose a leader it has yet to be invented. The winner of any debate is the biggest policy wonk on the stage. The person who can discuss and describe how things work in the District of Corruption looks like the gifted one, but we are not electing a wonk. We are electing the leader of America who has wonks do what he wants to get his visions done. The President is the CEO of the USA which is a visionary rather than someone who accounts for every dotted “i” and crossed “t”. His job is to find the best people available to in his case, dismantle those rat holes.
There is no question who the born leader is on that stage and it was not the ones worried about hiring a few foreign maids or lawsuits by slip and fall lawyers. Imagine what Rubi8 or Cruz Universities would look like by a couple of guys who have no idea how a business makes a profit. They believe you only have to open a door or put up a sign and the money starts rolling in. Their combined business experience and depth of knowledge rivals Bernie Sanders’.
They both brag how their parents came over from Cuba to work in America but attack Trump for hiring those same people to make his hotel run, hello!
Their anti-business attitude rivals anything you hear from Occupy Wall Street as they vilify Trump for running his businesses like every other businessman runs theirs. Not every company succeeds which is what makes his empire truly amazing. He has some of the finest hotels and golf resorts in the country with the hallmark of being the most luxurious with the finest service. You do not get that by hiring every drug addict that walks off the street. It is easy to point at Trump’s sins while ignoring the fact your wife makes over half a million per year from one of the biggest lobbyists in Moscow on the Potomac.
Trump is going to take voting blocks away from all of the Dem groups. He will do especially well with the lunch bucket union workers who have seen their jobs shipped overseas. He could easily get union endorsements in the Rust Belt states who like what they hear on trade and immigration. He has brought an additional 25% Repub voting even if he is not doing it the right way. He is bringing new voters, youth voters, blacks, Mooselimbs and Hispanics which is driving the GOP insane. He has rewritten the rules of elections and will beat Hillary like a rented donkey, but that is not enough he is not holy.
Conservatism has become a cult. There is a self appointed Sanhedrin filled with Pharisees who believe only they are pure enough to speak for the conservatives in this country. You must say so many Hail Reagans per day and of course you are the most pure with abortion, cutting taxes, pro second amendment and worship at the feet of Rush. Apparently there is a new tenant that you must be Conservative since birth or you are actually a liberal, there are no true conversions which asks what these preachers are trying to do? Only they can declare absolution.
Trump has figured out a way to take the lumps out of the abortion argument. Rather than making everyone take a hard line stance and get killed at the ballot box on the War on Women he gives them a choice. The War on Women means closing abortion clinics by using their famous word phrase techniques so he is using it against them. He is saying Planned Abortionhood is fine as long as they stop having abortions. That is like saying you can play baseball only you cannot have baseballs or bats. Of course they will never agree to that and gives him an acceptable reason to defund and avoid the war and gives PP a choice. Pretty brilliant, except not pure enough for the Sanhedrin.
There is only one outsider left. Unfortunately, Cruz has made a bad decision and has thrown his hat in with the establishment in his craven need to win the presidency. He has allowed himself to become the donors’ candidate and with his wife’s relationship with the biggest donor on Wall Street there is no question he will be twisted to do what they say on issues like immigration and building the wall. If the Sanhedrin does not think those millions are without cables then there is a bridge across the Potomac they would like to sell them. You always launder your money thorough your spouse in DC.
Trump has millions of people horrified they are going to have their money machines taken away. These machines have taken over a hundred years to build and he wants to make it all come crashing down. There are cottage industries like books, magazines, TV and radio programs which make millions preaching to the opposition and the followers. There are lobbyists and corruption feeding the Marxist model losing sleep at night wondering if they will be able to afford their mistresses and Dachas in the country. They may hate what Cruz has said, but they are terrified of what Trump would do. What if Trump is really telling the truth and would do rather than tawk, tawk, tawk?
Pray America wakes
Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.
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The animosity and invectiveness of some people on Free Republic is getting downright ugly. I’m not saying the forum is falling apart. It isn’t. We’ve had worse. But it is getting pretty dang bad.
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Spot on 100% nailed it.
Truth is painful when it combes one’s hair against the grain, as in the opposite way one is used to. This analysis will be hard for some to accept this morning and some will even cry to stop posting Bray’s analysis.
There is nothing here in today’s Braying which can be proven incorrect.
So timely I can’t believe it and here is the corollary to what you have been saying.
When the big two groups of the uni-party start losing what do they do? Cheat and big time.
Here is some stuff courtesy of LucyT who is also a brilliant investigator and has done the hard work of digging up what is really going on and here it is.
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The Lame Cherry prefaces this with FACTS.
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2016/03/proof-of-ted-cruz-vote-fraud-in-kansas.html
Fact 1 is Donald Trump is polling in the 40 to 50% range nationally.
Fact 2 is the reason there is RECORD VOTE TURN OUT is due to Trump voters voting.
Fact 3 is that in EVERY poll, Ted Cruz has a 17 to 27 point ceiling.
Now review the below data which I will prepare you for in this reality. In 2012 in Kansas, 30,000 Kansans participated in the election to give Rick Santorum the state. Yet in 2016 Ted Cruz somehow garnered 35,000 votes ALONE.
Somehow, just like in Texas and Oklahoma and Alaska, with record numbers of voters voting for Donald Trump, thee entire lions share is somehow ending up in Ted Cruz’s column.
I will remind you that BEFORE PEOPLE VOTED that exit polling was released showing Ted Cruz was taking 50% of the vote........and according to the conditioning propaganda, Ted Cruz walks away with 48% of the vote?
That is electronic vote fraud, pure and simple!
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You gotta read the rest of the link as well it really helps one understand what is going on. Massive voter fraud on a scale hard to imagine. But, not everywhere just in selected states where it might not be spotted.
States that have little in the way of polling. States that have little in the way of exit polling. Without the two they have free reign to do whatever they want and they are.
There is, indeed, a question about Trump's "leadership". In a serious discussion with Vladimir Putin, or Li Keqiang It will simply not be effective to bellow "liar, liar", or call them "Little Li", or "Lying Vlad". It's not leadership to bellow loudest.
EXCELLENT!!!!!
WELL SAID!
Great essay Bray. I totally agree. Hopefully, the voters will last a bit longer with Trump and overcome the incessant attacks from GOPe, Willard, bathhouse Marco, and media.
It has been a hard struggle so far, but I believe Ted Cruz will overcome.
As for Trump, the GOPe will find him just as useful as they did McCain and Romney.
For the record on this thread: In all the years I have been reading and liking your stuff, this is the best ever. Besides agreeing with you on substance, the writing is superb. Great analogies and insights. Thanks, bray.
They both brag how their parents came over from Cuba to work in America but attack Trump for hiring those same people to make his hotel run, hello!
Spot on. The hypocrisy is amazing.
Unfortunately, Cruz has made a bad decision and has thrown his hat in with the establishment in his craven need to win the presidency. He has allowed himself to become the donors’ candidate and with his wife’s relationship with the biggest donor on Wall Street there is no question he will be twisted to do what they say on issues like immigration and building the wall.
Precisely. CRuz is the donor candidate, indeed. And, not just PAC donors, anymore....as he's now added Team ¡Jeb!'s (Romney/DC cabal) finance guys to his campaign staff :(
Both Rubio and Cruz are first term senators who have spent the major part of their terms running for the US presidency. Neither of them has a resume that qualifies them for the job they both are applying for. Ted Cruz claims to have proven himself to be a strong and fearless voice of opposition to the pliant senate. Somehow that translates to a decision to abandon his post for a job far beyond any experience he has had outside of his protected govt associated legal world. Ted Cruz knows zilch about the nuts and bolts, actual and metaphorical, that the American workers engage in daily. I think of Jesse Helms as being one of the most powerful and influential senators in recent US history. Senator Jesse Helms, NC, was a fearless patriot beloved by both democrats and fellow Republicans. Out of staters often called him THEIR senator. He DAILY faced opposition and took hard stands against the ever encroaching communist, socialist, anti conservative and anti Christian forces that never, ever cease. We still have good senators who try to work for the citizens whom they represent and they desperately need more smart and capable persons to join them. Ted Cruz has a legal mind that the senate could use and in time he might have acquired sufficient experience and knowledge to lead this nation. Ted Cruz is a long way from where he needs to be to lead this nation.
That was an outstanding opening.
I stopped watching the Sunday ‘News’ Programs a couple of years ago so then this weekly thread has become a ‘primary source’ for me regarding important insights.
Thank You.
P.S. Loved especially the one liner regarding the Cuban immigrant job seekers. That one is a keeper.
What are his “close ties” to Goldman Sachs?
That his wife works there? Is she not allowed to work? Or not allowed to work at a bank?
Is he not allowed to take out loans? Or accept donations? What are the rules?
Are only billionaires allowed to run for president since they’re only ones who can afford to without donations?
What about the General election when Trump is forced to accept donations because he won’t be able to fund his own gen. election campaign? What about when Goldman Sachs donates to him?
What about Trump’s investments in GS? Are they not as suspicious as any donations to Cruz? I mean Trump will benefit financially and personally if they do well. Won’t he do their bidding?
Real questions here because some things don’t add up.
Trump shreds the "policy wonks" without breaking a sweat...
Trump doesn't have "Teflon" or even Kevlar
Trump has a built in active armor
His response in debate is instantaneous (no focus groups involved), on target and massive.
Followed up by more of the same.
I have been trying real hard, REAL hard to take Trump at his WORD, because his DEEDS do not match them.
I envy the true believers, I really do, starry eyed and blissfully ignorant as a lifelong hustler and liberal Democrat leads them down the road to perdition.
I try, but that kind of blind faith is just not in me. I am a conservative which means a pragmatists and so to me and many like me we pick Ted Cruz because he is, as Rush Limbaugh says, the closest thing we have to Reagan and he has a RECORD of conservatism.
But I will keep trying.
A Home RUN!