Posted on 05/03/2016 9:16:33 PM PDT by Strac6
There are two huge losers tonight and neither of them is Ted Cruz. The Cruz campaign was dead in the water after the New York primary, and in his heart, Cruz knew it.
One of the realities of politics is that money is the grease that enables the political engine to go forward. Due to the stunning degree of Cruz’s loss in New York, and especially considering how much better than the poll expectations Trump did, Cruz fundraising was on pause after the New York primary two weeks ago.
As the election embarrassments continued for Cruz during the ACELA primaries, the fundraising stopped, DRT.
When you consider that Cruz was as much as eight points ahead of Trump in Indiana less than three weeks ago, and he suffered a blistering defeat tonight, the Cruz defeat /retreat/surrender was total, but certainly expected.
Simply put, Cruz had run out of ideas, supporters, and money simultaneously.
He will now begin to say very nice things about Donald Trump, with the hope that he can salvage something out of this campaign and not end up as nothing more than the punchline for bad standup comedian’s jokes.
The real losers tonight were Hillary and Kasich.
Hillary’s failure to perform anywhere near her polls is a clear and convincing indication that whatever support she has, beyond the 30% labor/gay/hard left that would support any Democrat even if we had an 8 x 10 Glossy of them shooting Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, is more shallow than the Bay of Fundy at low tide. One of the worst things for Hillary is that Gods are expected not to bleed, and tonight, she leaked all over the State of Indiana.
Tonight she lost her title as the presumptive candidate, and even worse than that, even her best supporters no longer assume even if nominated she would win the General Election.
There is an old “rule” that most candidates who are leading the Democratic presidential primary two years before the election never make it to the “finals.” You only have to look back to the recent Democratic front runners who were NOT nominated such as Clinton in 2008, Ed Muskie, Gary Hart, and so many more. “Scoop” Jackson, the Democratic Senator from Boeing, was so sure that he was a shoo-in in 1968, his wife had done everything but pick out the new White House China.
The bottom line on Hillary now; she is the Democratic “All-Star” who is about to go on the 21 year disabled list, and there is no one on the Democratic bench who has a chance. Unfortunately, there is one exception to that prior sentence and that would be a Biden/Warren ticket.
Despite all his prior protestations, if Clinton gets out, Biden/Warren will be in within 72 hours.
The big loser tonight on the Republican side is not Cruz but Gov. Kasich. Prior to Trump’s overwhelming win and Cruz’s surrender, Kasich was a bit of a kingmaker with his hundred plus delegates. If Donald Trump had been within 80 to 100 delegate votes to get the nomination on the first ballot, Kasich would have been in a position to demand virtually anything he wanted, with the possible exception of the vice presidency. Of course, being a reasonably smart man, Kasich would’ve called for a much more visible and important post then vice president.
After tonight, if Kasich campaign officials were to ask Trump campaign officials what they should do with their hundred plus first ballot votes, Trump officials might tell them to dispose of them in an exceptionally anatomically painful way.
If tonight’s Indiana Republican primary was a Las Vegas high-stakes poker game, at this hour Donald Trump would be in the 26th floor penthouse celebrating his victory with the world’s finest champagne, Cruz would be in his 1993 Chevrolet headed back to Encino, and Gov. Kasich still be sitting at the table with a moderately large pile of totally worthless chips in front of them, wondering what just happened.
Strap on your seatbelts boys and girls; it’s going to be a hell of a next six months!
It will be interesting to read some of the transcripts, and even more interesting, the filings in this case.
Oswald was always interesting. No doubt he pulled a trigger, but how many shooters?
Two of my old neighbors, a highly placed Agency couple, once made a great argument that Oswald was not set up by the Agency.
“Had it been an Agency op. Oswald wound have “committed suicide” before he ever left the School Book Deppsitory.”
The deposition transcripts are fascinating. They take up a large part of the book.
One of the keys to the case was that Hunt had a carefully constructed alibi for the day of the assassination, but Lane’s star witness, Marita Lorenz, put Hunt in Dallas the day before the assassination, and Hunt had no alibi for that day, even from his own children.
Some people theorize that Officer Tippit was supposed to take out Oswald, but Oswald got him first.
But then Oswald supposedly had no gun shot residue on his fingers.
I can’t keep up with checking it all out!
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