Thus are the affairs of a (formerly) great nation managed. Sleaze and distortion center stage. Millions of citizens and the political establishments of the Uniparty accept this as normal. As Dr. Carson will attest. We will have mediocrity; spare no expense.
Btw, Fox News is doing its part to give credence to challengers like Mr. Kasich (currently polling at 1%; no control of that PAC) by giving him big play last night. He's going to soar. Soon! He resonates with the people. What are his views?!
Notes
[1] "GOP group plans most aggressive anti-Trump campaign yet." By Alex Isenstadt, Politico, 11/19/15.
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People have said for years there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, but seeing a political party trying to sink its own leading candidate is just hard to believe even for the cynical. The GOP has screwed its base many times, but now they've just abandoned any hint of deference to their potential voters. I suppose scum like this guy Kasich can still make a living shilling for the donors that pay him, but he and his party are done as a political party. They are as dead as the Whigs now.
I was finally disgusted, absolutely, when Boehner and McConnell did absolutely nothing after majorities were handed to them. McConnell wouldn't even do away with the cloture super majority rule as Reid had done to screw the Republicans. Trump keeps me interested in so-called GOP politics but the threat of Hillary as president just isn't one to worry about since you get the insanity of ultra left politics anyway, courtesy of the GOP. I won't not vote but I will cheerfully abandon the national GOP in a heart beat.
Marilyn Barnewell at News With Views has a very good article about how underhanded the GOPe is about making sure that nothing like crass popular preferences affect the choice of the GOP candidate.
There's apparently another GOP political action group headed by operative Liz Mair that is out to discourage pro-Trump people from voting at all. That's how desperate the GOP insiders are.
Mair tweeted something to the effect that Ted Cruz's donors were signing onto this anti-Trump thing which is apparently called 'Trump Card' or something.
The GOP establishment has been out of touch with their base for a long time. Yet some people are reluctant to leave the fold. I hope by now people will have woken up. The GOP, the RNC, all of the professional political hacks, are out for their own power and gain and don't care a whit for this country or the people.
-VA
They are desperate, VA. I don't know how many Republican-friendly people like me out there just were appalled by the inaction of Boehner and McConnell after the last elections.
I hate to admit to being such a slow learner but I still clung to the idea that there was a smidgen of principled resistance in the GOP. But there was none after the last election. Weeks, then months went by and there wasn't a peep out of the GOPe. On immigration and fiscal insanity -- nothing. Nothing on nothing, just silent passivity.
I just don't see the point in supporting the national GOPe anymore. If we're going to get open borders and fiscal incontinence (and gutless chief justices) under the Republicans, what's the downside of Dem control?
We really are at a serious inflection point. The Depression ushered in socialism and a gigantic federal government where taxpayer votes could be bought with taxpayer money. The rise in spending and debt and the evisceration and burdening of the productive have been inexorable. Unstoppable. This is not coming to an end. You can hear the sound of the waterfall ahead.
Most won't blame statism and the abandonment of the Constitution but most visceral patriots also know that there is something terribly wrong. The GOPe is just rearranging the deckchairs now. They won't be able to forestall massive change and, alas, chaos. I can only hope that Trump's resilience is an indication that a whole lot of people are also in a mood to break furniture.
Amen, Col. Bunny.
-VA
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