Good day all. Back when George W. Bush was president, we had something called “Bush Derangement Syndrome.” This was basically an unreasoning hatred of G.W. Bush and everything he stood for. Now we’re seeing a new variant of this mental illness, Trump Derangement Syndrome.
The difference between “BDS” and “TDS” is who is being affected by it and the circumstances. The primary sufferers of BDS were Democrats who hated the Bush presidency to the point of actively aiding our enemies. (See Code Pink) TDS sufferers, on the other hand, are members of the Republican Establishment, known as the GOP(e), and are terrified of Donald Trump actually winning the Republican nomination.
The GOP(e) class, generally referred to as “RINO’s,” (Republican In Name Only), have begun to think of ways to deny Trump the nomination, even if he wins most of the delegates in the primaries. They have been talking up the possibility of a brokered convention, in which Trump might win just under the number of delegates to win the nomination outright.
In that case, their thinking is that after the first round of votes, the delegates can then throw Trump and his supporters under the bus and shove a favored GOP(e) candidate down the base’s throats. The RINO’s have been floating Marco the Rubot as their first choice, with others being Kasich, Bush or even a draft of Mittens Romney. However, it’s looking like the RINO dream of a brokered convention won’t be happening. Now the GOP(e) Donors are looking into funding an Independent candidate to oppose Trump. Here are the details from Politico:
Conservative donors have engaged a major GOP consulting firm in Florida to research the feasibility of mounting a late, independent run for president amid growing fears that Donald Trump could win the Republican nomination.
A memo prepared for the group zeroes in on ballot access as a looming obstacle for any independent candidate, along with actually identifying a viable, widely known contender and coalescing financial support for that person. The two states with the earliest deadlines for independent candidates, Texas and North Carolina, also have some of the highest hurdles for independents to get on the ballot, according to the research.
“All this research has to happen before March 16, when inevitably Trump is the nominee, so that we have a plan in place,” a source familiar with the discussions said. March 16 is the day after the GOP primary in Florida, a winner-take-all contest that Marco Rubio supporters have identified as a must-win to stop Trump’s early momentum. “It’s critical some serious attention is given to this,” the source said.
The GOP(e) is horrified that the serfs and peons are not going to select one of their chosen candidates. The candidate they had selected, Jeb Bush, was so thoroughly rejected that it will become a case study in how not to run a campaign. All the other governors that might have been acceptable to the GOP(e) donor class have also flamed out and slunk back to their states.
Rather then look into why the Base is rejecting their list of candidates, these morons are going to try and run an Independent candidate. The problem with pushing an independent out at this late date is ballot access. Most states make it rather difficult for a non-party candidate to actually get on the presidential ballots.
The document, stamped “confidential,” was authored by staff at Data Targeting, a Republican firm based in Gainesville, Fla. The memo notes that “it is possible to mount an independent candidacy but [it] will require immediate action on the part of this core of key funding and strategic players.”
The GOP(e) donors are delusional if they think an independent candidate will have any chance at all. The last person to try this was Ross Perot, and he finally flamed out, and we ended up with Bill Clinton. Still, they are wasting money on this idea.
The research points to Texas and North Carolina as early tests for running an independent, conservative candidate against Trump and the Democratic nominee. The candidate would need to gather over 79,900 valid petition signatures in Texas by May 9 and over 89,000 in North Carolina by June 9.
Only two other states have thresholds that high, and gathering petitions can be an expensive and time-consuming process. What’s more, the Texas signatures would have to come entirely from voters who did not vote in this year’s Democratic and Republican primaries.
So, if I’m understanding this, in order to gather the required signatures in Texas, the GOP(e) donors will pretty much have to wait until after the Texas primary in order to ask people who might sign the petitions if they had voted in either the Democrat or Republican primaries. Yeah, that’s not going to work.
But “with 38 electoral votes in play in Texas and North Carolina’s true swing state status, failing to qualify in either or both states would render any independent candidate non-viable,” the report’s authors wrote. “This is logistically possible but will require immediate action.”
The rise of Donald Trump, along with the collapse of all the GOP(e)’s preferred candidates, has thrown the GOP Establishment into utter panic. Because Donald Trump is essentially self funding his campaign, he isn’t beholding to the GOP(e) donors or the Chamber of Commerce, both groups who have used government policies to enrich themselves at the expense of the average American, as well as the United States.
While the Democrats actually want the collapse of the United States and the institution of a Socialist state, the GOP(e) wants open borders and unlimited immigration to force wages down for Americans and legal aliens. Both parties hate small businesses, with the Democrats wanting the government to run them, and the GOP Establishment wanting to recreate the monopolies and trusts of the 19th century.
Trump, if he is elected and does what he says he wants to do, is going to hit the GOP(e) Donor class right where it hurts. In their wallets. He isn’t going to “Seize the means of Production,” that’s what Democrats do. What he could do is force the RINO’s to actually pay people what they’re worth as well as unleash the small business men and women.
The GOP(e) refuses to learn from recent events. They handed Jeb Bush over $100 million dollars and saw that money flushed right down the toilet. Kasich, their second choice, would be better off running as a Democrat, since he tends to think like them. Rubio hasn’t won any races, and could actually lose the Florida primary. Many of the conservative groups that helped him get elected have turned on him since he’s nothing more than a shill for open borders, amnesty and a path to citizenship for illegal aliens.
The GOP(e) refuses to understand why the base is going for Trump, and to a lesser extent, Cruz. The base has been lied to for decades, and the recent events, where they helped retake both the house and senate from the Democrats, has shown them that helping the Establishment Republicans won’t help them, and will actually hurt them.
Now that the base has finally and fully turned on the GOP Establishment and is moving to select someone who might actually do what they want. The Establishment’s response? “How dare you go against your betters? Since you won’t listen to us, we’ll just go around you.”
That petulant response to the base will insure a Democrat takes the White House again, and probably regain both the house and senate. If they think a President Trump will be a nightmare for them, they should consider what a President Clinton II or President Sanders with a hard left congress will try. They won’t of course. They’re just as brain dead as the Democrats.
Thatisall
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