Why was Cruz Speaking To Begin With?
Simply put the threat of the Floor Committee, the Rules Committe and the presence in an obviously ready to assume the title role of Cruz gave the old line party hacks like Rand, Boehner, Bush, Romney, Prinz whatever a fighting chance of retaining a party at all.
The GOP has lied, cheated, and tricked their supporter so many times in so many ways with their one more chance garbage that many of us want to see them utterly destroyed as a first and necessary step. Guaranteed Trump's people saw it coming. That little red herring trick with Mrs. Trump got the Dino's sidetracked and the back room was ready for open dealing.
What will Trump gain. An entire political party ready for salvage. Offices, bank accounts and records ready to plunder OR reshape, or rebuild and rename in their own image. Perhaps the Consituttional Republic Party if we are lucky. Either way the main firewall of protection for the Socialists was on the line.
For whatever reason or outcome I couldn't be more please. Socialist thinking will have suffered a strong blow. Leaving them with 'damaged goods. Hillary and the Rino Dinos.
!Shout Hurrah'! One of battles may have won.
The rest remains to be seen. We'll find out tomorrow..
things to watch out for
What are Trumps real policies.
Will he try to attract the Libertarian Vote? Perhaps a share of the unrepresented 46% to 50+%?
Will he come out in favor of a return to a Constitutional Republic?
As there is plenty of time before now and voting day will the fabled check matching Hillary and the left wings total fund be written?
Will he bring in the military with their oath of office?
Time willl tell and there is still two good alternative choices. But the destruction of the Republicans is indeed a dream come true. Now for the other side. One battle at a time on the road back.
The GOP has lied, cheated, and tricked their supporter so many times in so many ways with their one more chance garbage that many of us want to see them utterly destroyed as a first and necessary step. Guaranteed Trump's people saw it coming. That little red herring trick with Mrs. Trump got the Dino's sidetracked and the back room was ready for open dealing.
What will Trump gain. An entire political party ready for salvage. Offices, bank accounts and records ready to plunder OR reshape, or rebuild and rename in their own image. Perhaps the Consituttional Republic Party if we are lucky. Either way the main firewall of protection for the Socialists was on the line.
For whatever reason or outcome I couldn't be more please. Socialist thinking will have suffered a strong blow. Leaving them with 'damaged goods. Hillary and the Rino Dinos.
!Shout Hurrah'! One of battles may have won.
The rest remains to be seen. We'll find out tomorrow..
things to watch out for
What are Trumps real policies.
Will he try to attract the Libertarian Vote? Perhaps a share of the unrepresented 46% to 50+%?
Will he come out in favor of a return to a Constitutional Republic?
As there is plenty of time before now and voting day will the fabled check matching Hillary and the left wings total fund be written?
Will he bring in the military with their oath of office?
Time willl tell and there is still two good alternative choices. But the destruction of the Republicans is indeed a dream come true. Now for the other side. One battle at a time on the road back.
I think, that he is, as you say, a man of principle. But he and everyone else including we who backed him, would have been better off if he just stayed home. However, I can see that he just couldn't forego the opportunity of one more bite of the apple.
any one know who the one that got screwed over by lame stream is or was?
Screwing the country and the voters is what both Parties do best, aside from greedily clutching and expanding power.
You don't make this list being establishment and you certainly don't rate high in the list without character and integrity.
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He got hosed and so did the voters as it was all about rigged elections fron the get go.
Apparently someone in the Trump camp realized that and realized had the rules committee dumped Trump not much could be done without the GOP looking really stupid which they managed to do anyway. Trump then adds that rigged voting line twice in his speech. Sincerely political or politically sincere we'll have to wait to find out. The test will be two years the final exam in four years.
1. Run as an independent, thus spoiling the election.
2. Sue the GOP for cheating him, thus causing a Supreme Court trial that is too late to do anything (and thus similar to Bush v. Gore, in that respect anyway).
In either case, Trump would look like even more of a buffoon than he already does. If that's possible.
Donald Trump was a stalking horse. He's been a fascist Democrat all of his life, until last year. He's given 95% of his campaign donations to fascist Democrats. He's made hundreds of millions of dollars colluding with fascist Democrats. His family are all still registered fascist Democrats. Until last year all his positions were those of fascist Democrats.
We started last year's primary season with 16 Republican candidates, all of whom polled well against Hillary Clinton, and one newly minted Republican candidate who consistently lost by double digits to Hillary Clinton.
The fascist Democrat media (including Fox) gave all the free air time they could to the one newly minted Republican who consistently lost to Clinton.
The one newly minted Republican who consistently lost to Clinton in the polls won only open primary states. Of the people I spoke to at Trump events, all were either Democrats or, previously inactive voters.
Now that the convention is over, Trump has just given a 44 minute speech/press conference, during which he spent 44 minutes attacking Ted Cruz and 0 (yes, ZERO) minutes attacking Hillary Clinton.
Is it not obvious who he's been running against all along? He's not running against the fascist Democrats, he's running against the Republicans, not to win but, to ensure Hillary wins.
Trump was a stalking horse for Clinton. Now that he's achieved the Republican nomination he'll do everything he can to ensure A) she wins and, B) the Republican Party is too damaged to beat her in 2020.
Trump and Clinton have just pulled off one of the biggest electoral frauds in history; insinuating a lifelong leftist/fascist/Democrat into the only serious opposition party and thereby ensuring her victory.
Trump doesn't need to keep bashing conservatives and libertarians. Most Americans are so stupid they won't figure it out by 2020 anyway.
Nothing would surprise me EXCEPT Trump has a much larger Ego than Hillary and a lot less in the way of his share of life's failures.
The rest is certainly true. So let's attack the question in a different way.
The DNC Socialist Party HQ fresh from an eight year beating and needing a breather or a space before continuing decide to put up a phony candidate -knowing their right wing - the Rino Republicans will cave on command and that group will control the 'newly minted' canddiate - besides he knows not what strings to pull and buttons to push to get anything done..
They under estimate the bile and ire of the general population and find their New Mint brand candy ass is anything but a candy ass and himself has planned a take over.
Still the die is cast and they do not want Hillary but want her trashed and soundly beaten to political death even if it means re opening the investigations.
The stalking horse becomes one who when led to water drains the pond and being your standard white horse starts looking for a hero then thinks I can do that myself.
Three metaphors now exist.
The DNC tiypes see this now as a huge plus and a way to clean up not only their right wing but their left wing of with a hero who will clean the stables of Hillary Horse droppings.
Quickly the establish links with a speech attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Dole, Michelle Antoinette to the luckless Ivana. It's a message of lineage.
Meanwhile Trump hijmself is off consulting with some varied characters and this has the DNC plan in a fix. Gingrich? That wasn't in the script. A military pro life Admiral? THAT wasn't in the script . The horse took a drink thena a bath and is now bathed in the waters of purity and purpose. They have lost control and to one who can outspend Soreass and out frame Lickoff.
Trump has co-opted the protective echelon's key elements plus the military. His security forces are set wanting only a nudge in the payroll department.
He went after business, and unions reminding them he's one of them in the sene of the three pronged socialist models of leadership. Government, Business,, Union leaders.
And he can add to the membership of the Party thorugh it's right wing the problem being he doesn't need the left wing extremists. First the Republicans (hooray) then the Democrats (double hooray.)
Watch as the story unfolds it could go either way. But the audience of interest is that 50% of the nation that has no representation. Didn't I just seem Trump reach out to them as well when he went after bought and paid for rigged rigged elections using the word twice? Staing "I AM your voice."
Counter revolution or counter coup this is suddenly getting more interesting than anything Hollywood could dream up.
That includes now. Having accepted the party's nomination he now has only one opponent, Hillary.
He has nothing to gain and everything to lose by attacking Republicans, yet he continues to focus his attacks on Republicans.
He has everything to gain and nothing to lose by attacking Hillary, yet he continues not attacking Hillary.
You can dream up all the other explanations you want but, there's only one that fits the evidence: Donald Trump didn't and doesn't want to be President. He was never running to be President; he was running to ensure no Republican would be President.
On the plus side we get the destruction of the Republicans and they get their just desserts.
On the other side.....we get Barbra Streisand in Drag.
Hold the phone he did spend a good part of that speech pointing our her litany of failures and lack of successes. Perhaps trying to create the impression she isn't serious enough to rate bothering with.
I'm reaching here and it's thin....but right now all we have is the disdain of when you lie with a pig you get dirty. I'm now thinking even Mike Rowe wouldn't tackle the Hillary Troughs.
Understand, this is not during the convention, this is post-convention and, instead of trying to win the election he's still trying to destroy the Republicans.
And now he's dumping on Kasich...like losing the election by 75 Electoral College votes isn't enough...he wants to make sure by losing Ohio and let the Democrats take over the Senate too.
What Trump is doing makes sense only if he wants to lose the election.
There is little to no disunity in the Democrat Party. Well over 90% of Sanders supporters have told pollsters they'll support Hillary. The Dem convention will go off without incident and, I'm predicting Trump will compliment Hillary on her performance.
He's a Democrat. He's always been a Democrat. He makes money off Democrats. Nothing he does makes sense if you think he's a Republican trying to win. Everything he does makes sense if you think he's a Democrat trying to lose.
What you are saying makes sense only if Trump’s family and close advisors are in on the scam, and the entire mainstream and alternative media are not.
Trump has little to lose by making die-hard Cruz and Kasich supporters feel unwelcome and possibly leave the party. They were never going to vote for him anyway. It makes sense to consolidate his base within the party before facing Hillary in the general election.
Cruz already lost a bunch of his supporters with his ill-thought-out speech. Many “wavering Cruz supporters” have already switched to Trump. Meanwhile, Hillary is fighting off blowback from the left thanks to her VP pick and the Wikileaks exposure of the DNC sabotage of Sanders.
For the moment, it’s Advantage Trump.
Just the election, that's all. Cruz and Kasich between them got almost as many popular votes as Trump, even though they both dropped out before the end of the season. In a country where elections are usually won or lost by a few percentage points, that's a lot of votes to throw away.
Time will tell.
Trump's hand-picked fund raising manager, when she resigned, said it was all a scam, he never intended to win, just wanted to get enough votes to throw the Republican Party into disarray and raise his public profile for the launch of Trump TV. So far, that's what he's done and, so far he hasn't denied what she said.
BTW, a few weeks ago I got Trump's fund raising plea in the mail. So much for self-funding.
1) Become President of the United States.
2) Deliberately lose the election to Hillary Clinton.
I rest my case.
Not only did his former fund raising manager say that was the plan, many of his close friends have said the same thing, they don't think he has any intention of being President.
One must always take care not to project one's own logic and motives onto others. We all have our own wants and needs. While you and most of your friends might see the Presidency as a high honor and chance to do something meaningful, I think Trump would find 4 years as President tedious, and personally confining, even more than does Barack Obama. That, in fact, is what many of his friends have said about this - he does not now, nor did he ever want to win.
I anticipate he will continue to do all the wrong things for the next few months, lose the election and then, start Trump TV and make money off his heightened public profile, free to continue living in New York, travelling the world whenever he wants and doing and saying outrageous things presidents can't.
I’ve found no evidence that any of this is true.
An official of his former Super-PAC said the initial plan was “to get The Donald to poll in double digits and come in second in delegate count. That was it.” Not to lose to Hillary. At the time Trump probably did not expect to win the nomination, but expect and want are two different things.
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RE: “Trump's hand-picked fund raising manager, when she resigned, said it was all a scam, he never intended to win, just wanted to get enough votes to throw the Republican Party into disarray and raise his public profile for the launch of Trump TV. So far, that's what he's done and, so far he hasn't denied what she said.”
I could not find that Trump had a fund-raising manager at the time. If you are referring to this letter, much of it appears to be her opinion which is not the same as actual evidence or proof. As far as I can tell, it doesn’t make any reference to Trump TV or throwing the GOP into disarray.
http://www.xojane.com/issues/stephani...
RE: “he hasn't denied what she said.”
His campaign has categorically denied it, according to the first article I referenced above.
RE: “many of his close friends have said the same thing”
I would be interested in seeing any hard evidence of this. All I can find is rumors and opinions on various liberal websites.
And aside from all of the above, if the Dems and the mainstream media thought for a second that Trump was not serious about wanting to be President, they would be all over the issue.
Sometimes things are just what they appear to be. And it appears right now that Trump definitely wants to be President.
You could just as easily make the case that Hillary is a stalking horse for Trump. Her strategy to date has aided Trump by provoking mass defections from the Democratic Party by Bernie Sanders supporters and working class Democrats who feel betrayed by their party's elite.
Both Hillary and Trump would likely lose badly to a more moderate, less disliked candidate of the other party. Which may help explain Gary Johnson’s continuing rise in the polls, currently 13%.
My two cents. Kinda windy here.
Even after the FBI Director said basically, "Hillary's guilty but, we're not going to recommend charges." he polls didn't drop and, Trump hasn't attacked her.
His actions between now and November will ensure he doesn't win. If, at the last moment, the election is in doubt, he'll publicly renege on building the wall to seal the deal.
As to the pic of Cruz's wife, Cruz asked for that. He started it with Trump and should have known better. Trump could have taken the high road and ignored it, and he should have.
Cruz should have not spoken at the RNC convention. He just hurt himself.
I'm telling you guys...He fits the "Strong Man" scenario history shows us...he too may be just a pawn in our demise. Not just America but all of conscious mankind.
I sincerely hope I'm wrong about that but everything points in that direction.
As we argued yesterday, the only good that can come is if the country begins to realize what a huge mistake they made in letting this socialist, totalitarian nonsense go so far. Not sure the demoraps will suffer similarly in that event, since they also occupy much of the middle.
Not sure this will bey a step in the right direction or an irreversible trend to the toilet bowl.
(A related problem, discussed recently on another blog, is that Congress has never bothered to exercise the power given them in Section 4 of the 20th Amendment: "The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them.")
I would sugges the complete disappearance of the Republican Party in it's present form would not be that big a deal.
Trump gets elected
Becomes the defacto party leader.
Makes some changes in the party leadership
Realigns the operating funds
Perhaps changes the name.
Changes the platform and standards to match his speech.
Changes the goals.
Begins to look for or create a Coalition and gets in all those who at present have no representation.
DINOS going to have to do the same thing as well.
Only an idiot press and media would shout fire in a crowded room and then laugh on Disgrace the Nation when the sprinklers soaked the suckers.
Two dangers. Can't use that with Centrist and Coaliiton which comes out CCCP and they can't wear red ties anymore. Red, White, and Blue would work. Constitutional Republic Coalition might work. Have to think about this. They could use the Old Glory Flag and replace that colors of the UN arrow pointing left rag.
50 Stars and Five Moons for Guam Samoa, USVI, Puerto Rico and Washington DC in order of importance. Minus X number of stars for California, Massachusetts or perhaps ll the blue States. but the ranking could prove difficult
There is literally no fences around that boy!
Lighten up it's my favorite waking up dream at present. I'm just into sharing.
And so he did what he has done so well for the past several years. He stuck to his Constitutional principles and told the crowd to do the same.
Whether or not his political career is over? I see one of two options: A) he wins his Senate seat again handily and in four years throws his hat back in the ring so he can criticize Hillary Clinton and give conservatives someone to vote for. B) he loses his Senate seat because the RNC chooses to throw all their weight against him and fund another candidate. And the Republican Party itself - fresh off a defeat of Trump for President sees many people break from the party to create their own or join with another party like the Constitution Party. The Republican Party will become what the Democratic Party once was while the Democratic Party finally admits it is the Progressive/Communist Party. The Libertarian Party also sees a large upswing in voter support, but the Progressive Party runs the nation until it collapses.
Whether or not it is just... That's a whole 'nother discussion.
If he now endorses Trump he looks like he is pandering for acceptance, If he does not he looks like a total liar since he did make a pledge.
Also every one of the 16 other candidates were invited to speak, with no condition on endorsement. At least Kasich was smart enough to crawl in his hole and stay there.