By Patrick J. Buchanan
* * *
Ted Cruz already looks to be the last man between Trump
and a GOP nomination that has gone, in the last seven elections, to George H.
W. Bush, Bob Dole, George W. Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney.
All five of those nominees since 1988 seem appalled by
Trump’s triumphs, and only slightly less so by the Cruz alternative.
Not in memory has the leadership of a party been so out
of touch.
The Republican rank and file are in revolt, not only
against the failures of their fathers but the policies of their present rulers.
Some among the GOP elites, who have waited patiently
through the Obama era to recapture control of U.S. foreign policy, are now
beside themselves with despair over Trump’s success.
Fully 116 members of the GOP’s "national security
community," many of them veterans of Bush administrations, have signed an
open letter threatening that, if Trump is nominated, they will all desert, and
some will defect – to Hillary Clinton!
* YEP! NEOCONS FIRST; REPUBLICANS SECOND;
CONSERVATIVES... 9TH? 13TH? 27TH? (SOMETHING LIKE THAT...)
“Hillary is the lesser evil, by a large margin,” says
Eliot Cohen of the Bush II State Department.
* DISGUSTING...
* AGAIN... FOLKS... THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH.
Another signer, Robert Kagan, wailed in the Washington
Post, “The only choice will be to vote for Hillary Clinton.”
Are they serious?
* YEP. THEY'RE SERIOUS. THEIR LIVELIHOODS ARE AT STAKE.
TRUMP COULD VERY WELL CUT OFF THE LUCRATIVE GRAVY TRAIN OF GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES
AND DIRECT PAYMENTS TO THESE "NATIONAL SECURITY COMMUNITY"
CHICKEN-HAWKS.
Trump calls the Iraq War many of them championed an
historic blunder.
* AND... TRUMP WAS - IS - RIGHT.
Trump says that, while a supporter of Israel, he would be
a “neutral” honest broker between Israel and the Palestinians in peace
negotiations, as was Jimmy Carter at Camp David.
* F--K THE PALESTINIANS... BUT THAT SAID... YEAH... I GET
THE OPTICS TRUMP IS GOING FOR AND FRANKLY... HE'S RIGHT TO CLAIM THAT HE'LL BE
EVEN-HANDED. (ISN'T HE...?!?! I MEAN... GEEZUS... WHAT ELSE IS HE SUPPOSED TO
SAY?!)
Trump says he would “get along very well” with Vladimir
Putin, as Richard Nixon got along with Leonid Brezhnev and Mao Zedong.
* AND PUTIN IS NEITHER A BREZHNEV NOR A MAO. PUTIN IS A
CHRISTIAN RUSSIAN NATIONALIST. (AND BEING A CHRISTIAN RUSSIAN... THAT KINDA
SPEAKS WELL FOR HIM!)
Trump would launch no new crusades for "democracy."
* NOR WOULD HE TOPPLE THE EGYPTIAN MILITARY TO INSTALL
THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD... AND THEN TOPPLE THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD TO RE-INSTALL
THE EGYPTIAN MILITARY!
(*SNORT*)
* NOR WOULD HE SET THE STAGE FOR THE CREATION OF A
CALIPHATE VIA HELPING TO OVERTHROW SOMEONE LIKE GADDAFI - WHO WAS COOPERATING
WITH US MORE OR LESS - WITH NO "PLAN B" FOR WHAT WOULD HAPPEN AFTER
GADDAFI WAS OVERTHROWN!
Trump would not oppose Russia bombing ISIS.
* BECAUSE TRUMP UNDERSTANDS THE ISIS NEEDS TO BE BOMBED
OUT OF EXISTENCE!
Trump would build that wall on the border. He would
transfer from U.S. taxpayers to rich allies more of the cost of defending
themselves. Do not most Americans agree with much of this?
* I DO! I DO!
Yet this neocon ultimatum about deserting [the GOP]
should [GOP] voters nominate Trump testifies eloquently to their loyalty.
* OR RATHER TO THEIR LACK THEREOF!
With every ex-president and ex-nominee repudiating Trump,
and foreign policy elites going rogue, the GOP hierarchy is saying: We will cut
Trump dead, just as the Rockefeller-Romney crowd cut Barry Goldwater dead.
* HOW'D THAT WORK OUT FOR AMERICA? Hmm...?
This is pure my-way-or-the-highway politics.
* SO MUCH FOR THE "BIG TENT."
But it raises anew the question: Can the Establishment
stop Trump?
Answer: It is possible, and we shall know by midnight,
March 15.
If Trump loses Florida and Ohio, winner-take-all
primaries, he would likely fall short of the 1,237 delegates needed for
nomination on the first ballot.
How could the anti-Trump forces defeat him in Ohio,
Florida and Illinois? With the same tactics used to shrink Trump’s victory
margins in Virginia, Louisiana and Kentucky to well below what polls had
predicted.
In every primary upcoming, Trump is under a ceaseless
barrage of attack ads on radio, TV, cable and social media, paid for by super
PACs with hoards of cash funneled in by oligarchs.
But Trump, who is self-funding his campaign, has spent
next to nothing on ads answering these attacks, or promoting himself or his
issues. He has relied almost exclusively on free media.
Yet no amount of free media can match the shellfire
falling on him every hour of every day in every primary state.
Our Principles PAC, backed by Nebraska’s billionaire
Ricketts family, has poured millions into trashing Trump.
American Future Fund is dumping $1.75 million in Florida
this week; Club for Growth $1.5 million.
Hedge-fund billionaire Paul Singer is backing the
Conservative Solutions PAC, which has dumped millions into anti-Trump ads and
plans to spend more than $7 million between March 1 and 15, with $4 million of
that going into Florida.
The super PAC pile-on is... unprecedented.
How well Trump fares in Michigan and Mississippi,
measured against how well he was doing in polls last week, will reveal just how
successful super PAC savagery has been in changing hearts and minds.
Can millionaires and billionaires who back open borders,
mass immigration, globalization and the disappearance of nation states into
transnational collectives overwhelm with their millions spent in ads the
patriotic movements that arose this year to the wonderment of America and the
world?
Has that proud 18th century boast of Americans, “Here,
sir, the people rule!” given way to the rule of the oligarchs?
* WE SHALL SEE!
* MYSELF? I SAY "NO." I BELIEVE EITHER CRUZ OR
TRUMP WILL BE THE NOMINEE AND THAT AS THE NOMINEE WILL WIN THE GENERAL
ELECTION.
* PRAY I'M RIGHT, FOLKS; PRAY I'M RIGHT...
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