You should really take a few minutes to read this op-ed by David Ross Meyers.
A message for my fellow Republicans: If you back Trump you will not be trusted again
I’m not suggesting this because I agree with what he says. You need to read it because it is one of the best examples of just how disconnected the Party Leadership really is from it’s voter base I have seen in a very long time. It also shows just how much contempt with which the “political class” holds us.
I have said elsewhere that between the Kasich “deal” and picking Fiorina as his VP, Ted Cruz has done the two things in a week that will guarantee a Trump nomination. Well, it looks like Ted reached conclusions similar to mine. I’m not surprised that he withdrew, per se. I did expect – as I noted long ago – that it would be closer to the convention if it happened. I’m taking it to mean that Cruz is confident that Trump has a clear path and that there is no chance of the RNC from dropping in a patsy of their own. Remember, Cruz – as only suspended – still retains he delegates and has that sword to hold over the establishment’s necks. Continue reading
Michael Massie’s Op-Ed on WND: Trump: Bringer of 3rd uprising against GOP elite
Great thoughts but I’m not entirely sure I would agree with Massie’s thoughts on Cain, as much as I did like him. However, his overall point is certainly true. Look at the silencing of Ron Paul and the foisting of Romney upon us.
Massie missed an entire epoch, though. I’d separate the 2014 elections where establishment people had to defend otherwise safe seats and were even primaried out. In spite of that, TEA Partiers gave Republicans a huge success that November and it didn’t take even two weeks for Boehner and McConnell to throw the voters under the buss. And ended Boehner’s career as a result. These events stand alone, not lumped with either 2012 or now.
The greatest – and most gratifying, to me – irony is that the leadership rewrote the rules specifically to enshrine the candidate *they* want early in the primary season. This is going to be the biggest backfire in American political history. They now have their worst nightmare: choosing between Cruz or Trump. That is like asking the condemned whether he wants the firing squad or hanging.
I said back when George W. was still president that we are worrying about the wrong enemy where the Democrats are concerned. That the Leadership of our own party is the first enemy that must be destroyed. It’s taken close to ten years, but we are finally seeing that happen.
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This from Fox News this morning. All I can say is…
REALLY???
Clinton commits Benghazi gaffe, saying US ‘didn’t lose a single person’ in Libya
If this is her memory, why would we want her in the White House again? Wonder what else she’s forgotten…
Hi folks! I’ve had several people asking me about Ted Cruz’s position on homeschooling. Apparently there are some rumors out by another campaign that he is supporting anti-homeschool legislation. Nothing can be further from the truth. Ted has a long reputation supporting and fighting for homeschoolers that goes way back.
Mike Farris from HSLDA and he go way back and they had an interview on this subject in February. I’ll let you them tell it to you first-hand below:
Just a few thoughts here…
This weekend is going to be a turning point in the Republican primaries. Basically, Marco Rubio is going to potentially select the the Republican candidate for President. If he does not withdraw before the end of Sunday, Donald Trump will have the nomination. If he withdraws today or over the weekend, then there is an option for Ted Cruz to be the nominee.
My rationale? Continue reading
Source: Oh My: Romney For President Paperwork Was Filed With The FEC Last Month
Don’t believe Romney when he says he’s out.
This is why I have been saying for years that we have to destroy the Republican party leadership before we can take on the Democrats. Both are progressives and we have to remove the log from our eye first.
This op-ed showed up on Fox New today: Trump, Rubio, Cruz all want to repeal ObamaCare. But none of them has a plan to replace it. My first thought was, “What the [explicative deleted]?”
Well, if you’re going to tout your credentials to have an opinion, I’ll tout mine. I’ve been in healthcare for 30 years. I’ve done clinical care, pharma and device research as a clinical scientist in both clinical and industry environment and hold multiple patent. If you see a public access defibrillator hanging on a wall in a airport or stadium or building that odds are good it has technology that I helped pioneer inside it.
So I ask, who the hell are you to say it has to be replaced by something else from the government? Continue reading
I don’t like sounding like “Mr. I-Told-You-So,” but a Trump candidacy has been building for years. I warned people back in late 2007/early 2008 that Obama was telling the truth about what he was going to do. It wasn’t the kind of rhetoric that people expect that just goes away once you’re elected. In some ways, Trump is the push-back against Obama and his ilk’s progressivism.
The other – and more important – part of it is, as I said years before even Obama, that we Continue reading
I don’t think people realize just how bad this is for the country. It’s not a matter of conservative or liberal, but of how one views the Constitution. I do agree on the kind of nominee we’d get from Cruz. I suspect we would get similar from Rubio. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if Rubio nominated Cruz.
What’s amusing in this is watching the Progressives who have no respect for the Constitution suddenly screeching about how Obama has the Constitutional right to appoint the new SCOTUS justice. I really wish they would actually read the document. The President has the authority to nominate the potential justice. The Senate has the authority to approve or reject that candidate. There is no obligation for the Senate to approve and no entitlement of the President to get his choice. Further, the Senate establishes it’s own rules as far as to how the process works out.
The reason to put the nominee off until after the election is simple. First, it’s not a matter of shutting down Obama. It is a matter of this election will most likely represent the clearest statement on where the American people want this nation to go ideologically. Not Conservative/Liberal, but Classical Liberalism/Progressivism. True, either party may be able to kick the can down the road once or twice more, but that is becoming more and more difficult. The time is coming – and may (hopefully?) be here already – that the political class is finally held to account.
The sad part is, that the judicial crisis, at least, was entirely avoidable. Remember that bit about reading the Constitution I mentioned above?
Did you know that Congress has the right to regulate the federal courts? As in, they could decide that all Bill of Rights cases, for instance, must be subject to review under strict scrutiny. Or that 14th Amendment claims must be interpreted likewise. Or limit their degree of judicial review. Congress has – and always has had – the power to shut down judicial activism whenever it wanted. Of all the failures of Congress over the last century, this one has been by far the most egregious.
Do you know how much power the Supreme Court has over the exercise of this Congressional power? None. It’s rather explicit in the Constitution. Any justice that disagreed with the Congress on this could be summarily removed from office.
How many reading this were actually aware Congress had that much power? I’m curious.
