[Guest Contributor - Donald G. Mutersbaugh Sr.]
Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National
Committee, made these pathetic, opening remarks at the last Republican debate:
“I want to get something completely clear, because there’s been a lot of talk
about this. This party is going to support the nominee — whoever that is — 100
percent. There’s no question about that.” Why would he even say that? Is it a
lame attempt to try to unify the party and ask the candidates to play nice?
What these politicians still don't seem to understand is that the people are
having a political revolution. I wrote about this August 2, 2015 when I
explained The Birth of the Electoral
Paradigm Shift. “The message that
Mr. Trump brings to the game is resonating with the electorate. Perhaps they
see in him somebody who is not a professional politician!” I think that this
article about “Why I support Trump – and resent the elites trying to destroy
him” is a must read analysis by John C. Kluge. Think about this:
“Our country is going broke, half its working-age
population isn’t even looking for work, faces the real threat of massive
Islamic terrorist attack and has a government incapable of doing even basic
functions. Meanwhile, conservatives act like cutting Planned Parenthood funding
or stopping gays from getting marriage licenses are the great issues of the day
and then have the gumption to call Donald Trump a clown. It would be downright
funny if it wasn’t so sad and the situation so serious.
“It is not that I think Donald Trump is some savior or an
ideal candidate. I don’t. It is that I cannot for the life of me — given the
sorry nature of our current political class — understand why conservatives are
losing their minds over him and are willing to destroy the Republican Party and
put Hillary Clinton into office to stop him. All of your objections to him
either apply to many other candidates you have backed or are absurd.”
Continuing with this line of thinking, the following was
reported in the news:
“Billionaires, tech CEOs and top members of the Republican establishment flew to a private island resort off the coast of Georgia this weekend for the American Enterprise Institute's annual World Forum, according to sources familiar with the secretive gathering.
“The main topic at the closed-to-the-press confab? How to
stop Republican front-runner Donald Trump. (The meeting was not planned to be a
strategy session on how to stop the GOP front-runner, but rather evolved into
one, as a subsequently obtained agenda makes clear.)…
"The key task now, to once again paraphrase Karl
Marx, is less to understand Trump than to stop him," Kristol wrote.
"In general, there's a little too much hand-wringing, brow-furrowing, and
fatalism out there and not quite enough resolving to save the party from
nominating or the country electing someone who simply shouldn't be
president." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aei-world-forum-donald-trump_us_56ddbd38e4b0ffe6f8ea125d
It’s a pretty sad day in our democracy when a cabal of
the elite considers doing something to keep the establishment in power. “A
highlight of the gathering was a presentation by Rove about focus group
findings on Trump. The business mogul's greatest weakness, according to Rove,
was that voters have a very hard time envisioning him as "presidential"
and as somebody their children should look up to.” This, of course, coming from
the same person who went ballistic on election night 2012 saying that Romney
was going to win. ." Even worse, “…Bozell told Bloomberg
News [,] If I had 1/100th of Karl Rove's money, I would have been more
productive than he was. Republican advisor
Rick Tyler attacked Rove in an interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
"They lost every race. It was a colossal failure," he said.
"They went out with their power points and convinced people to give money,
but it was as pathetic a performance as I've ever seen...Clearly, Rove has too
much control over the purse strings." http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/11/11854/biggest-loser-2012-election-karl-rove
It is a sad day when
you have people who are as rich and powerful as these people who are trying to
subvert the democratic process of allowing the choice of the nominee by we, the
people. It is difficult to imagine how all of the voters in all of these
primaries would feel if their choice of the candidate is suddenly thrown out at
the last minute by the establishment. So much more could be done if all of
these resources were allocated in a positive way.
“Instead, Mr. Trump’s challengers are staking their hopes
on a set of guerrilla tactics and long-shot possibilities, racing to line up
mainstream voters and interest groups against his increasingly formidable
campaign. Donors and elected leaders have begun to rouse themselves for the
fight, but perhaps too late….Two of Mr. Trump’s opponents have openly
acknowledged that they may have to wrest the Republican nomination from him in
a deadlocked convention.” http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/us/politics/donald-trump-republican-party.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=3&referer
“GOP leaders are grasping for a last-ditch idea stop Trump
from claiming the nomination, from talking about a contested convention to
discussing whether to rally around a yet-to-be-determined third-party
candidate. All are long shots at best and would likely have the effect of
ripping the Republican Party apart in irreparable ways.” http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/03/rubio_kasich_ponder_whether_th.html
“With a few days before major Republican primaries in
states such as Florida and Ohio, the Republican establishment has turned their
attention to creative ways to defeat conservative businessman Donald J. Trump,
who appears to be unstoppable.
“Now, it’s been confirmed that a major group of
Republican donors and insiders are working hard to convince former Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice (a Republican) to run for President!
“Apparently, the plan is to have her run as an independent.”
http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/bombshell-new-republican-candidate-enter-presidential-race/
There are a lot of
citations in this article; there is a reason for that. You just can’t make this
stuff up! I didn’t want any of my readers to think that I was in a room
somewhere dreaming of alternatives; what I have presented is the reality of
what the Republican establishment is trying to do. In the process they are
showing the citizens of the USA what a fractionated, arrogant, self-serving
bunch of people they are and that they have no identity – all the while
worrying about Trump destroying the “branding” of the party! The establishment
must decide which is more important: electing Donald Trump President or losing
the White House to the Democrats? A Republican third-party candidate, besides
ruining the Republican Party’s chances of winning the election, would destroy
the party. I have one last scenario to present:
“If Trump sweeps Florida and Ohio, he could clinch the
nomination by winning just more than half of the remaining bound delegates
that are in play on Tuesday and afterward, according to scenarios developed by
Josh Putnam, a political science lecturer at the University of Georgia and
blogger at Frontloading HQ….But Trump remains basically the only candidate
who appears likely to get the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination
before the Republican National Convention. Under all four possible
Florida-Ohio scenarios, Cruz would need at least 77 percent of remaining
delegates to clinch the nomination -- a feat that seems unlikely at this time.”
Regardless, as Mr. Kluge says in his previously cited article:
“Perhaps none of this means anything to you, and the movement has left me
behind. If it has, I think conservatives should understand that it is leaving a
lot of people like me behind. I can’t see how that is a good thing.”
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Donald G.
Mutersbaugh, Sr. earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maryland
and his Master of Business Administration degree from Mary Washington College.
He is the former Associate Administrator of Information Resources for the U.S
House of Representatives under Speaker Newt Gingrich.
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