There will be more fights. George Soros’ funded Moveon.org will guarantee it. “Can one imagine how the media would pile on Trump if working-class white males in Trump T-shirts invaded a Hillary Clinton rally and shut it down?” asks Pat Buchanan. Actually, I’d prefer they wear the “Hillary for Prison 2016” T-shirts. Prediction. Given their "victory" in Chicago, MoveOn.org and its allied nasties will try to replicate it, again and again. And as Americans came to despise the '60s radicals, they will come to despise them. And, as in the 1960s, the country will take a turn -- to the … [Read more...]
Illinois and Missouri on March 15th
Florida and Ohio are obviously the big states in tomorrow’s GOP primaries, but let’s not forget about Illinois and Missouri. Both states award delegates on a congressional-district level. If a candidate wins the districts he wins all the delegates. "Together, Missouri and Illinois will award 121 delegates — which would go a long way in helping Trump stay “on track” for the nomination even if he loses either Florida or Ohio,” writes David Wasserman: And so Illinois and Missouri are a big part of the reason Tuesday is such a huge fork in the road. If Trump sweeps Florida, Illinois, Missouri and … [Read more...]
Sea Island and the American Enterprise Institute
"From what has been reported, it would not be extreme to say this was a conspiracy of oligarchs, War Party neocons, and face-card Republicans to reverse the results of the primaries and impose upon the party, against its expressed will, a nominee responsive to the elites’ agenda,” writes Pat Buchanan in “The Sea Island Conspiracy.” He’s talking about the elites who run the show in Washington. And they do it through a tax exempt 501(c)(3) such as the ultra-neocon American Enterprise Institute. Speaker Paul Ryan (pictured to the right), along with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, GOP … [Read more...]
Trump’s Win in Michigan and Rush Limbaugh
You can feel the momentum building for Donald Trump with his win last night in Michigan. I was talking with a client who lives in New Jersey last week and I asked him for the word on the street about Chris Christie’s endorsement of Trump. He said the press was having a fit, and demanding Christie’s resignation. That can’t be much help. But, as a colleague of mine points out, maybe Christie’s endorsement helps in the redder New England states where he’s still popular like New Hampshire and Maine. In Massachusetts, I find it pretty amazing that 20,000 voters shed their party affiliation to … [Read more...]
Detroit Debate Takeaway? Elites are Nuts
My takeaway from last night’s GOP debate? The elites are nuts. They sent out Pitbull Mitt to attack Donald Trump because he’s the biggest threat to “business as usual”. They’re in an uproar about the sophomoric attacks between Donald Trump and “Cruzio”. But what they don’t understand is real America doesn’t care about the elite’s rules anymore. I can tell you from personal experience dealing with some of these “elite” folk that they use some of the foulest language behind and in front of closed doors. And talk about thin skin. Who has laid down this moral mandate? “The Holy Father in Rome?” … [Read more...]
20,000 Mass. Voters Quit Democratic Party
Voter turnout was huge yesterday. In “blue” state Massachusetts, 16,300 Democrats shed their party affiliation to become independent voters. Since Jan. 1, 3,500 more shifted to the Mass GOP. Why? According to Secretary of State William Galvin’s guess, it’s simple: “The Trump phenomenon." “The tenor of the Republican campaign has been completely different from what we’ve seen in prior Republican presidential campaigns,” Galvin said. “You have to look no farther than the viewership for some of the televised debates. “The New York Times referred to the campaign as crude; I suppose that’s fair,” … [Read more...]
Trump Kills Establishment
This is what the end looks like for the establishment wing of the Republican party. The empire building is over as Pat Buchanan declares: Instead, the establishment opted for empire, for expanding old alliances, dumping over regimes, crusading for democracy, sending our soldiers out to remake Third World countries in the image of Iowa and Vermont. Who now thinks all these wars were worth the cost? Whether Trump wins or loses the nomination, the immigration, trade and foreign policies pursued by the elites since the end of the Cold War are dead letters. The nation has declared them to be so … [Read more...]
How Trump Wins the Nomination
Trump was good last night, not great, but good enough to win the debate. To win the Republican nomination he needs 1,237 delegates. Trump will have a total of around 85 with the Nevada allocation. The Golden Four states of California, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey hold 389 delegates. Since 1980, the Republican front-runner has swept the Golden Four to win the nomination. Voting takes place later in the season for the Golden Four (CA-June 6/NY-April 19/PA-April 26/NJ-June 7). If history holds true, then Trump’s magic number to hit, prior to the Golden Four contests, is 848 delegates. … [Read more...]
2016 Foreign Policy Report Cards
The American Conservative asks: Which candidates are most likely to be guided by realism and restraint in foreign policy? See the grades below. Presidents have more latitude in foreign affairs than in domestic policy, and the trend over the past two administrations has been for presidents to be more hawkish than their campaign pledges led voters to expect. George W. Bush promised a “humble foreign policy.” Instead, he gave us the Iraq War. Barack Obama was elected in part to end Bush’s wars. But he too pursued regime change, with Pyrrhic success in Libya and abortively in Syria. These … [Read more...]
Trump's Win-Win
Donald Trump scored another win this weekend, this time in South Carolina. One of the key drivers of the win was his repudiation of globalism and interventionism. Americans are tired of losing their jobs, of wondering if their kids will get jobs, and of seeing their kids fighting futile wars for the elites in Washington. As Pat Buchanan correctly points out: In the GOP nomination race, the chickens of a quarter century of Bush Republicanism have come home to roost. Trump’s triumphs to date are due to his recognition of, and identification with, the Middle American revolt against Bush family … [Read more...]