A Commentary By Patrick J. Buchanan in Political CommentaryFacebookTwitterEmail thisShareThis Tuesday,
April 19, 2016
Donald Trump has brought
out the largest crowds in the history of primaries. He has won the most
victories, the most delegates, the most votes. He is poised to sweep three of
the five largest states in the nation -- New York, Pennsylvania and California.
If he does, and the
nomination is taken from him, the Republican Party will be seen by the American
people as a glorified Chinese tong.
Last week, Ted Cruz
swept 34 delegates at the Colorado party convention. Attendees were not allowed
to vote on whom they wanted as the party's nominee. This weekend, Cruz shut out
Trump in Wyoming the same way.
What does this tell
us? Cruz has a better "ground game." His operatives work the system
better. Ted Cruz is the king of small ball.
But having gone
head-to-head in some 30 primaries and caucuses, Cruz has fallen millions of
votes behind Trump, and will fall millions further behind after New York,
Pennsylvania and California.
Cruz will soon join
John Kasich in being mathematically eliminated from winning the nomination on
the first ballot. His fallback strategy is to keep Trump just short of the
1,237 votes needed for victory on the first ballot, and then steal the
nomination on the second.
How? Poaching and
pilfering. In state after state, he is getting Cruz loyalists elected as Trump
delegates. After casting an obligatory vote for Trump on the first ballot, the
turncoats will go over the hill and vote for Cruz on the second ballot.
Faithless delegates
are preparing to switch to give Ted Cruz a nomination that he could not persuade
Republican voters to confer upon him. Like the 1919 World Series, the fix is
in.
The rules are the
rules, says Republican National Chairman Reince Priebus in defense of what went
down in Colorado and Wyoming.
Priebus is correct.
The rules are the rules. But what is also true is that the rules have been and
are being manipulated by party elites to frustrate the expressed will of a
Republican electorate, and to impose a nominee other then the clear winner of
the primaries.
Republican elites are
engaged in a conspiracy to frustrate and overturn the democratic decision of
the Republican electorate.
Prediction: If Trump
sweeps the remaining major primaries, comes to Cleveland with millions more
votes than any other candidate, and then has the nomination stolen from him,
the Grand Old Party will be committing hara-kiri on worldwide TV.
This political race
ranks among the most exciting in American history. Seventeen Republicans
entered the lists last summer in what party officials hailed as "the
strongest Republican field since 1980."
Then Trump came down
the escalator, took them on, and bested them all. Can Republican Party elites
think they will be celebrated if they substitute their wants for the will of
the voters?
A Cruz nomination
would be like taking the gold medal away from the man who won it, and handing
it to a runner-up. The GOP elites would be about as popular as those Olympic
boxing judges in South Korea.
The deeper problem
here is the refusal of party elites to realize that the world has changed.
The Bush dynasty is
done. Jeb Bush, the Prince of Wales, understands this. He will not be going to
Cleveland. The primaries have
starkly revealed that a new era is upon us.
Even the neocons, the
dominant element among the 121 foreign policy experts who declared in an open
letter that they will never work for a President Trump, testify to this.
They see Trump's
victories as a repudiation of their legacy, and a Trump presidency as the end
of their post-Cold War ascendancy.
And given the
disasters they have produced for America, from Afghanistan to Iraq, Libya and
Yemen, the nation would be well rid of them.
Indeed, Trump's
victories, and the energies he has unleashed, are due, not only to his outsized
persona but to his issues.
People believe Trump will
secure the borders, halt the invasion, embrace tariff and trade policies to
reduce imports, and restart the production of goods, Made in the USA, by and
for Americans.
In his first
inaugural, Woodrow Wilson said, "The success of a party means little except
when the Nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose."
Bush Republicans saw
their "large and definite purpose" as creating a "New World
Order" and "ending tyranny in our world."
Trump seems to see
repairing, rebuilding and restoring America to greatness as the "large and
definite purpose" of the party he would lead. And a new emerging
Republican majority seems to agree.
If Trump had been
routed, as first expected, then his message could rightly have been regarded as
outside the mainstream. But Republican voters rallied to the issues he raised.
To either ignore the
clear instructions of its electorate, or renounce their chosen messenger, would
be for the Republican Party to forfeit its future, and cling to a discredited
and dead past.
Patrick J. Buchanan is
the author of the new book "The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose
From Defeat to Create the New Majority." To find out more about Patrick
Buchanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the
Creators website at www.creators.com.
Comments
If Bush
Republicans wanted a “New World Order”, they should all be indicted for treason
starting with Bush I and Bill and Hillary Clinton. If you read UN Agenda 21, you will find that
it creates and ensures tyranny and poverty.
Trump’s
“Movement” is a replay of Reagan’s “Movement”, except that Reagan freed the US
economy from excessive taxation and Trump is introducing “Populism” and wants
to reverse UN Agenda 21 and return to a free market economy to free US
citizens.
We don’t
believe the GOP “Establishment” when they say they don’t want Hillary Clinton
to win. They apparently wanted Obama to
win in 2008 and 2012, so why should we expect them to actually switch Parties
now ? They all vote like Democrats, so
why should we believe them now ?
80% of elected Republicans in the US Congress have Failing scores in Conservative Review.
80% of elected Republicans in the US Congress have Failing scores in Conservative Review.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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