Conservative/Tea Partiers who are supporting life long crony leftist Donald Trump to "teach the establishment a lesson" are like the mutinous sailors on the Bounty -- except that these modern mariners have elected to depose the Captain Blighs running the GOP ship by sinking the ship -- in mid-ocean, with all hands aboard.
Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush must be incredibly frustrated by now. Being called a liar by a known liar is bad enough (rather like having Bill Clinton call you a faithless husband), but to have so many believe the liar when he lies about you is intolerable. For all of Trump's screaming that Ted Cruz is a liar, it is striking that he has yet to point out even one actual lie.
(And yes, Donnie Truther, there were WMDs in Iraq. We found them.
I may have to hedge my bets. So far the only campaign donation I've made has been to Ted Cruz. From now on I may be donating to organizations supporting my views, like perhaps CatholicVote or the Susan B Anthony List. If you can't find a candidate you're comfortable supporting, I think this alternative approach may be worthy of your consideration.
It's embarrassing being a Republican sometimes. Every November and December of every presidential election year, I hear and read GOP leaders and allied pundits announcing that next time we can't afford to make the same mistakes that just cost us so dearly this time. Despite the declarations, it is the safest bet in America that the Pachyderm Party will forget their resolutions in plenty of time to blow the next election the same old way. Consider:
After the 2000 primaries, in which John McCain openly urged Democrats to pretend to be Republicans so that they could vote for him to be the nominee, many of us hoped that the GOP leadership would dump open primaries, since obviously (to us, anyway) only Republicans should help select the Republican nominee. 16 years later we're still waiting. I'm glad we weren't holding our breath.
(Democrats, who are more sleazy-smart than we are, are now using their assets to nominate the worst GOP nominee for their candidate to run against. Have you already forgotten Todd Akin?)
Another reform I am wishing for would be the elimination of winner-take-all primaries, in which a candidate who receives a plurality of the vote (a majority is not necessary) receives all of the state's delegates. This silly practice is said to prevent slugfests and backroom deals at our sedate (if not somnolent) conventions. Given that we have lost four of the last six presidential elections, maybe a knock-down drag-out at the convention is what we need. At least it would give people something to watch at our quadrennial Party party. At any rate, this practice usually results is making a very beatable candidate opposed by 60-75% of the party faithful look like an unstoppable force, just before the election stops him (and us).
Can you name one state that has eliminated winner-take-all primaries? Me, either.
After 2012's election I remember a veritable chorus of pols and pundits declaring that we must never again have so many GOP debates, in which our candidates would make each other look like villains and dunces. We certainly won't book so many debates on hostile networks, since their immoderators would vie with each other to make every Republican look like he belongs in an asylum or a prison. (He or she, actually, since Sarah Palin and Carly Fiorina certainly haven't received favorable treatment from the MLM*)
The more things change,...
Of course, some of the pundits haven't been much better. Ann Coulter was just one of many conservatives scribblers to insist that we HAD to nominate a governor or "at least a Senator" this time around. We started this process with several fine governors and senators (current and former) in the running, including Bobby Jindal and (my first choice) public union tamer Scott Walker of Wisconsin, Then Donny Sue Trump entered the race, and the smartest girl in school fell in love with another troglodyte.
There are others. Radio host Jim Quinn spent 3+ years insisting that the perfectly capable Mitt Romney had lost the election because he didn't inspire confidence in the "conservative base", and now he's plainly supporting the Megyn Kelly fearing Trump, who makes Romney look like Barry Goldwater.
Ditto self-hating Catholic Sean Hannity, who all but called for the crucifixtion of Pope Francis for daring to slander the prophet of Sean Hannity.
Yessir, it's my party and I'll cry if I want to.
* Media Lynch Mob
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Thursday, December 4, 2014
A Tale of Two Media Conservatives
12/4/2014
Not all conservative media members are rock-ribbed. The phrase "rock-ribbed Republican" has an old and venerable history. Like the accursed term RINO, it is over-used. Ferguson is one of those topics that helps you winnow the RRRs from the squishier sorts.
Leading the RRRs - no surprise here - is the Crab's favorite multimedia conservative, Ann Coulter. Her column of November 26 is a classic. She is righteously outraged that there even was a grand jury. Officer Darren Wilson, a good officer with a clean record, was forced to fire his weapon after a size XXL thug named Michael Brown slammed his cruiser car door shut on him and then tried to grab the officer's gun. After a sequence of events available in numerous places on the Web, XXL Brown charged at Officer Wilson (with his hand under his waistline, where one might stash a gun), and Wilson fired the shots that killed him. All of the forensic evidence supported Wilson's narrative of events. The credible eyewitnesses of the encounter (meaning the ones who weren't provably lying) supported him as well. Or, as Ann Coulter put it:
There's nothing to protest! A cop shot a thug who was trying to kill him. The grand jury documents make perfectly clear that Big Mike was entirely responsible for his own death. Can't the peaceful protesters read?
Ann is a role model for the Hermit Crab, since she speaks the clear truth without fear. She defends Joseph McCarthy (as do I), derides the fraud called Darwinism (read her book Godless), reminds her readers that Richard Nixon had in fact won the war in Viet Nam (a victory throw away by the Democrats), and most usefully for this discussion, she authored the invaluable book Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama. Anyone who read Mugged was unsurprised by the events that followed Michael Brown's death by misadventure.
To call Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online the anti-Coulter is a bit harsh, but his column of November 27 was in my view harmful, in that he seemed to disavow the riots in Ferguson while nearly endorsing them across the rest of the country. By stating that the hostility and distrust of many members of minority communities have legitimate concerns, he nearly endorses all of the steps that followed the incident - steps including rioting, arson, assault, and even murder.
It is my contention that there are in fact few areas left in the United States in which white police bully and abuse blacks because of their skin color. The days of Bull Connor and his like are over. For a police chief or sheriff in any state of the union to allow racial bias in their departments would be political suicide, and the end would come quickly.
In this year 2014, the most dangerous racists holding public office are President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder.
Not all conservative media members are rock-ribbed. The phrase "rock-ribbed Republican" has an old and venerable history. Like the accursed term RINO, it is over-used. Ferguson is one of those topics that helps you winnow the RRRs from the squishier sorts.
Leading the RRRs - no surprise here - is the Crab's favorite multimedia conservative, Ann Coulter. Her column of November 26 is a classic. She is righteously outraged that there even was a grand jury. Officer Darren Wilson, a good officer with a clean record, was forced to fire his weapon after a size XXL thug named Michael Brown slammed his cruiser car door shut on him and then tried to grab the officer's gun. After a sequence of events available in numerous places on the Web, XXL Brown charged at Officer Wilson (with his hand under his waistline, where one might stash a gun), and Wilson fired the shots that killed him. All of the forensic evidence supported Wilson's narrative of events. The credible eyewitnesses of the encounter (meaning the ones who weren't provably lying) supported him as well. Or, as Ann Coulter put it:
There's nothing to protest! A cop shot a thug who was trying to kill him. The grand jury documents make perfectly clear that Big Mike was entirely responsible for his own death. Can't the peaceful protesters read?
Ann is a role model for the Hermit Crab, since she speaks the clear truth without fear. She defends Joseph McCarthy (as do I), derides the fraud called Darwinism (read her book Godless), reminds her readers that Richard Nixon had in fact won the war in Viet Nam (a victory throw away by the Democrats), and most usefully for this discussion, she authored the invaluable book Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama. Anyone who read Mugged was unsurprised by the events that followed Michael Brown's death by misadventure.
To call Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online the anti-Coulter is a bit harsh, but his column of November 27 was in my view harmful, in that he seemed to disavow the riots in Ferguson while nearly endorsing them across the rest of the country. By stating that the hostility and distrust of many members of minority communities have legitimate concerns, he nearly endorses all of the steps that followed the incident - steps including rioting, arson, assault, and even murder.
It is my contention that there are in fact few areas left in the United States in which white police bully and abuse blacks because of their skin color. The days of Bull Connor and his like are over. For a police chief or sheriff in any state of the union to allow racial bias in their departments would be political suicide, and the end would come quickly.
In this year 2014, the most dangerous racists holding public office are President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder.
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