JUST WILD ABOUT TED…REALLY?
An opinion… like certain bodily orifices (e.g., nose, mouth, ‘etc’), everybody has one. And, of course, your insightful editors at Veritaspac each have one regarding the sudden rush to support Ted Cruz on the part of some of the highest profile GOP Establishment figures. They include Sen. Lindsey Graham and Governor Mitt Romney.
The “stop Trump” strategy worked out by the Washington establishment and the fat cat donor class at their confab at Sea Island, Georgia last week has now become clear with the recent announcements by these two.
Of these two shills, Mitt is just a bit more candid about his new found affection for Senator Cruz: the only realistic way to nominate a Republican other than Donald Trump is “to have an open convention”, Mr. Romney figures. He seems very open about his actual lack of any affection for Cruz and he’s equally frank about his warm regard for John Kasich to be the GOP nominee.
Something just a tad unseemly about Mitt’s position on this matter, but then, the governor’s reputation as a really fair, decent, objective guy is pretty much in tatters now anyway. For all his good qualities, Mitt has pretty much revealed himself as just another disingenuous politician after his anti-Trump tirade a couple of weeks ago.
Mitt should have gone the extra step in his announcement, unspoken but strongly implied, that he really doesn’t like a Cruz candidacy any better than a Trump one, if not even less. For a guy who proved himself for all the world to see that he is way out of his depth in presidential politics, Romney’s support for Senator Cruz in our opinion, is pretty despicable. To promote his strategy, solely for the purpose of stopping Trump so the GOP establishment can again use the system to disregard the will of Republican voters and once again award the nomination to, like himself, another loser, further diminishes his badly tarnished image.
Better for Mitt to leave the national stage. He apparently doesn’t even realize how badly he’s been misused by his fellow Sea Island plotters.
As to the “plotters’, we would ask, “Is this it?” This is your ‘ingenious strategy’? Do you guys really think that us poor schlubs out here don’t see your cynical, dishonest ploy for what it is? To have your highest profile establishment figures who have openly insulted and disparaged the most honorable conservative member of the Senate for months, to suddenly come out to urge the party’s voters to support him so that you can install the likes of a John Kasich or a Paul “crap sandwich” Ryan (even if not one of them in particular) as the nominee.
We’d call this the “To Hell with the Voters’ Will” strategy!
Good luck with that.
Too convoluted a plot? Remember the goal for them is to stop Trump. They understand the only remaining way to do that is to prevent Trump from getting the magic number going into the convention. They see Cruz as the horse to ride for now but remember, for them it is not about Cruz. If it were about Cruz, Mitt would not have campaigned for Kasich in Ohio. Cruz is a horse of convenience to be abandoned at the convention (they think). Our hope is that Cruz takes the win, even if it means using them because they are sure as hell using him for now.
Romney’s statement below is followed by a background article/ analysis from an otherwise “I would walk over hot coals to support Kasich” guy.
“This week, in the Utah nominating caucus, I will vote for Senator Ted Cruz,” Romney wrote on his Facebook page. .
“Today, there is a contest between Trumpism and Republicanism. Through the calculated statements of its leader, Trumpism has become associated with racism, misogyny, bigotry, xenophobia, vulgarity and, most recently, threats and violence. I am repulsed by each and every one of these.
The only path that remains to nominate a Republican rather than Mr. Trump is to have an open convention. At this stage, the only way we can reach an open convention is for Senator Cruz to be successful in as many of the remaining nominating elections as possible.
I like Governor John Kasich. I have campaigned with him. He has a solid record as governor. I would have voted for him in Ohio. But a vote for Governor Kasich in future contests makes it extremely likely that Trumpism would prevail.
I will vote for Senator Cruz and I encourage others to do so as well, so that we can have an open convention and nominate a Republican.”
Paul Mirengoff at Powerline writes: Romney will back Cruz; so should we all
DLH
