Category: Politics

On Thursday, Mitt Romney came out with a public condemnation of Donald Trump in an effort to stop him from winning the GOP nomination.

This is the same man during the 2012 presidential campaign who publicly badmouthed 47% of the American electorate and dismissed them as useless parasites who did not pay taxes, who lived off the government, supported Obama and would never vote for him-Romney. So basically, they should be dismissed as garbage.

Ironically, of these very same 47% of the population, many of whom hard-working average Americans, are millions of Americans supporting the candidacy of Donald Trump. These very same Americans believe that the political and financial elites of America- the Clintons and the Romneys, and their wealthy Wall Street and Silicon Valley supporters, have abandoned these people. Accordingly, they are attracted to Trump who rails against these elites.

For the GOP establishment and Trump’s opponents to look to Romney for salvation, is the height of political stupidity and folly.

Here is what Romney said about 47% of Americans in the last election.

“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what… These are people who pay no income tax…”[M]y job is is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”

Note when Romney was confronted with the tape and video of this incredibly stupid public statement, Romney first denied its existence, then misstated it, then claimed it was taken out of context. He never apologized or took personal responsibility for this YUGE political blunder.

Mr. Romney should have shown this spirit and toughness, four years ago, when he was competing against Obama for the presidency.

Romney is not only a few months late in this 2016 campaign, he is several years too late in showing some backbone.

Time to return to Utah, Mr. Romney and the dustbin of history. You are a two time loser. And if you thought you were so superior to Trump, why didn’t you have the guts to compete with him in this presidential campaign instead of taking futile shots from the peanut gallery?

I just love watching these stuffed shirt pundits, be they liberals or conservatives make utter asses of themselves. So-called conservative pundit David Brooks of the New York Times embarrassed himself and his newspaper on national television on PBS last night during Super Tuesday.

The numbers do not lie. Trump won eight major states decisively from Massachusetts and Vermont to Virginia and then Alabama and Arkansas. He was a solid second in Texas, Cruz’s home state and Oklahoma, neighbor to Texas. And in Alaska, he came in a very strong second. Trump only badly lost in Minnesota, coming in third to Rubio’s only win.

But Trump’s popular support was overwhelming.

Chuck Todd on NBC and Amy Walters on PBS, analyzed the numbers and both concluded Trump is bringing out huge numbers of Republicans in larger numbers than in previous primaries. Trump is appealing to all demographics. They both concluded that he is the change candidate. And he is swamping Hillary in overall appeal.

Trump will be the GOP nominee.

Yet pundits like Brooks just can’t bring himself to admit this. In the face of cold-hearted facts and numbers.

Brooks is hoping against hope the GOP leaders and the officials will rally around some one anti-Trump.

But Cruz shot his bolt on Super Tuesday. He does not have strong support outside the conservative evangelical south.

And Rubio, is a pathetic lightweight. He has come in third in all these states except he did win Minnesota. Woopeedoo!

Rubio is done and I predict that Rubio will lose to Trump in Florida. That will be Rubio’s Waterloo as well as the Waterloo for all GOP leaders who are deluding themselves into thinking they can stop Trump and his widespread and overwhelming popular appeal.

The more the GOP leaders talk about trying to stop the populist Trump with his huge popular support, the stupider and more out of touch they look like. Trump has made them into political idiots, as he has made just about every liberal and conservative pundit.

I read all these left wing and right wing pundits. From Remmick of the New Yorker to Brooks of the NY Times to Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post and my Harvard classmate Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard. All these pundits have put their ideology ahead of clear and objective analysis. They are also the big losers in this Trump-dominated election.

I love the smell of conservative and liberal ideological blindness and ignorance in the morning. Especially, so-called pundits as David Brooks, whose ideological blinders have blinded him to the Trump train that is running over his reputation and the reputation of all those other so-called pundits and experts.

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Poor Marco Rubio. Just when he thought he got his mojo back, after landing a few solid blows against Trump in the last debate- Robotic Rubio is blindsided by none other then, the Jersey brawler, New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie, who came out swinging for his new BFF, the twice-divorced Trumpster.

Christie’s endorsement is Yuge, with a capital Y, baby.

Christie, as former presidential candidate, is part of the Republican establishment who is leaping aboard the Trump Super Train, hurtling out of the station, bound for overwhelming victory in the southern states on Super Tuesday.

According to Christie, he threw his support behind Trump because he viewed Trump as a strong leader, who alone could take on the probable Democratic nominee, Hellfire Hillary Clinton, the Arkansas Krusher .

As Christie astutely noted, the Clintons don’t want to see the Trumpster in the ring, the Clintons “do not know the playbook of Donald Trump because he is rewriting the playbook”

That’s right, folks. Trump has thrown this whole presidential race- topsy, turvy.

Conventional wisdom was that in order to win in these complicated Republican primaries, a candidate needed thousands of volunteers in the trenches, identifying and getting out the vote, known as a ground game.

Also in the past, successful candidates required the support of local Republican big wigs and grand poobahs.

And tons and tons of moolah from special interests, to make huge negative advertising buys.

Trump had neither a ground game nor the support of local GOP notables. Also Trump’s campaign is mostly self-financed, so he does not owe any filthy special interest groups.

Nonetheless, Trump smoked the competition in the New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries and he is going to run roughshod over his opponents in the southern conservative states on Super Tuesday.

Because The Donald has become the master of the traditional media- tv, news papers, public debates and the social media- Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Also his anti-establishment message is resonating with young and old, male and female, white and of color, blue collar workers, professionals and biz people.

Accordingly, Republican majority leader McCarthy from California is on side together with a growing number of no-name Congressional Republicans.

Even Nikki Haley, Republican Governor of South Carolina, and public supporter of Rubio, has publicly admitted that if The Donald is elected the Republican nominee, she will be able to work with Trump.

And therein lies Trump’s trump card. Winning. In politics winning is everything. Poor Marco Rubio doesn’t get it. He is still coming across as weak, wet behind the ears, frightened and clueless little Bambi, caught in Trump’s onrushing headlights.

Rubio’s latest fallback position is that even if The Donald wins the nomination, Republicans will not vote for him.

Basically, Rubio is saying, that I may be a loser, but I am a preferred loser. So vote for me anyways. What Rubio is- is a pathetic pol with no political instincts and no spine.

Of course, Republicans will vote for Trump in the general election. I predict in greater numbers than they voted for the boring and uninspiring Mitt Romney, during the last presidential rodeo.

Republicans like Democrats are in politics to win. Not to hand over victory to their arch enemy, in this case, the hated Clintons- without a fight.

Remember, Republicans are mad as hell at the Obama Democrats. They do not want a white female clone of Obama, in the guise of the Hillary.

What I also find yugely amusing is the juvenile responses of the reps from the loser campaigns to Christie’s endorsement of Trump.

“Tim Miller, Jeb Bush’s former spokesman, lit up Twitter with cutting comments. “Like Trump, Chris Christie is a pathetic, corrupt man with a tiny ego. I’m sure they bonded discussing their insecurities over a big meal,” he tweeted.

Bush strategist David Kochel also laced into Christie. “New lesson kids: sometimes, the best option for the fat kid is to just hand his lunch money over to the bully! #TrumpChristie2016,” he said on Twitter.”

Recall Miller and Kochel were part of the Jeb Bush campaign brain trust that blew through $130 million with nothing to show for all that hard-earned American cheddar. Nada. Zero. Gunish.

These two so-called political pros were part of the most expensive and worst campaign in primary history. They were part of a political debacle of Titanic proportions.

If I was either one of those bozos, I would be hiding my head in shame, probably on some obscure beach in Ibiza. The last thing I would be opining on- would be the political acumen of any politician.

But these old political hacks, are typical of their candidate. A pathetic, sore and clueless loser. Who had no business playing with the big boys and girls.

I predict when the Hillary comes up against the hard-charging and disruptive Trump juggernaut, she too will suffer the same political fate as the sorry Jeb Bush.