The Arrogance of the Prom King
Just when you think
you’ve heard and seen it all in the Republican campaignathon, along comes prom
king Paul Ryan displaying an arrogance that makes Donald Trump look like the
Dalai Lama by comparison. Millions of American jaws must have dropped in
unison when chameleon Ryan casually told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he’s “just not
ready” to support Trump.
Really? Where
do I even begin to address such a remarkable display of unflinching
arrogance? How about just stating the obvious — that the litmus-test
conservative crowd still doesn’t
get it.
That’s right, hard as
it is to believe, after ten months of watching Trump swat every political fly
who’s annoyed him, the pathetic “Never Trump” crowd really and truly still does
not understand what’s taking place in America.
Specifically, what
they don’t get is that this is a genuine revolution. And it’s not a
revolution about Trump. It’s a revolution about the corruption and
arrogance of the leadership of the Republican Party — and, on a broader scale,
the entire Washington political establishment.
That’s right, it’s
taken eight long and destructive years, but the Republican Party’s base is now
in full revolt against the Ryans, the McConnells, the McCains, the Grahams, et
al. You’d have to be blind, deaf, and stupid — or totally delusional —
not to have figured that out by now. Nevertheless, the guys who have run
things for decades have chosen to stubbornly remain in a state of denial.
They do not understand
that the so-called leadership is not the Republican Party. The Republican
Party is the Republican voters. Had
party leaders been able to do so, they were fully prepared to ignore the will
of their rank-and-file members at the Republican National Convention in July
and use their crooked, self-serving rules to get their way.
Now, since Trump put
Cruz and Kasich on the canvas much earlier than expected, their state of
self-righteous panic has quickly intensified and they’re talking about forming
a third party. LOL.
Would that they would
actually do it, because it would be yet another episode of Road Runner Trump
versus Wile E. Establishment. And, as with the real Road Runner and real
Wile E. Coyote, it’s Wile E. who always end up on the losing end of these
clashes.
There are three
things about which you can be certain if the panicked Republican ex-leadership
actually moves forward with a third party:
1.
It
will give Trump yet another big boost in the polls.
2.
They
will lose badly to Trump in the general election.
3.
They
will forever be persona non grata in the new Republican Party that they once controlled.
Talk about poetic justice.
Who in the hell does
Paul Ryan or any of the other Never-Trump RINOs think they are to proclaim that
Trump will have to prove to them that he’s willing to adopt their platform? Attention all RINO
wusses: Trump steamrollered everyone in the field because he refused to go along with your ideas!
Giving in to the
establishment’s platform would, in fact, be Trump’s first big mistake.
Millions of his supporters, who got on the Trump Train because they agreed with what he was saying, are counting on
him to hang tough.
So, what’s at the
heart of the inability of establishment guys like Bill Kristol, Rich Lowry, and
so many sitting members of the House and Senate to put on their big-boy pants,
suck it up, and concede the fact that their own party’s base has resoundingly
rejected their phony conservative principles?
They would like us to
believe that they’re mad at Trump because he’s not conservative enough, but
that’s total B.S. The truth is that they’re mad because Trump has
threatened their power and easy access to myriad ways of stealing from
taxpayers.
If they want to find
out why they are now on the outside looking in, they need only look in the
mirror. True, Barack Obama deserves the most credit for bringing about
the 2016 revolution against the establishment, but the RINO crowd is a
respectable second by virtue of doing what it does best: enable
Democrats. And, in the process, they have also enabled Obama in his
efforts to destroy what’s left of America.
The establishment
crowd loves to rail on about how important it is for a presidential candidate
to have “core conservative principles,” but which conservative principles are
they talking about?
The kind that have
turned the Middle East into a living hell for millions of innocent people
caught in the crossfire? Or the $500 billion that Ryan personally handed
over to Obama — without even a debate in Congress! — thus putting every
American citizen deeper in debt? Or the refusal to enforce existing law when it comes to illegal immigration?
What establishment
Republicans have discovered, to their disbelief, is that most voters don’t give
a damn about their self-serving conservative principles. And the reason
for their rejection is that these are the very principles that have helped
Obama and his Marxist base destroy America.
Yet Paul Ryan now
insists that Trump must adopt the very principles that the Republican base has
already resoundingly rejected. Give me a break.
In their upcoming
meeting, what Trump needs to say gently to Paul Ryan is: “Screw your
conservative principles!”
Of course, the Never
Trumpers insist that not only is he going to lose badly to Hillary, he will
also take many on the “down ticket” along with him. I find it amazing
that so many otherwise intelligent people believe that Trump can’t win the
general election because today’s polls
have him so far behind Hillary the Horrible … behind with women … behind with
blacks … behind with Latinos. They can’t seem to grasp the fact that the
election is six months away — an eternity even when two normal candidates are
running against one another.
But the fact is that
Trump and Hillary are not normal
candidates. Trump is a problem-solving, job-creating, blue-collar
billionaire with a magnetic, in-your-face personality who is capable of
destroying anyone who’s stupid enough to try to take him on. (Are you
listening Paul?) And Hillary is an incredibly dislikeable serial criminal
who’s on life support with the FBI.
As Democratic strategist Dave Saunders said the other
day, “Trump will beat Hillary like a baby seal.” Saunders went on to say,
“I know a ton of Democrats — male, female, black and white — here [in southern
Virginia] who are going to vote for Trump. It’s all because of economic
reasons. It’s because of his populist message.”
Allow me to
repeat: economic reasons. One of
the least-mentioned facts gleaned from the exit polls in Indiana is that 92
percent of voters said that the economy was their number-one concern.
That’s horrible news
for Hillary the Horrible, because she’s linked herself inextricably to Barack
Obama’s bring-down-America’s policies. (Cutting her some slack, she
probably had no choice, because Obama undoubtedly has the key to her cozy
little prison cell tucked away in his pocket.)
This is why, contrary
to what you’re hearing from the media and scared-to-death Dirty Dems, Trump is
likely to wipe out Hillary’s lead in the polls early in the race, then increase
his own lead rapidly as the public becomes saturated with the criminal deeds and
lies of the Face of Evil. Her trademark response to Trump’s devastating
attacks are likely to be alternate tears and hysterical shrieking as he slaps
her around like … well … like a baby seal.
We are now in a whole
new political universe, and those who don’t adapt to it will be left
behind. Glenn Beck is mentally ill, so he has a legitimate excuse.
But there’s still time for “conservatives” like Bill Kristol, Rich Lowry, and
Mitt Romney to save their reputations if they grow up quickly and start acting like
responsible adults rather than tantrum-throwing children.
Copyright © 2013 Robert Ringer
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