Friday, September 4, 2015

The Beginning of the End for Trump? The Donald Signs RNC Loyalty Pledge


Hated insurgent Donald Trump has finally bowed to pressure and signed off on the Stalinist loyalty oath concocted by the Republican party establishment. The pledge was delivered to him by RNC boss Reince Priebus who was under mounting pressure by the big money donors to bring the bombastic billionaire outsider to heel. How the pledge will affect the Donald’s lead in the polls and whether it will give the green light for the entire stable of establishment candidates to go for his throat has yet to be seen. However, to those who ardently supported him due to his independent status, the agreement to not run as a third-party candidate and support the nominee – effectively surrendering his leverage –there has to be more than a bit of a feeling of betrayal.

Trump’s acceptance of the new rules of engagement are reported by CNN in the story “Donald Trump signs RNC loyalty pledge”:

Donald Trump has signed the pledge.

The Republican presidential front-runner met privately with Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus Thursday afternoon, and soon after, came out to the lobby of Trump Tower to declare that he has signed a loyalty pledge. This means Trump has promised to support the party's eventual nominee -- whoever that may be -- and that he will not run as a third-party candidate.

"The best way for the Republicans to win is if I win the nomination and go directly against whoever they happen to put up. And for that reason, I have signed the pledge," Trump said, holding up the paper. "So I will be totally pledging my allegiance to the Republican Party and for the conservative principles for which it stands."
He added: "We will go out and fight hard, and we will win."

All 17 Republican presidential candidates have now pledged to support the GOP's eventual presidential nominee, Priebus announced Thursday evening in a statement, billing it as a sign of "party unity."

But if Trump's official declaration of allegiance to the party serves to calm the nerves of establishment Republicans -- at least for now -- it could also invite backlash from some of the bombastic candidate's die-hard supporters.

Trump has propelled himself to the top of the polls by casting himself as an anti-establishment, outsider candidate, railing against career politicians and the Washington political class.

Signing an RNC pledge complicates that image.

The enthusiasm that Trump brought to a large segment of the party base struck mortal terror into the hearts of Priebus and the elite who much like the Democrats with Queen Hillary had already decided on their 2016 standard bearer “Jeb!”. Now a lot of those folks are naturally going to feel that they have been sold out again with the memory of the Boehner-McConnell backstabbing of November 2014 still fresh in their minds. While the Trump public relations team talked it up as a victory it may soon prove to the moment when the wave crested and then began to recede as the establishment has reasserted control over the process.

Thursday, September 3, 2015

I Pledge Allegiance to Jeb!: RNC to Introduce Loyalty Oath to Address Trump Problem


The Republican National Committee, under increasing pressure from the big money donors has now apparently decided to confront the Trump problem head on. According to multiple media sources the party power brokers have decided to implement a loyalty oath to be taken by every one of the seventeen candidates to swear to not mount an independent bid and to essentially pledge allegiance to Jeb!. The oath is the most serious effort yet to sink the renegade campaign of billionaire Donald Trump and get on with the business of forcing the Bush restoration down the throats of voters.


The GOP is taking its most aggressive step yet to force Donald Trump's hand.

The Republican National Committee on Wednesday privately reached out to GOP presidential candidates to ask whether they’d be willing to sign a pledge stating they would not run as an independent candidate in the event they fail to win the Republican nomination in 2016.

The move is an implicit challenge to Trump, who pointedly refused to rule out a third-party run during the first GOP debate. He was the only candidate who declined.
The language of the draft pledge speaks directly to the issue vexing Republicans – the possibility that the billionaire could choose to wage a third party bid if he fails to win the GOP nomination, a prospect that could seriously damage the GOP’s prospects of reclaiming the White House. Tapping into deep anti-establishment animosity among the conservative grassroots, Trump has surged to the lead of the deepest presidential field in recent memory. If Trump were to pull just a fraction of the vote as an independent, write-in or third party candidate, it could be enough to sink the eventual Republican nominee.

“I [name] affirm that if I do not win the 2016 Republican nomination for president of the United States I will endorse the 2016 Republican presidential nominee regardless of who it is,” the pledge reads. “I further pledge that I will not seek to run as an independent or write-in candidate nor will I seek or accept the nomination for president of any other party.”

It is a damning indictment of our already dysfunctional democracy when it has come to the establishment demanding loyalty oaths to prevent any serious outsider from challenging the existing racket. According to some sources, Trump will agree to the demands of RNC boss Reince Priebus and the paymasters which would represent an enormous tactical blunder on his part. He may be leading the pack now, but signing off on such a deal would make it far easier for him to be Bushwhacked. There is an old saying that one should never give an enemy the knife that they will use to cut your throat with and by taking the pledge the Donald is doing exactly that.

Trump to Jeb!: If You’re In America Speak English


Responding to jellyfish Jeb! who has gone all negative this week and who blasted him to an adoring Miami audience en espaƱol, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump had a simple message: if you are in America you should be speaking English. While the establishment continues to bemoan the sullying of their entitled golden boy who represents the Bush restoration by a vulgarian the likes of Trump, El Jebbo is testing Newton’s law of gravity with his free fall in the polls. Perhaps his castigating of the Donald to a crowd peppered with those who are sympathetic to illegal aliens makes him feel like a man but he will continue to be flogged like a dog with mange by the insurgent billionaire.

Trump’s counterattack came during an exclusive interview with the conservative website Breitbart News and is detailed in the story “Donald Trump Fires Back at Jeb Bush: He Should Lead by ‘Speaking English’ While in the United States” from which I excerpt the following:

2016 Republican frontrunner Donald Trump told Breitbart News that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush should be speaking English—not the Spanish he spoke to attack Trump in Miami this week—on the campaign trail.

Trump had harsh words for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) in this interview as well and lit into the donor class, all while saying that the “silent majority” in America is waking up and fighting to take back the country from the political class.

Trump also predicted that he will not only win the White House in 2016, but that he will be re-elected in 2020–predicting he will be a two-term president–and that at the end of his eventual eight years in the White House he will be known to all as a “great conservative” just like Ronald Reagan.

“I like Jeb,” Trump said. “He’s a nice man. But he should really set the example by speaking English while in the United States.”

Trump continues to pummel the former Sunshine State Governor who may be a “nice man” but he lacks the cojones of his older brother who could fuck up a two car funeral but never came across as a eunuch. It is pretty damned obvious that Columba is the one who wears the pants in the John Ellis Bush hacienda. Trump however saved some of his sharpest rhetoric for the neocon’s favorite cabana boy Marco Rubio who he referred to as “Jeb’s plebe”.
According to the Breitbart interview Trump said of ‘Lil Ricky:

If Marco thinks that the country is great now, he’ll never be elected president because it’s not what it was and it’s not great enough—and we will make the country great again,” Trump said. “But if Marco is satisfied—I like Marco, but that means he’s satisfied. You can’t be satisfied [with where the country is now]. You have to use the word ‘again.’ It’s very important, because if he’s saying that, then that means there’s no room for improvement. That means he’s satisfied, that means he’s unelectable.”

Trump thinks that no matter who the establishment puts forward as the donor class candidate—whether it be Bush, or if Bush continues failing then Rubio, or Ohio Gov. John Kasich, for instance—that “they are all controlled” by the paymasters funding their campaigns.

They are controlling the politicians—and I used to be one of those people, at the highest level, I was one of them,” Trump said. “Nobody knows the game better than I do. I think part of the reason I’m resonating with the public is that I don’t want money. I feel oftentimes foolish when people want to give me millions and millions of dollars that I’m turning them down. I feel foolish. I just hope the public appreciates what I’m doing.”

Trump said that the donor class paymasters who he says are controlling the politicians like Bush and Rubio “are looking to benefit themselves or their company, whereas I’m looking only to benefit the people of the United States.”

While giving both the master and the plebe a deserved thumping, it is Trump’s comments about the big donors who are the “paymasters” bankrolling the dynamic duo from Florida that should resonate. The high-rollers and wheeler-dealers who shovel money into the coffers of career politicians who have the morals of pederasts, whores and used car salesmen are going to want favors once their candidates get elected. Trump understands this because he was one of the guys shelling out the dough before he decided to run for the presidency.

It is a big reason why many Americans are snatching up pitchforks and joining the Trump revolution, they are sick of being dicked over by the professional liars and flim-flam men who lie to them every election cycle and then sell them out once the votes have been counted. Mr. Trump isn’t beholden to the “paymasters” which is why they are getting ready to go to war with him in September although with a feckless pussy like Jeb! leading the charge they stand a good chance of being slaughtered on the beach.

Bandito Bush Attacks El Diablo Donald Trump En Espanol


Looking to prove that he isn’t a spineless, whishy-washy marshmallow candidate, John Ellis Bush aka “Jeb!” has gone into attack mode against Donald Trump. Following the launching of a new negative advertising campaign, Bush V.3 made an appearance in heavily Hispanic Miami where he tore into the Donald en espaƱol. The big donors were getting restive about the inability of Jeb! to be running away with the Republican race despite his famous family brand name and must have put the cattle prod to his ass because he is now in full attack mode. When it comes to pandering to Latinos Bush has no peer with the exception of neocon favorite Marco Rubio, and he was preaching to the choir at the La Progresiva Presbyterian School on Tuesday.

As reported by the Washington Post in the story “Jeb Bush slams Donald Trump in Spanish over his ‘barbarities’”:

Jeb Bush is "en el ataque."

That's Spanish for "on the attack" -- and the former Florida governor certainly is, as he confronted and mocked businessman Donald Trump in English and Spanish on Tuesday.

Trump now enjoys a commanding lead over rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, while recent polls suggest that Bush is on a precipitous decline in Iowa -- where he sits in the single digits -- and in New Hampshire. A Granite State poll released on Tuesday showed Bush slipping into the single digits there for the first time.

The Bush campaign released a new 80-second Web video on Tuesday that strings together clips from interviews Trump has done over several decades that show him praising Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton and voicing support for abortion rights, tax increases on wealthy Americans and the 2009 economic stimulus program.

After a town hall meeting at a Presbyterian school here, Bush explained his decision to go on the offensive, using explanations he's voiced before in English. But in Spanish, in response to questions from Spanish-speaking reporters, his tone and choice of words was sharper.

"He attacks me every day. He attacks me every day with barbarities," Bush said in Spanish in response to a question. "They’re not true. What we did today was to put out in his words to show that he’s not conservative. He supports people like Nancy Pelosi. He’s given money to Hillary Clinton. He was a Democrat longer than Republican. He’s said that he’s more comfortable being a Democrat. He doesn’t have a record, because he hasn’t been a person who has served like me, who served for eight years as governor. He’s not a conservative. That’s my point."

"He’s not conservative. He doesn’t have a career that you could say is conservative," Bush said later in Spanish.

But El Busho is hardly a “conservative” either. Rather he is just one more RINO who has hijacked the word conservatism as a vehicle for his own political ambitions and when it really comes down to it, the only substantive difference between himself and Hillary is a set of cojones. 

The Republican establishment seems to have settled on attacking Trump as not being a conservative and putting together clips of past statements to show that he is more closely aligned with Nancy Pelosi than Ronald Reagan. This is very hazardous because people do evolve in their views, hell Reagan himself was once a Democrat and even campaigned for Harry Truman and trashed Republicans. Focusing too much on Trump's past statements could not only alienate his supporters and force him into running as an independent but could ultimately attract those Democrats who would rather drink turpentine than line up behind Mrs. Clinton. It is playing with fire or as Jeb! would put it mucho caliente.

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Whining Pays: Rules Changed for Fiorina to Make Debate as Knives are Out for Trump


Former Hewlett Packard CEO turned presidential candidate Carly Fiorina has successfully forced a rule change in order to qualify for the big stage for the upcoming Republican debate. Fiorina’s triumph is the result of her “going to war” with the RNC as well as the need for an establishment hellbent at destroying runaway leader Donald Trump on the stage in two weeks. It’s sad to say but CNN and the RNC have been bullied into using some of that affirmative action that most conservatives are vehemently opposed to and other than her ugly public whining campaign it was ultimately her vagina that facilitated the backtracking. 

Once the millions of dollars of anti-Donald advertising are launched into the airwaves like toxic sewage into a pristine body of water, it is incumbent upon those on stage to brutally pummel Trump in front of a huge national television audience. Carly will bring the misogyny club and will wield it like an avenging Valkyrie in order to bludgeon the billionaire outsider.
Politico reports on the flip-flop to accommodate Ms. Fiorina in the story “CNN changes debate criteria, clearing path for Fiorina”:

CNN announced on Tuesday that it has changed the criteria for its upcoming debate, making space for Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina on the primetime stage.

Fiorina had argued for weeks that CNN's debate criteria unfairly weighted early field leaders over contenders like her who have polled better since the Fox News debate on Aug. 6.

According to CNN, any candidate who ranks in the top 10 between Aug. 6 and Sept. 10 will be included in the primetime debate on Sept. 16. Also allowed in the main show will be candidates who scored in the top 10 averages of all approved national polls between July 16 and Sept. 10, as the original criteria released in May stated. This means it is possible there will be more than 10 candidates on the primetime debate stage.

The new approach allows the network to avoid looking like it's favoring Fiorina at the expense of candidates such as Chris Christie and Rand Paul who would have been at risk of getting bumped to the earlier debate if CNN had more heavily weighted later polls, as Fiorina had suggested.

Still, CNN warned in an announcement that final podium placements won't be known until Sept. 10, after all national polls have come in.

"In the event that any candidate is polling in the top 10 in an average of approved national polls released between August 7th and September 10th, we will add those candidates to our top tier debate, even if those candidates did not poll in the top 10 in an average of approved national polls between July 16th and September 10th," CNN said in a statement. "We have discussed these changes with the Republican National Committee and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, and they are fully supportive."

The horse-faced Fiorina was regaled by the mercenary media after her ‘winning’ of the “kid’s table” debate in Cleveland last month and has been a strident critic of Mr. Trump. While it is debatable as to whether being able to out talk six stammering stumblebums is really winning, her public relations team has worked hard to float the idea that she is a legitimate candidate for the presidency. 

The establishment is going to do everything in their power to turn the next debate into Trump’s Waterloo so changing the rules in the middle of the game isn’t even an issue. It should be one hell of a show though because Jeb! is blasting Trump in Spanish and Chris Christie has vowed to “go nuclear” onstage so be sure to have plenty of popcorn on hand for what will be an exercise in the same incivility that the establishment selectively decries.

Will Mitt Romney Ride In On a White Horse to Save GOP from Trump?


You just had to know that Mitt Romney wasn’t going to just piss off and go away gracefully. He didn’t just slink off into the sunset to a life of political exile and great material wealth after snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in the 2012 election and when he announced that he wasn’t running this time around it was hard to take him seriously. Now, just like that recurrent case of incurable herpes that can never be vanquished, the Mittster may be getting ready to re-enter the scene as the man on the white horse who will rescue the GOP establishment from the hated Donald Trump. There are reports that the deep-pocketed donors are less than thrilled with the current field and are practically down on their knees begging God that Romney will reconsider and carry the day since it is getting pretty clear that Jeb! is in way over his head.

Romney is said to be appalled at how Trump has rocketed to the lead in polls and like the typical elitist snob, thinks that the Donald is uncouth and unsuitable as the GOP nominee. According to a story from New York Magazine entitled “Romney Is Horrified by Trump — and That’s Restarting ‘Mitt 2016’ Talk”:

As Donald Trump continues to dominate the Republican presidential race, frustration and panic have become high enough to make some inside the party Establishment pine for a candidate they roundly rejected as recently as January: Mitt Romney. Romney himself has become one of Trump’s most vocal detractors inside the party. “He’s someone to whom civility means a lot. The whole Trump thing really bothers him,” a close Romney adviser told me — and some Romney-ites are only too happy to talk up the prospect of their man jumping into the race if the Establishment fails to stop Trump, whose support in Iowa and New Hampshire is currently greater than Jeb Bush's, Scott Walker's, Marco Rubio's, Chris Christie's, and John Kasich's combined.

“Mitt wants to run. He never stopped wanting to run,” a senior member of his 2012 team told me. Other Romney-ites, watching this cycle’s candidates falling short, feel a sense of vindication after all the attacks they endured after Romney's failed 2012 bid. "These guys like Walker and Perry, they were big deals in their states, but you get them onto the national stage and it's a different story," a former Romney adviser told me. "It's like they were in middle school, and now they're freshmen in high school and they're getting their faces slammed in the toilets."

Mitt is either an egomaniac or a lunatic who believes that he is the chosen one to fulfill the Mormon “White Horse Prophecy” but the man is driven by something. The establishment is going to spend millions of dollars in a shock and awe barrage of negative advertising against Trump in September in the hope that something can finally stop him even though he has survived several concerted attempts to take him down already. If the September media onslaught fails to mortally wound Trump and voters don’t start to warm up to John Ellis Bush, then Romney may be just the man to take on the varmint. 

It would almost be like a real life version of Clint Eastwood’s “Pale Rider” with Mitt as hired gun Marshal Stockburn being brought in to solve a problem for the wealthy town boss and anyone who saw the movie knows how well that turned out.

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Establishment Jubilant as Ben Carson Ties Trump in Monmouth University Poll


The anti-Trump coalition finally has that one poll that they have been longing for where the Donald is not leading the GOP pack. They were likely exchanging high fives and fist bumping at RNC headquarters over the results of the Monmouth University poll that showed retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson - a favorite of Evangelical Christians - has tied the meddlesome billionaire outsider at 23 percent in the critical state of Iowa. The Monmouth poll will be flogged relentlessly by a mercenary media that is getting their marching orders and preparing to go all in on that post-Labor Day negative advertising onslaught that the establishment is hoping will finally slay Trumpzilla.


For the first time in more than a month, mogul Donald Trump is not leading the field in one of the first four nominating states in the Republican primary, according to a new poll.

Neurosurgeon Ben Carson has surged up in the pack to tie Trump in Iowa, Monmouth University found in a poll out Monday.

Trump and Carson are tied at 23%, according to the survey, making it the first time since July 26 that a poll in the first four states to select a Republican nominee did not find Trump substantially ahead of all other candidates.

Farther behind Trump and Carson were former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, at 10%; Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, at 9%; Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, at 7%; former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, at 5%; Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, each at 4%; Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, at 3%; and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, at 2%. No other candidates topped 1%.

The downside of the Monmouth U. poll is that golden boy Jeb! (aka John Ellis Bush) is pulling a horrid 5 percent and the neocon stooge Marco Rubio is at 4 percent. Despite the fact that Carson isn’t exactly the preferred choice of the elite he will be more malleable than Trump could ever be. If it can be pulled off and the token black candidate Carson can be pumped up and sold as the anti-establishment candidate, then he could easily be taken down by the pro-Bush forces because nice guys finish last. Swapping out Ben Carson for Trump as the choice of the conservative base is essentially a bait and switch and is a testament to how little esteem that the establishment snobs have for the intelligence of voters who they feel can be easily hornswoggled like they were last November.

But if anything has been established it is that Trump is extremely resilient and the coming blitzkrieg may just backfire and do so in a spectacular manner. Despite his being despised by the GOP leadership and the big money donors, he would hammer a wounded Hillary Clinton in the general election. That doesn’t seem to matter to the big shots and the thousands of operatives whose livelihoods depend on a squishy moderate getting the nomination. They would rather expend their energy trying to kneecap Trump and damn the collateral damage to the ultimate goal of a Republican taking up residence in the White House come January 2017. If the September media bombardment fails then the establishment may just try to pull a Mitt Romney out of their hat as a last ditch effort to keep the rabble from taking over their process.

Rand Paul Promises to Shut Down NSA Data Center if Elected President


Desperately trying to remain relevant as he sinks in the polls, the amazing shrinking candidate Rand Paul has vowed to close down that massive NSA data storage center in Utah if he becomes president. Paul has proven to be an enormous disappointment to many who saw in him someone who would take a stand to restore our lost civil liberties and reign in the American Stasi and the surveillance of millions of law-abiding Americans. At this point it is hard to believe anything that comes out of Senator Paul’s mouth because he has spent all of his once bountiful political capital by flip-flopping, compromising and engaging in acts of Clintonian triangulation to the point where it is hard to tell where he stands on anything anymore.

Paul’s comments were reported by the website The Inquisitr in the story “Rand Paul Promises to Shut Down NSA Data Center if He Becomes President”:

Republican Senator Rand Paul has been one of the few vocal critics of the U.S. government’s spying programs. He’s the only presidential candidate that has made NSA spying a central topic of their campaign.

NSA spying is so important to Rand that he’s promised to shut down the NSA data center if he becomes president. After he stops the indiscriminate collection of Americans’ data, he’ll convert the data center into a “Constitutional Center” where the Fourth Amendment will be studied.

“I’m on my way to the airport, but we decided to stop by the NSA facility in Utah. When I become President, we’ll convert it into a Constitutional Center to study the Fourth Amendment! Bulk data collection must end!”

Questions of whether the spying programs were unconstitutional have been swirling since 2013 when Edward Snowden made details about the programs public. Snowden is the NSA contractor who copied large amounts of classified documents onto a thumbdrive and leaked the information to journalists.

For those that are bothered by the NSA spying programs, Paul seems to be the only candidate that would work to stop it. For the Senator, it’s a major problem that affects virtually all Americans.

Last year, Paul filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration over the bulk collection of Americans’ phone records. Paul hoped that his class-action lawsuit would bring the issue of bulk collection of phone records to the Supreme Court.

Paul also staged a filibuster to delay the renewing of the Patriot Act, which authorizes bulk data collection. He was only partially successful in his efforts. While Congress decided to let the Patriot Act expire, they replaced it will a very similar bill. The new bill, the USA Freedom Act, put a few more restrictions on how the government conducts its spying.

The federal government's snooping on Americans is indeed a travesty and a clear violation of the Fourth Amendment but it isn’t going away – especially after a federal appeals court just put the kibosh on a lawsuit brought against it's illegal spying on a technicality. The game is rigged and when it comes to controlling the NSA the horse has long since run off and it’s too late to close the barn door now. 

Talk is cheap, especially to Rand Paul who continues to be a disappointment to those who supported his father who was a man of deeply held principles unlike his flaky son with the hairdo that resembles Woodstock's nest. You can file this latest one of his promises under the moon is made out of green cheese category.