GOP Establishment: Trump Can't Beat Hillary

This last great attempt to take Trump out of contention may or may not work, but either way it's baloney.  I am quite familiar with the poll numbers being waved about by the GOP establishment showing that Trump can't beat Hillary.  But, they're nonsense.

The GOP establishment felt that Jeb! would be their man.  That idea went up in smoke pretty quickly.  Next, they pinned their hopes on Rubio.  Chris Christi stuck a pin in that.  And all the while Trump went up, up, up.  In time, it came down to Trump, Cruz, and Kasich.  As of this moment, Cruz is significantly behind Trump and Kasich, everyone's darling, is way way, way behind in delegates.

Whatever negatives Trump may have, those of Cruz are greater.  And, Kasich is too far behind in the delegate count.  So now the GOP establishment has decided to hope Trump doesn't reach the required number of delegates that would give him a victory.  They're pinning their hopes on a  brokered convention. This would help them get rid of both Trump and Cruz.

But, why?  Why would the GOP establishment seek to get rid of Trump?  There are two reasons.  The first is phony.  They argue that Trump can't beat Hillary.  The second reason is the real reason.  They feel they can't control Trump.  He wants competitive bidding by the drug companies for government controlled drug business.  He wants insurance companies to compete on a national basis, not state by state.  He understands that our trade treaties were vetted by America's major companies and that as they did so, they put their interests ahead of the country's.  Then there's the ethanol fuel boondoggle for the farmers.  For Carrier Air Conditioning to move to Mexico doesn't bother GOP industrialists.  But what about the workers?   And, on and on.  The GOP establishment wants the same-old-same-old.  That may not be good for America, but they simply don't give a damn.  So now they've come up with this argument that Trump won't be able to beat Hillary.

Don't you believe it.  Trump wiped clean the GOP field.  He can do the same with Hillary.  And, the GOP establishment knows that.  But, they also know that they can make their deals with Hillary more reliably than they can with Trump.  Trump is an unknown.  Hillary has traded favors for years.  What were those quarter million dollar speeches to the bankers all about?

It's a great contest; the GOP machine versus Trump.  Get your popcorn here.

Trump Hitting All The Notes

Trump has not been the favorite of the Republican establishment.   Does this really have to be spelled out?  He's questioned oh so many Republican mantras.  He speaks to the middle class who, for many years, have seen no improvement of their economic position.  Republicans love free trade, but what has it done for the working man.  Immigration policies were never seriously challenged by the Republicans.  But rightly or wrongly, American working men and women see unregulated immigration as one source of their economic woes.

We can all see that Obama's foreign policy has been a disaster, but that do the Republicans offer in its stead?   The man in the street might not be able to distinguish between Sunni and Shiia, but what little he knows of the Quran is enough to convince him that this Muslim religion shows a hostility to their beliefs.  Has the Republican party dealt with this question?

Trump has addressed all these issues.  Perhaps he has done it in a somewhat crude and simplistic way.  But at least  he has taken up these concerns of many of America's citizens.

And, now he has struck one more note in American life -- the protest groups coming largely from the left.   Groups like MoveOn.org and Black-Lives-Matter.  He has shown them for what they are -- thugs and storm troopers.  The average American who's followed events in Ferguson knows that this unfortunate city has suffered and my continue to suffer from many social problem.  And, indeed, some my stem from improper policing.  But, they also know that Michael Brown was a thug and a thief.

People on the Morning Joe show say Trump should never have called for a rally in Chicago, a place that has been a Democratic stronghold for generations.  Is that to say there are no Republicans in Chicago?  Are they suggesting that there are places in America where one party or another may not set forth it's message.

When Nazis marched in Skokie they were not banned.  Nevertheless, Skokie's citizens had no trouble demonstrating their disapproval.  And they did it without violence.  Is it not possible for other elements within our country to behave in this manner?

You may not like Trump, but at least give him the credit for raising the issues.