It’s Wednesday, May 4th, 2016…but before we begin, we mark the passing of the artist now truly formerly known as Prince with a brief observation from David French on the degeneration of culture and morality in America:
“Marx famously declared religion to be the “opium of the people.” But it’s clear that tens of millions of Americans sedate their souls with a different drug: pop culture.Prince’s death is sad, but for everyone but his family and friends, the pain it causes is the pang of withdrawal, not the ache of true spiritual loss.“
“The bill formerly known as Twenty”
As John Donne so eloquently noted:
“Any man’s death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind…”
But we’ll reserve our tears for the passing of real heroes, i.e., those who’ve either dedicated their lives to the betterment of their brothers and sisters or who meet the John 15:13 definition of love. And Prince, by any other name, ain’t one of ’em.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, we don’t know what’s worse: the Indiana Republican primary making us feel more than ever like one of few remaining lucid individuals in a country gone quite insane…
…or the fact we’re now forced to cast our vote for a man we manifestly know to be unprepared and unworthy of the White House. No…
…H. Barack is NOT running for a third term; but the reality could be much…
…much worse!
We were honestly in the middle of writing how the task at hand was figuring out a way for Cruz to carry on until Cleveland, but the Texas Senator’s subsequent surrender mooted that point. So we’re on to our two-part Plan B: Step 1: strategizing how to win Trump the White House.
As the WSJ details, like the MSM before them, The Left may do most of the heavy lifting for us in that regard:
Protesters for Trump
The Mexican flag-wavers might as well be voting for the man.
It’s counterintuitive, but we’re beginning to wonder if all of those protesters showing up at Donald Trump rallies aren’t secret supporters. They couldn’t possibly be doing more to persuade millions of Republicans to vote for him, if only to defend the right to free speech and association.
The protests are picking up in volume and disruption as the candidates campaign in California ahead of the June 7 primary. Protesters blocked traffic, punched vehicles and cursed Trump supporters in Costa Mesa Thursday, and hundreds blocked the entrance to the GOP convention in Burlingame on Friday. About two dozen people tried to rush barriers near the Hyatt Regency, and Mr. Trump and his aides had to get out of their cars and walk into the convention.
“I think it’s going to get worse if he gets the nomination and is the front-runner. I think it’s going to escalate,” Luis Serrano, an organizer with California Immigration Youth Justice Alliance, told the Los Angeles Times. “We’re going to keep showing up and standing against the actions and the hate Donald Trump is creating.”
Even Americans who don’t support Mr. Trump may hear this and wonder who is really creating hate. The spectacles are made-for-ratings cable TV fodder, and Mr. Trump knows it. Every protester who breaks the law or waves a Mexican flag as a political statement in favor of illegal immigration might as well be voting for Mr. Trump.
In a related item, though a committed Cruz supporter, Townhall.com‘s Kurt Schlichter assumes Trump wins the nomination amid a sea of Mexican flags and surge of increasingly violent “protests” which will propel The Donald into the Oval Office:
“Ted Cruz…should be the Republican nominee. But if the GOP decides to nominate Donald Trump, the conventional wisdom about Hillary Clinton turning this election into “Mondale II: The Orangeing” could be very, very wrong…
Looking back 25 years ago to the election of 2016, it is clear that Clinton’s campaign team was badly mistaken when it thought that the vast middle of American politics would blame the Republicans for the violence outside the convention. Every pinko, commie, and socialist freak with a cause and a Soros subsidy descended upon Cleveland, and the ensuing chaos was supposed to show that Donald Trump brought violence and disorder in his wake. The Democrat lovefest to follow was supposed to provide a stark contrast, with Hillary bringing peace and blessed calm. But Americans didn’t see it that way…”
Which brings us to Step 2: formulate a plan to utterly emasculate The Donald should he stray even a footstep off the Conservative reservation.
In the meantime, here’s the juice: with Cruz’s rather abject submission…
…it’s all over but the cryin’; which, following either a Trump landslide loss or lopsided victory, cannot be far behind.
But ONE thing’s for certain: while we’ve at no time either endorsed or supported Donald Trump in his quest for the presidency, we will NEVER cast a ballot for Hillary Clinton; not if she placed a gun to the heads of TLJ and/or our children.
Yet we will never put ourselves in a position to be grist for the stab-in-the-back mill sure to follow a Trump defeat. And most importantly, should The Donald win, we want to be first in line to rub the noses of Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage and the rest of the mindless myrmidons who backed his candidacy when the Trump Administration makes Jimmy Carter’s look professional…and Conservative…by comparison.
John McCain, his POW heroism notwithstanding, is a man of questionable virtue and intelligence who married a large-breasted beer-heiress…and ran a terrible campaign. Mitt Romney is a man of inestimable virtue and intelligence, and a successful businessman…who ran a terrible campaign. Donald Trump is an utterly unprincipled, philandering cad who was born on 3rd and thrown out stealing 2nd…and has to date run a reprehensibly repugnant campaign. We simply cannot envision the circumstances under which his presidency will miraculously morph into something different.
That being said, we’ll hold our nose, swallow our gorge and pull the lever for…
…the lesser of two evils (though not by much!), hoping and praying Congressional Republicans finally grow a set and exert the powers granted them by the Constitution to control his excesses.
By the way, Tuesday’s results are proof-positive Hoosier voters ain’t any smarter than the good citizens of Hickory who voted to fire Norman Dale. Problem is, Jimmy Chitwood ain’t around…
…to convince them of the error their ways!
Since we’re on the subject of the lesser of two evils, that’s the subject of James Taranto’s latest Best of the Web, as he recounts how…
Sam Koppelman, op-ed editor of the Harvard Crimson, responds to a New York Times story “about the isolation felt by Columbia students who support Hillary Clinton”:
On my college campus, I might as well be Pat Buchanan. At Harvard, admitting that #ImWithHer is nearly tantamount to boasting “Make America Great Again.”…
When defending Mrs. Clinton becomes as unacceptable as bigotry, when her supporters are called privileged, oppressive and stupid, we lose the central feature of our democracy—pluralism.
Indeed, by surrounding themselves with only those who share their narrow set of political beliefs, the students who make up the liberal base on college campuses perpetuate the very oligarchical traditions they lament.
I’m a Hillary supporter. In their eyes, I might as well be a College Republican.
Apparently at Harvard, they define “pluralism” as a willingness to tolerate every point of view from the extreme left to the hard left.
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