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Wednesday, June 1, 2016

It's Official, I am Now a Erick Erickson Democrat

No one has done a better job vetting and calling out Donald Trump's existential threat to the Republic than he has. Other conservative pundits have done a good job like much of National Review and Jennifer Rubin shows herself to be someone with actual principles and not a deranged tribalist, a la Marco Rubio.

http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/06/donald-trump-haters-of-world-unite.html

I have to credit Tom Brown for letting me know about this. I usually, of course, have little interest in Red State, National Review, or Jennifer Rubin but they've been vetting Trump as well as anyone.

Here is some more good work from Red State. Trump's Scientology like Trump U scam targeted single parents.

http://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2016/06/01/trump-university-instructed-recruiters-target-single-parents/

Here they even talk about Bernie's attempt to steal the nomination from Hillary under the phony pretext that he who wins California, wins the primary-though this will change if he loses, we know.

"What a difference five months makes. Back in January, before any of the votes were cast, Bernie Sanders was railing against the Democratic Party’s superdelegate system, claiming that it allowed the party bosses to circumvent the will of the voters. Now, having thoroughly lost to Hillary Clinton at the ballot box, Bernie Sanders is explicitly courting these same superdelegates and asking them to overturn the will of the voters in his favor."

"The basic plan for Bernie at this point, as underlined by the Washington Examiner, is to use a victory in the California primary next week to convince the party bosses that they should vote for Bernie, the will of Democratic voters be damned:

"A former political adviser to President Bill Clinton says there is “more than a theoretical chance” that Hillary Clinton will not be the Democratic nominee for president."

"Douglas Schoen wrote in the Wall Street Journal late Tuesday that a Bernie Sanders win in California next week would remove the “inevitability” of Clinton’s campaign. That could force Democrats to realize that Clinton might be the weaker candidate in a general election."

“A Sanders win in California would powerfully underscore Mrs. Clinton’s weakness as a candidate in the general election,” he said. “Democratic super delegates — chosen by the party establishment and overwhelmingly backing Mrs. Clinton, 543-44 — would seriously question whether they should continue to stand behind her candidacy.”

"Let’s set aside the plausibility of this scenario and instead look at what Bernie Sanders is actually attempting to do. He’s losing in votes cast (by several million), in pledged delegates (again, by a significant chunk), and he has no hope of reversing either of these facts, even with a convincing win next Tuesday. What he has now resorted to is asking the party bosses to save the Democratic party from its own voters, who have overwhelmingly chosen Hillary."

"How would Bernie Sanders react if the roles were reversed? What would he be saying about the process he is attempting to put into place?"

"And for that matter, how would Hillary Clinton and her followers react if the Democratic party took this advice? Recall that in 2008, she actually beat Barack Obama in the popular vote total (if you include Michigan, which there is no reason not to do). She lost because of the Democratic party’s rules. Like a good soldier, she swallowed her pride and got on board with Obama under the assumption that this would not be allowed to happen to her again."

http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/06/01/bernie-hopes-use-california-victory-pretext-steal-nomination-clinton/
Bernie's plan won't work no doubt and the polls show him trailing by double digits-there was an outlier showing it at 2 points. But kudos to Leon H. Wolf for pointing it out.

At this point, the enemy of Donald Trump is my friend. And if you're still for Bernie Sanders right now you're not an enemy of Donald Trump. 

4 comments:

  1. Mike, one of my co-workers had a tweet from SMOD (sweet meteor of death) posted on his door... something to the effect of:

    "Humans: you had a good run, but now you're just embarrassing yourselves."

    I didn't realize there's a whole "campaign" for SMOD (well, actually just a twitter feed, but you can buy stuff too):
    https://twitter.com/smod2016
    Some of it's pretty funny.

    I found it here:
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/06/01/david-french-signals-the-death-of-the-never-trump-movement/

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    1. Here's the actual tweet:

      "You had a good run humans, but you're just embarrassing yourselves now. Time to call it quits."

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  2. Well if Trump is the next POTUS this certainly applies to Americans

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