{"id":21348,"date":"2016-04-20T13:38:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T20:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=21348"},"modified":"2016-04-20T13:38:26","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T20:38:26","slug":"could-this-kill-the-reich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/20\/could-this-kill-the-reich\/","title":{"rendered":"Could This Kill the Reich?"},"content":{"rendered":"

For me to take use a Republican\u2019s opinion as an illustration of a view, with which I agree, is a highly rare occurrence.  Usually the exact opposite is true, since virtually everything Republican politicians and pundits say and do is worthy of contempt, outrage, or ridicule.  However, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) has actually said something valid.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Rep. Steve King (R-IA), who has endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), said on Tuesday that the Republican party could split if Cruz wins the presidential nomination over Donald Trump on the second ballot at the July convention.<\/p>\n

"If the establishment comes in and tries to amend the rules to disadvantage either of those top two candidates or to advantage either one of those top two candidates, I think that there could be chaos erupt [sic] in Cleveland. And the result of that could be a party that could be split," King said on the "Frankly Speaking" radio show, according to audio posted by Buzzfeed News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He then said that the greatest risk to the party would be a Cruz win at a contested convention.<\/p>\n

"The greater risk for the split of the party, though, would be if say we get to convention, nobody\u2019s got the 1,237 and on a subsequent ballot, a second or subsequent ballot, if Ted Cruz wins the nomination \u2013\u2013 which I would predict if there\u2019s a second or subsequent ballot \u2014 and if Donald Trump decides to say, take his ball and go home, or go run on an independent ticket, that would be what would split the party<\/strong>," King said\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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He\u2019s right.  At this point, there is no doubt that Fecal Dump Trump is the choice of Republican primary voters,  One of three things will happen.  Trump will win the nomination, Republican Party hacks will steal the nomination for the TRUSed Uranus Cruz, or Republican Party hacks will steal the nomination for someone with even less success in the primaries and caucuses.<\/font><\/p>\n

If Cruz or someone else gets the Republican nomination through election theft, King\u2019s predication will come to pass.  Furthermore, they will lose all pretense of credibility, like the Democrats did in 1968, when Hubert Humphrey was handed the nomination with less that 175,000 popular votes to Gene McCarthy\u2019s 2,900,000.  With the Republican base angry over being disenfranchised most will not support and\/or vote for the sham nominee.  That is a huge plus for us.<\/font><\/p>\n

On the other hand, if Fecal Dump Trump does get the nomination, establishment Republicans and pseudo-Christians, who favor the TRUSed Uranus, will not support and\/or vote for Trump,  That is also a huge plus for us.<\/font><\/p>\n

So no matter what happens, a lot of Republicans will be staying home, and Democrats should reap the benefits way down the ballot, as long as we don\u2019t shoot ourselves in the foot.  With Bernie\u2019s and Hillary\u2019s campaigns and followers acting more and more acrimonious to each other, there is a danger that a lot of Democrats may get ruffled feathers and stay home, squandering the advantage gained from Republican incompetence.  Both campaigns need to tone down the attacks.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For me to take use a Republican\u2019s opinion as an illustration of a view, with which I agree, is a highly rare occurrence.  Usually the exact opposite is true, since virtually everything Republican politicians and pundits say and do is worthy of contempt, outrage, or ridicule.  However, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) has actually said something […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}