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Reading this article Why Cruz, and the G.O.P., Lost to Trump - The New Yorker Why Cruz, and the G.O.P., Lost to Trump - The New Yorker From the J.F.K. assassination to Monica Lewinsky, it was a long day in Indiana. and two things caught my eye that I thought I'd mention. First, since when is it "Cruz and the GOP?"  I think John Boehner's labeling of Cruz as Lucifer and an SOB is an accurate depiction of how little the GOP likes Cruz.  Not that being disliked by the Party is an indictment, it's clear the Party bosses accepted the support of the Tea Party to get majorities in the House and Senate and then wanted nothing further to do with those voters.  Personally, I agree with Boehner on this one, though. The second point is Cruz stating that Donald Trump is "utterly amoral" in response to the asinine remarks by Trump quoting the National Enquirer to ...

The travesty to which I refer is the way American businesses treat U.S. workers and the movement of jobs either outside the US or bringing foreigners into the US to replace American workers. Cases in point  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/02/ibm_layoffs/ IBM - which should change it's name to India Business Machines for the amount of work it has shifted to India by laying off thousands of American workers.  The job layoffs mentioned in that article are only the latest.  Dell did a similar thing after purchasing Perot Systems.  They took a company that was predominantly American and launched a process of "leveraging" which was a fancy way of saying moving work off shore to India, the Phillipines, and other parts of the world. Carrier heating is moving jobs from Indiana to Mexico it was announced earlier this year. Then there is Disney, who laid off IT workers so they could outsource the jobs to another company.  Those jobs went to people f...

Donald Trump has a point with his complaints about the non-voter determined processes for selecting delegates. True his campaign should be doing a better job of fighting for these delegates but the fact is the processes he complains about are anti-democratic. The question people are overlooking is why are those processes set up?  The answer is to do exactly what Donald Trump is suggesting - to accumulate the selection power in the hands of a smaller group and remove it from the popular vote. Why do party committee people endorse candidates?  Not to make sure the Party picks the best candidates but to enable smaller groups of people to make the choice of who runs or doesn't, which in turn makes the candidates beholden to them. The different methods that Donald Trump is decrying fall in the same categories.  Caucuses that are attended by a fraction of Republican voters.  State Committee meetings where a tiny group of Party officials meet.  These are mechanis...

How are conservatives able to call Ted Cruz the real conservative candidate when he calls for police targeting and patrolling Muslim neighborhoods?  That's less government?  That conforms to the spirit of the Bill of Rights?  That's different than Donald Trump? Other candidates and Republican Party officials pushed Donald Trump to sign the pledge to support whomever is the nominee.  Now that Donald Trump is the nominee, where is their support?  What about their Pledge? Is that what the Republican Party stands for?  We lie to people we don't like to get them to play by our rules and then if the voters who make up the party pick someone we don't like we'll stab them in the back. Montana is like the last primary before the Party Convention and it looks like the Primary will actually mean something.  I don't know who I will vote for, I've never been a fan of Trump, but I'm pretty disgusted with the Party leaders and leading Republican...

In 2015, as Donald Trump entered the race for President and began getting attention, the other candidates and the Republican Party officials made a big deal of calling on Donald Trump to sign the pledge to support whoever is the Republican nominee. Now that Donald Trump is ahead in the race, it's a very different story.  Republicans are saying they will never support Donald Trump. Party officials are trying to find ways to deny him the nomination.  Long time Republicans are talking about running a candidate as a 3rd Party nominee. Is that what being a real Republican means?  Lying, backstabbing, going back on your Pledge, and only supporting Republicans you like?  This may not be the Party for me if that is the case.

One reason for the protests and opposition to Donald Trump is that he speaks ill of other people.  Even President Obama has gotten into the act. I find the conversation by members of the media who support the President and the President's own comments to be highly hypocritical. Since President Obama was elected, Conservatives are routinely called racists just because they disagree with the President.  Keith Olbermann, Bill Maher, and almost all the announcers on MSNBC have been particularly vile in some of the things they say about Conservatives and Republicans.  US Representative Michelle Bachman was accused by the women on The View of hating children because she voted against Obamacare.  Mitt Romney was accused by Harry Reid (who was lying at the time) of not paying taxes and of being a bad Mormon. President Obama has routinely railed against the rich as have many Democrats, painting them as horrible people who are responsible for America's poor.  He hat...

T-shirts and newspaper cover pages identify Donald Trump with Adolf Hitler.  Yet who are the real fascists in this election? Is Donald Trump inciting demonstrators to go and disrupt the speeches of other candidates in a manner similar to the Nazi brown shirts of the 30's?  No he is not.  Its the liberals that are doing that, including the liberal group MoveOn.org that encourage the Occupy Wall Street movement that ended up including anti-semites, rapists, and various and sundry other criminal elements and activities. Is Donald Trump calling for hackers to attack the websites - personal, business, and political - of his opponents?  No he is not.  That's the hacker group Anonymous. Is Donald Trump responsible for death threats being made against the family of his opponents?  No he is not.  It's the people who oppose him who are doing that. We are running fair elections here and so far a plurality of Republicans have chosen Donald Trump.  Her...