Matt Walsh:
As you’re now aware, Donald Trump won seven states on Super Tuesday; Ted Cruz won three; Marco Rubio won only one, and John Kasich and Ben Carson won some pocket lint and a bag of marbles. That gives Trump 316 delegates, 226 for Cruz, 106 for Rubio, 25 for Kasich, and -1,009 for Carson.
Two brief thoughts on where we go from here:
1. Many people have asked me what I’ll do if — as is incredibly likely at this point — Trump tragically wins the nomination. Will I coalesce around the nominee and support “my” party, they wonder?
The answer is no. Also hell no. Also how dare you even ask me that?
I have spent months calling Trump what he is: a conman, a tyrant, a pathological liar, a flamboyant despot, a fraudster, a big government liberal, progressive in a very poorly fitting and unconvincing conservative costume, a Planned Parenthood apologist, an unrepentant philanderer, a crook, a creep, a fascist with a spray tan, a reality TV Mussolini, a Caligula with bad hair, etc.
How could I possibly vote for a guy who I’ve just described this way? How could I possibly unite around this man when I’ve spent months correctly observing the fact that he’s a scam artist who lies about everything,including his opposition to illegal immigration? It would be nonsensical. It would negate everything I’ve said about him and make me as big a fraud as Trump himself.
So let me make this clear: I will never vote for Donald Trump. Not even if he’s running against Hillary Clinton. Not even if he pays me a million dollars. Not even if he puts a gun to my head (I wouldn’t expect that to happen until he runs for reelection). I will never vote for Donald Trump. Let the whole country go to the polls and say “yes” to tyranny. I will not take part in it. I wash my hands of it. I disavow it. I will not be a willing participant in the decay of our Republic.
Remember, there are no reluctant votes or hesitant votes or compromising votes or votes with asterisks next to them. There are only votes. And if you vote for an authoritarian megalomaniac, your vote is as affirmative and enthusiastic as everyone else’s. You might as well put on one of those dumb red hats and weep tears of joy while you enter the ballot box like all of the other Trumplings, because your vote counts just the same as theirs.
I have found no reason to believe that Trump would be better than Hillary Clinton. They are practically the same, which is why they’ve been such close friends for so long. They are both reflexive liars. They are both clinical narcissists. They are both power hungry lunatics. They are both ruthless pragmatists who care only about increasing their own authority, not advancing any idea or ideology. They both adopt the ideology that suits them for the moment, and drop it just as quickly.
In the general election, Hillary will run a little right, now that she’s not competing against Karl Marx, and Trump will run even further left, and in the White House they will govern almost exactly the same. There are those who think Trump will, at the very least, nominate conservative justices, but I can’t fathom how they’ve come to that conclusion. Trump will nominate whatever judge can be approved, as will Hillary. Again, neither of them give the slightest crap about conservatism or liberalism. They just want to rule, that’s all. The end.
Besides, Trump is campaigning as a liberal in a Republican primary, do you really think he’s going to fight to put Antonin Scalia 2.0 on the court? Please. This is the guy who can’t stop himself from praising Planned Parenthood. He did it again yesterday entirely unprompted. He’s not a conservative constitutionalist and he’s hardly pretending to be one. If he won’t pretend in a GOP primary while trying to win votes in the Evangelical south, do you really think he’ll pretend when he’s sitting in the Oval Office having won the presidency by praising abortionists and calling for universal health care? Stop it. Don’t be silly.
In any event, even if Trump somehow accidentally nominated an acceptable Supreme Court justice, that wouldn’t be enough to override the fact that he’s an oppressive dictator intoxicated by the smell of his own fumes. President Barack Obama has expanded executive powers beyond the worst and most feverish nightmares of our Founding Fathers. Trump or Clinton will complete the process and turn the president into something most closely resembling an Egyptian Pharaoh. Trump has already promised to unilaterally censor the press. Will the Supreme Court even matter when King Tut is in charge?
I will never vote for Trump. I’ll vote third party or I won’t vote at all or I’ll move my family to the rain forest and we’ll subsist on grubs and wild berries for the rest of our days. Any of these options would be preferable to voting Trump. I will never vote for Trump. Period.
2. Donald Trump has hogged most of the delegates, most of the states, and most of our national supply of spray tan up until this point. He’s won conservative Christian states, moderate states, and liberal states. He’s won southern states and northern states. He’s won in the east and in the west. It’s nice that Cruz took Alaska and Texas and Oklahoma and Iowa from him, but let’s not be delusional about this. Donald Trump is dominating. He’s dominating so much that the other candidates are forced to claim a victory just because Donald Trump hasn’t beaten them in every state.
That means there are only two ways to stop him at this point: a consolidated field or a brokered convention.
Let’s look at the first option first. Trump will not be beat in delegates as long as this remains a five man race, or even a four man race, or even a three man race. While the anti-Trump vote is fractured and split, Trump will continue cruising along as he’s been doing. There is nothing — not a single shred of evidence — to suggest that Trump will suddenly stop winning states when there are still multiple competitors in the field.
People are going to have to drop out. Personally, I don’t care who. I would obviously nominate a sentient bucket of raw sewage over Donald Trump, so at this point I am not playing favorites among the Trump alternatives. Objectively speaking, Kasich and Carson are not worth discussing as options. Kasich can only win Ohio and Carson can only win a participation trophy in the Jones County Middle School science fair if he submits his baking soda volcano in time.
Rubio finally picked up Minnesota, but that gave him a measly record of 1-15, which makes him slightly less competitive than the Jacksonville Jaguars. Speaking of Florida, his home state, Rubio is currentlylosing to Trump in the polls by double digits. In other words, he hasn’t won much so far, and the future isn’t looking terribly bright.
As for Cruz, he’s won four times Rubio’s total, yet still less than half of what Trump has tallied. He seems to have a better case for staying in the race, but I’m not sure where he goes from here. Cruz has not been competitive in more liberal states, which doesn’t bode well as the race moves north and west. Today, Cruz stealing a win in Alaska and Oklahoma seems like a huge victory, but if someone had told me in July that Super Tuesday would come and go with Cruz losing almost every southern state, I wouldn’t have considered him a viable candidate. Cruz will struggle mightily in more centrist and left-leaning states, so he needed to dominate down south. He didn’t. It’s that simple.
So who should drop out? I don’t know. Like I said, I’m being objective, and objectively you could make a strong case against either of them, but I’m not sure you can make a terribly compelling case for any of them except Trump. That’s just the reality of the situation and we may as well face it. All I know is that if the plan is to try and beat Trump in delegates, one of them needs to go, and they need to go now. Maybe they should arm wrestle for it.
The second option is a brokered convention. In this strategy, Trump is simply denied a majority of delegates, and then we go to the convention where all of the delegates and mucky-mucks meet in a dark, smokey room and figure out a way to strip the ball from Trump right before he crosses the goal line. If this is the game plan, Rubio and Cruz should both stay in the race to split the vote and deny Trump a 50 percent plus one lead in delegates.
@Nanny G: Diamond and Silk ? quite frankly I never heard of them before.
When I looked on Wiki I see that they also implied that Marco Rubio was gay
They seem to be comediennes. The 2 largest prediction markets Iowa Electronic and iPredict both are predicting a Dem in the White House with about a 70% chance
Did you have a chance to read that rebuttal to the Town hall article you posted ?
@john:
Snopes is a radical liberal site for liberals. It has no credibility.
@john:
Obama lost Texas and we had not yet instituted voter ID. What’s the Snopes answer to that?
I keep wondering why liberals self-disclose that their constituency are too feeble minded to have or get a viable photo ID. For, that is the only explanation that would account for the accusation that only Democrat voters are somehow targeted by voter ID laws. Now, though Democrats constantly provide evidence of abysmally low intellectual levels, I fail to accept as fact that they are SO dim that they cannot have or acquire a photo ID.
Otherwise, the photo ID would affect Republicans as well as Democrats. This would be a tremendous failure of a nefarious Republican plot to restrict Democrat voting.
More likely, the Democrat turnout is withering away due to a failed agenda. For instance, where I voted in the Texas primary, the wait for voting in the Republican primary was an hour and a half. . At the Democrat polling place, just across the parking lot, no waiting.
Voter ID is not the culprit; having sorry Democrat candidates is. Voter ID is necessary because where you find voter fraud, you find a Democrat nearby.
well Redteam please show us all the factual errors that Snopes made in debunking that Town Hall article that Nanny used. I checked on a few of the things such as the number of voters in Woods County and how many voted for Obama. Did YOU bother to recheck? Or is it just easier to say that Snopes are liberal liars ?
The facts are quite easy to check, but be forewarned: they just might burst the rightwing bubble that is your comfort zone
oh and RT interesting point that Snopes did not make but I found, is that in 2012 in Ohio the man responsible for overseeing elections was the Secretary of State. That year he was a Republican and HE seemed to not have noticed any of that fraud
Great Claims (of fraud) require Great Evidence.
None has ever been supplied.
I am unsure if when the GOP is claiming to be repeated victims of fraud, what they are saying is BOY AREN’T WE STUPID,AGAIN THOSE DEMS ARE JUST TOO CLEVER FOR US TO CATCH
@Bill:
Snopes DID have an answer to the pic ID states that all voted for Romney. First “all” was actually a rather small number 4 to be exact
Again from Snopes but at the very bottom of the article perhaps you didn’t bother going down that far
In the 2012 presidential election, Barack Obama did lose in every state that required all voters to provide photo ID, but those states were only four in number: Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, and Tennessee. Meanwhile, contrary to what is claimed here, he also lost in many states that did not require all voters to provide photo ID: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
(NOTE: If you do not live in Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, or Tennessee, then your state did not require all voters to provide photo ID during the 2012 general election. As shown on a chart of Voter Identification Requirements by state, only those four states had strict photo ID laws in place during the 2012 general election. All other states either did not require voters to provide ID or accepted some forms of non-photo
Geat claims (of fraud) require Great evidence.
First you insist that the Dems are too stupid to be able to get a photo ID, then you seem to imply that they are sooooo clever that they can have a giant secret conspiracy so big as too steal elections and never ever get seen doing so.
It is like they are SECRET NINJA MULTIVOTERS
Do you really think they exist ? These unseen phantoms?
@john: There is still no correlation between Obama’s loss and voter ID, is there? I have YET to hear of a single instance of someone being denied their right to vote due to voter ID. Meanwhile, I provided quite a few examples of voter fraud. The 2000 election results in Florida was separated by a few hundred votes, made that close due to Democrats manipulating the absentee votes of military personnel overseas and tossing thousands of votes, that would most likely have leaned Republican. Only 5 or 6 hundred fraudulent votes could have changed the Presidency of the United States. Every illegal vote disenfranchises a legitimate vote, something the left does not worry too much about.
All the left worries about is not letting the avenue to voter fraud be cut off from them.
@Bill: @john: There is still no correlation between Obama’s loss and voter ID, is there?
ahhh Obama won twice and quite easily
Here is the wiki citation about why the military absentee ballots were/should have been voided.
Please remember that Florida was a GOP state in 2000 unsure how the Dems could have rigged it
here is the wiki citation about the “Dems” throwing out military ballots that was done under the instruction of the Secretary of State R- Katherine Harris
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_election_recount#Controversial_issues
Democratic lawyer Mark Herron authored a memo distributed to Democratic election canvassers on how to invalidate military absentee ballots. The Herron Memo stated postmark and “point of origin” criteria Herron maintained could be used to invalidate military ballots. But the Herron Memo was in line with a letter sent out by Secretary of State Katherine Harris stating that if a postmark was not present on a military ballot, it had to be thrown out.
wiki has a pretty good article on the controversies in FL in 2000, instead of getting info ONLY from rightwing sources glim others.
Every citizen who is unable to vote has his vote stolen. There are over 10 million Americans who do not have a drivers license. Probably more than that who are disabled enough to make getting an id problematical
The demographics of American voting make an increase in turnout favor the Dems, one reason that the midterms went so badly for that party.
Can you see now how you blamed the Dems unfairly for a decision that was made by a Republican Secretary of State? You WANTED to believe in something that wasn’t true
@john:
Wait… I thought voter ID denied him some victories? Not so?
Yet photo ID is required to receive welfare benefits. Gosh, how does THAT work?
If those receiving welfare benefits can manage to get an ID, this pretty much negates the argument that voter ID somehow magically targets Democrats and denies them the vote. Again, NO reports of anyone being denied their opportunity to vote.
As I showed, while you fret about these mythical people who are too stupid, too feeble, too impoverished or too isolated to obtain a suitable photo ID (though they are offered for free) you ignore Democrat encouragement of illegal immigrants to vote or for people to vote multiple times. Why would you worry about the overblown impact of requiring photo ID while ignoring the FACT that illegal immigrants have already been voting?
@john:
I didn’t say that all the facts they use are false. All I said is they are not credible because if it is a liberal Dimocrat issue, they’re in the tank. No one even questions that. No one except Dims rely on Snopes.
@Redteam #60:
What in GOD’S name does THAT mean?
If a fact is proven true, how can it not be credible?
Your mind is already made up, why confuse you with the facts?
Typical.
The facts are not believable ????
Well maybe facts aren’t believable to you
But they are to most people whose minds are open to reality
@Bill:
Do you believe that those people who are too enfeebled too impoverished too isolated should not have as much right to vote as you?
@John:
I’m saying they have YET to be shown to exist.
Funny how the left will help illegal immigrants to register to vote AND vote, can bus loads of people across state lines to vote in numerous elections, can go out and round up (and pay) people to protest yet they are not willing to lift a finger to get the proper documentation for those they swear exist so they can vote. Why doesn’t the left put the same effort towards resolving problems as they to to creating and exacerbating them?
@Bill:
If there were bus loads voting illegal why haven’t they been seen? Are they duper invisible ninja voters???? You have to be able to show something that proves these off the wall wild accusations
You are postulating a huge conspiracy that no one else can see or prove
Get a grip!! Just how clever do you think we alibis are to be able to pull something like that for decades without being caught
@George Wells: I think you’re limiting your thinking George. Ok, here is a real simple example. Question, is the president a Kenyan.
Ans: The president who entered the room in a blue suit and red tie is not a Kenyan.
Facts that are true: President entered the room
president was wearing a blue suit
president was wearing a red tie
Facts that are not true;
president is not a Kenyan.
Sometimes when people are looking for the truth, they are looking for the whole truth, not some spin.
So I have no problem stating that Snopes sometimes uses the truth in their answers, but when it is a factual matter of showing their bias to liberals, they have no problem not using the truth.
@John: Here’s a few.
http://nation.foxnews.com/wisconsin-recall-election/2012/06/05/eyewitness-alleges-democrat-union-vote-fraud-wisconsin
http://humanevents.com/2012/10/26/is-voter-fraud-being-committed-in-ohio/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/21/busing-students-vote-wont-happen-cincinnati-district-says.html
You’re not doing that well calling me out on my accusations. I have provided you with numerous examples of actual voter fraud and yet you still pretend it is something invented by the right. It is real, it is happening and it is always the Democrats at the bottom of it.
That is your proof ? An anonymous person?
Haha
I have an anonymous source that says you are that anonymous source in the HumanEvents article
Jon Husted is a GOP. Sec State if this was actually happening why didn’t the poll watchers say anything ????
Got vids?
Again
If this was going on why can’t yet catch those stupid libs? You guys are supposed to be smart
Somehow this isn’t showing up
You gotta come up with something tighter than an anonymous source as told to Human Events
Really
I BASE MY CLAIM ON AN ANONYMOUS SOURCE!!
My friend a quick Google seems to show that “news” appeared in only one publication
ThatcHuman Events article is a joke
The Somalus couldn’t speak English so the anonymous person who apparently did speak Somali was able to understand it when they said in Somali “Vote straight Brown”
Cons will believe almost anything if it is what the want to hear
I shouldn’t be letting you in on our super secret ninja voting plans but
In 2016 we aren’t going to be using buses
We are going to ramp it up and run special tax payer funded Amtrack trains coast to coast everybody is going to be voting 50-60 times each
Send that out in one of your chain emails
@John: I have shown Democrat voter fraud. You don’t like it because you have been told it doesn’t exist… told this, of course, by those perpetrating the fraud.
Where are the people who were denied their vote by voter ID? Where are these Old Mother Hubbard’s that live so far away from civilization that they have never had any identification (though they vote in every election), have no friends or relatives that can help them get an ID and have no means of transportation?
By the way, right now, violent protesters have broken up a Trump rally… violent DEMOCRAT protesters. Democrats perpetrate the voter fraud and they perpetrate the violations of freedom of speech. Liberals, who are always in the forefront protesting their rights being violated are also those who trample on the rights of everyone else.
You have proved fraud by postingvanvartivle that says that one anonymous person allegedly saw a bus load if Somalis vote?
Well call me a skeptical lib!!
As for the violence at Trump rallies so far only Trump supporters have been arrested and charged,sorry but that is a GOP thing, next you will be telling me that the radical right is NOT angry
@John: No, I proved fraud with a long list of examples. I then proved the validity of my point about Democrats busing in fraudulent voters.
All you have proven is that your belief in talking points is stronger than your dependence upon facts.
You had best review the matter before you make an even greater fool of yourself. MoveOn.org is taking responsibility for the disruption. MoveOn has endorsed Bernie. Let’s see if Bernie denounces MoveOn and the violence and if the media hounds Bernie to denounce MoveOn as they did Trump to (repeatedly) denounce the KKK.