The Republicans powers that be are considering suicide. From Julia Hahn at breitbart.com:
In recent weeks, there has been increasing discussion about the possibility that House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) could emerge out of a brokered convention as the Republican nominee if the donor class is successful in denying Donald Trump the requisite 1,237 delegates.
Just as Paul Ryan’s ascension to House Speaker represented a total repudiation of the GOP electorate by GOP lawmakers, Ryan’s selection as the Party’s nominee would similarly represent the donor class’s silencing of voters and voters’ views on immigration, trade, and foreign policy that have transformed the country and its role in the world.
Regardless, many in the “#NeverTrump” movement have indicated that they would support Ryan against the wishes of the Republican electorate that has voted for Trump.
“If we don’t have a nominee who can win on the first ballot, I’m for none of the above,” said former House Speaker John Boehner, who exited the House shortly after teaming up with Ryan to give President Obama expanded trade powers. “I’m for Paul Ryan to be our nominee,” Boehner said.
“If it’s an open convention, it’s very likely [the nominee] would be someone who’s not currently running,” Ryan’s fellow Wisconsinite Governor Scott Walker said last week. Walker’s declaration follows an earlier pronouncement that he would be “just fine” with leaving his state’s Sanctuary Cities in place.
As conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly, who has endorsed Donald Trump, warned in January, “After months of waiting for Trump to self-destruct, the Washington-based Republican Establishment has finally found a way to take back control of the party from the outsiders and grassroots. The plan revolves around the newly empowered House Speaker, Paul Ryan.” Schlafly writes that through a brokered convention, “‘dark horse’ Paul Ryan could become our nominee. Such an outcome could destroy the Republican Party and guarantee a Democratic victory by causing disheartened grassroots voters to stay home.”
Currently speaking, it’s mathematically impossible for Ohio Gov. John Kasich to win the majority of delegates walking into the Republican National Convention in July. Similarly, while not mathematically impossible for Cruz to get there, it’s close— he’d need close to 90 percent of the remaining delegates to win a majority walking into the convention. As such, the strategy both are employing is force a contested convention—and wrest the nomination from Trump there. The risk, however, is that at a contested convention—as the now Cruz-backing Walker acknowledged—there’s no guarantee at all on who may emerge as the GOP nominee at that point. It could even be, as Walker said, someone who isn’t currently running: i.e., Paul Ryan.
As Capitol Hill aides have explained, amongst Washington’s GOP political class Ryan is regarded as the “Republican Jesus.”
Indeed, National Review, which helped put the third world migration enthusiast Paul Ryan into the Speaker’s office, seemed to embrace the idea of nudging him into the Oval Office. National Review’s deputy managing editor penned a piece entitled, “Paul Ryan for President!” writing: “One can imagine a case where Trump and Cruz control 60 to 70 percent of the vote between them, and neither one will budge, and no other candidate or boss will consider helping either one. Then it will be time for a respected and inoffensive candidate to offer a contrast to all the strong personalities in the Republican race, and Ryan is nothing if not Mr. Acceptable.”
Following their endorsement of Speaker Ryan, National Review became the heart and soul of the “#NeverTrump” movement, meaning that the organization has effectively abandoned even the pretense of being concerned about migration. As Breitbart has previously reported, not only will Paul Ryan continue to push for massive increases to the already record-breaking pace of migration, but his commitment to large-scale migration means it’s unlikely legislation will pass the House that would reduce immigration growth by curbing visas, which more than 9 in 10 GOP voters want.
To continue reading: Concerns About Paul Ryan Emerging Out of Ted Cruz-Created Contested Convention as Nominee Dominate Wisconsin
The original article has 15,222 comments and counting, so I thought that it is safer and less repetitive to comment on the SLL nest site. Paul Ryan is part of the Uniparty so I do not know if he is much different than Jeb Bush. If Trump-Cruz work out a delegate deal, can anyone else even get to play at the convention?
I don’t believe so, but stay tuned.
I used to think the democrat party would be the first to self-destruct. I now see that the republican party was completely subsumed by apparatchiks by the regime of Bush I, and that all we awaited was a little whiff of resource restriction for its grumbling political base to balk entirely.
I believe the most likely outcome is for the kleptocracy openly running both parties to flip a massive middle finger to the republican base by nominating Ryan, handing the election to either Clinton or Sanders (if Clinton is facing an indictment.) This will create the visible symptoms of what is going on beneath the surface no matter what, an American electorate that is fast abandoning the consensus, go-along/get-along “muddy middle” of the last 50 years in favor of (literally) armed camps made up of people increasingly willing to use violence to maintain power.
All this is very interesting, in that it’s mostly just small-scale noise right now as long as the Bond Ocean appears to remain brim-full. The moment a deflationary period of major evaporation of that vast ocean of IOU’s sets in, and resource restriction becomes the New Narrative, any hint of go-along/get-along will end.
For 50 years the people whose work makes the USA run (the managerial and “working wealthy” people who pay the lion’s share of all taxes, two groups that are overwhelmingly white and often male) have felt wealthy enough to accept the insults and expropriations that of late became shrill indeed.
That tolerance will end when their dreams of comfort crash with their 401(k)’s.