Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably noticed former Governor Sarah Palin endorsed Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Well, there have been plenty of others, including the Duck Dynasty guy, but Palin has been the big one.
“So what?” you say.
Her endorsement has bumped the Donald by six plus points, and slashed a third of Cruz’s support. Per Reuters:
The first comment at The Gateway Pundit’s story reporting this says it all:
Yeah, “Palin’s an idiot, Palin’s a dunce, Palin’s lost her Conservative Membership card, Palin’s endorsement is meaningless……” MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!! Trump 2016!
Meanwhile, the disssssttttaaaannnnnnnnnt second place candidate, Ted Cruz, has a bevy of problems himself over his Canadian birth. A pharmacist (and Carson supporter) in Illinois has filed suit to have Cruz’s name removed from the Illinois primary election ballot, claiming Cruz is not a “natural born” US citizen.
NEW YORK (World Net Daily)– A Republican attorney in Illinois, a supporter of Ben Carson, on Friday filed a motion with the Illinois State Board of Elections to have Sen. Ted Cruz’s name removed from the official Republican primary ballot for the Illinois GOP presidential primary set for March 15.
The legal challenge confirms fellow candidate Donald Trump’s argument that the issue of eligibility to be president under Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution will dog Cruz as the Texas senator pursues the GOP nomination for president, and possibly a subsequent White House bid.
The motion from Lawrence J. Joyce, who makes his living as a pharmacist licensed in his state, notes that Cruz was born on Dec. 22, 1970, in the city of Calgary, in the Canadian province of Alberta, and that Cruz has been a citizen of the United States continuously since birth under § 301(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1401.
Why?
The ‘nightmare scenario’
“I have principally two reasons for doing this,” Joyce explained to WND in an email. “First, I think Dr. Carson would make both a better president of the United States and a better nominee of the Republican Party.
“Second, I am terrified that if we don’t get this cleared up right now, if Ted Cruz does become the nominee, the Democrats will cherry-pick which court or election board they will petition to have him declared to be ineligible in September or October,” Joyce continued.
“The result could be that the Democrats may chalk up a string of three or four or five victories [in their election board petitions] in a row, potentially forcing Cruz to resign the nomination (if for no other reason than that fund raising would quickly dry up),” Joyce explained.
“Then Mr. [Karl] Rove and company would hand-pick his replacement as the nominee,” he concluded.
The National Review has taken a broadside attack, going out of their way to publish a special edition hit piece on Trump.
It hasn’t gone so well for them, or their “contributors” and so-called conservatives who have just self-identified themselves as “establishment” GOPers – or, in other words, Republicans in Name Only.
The fallout has just begun and is building. Cancelled subscriptions (so many, in fact, the publisher Jack Fowler put out a special news release) and removal of National Review from its sponsorship of the February 2016 Republican Presidential debate.
Trump’s response, via Twitter:
Short and the point. And it will only be more so with their attack on the very popular Donald Trump.
Here’s what you need to know about Donald Trump.
He supports your Second Amendment rights, absolutely. What’s more, he does so publicly as well as privately.
Let’s go to the tape. Go to 55:57 in the Fox Business Presidential Debate from January 14th.
Anti-gun moderator: “Mr. Trump: Are there any circumstances that you think we should be limiting gun sales, of any kind, in America.”
“No, I am a Second Amendment person. If we had guns in California on the other side where bullets would go in a different direction, you wouldn’t have fourteen people dead right now.”
Enough said.
After Iowa and New Hampshire, look for the Republican field to dwindle dramatically. Primarily because only fools will contribute money to doomed campaigns.
On the Democrat side, those who say it’s Hillary’s race to lose would be right, except that her e-mail scandal is chewing away at her credibility among her supporters. What’s more, among her supporters, the depth of that support is razor thin, sort of like in 2008. Once she loses, or comes darn close to losing in Iowa and New Hampshire, a repeat of 2008 will be in full swing. Bernie Sanders may well be the Democratic nominee, even if Gaffe-a-minute Joe Biden and/or Fauxcahontas Elizabeth Warren enter the race at the last minute. At this point, they likely wouldn’t be able to get petitions submitted to get on the ballots for all fifty-seven states, so it might go to a brokered convention, which could cause a civil war among the Democrat party. It might even cause Bernie to run as a third-party candidate.
In any event, brace yourself for a landslide election. It may well be 1980 all over again. Or 1984.
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