For Conservatives and America, It Can Only Be Trump and Cruz

Tuesday is primary election day in Wisconsin. For the past ten days, everyone in America, and many non-Americans, have been pounding on one theme -- Donald Trump is going to lose in Wisconsin because he is a psychologically unbalanced combination of Jack the Ripper and Dr. Strangelove. The media hasn't needed to find above-the-fray Democrats to do the dirty work of shredding Trump -- Republicans are fighting each other for microphone time. In their suicidal urge to feed on one of their own, Republicans have threatened everything except ordeal by water and roping Trump to a stake planted in the center of a crackling bonfire. The most extreme attack came from none other than Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus -- whose oatmeal face and voice are thankfully soon to be retired. This weekend, Priebus vowed not to give Trump’s campaign -- if he wins the nomination -- control over the party apparatus leading up to the November election, according to the New York Times. At an off-the-record happy hour with reporters last week, Priebus said that, regardless of its being an unprecedented decision, he would not be layered over by Trump loyalists, according to two people present. In modern presidential campaigns, the presumptive nominee of the party, even before gaining the nomination, takes de facto control over the party and its apparatus, with the party and RNC chair taking direction from them. The NYT report by correspondents Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Martin details Trump's Thursday meeting Chairman Priebus and his staff in Washington. Trump said afterward the gathering was "a very good meeting...It's really a unity meeting." The NYT said Priebus didn't see it quite the same way. ~~~~~ I continue to believe that Donald Trump will be the GOP nominee. I continue to believe that he and Senator Ted Cruz need to form a team to cover the range of conservative and Republican thought and issues, as well as to provide the full range of expertize America desperately needs in the aftermath of the Obama disaster. I continue to believe that the "professional" Republican class has been "eating its young" during the last few years by condemning Ted Cruz, who is unquestionably the brightest and most articulate conservative in American politics. And, I continue to believe that the current rush by the same GOP "pro's" to embrace Cruz as a lesser evil than Trump is such a cynically self-serving ploy that no real conservative can stomach it. Cruz belongs with Trump, not with the GOP's Obama-fellow-travelers who now call themselves the Republican leadership. ~~~~~ But, dear readers, truth to tell, Donald Trump has brought a lot of his current troubles on himself. While Trump was using politically incorrect marketing techniques to rise to the top of the crowded GOP candidate list, he worked a few key issues fundamental to conservatives -- immigration, fair trade, jobs, Iran and terrorism. It worked because politics is a lot like a golf swing -- the candidate and the voters can remember only so many things. Trump got into trouble when he began to flit over everything from nuclear re-armament and NATO to abortion. Butterflies flit. Presidential candidates pick their agenda issues and like the successful preacher : "Tell 'em what you're gonna tell 'em. Tell 'em. Tell 'em what you told 'em." Donald Trump needs to follow that advice, because whether he wins or loses in Wisconsin, he's heading into home territory as the GOP primaries move east into Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Connecticut and New York. Get your act back together, Donald. Make Ted Cruz an offer he can't refuse. Be cool and hang tough. Don't let the extremely hostile media fluster you. Don't believe anything the GOP insiders and RNC tell you. And, above all, remember, America needs you as it has seldom needed anyone.