May 18, 2016 at 2:45 p.m.
The Nurse Ratched election
The Nurse Ratched election
Oh sure, the mainstream media keeps focusing its fire and fury on Donald Trump, as if they believe they can somehow sink him, though hundreds of millions of dollars in attack ads and millions more from the media's own in-kind bombing missions haven't been able to do so.
The media just keeps praying the next barrage will blow him to oblivion, when the truth is, Trump may not win, but, if he loses, it obviously won't be because of media opposition.
Then there's the GOP establishment, which for some reason is frantically trying to launch a third-party bid, if they can just find a candidate. Reince Priebus has accurately called that a suicide mission, but the establishment apparently doesn't care so long as they take Trump along with them.
Of course, there's no guarantee that would happen.
All of which is very interesting, but what is really curiouser and curiouser is the Democratic race.
Over there, Bernie Sanders is regularly beating the stuffing out of an obviously weak Hillary Clinton, yet she still has a lock on the nomination, and the media - and some Democrats who insist on calling night day and black white- believes she will beat Trump in a landslide.
Others, perplexed by this thinking, aren't so sure and have begun to point out just how curious the Democratic race is. As The Los Angeles Times asked this week in a headline: "Hillary Clinton keeps losing. So how come she's winning?"
Good question. It's superdelegates, of course, but, when voters step into the polling booths, they don't seem to like Hillary very much, giving her so little love that a 74-year-old socialist whose ideas are akin to the 1930s Wobblies is giving her a run for her money.
Just this week, Sanders tied her in Kentucky and whipped her in Oregon, adding to his impressive series of late-state wins. And Clinton has collected far fewer ballots this primary season than she did in her losing effort against Barack Obama in 2008.
So what's going on? It's pretty easy to figure out: People don't like Hillary Clinton. After all, when Chris Matthews, who gets tingles up his leg when he thinks about Obama, calls Hillary "Nurse Ratched" - the forbidding and ruthless nurse in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" - you know you're in trouble.
Party insiders know this for sure, and they know about another riptide flowing under the media surface but potent nonetheless, and that is the NeverHillary movement inside the Democratic Party.
To put it simply, and to quote Politico, Hillary Clinton is the ultimate insider running in the year of the ultimate outsider, and it's naive to think that those who "feel the Bern" are simply going to suspend the revolution for a Wall Streeter like Hillary.
No, no, not at all, and that brings us back to the Republican Party, or at least the establishment elite who pretend to be the Republican Party, though this year the voters have said otherwise.
The truth is, despite what they say, the NeverTrump crowd is not motivated by any suspicion that Trump is not a conservative. For one thing, the NeverTrump "movement" isn't conservative itself, at least not those pulling its strings and padding its pockets.
Is Mitt Romney, the ultimate globalist, conservative? That's laughable on its face. The neocon hawk Bill Kristol? As it turns out, the neocons aren't called "neo," or new, for nothing. They long ago came out of the Socialist Party with a hell-fire hawkish foreign policy designed to defeat their dreaded enemies, the communists.
They went first to the Democrats - remember Scoop Jackson and Jeane Kirkpatrick - and, when that didn't work, most neocons fled to the Republican Party (Kirkpatrick became a Republican in 1985), where they had more success.
But that success included rebranding a traditional and conservative foreign policy party committed to a strong defense but that eschewed interventionism abroad into an interventionist, warmongering foreign-policy horde led by ex-leftists. Hardly conservative.
Paul Ryan? Just where does he disagree with Hillary Clinton on any major issue, from the federal deficit (just look at his budget, which increases the deficit in 2016 alone by $130 billion) to trade to immigration?
The truth is, the GOP elite only want to win if the candidate is one of their own globalists. Otherwise, a Democratic globalist like Hillary is just fine. And what has become increasingly apparent on the inside is that Hillary might lose to Trump or to just about anybody else.
That has made the GOP elite nervous, hence the frantic search for a third-party candidate to sink Trump. The desperate flailing isn't about Trump and conservative orthodoxy so much as it is about propping up Hillary Clinton and the globalists who pay the bills for the GOP elite.
The mainstream media tries to keep everyone's attention focused on the Republicans and Trump, but just a cursory look at the Democratic mess shows how much trouble Clinton obviously is having with the voters.
Take that cursory look, look hard at the candidacy of Nurse Ratched, and the machinations of the NeverTrumpers become perfectly clear and logical.
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