Ann Barnhardt - Eletcions are Staged Theater

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Strong oppinion on elections by Ann Barnhardt.  I did not watch the video and this excerpt came from the test below it.

"Elections.  For the love of God, if you don’t hear anything else I say for the rest of the evening, listen to this.

Elections are no longer free.  They are staged theater, designed to maintain the illusion of representative governance and to enrich the political class.  This is despotism.  If after this mess that we just went through, if you do not understand this, you are beyond hope.  My God.  He threw that even worse than McCain threw it.  I mean, Obama – how many different angles of attack could you have just rhetorically destroyed Obama on, and what did Romney do?  NOTHING.  Obama didn’t even prepare for that first debate.  Romney didn’t say anything.  Romney didn’t say anything about Benghazi.  He didn’t say anything about any of it.  I don’t understand how it is that anybody can not fully comprehend that that was all theater."

http://www.barnhardt.biz/2016/04/13/god-knows-i-tried/

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Interesting.  And Kathleen Parker, whom I like when she was working for Orlando Sentinel, but has shifted a bit since working for the Washington Post, quoted Van Wishard today.

In one of his highly distilled observations, he <Wishard> wonders (but isn’t predicting) whether this may be our last election for a while. To Americans who already feel disenfranchised and voiceless, their votes virtually meaningless as political parties seek to override their votes, this idea won’t much surprise them. Rather, they likely have already begun to feel resigned to a country no longer their own and a world that’s out of control.

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So we are to believe that Trump was cast as the star of this political theater before the election cycle started? Or Bernie was going to overshadow Corrupt Hillary?  BHO wasn't suppose to walk away with HillBilly's coronation 8 years ago, but he did.

Sorry, the Establishment had set up Jeb as the Nominee but VOTES cast by VOTERS in ELECTIONS in 4 states cast him aside. The same can be said for Bernie, he has given Nurse Ratched a run for her money AS AN OPEN SOCIALIST! 

I think this Election "thing" is too big and unwieldy for any one person or group to control.

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I look at it this way:  If they really controlled the "process", we would not have the deadlock we've had for the last 8 years.  A little, yes.  Just for good drama, but the big stuff would've passed easily and we would've had more of it.

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They "control it", in a way that Trump has exposed just how desperate they are to keep him out. We've never seen anything like this before. In the last 2 elections the establishment Republicans ran retreaded deadbeats no one wanted. (McCain & Romney). The Republican voters stayed home, while Obama won, and they, (establishment Republicans), kept control of their losing party that most everyone could no longer stand the stench of.

Now Trump has come in, kicking the tables over and firing everyone up. And in the process bringing in millions of new voters. He is the answer to the Republicans problems, yet they treat him as if he is the problem. People are asking themselves why? The answer is obviously apparent. He'll kick their asses out the door if and when he gets in. All these establishment old farts like McCain, Romney, McConnell, Graham, and the rest of these washed up do nothings, are all going to have to either retire from politics, and or get real jobs.

They hate that, so they're throwing tantrums and acting like assholes in the process. All of them. This pushes Trump even higher, because now the voters want to get even by ramming Donald J. Trump right up their asses. I hope to hell they succeed!

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Remember, this is the second time Trump has entered the Presidential Race.

The first time there was also a Clinton in the running.  That was in 2008.  He withdrew when it became evident that Hillary was not going to be able to surpass BO.

So, yes, he had a trial run before this one and his role for this one was prepared before hand..just not by the GOP establishment.

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Remember, this is the second time Trump has entered the Presidential Race.

The first time there was also a Clinton in the running.  That was in 2008.  He withdrew when it became evident that Hillary was not going to be able to surpass BO.

So, yes, he had a trial run before this one and his role for this one was prepared before hand..just not by the GOP establishment.

True. This time the MSM, along with the GOP establishment thought it would be much the same. They all thought he would be in and out, just like last time. You can bet your life that is what Megyn Kelly thought when she went after him in the first Presidential Debate last August. She figured he'd be gone in short order, so why not take a shot at him? Then the whole thing backfired on her, and she's regretting having ever said it. So much so last week she snuck into Trump Tower to see him, and make peace.

Trump has made all of them look like idiots, while at the same time sending Rubio and Jeb packing, along with their establishment millions that took them nowhere. Now they're saying, "he can't beat Hillary". Something else they'll be dead wrong about, and live to regret. They're all too stupid to just plain shut up. In the mean time you've got Cruz acting like he's the frontrunner. And that asshole Kasich trying to run interference, by splitting the Republican vote enough to keep Trump from hitting the magic number of delegates required. This is getting worse by the day for establishment Republicans, and better for Trump.

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True. This time the MSM, along with the GOP establishment thought it would be much the same. They all thought he would be in and out, just like last time. You can bet your life that is what Megyn Kelly thought when she went after him in the first Presidential Debate last August. She figured he'd be gone in short order, so why not take a shot at him? Then the whole thing backfired on her, and she's regretting having ever said it. So much so last week she snuck into Trump Tower to see him, and make peace.

Trump has made all of them look like idiots, while at the same time sending Rubio and Jeb packing, along with their establishment millions that took them nowhere. Now they're saying, "he can't beat Hillary". Something else they'll be dead wrong about, and live to regret. They're all too stupid to just plain shut up. In the mean time you've got Cruz acting like he's the frontrunner. And that asshole Kasich trying to run interference, by splitting the Republican vote enough to keep Trump from hitting the magic number of delegates required. This is getting worse by the day for establishment Republicans, and better for Trump.

My concern about Trump is not that he will get the GOP nomination and become president (if he is on the ticket, I will vote for him), but that his goal is run as an independent or find some other means of splitting the conservative vote and insuring Hillary's election, as I believe was his plan in 2008.

BTW, Barnhardt isn't the first person to cast doubt on the worth of elections.

“If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.”

― Mark Twain 

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My concern about Trump is not that he will get the GOP nomination and become president (if he is on the ticket, I will vote for him), but that his goal is run as an independent or find some other means of splitting the conservative vote and insuring Hillary's election, as I believe was his plan in 2008.

I don't believe Trump wants Hillary any more than we do. He's in it for everything this time around. Last time he didn't get any traction. He then dropped out and supported Romney. Romney paid him back by stabbing him in the back this time. Trump isn't stupid. He knows that no candidate can win the Presidency on a third party ticket. (Ross Perot never got a single Electoral Vote). This time around he'll go to the convention leading everyone else. If they take it away from him, the Republicans will have far more serious problems than Trump running as an Independent. The party will totally collapse.

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I am convinced Ross Perot entered the campaign to split the conservative vote and insure a Clinton victory....twice...

And I am not convinced Trump did not do the same thing....twice.

I will be convinced he is not doing that when I see him on the ballot as the GOP candidate or not on the ballot at all.