The one thing which worried me about Cruz was that he had some measure of Establishment stink, just by having been inside the Senate. If this is true, it goes a long way to assuage that worry:
The late stages of the invisible primary would not be complete without reports of intrigue and skullduggery in Iowa, with campaigns forming tactical alliances against common enemies. We have one today from National Review’s Tim Alberta and Eliana Johnson, who report that supporters of the last two caucus winners, Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum, are so bitter at being eclipsed by Ted Cruz that they are conspiring to block the Texan and instead elevate Marco Rubio. There’s only one problem with that scenario: Under Republican caucus procedures, there’s no way the disgruntled social conservatives can achieve their alleged goal without damaging their own candidates, who will probably drop out if they don’t do surprisingly well in Iowa.
Huckabee and Santorum were always owned by the machine, and intended as tools with which the establishment could take the Evangelical vote away from any candidate who was not establishment approved. Obviously the establishment intends to make one last effort to prop up Rubio, in the hopes they can put one if their Cucks in the running for the nomination.
That they have given up on simply taking that vote away from the challengers and rendering it moot, and are trying to find a way to elevate the establishment candidate is a great sign – they are desperate and don’t trust Cruz at all. Without Cruz’s support it also means that they are very unlikely to unseat the new, anti-establishment majority, even with it split between the radical departure from establishment that is Trump and the more conventional Cruz. That is all good.
Whoever wins, Cruz or Trump, we likely have ourselves a non-Cuckservative, anti-establishment candidate – the first since Reagan. Now if only we can keep him from letting the machine blackmail him into putting a Cuck in the #2 position, as happened to Reagan.
My only worry is either Trump or Cruz might actually govern effectively enough to delay the Apocalypse. I really think we need to hit that rock bottom of the Apocalypse.
I suppose every silver lining has a cloud.
GOPocalypse cometh™
