Cruz Embraces Bush’s Endorsement

I still hope Cruz is just playing the game to win, but this isn’t inspiring:

Ted Cruz embraced Jeb Bush’s endorsement on Wednesday and claimed he could build a broad coalition capable of beating Hillary Clinton in the fall – if only he can climb past the surging Republican presidential front-runner, Donald Trump…

Bush, the former Florida governor once considered a mainstream Republican powerhouse, dropped out of the contest in February after weak showings in early primaries. “Ted is a consistent, principled conservative who has shown he can unite the party,” he tweeted. Bush added on his Facebook page that Republicans “must overcome the divisiveness and vulgarity Donald Trump has brought into the political arena” or risk losing to Clinton.

A lot of the problem is wanting to believe. A huckster can pull the wool over the eyes of the most hardened skeptic, if that skeptic wants to believe. When you have a party of rabbits, hope springs eternal that you can find an honest wolf to support.

Supposedly when Reagan won the nomination, the Bohemian Grove crew approached him and told him he could have a shot at winning the General Election, if he took Bush I on as his VP. If he didn’t, they would see to it that he never won.

Still, it seems a poor choice to run with the establishment in such increasingly K-times. If he loses, it will be very tough to regain his anti-establishment cred when the next cycle comes around, and everyone is even more K. Far smarter would have been to loudly and forcefully disavow Lindsey Graham, Mitt Romney, and Jeb.

Of course note how if we remove the “vulgarity” and “divisive” confrontational rhetoric, we would basically surrender to the left. I love how those cucks are still trying to lure us into the same game plan Bush II followed to saddle us with Obama. There is no way Jeb is that stupid. He knows.

In other news:

If I told you at the start of the 2016 race that Mitt Romney would vote for Ted Cruz in the Utah caucuses and that Jeb Bush and Lindsey Graham would endorse the Texas senator’s presidential campaign, you would have laughed. Probably loudly…

And yet, here we are. All of those things have come to pass with Bush’s endorsement — he called Cruz a “consistent, principled conservative” in a Facebook post Wednesday morning — the latest domino to fall. What is now beyond dispute is that Ted Cruz, the most hated man in Washington Republican circles, is the establishment GOP candidate in the presidential race.

That is what a K-shift looks like. The populace has changed, so the establishment has basically changed to offer the populace what it wants. They still think this is a temporary bump in the road – and it could be. If resources begin flowing under a Trump-produced bubble of irrational exuberance, r-selection could get another shot in the arm.

However as the resource restriction becomes more permanent, so too will the exhibition of a K-psychology. As that happens, the establishment will gradually seek to maintain its relevance by exhibiting more K-traits itself. From the outside it will appear as if everyone just became more like they had been in more K-selected times. A lot of rabbits within the population and the GOPe will just be pretending, but if the policy and governance changes, and the populace itself exhibits a more K-nature, does it really matter?

Bring the GOPocalypse.