Nuclear Donald, Lucifer and A Chair Thrower

I'm recouping from surgery and trying to convince myself that I have in fact been under anesthesia for the past year, alas that's not the case.

Donald Trump stomped his opponents last week and is indeed poised to be the Republican nominee. A candidate who has openly stated he would use nuclear weapons, a statement which would have destroyed any Presidential hopeful throughout the nuclear age. Yet millions of Republican primary voters are drawn to him like a moth to the flame oblivious to the burn yet to come. He delivered a forty-five minute foreign policy speech that was supposed to be impressive and demonstrate his new serious campaign. It was scripted and yes, read from a teleprompter. The same device Trump has continually criticized and said politicians shouldn't use. The speech was absolute gibberish, revealing no understanding of foreign affairs or laying out specific policy initiatives. It was torn directly from the isolation 101 handbook with America first thrown in just to feel good. He once again said he will destroy ISIS quickly but won't say how. Could it be nuclear? Donald Trump has told voters for ten months that America sucks and we are all drowning in a bucket of urine, he is the most negative Presidential candidate in my lifetime and probably the history of our country, yet the moths continue to be drawn. He's been here in Indiana to spread his depression and be endorsed by Bobby Knight. I had almost forgotten the chair throwing egotistical former I.U. Coach who was fired for his once too often display of lunacy. The endorsement makes sense because both men are self absorbed loud mouths. Too harsh? I think not.

Since Trump is in Indiana he's babbling on about Carrier eliminating 1,400 jobs and moving it's furnace manufacturing facility to Mexico. He behaves as if he saw it coming and was talking about it before it ever happened. He says if he's elected President Carrier will not be making that move to Mexico. How does he think he can stop it? His profound ignorance about the power of the American Presidency should disturb all citizens but it doesn't, perhaps it's because those citizens share Trump's ignorance. The bulk of his supporters are poor to middle class which staggers the imagination. He doesn't support an increase in the federal minimum wage and says American wages in general are too high. How can people hear this yet still support him. He says he will bring jobs back to the United States which have been transferred to other countries over the last four decades. How can he achieve this? Let me point to the obvious which he has made clear, we need to lower our wages. He will drive American pay to such lows that corporations will want to bring jobs back because finally they will have broken the backs of labor with the help of President Trump. It's the only way he can make it happen.

Wake up.

Ted Cruz is also in Indiana because he must win it or watch his fantasy totally disintegrate. He and John Kasich cut a deal leaving Indiana for Cruz and Kasich would stay out. I thought Kasich was smarter than that but I was wrong. That deal crumbled but too late for Kasich and by the way, even though Kasich has not campaigned here a Cruz Super Pac has been running ads slamming Kasich for expanding Medicaid in Ohio under the Affordable Care Act and portraying him as President Obama's close buddy. So much for alliances. Cruz also made the meaningless decision to announce his Vice-president, none other than Carly Fiorina. It's almost impossible for him to win the nomination and he's signing up his Vice-president. Fiorina brings nothing to his campaign. Hit the snooze button. Former Speaker of the House John Boehner  was at a dinner in California and summed up Cruz perfectly, he called him "Lucifer in the flesh." He described him as the "most miserable son of a bitch he ever worked with." He also said Cruz would be President "over his dead body." On Trump Boehner said they were friends and golfing buddies but thank god he hadn't heard from him in a year. He said there was no way Trump can be elected after insulting two-thirds of American women and every minority group known to man, "there aren't enough white men to elect him."

Today Ted Cruz received the weakest possible endorsement from Indiana Governor Mike Pence who first praised the greatness of Donald Trump but said he would be voting for Cruz but he likes them all. Pence is up for reelection this year and he's petrified of angering Trump voters.

If Trump wins Indiana, Cruz is finished but he won't admit it.