Why John McCain is the GOP nominee

1940...
Democrat Wendall Wilkie was hurled into the election as the choice of the Media Elite for the Republican nomination to the Presidency.  The two leading contenders at the time, Thomas Dewey and Robert Taft were the favorite up until the Elite decided they wanted Wilkie. Wilkie won the nomination and the Republicans were defeated soundly in the general election.

1944...
The Gallup Poll was invented. It proved an effective means of convincing voters who would win, which then became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Having sacrificed enough of his principles in the previous election, Dewey became a satisfactory candidate to the Media Elite, and he was pushed on to the voters. Dewey's main qualification, of course, was that he was infinitely more beatable in the general election than Robert Taft, his main opponent in the primaries. And that's exactly what happened.

1948...
A repeat of the 1944 election. The Media Elite hand picked Dewey, again over Taft, and the voters rejected Dewey in the general election.

1952...
Taft ran again, and continued to be popular, but the Media Elite had a new tactic. They pushed the slogan "I like Taft, but Taft can't win." Fortunately the Media Elite chose who they thought would be naive enough to control, the political-novice, General Dwight Eisenhower. They also underestimated the voters, and Eisenhower won the general election and the next.

Let's skip ahead a bit...

1988...
Pat Robertson emerged from the Iowa caucuses ahead in the Republican primaries. That scared the Media Elite to death. A large number of southern states were convinced to hold their primaries all on the same day, in order to make a big enough impact. It was called Super Tuesday, and that election was the first it was attempted. But the night before Super Tuesday one of the networks ran a trash piece on Robertson, interviewing a disgruntled former employee who claimed something to the effect that Robertson was only running for president so he could start WWIII and usher in Armageddon. Since it was the night before Super Tuesday, Robertson didn't have time to respond and he lost big in the next day's primaries. Needless to say, those states realized the trap they fell in and there has never been a real Super Tuesday since, although some are still referred to in that way. Regardless of whether you think Pat Robertson deserved the nomination or even the election, manipulating voters in this way is immoral. Remember Robertson had enough of his own media access that simply denying him the right to participate in the debates wouldn't have worked. The media Elite needed something else.

1992...
With almost record breaking approval ratings, George Bush ended the first Iraq War quickly and focused on the election, but preparing ahead the Media Elite had been planting seeds of economic discord. As early as 1991 they had begun to interview "economists" who were willing to predict a bleak future. The Media Elite knew that once people began to doubt the economy, they would slow their spending, thus create the very thing they were pretending to report. While the temporary economic downturn had been arrested and reversed well ahead of the election, the Media Elite refused to report it, and instead echoed candidate Bill Clinton's accusations of a sour economy. Thus the election was orchestrated and ushered in our most corrupt president ever.

1996...
From an American Spectator op/ed by Hunter Baker...

I'll never forget the night in Jacksonville, Florida, when my wife and I listened to Focus on the Family with James Dobson on the radio of my high mileage Honda Accord. Dobson excitedly announced he was going to play a tape of an impromptu speech given by Alan Keyes at a gathering of Republican presidential candidates. His tone caught our attention. During the half hour that followed, we heard Alan Keyes speak for the first time. His performance was electric, leaving me stunned by his talent and leading my wife to express an interest in politics for the first time, well, ever. Although I had an entry level job and my wife was in medical school leveraged to the hilt with student loans, we sent the 1996 Keyes campaign a check for $50 a few days later.

I heard the same speech. I also sent his campaign a contribution. I was also outraged when I found out that Keyes would not be allowed to participate in any debates. By the next election the Elite Media had done a PR job on Keyes, portraying him as a congenital loser and whiner. Nothing could be further from the truth. While he was able to participate in debates in the 2000 election, he could never overcome the trashing the Media Elite had put him through.

2008...
...need I say more.

Posted by Danny Carlton at May 27, 2008 5:43 AM