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Aggressive Obama, Passive National GOP . . . Is Third-Party Option Starting To Look Better?

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By DEXTER DUGGAN

House Speaker John Boehner said the recently released sting video of a national Planned Parenthood official at lunch, munching away and chatting about how to “crush” unborn babies to harvest their organs for money, was “disgusting.”
Republican Boehner finally seemed to have found his voice in a Washington where he usually blends and blands in.
“I could talk about the video, but I think I’d vomit trying to talk about it,” the Washington Examiner quoted Boehner in a post on July 16. He asked House committees to investigate.
Which was fitting, considering that the U.S. government gives more than a half-billion dollars of taxpayer money each year to the nation’s largest provider of permissive abortion, well over $1 million every day.
Also, the video limned illegalities, even in these morally lax times, such as Planned Parenthood altering the abortion procedure in a way better to obtain the organs.
In a July 15 news release, Boehner said, “I am also calling on President Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell to denounce, and stop, these gruesome practices.”
Not a bit impressed, radical pro-abortionist Democrat Barack Obama’s chief spokesman on July 20 gave a one-word “No” to a reporter’s question about stopping federal Planned Parenthood funding, then immediately cut off the topic.
Boehner’s Republican Party honchos had managed to tolerate decades of permissive abortion, going back to the days of Richard Nixon, but Boehner finally sounded perturbed with his bipartisan buddy Obama.
The stomach of Obama’s chief media spokesman, Josh Earnest, was a lot less queasy than Boehner’s about Dr. Deborah Nucatola’s chatter over salad and red wine about cutting out aborted babies’ organs like hearts, lungs and livers for body-parts buyers.
Brushing off a question at his July 17 press briefing, Earnest said he understood that Planned Parenthood’s policies “are entirely consistent with the strictest ethical guidelines.” Any more questions? Go ask Planned Parenthood, Earnest said.
Earnest shrugged that he hadn’t seen the video, and he didn’t know if Obama had.
The video was so chilling that a number of viewers’ website comments drew parallels with Germany’s National Socialist “medical” research, even citing the name of Adolf Hitler’s dashing and demonic “angel of death,” Dr. Josef Mengele. New York newspaper columnist S.E. Cupp said she “found it hard to write this column [about the Planned Parenthood activity] without getting physically ill.”
Obama likes people to believe he feels the pain of the deprived, but when a top official at his big buddy Planned Parenthood actually makes people think of Dr. Mengele, Obama cares not a bit.
Imagine that a video had just revealed a top Republican Party official bragging about viciously beating minority voters on their way to the polls. Would Obama’s White House say it had no concerns about this, and reporters might want to go ask some GOP stonewaller if that party did anything wrong.
This barbaric baby-harvesting scandal couldn’t show a more stark division between Planned Parenthood’s loverboy Obama and basic, fundamental morality.
Even back in his Illinois Senate days, Obama fought against providing medical care to babies who survived abortion, because, ahem, helping these survivors would discourage seeking abortion. After all, an abortion’s purpose is to avoid being, to cite Obama’s words at another time, “punished with a baby.”
To this day in Obama’s seven-year presidency, there has been no major media challenge to their loverboy about his abortion callousness back then or since then.
On issue after issue, the lawless, coldly lying Obama would have been kicked out of public life long ago if major parts of the news media opposed rather than adored what he does and what he represents. As has been the case for decades, these media are directly at odds with the majority of the American people.
However, national Republican authorities like Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell not only refused to battle Obama; they bragged of “bipartisanship” with the Democrat reprobate and beamed with pride at doing Obama’s bidding, from funding massive illegal immigration to trampling the U.S. economy by approving his international trade powers.
As for imposed outrages like oppressive, medically dangerous Obamacare and inconceivable “marriage” between members of the same sex, the GOP will be glad to kick those cans down the road to the end of some rainbow or another over the horizon.
If the GOP had a clue, it might even consider, say, undercutting Obama’s base, from local to national.
The president had barely taken up residence at the White House when he chose to close down the local school-voucher program that black parents desperately wanted for their children. Continuing black unemployment is tragic, but Obama is out to lunch. And as for aborting millions of black babies, the reprobate does all he can to help Planned Parenthood practice its racial eugenics.
Given the disproportionately high numbers of abortions among black mothers, David Catron wrote at The American Spectator website on July 20, Planned Parenthood no doubt is scooping up black babies’ organs for experimentation.
With the Planned Parenthood leader “discussing how to crush a baby without damaging marketable livers and other organs,” Catron wrote, “it is particularly ominous. Why? Because the terminated baby will probably have been black, and that is no coincidence,” because of the abortion organization targeting minorities.
But don’t expect the Republican Party establishment to be alerting blacks to this peril.
Voters across the nation, having given Republicans a national “wave” win in last November’s elections so the GOP could battle back for them against Obama, mainly had to watch in despair as Republican bigwigs did little but wave a surrender flag.
Voters hoped, dreamed, and pleaded for the GOP to fight Obama, but Republican leadership played despicable D.C. politics by kowtowing to him. There’s no common ground between a thoroughgoing scoundrel like Obama and the American people, but Boehner and McConnell didn’t care. They did all they could to cut deals to benefit him.
Even on the issue of the aborted babies’ bodies being further brutalized by Planned Parenthood, there was a tone of the timid and tentative to Boehner, with the Washington Examiner quoting him on July 16, “I want the committees to do their investigations. I want them to do their hearings and when they have, we’ll decide the proper course of action.”
Instead, how about Boehner and McConnell ordering the immediate end of federal funding to Planned Parenthood by virtue of their authority as the leaders of Congress, which authorizes appropriations? Obama wouldn’t like this? But it’s the kind of diktat he issues at his convenience. If he doesn’t like it this time, he can go to court to challenge it.

A Hot Commodity

National conservative radio host Laura Ingraham has said and written that if Republican Party leaders don’t like their poor standing with voters these days, they have no one but themselves to blame.
In an article at her new LifeZette website, “Branding the elephant,” Ingraham wrote:
“For a sense of how grassroots Republicans feel about all this, check out the comments section on any piece written over the past few months that showcases [Wisconsin GOP Cong.] Paul Ryan’s defense of…Trade Promotion Authority. Or Boehner’s pronouncements that ‘immigration reform’ is a top priority. Most comments express one or all of the three D’s — disappointment, disengagement, disgust.”
When a big-talking surprise like Donald Trump jumps into the presidential contest, national GOP leaders spend their time denouncing him rather than asking how their intentional failures made this guy into a hot commodity.
Ingraham wrote: “A month before Trump jumped in, Gallup reported the GOP approval rating was stuck at a dismal 19 percent. Similar findings from Pew Research found that just 23 percent of Americans said congressional Republicans were keeping their promises. That’s Trump’s fault? Is he then also the reason more Americans today identify themselves as Democrat than Republican? Laughable.”
If Trump’s candidacy fades, GOP leaders will only kid themselves if they think their leadership deficit has been solved. People will keep looking to fill the void that Republican cowardice created.

Winning Isn’t Everything

The Wanderer asked a few conservative activists for their thoughts on whether the prospects for a presidential third-party race have grown riper.
Virginia Catholic blogger Mary Ann Kreitzer, who posts at Les Femmes — The Truth, told The Wanderer:
“The establishment Republican Party seems to be morally bankrupt. Unlike the Democrats, who are firm in their stand for evil, the Republicans, except for a handful, are lukewarm and don’t appear to have any principles at all. With that kind of leadership, the Republican Party seems doomed. You can’t beat something, even an evil something, with nothing.
“If the Republicans go their usual route, I think a third-party candidate who strongly articulates Christian moral values could play an educational role even if he can’t win,” Kreitzer said. “Winning isn’t everything. Jesus certainly didn’t appear to win on Good Friday. We need to do everything we can to proclaim the truth to the culture.
“Frankly, I’m not sure establishment Republicans care two hoots for the truth about anything,” she said. “Catholics should never vote for parties, but for principles. And if both parties betray the most important principles, particularly about protecting and preserving human life from conception to natural death, then neither should receive our support.”
Another Virginian, Val Turner, said she’d changed her mind about third parties. Turner is vice chair of the Goochland Tea Party, west of the state capital of Richmond.
Last year, voters in her Seventh Congressional District, including Tea Party activists, had tossed powerful GOP incumbent U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor out of office, replacing him with conservative Republican economist Dave Brat.
Turner told The Wanderer: “In past elections I felt third-party candidates were spoilers for one party or the other, and, of course, if the Republican Party suffered the loss, it was maddening to me. I have recently seen a local third-party liberal candidate who posed as a Libertarian to siphon votes from the Republicans. So, I have not favored third-party runs.
“What I have witnessed in the most recent elections has caused me to reconsider my position,” she said. “I have watched my local establishment Republicans deplete their own bank account after the grassroots candidate beat out the establishment’s choice. They sent the money to the national Republican Party to be used to back establishment candidates elsewhere.
“I have watched as citizens worked so hard to get ‘conservative’ candidates elected to represent them in Congress, only to be betrayed as soon as they got to Washington. The lip service they used while running for office was only that, cheap words. They immediately betrayed their constituents for a committee appointment or some other personal gain,” Turner said.
“Boehner and McConnell have supported this president in almost every way, giving more lip service to ‘conservative’ values, only to capitulate in a choreographed theater designed to keep the people from seeing them for what they really are. We are not fooled,” she said.
“So, yes, I believe that the country is ‘ripe’ for a third-party candidate if the GOP gives us a Jeb Bush. If I had to choose between Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton, I would cast my vote for a write-in,” Turner said. “In the case of an establishment Republican candidate who is uncomfortably similar to a liberal Democrat, a third party would likely get the backing of Americans who are disgusted with what they see happening to their country.
“This candidate would have to be one who calls the issues as they are, without the political correctness bologna that is destroying us,” she said. “Someone who is interested in the safety and well-being of Americans first. A strong conservative who believes in the Constitution and the rule of law. I believe the grassroots would work tirelessly for the right candidate and the evangelicals would re-engage.”

Trump: Full Speed Ahead

San Francisco conservative commentator Barbara Simpson told The Wanderer:
“Donald Trump hit a nerve with his take on illegal aliens in this country, the need for a border fence and decent enforcement of immigration laws. Rumors are rampant he might bolt the GOP and run third-party. And he might, because it appears the Democrats are saddled with Hillary [Clinton] or Bernie Sanders, and the GOP, while top-heavy with candidates, seems to be on their usual death march to defeat with the likes of Jeb Bush.
“Trump is feisty enough that, if he doesn’t flame out before the conventions, he might run third-party and, if things continue as they are in the country, enough people from both parties will be so fed up with the ‘same old same old’ political pap, they might just split and vote independent. Or, perhaps, not vote at all,” Simpson said.
Even though the San Francisco area has been protective of illegal aliens, she said, the recent shooting death of a woman on the waterfront unsettled the issue.
“The local media tactic is to ignore Donald Trump, which they’ve been doing, but that was complicated by the brutal murder of Kate Steinle, 32, as she walked along the tourist waterfront with her father,” Simpson said.
“The accused killer is Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, an illegal alien with a long rap sheet from several states, who’s been deported five times and who said he came to San Francisco because of the protection of the sanctuary [city] status. He said he ‘found’ the gun and it just went off by itself.”
Because this isn’t the first time an illegal alien was involved in the death of “innocent citizens in San Francisco, there’s a lot of blood on a lot of hands in the City by the Bay,” she said. “And while Kate Steinle is dead, the candidacy of Donald Trump is moving full speed ahead, because while politicians and media ignore him, the people are on his side.”

A Virtual Impossibility

Arizona conservative GOP campaign consultant Constantin Querard didn’t think a third-party presidential run has much chance of success.
“A third-party challenge is largely doomed to fail with the current winner-takes-all system of allocating voters to the electoral college that 48 states have,” Querard told The Wanderer. “The Republican and Democrat parties are still more than strong enough that a third-party candidate can’t hope to reach 271 electoral votes.
“Moreover, if no one reaches 271, the election would be decided in the U.S. House of Representatives, where every member is a member of the Republican or Democrat party. So anyone running as a third-party candidate would have to recognize the virtual impossibility of the effort, making it largely a vanity effort,” he said.
“It is possible that the mood of the electorate is such that candidates like Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton actually depress their own party bases and allow for a Ross Perot-type candidate to get a significant number of votes,” Querard said.
“The third-party candidate would not win, but their effect in various states could help to decide the race, much like Perot’s impact was largely beneficial to Bill Clinton” in 1992.

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