If you have followed politics in the past 8 to 10 years you know the Decepticon GOP strategy to anoint their chosen candidate is essentially a simple one.
If you really drill it down to the lowest common denominator it entails: • Raise more money, • attack the opposition to deplete their resources, and • coast to the finish line of the primary race.
The GOP “raise more money” aspect is not from the electorate, they have Wall Street and the CoC. The CoC strategists, in coordination with the GOP Decepticons, organize the financial methodology – it is a complex spending program, but essentially based on advancement of a specific goal.
On the ground the primary strategy is simple. Do the minimum required to get out of Iowa unscathed; place a top 3 finish in New Hampshire; make a decent showing in South Carolina then light the spending fuse in Florida (expensive advertising markets).
That four state strategy costs around $100,000,000.00 (around a hundred million). A first or second place showing in Florida is all that’s needed to destroy any opposition to the professional (GOP) political class.
By the time the GOP primary reaches Nevada all other candidates are financially exhausted. The remaining primary state races become merely walk-throughs and hand shakes for the anointed one.
All other challengers are broken financially and they begin to drop out after Florida. The ripple, becomes a wave and the GOP chosen one strolls to the convention a easy winner.
In my humble opinion, as history continues to repeat this process, there is nothing, nada, zippo and zilch which can stop it. Jeb Bush will be the candidate in 2016 who follows this course. He is the only one with a ticket to ride the CoC financed GOP Decepticon train through this process.
The outcome is essentially already known, these are the facts as they present themselves to be. However, many naïve people will cling to a non-existent hope and prayer that something can be done to stop this process.
There is, of course, something that can be done, it’s not theoretically impossible – but it takes a coordination of financial resources that we have yet to see anyone capably explain to the electorate.
In order to stop Jeb Bush, a different candidate -a singular candidate- is going to have to find resources to compete all the way into Florida and financially last beyond it. This will take around $500,000,000.00 (five hundred million). Approximately $100 million will have to be spent to defend against the GOP Decepticon Florida attack ads alone.
Ted Cruz has raised $2 million. He’s around 4% of the way to what he would need to stand a chance. He needs around $498 million more….. Almost impossible.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz, the first major Republican candidate to declare his White House candidacy, raised $2 million during the first three days of his presidential campaign — as his team deployed a mix of complex social-media strategy and behavioral analytics to reach and sway potential donors.
Hours before his announcement speech Monday in Lynchburg, Va., Cruz tweeted the news that he was running for president. That day, he had 5.7 million interactions on Facebook. So far, nearly two-thirds of his fundraising haul has flowed in through the Internet, aided behind the scenes by a team of data scientists who closely monitor social media and digital traffic to determine who’s reading their messages, who’s sharing them and who’s clicking through to his website and taking action. (read more)
Do the math…. count the primary voters… think about how much each voter would have to give -a singular candidate- to fight off the GOP machine.
The GOP machine will have a “plan B” candidate in the event Jeb is caught dancing around in a tu-tu, snorting coke, in 5 inch platforms while singing “I’m every woman”…. but absent such a personal meltdown “plan A” will suffice.
