There is a solid argument to be made that forcing Donald Trump to sign the Republican Pledge was step one in this RNC/GOPe strategy. He’s now locked in the Thunderdome!  
When you fully understand the scope of how the Republican National Committee organized the entire road map to elect Jeb Bush, you begin to understand why Reince Priebus needed to lock the door behind Trump before unleashing the thugs upon him.
Hundreds of millions will be spent on this RNC/GOPe effort to destroy Trump. It will be unlike any scorched earth campaign ever witnessed.  The brutality of the intended targeting is so severe, even the New York Times is willing to broadcast the bloodbath.

New York Times –  Quiet conversations have begun in recent weeks among some of the Republican Party’s biggest donors and normally competing factions, all aimed at a single question: How can we stop Donald Trump?

Republican strategists and donors have assembled focus groups to test negative messages about Mr. Trump. They have amassed dossiers on his previous support for universal health care and higher taxes. They have even discussed the creation of a “super PAC” to convince conservatives that Mr. Trump is not one of them.

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The numbers for Jeb Bush in Alabama (5%) reflect a continual downward trend.  The collective polling of all the GOPe candidates (14%) is not even close to Donald Trump.  GRAVIS POLL LINK HERE

(Via Daily Caller)  Front-runner Donald Trump has surged to a nearly 40 percent lead in the latest Alabama Republican primary poll. (more…)

A new Monmouth University Poll (valid poll for debate determinations) shows Donald Trump crushing Jeb Bush and the GOPe splitter field. The central part of the RNC/GOPe evaluative risk is identified in the following Monmouth Poll paragraph:

[…]  “None of the establishment candidates is having any success in getting an anti-Trump vote to coalesce around them. In fact, any attempt to take on Trump directly only seems to make him stronger.” (link)

Look closely at the collective polling within the GOPe “splitter crew”:

It’s important for political observers to remember that for every poll you see there are dozens of “internal polls”, paid for by the party apparatus and campaigns, that you don’t see.
Many of those are micro-polls on key states, and district-by-district level match-ups. It’s the internals that drive the behavior we later witness from the visible participants in the RNC/GOPe apparatus.  It’s those internals that proactively took Reince Priebus to New York today. (more…)

On August 6th in front of a national audience Donald Trump refused to pledge support for any GOP candidate, and refused to pledge he would not run an independent campaign. In my opinion it was the most publicly brave political act witnessed in the last two decades.

It takes remarkable courage and commitment to principle to stand on the national stage and be the only person to raise your hand.  It would have been easier, more politically favorable, and essentially irrelevant in the long term, for Trump to make the pledge.  But he didn’t, he took the path of principle.  For many, myself included, that moment won Donald Trump the debate.
However, there is now an establishment movement within the GOP to force Republican candidates to sign a loyalty oath.  A report surfaces today that RNC Chair Reince Priebus is meeting with Donald Trump tomorrow at 2pm in New York.  The presumption is that Donald will be asked to take this pledge: (more…)

The key phrase comes at the end of the CNN outline:

“We have discussed these changes with the Republican National Committee […] and they are fully supportive.”

The RNC/GOPe has a transparent vested interest in getting any of the “splitters” onto the primary debate stage.  At this point, the goal has modified from simply reducing the “non-jeb” vote, to a more immediate need of reducing the Donald Trump vote.
(Via Politico)  CNN announced on Tuesday that it has changed the criteria for its upcoming debate, making space for Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina on the primetime stage.
Fiorina had argued for weeks that CNN’s debate criteria unfairly weighted early field leaders over contenders like her who have polled better since the Fox News debate on Aug. 6.
According to CNN, any candidate who ranks in the top 10 between Aug. 6 and Sept. 10 will be included in the primetime debate on Sept. 16. Also allowed in the main show will be candidates who scored in the top 10 averages of all approved national polls between July 16 and Sept. 10, as the original criteria released in May stated. This means it is possible there will be more than 10 candidates on the prime time debate stage. (more…)

Dana Perino and Megyn Kelly give high-fives !!  Watch for it….

A newly released poll by Mommouth University shows Ben Carson pulling even with Donald Trump in Iowa.  The Poll Data shows three important aspects:

• #1) Dr Carson finding large gains in Iowa support from Evangelical Women who don’t like the Tea Party;
• #2) The entire GOPe “splitter team” at 27% (w/ 10% Fiorina); and, more alarmingly
• #3) 67% Favorable opinion of Carly Fiorina.

The full Monmouth University poll data is embedded below.  However, the key aspect to focus on is one we’ve outlined already; the push for Ben Carson is a Team Jeb media strategy – and yes, ideological employees do what their ideologically aligned employers perceive as favorable.
Jeb Bush sycophant Dana Perino and anti-Trump acolyte Megyn Kelly have been pushing Dr. Ben Carson as a non-vulgarian alternative for Donald Trump.  (please pay attention to the tweet dates/times below – studying actionable behavior is not conspiracy theory) (more…)

The GOPe Road Map is contingent upon all 10 candidates that are part of Team Jeb remaining in the race until various points within the primary.   Nine of the candidates are party insiders recruited to act as early primary state splitters (Gilmore -VA, Pataki -NY, Graham -SC, Perry -TX, Kasich -OH, Rubio -FL, Huckabee -AR, Fiorina and Christie).

This allows the Road Map to succeed with 15 to 20% support for Jeb – depending on primary state location.  However, when the plan was constructed it’s obvious they never anticipated a Donald Trump candidacy.
The original plan was created to defeat Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Scott Walker (Donald Trump was never factored into the strategy).  Current polling shows their strategy would be factually successful were it not for Donald Trump. (more…)

(Via Fox) The explosive first Republican debate has shaken up the 2016 GOP presidential race. Who’s up? Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and businesswoman Carly Fiorina. Who’s down? Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. (read more)

Note: The graphic above has been enhanced to highlight the known candidates supported by the GOPe road map (Tom Donohue, Mitch McConnell and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce) via Wall Street.   Only fully identified CoC candidates are highlighted, there are two more still being researched but considered “probable”.
Full polling data below:
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First, an admission: I have seriously underestimated Donald Trump.
After spending more than three years tracking the construct of the GOPe strategy to elect Jeb Bush, and having lost the most single important battle in May 2014 to stop it, I was deflated and disenfranchised.
Few were willing to accept the road-map and sheer level of Machiavellian strategy deployed by the professional political class.  Every single prediction (tripwire) which stems from understanding the construct was triggered in the exact sequence.  We resigned ourselves to the outlook that Tom Donohue, Mitch McConnell and their team were going to pull it off.
Then the wild-card entered the race.   Yesterday, before the speech in New Hampshire last night, Donald Trump gave a press conference.  The part that matters comes after the 15:00 minute mark.  Please watch before continuing:

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Last night on Megyn Kelly’s Fox TV show she announced a 1.5 week vacation returning on 8/24.  Lil Miss stated she hadn’t taken a vacation in six months.  Of course the 8-day memorial day break, and 6-day July Fourth break, don’t count as vacation for the intense 4 day work-week schedules of a princess pundit, or something.
However, given the scope of the fallout from Megyn’s intentional set-up of candidate Donald Trump, and the severity of the backlash therein, it’s not difficult to see why the outline of this NY Magazine article is essentially correct.
Unfortunately for Ms. Kelly, the reality of her position has slapped her in the face like a cold fish.

NY Mag […]  Having backed down to the GOP front-runner and all but sacrificed one of his biggest stars to appease the conservative base — a.k.a. Fox viewers — Ailes has set a dangerous precedent. The message is clear: Fox reports, but the audience decides.  (link)

LOL, only in the mind of a progressive publication would listening to your customer be considered “a dangerous precedent“; I digress.   Alas, egos the size of Princess Megyn’s need respite, from the fish.  And princesses never eat crow. (more…)