Booman recently posted an article titled The Iowa Caucuses Should Be Doomed.
In it, he treats this part of the whole primary system as if it is somehow mysteriously unconnected from the rest of the process.
He treats it seriously, like it is a real thing.
It is not.
The entire primary process is no longer “real;” it is just a way of winnowing out candidates who are feared by the Permanent Government. The Iowa caucus is just the first shot into the fish barrel by the PermaGov. More lie ahead.
Read on.
Let’s get real here.
The “Iowa caucus” is nothing but a publicity event. It means next to nothing regarding which candidates the real voters of Iowa prefer. So…you must ask, why is it covered in the PermaGov media as if it’s the hottest thing ever?
The answer is right there in the many complaints about “incompetence” In the Iowa process. It is institutionalized incompetence. Purposeful incompetence. Encouraged and glossed over at the highest level incompetence. It is incompetence that is now being strongly defended by the highest ranking members of the state government.
Why? Because “incompetence” leaves room for fixing. When the vote counts do need to be jiggered, “incompetence” is the perfect excuse. The hanging chads bullshit in Florida during previous elections was another example of this. So were the computer “mixups” In Ohio.
Duh.
Why bother in this little, relatively unimportant state as far as the end result nomination is concerned?
Why?
Because its results are capable of being magnified thousands of times over by the PermaGov-controlled media, that’s why. That magnification affects the next primaries, which are then further magnified by the same media. Eventually…if everything works as planned by the controllers…we end up with two complaisant puppets ostensibly running “against” one another. Win/win for the bad guys, lose/lose for the people. That’s how this “fix” thing really works, folks. Wake the fuck up. Your parties are as corrupt as is your fucking government. Duh twice!!!.
Who are the two candidates currently most feared by the centrist, duo-party Permanent Government?
Sanders and Trump, of course. They managed to dump Trump big-time…his polling numbers were ridiculously higher just prior to the caucus than where he ended up. Some of that was no doubt due to his weak local organization, but that much variance? It smells. In fact, it stinks to high heaven. He’s bellowing “fix”.
And how does the Iowa satellite of the PermaGov react to this?:
Paul Pate, the top election official in Iowa, condemned Cruz campaign leaflets sent out prior to voting that accused Iowans of “voting violations”.
The leaflets graded Iowans and their neighbours for how much they had voted in the past and told them to turn out to improve their scores.
Mr Pate said Mr Cruz’s leaflets “misrepresent Iowa election law” and that they were “not in keeping in the spirit of the Iowa caucuses,” but he stopped short of any official action.
Translation?
Sure.
Regrettable. Regrettable, I say!!!
But we ain’t gonna do shit!!!
They will shuck and jive until this falls off the news cycle, and Trump will be injured in NH. I personally believe that the controllers think Cruz campaign has no wings, so they are using it to take down Trump. Then they’ll make that good little boy Rubio the tomato can to HRC’s all conquering champeen. And then we’ll have 8 more years of neoliberal-shrouded criminality
And Sanders? I think that he would have won outright if it weren’t for the so-called “incompetence” factor, and I believe that he does as well. He’s treading lightly…he doesn’t want to alienate the DNC completely…but he has most definitely asked for an investigation, and is considering asking for a recount as well.
Bernie Sanders has called for an investigation into the coin flips that gave Hillary Clinton six delegates, which decided the results in Monday’s Iowa caucus.
During a press gaggle Tuesday in Keane, New Hampshire, Sanders said, “I do think it’s kind of unfortunate that — and again, I don’t want to misspeak here, but it may be the case that some delegates were selected based on a flip of a coin. Not the best way to do democracy.” (RELATED: Hillary Won Six Straight Coin Tosses To Win Handful Of County Delegates [VIDEO])
When asked about the Iowa results, Sanders said, “We want to look at some of the numbers. The last that I saw is that we were four delegates down — as I understand it, there were some precincts actually where delegates were won with a flip of a coin, actually. I’m not sure of that. I think there were six cases. So we want to take a look at that.” (RELATED: Sanders Campaign Taking A Look At A Recount In Iowa)
“[W]e want to look at [the results.] When you have — again, you know, I was on a plane last night and you know, I’m here right now so we haven’t had time to analyze it but our people in Iowa are taking a look at that,” Sanders said. “But I do think it’s kind of unfortunate that — and again, I don’t want to misspeak here, but it may be the case that some delegates were selected based on a flip of a coin. Not the best way to do democracy.”
“Not the best way to do democracy.”
Indeed. the understatement of the campaign so far.
Just as it’s always been.
Within my lifetime, anyway.
Just as it’s always been since the JFK/MLK Jr./RFK assassinations.
They’re just…subtler…about it now.
WTFU.
AG
