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Is this going to be an exciting convention in Cleveland next week or what?

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The financial Wizards of Oz who select presidential candidates for both U.S. political parties won’t allow a serious third party candidate to run as an independent. This came about after Oz put Ross Perot on the 1992 presidential ticket as an independent candidate with democrat Bill Clinton and republican George H.W. Bush, Sr.. Their reasoning for this was they’d vetted and decided Clinton would be their next president, but Oz knew he couldn’t muster enough votes in the general election to beat Bush. So they ‘asked’ Perot to get in the race to bleed enough conservative votes away from Bush for Clinton to win.
Surprisingly democrats, republicans, libertarians, conservatives, liberals, and independents of all stripes—all of whom were disgusted with Washington—turned out to help him get organized and provide the labor and mechanics needed to set his campaign in motion. One set of volunteers got his name on the presidential ballot in all 50 states. Another got his headquarters organized in Dallas, and a third helped launch his American Party campaign, "United We Stand". Paying for his own commercials, Perot, a self-made businessman and billionaire, got out of the gate fast with good, on-air infomercials—some as long as 30 minutes complete with historical facts, figures, and charts about what was wrong with Washington, what needed to be fixed, why it needed to be fixed, and how he would fix it. These unorthodox infomercials caught his opponent’s handlers flat-footed and resonated immediately with the public watching them because they were true. Suddenly, he was polling 39% with voters vs 31% for Bush and 25% for Clinton. Perot’s poles stunned Oz. They hurriedly told him to drop out of the race (lest he be swept into office). They'd misjudged—almost two and a half decades ago—how fed up the American people were even then with their corruption, bribing and buying of congresses, officials, courts, and presidents regardless of the political party. Desperate for credible representation in Washington, the voters saw in Perot someone who had enough money to stiff-arm the international banking cartel behind the curtain controlling Washington, and who had the grit to establish himself once he got there. In short, Perot’s early polls scared Oz spitless. So Perot gave some cockamamie story about the mafia threatening to . . . sabotage his daughter’s wedding . . . or some such that no one in their right political mind believed, and dropped out of the race.

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Then, in September 1992, despite the chaos created by Perot’s withdrawal, Oz asked him to reenter the race when Clinton, according to polls, couldn’t muster enough votes to win. Perot picked a retired naval officer and former POW as his running mate and resumed his campaign. When the polls closed some 60 days later in November, even after the bizarre political contortions by Oz, independent candidate Ross Perot still received almost 19% (19,741,065) of the vote. The breakdown of Perot’s votes generally were 20% liberals, 27% conservatives, and 53% moderates; of whom 57% were middle class earning then between $15,000 – $49,000 annually, 29% of which were upper middle class who earned more than $50,000 annually. (Wiki figures) Perot, the most successful third party presidential candidate since Teddy Roosevelt in 1912, likely would have won had he been ‘allowed’ to stay in the race. As it turned out, Clinton won the 1992 presidential election; Perot’s votes being enough to keep Bush I out of the White House for a second term. Perot tried for the presidency again in 1996, but was unsuccessful because control of the race had become obvious. Ron Paul was the next Independent candidate with standing among American voters to try for the White House. Oz refused to let him on the ticket as an Independent, but told him he could “. . .join the party” and run as a republican if he wanted.

They told Bernie Sanders the same thing; that he had to run as a democrat in the democratic primaries. By forcing Paul and Sanders to join The Right Parties and run in Sanctioned Party Primaries, the Independents would assemble their followers in their respective parties and then, when they were unable to muster enough delegates at the convention for a nomination, hand their faithful over to ‘The Vetted' of both parties and let Oz’s server put the candidate they want in the White House. Paul, like Sanders, got to their conventions with passels of their delegates intact. In Paul’s case, he had enough pledged delegates that Romney's fixers were worried. But, would you believe, the bus drivers that picked Paul’s delegates up at their hotels for roll-call got confused as to how to get to the convention center and were a couple hours late and when they walked in the door, Romney was done and sprinkled. In Sanders case, he didn’t have quit enough delegates to sway the floor after the “super delegates came out in favor of Clinton II”, and so shepherded his flock into Hillary’s fold. Of the two socialists, Bernie is the purist. Hillary? She’s of a different stripe who'll fit in nicely and help her Bolshevik handlers. Which brings us to Donald Trump, winner in a Sanctioned Party Primary with funds similar to Perot’s, and saying what the public thinks. The question is: Was he supposed to win the primary? The nomination? Rhetoric from Oz says no. Then, did they misjudge Trump like they did Perot and now, are worried he might win the general election? And if so, how will they turn him out at his convention? Will Donald’s limo wreck en route to the center? Will Ted Cruz jump out of a cake with candles rolled onto the stage? Will he even have a passport? Is Hillary still The Vetted One? Will Oz have enough time to reprogram the server if something goes awry? Will the Kenyan Brit with no birth certificate declare himself king of the NAU the rest of the decade? Will the Rent-a-Mob set fire to the convention center? Can Donald escape if Ginsberg lets the air out of his tires? Is this going to be an exciting convention in Cleveland next week or what?


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W.R. McAfee -- Bio and Archives

W. R. McAfee is the author of The Cattlemen and Plugger, and is at work on his third book, West of the Cities, a collection of short works about rural America.  McAfee has worked as a reporter and editor for daily newspapers, and has written numerous magazine articles.  A Passing Hand, first published in 1975, was selected as one of the three best short works that year by the Western Writers of America. Between 2000-2004 he completed a series of articles on how the EPA, Endangered Species Act and related legislation was devaluing farm and ranch land; often forcing farmers and ranchers off their property.


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