SB left this comment at Steve’s post “Trump, Cruz, Carson, Rubio“:
I hope both campaign managers (Trump and Cruz) are prepared for the RNC to be up to dirty tricks to try to stop them from getting the nomination. This is no time to be gentlemen if the RNC plays dirty.
Well, it looks like Sundance over at the Conservative Treehouse thinks it is an eventuality and not an if. The post talks about what we saw in the primary in the run up to this last November’s general election – Mississippi Redeux. It’s a longish post so just an abstract here (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Tripwire Alert – GOPe Signals Intent To Use “Mississippi Strategy” Against Trump After Trump’s Primary Victory….
Remember Mississippi?The professional apparatus of the Republican Party are signaling their intent to do exactly what we predicted they would do. Trump will win the primary, and the GOPe will split the party to run an additional candidate in the general election. It’s not Trump going third party – It’s the establishment GOP (GOPe) intending to go third party. They are planning a modified version of the Mississippi Strategy from 2014.
In order to pull off the “Mississippi Plan” nationally, and specifically because of the ideological severity which will be obvious within their approach, the GOPe need to begin planting the seeds of intent now within the various camps they’ll need to support them. We’ll explain.
Most people are unaware that back in 2014 conservative Senate Candidate Chris McDaniel defeated incumbent Republican Senator Thad Cochran in the Mississippi primary. However, it was a three-way race and McDaniel didn’t get past the 50% +1 threshold. McDaniel did defeat Cochran in the first Republican primary, meaning he got more votes, but a second run-off primary was required because the 50% threshold was not achieved.
Between those two primary races is when the professional apparatus within the GOP/RNC hatched a plan, and kicked the plan to action. Their plan was a simple one – a blitz attack against McDaniel using racist attack ads (which they funded), and a plan to get Democrats to vote in the Second Primary to offset the Republicans who were not supporting Cochran.
Their plan worked. In the second primary McDaniel again won a majority of the Republican votes, however he lost the race because thousands of paid democrats (mostly from Black church attendees) turned out on election day and voted for Thad Cochran.
…It is not a matter of debate that this is what took place – it is well established fact, and when confronted with the overwhelming evidence – admitted by the GOPe and RNC who pulled it off.
And then it goes on to talk about how Trump will upset the GOPe policy applecart – the reason why “Mississippi” may well ramp up. Why? The ultimate PAIN that can come to a pack of political whores:
A Trump victory almost certainly guarantees they will be kicked away from their place at the trough. In addition the U.S. Chamber of Commerce would be defeated on their legislative priorities…Important Note – These priorities are also supported on the Democrat side by Hillary Clinton. A Clinton win is not a GOPe defeat. Think about this aspect very carefully.
Even as we here at the ‘Grok rail against the Dems and their Crony Capitalism, it really is the Political Class and its Crony Capitalism – and be sure, the Republicans feed at that trough just as certain as the Dems do. Different set of Cronies, but Cronies none the less.
Also remember that after the last Presidential, the RNC decided to do the delegate count shuffle that changed the rules to favor those with lots of money and a lot of builtin Establishment support to make it harder for the outsiders to win. No, SB, we don’t have to wait for the above to happen – the rule change is already baked in.
