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Remember while reading the below that two of the three top finishers are TEA Party associated (emphasis mine):

And the night’s biggest loser wasn’t Donald Trump (though he indeed lost big), but the GOP establishment, what William F. Buckley once referred to in the initial mission statement of National Review as the “Well-fed right whose ignorance and amorality have never been exaggerated for the same reason that one cannot exaggerate infinity.” They suffered a loss so ignominious and dramatic that one needs to step back a bit to reflect on its comprehensiveness. The campaign began with seventeen GOP candidates, of whom eleven had longtime pre-Tea Party era experience in elected office, including several senators and the former Governors of Texas, New York, and Florida. Between pre-caucus drop-outs and election night performances, those eleven candidates took just nine percent of the vote combined. Nine percent. The other ninety-one percent of the vote went to candidates who had neither not held office before 2010 or whom had never held office at all.

In the face of repudiation this total,

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I’ve been saying saying the same thing for years – and remember that it was the Frankfurt School and Gramsci that said for the Socialist / Communists to take over the ramparts of culture.  Now we are seeing that they were successful (emphasis mine):

ANALYSIS: TRUE. OU professor: Youths’ attraction to Sanders shows education failure. “It’s disheartening that an avowed socialist is a viable candidate for president of the United States. Socialism is a dead end. For hundreds of years, it has failed everywhere it’s been adopted. The enthusiasm of our youth for the candidacy of Bernie Sanders is a symptom of our failure to educate them, not only in history, government and economics, but also basic morality.”

And it has been by design.  If you don’t know your own history,

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This is really dismal – if you have to ASK for applause for yourself, what does that say both you and your campaign?

“My pledge to you, I will be a commander in chief that will have the back of the military,” Bush told the crowd. “I won’t trash talk, I won’t be a divider-in-chief or an agitator-in-chief. I won’t be out there blowharding, talking a big game without backing it up.”  “I think the next president needs to be a lot quieter but send a signal that we’re prepared to act in the national security interest of this country,” he added. “To get back in the business of creating a more peaceful world.”

After that line, Bush paused, seemingly waiting for the crowd to applaud and cheer him — but they didn’t.

“Please clap,” Bush had to tell the crowd, sounding defeated.

Oy vay!  That’s pitiful.  I know that politicians have to be able to take rejection almost as much as actors, used car salesman and telemarketers, but that is bad.  But to actually ask for applause to make you feel better about yourself?

UPDATE: video after the jump

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Over at WeekendPundit, Chan quoted moi (but not my extreme liking for their breakfast burritos – darn!):

This is a lesson any mature business has to relearn again and again if it wants to stay in business.

This is what happens when McDonald’s listens to its customers – success.

Some corporations get so big that they believe they can dictate to their customers what to buy. But examples abound that disprove that notion, some of which meant the bankruptcy and dissolution of many companies who ignored the old axiom “The customer’s always right.”

That one extra step?

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for spilling the beans.  So, it doesn’t matter what the Republican primaries churn out – it will be a brokered (e.g., “smoke filled back room of Party hacks”):

N.H. Republican Power Broker Says NO Trump, NO Cruz – Promises Brokered Convention

So says former New Hampshire Republican governor Judd Gregg, a longtime and highly influential Republican power broker in the Granite State who during an interview with Neil Cavuto on the Fox Business network this morning declared all current polling in New Hampshire to be null and void, and the likelihood of anti-establishment GOP front-runners Donald Trump or Ted Cruz winning New Hampshire as unlikely.

Well, that will be of matter of opinion and most of them not your’s.  Be that as it may, though, it’s that last part about the convention that should be most concerning – a very good application of the Progressive “tell” – ‘we know what is best for you’.  Which generally means “better for us, who cares about you and what you think”.

Then he dropped a bombshell that clearly had Fox Business host Neil Cavuto a bit stunned.

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We’re in the BEST of hands!

New House Task Force Considers Push Against Presidential Overreach

House Republicans have put together a team to address what they consider unauthorized expansion of presidential power. In coming months, the Task Force on Executive Overreach will explore how Congress can begin to reassert its legislative authority.  But it’s not political. So says House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., who authorized the task force.

The effort is meant to address some of the habitual abuses against the constitutional separation of powers, he said.

Ay-yi-yi! Clutzes to the left of me, morons to the Right!  Hey, geniuses, it only took you SEVEN years to figure this out?  But here’s their big problem:

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Al Litizio and Dennis Senibaldi.  Remember, they started whimpering like feral curs after they attacked fellow Grokster Kimberly (as well as threatening GraniteGrok with legal proceedings).  We don’t cotton to that much around here.  As the Knight Templar said in Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail: “He [they] chose poorly”.  Now someone else has made the same decision.  Silly wabbit.

Yes, NH State Rep Joe LaChance who said that this past week to a little ole’ sweet Texan belle friend of our: Susan Olsen.  That would be OUR Susan Olsen as she was challenging him on being the Prime Sponsor (and perhaps, patsy) for the NH Republican cum Democrat Leadership cabal to continue foisting Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion, thinking that his fellow NH citizens are too stupid and will believe “NH taxpayers will never pay for this”.  What a dope – I guess he’s at the lower end of the scale for not realizing that most NH taxpayers are also FEDERAL taxpayers.  By being the Leadership’s scapegoat, thanks for picking my pocket (as well as condemning 10s of thousands of our fellow NH residents to Medicaid because if you fall into  its clutches YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PURCHASE their own insurance; that’s the law.

It’s not like these facts aren’t known – we’ve been blogging about Obamacare for years.  And just for the record, numbnuts, here’s the Supreme Court decision that said that Obamacare Medicaid Expansion is NOT mandatory settled law – that it was deemed to be unconstitutional and coercive to withhold other Federal funds because a State refused to expand their Medicaid Expansion.  Hey, I guess we could hold a class for both you AND NH State Senator Nancy Stiles who didn’t believe me either.

We’ll be HAPPY to give you an education.  Oh, that starts now –  

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That would be NH State Senator Jeb Bradley (and I wonder what NH State Rep Joe LaChance thinks of this?).  Boy, he’s turning into being the Poster Boy for Crony Capitalism – on the Government side.  Of COURSE they will give “voluntary” contributions.  He certainly can’t call them payoffs for his other bill that essentially made “no compete” areas for these same hospitals – rendering the CON-Board impotent.  So now they can charge what they want.  Steve has the info: Jeb Bradley’s Hospital Monopoly Bill

Jeb Bradley’s Health Care CON board bill is on the State Senate to-do list today. It sounds like your average, run-of-the-mill regulatory business as usual, which is usually bad enough. This particular bit of regulatory “business as usual” is much worse.  It will create health-care fiefdoms around the major players (Hospitals) in the state, dividing the territory like a crime family, and forcing other players to bow to the regulatory gods of Bradley Care or get out.

SB 481 will result in,

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I had to run out this morning to do a couple of errands for TMEW and while getting some gas ($1.94/gallon for mid-range!), met up with a long time Republican activist.  After chatting about this primary (we both agreed that this has been the wildest, most upside everyway one we’ve seen with Trump upending all of the regular “rules”.  The Internet became a disruptive force for a number of industries; he has done it in politics like Obama did starting in 2008 (Big Data analytics for the latter, celebrity and media manipulation for the former).

That said, he is disgusted with how the NH Republican Leadership are turning themselves in the Jr. Partners of the Democrat Party and to point, Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion here in NH (and certainly not limited to that, either).  He’s about to leave the Party because while it says it stands for one thing, its leadership (its elected officials in the NH House and Senate).  He also mentioned Kelly Ayotte, like what I received from her (front of the mailer envelope:

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