Unholy Alliance Holds Majority of Votes in SC

TGIF Friends,

It's the day before the Republican primary in South Carolina, and the race is tightening up. Donald Trump's lead, according to one poll, is a mere 5% and shrinking.

But who's crawling up his posterior? It's not Marco Rubio, John Kasich, or Jeb! Bush. No, they continue to battle for third place under some kind of delusion that a strong third-place finish in every state will get you the nomination. It won't.

No, in second place with a bullet is none other than the alternate wingnut in the GOP race...Senator Ted Cruz; a man who doesn't have one endorsement from any of his colleagues.

Here is a man who's early in the game playing some nasty tricks on his primary opponents, like distributing a photoshopped picture of Marco Rubio shaking President Obama's hand and beaming.

His campaign staff spread false rumors that Ben Carson had dropped out of the race just days before the Iowa Caucuses, possibly influencing some voters to stay home.

And Cruz pulls all his ethically questionably moves while propping himself up on his Bible, making him far worse than your garden-variety hypocrite in my opinion.

Ted Cruz is moving up in the polls in South Carolina. Donald Trump is filing
a lawsuit claiming the unfair advantage of his opponent's prior celebrity.

But the point of today's post is not about how sketchy Ted Cruz's morality is.

Today's post is about my observation, which nobody seems to be talking about, that between Cruz and Donald Trump is a combined 51% bloc of the South Carolina Republican electorate,

That's a majority, and if you throw in the 6% of  votes that fringe candidate Ben Carson will garner, there's a big majority of voters who don't want to see an establishment candidate.

This is very bad news for Rubio, Kasich, and Bush.

If this trend continues nationally, a route to victory for any of these "establishment" candidates is virtually impossible--and actually impossible if they all stay in the race.

Meantime, even though the rhetoric between Cruz and Trump has been pretty vitriolic lately, it's got to be obvious to the mother of all deal makers that the two of them control an invincible block.

I believe they've already struck a deal.

I stand by my original prediction that the two of them will wind up on the same ticket. You'll be seeing Trump/Cruz bumper stickers in September.