Death of an Icon - Ted is Dead!

Not since the death of Brutus in the final scene of Julius Caesar has one seen such a prolific and unnecessary suicide committed on a grand stage. But unlike Brutus' ill fated death, Ted Cruz's didn't have the help of Strato - instead he stood alone, disgraced and boo'd by thousands in attendance in Cleveland.  The scene was surreal. A man who had been given a golden opportunity to rise to the occasion and seize the moment given him on a silver platter instead chose the path of narcissism.  Indeed - Ted is Dead!

And it's all really unfortunate.

Last week I watched C-SPANs airing of the 1976 Republican Convention.  It was refreshing to see Walter Cronkite alive again. And to watch real journalistic coverage of the full-blown chicanery of that heavily contested convention.  But what really struck me was how then-Governor Ronald Reagan conducted himself when the votes didn't go his way.  He didn't throw a temper tantrum, he didn't storm out and take his ball and go home, he didn't get up on the stage or go out in a dark alley in front of a microphone and undermine Gerald Ford.  Instead he stood up as a loyal Republican, accepted defeat and endorsed Gerald Ford.  In turn, President Ford magnanimously brought Ronald Reagan on stage who enthusiastically addressed the crowd encouraging them to go all out for Ford - for the good of the Party and for the good of the country.  Quite a contrast from the self-serving, ever-shrinking character of Ted Cruz.

Without rehashing it all here, Speaker Paul Ryan, Governor Mike Pence and others have explained the problem and what's at stake - the Supreme Court, our faltering economy, a disastrous national security, Islamic invasion, deficit rising and on and on. It's clear that we have a binary choice between Crooked Hillary and Donald J. Trump.  It's a choice between continuing down the road to ruin and the hope of a bright future.

Ted Cruz doesn't see it that way.  All he sees is me, myself and I. The ultimate master of self-aggrandizement And just to think - some of you thought Donald Trump had the biggest ego. Well, we all had that one wrong.

What Ted Cruz does next is not known. It's all but certain that the Senate's loneliest Senator will be encouraged by the Republican elite to continue to act out and undermine the ticket. The Bushes, the Romneys, the Kasichs, the clowns at National Review and anyone else who has a beef with Donald Trump will continue working their scheme even if it means putting Hillary and Bill back in the White House.  Lucky for us as powerful as they are, their behavior is checked by We The People.  And there will be hell to pay when this is over and Trump is sitting in the Oval Office.  For all his newfound discovery of our Old Tyme Religion I can't imagine that Forgive and Forget is one of his newly adopted virtues.  Nor should it be.  After all - he broke the pledge.

There will be no curtain call for Pompous Lyin' Ted. There will be no endearing eulogy.  Nor will there be a legitimate Mark Antony standing to defend Cruz as "the noblest of them all."  Instead Ted Cruz and his legacy will die on the trash heap of pretended conviction.  And for all the wrong reasons his future will be no more.

It's time to put the naysaying power-grubbing elitists out to pasture and sunset the GOP of old once and for all.  It's time to make America safe again, put America back to work again, make America first again, and make America great again. It's time to unify this Grand Old Party and stand behind and elect Republican Donald Trump and Mike Pence to the White House.

I AM,

THE KING

Rosie booted!

A few weeks ago, this writer called for ABC's The View to boot Rosie O'Donnell.

Well, it looks as though "her largeness" is getting the boot. Apparently, her little rant at the Matrix awards last month embarrassed the Disney Company and was probably the straw that broke the camel's back. Rosie made off color remarks that didn't fit in at the Woman's Communication Conference.

The spin going around promulgated by Rosie and her lacky, Barbara Walters, is that they couldn't come to terms on Rosie's contract, but we all know that just smoke and mirrors so Rosie can save face publically. Expect the truth that ABC nor Disney didn't want Rosie around and they found a "nice way" to get her out.

The folks at the site with the petition to fire Rosie also deserve credit in this regard. Nice job guys (and gals)!

And Kudos to Donald Trump for his prediction that Rosie would be thown overboard by ABC and Disney, and for his standing up to her over the last six months.

Everyone should expect that Rosie's liberal friends and large network of socialist-minded thinkers will bail her out and find her a new spot somewhere - perhaps as rumors suggest - at CBS. She will probably increase the ratings of any failing show at the onset, but sponsors and networks will have to deal with the uproar and revenue loss due to Rosie's outrageous opinions - most notably, her calling President Bush a traitor, and conspiracy theories about 9/11 being orchestrated by the US Government, and her comments that the hostage situation in Iran last month was nothing more than a US-British instigation aimed at starting a war with Iran.

This kind of baloney is what will be the downfall of the next network that picks up left-wing activist Rosie.