STOPPING THE LYING SWINE LIBERAL MEDIA

Would you invite someone into your home who you knew to be a thief and a rapist?

Of course not. So why are Republicans permitting the Lying Swine liberal media to pick their nominee for president?

If Donald Trump prevails in Cleveland, it’ll be all she wrote for the GOP, and for the constitutional republic our Founding Fathers gave us. But if we’re spared this awful fate – and I think we will – we need to examine why we came so close to catastrophe, and to figure out what we must do to keep this from happening again.

The Lying Swine have given Trump about $2 billion worth of free publicity, roughly six times as much as they’ve given all the other Republican presidential candidates combined.  Interviewers ask the Donald mostly softball questions, permit him to bloviate at length, rarely call him on his outrageous misstatements of fact.

As the propaganda arm of the Democrat National Committee, the “mainstream” media do this mostly because they want the GOP to nominate the weakest possible candidate for the general election, and partly because as a celebrity, Trump draws viewers and readers.

Whatever their motivations, the performance of the Lying Swine has been despicable. Never before has “news” coverage been so shallow and biased.

Sadly, this is as true of much of the so-called “conservative” media.  Despite knowing what he was really like, radio talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage promoted the Donald as an anti-establishment figure.  On the eve of many primaries, Sean Hannity broadcast an hour long infomercial with Trump.  They have allowed themselves to become “useful idiots” for the Lying Swine.

There isn’t much Republicans can do about media bias. But it is imperative for GOP leaders to stop pretending it doesn’t exist. The Lying Swine are the enemy – our foremost enemy.  They must be treated as such.  The Republican National Committee must stop enabling the Lying Swine to sabotage us by pretending they are honest brokers.

*Never again should the Lying Swine be permitted to “moderate” a GOP debate. The RNC should pick responsible conservative journalists such as Charles Krauthammer and George Will, the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes, National Review’s Rich Lowry and Jim Geraghty, who would ask fair, substantive questions.

The Lying Swine would threaten not to cover the debates if they weren’t sponsoring them.  The RNC should call their bluff. Better to have a fair, substantive debate broadcast on CSPAN than a biased “debate” on CNN.

*Cattle shows are not debates.  Trump got a big leg up because the sheer size of the GOP field prohibited serious discussions of substantive issues.

Every Tom, Dick and Harry and their grandmothers have a right to run for president, but the RNC is under no obligation to put them all on stage. GOP debates should begin in August of the year preceding, as they did this cycle.  For the first three debates (August, September, October) all candidates should be included.

But in November, only candidates with at least 5 percent support in the polls should be included.  In December, it should be 6 percent, and so on.  This would eliminate tragic-comedies like the Ben Carson campaign.

*Trump’s candidacy was buoyed in early primaries by Democrats crossing over to vote for him. Some did so because they think Trump would be the easiest to beat in November, others because they genuinely support him. (Trump has been a Democrat most of his life.)

Whatever their reasons, Democrats shouldn’t play so disproportionate a role in selecting the Republican nominee.  Participation in most early primaries and caucuses should be restricted to registered Republicans only.

*The primary schedule should be spread out more. Massing primaries together, as on “Super Tuesday,” is a mistake.  It changes contests from between candidates to between the candidates’ advertising agencies, and plays into the hands of the Lying Swine.

*Winner take all primaries should be permitted only when the winner takes a majority of the vote.  Best are winner take all by congressional district, with the statewide delegates going to the winner statewide (like Wisconsin’s next Tuesday).

*All Republican Senators, Representatives and governors should automatically be delegates.  Yes, elected officials are the “establishment.” But they are more representative of the views of the party and of their constituents than Trumpkins blogging in their underwear in their parents’ basement.  And they are in a better position to judge which of the presidential candidates are the most qualified.

However it’s done, the game needs to be changed to disallow the Lying Swine to control our political process from now on.

Jack Kelly is a former Marine and Green Beret, and was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force during the Reagan Administration.  He is the national security writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette