Maybe what I am saying seems like conspiracy theory because I am saying we are being steered toward a single candidate but the truth is that's what is happening. Right out in the open. Maybe I have watched and read too much on this election cycle but I mean, it seems totally twisted the things the Republicans are saying about their leading candidates. I understand nobody liking Ted Cruz and Donald Trump but I would think the Republican establishment would be sort of quiet on the subject as they are in the middle of a major election...but they are not!

I mean have you heard or read Republicans talk about Trump and Cruz? They can't stand them and they are not hiding it. They are openly searching for ways to create a contested convention. John Kasich, who seems a pretty reasonable and decent guy, has gone the same way each of the preferred candidates of the RNC went...once they picked him as their guy...well...none of their voters will vote for him. Literally, the death knell for a Republican candidate is to get the open backing of their party in this election. It quickly sunk Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and now honestly the best candidate the Republicans had on their ticket this year, John Kasich.

The Republicans are so screwed in this election it is hilarious. Their own voters have been giving them the finger through the entire process and honestly, I can't blame them. Donald Trump is having a field day with this and a large part of why the voters like Trump is because he pisses all over the Republicans and mocks them in the same way Republican voters want to. The Donald is saying what they want said.

The Republican party is in such a mess there have actually been conversations about splitting the party into two separate parties in the future. Now it's just talk but that's how screwed up they are. They have come to the realization that while they can win state elections they are not going to win a national election again. Not without some sort of major catastrophic event.

What sort of event? Maybe the Democrats leading candidate getting indicted during or after their convention. Or maybe having Hillary Clinton actually elected president and then impeaching her and turning her presidency into an ugly disaster.

The truth is if anybody puts the Democrats in a position where something horrible could happen it is Hillary Clinton.

I know you don't believe Hillary could get indicted but the Democrats have already planned for it. They have had conversations with Joe Biden about stepping in if an indictment for Hillary does come down. So, they would go with Biden over Bernie if that did happen...or at least try to. I would hope there would be a huge ugly fight if that takes place.

The DNC wants Bernie about as much as the RNC wants Trump or Cruz. And it is a fact, not a conspiracy theory, that they have done all they can to sink his campaign. Including having Democrats come out and say outrageous bullshit about the Sanders campaign being a "danger" to women in the Democratic party. Which most certainly was a strategy dreamed up by the Clinton campaign.

"I apologize for saying in my last post that your argument is not based on logic. It is. It's based on a logic to fit your narrative."

First, no apology required and second I am not creating my own narrative.

"If Bill gets impeached it's because the republicans despise him."

Ah, they do despise him but he was impeached for his own arrogance and stupidity...a Clinton trademark. He created a situation where they could get at him, that's primarily his own fault. He knew they could not stand him.

"If Hillary wins it's because the republicans are helping."

Do you think they are not helping Clinton when they openly announce they would rather take cyanide than elect their own two leading candidates? Do you think they are not helping Clinton when they say things like you could kill one of their own candidates on the Senate floor and nobody would convict you? Do you think that they are not helping Clinton when they call one of their own leading candidates Hitler, Lucifer, or a fascist? Do you think they are not helping Clinton when they openly announce they have no way to win this election and Hillary is certain to be the next president? Do you think they are not helping Clinton when they ask Rubio to use Trump style attacks against Trump to try and knock him down? Do you think they are not helping Clinton when they say they will back the Republican on the ticket but admit they won't be a good president? One of the Republican debates was nothing more than an open hit on Trump by the RNC to try to destroy him. It was hilariously over the top and they even wheeled in Dubya's daddy to glare at him the whole time because Trump had recently destroyed Jeb and made derogatory classless comments about basically the entire Bush family. Gore Vidal could not write sweaty overheated purple prose that would have outdone that actual debate. The truth in this case being if not stranger at least as lively as any fiction.

"But if she loses vis-a-vis an indictment it's because of republicans orchestrating her downfall."

Well, had they not subpoenaed her for her emails because of the Benghazi witch hunt they may not now have her under FBI investigation for her private email and server. So, that is again not a conspiracy it is just what happened. Like Bill though she created that situation for herself through blatant stupidity and arrogance. Nobody made her set up her private email and server to store and transmit classified information from an unsecure location, attempt to keep this a secret, then delete half her emails as soon as she discovered they wanted to see them, then give the server to a company not authorized to have it, and give classified information to both that company and her attorney who also was not authorized to have it...all of these things constituting crimes that would immediately cause her to be unable to ever again hold a top level security clearance...hence making her automatically unqualified to be president of the United States.

"Or Obama won because the establishment backed him although Hillary and Bill are the establishment."

They are a heavy influence on the establishment and yes, the DNC backed Obama...again, not a conspiracy just what happened.

"My head is spinning from the contortions."

Really, there are no contortions.

"The thing is Reg (and Messy you muppet) - is I don't necessarily disagree with the fact that Bill and Hillary have amassed considerable power within the democratic establishment and are wielding it gloriously in this primary season."

They are and they are more desperate this time because Hillary can't wait another 8 years to run again. All the chips are on the table for her right now.

"What I don't agree with (and frankly consider in the bin of conspiracy) is this grand scheme you envision of a lust for power and greed foisting Hillary upon us."

The media and the DNC and the Republican establishment all seem pretty united in the idea that Hillary should be the next president. I am not inventing that. The media has always treated Bernie like a joke and as soon as they saw he actually presented a challenge they wanted to portray him as a crazy old man that does not know what he is talking about with a bunch of nasty sexist followers...frankly, they could not be more ridiculously biased and full of shit.

"Reg - she's overwhelmingly winning the popular vote among registered democrats."

Dan - as much as you think I am creating conspiracy theories it seems to me you are repeating Clinton campaign talking points. That's one of them. They keep talking about how she is "winning" (Trump does this too, they seem to like his playbook) but the fact is that lead comes from "winning" states in the South where they hold some crazed idea that Bernie lives in the Kremlin and black voters have no clue who he is. Once all the voting is done I'm pretty sure the popular vote is going to be pretty close.

"And what you call a seemingly sure bet being postponed by Sanders - I see as the democratic process. He's no sacrificial lamb lying down."

Nor should he be, it is important to keep him in the race because he keeps the focus on what needs to be accomplished and he has energized voters in a positive way that no other candidate has.

"He's fighting - winning some and losing more. But that's what's supposed to happen."

Yes, and it is a good fight, a righteous fight that has meaning and is about actually turning things around in our country.

"In the end Reg - she's winning and he's not. And that ain't no conspiracy."

Sanders won again yesterday in Indiana. Thankfully, voters in Indiana have not thrown in the towel on Bernie. No, there is no conspiracy...all of the things I have discussed are just what is taking place.