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Mitt Romney speaks out against Donald Trump in Salt Lake City, March 3, 2016.

They’re only making it worse…for themselves that is. I’m speaking about the GOP establishment and it’s lame orchestrated attacks on Donald Trump. Trump, it would seem, is their worst nightmare come true. He’s the raging bull trashing their finely cultivated china shop. And, needless to say, they’re not about to take it lying down. Only given how transparent and ineffective their shots at Trump have been, lying down just might be their best option.

Take for example the missive released by CNBC on the morning of March 2, the day after Trump’s decisive Super Tuesday victories. In the article, titled Why Trump can’t be president,
author Julissa Acre calls Trump a sexist, a racist and a bigot. And not content with that, she smears his supporters with the same.

Now far be it from me to defend the Donald’s many outrageous statements or his desire to erect the Great Wall of the Rio Grande. But is Trump really so much worse than putative Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton that he warrants such an attack? It seems to me, no. If fact, if presidential politics were a high school yearbook, Clinton would be a shoe in to win the coveted most-likely-to-be-indicted award. There hasn’t been more guilty looking public figure than Hillary Clinton since, well, Bill Clinton. But CNBC didn’t see fit to run a hit piece titled Why Clinton can’t be president. No, they reserved that honor for Trump.

Why this is so may well be found in Acre’s bio listed at the bottom of her column. For in it we find that Acre is an alum of Bailout Inc., DBA Goldman Sachs. Acre, we read, worked, “her way up to vice president at Goldman Sachs by age 27 while being an undocumented immigrant from Mexico.” I realize it’s difficult to keep up with all Hillary’s scandals. There are just so many of them. Who can keep them straight? But one of the most prominent recent dust ups surrounding her campaign concerns the $675,000 per pop speaking fees she has received from Goldman Sachs. As a good investment bank, Goldman expects a return on its investment in Hillary. Just what the quid pro quo will be, who can say. Maybe it’s earnest money for the next round of bailouts. But whatever the case, after such a big investment, would you really expect to see a former Goldman employee post an anti-Clinton jeremiad on the most mainstream of mainstream financial websites? To ask the question is to answer it.

And while we’re on the topic, it’s worth noting that while Acre evidently has talent for finance, her sense of public relations is remarkably poor. After all, although America’s immigration laws are badly flawed, they’re the most generous in the world. So she might want to show a little respect for the American people and their laws by not throwing her illegal immigrant status in their faces. Some folks just might see that as proof positive Trump’s on the right track.

Today, former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney joined the anti-Trump orchestra, going hard after the GOP frontrunner in a speech in Salt Lake City. Speaking of Trump, Romney accused him of being “a phony, a fraud” and held that his “promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.” Coming from Romney, that’s really something. In my more than thirty years of observing politics, rarely have I seen a more self-evident tool of establishment special interests than Romney. His speaking style is wooden and uninspiring. His policy prescriptions, forgettable. And to hear him refer to anyone as a phony and fraud, well that’s just laugh out loud funny. Really, Romney just needs to go away. Let him rake in at Bain Capital. Maybe he can join Jeb! on his yacht where they can drown their sorrows together. It’s of no public concern what he chooses to do with his time. But whatever path he elects to take, for decency’s sake, please let him stay out of the public eye. By running Romney out there as they did, the GOP elders tip their hand, making manifest to all the world how desperate they are to stop Trump. And it is an unseemly sight to behold.

The folks in power in the country just don’t get it. For years, for decades, maybe for much longer, they’ve played the game of saying one thing to get elected only to turn around and govern another way. And people are sick of the scam. Recently I was reminded of an Abraham Lincoln quote that is apropos the situation facing the so-called masters of the universe.

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.

Note to the establishment: Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio won’t save you. Nobody cares what they say. I could point out that dumping tens of millions of dollars into the campaign coffers of Jeb! won’t do the trick either, but you probably already have figured that out for yourselves. It comes down to this: You, the establishment, Republican and Democrat alike, have come dangerously close to forfeiting the confidence of everyday Americans. If you really want to stop Trump, you may want to start, not by treating us to more of the same nonsense that has gotten the country into its current mess, but by speaking the truth. Not by running more globalist, politically correct stiffs straight out of Council of Foreign Relations central casting, but actual American patriots who care about the country. Not by sending us men bent on rigging the system in favor of the well-heeled corporatist donor class, but those who are serious about defending the rule of law and the Constitution of the United States for the good of all Americans. Truth is simple. It’s the lies that are hard. Stop it already. For the good of the county, and for your own as well.