Throughout the last seven years, Republican leadership has failed the GOP. Much of it can be blamed on Mitch McConnell and John Boehner for allowing extremists to take control of the House, and a segment of the Senate. They allowed the party to move so far to the right that effective government was impossible.

Reince Priebus is the Chairman of the Republican National Committee; or maybe that’s soon to be past tense. His failed attempt, in consort with FOX Noise President Roger Ailes, to derail Donald Trump during the first GOP ‘debate’ marked the beginning of the end for the once Grand Old Party.

Panic has not subsided; it is growing in intensity. The Republican base is appalled at the fact that their two least favorite offerings for 2016, Donald Trump, and Ted Cruz, are running away with the party.

The party mainstream was sure that by the Iowa Caucus Jeb Bush would be the front runner; or at least Marco Rubio would be a serious contender.

“There’s a mounting sense of urgency among donors that the weak performers need to go ahead and get out,” said Steven Law, the president of American Crossroads, a Republican “super PAC.”

“These guys are so busy fighting one another that they’re only continuing to facilitate the rise of Trump and Cruz,” complained Representative Tom Cole, Republican of Oklahoma, a longtime Republican strategist.

A compilation of the latest national polls gives Trump 36.2 percent, and Cruz 19.3 percent nationally. Rubio is a distant third at 11 percent and Bush in fifth place with only five percent. In Iowa Trump has 33 percent; Cruz 26. Rubio’s percentage is 11 percent indicative of the GOP’s greatest fear that the party’s nomination has become a two-man race.

Thursday night FOX Noise will host another GOP debate, just four days before the Iowa caucus. I hadn’t planned to watch another ‘yell-fest,’ but I’m anxious to see the efforts of the Republican establishment to derail Trump and Cruz.

Another humorous event could be a renewal of the verbal battle between Trump and faux-journalist Megyn Kelly. It’s always amusing when two ‘witless’ individuals do battle.

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By James Turnage

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