Yep, I know how this is played, I saw it happening with Romney. Fall guy Romney then went to the WH for his payoff.
Not to blow his cover, he put up a hell of a fight in the primaries.
Except recall that Romney worked with Obama's media to help them destroy every single Conservative in the race, and before the campaign even began, to destroy Sarah Palin so she could't even get in the race.
This whole ordeal was an orchestration - because the Ruling Class Marxists and the Ruling Class Elites knew where the power was going to lie in a velvet coup - and they wanted to make sure they got to share in it.