Posted on 03/19/2016 9:56:14 AM PDT by rickmichaels
All my friends are asking me if there’s any way Donald Trump can get elected president. My answer is to cross my fingers and say no.
I say this because I believe the American people are not, ultimately, batshit crazy. Mr. Trump appeals to their lizard brain. I believe, perhaps naively, that most voters will still possess some remnant of executive function on election day.
Conrad Black does not agree with me. The normally astute Mr. Black has been shilling for Mr. Trump for some time now. Perhaps it’s the mischievous contrarian in him. Or perhaps it’s because Mr. Trump stood up for Mr. Black during his recent troubles, and he owes him. At any rate, Mr. Black writes that “Donald Trump is very close to one of the most astonishing political victories in American history.”
A better bet is that Donald Trump will lead the Republican Party (or what’s left of it) into the abyss. It will be the worst rout since Barry Goldwater lost to Lyndon Johnson in 1964 by 23 percentage points.
I’m assuming Mr. Trump gets the nomination. I can’t see how he won’t. But the electoral math is dreadful. Demographics are not on the GOP’s side. Angry white guys are a shrinking minority of the population. Perhaps half of all Republicans dislike Mr. Trump, and won’t vote for him. Thoughtful people in the party (there are some) believe a Trump nomination will be suicide. The ethical ones will fight him to the bitter end. The opportunistic ones will try to explain why the guy who was a nation-wrecker yesterday is just the man the country needs tomorrow.
Mr. Trump will be opposed by the entire mainstream media except Fox News. Which, come to think of it, might work to his advantage.
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
Ms. Wente: Would you care to enjoy some cheese with your whine?
Sour grapes make the best whine.
WAPO columnist Milbank said he would eat his column if Trump is nominated.
Mr. Trump will be opposed by the entire mainstream media except Fox News
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Mr Trump is already opposed by the entire Ministry Of Propaganda including Fox News
And he is still winning
From the article
“…(Hillary Clinton will) have to keep reminding people she’s the sane one. Maybe she could dig up that daisy ad from 1964 – the one warning that Mr. Goldwater was loony enough to push the nuclear button.”
I’m sure all the Middle Eastern Christians who have been raped and killed largely due to the horrifying Obama/Clinton “Arab Spring” policies will be relieved to hear that Hillary is the “sane one”.
Please stay the hell up in Canada Margaret, and see if you can get a bunch more of your arrogant deluded socialist pals to join you up there.
And that Goldwater “daisy” ad won’t work this time. Too bad your side hasn’t had a fresh idea since 1964.
A void was created when Stephen Harper was defeated by the Justin Trudeau merchants of change. This was last August 19th. Even though the popular vote for the Trudeau Liberals was 39%. Seemingly no more Harper to daily carp against.
Now they have discovered Trump. Their insulated existence will not be disturbed, Trump or not. They will go on living far above the style of the average Canadian. What ails them is hard to fathom. A Canadian grass roots description of the Globe and Mail is "The Groan and Wail".
Enough said!
...and I hope she choked on every bite....
Canada isn’t exactly known for good cuisine being the kissing cousins of the English and French. I can only imagine eating her column might actually taste better.
Well, apparently we are. The evidence is that we elected Barack Obama not once, but TWICE.
With Trump, we're just taking our country back.
In 2012 Wente was found to have plagiarized on a number of occasions. She was suspended from writing her column, but later reinstated.
Wente was born in Evanston, Illinois. After graduating from University of Michigan, noticing that the USA was in a "dark phase, torn apart by the politics of Vietnam" (p 7), she chose to live and work in Canada.
Wente joined The Globe and Mail in 1986. She has been editor of the paper's business section, the ROB [Report on Business], and managing editor of the paper.[3] Her columns have appeared in the Globe and Mail since 1992, and she has been a full-time columnist for the paper since 1999. She is a frequent commentator on television and radio, and has won several journalism awards.
Incidents of plagiarism
In September 2012, Wente was found to have committed plagiarism by Carol Wainio, a blogger and artist who accused Wente of lifting quotes and rewording passages from published sources without credit.[4] Wainio documents on her blog, Media Culpa, a series of columns and articles published from 2009 to 2012, which plagiarize sources including the Ottawa Citizen, the New York Times and Foreign Affairs.[5][6] On 21 September 2012, the Globe and Mail's public editor addressed the allegations, conceding that "there appears to be some truth to the accusations but not on every charge."[7]
The Globe and Mail subsequently took unspecified punitive actions against Wente for a column written in 2009. Editor John Stackhouse acknowledged that "the journalism in this instance did not meet the standards of The Globe and Mail," noting that the work in question was "unacceptable." However, Wente continued to write for the Globe and Mail.[8] Wente herself wrote a column to defend herself against accusations of being a "serial plagiarist" but acknowledged she was "extremely careless".[9] She took a break from writing her column for a week. On 11 October she resumed with a column explaining her actions and offered an apology.[10]
She was also suspended from CBC Radio where she appeared as a biweekly media panelist on the program Q due to her not meeting the CBC's journalistic standards as a result of the 2009 incident.[11] Wikipedia
Like Europe, Canada has gotten basically a free ride to be as socialist as it wanted to while the US underwrote their national defense by virtue of proximity. If the same amount of sunshine was placed on how they deal with their French and Native tribe problems, they wouldn’t have a lot of extra air to pontificate about American politics.
We could say that Margaret just did not go, she WENTE.
Really? I always thought it was called "The Mop and Pail". Regardless, it used to be a decent enough paper but it has gone sooo far left. Mind you, it's a Toronto paper and even the National Post has gone leftward. Only the Toronto Sun remains as being readable....
No no no. Electing Obama showed that Americans are an enlightened people. Sarcasm.
.....it has abdicated as the world's leading guarantor of global stability and defender of liberal democracy.
A half crazed "Canadian" called Hassan Ali rushed into a military facility last week and tried to stab three servicemen. Slightly injured them. Eight men rushed him and he is in hospital. The press and police bent over backwards, delaying his name and his utterances.
Switch to the Toronto Sun and their header. It is Terrorism in wacking great headlines, quoth they.
The Toronto Sun certainly has its shortcomings but at least they call terrorism what it is. Do you subscribe to The Rebel? http://www.therebel.media/
Bookmarked. Thanks!
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