Posted on 03/30/2016 11:26:35 AM PDT by Kaslin
Donald Trump is a boor. He's a vulgarian, a liar, an ignoramus. He has only the most cursory grasp of policy, a stentorian voice and a great big set of self-assurance. He's winning the Republican nomination.
Why?
It is partly because of the Clintons.
While the media point and laugh at the Trump reality show carnival, they forget that the Clintons originally took us all to the circus. This week, we found out that Hillary Clinton's email scandal now occupies the attention of 147 FBI agents, and that she will be questioned by the FBI. We found out that her pig husband allegedly snorted cocaine off the table of one of his former lovers in 1983, as well as gallivanted around her place wearing her nightie while playing the saxophone. And the indispensable Judicial Watch released information that the Obama administration is withholding draft indictments of Hillary Clinton, including an indictment over the Whitewater case during her husband's first term in office.
Nobody bat an eye.
This is the world to which Americans have become accustomed. We've been immunized to scandal. It's difficult to come up with a scandal that could damage Trump. Caught in bed with two hookers? That's just because he's got such lovely hands. Caught beating a dog with a tire iron? The man has passion. Trump is the apex of black socks politics. As the old children's rhyme goes: "Black socks, they never get dirty,/ the longer you wear them, the blacker they get."
We all embraced black socks politics thanks to the Clintons.
The Clintons dragged the office of the presidency through the muck. Now, they're trying to rehabilitate themselves at the expense of Trump. It won't work. Trump doesn't even pretend to have standards: He cheated on his first wife with his second, his second with his third, and presumably at some point will cheat on his third with his fourth (should he live so long). But nobody cares.
Meanwhile, the National Enquirer runs a sourceless, evidenceless story about Senator Ted Cruz, R-TX, supposedly shtupping a series of women not his wife, and the media go ballistic. That's because it's significantly more dangerous in this political day and age to have standards than to abandon all standards before you get started. Bill Clinton can get away with being human because nobody expects anything else. But so can Hillary Clinton, and so can Trump. Those who aspire to something higher have farther to fall.
And so, we're going to be increasingly treated to a series of candidates from both sides of the aisle with checkered pasts and no principles. After all, principles tie you down, force you to behave and put you in the awkward position of having to act decently. Better to skip the standards and go straight for the scandal. If you have enough of them early on and often enough, your candidacy becomes downright unkillable, like an antibiotic-resistant virus.
Hence Trump. Hence Clinton. Hence prospective presidential candidates Kanye West, Kim Kardashian and Jenna Jameson. Why not? After all, at least they're not hypocrites. They're exactly who they say they are. No scandal can touch them
Please STOP! You are embarrassing Anton!
Then why didn’t you simply come out and say that, rather than the stupid photos.
LOL! You're apparently unaware that Ben Shapiro hisownself aided and abetted the Special Snowflake Princess of the Trump Bunny Boilers, Michelle Fields:
Oh My! Michelle Fields and Ben Shapiro Resign from Breitbart after Fudging Story about Trump Campaign Manager
Jim Hoft Mar 14th, 2016 1:58 am
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/03/oh-my-michelle-fields-and-ben-shapiro-resign- from-breitbart-after-her-fudging-story-about-trump-campaign-manager/
BEN SHAPIRO, #CRUZSEXSCANDAL, AND THE WILKS BROTHERS
LAST UPDATED 3/25/2016 4:10PM PST
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3414180/posts?page=126#126
[hat-tip to freeper digger48]
I'm unfamiliar with Shapiro's earlier insults against the Name of Trump. Maybe he's a stopped clock today--who cares? He has made a critically important observation about current conditions on the battlefield of culture. Let's learn from it.
Now, hopefully - you're familiar. :)
I guess you've never seen my analogy about Trump and the media.
The left-wing media is what I call the Media DeathStar (from the original Star Wars trilogy).
Trump is the only one who has been able to withstand the blast from the Media DeathStar's main armament.
They're flummoxed - because all before him have been blasted to burnt atoms. If you'd like, I can go down the list of mostly Republicans who've been destroyed by the Media DeathStar. :)
dirtboy replied: That article is from March 2nd. Trump has since won several closed primaries. Nice try, troll.
caveat emptor replied to dirtboy: Name them trumpette.
dirtboy replied to caveat emptor: You can’t be serious, troll, but here they are: Florida, Arizona, Hawaii, Louisiana, and Kentucky.
Hoist by his own retard, caveat emptor replied: troll? FU.
Basking in the warmth of a troll bonfire, dirtboy replied: Ah, so you make a bogus claim with a month-old article, don’t have your facts straight, yet whine and curse when called a troll for pulling such nonsense. Smells like a troll to me.
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That was so good, I had to post it again. LOL! :)
dirtboy FTTW!!!
[Warning: set your drink down before you click the link, dirtboy! :)]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3411057/posts?page=115#115
Oh, the irony...
Thanks for the callout.
I really wish folks would stick to facts.
Still a great graphic! 8^)
All no doubt true, why not. But it's irrelevant. For conservatives to pick fights with other conservatives is dangerous for the cause this time of year. This campaign should have been a gentlemanly competition to pick the most potent standard-bearer, like Jim Buckley vs. Pat Moynihan for US Senate back in the day. Instead of a pie fight.
The street-wise approach is also the Christian one: "Don't start nothin', won't be nothin'." Except you have to not respond for a while until the other guy gets the idea. I don't know if this Shapiro is much of a conservative. But if he's a RINO, why fight him when he happens to be right? We really will need to close ranks. Gotta happen soon, or we'll be worse off than we have been under Presidente Zero.
Trump does what he does for the free media.
Not for any other reason.
Just because Shapiro's understanding of the situation is shallow, doesn't give him a pass...
Not for any other reason.
Trump has been a vulgarian and blowhard all his life. It comes naturally to him. And God bless him for it. He's done a lot of great things.
Shapiro is right, not in explaining Trump's motivation or appeal, but describing the political culture that made Trump conceivable as a candidate--essentially, a TV star who had more than a decade of experience drawing a mass audience, rather than bowing to PC weenies. It's a cultural revolution, and maybe Trump will make it work to our advantage.
You may call Shapiro's point shallow, but sometimes the truth is simple. I remember the days when the talking heads were shocked that TV ads were becoming a factor in the Presidential race.
I've known of him most of my life, and never thought ill of him.
WHAT!??! No flame war?!!! :)
Now that's funny. (Way funnier than Scrooge McDuck.)
I too am shocked by the lack of flame war, but I'll get over it.
God bless and don't forget to vote,
SS
Ted Cruz is the Sgt Bergdahl of the Conservative Movement.
Yup, teddy embraced the jeb! endorsement. cruz is one with the Uniparty.
Grow up. You make a comment to me with name calling, then get your knickers in a knot when I respond to the slur. Pffft.
The named primaries didn’t amount to much as regards being “closed”. One allowed same day registration as a Republican and three others allowed about a month before “closing” them. Only Kentucky allowed just over two months. Pffft.
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