Posted on 07/11/2015 1:08:55 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Readers keep asking me about the presidential race, and to be honest my heart sinks. Yes, yes, I know it's important to elect a Republican candidate because, if nothing else, as we're always told, they get to nominate strong candidates to the Supreme Court - like, er, Anthony Kennedy and, um, John Roberts. So that said:
Because for many years the only TV station I could get in my corner of New Hampshire was Channel 3 Vermont (with its excellent local news show anchored by the late and much missed Marselis Parsons), I've been watching Bernie Sanders since he was Mayor of Burlington. His rise from mayor to congressman to senator embodies what one might call the Ben&Jerrification of a once great and rock-ribbed Republican state. A New York Jew with a very urban accent, Bernie started in the latte enclave of Chittenden County, expanded to other semi-flatlandered quartiers of the state, but eventually conquered the plaid-clad hold-out of the North-East Kingdom. He did all this as an "independent socialist" without any party machine.
So he's not just an attractive gadfly but an extremely well organized one. Which is why a man who is largely unknown to the national media is pulling the largest crowds of this campaign - 10,000 in Wisconsin, 8,000 in Maine. And he's being very positive - it's all about Bernie, very little about Hillary. He would be the oldest man ever elected president and 83 years old at the end of two terms - which we won't have to worry about because the entire country will have slid off the cliff long before then. But he's enthusing the base, and any base wants to be enthused
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
I. Vermont has long been infested with NYC leftists.
II. The U.S. and the World suffers the manifestations of the projections of the psychopath in the White House - skin color and gender have nothing to do with anything.
III. Republicans are no friends of the principles of the U.S.
Hillary is the Rasputin of Democrat Politics.
BTTT. Steyn has a way of eloquently making reality stark and plain and undeniable.
I would say otherwise.
Rasputin had boundless charisma. Hillary has none.
Some say ‘charisma’, others say ‘hypnotic’. The hypnotic part not being a good thing. More nefarious, devious and mind controlling.
With Hillary, it’s not exactly ‘hypnotic’. More like Mafioso and the threat of death, but there are hypnotic-like results, and some of the underlings’ performances are virtually trance-like.
Steyn speaks the truth which is unpleasant, as he points out, to all Rats and 2/3’s of RINO’s. That leaves the rest of us.
What ever happened to Andrew McCarthy?
Everything stated in that quote would still be true if “Jeb” replaced “hillary”.
AGreed. BTTT
Hillary! is the Dracula, in the Bram Stoker sense, of both Democrat and American politics.
Rasputin had boundless charisma. Hillary has none.
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She does with fat, old angry women.
Good posting...Steyn is saying, essentially, what I’ve been saying, which is that the country, and ESPECIALLY REPUBLICAN VOTERS want this Amnesty/Open Borders/Sanctuary City crap to end, but not even the leadership of our party will lift a finger.
So Trump may not be the next Reagan, but one of the reasons Reagan was Reagan was that he was NOT AFRAID to talk the issues that were putting the country at risk (the Soviet military buildup, at the time), while the Republican Establishment was SCARED TO DEATH that Reagan might antagonize the Soviets.
So, when (really if) the Republicans in Congress TAKE LEADERSHIP of this issue and the Republicans running for President join them, then I’ll jump off the Trump bandwagon.
But so far, the Republican leadership (and most of the candidates) are in bed with the Open Borders types, so Trump is the ONLY GAME IN TOWN.
...but as I point out just above, Trump can be stopped - but only if Republicans start LISTENING to their voters, and so far, there’s no sign of that.
I’d bet that my ex phb-ette LAN administrator is nothing but ga ga over Hillary.
Hillary is a looker compared to the hag I finally escaped from.
Their children have moved over the border to NH.
-——A New York Jew——
There it is...... the primary reason for hating Bernie. Being New York is bad enough but being a Jew to boot is reason to barf at his candidacy.
Conservative Jews should not take offense nor take it personally. They are a breed apart. Their rational thinking is not under attack
Then there is the donald. He made himself rich dealing and screwing New York Jews. That’s who he is and what he does. Alas, he found the Chinamen to be a greater challenge. He never got the best of them and there fore condemns those who bested him
Being a new yorker is all the reason needed to be rejected by real Americans that lack the provencial manhatten values
I think Trump will know how to “negotiate” with the Muslims. Islam is a serious threat to our nation.
Hillary’s minions are mindless clones, but the crowds that show up for her speeches have been handpicked and paid for their trouble.
His rise from mayor to congressman to senator embodies what one might call the Ben&Jerrification of a once great and rock-ribbed Republican state. A New York Jew with a very urban accent, Bernie started in the latte enclave of Chittenden County, expanded to other semi-flatlandered quartiers of the state, but eventually conquered the plaid-clad hold-out of the North-East Kingdom. He did all this as an "independent socialist" without any party machine.
So he's not just an attractive gadfly but an extremely well organized one. Which is why a man who is largely unknown to the national media is pulling the largest crowds of this campaign - 10,000 in Wisconsin, 8,000 in Maine
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