Posted on 08/21/2015 2:15:09 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: There's a story here in TheHill.com: "Donald Trump Zeroing in on Victory Strategy." This story is about how Trump's people are already planning their strategy for winning the presidential election. There is an assumption they are going to win the nomination fight, and so they're already planning strategy for the general election. And of course, wait a minute, this is way too premature, they're taking their eye off the ball here and they're assuming way too much. We have the fight being waged, just to show you that we still have a lot to learn. On our side of the aisle, there is this ongoing argument over the term "anchor babies" and is it politically correct, is it offensive, should we or should we not be using it.
And it illustrates again way too many people on our side have -- I don't know what it is. I don't know if the Republican Party establishment has just become liberal. You know, John O'Sullivan had a comment. I'm gonna have to paraphrase this. The former editor of National Review, a close confidant of Lady Thatcher. I'm paraphrasing, but he said, "Any organization, any group of people that is not actively conservative will become liberal over time." That it's just the natural thing to devolve to. You evolve down to liberalism. If you don't actively practice conservatism, you're ultimately going to become liberal.
Well, the case could be made this is happening to the Republican Party, Republican Party establishment. They have been eschewing conservatism for so long that now they are devolving into not liberalism, but they certainly are captivated by the language of the left. They get caught up in speaking that way and getting into arguments over whether "anchor baby" is a good or bad term to use because it might offend somebody. That is a clearly leftist influence on the Republican Party. It doesn't accomplish anything.
One of the things that we're hoping happens here is that political correctness gets nuked. And the way we hope political correctness gets nuked is that candidates find out by observing other candidates that you can win by defying political correctness, that you can triumph, in fact, by trampling all over it. Because what we are learning here, if people want to take the time to admit it, is the majority of the people in this country are not dominated by PC, they do not want to behave this way, they're forced and dragged into it by virtue of fear and intimidation and bullying, but somebody that comes along and can just spit on it is applauded and cheered.
Here's the Sullivan quote verbatim: "Any institution that is not explicitly right wing will become left wing over time." It's known as Sullivan's first law. And if you stop and think about it, it's true. What it means is that an organization that is right wing has to actively be that, intellectually has to be that every day. It has to be front and center in its mind. That's what it's gonna be because the natural gravitational pull is liberalism. It's easy. It's a gutless choice. Being a liberal is the easiest thing in the world to do. It doesn't take any effort whatsoever.
You can fake a lot of things and get away with it, but conservatism is a practical, daily application. If you don't do it, you're going to drift. And I really think as I listen to some of the Republicans talk about what they think is important about anchor babies this, anchor babies that, offensive term or not, misses the whole point. It's so small an item compared to what it actually is about. And I'll tell you something else. Even after yesterday's program, the number of people who cannot get it through their heads that the 14th Amendment does not establish citizenship by virtue of birth to an illegal citizen or person in the country. It's not there.
He should disquise himself as James O’keefe and try to cross the southern border. I bet they would arrest him. But he could cross as himself or Bin Ladin.
He should disquise himself as James O’keefe and try to cross the southern border. I bet they would arrest him. But he could cross as himself or Bin Ladin.
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It’s fun to watch all these politicos’ and Republocrats’ heads explode.
OK then, how does “metastases” work for everyone?
The GOPee are afraid of the LSM Anchor Babes?
I was thinking "siphon hose" would be descriptive.
“Anchor baby” is just as good and descriptive a word as “wetback.”
Use it or lose it.
Not the same thing. "Wetback" refers to someone who crossed the border illegally (with a reference to swimming or wading across the Rio Grande), while "anchor babies" never cross any border, unless they are sent with their parents in the deportation vehicles to the parents' homeland.
In the 1950’s, there was a Government Sponsored program called, Operation Wetback. Back when people called it by it’s name!
The term was first used for "Operation Wetback" in 1954 when a massive deportation was executed.
A smart manufacturer should now market stuffed baby dolls holding an anchor in one hand or baby clothes with embroidered anchors. He could make a mint.
A Cabbage Patch kid.
I am not sure what your point is
Where did you find that in the article? I looked.
Or are you making a suggestion of your own, that immigration-driven social change is metastatic, like a cancer?
Trump’s toughness vs Jeb trying to be tough after Trump’s response.
An anchor patched kid.
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