Posted on 09/07/2015 11:42:54 AM PDT by ScottWalkerForPresident2016
So Jeb Bush is finally going after Donald Trump. Over the past couple of weeks the man who was supposed to be the front-runner has made a series of attacks on the man who is. Strange to say, however, Mr. Bush hasn’t focused on what’s truly vicious and absurd — viciously absurd? — about Mr. Trump’s platform, his implicit racism and his insistence that he would somehow round up 11 million undocumented immigrants and remove them from our soil.
Instead, Mr. Bush has chosen to attack Mr. Trump as a false conservative, a proposition that is supposedly demonstrated by his deviations from current Republican economic orthodoxy: his willingness to raise taxes on the rich, his positive words about universal health care. And that tells you a lot about the dire state of the G.O.P. For the issues the Bush campaign is using to attack its unexpected nemesis are precisely the issues on which Mr. Trump happens to be right, and the Republican establishment has been proved utterly wrong.
To see what I mean, consider what was at stake in the last presidential election, and how things turned out after Mitt Romney lost.
During the campaign, Mr. Romney accused President Obama of favoring redistribution of income from the rich to the poor, and the truth is that Mr. Obama’s re-election did mean a significant move in that direction. Taxes on the top 1 percent went up substantially in 2013, both because some of the Bush tax cuts were allowed to expire and because new taxes associated with Obamacare kicked in. And Obamacare itself, which provides a lot of aid to lower-income families, went into full effect at the beginning of 2014.
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“Strange to say, however, Mr. Bush hasn’t focused on what’s truly vicious and absurd — viciously absurd? — about Mr. Trump’s platform, his implicit racism and his insistence that he would somehow round up 11 million undocumented immigrants and remove them from our soil. “
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When the most always wrong, praises someone as being right...
Scott Walker is not going to be President because he could not make up his mind whether he sides with the citizens and the rule of law or the illegal aliens and their employers.
He is still waffling on THE issue.
Truman did it. Ike did it; and had the stones to call it “Operation Wetback”. Of course, that was before the metrosexuals surrendered to PC.
Krugman? Seriously?
Incredibly dishonest isn’t he,(Krugman)? Any freshman in any economics class could dismantle his argument about how wonderful the Obama economy has been about creating jobs, yet he signs his name to what his wife wrote.
This is the latest tactic by media. Compliment Trump on certain policies (hoping Repub media jumps on it to discredit Trump). But still call him a racist and bigot. These clowns are so transparent.
Facts:
1) Except in the very odd/exceptional election year of 1964, the Dems haven’t cracked 50% of the whites in a Presidential election since 1932.
2) Once the ‘64 election was over, the Dems understood that they would never win another Presidential election again unless the Republicans REALLY screwed up...or unless they changed the electorate in a dramatic way.
3) The Dems, courtesy of Bobby Kennedy who wrote the law, and Teddy Kennedy who pushed it in the Senate, passed the 1965 Immigration Act. That law dramatically reduced immigration from our then-traditional large sources of immigrants - England, Ireland, Holland, Germany, etc. - and replaced them with vast numbers of Turd Worlders...whom everyone knows vote around 80% for Dems, and will continue to do so for the rest of their lives, as new immigrants have traditionally done.
4) As a result of the ‘65 Act, and due to the Dem’s outright lying in ‘86 regarding an effective (or any) fence, there are now probably 30 - 40 million illegals in this nation. Note that the (probably low-ball) figure in 2005 was 11 million...we have 2-3 million come in every year, so simple math says that the number is actually somewhere between 31 and 41 million). If any substantial portion of these people ever become citizens, then the Dems will have accomplished a complete shift of the electorate, and will be virtually invincible on the national level. Every state will become like California, both politically and economically - which is to say, overwhelming Dem and broke. But at least if you don’t like California now, you can leave for a better place without much trouble - where are you going to go if EVERY state is like that?
5) Every Republican, and every Conservative voter MUST UNDERSTAND that if such a state of affairs comes to be, NO OTHER ISSUE WILL MATTER AT ALL, because we will ALWAYS AND FOREVER lose on those issues. Immigration is THE issue of this election, and this election is as critical as the 1860 election was - and for the same reason, because it will determine whether this nation continues on as it has existed in the past, or becomes a new and unrecognizable entity that simply occupies the same geographic territory.
Please wake up, and help others to do so by sending them this post (or recommending “Adios America” to them). It really is THAT important.
“Right-wing economic nonsense”: socialist/government speak/politically correct speak for THE FREE MARKET ECONOMY, the ONLY source of economic growth and wealth.
Socialism and command and control economics is utter nonsense and has been refuted by fact, history as well as economic theory (it doesn’t work). Socialism/government-ism has been cast on the ash-heap of history countless times, just to be brought back and propped up like Frankenstein by the arrogant but loony Left.
America is about freedom, not slavery and the free market is freedom in action. The Right needs to wake up to that.
He’s dead wrong on trade unless you’d enjoy paying more for consumer goods.
It’s the NY Times and Krugman saying Donald is right.
Excuse me while I let go a burst of fartrous fartoxide.
Another blatant misdirection from the Old Gray Lady. Shame be upon her.
“redistribution of income from the rich to the poor .. Obama’s re-election did mean a significant move in that direction.”
Flat out dishonest here. Under Obama the rich have gotten richer and the working class and poor are poorer more than at any time in US history. Never before in US history has the gap widened more than in the past 7 years.
The stimulus, ACA, Fed, every program of the past 7 years has resulted in welfare to the rich.
Ouch.
Krugman? Ugh.
Yes I would enjoy paying more for consumer good as opposed to all of the cheap crap that comes over by the container-full from China, Mexico, etc., particular if it meant that American industry would have a chance to compete on a level playing field.
Well I wouldn’t. I’d also like to keep that tariff revenue out of the hands of stinking government, they tax too much and waste most of it.
Well hey...money’s kinda’ tight right now...can you buy me some stuff and avoid the middleman?
The Left has been attacking Trump nonstop. But, as often as they say Trump is wrong, his appeal keeps growing.
Now I see that the Left has a new strategy: they are getting really stupid awful people to say that Trump is right. Perhaps this will diminish Trump’s appeal.
I admit, it gives me pause.
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