Posted on 01/22/2016 4:27:29 AM PST by xzins
We have never had total war against a candidate like we're seeing with Donald Trump. All elements of national media are uniting to stop him.
Look for a fake Trump scandal to break -- probably from a conservative news outlet -- right before the Iowa caucus.
A few months ago, an alleged Trump quote from a 1998 People magazine interview was circulating on the Internet, claiming Trump said that if he ever ran for president, he'd run as a Republican because Republican voters are "the dumbest group of voters in the country. They believe anything on Fox News. I could lie and they'd still eat it up."
I pay a lot for Nexis, and Trump has never said anything remotely resembling this. Snopes.com investigated, too, and also concluded the quote was a fake. But you can probably still find some idiot tweeting it out right now.
Last week, Glenn Beck "retweeted" a post allegedly tweeted by Trump the day after the 2012 election, saying: "I always vote for the winners! Congratulations to My Friend, @BarackObama!"
If that doesn't sound like Trump, it's because Trump never said it. Beck's retweet sure made it look real, but you can check Trump's Twitter archive.
All the stories about Trump being a fraud keep turning out to be the real frauds. I assume that, like most sentient beings, he's changed his mind about some things. But the one consistent thread running through his entire life is his love for this country and his fellow Americans.
The attacks on Trump from the "conservative" media calling him a socialist, a Democrat, a flip-flopper, a fake conservative are just name-calling. I notice that the accusers never include examples, not true ones, anyway. Here are some examples of how Trump has always been for Americans first. Wouldn't it be nice to have a president who likes us more than he likes foreigners -- and the rich donors who employ them?
In 1986, Trump saw a TV broadcast with Annabell Hill, whose 67-year-old husband had committed suicide 20 minutes before their family farm was to be auctioned off in a foreclosure sale, hoping the life insurance money would be enough to save the farm. It wasn't.
Trump immediately called Annabell, promising to save her farm and pledging $20,000 toward the effort. "Last night when he called, my heart went pitter patter," Annabell told ABC's "World News Tonight." "I never talked with a man with that much money before. And he assured me that one day the land would be mine. I thought, after I hung up, 'This can't be true, this just can't be true.'"
As Trump explained to The Atlanta Constitution at the time, "I've seen what's happened to farmers, but I was particularly interested in a lovely woman I saw, Annabell Hill."
Within a month of Trump's launching a national campaign with two other businessmen to save Annabell's farm, they had raised more than $100,000. One of the businessmen, Frank A. Argenbright Jr., said, "That is thanks totally to Mr. Trump and his organization. Most of the money has come from the New York area."
By Christmas that year, Annabell and her entire family flew to New York to burn the mortgage in the lobby of Trump Towers and have Christmas dinner with the Trump family. The lovely Annabell said, "Well, we have a real celebration not only to celebrate the birth of Jesus but also to celebrate the goodness in men's hearts."
Thirty years ago, Trump wasn't thinking about running for president. And yet, this is how he explained his campaign to save Annabell's farm, as quoted by The Associated Press: "We give a lot of money to foreign countries that don't give a damn about us, but we don't help the American farmers."
Two years later, Trump was interviewed by Larry King at the 1988 Republican National Convention. Please look up this interview -- it's fabulous.
Two things will be of particular interest. First, watch how Trump keeps circling back to praise Dan Quayle. King doesn't even ask him about Quayle -- a figure of media ridicule at the time because of his Midwest conservatism. It's Trump who keeps doggedly bringing up Quayle, in order to say, he's a "very impressive guy" who did "a great job -- I don't mean a good job, I mean a great job."
Second, Trump expressly rejects King's characterization of him as an "Eastern Republican," or a "Rockefeller Republican," saying the people he does best with are "the taxi drivers and the workers."
Trump's business is real estate, and real estate can't be outsourced. His flag is planted in this country. If America goes down, his empire goes down.
Conservative pundits keep assuring clueless viewers that Trump is not a "real Republican." They seem not to grasp that most viewers are saying, That's fantastic! Thanks for reminding me. (I look forward to conservative talk show hosts 20 years hence billing themselves as "Trump Republicans.")
Looking at what the party has become, I certainly hope he's not a "real Republican." I know he's a real American. Those used to be the same thing.
There was a time when Coulter was listened to. It has come down to about half and half. Since this is about Trump, and she supports Trump, half will like it and the other half won’t.
Bottom line for me: Trump has won. It’s pretty much over.
What, did they go and hold an election while I was asleep?
It’s funny how Coulter’s reputation here has revived, after all the years of “She’s dead to me!” and further sex-specific invective.
Good article from Coulter. I have grown very weary of the attacks on Trump by the other candidates and by Trump against the other candidates.
I will be happy if either Cruz or Trump is the nominee. But I wish BOTH would just STFU with the mud slinging.
Cruz is right on ethanol. Trump is right on immigration.
Both very important, so let them tell us why.
Yep, Trump sits outside the establishment, is not an Ivy leaguer, and is not a lawyer, therefore the old media and the RATS must destroy him.
And at the same time all the Trump fans are all so quick to throw Mark Levin, a freeper since 1998 and a conservative his whole life, overboard for some clown that supports:
Partial Birth Abortion
Wealth Tax
Eminent Domain
Amnesty
Crony Capitalist Deal with the establishment
Mitch McConnell as Majority Leader
TARP
C’mon, TC. You’ve seen the polls.
We’re just waiting for Kate Smith’s replacement to sing.
Ugh....Trump went to University of Pennsylvania which is an Ivy league school. Get your facts straight.
I have seen the polls, but I haven’t seen even the tiniest semblance of anything even close to a for-the-record vote. Six weeks from now, after some primaries have been held, I may agree that we’re all just waiting for Adele to sing.
Meanwhile, Ann Coulter is an Ivy Leaguer, a lawyer, and a long-time supporter of the most establishment of establishment candidates.
The national scene is really, really weird these days. I’ve never been a fan of Levin - his voice irritates me and his books bored me - but I respect his principles and his analytical ability.
His girlfriend’s son works for the Cruz campaign. Good for him. I wish my adult sons were equally engaged (although I’ll settle for good grades).
I love seeing all the enemies of conservatives collude to attack Trump who is not really a conservative.
It shows who these people really are. Everyone knows, there’s no authentic conservative media, none that has any real impact anyhow. Tons of Big Government RINO hack supporters...you know like Michael Graham, Erik Erickson, and Fox, etc. The closest to come to a real conservative media is the Rush Limbaugh show. So, 1 out of 100...right?
Coulter makes her living off of being controversial...but I believe she is sincere on Trump. I watched her on television a few weeks ago, but the show was quite old and she was basically saying the GOPe better get on board with Trump or this could be it for them. They didn’t listen and I believe she’s correct.
How are we going to be able to get anything accomplished, regarding stopping the Washington Cartel, if we elect someone who can’t get things done through congress or someone who is Washington Cartel approved? It seems to me this person must be hugely popular with voters and very disappointed with the direction this nation is heading.
Is Adele the replacement? Who is she?
A girl from England. Good voice, impressive build.
Does she do “God Bless America!”
:>)
Not that I’ve heard, but “God Save the Queen” has the same melody as “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee.”
So The Donald is neither “conservative” nor “Republican”.
Big Whoop.
A very broad swath of inhabitants of this territory once known as “the United States of America” are interested in neither of those two concepts, and for reasons that go far beyond the normal range of political discourse, such as it has been practiced in this country for decades now.
The big enemy is, and has been for some time, “political correctness”, a self-censorship of what may be said or done, because it may “offend” some individual or demographic. The Donald comes in like a bull in a china shop, and demolishes these “politically correct” icons right and left, about women, about illegal immigration, about Obamacare, about ISIS, about over-regulation that is ruining the US economy, about bad trade deals with other countries, about bad treaties made with nations dedicated to diminishing and taking down whatever is left of the American ideal, about the shabby treatment of our veterans, and about the sanctity of preserving a wealthy class that is the engine for the rising prosperity of all.
The first rule in real estate development is to restore the real estate to its highest and best use. And sometimes, to do that, you have to demolish the rickety structures now standing there.
Here comes the wrecking ball.
She’s laying the wood to Rush and the bullies. Best election ever!
Pray America wakes
I’m ready for it.
Let’s tear it down.
My wife says her dad always told her, “Try to learn at least one new thing every day.”
I’m filled to the rim and the day is just 3 hours old.
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