Posted on 06/13/2016 3:01:03 PM PDT by Innovative
If youre a regular reader, you have likely intuited that my top choices for president were Sen. Rand Paul and Sen. Ted Cruz. But I refuse to join the Never Trump crowd and feel drawn to explain whyso that you too may decide.
Trump has many issues, which Ive shared in previous columns. But most are in the open. And, he has notable positives. Hillary, on the other hand, kept her emails on a private server in an obscure Colorado bathroom and conveniently deleted some 30,000 emailsclaiming they were personal.
To date, the most notable third party candidateLibertarian Gary Johnsonis unviable. Johnson won less than 1% of the popular vote when he ran for president in 2012. Hell be lucky to break 5% in 2016. And if the GOP establishment tries to broker its convention to oust Trump, civil war will erupt and the discord will greatly benefit Hillary. So Trump is our only viable option against Hillary. Here are three reasons to consider giving Trump a chance.
Appointed for Life
Trump has already expressed a strong willingness to appoint pro-life Supreme Court justices.Hillary, in contrast, says: I would not appoint someone who didnt think Roe v. Wade is settled law.
The Right Enemies
You can tell a great deal about someone by their friendsor their enemies. And Trump has all the right enemies, including the biggest hypocrites on the right.
The Puppet Speaks
In 2014 alone, Clinton raked in $10.2 million dollars in speeches that she gave to associations or companies who employed federal lobbyists. She wont tell us what she said to General Electric, which paid her $225,500 to speak, and conducted $20,085,000 in federal lobbying. Or to Cisco, which paid her $325,000 to speakand conducted $3,450,000 in lobbying that year.
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Now, more than ever, we must vote against Hillary Clinton. Our country is under siege by the very people she is seeking votes from.
#nevereverhillary
There’s A billion reasons to vote AGAINST Cankles
” And Trump has all the right enemies, including the biggest hypocrites on the right.
This would get a C grade from my English prof. Trump HAS NO CONSERVATIVE ENEMIES .....his OVERALL policies are SOLIDLY to the right of Ronald Reagan, WHOM I WORKED FOR TWICE. His enemies are globalist whore Republicans, and the left.
I can hardly wait to see the most privileged, catered to, MSM defended, LUCKIEST, hypocrite, Hillary Rodham Clinton, conceded to The Donald in early November! Such a choke will be so nice to watch and hear.
What’s left of the feeble resistance in Republican back channels to Donald Trump will evaporate now. There was very little to sustain it before Orlando, and nothing at all afterwards. Trump is gaining in credibility and substance as the many weaknesses of lib-left orthodoxy become clearer to low information voters. This will create a stampede to a clear common sense alternative.
preservation of the USA.
Even if Trump is elected, the USA as we knew it
is gone. We may preserve our way of life but it
will be different in ways we can’t even imagine.
We have been at war since 2001 and have not even
acknowledged it, that is changing.
Islam has been at war since it’s inception and believes
peace can only come when it achieves world domination.
We are in a fight for the freedom of people everywhere,
not just ourselves. Gay people didn’t just die in Orlando,
AMERICANS died, and it’s time america put a boot in
the a** of Islamic terrorists and all those who support
them everywhere.
A friend and I were talking this morning. He maintains the only sensible vote is for Trump. Not because Trump is special but because Killary will stock the SCOTUS with “progressives” (read Liberals) and we’ll be stuck for the next 40 years with a liberal court.
Trump has promised to nominate conservative judges who are pro-life.
I agree with my friend.
The Clinton apparat musta thought Hillary's popularity as a speaker was good for her presidential ambitions. Over and over again, we saw videos of a smiling, effervescent Hillary at the podium, rifling through her notes, as she prepared to speak.
None of her remarks were ever allowed to air......all we saw was a happy, smiling Hillary at the podium. It was only later that we found out she was raking in an astounding fee for a speech.
Here's inside dope on how Hillary prepared for a speech.
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CIRCA 2014--WASH/PO By Rosalind S. Helderman and Philip Rucker
Plans for UCLA visit give rare glimpse into Hillary Clintons paid speaking career.....she was paid $300,000 to speak to UCLA students and faculty in March. (UCLA) When officials at the University of California at Los Angeles began negotiating a $300,000 speech appearance by Hillary Rodham Clinton, the school had one request: Could we get a reduced rate for public universities? The answer from Clintons representatives: $300,000 is the special university rate.
That e-mail exchange and other internal communications, obtained this week by The Washington Post under a Freedom of Information Act request, provide a rare glimpse into the complex and meticulous backstage efforts to manage the likely 2016 presidential candidates lucrative speaking career.
At UCLA, efforts to book Clinton and then prepare for her visit were all-consuming, beginning almost immediately after she left her job as secretary of state on Feb. 1, 2013, until she delivered her Luskin Lecture for Thought Leadership speech on March 5, 2014.
The documents show that Clintons representatives at the Harry Walker Agency exerted considerable control over her appearance and managed even the smallest details from requesting lemon wedges and water on stage to a computer, scanner, and a spread of hummus and crudité in the green room backstage.
Gene Block, UCLAs chief executive and chancellor, presents a medal to Hillary Rodham Clinton after her speech at the school March 5. (Nick Ut/AP)
Top university officials discussed at length the style and color of the executive armchairs Clinton and moderator Lynn Vavreck would sit in as they carried on a question-and-answer session, as well as the kind of pillows to be situated on each chair. Clintons representatives requested that the chairs be outfitted with two long, rectangular pillows and that two cushions be kept backstage in case the chair was too deep and she needed additional back support.
After a lengthy call with a Clinton representative, UCLA administrator Patricia Lippert reported to campus colleagues, She uses a lavalier [microphone] and will both speak from the audience and walk around stage, TED talk style. We need a teleprompter and 2-3 downstage scrolling monitors [for] her to read from.
During a walk-through of Royce Hall five days before the lecture, the e-mails show, Clintons team rejected the podium planned for her use during her 20- to 30- minute speech, setting off a scramble on campus to find a suitable podium and rent a new university seal to match.
In the nearly two years since stepping down as secretary of state, Clinton has made dozens of paid appearances across the country at industry conventions and Wall Street banks as well as at universities. Her UCLA fee, like those at other universities, went to the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the familys nonprofit group.
But critics have argued that the carefully staged events and high speaking fees could complicate Clintons ability to run a populist campaign built around the economic struggles of the middle class.
Versions of Clintons standard speaking contracts have surfaced publicly this year including her luxury travel requirements but the contracts do not contain the extensive detail seen in the UCLA communications.
It is unclear how personally involved Clinton was in the UCLA negotiations and whether the requests from her agency were being directed by her or merely from underlings anticipating her preferences. A Clinton spokesman declined to comment on the speaking arrangements.
It is commonplace for celebrity speakers to request special accommodations and Clinton was no exception. Her representatives asked for a case of still water, room temperature, to be deposited stage right. They also asked that a carafe of warm/hot water, coffee cup and saucer, pitcher of room temperature water, water glass, and lemon wedges be situated both on a table on stage as well as in another room where Clinton would stand for photos with VIPs.
For the green room, Clintons representatives requested: Coffee, tea, room temp sparkling and still water, diet ginger ale, crudité, hummus and sliced fruit. They also asked for a computer, mouse and printer, as well as a scanner, which the university had to purchase for the occasion.
When university officials decided to award Clinton the UCLA Medal, Clintons team asked that it be presented to her in a box rather than draped around her neck. That request was sent to the universitys chancellor, Gene Block.
Chancellor Block has agreed to accommodate Hillary Clintons request to have the medal presented in a box, Assistant Provost Margaret Leal-Sotelo wrote in one e-mail.
Lippert replied: I can either have the jewelers box open or closed, in case the Chancellor doesnt want to risk opening it. By contract, Clintons approval was needed for any promotional materials. Clinton gave permission for the university to record the event, but for archival purposes only.
For public distribution, Clintons speaking agency approved only a two-minute highlight video to upload to YouTube. Please make sure it is available only for one (1) year from the date of posting, a Harry Walker Agency official added.
Clinton posed for individual photos with 100 VIPS, or 50 couples We get a total of 50 clicks, one university official explained as well as two group photos. Lippert wrote to colleagues that Clintons representatives wanted the group shots prestaged, with participants assembled and ready to take the photographs before Clinton arrived so the secretary isnt waiting for these folks to get their act together. Reiterating the request, Lippert added, She doesnt like to stand around waiting for people.
Like many major universities, UCLA regularly pays high-profile speakers to visit campus. Many of the visits are funded through a private endowment and not with tuition or public dollars. Clintons appearance was privately funded as part of a lecture series endowed by Meyer Luskin, an investor and president of Scope Industries, a food waste recycling company.
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