Posted on 07/30/2016 12:35:30 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump is doing Harry Houdini’s act.
In the 1890s, Houdini was famous for performing a trick he called “Metamorphosis.” The magician’s hands would be tied securely behind his back and he’d climb into a sack that was tied at the top with a knotted rope. Then the bag – with Houdini inside – was placed in a wooden trunk which was locked and secured with leather straps.
Houdini’s wife and assistant, Bess, would draw a curtain around the locked trunk and step inside. The audience heard her clap her hands once, twice, three times – and on the third clap Houdini himself would step triumphantly through the curtain.
The trunk was unlocked to reveal Mrs. Houdini inside the bag, her hands tied behind her. In three seconds, they had changed places.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, we present the presidential campaign version of Houdini’s Metamorphosis.
The trick begins with the Republican Party tied to wealth, privilege, the Iraq war and Wall Street.
Then Donald Trump comes down the escalator and announces he’s running for president.
The Republican Party tries to tie him up and lock him in a trunk.
But when the curtains open, the New York billionaire stands triumphant. The trunk is unlocked to reveal Hillary Clinton tied to wealth, privilege, the Iraq war and Wall Street.
Trump is not getting enough credit for a brilliant campaign.
He has distanced himself from the deeply unpopular and endless war in Iraq while remaining the strong-on-defense candidate who will “rebuild our military.” And he has placed Hillary Clinton’s 2002 Senate vote for the war into a pattern of bad judgments that have made us less safe....
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This is from California?
Susan Shelley is an author, a former television associate producer and was two-time Republican candidate for the state Assembly.
The OC is home to many conservatives.
sure. California had 2,188,201 republicans voting in the primaries, 1,635,349 for Trump
Indeed where the goal to to fail.
Crooked Hillary
Somebody in the press actually gets what’s going on. The rest of the article is good too.
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