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Trump: Winning More Than Ever
The National Review ^ | February 7, 2017 | Conrad Black

Posted on 02/08/2017 10:36:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

The travel ban is a win-win proposition

Appearances are deceiving, and President Trump, although the launch of the 90-day travel ban was botched, cannot lose on the issue. His opponents, in the U.S. and the world, have absurdly overreacted; an arriving onlooker would imagine that the president had caused great loss of life in some frightful act of malice or negligence. He will almost certainly be upheld legally eventually, given the immigration legislation from 1952 and the constitutional powers of the president, which his six immediate predecessors have used. His abiding by the legal processes, if it does lead to judicial legitimization, will severely undercut his opponents. Even if he is ultimately unsuccessful, he has made the gesture, which the apparent majority of Americans support as a national-security measure. His opponents will bear the responsibility if there are any incidents that could arguably have been avoided if his measure had not been challenged. Senator Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.) and others will regret their fatuous histrionics (“The statue of Liberty is weeping,” as Schumer himself pretended to do)....

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: immigration; muslims; refugees; schumer; syria; travelban; trump
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1 posted on 02/08/2017 10:36:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

botched ?


2 posted on 02/08/2017 10:41:05 PM PST by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: stylin19a

For some reason everyone seems to have to find something wrong with something President Trump has done. I, for one, am just enjoying the show.


3 posted on 02/08/2017 10:56:39 PM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: SubMareener
For some reason everyone seems to have to find something wrong with something President Trump has done.

I don't think he did anything wrong. He tried to do the right thing and the enemy managed to temporarily interfere.

4 posted on 02/08/2017 10:59:30 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: stylin19a

Time will tell.


5 posted on 02/08/2017 11:01:26 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: SubMareener

Best President ever - Trump is gonna take the arrows, but he’s giving this country the medicine it needs. Don’t think someone with a more temperate personality could do what needs to be done.


6 posted on 02/08/2017 11:02:18 PM PST by 11th_VA (Resistance is Futile !!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Dear Mr President,

Stay the course. Steady as she goes.

From a concerned citizen

7 posted on 02/08/2017 11:06:03 PM PST by HandyDandy (Are we our own rulers?,.......or are we ruled by the judiciary?)
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To: UCANSEE2

Agreed. And the enemy clearly identified their team. Remember Loretta Lynch gave the FBI access to the NSA phone call and email database. The traitors in the administration may think their communications are secure but they would be wrong.


8 posted on 02/08/2017 11:07:13 PM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All
Anyone who has read this book understands what Trump is trying to do.

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Read it, and pass along to your family. It's just a matter of time...

9 posted on 02/08/2017 11:09:42 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What a day... this happened in the senate:


10 posted on 02/08/2017 11:15:50 PM PST by Bon mots (Laughing at liberal tears!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Excellent piece. Thanks.


11 posted on 02/08/2017 11:16:41 PM PST by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Zero (0) days without winning!
It’s approaching ludicrous speed.


12 posted on 02/08/2017 11:32:00 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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13 posted on 02/08/2017 11:32:53 PM PST by onyx (DONATE MONTHLY!)
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I think this woman thinks she’s being relevant, but she’s just being shrill. If she had any integrity, she’d resign, because her whole career is based on a lie, like so many other congressional liberals. Al Franken comes immediately to mind, for one.


14 posted on 02/08/2017 11:40:25 PM PST by Flaming Conservative
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

His opponents will bear the responsibility if there are any incidents that could arguably have been avoided if his measure had not been challenged.

Well, there's the rub. Terrorists being terrorists, terror will happen and Trump's right again. It aint rocket surgery.


15 posted on 02/09/2017 12:46:06 AM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I have always believed this is a win, win situation for both the President and America. Stopping the crazies (as Trump attempted by his EO) surely benefits the country and forcing the Liberals to completely abandon their attempt at taking over America via subterfuge and instrumentalism has been forced out into the open for all too see.

The very reasons so many former Dem voters chose Trump is being reinforced daily by the absurd and unhinged actions of the Left.


16 posted on 02/09/2017 1:51:18 AM PST by billyboy15
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

From the Article

Donald Trump is well embarked on his revolution, and likely to be the most important president since Reagan.

The intervening regimes (the OBushtons) all seem, as the last of those families, Hillary Clinton, used to say, “so yesterday.”

In urgent times in American history, the presidential office seeks the man. It has now sought a septuagenarian billionaire with an uncommonly assertive manner and no direct political or armed-forces experience, one who appalls many, was scorned by almost all commentators, and continues to skate rings around his doubters and to lead in the right direction at an exhilarating velocity.

For such a deliverance from the disasters of the last 20 years, America and the world can live with the loss of a few style points.


17 posted on 02/09/2017 1:52:22 AM PST by Finnwolf (It needs but one foe to breed a war, not two and those who have not swords can still die upon them.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Pretty much. And for a bonus, he has called out the judiciary in fine style. So when a bill to further restrict judicial review of immigration matters is crafted, it’ll have a much better chance of passage.


18 posted on 02/09/2017 1:53:20 AM PST by RKBA Democrat (It's no longer Right versus left, but Americanism versus globalist scum.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

your thread made me look up what Goldberg’s saying these days.

Still breathtakingly missing the point.

I used to love him. Oh well.

Now the words from “I used to love her” by GnR applies more. For anyone who knows the song, I’m JOKING


19 posted on 02/09/2017 2:16:11 AM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper cbrust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Never give anyone (especially intellectually dishonest people) the opportunity to pronounce (or not) the legality of a thing which is MANIFESTLY legal.


20 posted on 02/09/2017 3:05:56 AM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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