Trump: 'Democrats are lucky that they don't have any Mitt Romney types'

The Hill ^ | 10/06/19 09:41 AM EDT | KYLE BALLUCK

[AlaskaErik]

I was one of those who couldn’t hold his nose and vote for Willard in 2012. Every time I see an article like is, I feel even more vindicated. What a slimy piece of garbage. He ranks right up there with Hillary as people that I’m so glad weren’t elected president.

[nobamanomore]

Communists the world over are party first, country second....everywhere.

[gundog]

Lyle Waggoner.

[Bernard]

Lets give him the house and he will bury them once and for all

The house is a huge challenge, because it is full of actual democrats and establishment republicans. If Donald Trump had an actual majority in the House, there would be no limits to greatness.

[A strike]

Is that Willard ?

[gundog]

Lyle Waggoner. Horrible actor.

[bgill]

Spot on.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

It’s not that the Democrats just stick together with each other,
it's that they stick together with the media and each other.

Major journalism is wire service journalism, and wire service journalism is a cartel:

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.- Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)

The continual virtual meeting constituted by the wire services inevitably produced the "conspiracy against the public” which is the self-serving propaganda to the effect that:

• participation in the cartel is the definition of objectivity (and the public interest), and

• The First Amendment means that membership in the cartel conveys privileges of the sort seen in established priesthoods which the First Amendment flatly forbids.

The journalism cartel promotes big government because journalism, inherently focused on bad news, is on the lookout for stories which reflect poorly on society and therefore suggest the need for corrective government action. The cartel not only defines itself as identical with the public interest and objectivity, it defines anyone who is not a journalist but who goes along perfectly with the cartel as “liberal,” “moderate,” progressive,” or “centrist.” Any word which comes to denote political virtue will soon be coopted by the cartel to mean nothing other than the pro-socialist perspective of cartel journalism.

There no longer exist any Democrats who are not fully in go along and get along mode with the journalism cartel. Opponents of “liberal” politicians get libeled routinely, and “liberal” politicians are never libeled. This means that the New York Times Co. v. Sullivan decision’s inhibition of libel suits by politicians is, de facto, inhibition of libel suits by Republicans. And it means that the journalism cartel, and the Democrat party which it has coopted, are entitled not only to their own opinions but to their own facts. And that is political correctness.