Posted on 08/04/2015 10:20:20 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
With Hillary Clinton’s multiple misdeeds coming to light and causing her political problems, reflected in her declining support in the polls, both she and the Democratic party have reason to be concerned. But both of them may yet be rescued by “The Donald,” who can turn out to be their Trump card.
Donald Trump has virtually no chance of becoming even the Republican party’s candidate in 2016, much less being elected President of the United States.
The reason is not hard to understand: Republican voters simply do not trust him, as the polls show. Nor is there any reason why they should trust him, given his chameleon-like changes in the past.
Why then is he the “front-runner” in the polls?
One reason is arithmetic. When there is a small army of Republican candidates, each with a tiny set of supporters, anyone with enough name recognition to get the support of a fifth or a fourth of the Republicans polled stands out, even if twice that many Republicans say they would never vote for him.
When both kinds of Republicans are counted, Donald Trump is both the “front-runner” and the leading pariah. The danger is not that he will get the nomination, but that his irresponsible talk will become the image of the Republican party, and that his bombast will drown out more sober voices that need to be heard, thereby making it harder to select the best candidate.
More is involved than arithmetic, however. Many Republican voters are so disgusted with their party, especially over its repeated betrayals of them, and of the country, especially when it comes to immigration, that they are immediately attracted to anyone who voices the outrage they feel.
Donald Trump has turned this opening phase of the 2016 primaries into the Donald Trump Show. All of this might be very entertaining, if this were not a crucial juncture in the history of the country and of the world.
But, while all this political theater is going on, the world’s leading promoter of international terrorism — Iran — has gotten a “deal” that all but guarantees that they will have nuclear bombs and, not just incidentally, intercontinental missiles to deliver them.
Iran doesn’t need intercontinental missiles to reach Israel, which is closer to Iran than St. Louis is to Boston. Send not to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.
We can only hope that, somewhere among the many Republican candidates, there is someone who can, as president, make the hard decisions and take the hard steps required to undo the utter disaster that looms ahead, as a result of Barack Obama’s feckless foreign policies.
If ever there was a time to carefully sift through all the aspiring Republican candidates, in hopes of finding just one who might be up to the superhuman task ahead, in order to head off a nuclear catastrophe, this is surely the time to look for a solid, wise and steadfast leader.
A shoot-from-the-hip, bombastic show-off is the last thing we need or can afford. As for the Democrats, their leading candidate — Hillary Clinton — was one of the architects of the foreign-policy disasters that can turn into world-changing catastrophes.
As for the Republican mob scene, it is a challenge just to remember all the names of the candidates. These include many who must know, in their heart of hearts, that they have no real chance of getting the nomination. But, unless they withdraw, the public’s attention may well be fragmented over too many candidates for them to find a truly promising candidate for president.
— Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His website is www.tsowell.com. © 2015 Creators Syndicate Inc.
Where is Walker on an issue that you are concerned about?
So he got attacked by rabid leftists in a rabid leftist state. Ok.
You forgot the best part:
HE WON
on the issues and he won recall and reelection!
Pure oversight. Everyone trusts Granny. She is as pure as the freshly wind driven snow.
At least with Hillary the GOP would offer a token resistance. With a GOPe President there would be none. Both party establishments are working towards the same goal.
No the best part is that Obama also won Wisconsin. Both times. That’s why I say, Wisconsin voted for Walker AND Obama. All I need to know.
You got that right. Sowell has written some good stuff, but this is not one of them.
Then you don’t know much.
Sadly, a great and long term conservative, Thomas Sowell, will be trashed for not championing Trump’s chumps with the idea that all it takes to be a conservative is to quit giving money to Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, and Hillary, change your party, and be obnoxious and attention seeking. What does Sowell know about conservatism compared to this dilettante who won’t explain a single one of his policies beyond “trust me?” Actually, he Sowell is a great and brilliant man, but Trump’s type of leadership means no doubts, no thinking, and no vetting.
It’s appalling to watch.
If the pubbies can’t accept Trump and they can’t figure out that stopping baby killing is more important than their political careers, then “What difference does it make, anyway?”
They can either grow a pair of prepare for a dictatorship.
How does “shouting” trump “doing?”
So you think it has been wise to nominate candidates from States that never vote with your party?
"It’s worth noting that there is currently a legal firewall that prevents Walker’s campaign-in-waiting from coordinating with the Super PAC for which Dayspring has been hired. Several aides to Walker’s campaign-in-waiting, in refusing to answer specific questions about things Dayspring has done in the past and Gov. Walker’s thoughts about him, made that point repeatedly to Breitbart News during the reporting of this story. But it’s hard to imagine that Dayspring would have gotten the job had Walker been uneasy with him.
What’s more, a high-ranking source with another Republican presidential campaign tells Breitbart News that Dayspring was offered the job three months ago—around the time the Mair catastrophe struck Walker’s team—and Dayspring turned it down then. So, if true, Dayspring was originally offered this job when there was no legal firewall between the campaign-in-waiting and the Super PAC—and that the governor himself would have approved the offer.
“I hear they offered this gig to him 3 months ago and he turned them down,” that source said in an email. “He went back to them because no one else would hire him.”
Now that it's election season, and he is in the game, his stances are, for the most part, stances I take as well. That hasn't ALWAYS been the case, hence the flip flop comments. This is EXACTLY the position I found myself in 2000 with Dubya. One more time: I can look past the flip flops, IF I knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that after being elected, he would stand WITH Conservatives and AGAINST the establishment. BUT, his campaign has yet to prove that. What's worse, the way his campaign is currently playing out says that he will, in fact, side with the establishment. I want to hear him - loud and clear - decrying the establishment, and I want to know how he will systematically DESTROY the establishment and MAKE CONGRESS WORK FOR CONSERVATIVES - not the establishment, once elected. Cruz and Trump are both doing fabulous jobs of that very thing, right now. Walker has been silent on the subject, which leads me to believe he will, as Dubya did, fall in line with the establishment/CoC if he were to get elected.
This would not be the first time the Clintons used a straw man to win an election.
Remember Ross Perot who ran as a third party candidate against George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton?
Have you been following what Walker’s been accomplishing in Wisconsin?
He’s showing that it is possible to turn a blue state around and do it as a conservative and as a Republican.
You can hold tight to your bumper sticker argument but it won’t teach you anything.
Stay tuned for the next article. I think you'll like it
Yes, and Trump wins either way. That is, if he causes Hillary to win, he wins. He will be the reason she won because he is a fake conservative duping those who think it’s just a pose that a clownish poseur like him can pull off. The only way we win is if the real conservatives stop compromising.
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