Posted on 01/30/2016 5:29:18 AM PST by Kaslin
Of all the many things said about Donald Trump, what was said by Roger Ailes, head of the Fox News Channel, said it all in just two words: "Grow up!"
It is amazing how many people have been oblivious to this middle-aged man's spoiled brat behavior, his childish boastfulness about things he says he is going to do, and his petulant response to every criticism with ad hominem replies.
He has boasted that his followers would stick by him even if he committed murder. But is that something to boast about? Is it not an insult to his followers, if it is true? Moreover, his cockiness is misplaced, because he still does not have a majority among Republican voters, while you need a majority of all the voters to win any state in the general election.
Trump has a showman's talent for telling people what they want to hear. But you can listen in vain for a coherent argument from him, based on facts and logic, much less an understanding of the inherent limitations of the office of president.
More than two centuries ago, Edmund Burke said: "Constitute government how you please, infinitely the greater part of it must depend upon the exercise of the powers which are left at large to the prudence and uprightness of ministers of state."
In other words, the personal character of the people to whom you entrust the powers of government matters even more than what kinds of government institutions there are. There have been some good kings and some bad presidents, as well as vice versa.
In a world where the future of this country is threatened from within by increasingly angry polarization, and where external threats can become nuclear, are we really going to entrust the safety or this country to a man who still needs to grow up?
Is the fact that he loudly expressed our own disgust with the political establishment a sufficient reason to gamble the whole future of the country by putting him in the White House?
The White House is not a place for on-the-job training. You are supposed to be ready, or at the very least grown up, before you walk in the door. Aging happens automatically, but maturity is optional -- and it is an option that Donald Trump has not yet chosen to exercise.
The issue that Trump raised about Ted Cruz's having been born in Canada is not the first time he has tried to challenge where someone was born. "The Donald" was among those who tried to say that Barack Obama was not born an American citizen, and who disgraced themselves, while undermining other critics of Obama who had serious objections to his policies.
On the other hand, messianic demagogues have often spoken at least part of the truth. But they have also often led their followers to their doom, whether at Jonestown, Stalingrad or innumerable other places. That is a very high price to pay for an exhilaration of the moment.
Donald Trump is not the only one who needs to act like an adult. With this country starting to unravel from within, while ruthless enemies overseas are developing both nuclear weapons and intercontinental missiles to deliver them, we face problems that cannot be solved by candidates with glib words or by voters who vote for whoever meets their emotional needs.
If you don't understand the issues, but want to do your patriotic duty, then stay home on election night, whether in the primaries or in the national election in November. Uninformed voters turn elections into a game of playing Russian roulette with the future of America.
Conservative candidates will also have an opportunity to show their maturity and their patriotism. This is not the first primary season in which the conservative vote has been split among so many Republican candidates that it virtually guarantees that someone who is not a conservative will win the Republican nomination.
At some point during the primary season, it becomes clear that some candidates have no real chance of winning the nomination, much less the general election. At that point they can either continue hanging on, keeping the conservative vote split, or they can withdraw and throw their support to some other conservative candidate who has a chance.
A lot of people need to grow up, and to do something for this country that has done so much for them.
Excellent, salient points and background information, thanks for that FRiend, and I concur with you.
“his ABNORMALLY STUBBY FINGERS”
Women who’ve been in relationships with him have been more than happy with his “fingers”.
I had read Sowell for 40 years. I saw Trump’s clown show for almost 30 years living in the metro NY area.
I know the real thing and the idiots. Sowell is the real thing Trump is a total narcissist the last type of person you want to see in power. In that Trump is very much like Obama.
IF you want to believe his BS pitch to conservatives so be it. But when the mask comes off remember you were told what type of person Trump is.
Option 3: Call yourself or your candidate the only true conservative, and claim that you win by default. After you state that you are a true conservative you are freed from stating what your position actually is on any substantive issue or defending it. You are, after all, a true convervative and it has been argued submitted and decided.
Trump is a narcissist, the PResident is the ultimate ego stroke for a narcissist like Trump.
For those of us unfamiliar with Iowan circumstances, would you be willing to explain the significance of this visual? I truly do not understand the point it makes.
Yes they do. They are like groupies. I wonder how many saw their shrink when Palin endorsed Trump?
“Beck is also trying to warn people about Trump’s megalomania,”
I guess Beck believes Cruz is not a megalomaniac? I’m thinking that anyone who puts himself out there as a candidate for President is a megalomaniac to some degree. It’s just that they display it in different demeanors and speech. A truly humble person would not be there.
Trump isn’t childish. He’s just refusing to play by the old rules and won’t be pushed around by the Powers That Be. They can’t comprehend it. They’re asking each other, “When did we lose control?” Every other name in the book has been thrown at it; today’s word is “childish”. Maybe that’ll work!
Whoa! That is extremely creepy.
You have got to be kidding.......
Are you quoting "The Onion"?
Okay, I get it, you're using absurdity to point out the absurd, or some other kind of humor, yes?
Please?
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“his ABNORMALLY STUBBY FINGERS”
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Women who’ve been in relationships with him have been more than happy with his “fingers”.
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MayflowerMadam, were these women your employees? And does Donald tip well?
Yep...and now your neighbor precinct committee person can print their very own walking lists themselves...
I see very little of Trump flailing out in an untethered fashion. Far from it he is very disciplined in promoting his message, the package of goods he has promised to deliver. Don't like what he is selling - fine - don't buy - but don't come here telling us we are better off buying the Cruz product. I have no idea what the Cruz product is. None!
Not at all. Why would you ask that?
Oh, I don't know, how about reducing the size of our nuclear arsenal (a continuing feature of Obama's game plan), enabling and empowering the expanding nuclear program of Iran, the highly likely planned 'surrender' of our sailors to Iran in the latest failure to show resolve towards terrorist states like the one run by those mullahs?
Right. All of these are imminent threats. So now the United States can only destroy the world 15 times over, rather than 25 times over.
This country suffered more damage to its credibility -- and its interests -- between 2003 and 2008 than it did in the years since. I've posted many times here on FreeRepublic my suspicions that the administration of George W. Bush was filled with moles and paid agents of Iran. If the Iranian government wanted to see a series of events play out in the Middle East that would promote its interests and maximize its influence, then it couldn't have done anything more effective than what the Bush administration did for it. But even with all of that, there's nothing that would constitute an imminent threat to the U.S. among all of those things.
And we can take a look at Obama's failure to take effective action so far as North Korea's nuclear program.
Right -- like the effective actions his predecessors have taken for the last 50 years? How do you deter North Korea when they could simply get whatever they want from China anyway?
And let's not forget how Obama has emasculated our military leadership, reducing them to nothing but yes-men, AND the fact that our military is less prepared than at any time in our national history.
I hate to break this to you, but the U.S. military has been filled with "yes-men" ever since it became standard practice to maintain a massive standing army. No leader of a colonial or state militia would have put up with the kind of idiotic civilian leadership we've seen in military campaigns over the last 50 years.
You don't think the above factors (just to name a few) don't represent an 'imminent' danger?
No.
I lived through the Cuban missile crisis
and I’m also old enough remember the Bay of Pigs and Kennedy’s inadequate support.
Your ‘what ifs’, while interesting fantasies, are only that.
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