Posted on 11/13/2016 2:55:57 PM PST by brucedickinson
I have great confidence in Donald. He is going to be a great president, IMO!
I totally agree. He doesn’t have the loyalty factor. Up until recently, most of us here referred to Reince’s in very unflattering terms due to his total lack of support for Trump. He did not rally the RNC to support Trump until Trump has a sit down with Rinsed Penis. Then conditions changed and now Prius is all lovey-dovey over Trump.
I’m happy with these appointments. Bannon seems to be a brilliant strategist, and Reince did a very good job improving the RNC’s voter information database and ground game organization and efforts. He and Trump decided that the Trump campaign would rely on the RNC’s GOTV operation back in the middle part of the year. Last time around, Romney had unsuccessfully built up a rival ground organization that many in the RNC complained was just duplicating their efforts instead of enhancing them. Trump decided to rely on Reince and Sean Spicer at the RNC and not to make this same mistake again. It was a gamble that paid off.
While the Dems were crowing that Trump had no ground game and that the RNC was doing nothing to help him, the RNC working with the campaign and volunteers called more people, knocked on more doors, and focused more on the right people to contact than in 2012. They also did noticeably better in getting people out to early vote than usual for Republicans. Trump relied on the RNC for a very important aspect of his campaign, and it worked. Reince has shown his loyalty and effectiveness, and he’s being rewarded for it. He also stood up to the NeverTrumpers too.
Bannon is terrific. he is already helping to see Marine Le Pen elected in France next year. great choice!
Priebus supported Trump wholeheartedly from the day that Trump won the Indiana primary, a month and a half before the convention and his formal nomination through the election. He worked closely with Trump that whole time. You didn’t really buy that nonsense that Hillary and her media pets were pushing did you? Trump was the one who made the decisions about advertising; he and Priebus had decided months before that the RNC would focus on the ground game instead. (Please see my post at #63 for more on this important aspect of how Trump won).
Priebus also repeatedly stood up to the NeverTrumpers and threatened Jeb, Kasich, Cruz, and Lindsay with abandonment by the RNC in the future if they didn’t honor the pledge and endorse Trump. Within a week, Cruz changed his mind and endorsed Trump. Priebus was very loyal to Trump, did a great deal to help him win, gets along with him well personally, campaigned with him on several occasions, and is now being rewarded.
How many smart, astute businessmen did Reagan bring into his WH circle and cabinet? Many, and they were golden - the cream of the crop that to this day still stand out as golden individuals.Like GHW Bush? And David Stockman who has turned out to be a real douche lately. One wonders where this genius has been the last 4-8-12-16-20-24 yrs...Oh that's right he has a new book titled:
"Trumped! A nation on the brink of ruin…and how to bring it back." Ultimately he likened the future of Wall Street, after the election, to San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake, one of the most devastating ever.Yeah, real golden...a real golden douche.
Priebus kept the faith when everyone else was against Trump. He’s shown he’s loyal.
Bannon is an outsider.
It seems a good combination. Different perspectives for Trump to compare and contrast.
I accept your view and opinion.
actually deporting the criminals will be the easiest piece.
I know. Two different methods, same results. Both work.
Trump obviously liked Priebus.
rounding up, processing and deporting up to 20 million (non criminal) foreigners here illegally never was a realistic option.
For what?
I suspect Kellyanne will get what Kellyanne wants.
I’ve been a movement conservative all my life, a constitutionalist. Iv’e been involved with Young Americans for Freedom, the Conservative Caucus, FR, and many other conservative organizations. My family was involved in teh founding of the Conservative Party.
I am NOT an identitarian or anything else that resembles the likes of Richard Spencer and Jared Taylor, two of the alt-right’s leading lights. (In fact, according to Breitbart, Richard Spencer is the major thinker of the alt-right.) These people are hostile to constitutional conservatives like us.
Several of their sites like VDARE are banned here, as they should be.
Now, look at how they describe themselves.
From the alt-right site “American Renaissance”:
“It is a broad, dissident movement that rejects egalitarian orthodoxies. These orthodoxies require us to believe that the sexes are equivalent, that race is meaningless, that all cultures and religions are equally valuable, and that any erotic orientation or identification is healthy.”
“Human races have been evolving separately for perhaps as long as 100,000 years, and evolution has marked their temperaments and mental abilities just as it has their physical characteristics. Different races have different average IQs, and the evidence is overwhelming that these differences are, to a substantial degree, genetic.”
“The world makes no sense without an understanding of race. Why is black Africa poor? Why is Haiti–populated by the same people but with a completely different history–equally poor? Why do blacks in America, Canada, and Britain–likewise with very different histories–show exactly the same patterns of crime, poverty, illegitimacy, and school failure? Why, on the other hand, are Asians ahead of whites on all these measures? Because race is real.”
No coherent social policy can be based on egalitarian dogmas about race. That is why everything from education to welfare to housing to policing to immigration policy yields deformed results. If you cannot understand race you cannot understand anything else.”
Is it harsh to explain black and Hispanic failure in terms of inherent racial differences? Whites must speak in these terms in self defense.”
And it goes on like this. To a long-time constitutional conservative like me, this is repugnant. yet someone like Bannon gives them a forum.
Jared Taylor is a leading racist. He is the editor of the site I quoted above.
From Red State:
“They believe that, if you read Richard Host (sp), if you read Richard Spencer at the, who leads an alt right think tank, if you actually read the people who created the term, who have been pushing this stuff, the one thing they all agree on is that we need to organize this society on the assumption that white people are genetically superior, or that white culture is inherently superior, and that we should have either state-imposed or culturally-imposed segregation between the races, no race mixing with the lower brown people. And I take them at their word, that that’s the stuff that they believe. And I think rather than poisoning or blurring that distinction, we should take them at their word and say we want nothing to do with any of that.”
(Needless to say, I agree.)
“These are not disaffected tea partiers. These are people who we have a fundamental, first principle disagreement with. And any movement that has them in it, doesn’t have me in it, and vice versa.”
Now, here is what Bannon himself wrote about Breitbart.com: “We’re the platform for the alt-right.”
(Interestingly, Bannon is a former banker at Goldman Sachs who got rich partly off Seinfeld reruns.)
The alt-right also hates the free market. This is from Breitbart:
“Alt-righters describe establishment conservatives who care more about the free market than preserving western culture, and who are happy to endanger the latter with mass immigration where it serves the purposes of big business, as ‘cuckservatives.’”
(A term I’ve herd around here a lot, thrown at good, long-time conservatives.)
Do we want someone so tied to people like this to be in such a prominent role?
My guess is, Trump knows what the hell he’s doing. The proof will be in the pudding, once he’s sworn in. As others have said, Trump should be given some lee way at this stage of events. Once he’s in office, the bottom line will be results.
Well you both miss my point and make it at the same time. Quite an accomplishment.
Both Bush and Stockman were career politicians, Bush being the greatest mistake Reagan ever made IMO, with disastrous results, my point, again, being Trump should continue the “anti-establishment movement” by bringing in fresh, smart businessmen and non-politicians to “drain the swamp” and clean up D.C.
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