Posted on 02/10/2016 8:17:25 PM PST by upchuck
"Who is Donald Trump?" The better question may be, "What is Donald Trump?" The answer? A giant middle finger from average Americans to the political and media establishment?
Some Trump supporters are like the 60s white girls who dated black guys just to annoy their parents. But most Trump supporters have simply had it with the Demo-socialists and the "Republicans In Name Only." They know there isn't a dime's worth of difference between Hillary Rodham and Jeb Bush, and only a few cents worth between Rodham and the other GOP candidates.
Ben Carson is not an "establishment" candidate, but the Clinton machine would pulverize Carson; and the somewhat rebellious Ted Cruz will (justifiably so) be tied up with natural born citizen lawsuits (as might Marco Rubio). The Trump supporters figure they may as well have some fun tossing Molotov cocktails at Wall Street and Georgetown while they watch the nation collapse. Besides - lightning might strike, Trump might get elected, and he might actually fix a few things. Stranger things have happened (the nation elected an[islamo-]Marxist in 2008 and Bruce Jenner now wears designer dresses.)
Millions of conservatives are justifiably furious. They gave the Republicans control of the House in 2010 and control of the Senate in 2014, and have seI'ven them govern no differently than Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. Yet those same voters are supposed to trust the GOP in 2016? Why?
Trump did not come from out of nowhere. His candidacy was created by the last six years of Republican failures.
No reasonable person can believe that any of the establishment candidates [dems or reps] will slash federal spending, rein in the Federal Reserve, cut burdensome business regulations, reform the tax code, or eliminate useless federal departments (the Departments of Education, Housing and Urban Development, Energy, etc.). Even Ronald Reagan was unable to eliminate the Department of Education. (Of course, getting shot at tends to make a person less of a risk-taker.) No reasonable person can believe that any of the nation's major problems will be solved by Rodham, Bush, and the other dishers of donkey fazoo now eagerly eating corn in Iowa and pancakes in New Hampshire. [Article is dated 1/31/16.]
Many Americans, and especially Trump supporters, have had it with:
- Anyone named Bush
- Anyone named Clinton
- Anyone who's held political office
- Political correctness
- Illegal immigration
- Massive unemployment
- Phony "official" unemployment and inflation figures
- Welfare waste and fraud
- People faking disabilities to go on the dole
- VA waiting lists
- TSA airport groping
- ObamaCare
- The Federal Reserve's money-printing schemes
- Wall Street crooks like Jon Corzine
- Michelle Obama's vacations
- Michelle Obama's food police
- Barack Obama's golf
- Barack Obama's arrogant and condescending lectures
- Barack Obama's criticism/hatred of America
- Valerie Jarrett
- "Holiday trees"
- Hollywood hypocrites
- Global warming nonsense
- Cop killers
- Gun confiscation threats
- Stagnant wages
- Boys in girls' bathrooms
- Whiny, spoiled college students who can't even place the Civil War in the correct century...
and that's just the short list.
Trump supporters believe that no Democrat wants to address these issues, and that few Republicans have the courage to address these issues. They certainly know that none of the establishment candidates are better than barely listening to them, and Trump is their way of saying, "Screw you, Hillary Rodham Rove Bush!" The more the talking head political pundits insult the Trump supporters, the more supporters he gains. (The only pundits who seem to understand what is going on are Democrats Doug Schoen and Pat Caddell and Republican John LeBoutillier. All the others argue that the voters will eventually "come to their senses" and support an establishment candidate.)
But America does not need a tune-up at the same old garage. It needs a new engine installed by experts - and neither Rodham nor Bush are mechanics with the skills or experience to install it. Hillary Rodham is not a mechanic; she merely manages a garage her philandering husband abandoned. Jeb Bush is not a mechanic; he merely inherited a garage. Granted, Trump is also not a mechanic, but he knows where to find the best ones to work in his garage. He won't hire his brother-in-law or someone to whom he owes a favor; he will hire someone who lives and breathes cars.
"How dare they revolt!" the "elites" are bellowing. Well, the citizens are daring to revolt, and the RINOs had better get used to it. "But Trump will hand the election to Clinton!" That is what the Karl Rove-types want people to believe, just as the leftist media eagerly shoved "Maverick" McCain down GOP throats in 2008 - knowing he would lose to Obama. But even if Trump loses and Rodham wins, she would not be dramatically different than Bush or most of his fellow candidates. They would be nothing more than caretakers, not working to restore America's greatness but merely presiding over the collapse of a massively in-debt nation. A nation can perhaps survive open borders; a nation can perhaps survive a generous welfare system. But no nation can survive both - and there is little evidence that the establishment candidates of either party understand that. The United States cannot forever continue on the path it is on. At some point it will be destroyed by its debt.
Yes, Trump speaks like a bull wander[ing] through a china shop, but the truth is that the borders do need to be sealed; we cannot afford to feed, house, and clothe 200,000 Syrian immigrants for decades (even if we get inordinately lucky and none of them are ISIS infiltrators or Syed Farook wannabes); the world is at war with radical Islamists; all the world's glaciers are not melting; and Rosie O'Donnell is a fat pig.
Is Trump the perfect candidate? Of course not. Neither was Ronald Reagan. But unless we close our borders and restrict immigration, all the other issues are irrelevant. One terrorist blowing up a bridge or a tunnel could kill thousands. One jihadist poisoning a city's water supply could kill tens of thousands. One electromagnetic pulse attack from a single Iranian nuclear device could kill tens of millions. Faced with those possibilities, most Americans probably don't care that Trump relied on eminent domain to grab up a final quarter acre of property for a hotel, or that he boils the blood of the Muslim Brotherhood thugs running the Council on American-Islamic Relations. While Attorney General Loretta Lynch's greatest fear is someone giving a Muslim a dirty look, most Americans are more worried about being gunned down at a shopping mall by a crazed [islamic] lunatic who treats his prayer mat better than his three wives and who thinks 72 virgins are waiting for him in paradise.
The establishment is frightened to death that Trump will win, but not because they believe he will harm the nation. They are afraid he will upset their taxpayer-subsidized apple carts. While Obama threatens to veto legislation that spends too little, they worry that Trump will veto legislation that spends too much.
You can be certain that if an establishment candidate wins in November 2016, ... [their] cabinet positions will be filled with the same people we've seen before. The washed-up has-beens of the Clinton and Bush administrations will be back in charge. The hacks from Goldman Sachs will continue to call the shots. Whether it is Bush's Karl Rove or Clinton's John Podesta, who makes the decisions in the White House will matter little. If the establishment wins, America loses.
For clarity’s sake, the first statement was not mine, but is a quote from the article.
Well Jim? What say you?
How an Obscure Adviser to Pat Buchanan Predicted the Wild Trump Campaign in 1996
The Week dot com ^ | Michael Brendan Dougherty
Posted on 1/20/2016, 2:17:11 AM by WayneLusvardi
Imagine giving this advice to a Republican presidential candidate: What if you stopped calling yourself a conservative and instead just promised to make America great again?
What if you dropped all this leftover 19th-century piety about the free market and promised to fight the elites who were selling out American jobs?
What if you just stopped talking about reforming Medicare and Social Security and instead said that the elites were failing to deliver better healthcare at a reasonable price?
What if, instead of vainly talking about restoring the place of religion in society something that appeals only to a narrow slice of Middle America. You simply promised to restore the Middle American core, the economic and cultural losers of globalization to their rightful place in America?
What if you said you would re store them as the chief clients of the American state under your watch, being mindful of their interests when regulating the economy or negotiating trade deals?
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I try to not be like Biden either, by staying sober.... Hadn’t thought about the plagiarist angle.
Opportunist and demagogue.
Here’s the deal, for decades you all trusted your skeezy uncle Gope. But, on your 14th b’day he started to treat you like Akbar’s favorite goat..every week, since 1988.
The hate, anger, and humiliation has turned to cynicism. You dont believe in non disfunctional. In order to survive, you seek a stronger skeeze to waste your uncle. You all know what Trump is, you’re just to damned scared to win. You’ve pussed out on Liberty.
The establishment is frightened to death that Trump will win, but not because they believe he will harm the nation. They are afraid he will upset their taxpayer-subsidized apple carts. While Obama threatens to veto legislation that spends too little, they worry that Trump will veto legislation that spends too much.
You can be certain that if an establishment candidate wins in November 2016, ... [their] cabinet positions will be filled with the same people we’ve seen before. The washed-up has-beens of the Clinton and Bush administrations will be back in charge. The hacks from Goldman Sachs will continue to call the shots. Whether it is Bush’s Karl Rove or Clinton’s John Podesta, who makes the decisions in the White House will matter little. If the establishment wins, America loses.
How many of us are looking forward to seeing the broken bones, drying blood and entrails of the Lying GOP Open Borders Elite, their DC faux conservative pundits, their mediots, their phoney pollers and focus groups, their hired tv and radio hacks strewn across the primary states as much as our victories in those states???
You are the very first person who has said to me trump did not mean what he said. “We keep common core”.
Ok
If Mark Levin actually said tonight, there is not much difference between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. There is not much difference between Carville and Levin/Beck!
I listened to Sanders NH Victory Speech and I listened to Hillary’s so called concession Speech.
The sycophant Audience member reaction responding to those Speeches, especially Bernie the Bolshevik’s was beyond Scary.
If you find Trump scarier than Sanders this Country is in bigger trouble than I ever could have imagined.
Superb...BTT!
I’ve been saying it for several months. The people are totally fed-up with the corrupt/inept political class and are rebelling. Trump is leading the charge and the people are loving his no-nonsense, non-politically-correct, take-no-prisoners approach. His America first message is resonating and he’s rewriting all the rules. Unless he suddenly crashes and burns, it’s going to be mighty hard to defeat him. Even for a great conservative like Cruz. If Trump pulls out a win in South Carolina it could be all over. Looks like he also has a great shot in Nevada and then on to Super Tuesday. But there’s going to be a lot of ground to cover. I don’t think the candidates are going to be able to put in as much personal attention to all those states and are going to need big bucks for organizations and advertising. This could be a disadvantage for Trump unless he opens it up for donations or decides to layout some big dollars himself.
But who knows? Maybe just being the outspoken rebel in the race could see him through? It’s not like he has a problem staying in the center of the news 24/7.
Donald Trump has done more in 4 months than Levin has done in 6 years. What a idiotic comparison a capitalist against a Marxist.
Pray America wakes
Stopped reading there.
Levin the screamer is more like Beck than Trump will ever be like Bernie.
At least he left off ‘original intent’ constitutional Conservative party...
Get the hell back to DU where you belong.
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