Posted on 03/02/2016 5:38:30 AM PST by Kaslin
Hillary Clinton is now setting a campaign theme that should provide a golden opportunity for Republicans, if Republicans play their cards right.
"We don't need to make America great. America has never stopped being great," says Clinton.
But this doesn't reflect how most Americans now feel. The percentage saying they are satisfied with how things are going in the country has averaged less than 30 percent since 2007, according to Gallup.
The victor this November will be the candidate who can crystallize for voters what is wrong in America and how to fix it.
That Clinton wants to start out pretending there aren't big problems that have diverted our country from its exceptional potential means she can be defeated. But we need the right Republican to deliver this message.
Do I think Donald Trump, currently dominating the Republican field, can do this? No, I don't.
There are few surprises left about Hillary Clinton. We already know about her misuse of classified information as secretary of state. We know that she lied about what happened in the sacking of the American diplomatic compound in Libya and the murder of our ambassador. And we know how this so-called feminist hung on to her pathologically promiscuous and unfaithful husband because she needed his political coattails.
But we are just now learning about Trump. Why has it taken so long to pull back the curtain to expose the wizard of scam? In any case, it is starting, and we are seeing just the tip of the iceberg. We've learned that the man who says he'll build a wall to keep out Mexicans, and make Mexico pay for it, employs illegal workers on his projects. We know about the bait-and-switch scam that was Trump University, swindling tens of thousands from would-be students.
Should there be a Clinton-Trump race, it will be the first time, to my knowledge, that we'll have a presidential campaign where one candidate, Republican Trump, made large campaign contributions in the past both to his opponent, Democrat Clinton, and to her party.
Perhaps it is the formidable intimidation power of Trump and his machine that has kept the press and his opponents at bay for so long.
Perhaps the liberal press intentionally has kept its powder dry, savoring the prospect of a Clinton-Trump face-off. The Clinton campaign's research apparatus won't hold back. One can only imagine the tsunami of dirt about Trump and his business dealings that will be unleashed once they get started.
But the most powerful damage will be done when Americans, who really do understand that America is a great country that has lost its way, learn how little Donald Trump cares about the values and principles that do make our country great and exceptional. We might start with his recent hesitation to condemn and dissociate from David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan. Or his threat to sue journalists and others who disagree with him.
As we mourn the loss of the great conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, it looms large that Scalia was in the conservative minority opposition in the 5-4 Supreme Court 2005 decision on the case of Kelo v. City of New London. The court decided government can confiscate private property and turn it over to private developers.
Scalia said only two other Supreme Court decisions departed so wildly from the words of the Constitution: the Dred Scott decision, which declared African-Americans essentially sub-human and ineligible for American citizenship; and Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion in all 50 states.
Yet Donald Trump said he agrees "100 percent" with the Kelo decision, aligning himself with the liberals on the Court and against Scalia.
Americans do want to make our country great again. But if Republicans don't nominate a candidate who represents what that means, we may be looking at another left-wing Clinton White House.
Wrong! If Trump does nothing else but stop Hillary from getting into office, he will have contributed mightily to America’s greatness!
The nothing burgers keep on coming.
Same old BS. Try posting something new.
I hope Trump wins. Trump is our only hope to stop the illegals invasion of the U.S.A. that will turn the U.S. socialist as immigrants vote for socialism(Read Ann Coulter’s book).
Cruz is a fraud.
Cruz has done nothing to stop the invasion of socialist illegals into the U.S.A. that will vote to turn the U.S.A. socialist. Cruz is a fraud.
This web page shows how all of Cruz’s flip flops on trade and immigration prove he is a fraud and is for open borders:
Cruz has done nothing to stop the invasion of socialist 3rd world illegal immigrants that will turn the USA socialist. If Cruz were really a conservative then he would have done something to try to stop the invasion as he has been a Senator for years . But Cruz has tried to pass no good laws that help America but only the worst laws ever TPA TPP(Trojan horse for Obama immigration agenda) and the corker bill .
Cruz voted for the Corker bill which allows Iran to build nuclear weapons.
The Club for growth an open borders lobby is running ads for Cruz . That’s another Clue. All this is on Google and more. Cruz is not a conservative but is putting on an act to get rich.
Maybe if the Conservative media candidates dropped these sort emotional personal attack drama queen posting and tried to make a fact based rational argument FOR their candidate, their candidate might have better success at the voting booth.
good grief, how many articles can you keep posting with negativity?
Post something positive for Rubio or Ted or Kasich or who ever you want, but for crying out loud please give it a rest.
I used to think Donald Trump could defeat Hillary, but now I know he will lose to her in a kandslide, and best of all, take the GOP with him!!!
I cannot wait for November when the GOP and its corrupt leadership is thrown onto the garbage heap of history where it belongs.
After November begins the hard work of building up the True Conservative movement.
“America has never stopped being great,” says Clinton.”
True, except for the fact that it is fast-becoming a great disappointment.
I’ve been over you people and your ridiculous whining for a long time now.
I’m sure it’s great of Hillary and the Oligarchs. The rest of us...not so much.
I can’t stand when the left tries to say great things about America when they are trying to tear it down with their alynski bullshiitte.
...Not everyone is for Trump, get over it...
Not everyone has to be for Trump. Just enough for him to win. Thats what seems to be happening.
“Star Parker”...I can’t stand it! Another person with rhyming first and last names.
Because without a self offered response, the article is a thought blocker (my newly acquired phrase)
The one thing I can’t help but notice is that whenever there is a thread at all critical of Trump, his supporters never respond to the article or refute the points with logical or reasoned arguments. Instead they attack the poster or question the motives of the author and then insult Ted Cruz by repeating the mantra that he is a liar or a fraud.
His unabashed support for Kelo is a "nothing burger"? Yikes.
As a Trumpeteer, I accept that there may be issues we will have to fight him tooth-and-nail on but that's the point; it will be a fair fight.
With Hitlery Rosenberg in office, the spineless Republican "leaders" in Congress will kow-tow to her every desire lest they be called "sexists", much like they bow to Bathhouse Barry's will so-as not to be lableled "racists".
With President Trump in office, they will be free to do what Congress was created to do; slow down the process and stand as a bulwark against tyrants.
The truth about Trump should have been shouted from the rooftops months ago.
This is but a prelude to the tsunami that is going to hit Trump when he's the nominee. For example, Trump University will be tied around his neck more than Mitt Romney's car elevator.
BTW, what part(s) of the article was (were) not true?
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