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.
People that can’t spell it, obviously have no idea what it means.
It will be our job to educate him and hold his feet to the fire.
I don't argue that Cruz is more educated on The Constitution but, again, if he can't even garner any media attention against Trump, how is he going to get his message out against Hitlery?
It doesn't matter how much he knows about The Constitution if he isn't in The Oval Office.
He may very well stand against Hitlery from his Senate seat, but there won't be enough Cruzes to stop her from exercising an Authoritarian Presidency. With Trump, there will. Not only will Congress stand against him, so will we.
It most certainly is a reason to vote for him. He’s not running in a vacuum. The fact is, that the ‘true conservatives’ we have elected have done nothing but blow smoke up our rears at election time. They have lied and damaged, maybe irreparably, the label ‘conservative’. It’s either the establishment hacks, those that claim the mantle of ‘true conservative’, or Trump.
IF Trump is a con artist is still an IF. We know for a fact that what the other guys are selling is complete BS that even if it is well intended (big if there) will never be implemented. With Trump we have a chance. It’s still a gamble, but the odds are better with Trump.
And you bet your bippie, that’s a reason to vote for him early and often.
You need to check yourself. You’re out of line.
I’m really tired of you Cruz supporters claiming some moral high ground while going around bullying, insulting, and browbeating everyone else into supporting your candidate.
Trump is a liberal, conservatives that vote for a liberal aren’t really conservatives plain and simple.
I will fight like hell for either Cruz or Trump if for no other reason than to keep a treasonous America-hater like Hitlery from becoming President.
Right now it looks like it's going to be Trump.
TV commercial with Hillary saying: We don’t need to make America great.” Run it over and over with a patriotic backdrop and our candidate saying a few words. Bingo!
Actually, to be grammatically correct, one should write “people WHO cannot spell it” not “people THAT cannot spell it.” I mean, if we’re going to go grammar police.
LOL!
That's what it has come down to hasn't it? Anyone who brings up Donald Trump's checkered history as a supporter of Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Planned Parenthood, Kelo... is "Out of line".
Excuse me, I thought this was Free Republic.
So am I...lol. I should remember to add symbols that “soften” the tartness of my post.
She screeches when she says that.
Don't be surprised when he turns out to be everything you hate in politicians.
No, you're just so insecure and afraid that you need to insult people who make spelling errors and call them ignorant. That is out of line. Nobody said anything about you bringing up Donald Trump's blah blah blah.
And then you bother Jim with your crap when you're absolutely 100% wrong, no question about it. Again, you need to check yourself.
I already know that all the politicians are ‘everything I hate in politicians’. Therefore, it’s not difficult at all to choose the only candidate in the race that is different: Donald J Trump.
So what you are saying is that you have no problem with the government taking people’s property to give it to other people? You agree with Trump that Kelo was a “great” decision?
You do NOT tell me what articles I can post and from which site. Got it?
What I’m saying is exactly what I said. You are being rude and insulting and then you bothered Jim with your BS when there isn’t any question you were being rude and insulting.
And you’re lying now, trying to put words in my mouth. Just like your candidate. Birds of a feather, I guess.
Understand this: He can comment however he sees fit on your dumb article. And nobody gives a rat’s donkey whether you like it or not or how long he’s been here.
A some point the FR TDS sufferers are going to have to relent and STHU. Jim Robinson has gone way out of his way to not zot them. I would guess you are on the short list. You’ve been warned.
I envision that movement like this:
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