Posted on 02/07/2016 4:04:05 PM PST by poconopundit
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Debate after presidential debate, the talk has been about issues alone. But ABC's Republican Debate in New Hampshire was different. This time the moderators did a good job of also challenging the candidates on their experience.
That a very positive development. The moderators did a great job: best debate so far, I think.
Rubio was certainly caught flatfooted by Christie's attack. Rubio didn't have a good response, so he just kept repeating the same canned attack on Obama. That was one helluva a beating he took.
And Christie was absolutely right. There's no substitute for being the man in the arena, someone who bears the full weight of success and failure for his decisions.
Thousands of guys can bone up on policy and talk a good game. Many of the candidates last night parroted each other's positions. So who do you give the nod to? I think you choose someone who gives you 80% of the conservative agenda you are looking for. Then the decisive factor becomes a proven ability to successfully lead a large business or government organization.
Senators are merely legislators: much less desirable, especially if they are freshmen. As a high school quarterback, you can study and practice Peyton Manning's moves all you want, but you will never become a "Peyton Manning" till you are tested by live NFL game experience — and show you can win against the best defenses in the world.
This is the exciting thing about Trump. He's not just another rich business consultant (Romney) or a so-so corporate CEO (Fiorina), or a moderately successful governor (Christie). Trump is a master builder of many, many companies -- he's had a lifetime of achievement, and even one time pulling his company out of the brink.
Now even if you're CEO of a $100 billion business on the New York Stock Exchange, your influence is only as good as your stock price. If the stock tanks, you're history.
But Trump doesn't just run a company worth $10 billion, he owns it. It's his. And he built it up from a $1 million loan his Dad gave him. It's an incredible success story. He's a modern day Henry Ford.
And he's no policy wonk or nerdy guy either. He's a man's man. Women sense his inner strength. He's a traditional American like us. He graduated from a military academy and was a star on the baseball team.
Trump fulfills Rudyard Kipling's measure of greatness in his famous poem If.
Or walk with Kings — nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And — which is more — you'll be a Man, my son!
So this a beautiful gift for our country in distress: a guy with this much competence, courage, energy and experience is willing and capable of leading this country back to greatness.
And all we have to do is have the wisdom to support and vote for him. Such a sweet deal!
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Rudyard Kipling and Mark Twain from a old whiskey ad...
Enjoyable work. Trump is an entertainer, and I am frankly enjoying his brash but usually uninformed antics.
It is unlikely such an individual so ignorant of the issues has ever stood on a presidential stage. The guy did not even know the purpose of the nuc triad in our defense posture. A strategy of at least 50 years.
I don’t care a rip about what he did or did not do with his 300 million inheritance. He is so basic, or crude, common even, that I cannot stop watching his ignorance on display.
Win or lose, the Trumpster is a show and I will not lose sleep over his victory or loss (might even fill my ballot for the clown). I encourage all to watch—more fun that shooting the herds of rats over at the county dump.
Those were facts. Care to discuss? Of course not.
I don’t contest the fact that Trump gave money to Dems, virtually all large corporations do. Do you know why? Hint: It wasn’t because he liked them.
Yes I do. Now, what do you think is more important to him, his country or his businesses? Illegal immigration or his businesses?
His family.
Duty,Honor,Country.
| ...get along, with all sorts of people and opponents, and making deals that don't sacrifice your principles... Further to your nice addition, I found a wonderful Emerson quote that speaks directly to this point! Don't be so tender at making an enemy now and then. Be willing to go to Coventry sometimes, and let the populace bestow on you their coldest contempt. The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once. He must hold his hatreds also at arm's length, and not remember spite. He has neither friends nor enemies, but values men only as channels of power. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Don't be so tender at making an enemy now and then. Be willing to go to Coventry sometimes, and let the populace bestow on you their coldest contempt.
The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once. He must hold his hatreds also at arm's length, and not remember spite.
He has neither friends nor enemies, but values men only as channels of power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Culture from The Conduct of Life 1860, revised 1876
Oh my gosh - thank you so much for this. I have read it several times and I really like the way it is written. As for the "go to coventry" that really stayed with me also. I can see myself repeating it inwardly when I am faced with a difficult stand. Thanks again!
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