Posted on 02/28/2016 2:34:26 PM PST by Kaslin
Whoa! Let me get this right. After Sunday morning, we now have a potential "Republican" candidate who is comfortable quoting the Italian dictator and ruthless fascist Benito Mussolini, one of Hitler's closest allies. Specifically, Trump retweeted a quote from the fascist dictator and said Sunday is comfortable being "affiliated" with that quote, and by implications the man. Winston Churchill must be turning in his grave. Along with many of our sacred Greatest Generation. Does history mean nothing?
We have a potential "Republican" candidate who has declared he will push to have the entire media, what we constitutionalists or believers in the First Amendment call a "free press," liable for inaccurate or uncomplimentary stories about a political candidate. In other words, he is content to give the president power to go after what he refers to as a "terrible" group, the folks who bring us the news, flawed as it often is. Benjamin Franklin must be turning in his grave. Does freedom of speech mean nothing?
We have a potential "Republican" candidate who is admittedly under scrutiny, being officially audited, by the Internal Revenue Service - and yet, even then, refuses to release his tax returns, or for that matter any prior audited tax returns that might illuminate why. Justice Scalia, Justice Rehnquist, and all our prior Attorneys General must be turning in their graves. Does truth and rule of law mean nothing?
And we have a potential "Republican" candidate who, pressed to prove the accuracy of prior claims by stating his gross income, effective tax rate, or even level of charitable contributions - refuses. And this against the backdrop of Veterans groups asking why they have not received promised contributions, after he called them to his side for a private, televised event in Iowa. Countless honest citizens and Veterans, now gone to their common rest, must be rolling in their graves. Does honor mean nothing?
Yes, the average lifelong Republican is entitled to begin asking - what is going on? I think even George Orwell, famous for his dystopian book 1984, might be asking - what is going on? I think perhaps the most poignant questions are these two: How can a man run for President of the United States who so clearly misunderstands, does not respect, or cannot comprehend the importance of our biggest rights, biggest issues and biggest responsibilities of that office? Even Chancy Gardner was a mere advisor of a naïve, shallow president - not the president himself.
And second, how can the common sense of average Americans - in whom I have always believed, as Jefferson and our Founders believed, be so adrift, so unanchored, so willing to be spoon-fed nonsense, to content to leave these statements - and what they portend - unexamined? How can they be so dozy as to imagine that the values being asserted are what America is about?
Understand this - neither Ronald Reagan nor any other modern conservative, of any stripe, no matter how frustrated with the size of our government, level of taxation and debt, fear for our country's security - would ever counsel throwing their lot in with Mussolini, or someone who did not understand what retweeting the fascist's quote means. Nor would they throw their lot in with someone who suggested shutting down the free press with lawsuits for bad stories, effectively eviscerating the First Amendment. Nor would they hide behind an audit to block Americans' seminal "right to know." Nor would they fail to answer fundamental questions about their basic finances, when that is the heart of a man's campaign to lead.
These ironies now go beyond comic, into the surreal. How little will we allow ourselves to think? Put differently, how much will we allow ourselves to be taken for the fool? How long will we permit ourselves to forgive, ignore, stonewall, and bury truth - in exchange for the pleasure of venting disapproval at Obama and go-along Republicans? I sincerely hope that we are at the end of our rant. I hope we collectively retain enough common sense to keep balance. I hope we still know how to honor basic constitutional rights - and the men and women who died keeping them alive for us. If we do not, we have given away the soul of the country.
If we have entered the twilight zone of disinterest in history, honesty, sanctity of free press, free speech and freedom's reign, then we are indeed in deeper trouble than I thought. We have begun to forget how precarious democracy is, how easily thrown away, how fragile the balance of powers, how permissive freedom must be to survive, how imperfect we all are - and why we tolerate each other's imperfections and imperfect government to preserve the Republic.
Republicans have always been proud of being responsible, genuine stewards of the Republic. How ironic, if we should suddenly become detractors who cripple the institutions we have sworn to protect and defend. Let us not do that. Let us think about this election, and vote with attention to the details. Let us pick a real constitutional conservative, someone who respects where we come from, what we stand for, how we treat each other, and how we have always lived. In a word, Whoa! Let us get this right.
That is how Romney will enter the general election if Trump gets a full majority of delegates in the primary. Romney would not be running to win as an Independent but to give the anti Trump Republicans a candidate to vote for. It will guarantee a huge Republican under vote for Trump and keep Trump out of the White House. It will put Hillary in it.
Probably the reason doesn’t quote the founding fathers if you required to have done something resembling research into the classical underpinnings of the Republic. Something that I cannot believe DJT has done a lot of.
We have a potential “Republican” candidate...
“Justice Scalia, Justice Rehnquist, and all our prior Attorneys General must be turning in their graves. “
The one that was on another free luxury vacation from a political hack donor, who just had business before the court?
Not sure I know the answer to that question but I do know which candidate Jimmy Carter said he could tolerate because he is malleable - Donald Trump.
And you know who set up and give it a tribution to give the quotation bounds trump the other hand is unbounded on almost everything. I would also point out you are not running for president of United States if you were I would expect you to have a little more thought and research into the things you say.
“neither Ronald Reagan nor any other modern conservative, of any stripe, no matter how frustrated with the size of our government, level of taxation and debt, fear for our country’s security - would ever counsel throwing their lot in with Mussolini”
Bitburg cemetery, SS graves?
“Republicans have always been proud of being responsible, genuine stewards of the Republic. “
-He said this with a straight face?- Astounding. I give you the GOP after Reagan, with the sole exception of the contract with America as proof to the opposite. They are generally craven traitors, NWO, open border free-traitors who love a police state and endless war, and love moslems and mexicans as much as any democrat.
What's your source?
Here's a picture of a copper medallion with that quote that the Italian Fascists left in Ethiopia: 
The quote is in the original Italian, as one would expect. Translated, it says: "Better to live one day as a lion than one hundred years as a sheep." It's described as a Fascist motto.
Source with details at: http://www.wolfsonian.org/explore/collections/%C3%A8-meglio-vivere-un-giorno-da-leone-che-cento-anni-da-pecora-con-fede-pura-come-q#
Also, according to the book Ideology and International Relations in the Modern World, by Alan Cassels:
Now the time had come, in Mussolini's words, for 'reaching out to the people', the only ideological raison d'être he had to fall back on was militant nationalism. Therefore, 1930s Italy was deluged with slogans at once minatory and somehow ridiculous: 'Better one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep'; 'War is to man what motherhood is to woman'; 'Whoever has iron has bread'.
(I needed to look up the word "minatory"; it means "menacing" or "threatening".)
So we have Jimmy Carter and Harry Reid and Jeff Sessions are all endorsing them very same candidate.
It is a world gone mad.
Why is Cruz staring at Trumps crank?
"Made you look!"
Of course, Trump isn't a scholar of World War II either. He's just retweeting quotes that strike him right emotionally.
The problem is that these tweets then reveal something about his particular style of emotional appeal. Why does the same quote appeal to him as worked for Mussolini? Because they are running the same sort of campaign (what the country needs a strongman leader to unify us, not another pussy, etc., etc. -- which may sound good at first to many people, but is in fact antithetical to American individualism and liberty).
Actually, the trains did run on time. And their aircraft industry was spectacular in the late 20 and into the 30s. Mussolini wasn’t really so bad personally... He just picked bad friends.
It is just a quote-even a lunatic can come up with something profound now and again-there are so many other things to get into a frenzy over-and you might be disappointed in my conduct and choice of words as a candidate for pres-I was not brought up to mince words, and I don’t come from a PC family-my ancestors were Basque dissidents from Spain who left to avoid being jailed or hanged because they didn’t shut up-we haven’t changed much, for good or ill...
And you know what, read a little on it. Zapata wasn’t actually a bad guy. He just had the quaint notion that people shouldn’t be serfs to a landowner and that if you made an agreement with him,,,, you really needed to keep it.
Seriously kids, always keep your promises to Zapata and Villa. No joke.
Why am I not surprised. So far in this campaign, Trump has learned that he can say and do anything and there is no ransom to be paid. That will change after the nomination. Trump vs Clinton: what a nightmare for us and the country.
Trump U. Graduation reunion to be held in a phone booth,if they can find either!
I’m not now nor have I ever been a Republican. I just vote Republican in order to vote against Democrats.
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