Whores for Trump

AIPNews.com ^ | April 23, 2011 | Tom Hoefling

[EternalVigilance]

“An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.” – Simon Cameron, U.S. financier and politician, 1799-1889

For more than a century this has been accepted as a truism in American politics, one that is, sadly, generally acknowledged as such with a rueful chuckle and a resigned sigh.

Poor Mitt Romney. There are just so few honest politicians left in the country these days. Over the last five years or so he’s spent a considerable portion of his children’s inheritance, and his friends’ fortunes, buying political hacks throughout the formerly grand old party. And now along comes a ne’er do well like Donald Trump, who has more than enough money to outbid Mitt for the rented, unprincipled, callous affections of Republican-dumb.

The Republican establishment so wanted Romney, too. For a long time they thought he really had it going, with his deep pockets and total lack of genuine moral political principles or commitment, but squeaky-clean, airbrushed, cardboard cut out, boardroom-burnished, exterior. They may be the political equivalent of hookers, but they have high-end aspirations when it comes to their johns. (After all, in the last presidential election they nominated and backed John Judas McCain, even though most of them hated his guts and still do.)

But, now there’s “the Donald,” who really is a good fit for the modern Republican Party: More money than actual knowledge, understanding, wisdom, or sense. Totally centered on celebrity, money, and media. Shallow. Unprincipled. Deceptive. Shoot, even his little remaining hair is used to cover the bald reality. Perfect. I mean, who needs real reality when you can have a reality show?

Unlike the smooth, smug, straitlaced, calculating, cautious, double-talking Romney (who at least has good hair), Trump, ever the brash, arrogant showman, throws caution to the wind and says anything to pander to the lowest common denominator. No demagoguery is beneath him, if his (Democrat, previously Obama-supporting) political fortune-tellers and focus groups tell him it might be popular. Anything to help “close the deal.” Not only can he afford the high class call girls of Washington, DC, as he’s proven in spades with his generous political giving to both “major” parties, he can go where the real numbers are: to those Republicans across the country who don’t seem to have any principles any more either, and can often be bought for a mere tip of the hat to their egos and their vanity, or some cynical lip service on the television screen for their favorite hot-button “issue” de jour, or for a modest donation to their organizations. Just give them enough for a packet of political crack, a quick fix, a good high, and they’ll be happy. Very happy. At least for a day, until the high wears off, and they wake up the next morning to the painful realization that they’ve sold their precious virtue for nothing but a hangover.

You know, what I’ve written here is pretty crass. I know that. But I hope you’ll forgive me, because I believe it to be an accurate, honest, unvarnished portrayal of the low rent reality of our current political situation in America.

I know I’ve pointed some fingers at specific individuals, and groups of people. But this isn’t about any one of them per se. It’s about all of us, and what we have become.

Let me leave you with some thoughts that perhaps can help get us up out of the political gutter we find ourselves in, and point all of us upwards to a much better way:

Even prostitutes can repent. Jesus forgave those who did, and He cared enough about them to die for them on a Roman cross to give them the hope of eternal glory and light.

John 8

 1 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

2 Now early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and taught them. 3 Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, 4 they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?” 6 This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear.

7 So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.” 8 And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. 9 Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 10 When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, “Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?”

11 She said, “No one, Lord.”

And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.”

12 Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”

As a nation, as a people, let us turn back to the light, to personal and public purity. Purity of principle. Purity of motive. Purity of action. It’s the right thing to do. It’s for our own good. And our survival as a free people, the people of the City upon a Hill, depends on it.

"Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honor, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty: and this public passion must be superior to all private passions."

-- John Adams

"A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader."

-- Samuel Adams

"Since private and public Vices, are in reality, though not always apparently, so nearly connected, of how much Importance, how necessary is it, that the utmost pains be taken by the public, to have the Principles of Virtue early inculcated on the minds even of children, and the moral sense kept alive, and that the wise institutions of our ancestors for these great purposes be encouraged by the government. For no people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when Knowledge is diffus'd and Virtue is preserv'd. On the contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauch'd in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders."

-- Samuel Adams

"He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard of his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections… [P]rivate and public vices are in reality… connected… Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust be men of [exceptional] character. The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men." 

-- Samuel Adams

I have an idea: Let’s find some men and women of exceptional character and put them in public office for once. Those who won’t sell America’s principles, or their virtue, for any amount of money, or power, or personal political gain. Can you imagine the transformation they could bring about?

May you have a blessed Resurrection Sunday.

And may God have mercy on the United States of America.

 

Tom Hoefling is the founder and chairman of America's Independent Party and the editor of AIPNews.com. You can reach him at tomhoefling@gmail.com.

[Bobalu]

It seems that everyone is terrified of Trump.....

[ansel12]

It’s almost time to announce, has your party chosen a candidate to back yet?

If not yet, do you have any idea who it might be?

[EternalVigilance]

I’m not terrified. I’m appalled.

[EternalVigilance]

Nope. You’ll just have to wait and see.

[ansel12]

At this late date, at least give us the list of possibles!

[Lancey Howard]

This column is simply outstanding!

Unfortunately, America is now nothing more than a land mass populated by cretins and parasites who have absolutely no respect for the military and who vote for big government to confiscate money from their neighbors and “redistribute” it to them. It is not an America worth defending anymore. There’s no point hanging onto the past.

America had a great run. We old folks can at least remember it fondly for what it was.

The parasites outnumber the hosts now, and there’s no going back. The Democrats have won. All we can do is throw some cold water in our faces and figure out how to grab every government dime we possibly can before the Democrat party “base” of bums, deadbeats, and parasites gobbles it all up.

Whatever... I just live here.

[Bobalu]

Same thing

[org.whodat]

I assume from the headline, that the writer is working hard and donating the money to Trumps organization. Way to go, don’t hurt your back are knees, are whatever you are using.

[TigersEye]

Awesome….Trump Supports Taking Private Property Of Citizens

“But the fact is, if you have a person living in an area that’s not even necessarily a good area, and government, whether it’s local or whatever, government wants to build a tremendous economic development, where a lot of people are going to be put to work and make area that’s not good into a good area, and move the person that’s living there into a better place — now, I know it might not be their choice — but move the person to a better place and yet create thousands upon thousands of jobs and beautification and lots of other things, I think it happens to be good.” - Donald Trump(Fox News, 7/19/05)

[EternalVigilance]

Same thing

So, what's your point?

[EternalVigilance]

I assume from the headline, that the writer is working hard and donating the money to Trumps organization.

You gotta be kidding.

[eyedigress]

If you cannot name anyone but Trump to attack Obama as incompetent and ineligible, then call.

[EternalVigilance]

Glad you like it, but I have to disagree with your bleak assessment. I hold out hope.

I think a heavy majority of Americans still fundamentally hold to our country’s basic moral principles. I just think they’ve been foolishly trusting false flag political “leaders.”

[EternalVigilance]

If you cannot name anyone but Trump to attack Obama as incompetent and ineligible, then call.

Could you rephrase? I'm having a hard time following you.

[org.whodat]

No that is what it says, whores for trump, same thing as saying whores for de pimp or whores for de’man.

[EternalVigilance]

Perhaps you should read the article.

[eyedigress]

Trump says he is incompetent and ineligible. Is more clarification needed?

[org.whodat]

Problem is that is what the supreme court says. And as yet no one has been able to get congress to fully address the issue.

[org.whodat]

No i thought the headline was really a good one!!!!