Posted on 09/15/2015 3:43:16 AM PDT by nikos1121
In a country with more than 300 million people, it is remarkable how obsessed the media have become with just one — Donald Trump. What is even more remarkable is that, after six years of repeated disasters, both domestically and internationally, under a glib egomaniac in the White House, so many potential voters are turning to another glib egomaniac to be his successor.
No doubt much of the stampede of Republican voters toward Mr. Trump is based on their disgust with the Republican establishment. The fact that the next two biggest vote-getters in the polls are also complete outsiders — Dr. Ben Carson and Ms. Carly Fiorina — reinforces the idea that this is a protest. It is easy to understand why there would be pent-up resentments among Republican voters. But are elections held for the purpose of venting emotions? No national leader ever aroused more fervent emotions than Adolf Hitler did in the 1930s. Watch some old newsreels of German crowds delirious with joy at the sight of him. The only things at all comparable in more recent times were the ecstatic crowds that greeted Barack Obama when he burst upon the political scene in 2008. Elections, however, have far more lasting, and far more serious — or even grim — consequences than emotional venting. The actual track record of crowd-pleasers, whether Juan Peron in Argentina, Obama in America, or Hitler in Germany, is very sobering, if not painfully depressing.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/424008/donald-trump-voters-election-egomaniac
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What does his business history have to do with anything?
You want to believe. I get that.
I’m not buying it.
I will vote for Ted Cruz, the only proven conservative in the race. Who while not perfect (the only person on the planet that I agree with 100% of the time is myself!), has at least walked the walk to the detriment of his political career, who understands and is beholden to the Constitution and does not have every character trait that has always been anathema to Conservatives.
Mark my words...this country will rue the day we elect Donald Trump.
Are you kidding me? That is who he is. That is his real record.
I take it you did not watch the rally?
I will not take up the space, here, to reprint all of the many examples of my point in the linked Chapter from my Conservative Debate Handbook, provided above. He was a Nationalist, at least as to those who embraced his dogma—even though he was an Austrian;—but he was at war with the traditional heritage of Germany; just as Obama is at war with American culture.
That about sums it up. But I’d add “crazy busy” to that. It’s all good though.
“Either that, or the media prefers to do the cheap, sensationalistic story about the reality TV star versus the menstruating journalist to covering Republicans having serious discussions on policy.”
I grant you that the media slugs are stupid and lazy, but their primary mission is the destruction of the United States Constitution. It seems to me, therefore, that they must believe that covering Trump is bad for the country.
They would never, under any circumstances, facilitate serious discussion of policy among conservatives or Republicans.
That said, I don’t think it’s fair to dismiss billionaire Trump as a “reality TV star,” or to characterize that dimwitted slag as a “journalist.”
She’s a talking head with a mandate to deceive the American people. I’d be astounded to learn that her SAT score was in four digits.
“does not have every character trait that has always been anathema to Conservatives.”
No, not every one, but the trait he does have is fatal: he is weak. I would not choose to go into combat with him.
“Additionally, Trump’s position has forced some of our lesser knowns in the contest to take a stand (or not) - e.g., Walker with his “I’ll decide later on amnesty after we close the border” and his latest “I’ll bust up the Unions”, or Carson’s popularity (why, I’ll never know - he’s a gun grabber and an amnesty shill)”
These cries for “specifics” are completely specious. These things are so bleeding obvious that the most specific thing that needs to be said is, “I will endeavor to choose good over evil.”
Or bad for the GOP.
Remember they can turn on a dime. They try to influence the primaries and then change stances for the general election.
Remember how much good press the "maverick" got?
On the general point I would agree with you but for a simple position on illegals and amnesty I certainly expect more than an “endeavor-to” commitment.
We have been lied to, badgered, condemned, shamed and ridiculed because we want a sovereign country. Candidates have learned to equivocate, obfuscate and to muddy their answers to make us think they will “endeavor-to”. They have even gotten to their own code words for the amnesty and citizenship they will give these illegals.
I’m just not gonna buy that crap any more. I want a clear and concise position that “I will NOT legalize illegals or give them amnesty or give them citizenship, nor will I abridge any aspect of the Second Amendment with BS rationalization about who, where and when a law abiding American shall own a gun.” It’s just that simple.
“I am sorry, people. Those of you here that are so fascinated with Thomas Sowell and often preach his amazing intellect, etc. ad nauseam.”
I agree that Sowell’s mind seems to be failing, but he was not always thus. I would still recommend his earlier works, such as “Race and Culture” and “The Vision of the Anointed.”
Perhaps I’m jumping to conclusions with regard to his mental state. It could very well be that the leftards are threatening the lives of people near to him.
I like wrecking ball too. Or we can elect trump to keep america guessing as to whether trump is.the farce or.the anti farce
I don’t really know. I’ve seen good things from him in the past but you also have to remember these elites in the so-called conservative elite industry are threatened by what they see. Their apple cart of respected acknowledgement of their advice and expertise is threatened.
Threatened by the BS they’ve tacitly allowed to occur through their silence at the lying, backstabbing, relentless appeasing and equivocation they’ve advocated over the years to “just elect that candidate who is most electable” because the [ooga booga] evil Democrat is much worse.
I’m done with listening to the so-called punditry conservative intelligentsia.
If anything my mind harkens back to a very old Playboy cartoon I once saw decades ago. It was a depiction of two vultures sitting on a cactus arm in the midst of heat and nothing else. One of them finally says to the other, “F@ck this, I’m gonna kill something!”
I’m not really advocating killing anyone, but I am certainly hoping to topple the Republican establishment if they can’t get on board with our ire.
“Then, having fed the monster, what stops him from gaining the nomination and losing badly to Sanders or Biden?”
Oh, about 65 percent of the electorate.
“It was a depiction of two vultures sitting on a cactus arm in the midst of heat and nothing else.”
I remember that. Is it really that long ago?
I’m not sure Trump is telling the truth, but I like what’s been going on. I particularly love the way he keeps surviving these “fatal gaffes.”
Other than Trump, all the GOP candidates are incrementalists in an age when we need a velvet revolution.
It was refreshing to see Walker propose the outlawing of public service unions yesterday — that is the kind of talk (and walk) we need to hear (and see). At this point, I won’t listen to anything else.
Vote for Trump because he’ll STOP the flow of illegals... and he’ll send the ones here back home to where they belong.
You’re right. Sowell is so off base here that he’s sounding senile.
Does the "shoe" fit?
Really? When Trump gets into office he'll find himself doing what the plutocracy tells him to do, as it was with his predecessors Obama, Bush, Clinton etc.
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