Posted on 01/21/2016 11:09:57 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
".....................As I said, I wrote that two years ago-March 2014. All the Chumpy McDonorpants had to do was sit on their hands and not give 100 million bucks to another hereditary-class rich-boy stiff with no flair for retail politics who thinks that illegal immigration is "an act of love". But they couldn't help themselves. The Donor Class decided it would take its contempt for the rubes to the next level...and now they're surprised that the rubes have decided to take it to the next level, too.They don't care when the insiders say that Trump isn't a "real Republican".To them,that's not a bug, it's a feature. But Rush posits that disenchantment with the only electoral alternative to the Democrats is now so great that they don't even care that Trump isn't a "real conservative".My old colleague Jonah Goldberg is pointing out today,yet again that Trump is "not a conservative".
That's true. But he's not campaigning like one,is he? Cruz is running proudly under the conservative banner.Trump is running like a guy who got Frank Luntz to do one of his "words that work" focus groups and "conservative" came back with net unfavorables.
So this is the world..Gerson,..Ballard and the rest of the smart guys have made:a primary season rapidly coming down to a hardcore base-shoring conservative vs a hardcore post-ideological neo-nationalist-leaving Gerson,..Wehner,..Will and the donor-bankrolled GOP establishment to mutter that it may be time for the Republican Party to go third-party.
LBJ said it was better to have[RFK]inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in. The GOP drove so many outside the tent to start pissing in that the the whole sodden canvas is floating off and out to sea. Final thought:
After this election, Big Money men may have to spend big to restore the name of Big Money.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Pure Gold..(no pun intended)
Man, Steyn can sure make his points razor sharp. Fabulous writer and thinker.
Brilliant.
To: Cincinatus’ Wife
Man, Steyn can sure make his points razor sharp. Fabulous writer and thinker.
A big +1, I enjoy when he sits in for Rush, but I think his writing is even better!
I know, I almost cut that line and repasted it as well.
John Adam's was right, ours is a system that takes a moral and religious people for it to work, the system is fine, the people are broke, I am seeing it daily on FR...
Branstad's Ethanol Attack on Cruz: Will Iowans Choose Politics or Principle?
great article.. I believe in strict deconstructionism and strict adherence to the constitution. time and time again we elect republicans, and we get just slightly less government than the other side. it mattered little.
I’m frankly sick and tired of giving republicans yet another chance.. I’m thinking about giving Trump, who shows up for speeches with no notes, a chance.
and 4 years down the line, I’m certain I won’t agree with 1/2 of what he’s done... but if he does these 2 things I’ll be a pretty happy camper:
1. destroy bad guys and ISIS
2. close the border and make it national policy that we send back people who snuck in... hard to do, for sure, but at least if its the policy, it will slow down the river flowing into our country. Language, Borders, Culture.
Great Steyn commentary on a really good Limbaugh monologue. Yay nationalism!
I think your attitude is common. The only thing I ever knew about Trump is I liked the Taj Mahal and hated his TV show. It’s really choice to hear the DC Insiders bitch about him having no political experience when he has REAL political experience in dealing with world businessmen and politicians. The fact he is still rich tells me all I have to know, yet these people are still gazing at their navels and pontificating because he overshadows their existence IMO.
Federal “insiders” have had it easy for decades, secure that their gaslighting of the gullible voters meant no would no one would ever come along and break up their cozy little racket.
Well, err. Nothing lasts forever.
“He’s the most desired candidate out there,” said another bundler, Brian Ballard, who sat on the national finance committees for Romney in 2012 and John McCain in 2008. “Everybody that I know is excited about it.”
There’s the problem with the GOPe in a nutshell. They’re out of touch with their own voters, because not a single ordinary Republican voter I’ve had any dealings with was ever excited about Jeb Bush. Which means guys like this GOPe tool don’t know ANY ordinary Republican voters.
The money paragraph...(reformatted)
“So a philosophical commitment to free trade means less to them than the degeneration of mill and factory towns into wastelands of fast-food service jobs and heroin addiction.
An abstract respect for religious pluralism means less to them than reducing the number of crazies running around whose last words before opening fire are “Allahu akbar!”
A theoretical belief in private-sector health care means less to them than not getting stiffed by crappy five-figure health “insurance” that can be yanked out from under you at any moment under Byzantine rules and regulations that change 30 times a day.
And bipartisan myth-making about “a nation of immigrants” means a whole lot less than another decade of Press One For English, flatlined wages, sanctuary cities and remorseless cultural transformation...”
Amen.
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