Posted on 02/14/2016 4:43:56 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
February 14th, 2016
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio; Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump; John Kasich; Rubio.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Trump, Rubio, Sanders.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Kasich, Rubio, Sanders.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Rubio; Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush.
Sharyl Attkisson's Full Measure French affairs since Paris Terrorist attacks; Democrat Jim Messina and Republican Karl Rove discuss election; Obama's budget proposal.
Earlier in the day, before the debate, Spicer told Breitbart News exclusively that there were 1,600 seats in the audience and only 600 tickets were divided among the campaigns. State party and local officials got 550 tickets, while the RNC got 367 tickets. Another hundred tickets were given to the debate partners, CBS News, the Peace Center, and Google.
How one acts at these times is a stronger indication of character than anything they may have led you to believe.
Wow great post! This is a big story and needs to get out!!
the fact that Trump supports see no issue with his nastiness
Trump won all demographics in his crushing victory in NH. His supporters are the people who are pissed off at the political class that is bought and paid for by their corporate donors and special interests. Blunt, tough talk is needed, political correctness be damned.
Yes, please, it is well past time for a new party that is in favor of the Constitution AND a LIMITED Federal G’ment
Demography is destiny. That message is not resonating among the electorate. Populism and nationalism are. Trump is the only Rep who seems to be able to get his message across to the average voter. If he wins big in SC, what is the message you will derive from that? Trump's supporters are part of the great unwashed who are coarse and crude?
Jeff Sessions provided the template for victory two years ago in his brilliant piece, Becoming the Party of Work--How the GOP can help struggling Americans, and itself. Only Trump appears to be following it.
According to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll, seven in ten voters believe that the Republican party is “out of touch with the concerns of most people in the United States today.†What follows is a plan for how the GOP can win back their trust — and a build a conservative majority in the process.
When Americans went to the polls in 2012, the following was true: Work-force participation had sunk to its lowest level in 35 years, wages had fallen below 1999 levels, and 47 million Americans were on food stamps. Yet Mitt Romney, the challenger to the incumbent president, lost lower- and middle-income voters by an astonishing margin. Among voters earning $30,000 to $50,000, he trailed by 15 points, and among voters earning under $30,000 he trailed by 28 points.
And what did the GOP’s brilliant consultant class conclude from this resounding defeat? They declared that the GOP must embrace amnesty. The Republican National Committee dutifully issued a report calling for a “comprehensive immigration reform†that would inevitably increase the flow of low-skilled immigration, reducing the wages and living standards of the very voters whose trust the GOP had lost.
Over the past four decades, as factories were shuttered and blue-collar jobs were outsourced or automated, net immigration quadrupled. Yet the corporate-consultant class has pronounced that an insufficient level of immigration is the problem. A more colossal misreading of the political moment has rarely occurred.
Perhaps the most important political development now unfolding in the U.S. is the public’s growing loss of faith in our political and financial elites of both parties. To open the ears of disaffected voters, the GOP must break publicly from the elite immigration consensus of Wall Street and Davos. Republicans have a clear path to building a conservative majority if they free themselves from the corporate consultants and demonstrate to the American public that the GOP is the only party aligned with the core interests, concerns, and beliefs of everyday hardworking citizens.
But the immigration “principles†offered by House GOP leaders imply that record immigration levels must be increased further to meet “the needs of employers.†One such GOP proposal — to provide the food industry with half a million low-skilled workers each year — was polled by Rasmussen. Nearly 70 percent of independent voters opposed it.
“Most business leaders have long favored more open immigration. Different businesses want different kinds of people,†a prominent GOP fundraiser declared on TV. “A restaurant may want waiters and cooks; a hospital wants nurses and doctors; a university wants physicists; a business like Exelon needs more engineers.†Asked by the interviewer about hiring U.S. workers for open jobs, he replied that many of those now unemployed are “unable to compete for them.â€
Is that the message of a winning party? It might win a majority of votes at a dinner party in a gated community in Bel Air, but it is an act of profound delusion to think that plan can form the basis of a nationwide Republican resurgence.
Democrats in Washington have already cast their lot. A recent report from the Center for Immigration Studies shows that all net employment gains from 2000 to 2013 — a period of record legal immigration — went to immigrant workers, and yet the immigration plan championed by the White House and congressional Democrats would triple the number of immigrants given permanent legal status over the next decade, and it would double the annual flow of guest workers to compete for jobs in every sector of the U.S. economy. The Democrats’ plan delivers for international corporations, open-borders groups, and even workers now living in other countries — all at the expense of American workers.
So Republicans have a choice. They can either join the Democrats as the second political party in Washington advocating uncontrolled immigration, or they can offer the public a principled alternative and represent the American workers Democrats have jettisoned. Republicans can either help the White House enact an immigration plan that will hollow out the American middle class, or they can finally expose the truth about the White House plan and detail the enormous harm it will inflict.
Encouraging.
I’m back.
Y’all might remember my...well it wasn’t complaining so much, but last week upon my return from church I said that I was the only choir member at the front of the choir loft and all at least half the church heard was one alto (ME!) and the choir director told me to sing louder and face the front, so I did!
In that little email I wrote I suggested that maybe they put a soprano or two up there with me, dear Lord....what’s up with that?
So today I report to the loft and go to hell, my chair is EVEN closer to the front of the loft and there’s a HUGE MICROPHONE POINTING AT MY FACE!
Heh.
You can’t make this stuff up.
I did, however, have a couple of sopranos up front with me, they also had microphones and despite my hee-haws, it sounded right nice.
My friend Diane Feinstein was Cantor and she’s way the hell at the front of the church and she tells me on the way home that she couldn’t hear the piano (a grand piano, how cool is that?) so she kept time for the congregation by reading my lips!
Lord Jesus spare me. Now the Cantor is reading my singing lips, I’m so close to that loft ending I can inside of peoples’ ears below me, there’s this big microphone pointing to my head....
Heh.
I will expand on these dog laws issues later in the thread, might be interesting to some of you.
Meanwhile, Watching Meet the Depressed on DVR and holy cow, Al Sharpton is one of the pundits?
Go to hell.
LOL...permission granted ;-)
I saw a pic posted here, somewhere, of that image....and I guess I combined that with full Ginsburg, since we’re on this thread!!
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MSM loves having Trump on he is almost the only person the rats will beat in the general election his negatives are at historic levels and heading up after he lost control and lost his cool in the meltdown last night.
SCOTUS sure fired up Cruz. He was in the spin room last night telling everyone that if they elect Trump they’ll lose their guns because Trump’s guaranteed to nominate a liberal.
Cruz is so low and despicable. No one including Cruz defends the 2nd Amendment more than Trump.
Thank you for your post - It is great and truly explains what is happening with this election cycle. Mr. Trump is what we need now, not the pundits telling us what we should do or who we should vote for.
What really concerns me are the younger voters who don’t have a clue about how capitalism works or what the constitution means - all they want is free stuff, free tuition, tax the rich, blah, blah. They don’t realize that if a business is making less money due to taxes, they raise the price and we pay.
Finally, Mr. Trump is the only one that Will get the wall built and stop the illegal immigration. If we don’t look out for ourselves first, how can we help anyone in the future.
That’s not completely accurate.
I can show you all his total statement and will send in FR mail, because this is important.
I can only find the entire statement in the LA Times.
Maybe someone can post the important part.
So here in the tiny state of Delaware up until last year all animal control issues were handled by the county. Bearing in mind we have three counties in Delaware, that’s all. Effective this year, all animal control is under the auspices of a new bureaucracy….the Delaware Office of Animal Control Where All Things Animal are Dealt With and We Will Never Ever Go Away….The DOACWATAADWAWWNEGA for short.
Here in Sussex county, the ONLY county worth anything in this state, animal control was handled fairly well though sometimes you had to call Dover, maybe Wilminigton….whatever….I’ve got animals all over the place and had to be involved all of this from time to time.
So I’m not necessarily AGAINST statewide control of Animal Control so long as they don’t pass laws making it illegal for dogs to bark, or even breathe as my fine, nice neighbor would have it.
I have been involved with many local animal control ordinances here in Sussex, once stopping a dog barking ordinance that…well you got know they’d find me guilty and string up me and my dogs on coastal highway to illustrate what happens to people who let their dog barks.
Heh, and that’s almost how I phrased it when I commented before the Sussex county council. They wouldn’t dare pass that thing and the newspapers were there as well….one came home with me and I was on TV that night.
Heh. You people got to stop me but no, y’all let me go on and on.
So now the state is taking over and guys, I’m on it.
Stay tuned for part 2 as I get involved with northern Delaware Democrats and the new head of Delaware’s Animal Control…..this is so good I ought to charge.
Trump was playing passive aggressive with how he treated the lady in the audience yelling pussy, the wink and a nod thing was too cute by half for all we know the marketer staged the whole act. Including planting the woman in the audience.
Desperation sets in once the thought of losing becomes a real possibility.
How one acts at these times is a stronger indication of character than anything they may have led you to believe.
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Like when Trump went Birther on Cruz when he fell behind in Iowa, good point.
We had several threads here yesterday and then TRUMP tweeted about the stacked audience and also about the RNC falsely (and illegally) using TRUMP to raise money for the RNC & NRSC.
AuntB and JaneLong can best find those threads.
YOU’RE RIGHT ABOUT ONE THING: TRUMP WILL BE THE NOMINEE!!!
2 Corinthians 1:12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
This is the greatest election ever and it is only just begun. We have the outsiders completing the work the Tea Party had begun and Moscow on the Potomac has no idea what is about to hit them. When you look at the two Parties you have one which is being headed by some old as dirt Leninists who are in a competition of who can make this the Soviet Union before they hit the dirt nap against our socialists who want to give it away less quickly and the Outsiders.
As the only person who predicted Trump and Cruz would be fighting it out six months ago and predicted Trump would win big a month ago it is time for the explanation why. Both Trump and Cruz would win against Sanders after he beats Hillary for a few reasons. The first is America is ready for a real change and have had their eyes opened from the Obama Depression. Cruz would win on Ground Game and Trump will win with his media wars and in this case Trump will be the nominee in a sweep across the country.
Since Trump and his supporters are universally hated by both the liberal and Conservative Punditocracy it is time an explanation is given why his movement see him as the superior candidate. As a fundamental Christian we do not care if the candidate is holy enough, we appreciate that he only respects us and is able to articulate basic conservative ideas. We have all worked with people who have a spicy language and especially in the construction industry so most of us overlook it whether we use those words or not.
The main issue we like is his dedication to the wall. Until the wall is built there is no point in talking about deportation since there is no real deportation without that wall. After it is built or at least the border being shut while construction occurs then it is simply grandstanding using the usual amnesty cliches with no solutions. Trump is the first one and most likely the only one who is serious about building it and the rest will never get it done.
His second largest issue is taking on Political Correctness. He has rolled back the PC mafia at least five years which is highlighted by his saying illegal aliens need to be deported as well as a moratorium on allowing Mooselimbs into our country and stating he does not believe in Global Warming. These are all considered sacrilege to the PC crowd as he tramples on sacred cow after sacred cow. The rest of the candidates only state their nuanced platitudes to straddle the same fence which has surrendered issue after issue. Political Correctness is the biggest club the Marxists have to beat down the opposition into submission and he beats them back to their safe rooms with courage and a sense of humor.
Is he a pure Conservative who knows the Conservative doxology inside and out or a record of marching in lockstep with Rush Limbaugh? No, he is a businessman; who like the ferry operator in the Outlaw Josey Wells, he learned to sing the Battle Hymn of the Republic and Dixie with equal enthusiasm to survive. In New York City if you want to build skyscrapers you have to sing the Battle Hymn more often than Dixie. He does not have the luxury of only donating one direction and irritating the Dems who are very vindictive which will add millions to his costs if he can get permits at all.
He is far more Conservative than all except perhaps Cruz, but he articulates and knows capitalism better than any other person on the stage. It really is not close who knows economics better than anyone on the stage or in DC, period. He is not a socialist and understands capitalism inside and out which is why he articulates it far better than anyone in the country. He did not learn it in the halls of Harvard or discussing it in some think tank, he lived capitalism his entire life in one of the toughest industries on the planet. Capitalism is in his veins which is why his explanations are substantive yet simple enough for America to understand. He is teaching America what capitalism is for the first time in fifty years.
This is why his time is now. After fifty years or more of Americans being told that the only solution to every one of their problems is gummit, it is refreshing to have someone articulate capitalism in a language they can understand. He keeps it simple and hits a couple of highlights without getting into the weeds where he lives with charm and charisma which is spellbinding. This country needs someone who can take this country another direction and Trump has the knowledge, credibility and a very high level of articulation to get that done. Add to that he is likely one of the top five negotiators in the country if not the world and you have a set of skills we have never seen.
From a purely Tea Party attitude and what America is telling the political establishment on both sides we just want to blow it all up. We want to bulldoze DC and watch all of those sanctimonious elites jump into the trash heap. While everyday Americans work hard only to be laughed at, insulted and ripped off they are about to tell these useless, incompetent Marxists to take a hike since we cannot afford you anymore. We need someone with a big “You’re Fired†sign and we have just the guy for that.
The biggest reason Trump will win is he is not afraid to get ugly. Republicans have to go against the Three Pillars of Propaganda (media, academia and the DNC) to win. They have two choices, they can win ugly or lose graciously and it is much easier to be gracious. The establishment would rather debate and convince voters through high brow debating societies while the Dems are calling them racist, sexist homophobes. Trump will win ugly which is how this country is going to get fixed.
The establishments on both sides believe politics is fought in a cotillion with high brow discussions about the superiority of the Constitution when in reality it is a knife fight in the mud with no rules. This is where Trump has lived his life and has a room full of heads to prove it. The Pundiots do not want to go there and they certainly do not want to act like they approve of it and get splashed on their pearly white suits, so they vilify and mock to mask their fear of actually having to get their hands dirty. The Conservative pundits would rather lose graciously then win ugly since they too have become the establishment.
Trump will be the nominee. He has pointed his entire life at this moment and has the skills and abilities nobody on either stage has with the courage to say what he and the American people think. It is not pure Conservatism, but it is pure capitalism. Capitalism has not been pure for a hundred years, but capitalists adapt to the draconian rules they have to play by and adapt which Marxism cannot do and he is the master. He will drive the purists crazy since he is going to do what is right in his gut, but in the end they will be based on capitalism which is the basics of Conservatism. He is like the bulldozer that cuts a path through the overgrown trees to begin to build a road back to the rundown City on the Hill. The next guy can pave it after Trump dynamites and builds a road back to America.
Pray America wakes
19 posted on 2/14/2016, 7:15:30 AM by bray (Trump/Palin 2016)
Best you take care with logical constructs like this one.
A low-flying unicorn may just get all tangled up in the thing and you'll have BS and Skittles scattered from coast to coast.
Here’s a report from Greenville News “Loyal supporters of GOP granted tickets to debate in Greenville” http://www.wyff4.com/news/loyal-supporters-of-gop-granted-tickets-to-debate-in-greenville/37950532
—I think it’s safe to say audience was stacked
YOU LET YOUR DOGS BARK!!?
I don’t do that, and I live out in the sticks. I can’t stand it.
Naturalized Citizen Law & Legal Definition
A naturalized citizen is a person who was born an alien, but has lawfully become a citizen of the United States under the U.S. Constitution and laws. Cruz was born an alien but made a citizen through law (Congress).
That includes derived citizenship by law. Then there's this little matter of necessary paperwork:
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