Posted on 02/19/2016 9:36:10 AM PST by RightSideNews
Joan Swirsky
I'm watching the fierce South Carolina primary contest among the six remaining candidates for POTUS and a few things strike me as astounding.
The first is that all the seasoned politicians on stage -Governors Bush and Kasich, Senators Cruz and Rubio--have been relegated to straggler status by the non-politician in the race, billionaire businessman Donald Trump. (Dr. Ben Carson, the other non-politician, is hanging in there but not lighting any fires).
Second is that only Mr. Trump is raising the biggest issues facing our country, among them:
Fourth is that he is saying out loud what most Americans have been thinking and feeling for almost eight years, specifically that as a result of our thunderously ineffective "leadership," we have utterly failed to destroy ISIS and the other Islamic terrorists who spend every waking hour figuring out how to obliterate America, which they call "the great Satan," and our staunchest ally, Israel, "the little Satan."
ISIS has about 50,000 adherents, maybe even 75,000. In one week, the American military could obliterate this murderous sect from the face of the earth. But Barack Obama seems to have a peculiar aversion to fighting the enemies of America, hence the rise of this homicidal cult and the escalating threat it poses to our country.
And fifth is the degree to which Mr. Trump is already negotiating with both domestic and foreign leaders. He is letting American politicians know that deals can and will be made but that all of them must benefit America! And he is telling the entire world that the vacation that overseas leaders have had from true American leadership will be over the very second he enters the Oval Office.
All the while, Mr. Trump's competitors and critics carp and whine about his "bluster," "naiveté," and "crudeness." Wasn't President Teddy Roosevelt accused of bluster? Wasn't President Ronald Reagan accused of being naive? Wasn't the liberals’ hero LBJ accused of crudeness? These are trifling criticisms, as are the accusations that Mr. Trump is "not a true conservative" and that in the past he was, gasp, a liberal. Well, we’ve given the self-described conservatives the entire House and Senate and they've failed us, so it's time to give a born-again conservative a chance!
Once in office, I have full confidence, Mr. Trump would glassify ISIS into oblivion, take the oil they've stolen and give it to the families who have been destroyed by these psychotics. He would overturn and replace Obamacare in record time, build an impenetrable wall in record time to keep out the swarms of illegals who, again, Mr. Obama seems fatally attracted to. He would get rid of a half-dozen or more bloated government departments, reduce the tax code to less than 25 pages, and overturn all the Executive Orders Mr. Obama has inflicted on the nation in his eagerness to bypass the U.S. Congress and spit on the U.S. Constitution. Most important, Mr. Trump would immediately build up our military and promptly reverse the preposterous, Obama-dictated Rules of Engagement (i.e., don’t shoot unless the other guy shoots first).
How do I know this? Because I come from a business background where people actually get things done! Where executive decisions are made decisively, political correctness is considered the silly indulgence of people with too much time on their hands, accountability is the order of the day, and outcomes are regularly measured to gauge success––all of which is the polar opposite of how our government works, which is why both Mr. Trump and the American people hold our government and its current leadership in such contempt.
Those who point to Mr. Trump's business failures purposely fail to mention the personal courage and financial risks it takes to pursue new, bold, entrepreneurial ventures, or the resilience it takes to weather failure, to rebound, and to go on to even greater heights. They also forget that a man who heads an incredibly successful organization with over 20,000 employees, who surrounds himself with talented experts, and who does business in dozens of countries (including Mexico, Canada, Mumbai, Philippines, Dubai, Turkey, Panama, et al) knows better than any of his rivals––in fact, better than any politician––how to run a complex bureaucracy, and a tight ship!
The political criticisms Mr. Trump has been receiving from the establishment wonks at National Review, Rupert-Murdoch’s puppets at Fox News, the hysterical and frenzied Republican National Committee, and leftists all over the place, are from people who operate in the rarefied and self-congratulatory realms of academia, the media, and of course Washington, D.C.–– including the politicians who go out for drinks every night with the lobbyists they depend on to support their reelection campaigns and pay them enough to live quite richly in retirement. In common parlance, they’re known as whores!
That same American public, through their earnest efforts, managed to elect a Republican-controlled Senate and House in the 2014 midterms, only to realize that the people they elected have caved in to every Marxist initiative of the Saul-Alinsky-driven regime in power. We’ll never know to what degree threats, intimidation, and bribes played in this craven capitulation, but Americans finally understand they’ve been betrayed––hence the overwhelming support for a candidate who is absolutely impervious to bribes, threats, and intimidation.
Track Record
I want the next POTUS to have an impressive track record of accomplishment, not simply a laundry list of rosy promises. Now that Mr. Trump has effectively quashed the rest of the competition and is ahead by double digits in the South Carolina primary contest to be held on Saturday, February 20th, he may just run the table. Unlike everyone else in the race, he has run a gigantic corporation with immense success, a business that has required him to deal with titanic problems.
As Steve Cuozzo has written in the New York Post, long before The Donald considered running for president, he had already helped save New York City by being “New York’s most important and bravest real-estate developer.â€
And Mr. Trump’s daughter Ivanka remarked recently to Breitbart, “From day one, my father set the agenda for what the whole party is talking about.â€
That is called Leadership!
I trust that Mr. Trump will come into office on Day One with the world’s biggest broom!
Appearance
I remember watching the JFK-Nixon debates in the presidential contest of 1960. It was the first presidential debate of the fledgling TV era and it had a profound effect on the entire country.
Previous televised hearings about organized crime were held by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN) in 1950 (the year my family actually bought our first TV), and about the infiltration of Communists into our government and military (sound familiar?) held by Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) in 1954.
JFK was a dashing and articulate Harvard graduate, and Nixon a sort of awkward, looking-for-the-right-word graduate of Whittier College, whose wife Pat was slim, blond and beautiful, as were his two young daughters. But who on earth could compete with Jackie, the breathy, willowy, gorgeous 30-year-old who had graduated from the tony Miss Porter’s School, Vassar College, and the Sorbonne, and had two adorable babies?
All the glamour of the Kennedys was featured in print by besotted newspaper editors across the country, and blared on TV by leftist anchors at the three networks that existed at the time: CBS, NBC, ABC. All of them, of course objectively, touted the always-intriguing ingredients of youth, glamour, sexiness, romance, scandal, and wealth of the "Camelot" couple. And guess who won the presidency?
However, it turned out that Kennedy, who had been in the Senate for seven years––longer than Obama, Cruz, or Rubio––was not as equipped as his rival Nixon would have been to deal with the Bay of Pigs invasion in April, 1961, which strengthened the position of the Communist Fidel Castro's leadership and his relationship with USSR, and the disastrous Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, which was the closest the Cold War between the U.S. and Russia came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.
In that era, Kennedy's appearance proved to be just that, appearance.
Appearances still matter and certainly Mr. Trump and his family are amazingly glamorous, appealing, photogenic and wealthy. And his worldly business experience supersedes and eclipses that of his rivals by light years. Also, the billionaire mogul looks presidential! He's big, like America. He's bold, like our Founders. And he's masculine, not one of the sissified, metro-sexual men of today who have been cowed into tiptoeing through the tulips of political correctness, too afraid to say what they think for fear of offending the perpetually aggrieved, oh-so-sensitive, hothouse-flower special-interest groups among us.
Who can forget when right out of the gate, Mr. Trump said he would close the borders and ship all the illegal aliens back to where they came from, including anchor babies? When a self-important reporter told him that the “anchor baby†term was offensive, Mr. Trump said, "That's what I say, anchor babies." Slam dunk.
That is called Leadership!
Ideas
Barack Obama came into office intent on turning our country into his childlike utopian version of social-justice paradise, the better to cut down to size what he and his far-left cronies believe is the big, bad colonialist power known as the United States of America.
Using the Cloward-Piven strategy, outlined in 1966, to bankrupt the country through gargantuan expenditures, Obama increased welfare costs (through the importation of millions of illegal aliens), increased our debt to $19-going-on-$20-trillion, and financed a great number of phony-baloney schemes like Solyndra, which received a $536 million U.S. Energy Department loan guarantee in 2009 and then went broke in 2011. Ever wonder into whose now-bulging pockets all those millions went?
In contrast, Mr. Trump came on the scene and immediately said he would stop the tsunami of illegal aliens crossing our border by building a fence that Mexico would pay for! He then cited the Muslim jihadists and their carnage in San Bernardino and said he would immediately suspend all Muslims coming into this country until the U.S. Congress figured out what was going on.
That is called Leadership!
True Patriot
A Gallup poll of February 7th indicates quite persuasively that America is overwhelmingly conservative. The poll, wrote Bruce Walker in the American Thinker, reported that the number of states "in which conservatives outnumber liberals has been as low as 47 states and as high as 50 states. This ought to be a very big story, but Gallup, like nearly every other polling organization, tilts left ideologically."
That's exactly what people and pundits say about Mr. Trump, that he tilts left ideologically. So how can a rock-ribbed conservative like me possibly support him?
Simple! I gave birth to my first child when I was 18. Right there and then, practically when I was still lying on the delivery room table, I knew what my job was. It was not to give my beautiful little boy the most nutritious meals or the best education or a fancy home or the shiniest tricycle. It was to keep him safe! Without safety, everything else is moot. In fact, more than moot, non-existent! If you're not safe, nothing else matters.
And here comes Mr. Trump, a non-politician, who gets it, who deeply understands that if we don't close our borders and continue to let un-vetted aliens into our country, we are de facto not safe!
And how is the safety of our country secured? Only through the overwhelming strength of our military and local and national law enforcement agencies, which the current occupant of the Oval Office has systematically tried to decimate, right up to this month, when he issued an order––in keeping with his fetish about the hoax of global warming––that no military action can be taken without first assuring that no harm comes to the environment. Hard to believe, but true.
To compound the stupidity of this policy, consider that former CIA director, Michael Morrell recently admitted that concerns about contaminating the environment have prevented the White House from bombing oil wells that finance the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which Barack Obama calls ISIL, the "L" standing for Levant, an area that includes Israel. Translated: Obama––as we know by now–– considers Israel the enemy!
| Can you imagine a President Trump not bombing our enemies because of a few trees? As my fellow New Yorkers would say, gimme a break! |
Before he formally announced his candidacy in June 2015, Mr. Trump attended the Iowa Freedom Summit the previous January, where he received a standing ovation when he said that he could "make this country great again."
He said he believed that "any credible American foreign policy doctrine should be defined by at least seven core principles":
Don Fredrick, the creator of The Complete Obama Timeline, says that "the establishment is frightened to death that Trump will win…you can be certain that if an establishment candidate wins in November 2016, America loses."
Former Navy SEAL and writer Jim O'Neill says that "Trump is a true-blue patriot…" He cites Harlem Pastor James Manning who says that Trump speaks truth to power. Trump “knows full well that Big Business, Big Media, Big Banking, and Big Government are all in bed together," O'Neill adds, "and like no other major political figure that I can recall from my lifetime, he calls them on it. His love for the United States is obvious, deep-seated, and true."
As for me, I'm as conservative as it gets, but Conservatives have failed me and our country. I'm counting on Mr. Trump to fix what's been broken, to keep our country safe and employed and on the road back to a spectacular recovery!
Joan Swirsky is a New York based author and journalist. Her website is www.joanswirsky.com, and she can be reached at joanswirsky@gmail.com. Check out her latest book, The Caregiver's Survival Guide.
You can rant and be angry all you want, but I'm fairly certain Trump knows no one is denied health care in the US.
What he's done is kind of brilliant, even if your apparently blind hatred of him prevents you from seeing it.
He's taken the Republicans just want to throw grannie off the cliff BS that will be used in the general.
Go ahead, rant on, just make sure you take something to calm yourself down. Soon.
A changeling just like you. From your home page:
"Native Texan and Catholic, former liberal Democrat..."
"Voted for Jimmy Carter in 1976..."
Trump was asked a question last night about what would happen if the Obamacare mandate was repealed. The first words out of Trump’s mouth were “well, I like the mandate.” That is not a mischaracterization that is word for word what Trump said last night.
Please go to the link and watch the video. I repeat he said this last night so you can’t tell me this is ancient history. Last night Trump supported the Obamacare mandate that everyone has to buy insurance. http://hotair.com/archives/2016/02/19/trump-on-obamacare-i-like-the-mandate/
That will help you a lot. And your candidate.
I promise......
Nope, my reasons are solid.
Let’s think about this. Illegal Immigration and securing the border were not a primary talking point in the election until Trump made it so. Cruz was running as a candidate for well over a month by the time Trump made an entrance. I don’t recall Cruz pushing the issue to the forefront. In fact Cruz’s policies called for a 500% increase in H-1B visas, and didn’t call for a wall. But that changed. Where was Cruz pushing to counter the bad trade deals the US was in? Oh wait, he wasn’t he voted for the TPA Cloture and changed his vote against TPA after it was too late to stop it. And where was Cruz stopping the Iran Deal? He didn’t, he voted for the Corker Bill that gave us the Iran Deal. Cruz isn’t a statesman, he is a career politician that has set his goals in life to be nothing but a career politician.
I have a third, which happens to be my number one. Trump is unaffected by political correctness, which I maintain is the greatest threat to our culture. Neuter the PC crowd and all other problems can be openly debated and solved.
So your solution is fairy tales about Mexico-funded walls, Terifficcare, and millions of manufacturing jobs flooding our shores?
Building the wall and pumping the breaks on unfair trade are totally realistic. OTOH, Cruz’s buffet of primary season red meat like defunding PP are the real whopping fairy tales. Sad to see so many good conservatives getting used again by a climbing career politician like Ted Cruz.
Good luck, hate on.
“Trump is drawing zero obstruction.”
From you cruzy keyboard commandos, true.
ummm... perhaps because you’re gullible enough to take recent words of an narcissist, with a motivation of gain, over numerous prior words and actions, and therefore lack a basic understanding of human nature? Gamble away.
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So, you want a hidden proxy-president doing what he wishes, regardless of what the constitution permits, enacting Amnesty, single payer healthcare, and gun control?
That is exactly what Trump has promised.
You’ll never even know who really is running the country.
Trump understands politics; that is what the essence of his “business” has always been.
What he doesn’t understand is statesmanship.
Lucky us!
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I don’t understand your response. Trump plainly said last night that he supported the Obamacare Mandate. He said this live on national TV and you refuse to believe it.
I agree, Anti-PC is definitely a plus, and is another reason I support him.
That is why the business as usual system submissives fear him to the point of hysteria.
He gives not a damn about PC. That is one of the traits he shares with Reagan.
Are they really? Including the part about Mexico paying for it and foreign leaders trembling at Trump's commands? So what about Terifficcare? How does he do that?
OTOH, Cruz's buffet of primary season red meat like defunding PP are the real whopping fairy tales
At least Cruz has been consistent on that. Trump has been for funding...then defunding...then partly funding...now he's back to defunding again.
Sad to see so many good conservatives getting used again by a climbing career politician like Ted Cruz.
Sad to see so many self-identified conservatives flocking to a moderate like Trump. Romney taught you nothing?
Such comments like “I am a die hard conservative!†are simply slogans used as teasers to then try and convince you some asinine idea should be acceptable to conservatives.
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Possible, but sometimes it’s just as likely we don’t know what we think we know.
Leave you with this, (nothing personally implied) “People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it’s true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs..... yet they think it’s all true. “People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.”
He clearly said TWICE (that's two for those in Rio Linda) that bamster care would be repealed. It would be replaced with an HSA based free market based system.
He also said we had to figure out how to make certain no one falls through the cracks, and whatever that method is, it would cost a tiny fraction of the foolishness of bamster care.
Go ahead, keep saying you know what he meant.
Problem is you don't, and you just want to pretend you do. I know what he's been saying, what he claims his context is.
You only want to spread disinformation, something you can only hope will bring Cruz back from the dead.
Btw, have you seen the latest polls that see Cruz is now in third? Maybe you can even get more angry and sow more disinformation now.......
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Your reasons are vaporware.
Had you thought about anything your post never would have made it to your keyboard.
You never paid any attention to what was going on, or you would have instantly realized that Trump’s “positions” were copied from Cruz’ extensive positions, and that he has no belief in any of them; only a desire to help his NWO friends by blocking a conservative victory.
Dreams are not logic sir.
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I’m not interested in your homosexual agenda, Obot.
There is more than one Mandate within Obamacare. The mandate referenced is the one for pre-existing conditions, which was stated in the question. I don’t see a problem with the pre-existing conditions mandate. There are still things that need to be adjusted within healthcare, specifically lawsuits. That would help lower medical costs making it easier to cover pre-existing conditions.
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