No, Fred Barnes is cheerleading for Hillary.
Jim Rob says no to #NeverTrumpers.
Try reading before posting - RIF on Weekly Standard.
It’s the centrist-at-heart Clinton whom conservatives and Republicans eager for an acceptable alternative to Donald Trump can vote for.
I’m sorry but there are no words for this level of deceit or stupidity. There is little to NOTHING that Hillary would do that differs from bozo.
May I slightly disagree with your conclusion of Fred Barnes’ article? Just by substituting one little word.
Fred grudgingly lays it out here and concludes it’s essential to vote for Trump.
I am not completely seated on the Trump Bandwagon yet. I am still holding on the hand strap, looking for that seat.
To one of Trump’s biggest selling points is, he is the only candidate who has actually signed a paycheck. A paycheck from his bank account.
Hillary promoting Wanderin’ Bill as the reason for the prosperity of the 1990’s and not the Republican Congress that Willie and Hillie begat 2 years after their election? Hubris - it’s not just for breakfast anymore!
On foreign and national security affairs, he’s [Trump] a rookie, which is worrisome.
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And Obama, a one-term Senator, wasn’t? Also, Trump listens & takes advice while the narcissistic, anti-American Obama doubles down when he’s hurt the country or looked like a wuss. Obama was a rookie & unqualified on everything except warming a back bench & voting ‘present’.
Overall, good piece by Fred.
Only there's a problem: This Hillary Clinton is entirely mythical. She doesn't exist.
Then there wouldn't be such a need to read the rest of the article to know its main point.
Trump: Hillary is a Leftwing extremist!
Hillary: I am not! I'm actually a Centrist.
Sanders: See? She's a stooge for Wall St!
Hillary: I am not! I dream of a socialist revolution!
Trump: I told you! She's a radical Leftist!
Hillary: I am not! I love Big Banks and I support the rich!
Sanders: OMG! She's as bad as Trump!
Hillary: I am not --!
The Clintons are criminals. That should make it easy.
Millennials who are attracted to Sanders never learned the facts or the reason behind the grand ole days of Bubba the Animal.
libstripper — could you expand your post to show the next couple of lines from the article? Barnes point is NOT what many commenters assume:
“Only there’s a problem: This Hillary Clinton is entirely mythical. She doesn’t exist. As the Democratic party has lurched to the left, she has lurched with it. While talking up growth, she has proposed no incentives to produce it. She relies on government spending to stir growth, Obama’s woeful policy. On tax cuts, she’s for boosting the top rate on individual income to 45 percent, the highest in three decades. Under her complicated plan, the tax rate on capital gains would jump from 23.8 percent to 39.6 percent, then to 47.4 percent with surtaxes. The Tax Foundation concluded her tax hikes would cut annual growth by 1 percent and shrink incomes by at least 0.9 percent. That’s a recipe for less job creation, more wage stagnation, fewer business startups, and a despondent country.
What made the 1990's wonderful was the Republican takeover of Congress.
Both want more illegal immigration.
Both want more h1b immigration.
Both want a faster path to citizenship.
Both want expanded traded deals like NAFTA & TPP that ship jobs overseas.
On the other side you have Trump and...Bernie Sanders. That's right, Bernie.
Both want to crack down on illegal immigration (Bernie focuses on the fact that is suppresses wages for the poor),.
Both are against trade deals like TPP (Bernie says they destroy American jobs).
Both want to crack down on h1b visas.
Who said the following:
“A number of U.S. employers, including some large, well-known, publicly-traded corporations, have reportedly laid off thousands of American workers and replaced them with H-1B visa holders. To add insult to injury, many of the replaced American employees report that they have been forced to train the foreign workers who are taking their jobs”
“We respectfully request that you investigate the unacceptable replacement of American workers by H-1B workers to ascertain whether SCE or any other U.S. companies that have engaged in this practice, or the IT consulting companies supplying those companies with H-1B workers, have violated the law.”
It was Bernie Sanders, but it could have come right out of a Trump statement.
The story being missed isn't Trump. It's Sanders. Very little analysis is being done about the Bernie phenomenon, because we have a knee jerk reaction that Bernie's just a left wing socialist, so his followers must just be a bunch of kids that want free stuff.
But, if you dig deeper, you'll find his supporters are asking the same questions Trump supporters are asking: why don't our economic politics benefit American citizens? At its root, the Bernie movement is also an American nationalist movement.
There is a realignment going on in both parties, and it's along NATIONALIST economic lines.
It's no wonder the GOP establishment is courting Hillary. Her positions on economics are the same as their own. Heck, after this election cycle, they may end up in the same party.
I'm not sure how things will fall out, but it's clear that a massive realignment is on the way. The concept of conservative and liberal will be blurred--if they exist at all, because the new alignments will be nationalist vs globalist.
On November 8, we’ll choose between Clinton and Trump. It’s not so much that he is better, though he is. But she fails to meet minimal standards a conservative or a Republican should insist on. A vote for Clinton would be wrong. Voting for a third-party candidate or not voting would be half a vote for Hillary. To defeat her and the myth, a vote for Trump is required.