Posted on 06/18/2019 6:46:55 AM PDT by Rummyfan
On June 16th 2015 a Manhattan businessman descended an escalator on Fifth Avenue and upended all the inert leaden rituals of America's two-year presidential campaigns. Four years on, in an even more crowded Democrat field, I have no idea at this stage who will emerge victorious. But I think I can plausibly claim - unlike far more powerful figures on the American right, still throwing money and endorsements at obvious losers nine months later - to have discerned the essentials of the 2016 race pretty early. (I predicted Trump would win the nomination on the radio with Alan Colmes in September 2015.)
Three weeks after Donald Trump launched his campaign - on July 10th 2015 - I wrote the column below on the two old white males shaking up their respective nominating contests. Four years on, Bernie is running again in an entirely Berniefied party: His rivals are all presenting themselves as merely younger, comelier, blacker, gayer versions of the original, or in the case of the pitiful Joe Biden, unloading every morning positions he's held for half-a-century, an even more geriatric Bernie. On the right there are NeverTrumpers but on the left no NeverBernies.
Is it necessary to say anything about those NeverTrumpers? The guys who told us it was a stunt, he'd be out by Labor Day, he wouldn't win a single primary...
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
LOVE Melania’s dress!!!
Or should I say, LOVE Melania. And she is in a dress...
As soon as Trump started speaking, we looked at each other and said, "He's the guy."
In our early 70's, we have been around the block more than a few times.
We could tell a leader from a politician and knew he was the former almost immediately. And he hasn't let us down yet.
Trump in 2020!
Steyn rules, OK!
“descended an escalator on Fifth Avenue”
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A man going down in order to raise our nation UP.
Prayers continuing after this event were that he not back down and follow through with the paperwork to enter the fray. Thank GOD he achieved that goal. No backing out, what followed was pedal to the metal and a history making story line. The only Americans not shocked by the outcome were those who offered unceasing prayers that we have Divine Guidance on the path just taken. PRAISE THE LORD for without Him, we would remain lost in the desert.
YES!
If I remember correctly it was Krautheimer who first said his campaign was dead after he refused to call McCain a hero
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