Posted on 08/14/2015 9:12:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
In the Cleveland debate, Donald Trump refused to commit to support whomever the Republican Party nominates in 2016.
Trump would be wise to maintain his freedom of action.
For there is a plot afoot in The Washington Post Conservative Club to purge Trump from the Republican Party before the primaries begin.
"A political party has a right to ... secure its borders," asserts the Post's George Will, "a duty to exclude interlopers." Will wants The Donald "excommunicated" and locked out of all GOP debates until he kneels and takes a loyalty oath to the nominee.
"Marginalizing Trump" carries no risk of "alienating a substantial Republican cohort," Will assures us, for these "Trumpites" are neither Republicans nor conservatives. Better off without such trash.
The Post's Michael Gerson says "establishment Republicans" must "make clear that [Trump] has moved beyond the boundaries of serious and civil discourse." He loathes the Trumpites as much as Will.
Trump's followers are "xenophobic," Gerson tells CNN. They have a "resentment of outsiders, of Mexico, of China, and immigrants. That's more like a European right-wing party, a UKIP or a National Front in France. Republicans can't incorporate that."
But if the GOP has no room for Trump's followers, it has no future. For there simply aren't that many chamber-of-commerce and country-club Republicans.
Gerson mentions with disgust the U.K. Independence Party and France's National Front. What do those parties have in common?
Both are anti-New World Order. Both arose to recapture the lost independence and sovereignty of their nations from the nameless, faceless bureaucrats of Brussels, those EU hacks who now dictate the kinds of laws and societies the Brits and French are permitted to have.
What motivates these folks is not all that different from what brought the farmers to Lexington Green and Concord Bridge and inspired colonists to stand by the original Tea Party boys in Boston.
New parties arise and outsiders are drawn into politics to fill voids and vacuums created by the failure of incumbent parties and politicians.
Case in point: Ex-speechwriter Gerson's boss George W. Bush.
With the country united behind him after 9/11, Bush called for war on an "axis of evil" -- Iraq, Iran and North Korea -- that had nothing to do with 9/11. He then persuaded Congress to authorize an invasion of Iraq to strip it of weapons of mass destruction it did not have.
Cost: 4,500 American dead, 35,000 wounded warriors, $1 trillion dollars sunk, 100,000 dead Iraqis, half a million widows and orphans, a country ravaged and a Mideast now awash in war and bloodshed.
Political result: The Republicans lost both houses of Congress in 2006, and the White House in 2008 to an anti-war Democratic Senator whose voting record was identical to that of Bernie Sanders.
Yet the leading establishment candidate of the Republican Party elites, in national polls and cash raised, is Jeb Bush, who took five days to concede the war his brother started may have been a mistake.
And the leading candidate of the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, voted for the war that proved a disaster and against the surge that staved off the disaster until the Americans departed.
Our Beltway elites are demanding that Trump apologize for his remarks about women. But when have they apologized for having inflicted this disaster upon our nation and the Middle East?
Thursday, the Census Bureau revealed that a record 42.1 million immigrants, here legally and illegally, are in the U.S., a population explosion being driven by Mexicans still flooding across the border.
Is it "xenophobic" to ask if Americans approve of this historic change in the composition and character of the country they love?
Is it outrageous to ask whether there is a correlation between this massive infusion of unskilled and semi-skilled labor from the Third World, and the stagnant and falling wages of native-born Americans?
The trade figures just came in for June. The trade deficit shot to $43.8 billion. Take out the $20 billion surplus in services, it was a $64 billion deficit in goods, pointing to a 2015 trade deficit of $750 billion in things Americans make with their hands, tools, machines.
This has been going on since Bush 41. And the correlation between these trade deficits and the trade deals our elites have negotiated is absolute. Trump says our negotiators have been getting their clocks cleaned by the Japanese, Chinese and Mexicans.
Is he wrong? Or are free trade and open borders now articles of faith, defined dogma, denial of which gets you excommunicated from the party of Gerson and Will?
Trump should tell the GOP, in the neocons' favorite phrase, "All options are on the table." And that includes the Samson Option.
Trump should tell the GOP that if it disrespects him and his followers, then he is prepared to do as did the biblical hero Samson, when, blinded and mocked by the Philistines, he pushed the pillars apart and brought the temple down upon the heads of them all.
"Marginalizing Trump" carries no risk of "alienating a substantial Republican cohort," Will assures us, for these "Trumpites" are neither Republicans nor conservatives. Better off without such trash.
I see the elitist Perrier Conservative is back... Go pound sand, Mr. Will.
The elite still don’t get it. If it’s hillary vs Jeb, that’s two extremely unlikeable, unpopular major party has-beens being force-fed to the voters. The dems supporting Sanders and other dissatisfieds across the political spectrum will support Trump. It won’t be about his policies. It’s the “mad as hell” vote, and I’d wager that at least 75% of US citizens are mad as hell. I’d think Trump would win as the third-party alternative, assuming he has an excellent VP choice.
Can you get anymore ridiculous
Who are they? Where do they meet? In George Will's private loo? There are room for only two heads there and neither one thinks very well.
Not two writers. Just two heads. See my previous post #26.
I would have been fine with war on all three - provided victory was the actual objective and that we accepted no less.
Imagine the current problems that would have been prevented.
The GOP did not lose in 2006 because of the war. They lost because when you have the house, senate and presidency and do nothing with it people lose faith in you and dont vote.
Same as the last presidential run by Romney. A lack of faith in him lead to people not voting.
Now with some one who is not a party hack getting the vote you tell us Mr. Will that we must accept you and come into the fold. That is not going to happen. I will vote Trump before I vote GOP hack like Bush, Graham, or Perry. And I think Trump is a dem. I would much rather vote Cruz, but you guys wont back him or any one who is conservative.
I dont see many conservatives taking crap from the GOPe any more. That time has past and you blew it with what support you had.
Is it wrong to not want criminals in our country, or chinese destroying our income? Get a clue dumba$$.
So, Trump refuses to pledge to support the eventual GOP nominee because he will lose his “leverage,” as he himself said. What leverage? The fact that the GOP, rightfully, might refuse to treat him as a legitimate GOP candidate?
But why should the GOP include a candidate who would hand the election to the Dems if he’s not the chosen one? That’s not negotiating. That’s blackmail. So just leave him off the GOP ballots across the country and see how he does as an Independent from the get go. Why wait until after he’s lost the GOP nomination? Do it now instead.
After all, in negotiations both sides usually have some leverage. The GOP’s leverage is “Do you want your name on the GOP ballots in the primaries or not? If you do, take the pledge.”
Why would any Trump supporter have a problem with that? After all, it’s just negotiating.
Rather, Washington is like a pimple that is ready to pop and Mr. Trump is simply squeezing it.
Let’s see, Democrats, Republicans, and the party of Trump. Trump has the presence and money to make a credible 3rd party and leave the Republicans as a very minor party. My guess: 40% Dem, 40% Trump, and 20% Rep. Do they seriously want to go there?
I'm certain he wouldn't skip the Fox debate.
Why would he? His numbers went up, and I'm sure he enjoyed the controversy.
He's not going to miss any of the upcoming either. Instead, he's going to do the best he can to dominate each one.
I'm looking forward to the one Hewitt has, Trump is going to take Hewitt apart if he's unfair.
I had dinner last night with a bunch of right-wing wacko and GOP friends, split right down the middle pro- and anti-Trump.
I learned a lot.
If you’re reaction to “Make America Great Again” is “Hell, yeah”, you’re a Trump guy. If you’re reaction is, “well, it’s very complicated, world economy, diversity, etc” you’re not.
The key is: There are a lot of people who vote Democrat who will say, “Hell, yeah”. Probably not a majority of Dem voters, but a big chunk they can’t win without.
Yeah, a lot of Republican voters forget that the Republicans had both houses of congress and the presidency and did NOTHING to promote anything conservative. I’m sure they’d say, well, we were fighting a war. No, the military was fighting the war, the Repubs were just drinking, golfing, and cashing their checks for whatever pork project was popular that day.
Disgusting.
I don’t have a problem with it. Burn your party down. I’ll bring marsh mellows.
Better headline: “Republican rank and file intend to purge GOPe”
The elite still don’t get it
No, WE still don’t get it after how many elections? THe elite get it. You and i do not matter.
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