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.
Trump will go third-party and Bush will finish a distant third behind him.
Wanted!! ASAP
US/WTP require a massive pic of Samson in the temple with The Donald’s head and face. Shave his head or give him lots of gorgeous locks - your choice. There are a number of places that could use the posting of this sketch. Another piece of marketing would be to place The Donald along with his trumpet on that white stallion leading mighty battles in order to bring down the walls of Jericho. The match is on. Bring out the popcorn and foam.
As o-king would have said
“George Will is dead to me” This heifer refuses to be branded. Henceforth, I will no longer be ashamed of being a republican. It is so tiring having to apologize for the crooks and backstabbers The feeling of freedom given to US/WTP by old George will be lifting these spirits drastically. It is difficult to understand that we insignificant unwashed ignorant persons would be addressed by the high and mighty George Will. Wise up George or you will find you’ve no party to lead and no platform for those ‘wise words’ you speak. You’ll not find me in your privy prison or upstairs attic when you realize you need an army. We’ve gone AOL.
I’m not a tRump supporter at all, but if the GOPe doesn’t let tRump compete fairly, then I will have trouble voting for anyone but Cruz or Walker.
Yes, it will backfire on them.
Just how is Donald Trump not a legitimate GOP candidate? He is a registered Republican since 2009, he meets the constitutional requirements, and he has filed the necessary paperwork required at this point; further he has far more support of registered republicans than any of the other candidates who have announced. Explain, please, how is DT not a legitimate candidate?
Which is why I contend that Trump has the advantage if he's third party vs Jeb or hillary.
George Will called Reagan a loser.
Mind you, these are the same GOP elites who think that they’ll woo over Trump’s supporters by calling them kooks and whackos. Do these guys ever have an intelligent thought in their heads?
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LOLOLOL.
Rush covering this column right now!
We must remind them to see the humor.
Let me see if I understand the Will position. Republicans are supposed to be inclusive and welcome gays who trash morals, illegal immigrants who do not understand morals and islamists who want to control morals. But, Republicans are supposed to be exclusive and send those hay seed Trumpites back to their bar stools ? Poor Will. Being a whore for the establishment takes its toll.
Despite the uproar of the GOP base, they esteemed, supported and rewarded those rats to the very end, when they switched parties.
That's because they were part of the GOPe and not against it - which is the only thing that counts for them.
True but what Pat is saying is true the GOPE wants rid of its “conservative problem” trouble is that without conservatives the GOP loses and not just bad but Reagan 84 landslide bad every time.
I do not support Trump, however I am a Conservative and if the so called and self anointed conservatives of the Republican party had insisted and voted to protect our borders and keep the interlopers out and in fact be CONSERVATIVE, they wouldn’t have a Trump problem today.
Defund the GOPe....completely!
These are supposedly smart people. Pathetic. Unless....
One of the reasons Trump is doing so well is because the elite puke-bags hate him. Or maybe they love him, and know that acting the way they are is making him more popular. Hmm...
So were the Perotites; I guess...
Therefore...
...they MUST be Liberals and democrats!
No need to worry!
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