Posted on 09/23/2015 8:20:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Good grief. Scott Walker can't even drop out of the presidential race without invoking Ronald Reagan! He began his exit speech, "As a kid, I was drawn to Ronald Reagan ..." then went on to read a statement written for him by GOP donors, calling on the other one-percenters (in the polls) to get out, so that the party can nominate a "conservative alternative to the current front-runner."
A true admirer might have recalled that the front-runner terrifying Republican insiders in the summer of 1979 was one Ronald Reagan. (And surely, everyone remembers how Reagan's constant droning on about Dwight Eisenhower propelled Dutch to victory and allowed him to crush the Soviet War machine and usher in 20 years of peace and prosperity.)
Which reminds me: Perhaps Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina are soaring in the polls not because they're "outsiders," but because they're not dumb. I notice that, other than Ted Cruz, they're the only GOP candidates for president who went to top schools.
I think we want a president who's better than us.
Marco Rubio's grandfather seems to have been cheering the little fellow up when he told Marco that, in America, "even I, the son of a bartender and a maid, could aspire to have anything, and be anything," including president! At least since the late-1960s when the SATs, rather than geography or social class, began to determine college admissions, it seems very unlikely that a community college student could be elected president.
This is the problem with using the word "elites" to refer to Republican Party apparatchiks: They're all such utter mediocrities.
I don't mean to be unkind. It's simply a fact.
Trump graduated from the Wharton School of Business and went on to make $11 billion. Carson went from Yale to the University of Michigan Medical School and was the first man to separate twins conjoined at the brain. Fiorina graduated from Stanford University and then earned $80 million in business.
By contrast, look up the educational achievement of the average pundit sneering at Trumps idiocy and the ordinariness of his supporters. I wont be as nasty as they are, but wow! people who went to bush league schools shouldnt throw stones. There's nothing wrong with attending a bush-league college. But maybe ease up on holding yourself out as a great intellectual appalled by the dirty masses if you went to a third-rate college in the era of need-blind admissions.
These guys damn well better be good at what they do. But, to the contrary, Republican insiders are the Washington Generals to the Democrats' Harlem Globetrotters. They enjoy being good losers. That's their job.
The consultant class wants a neat, static world, where nothing ever changes. They produce an occasional tepid victory to create the illusion of a two-party system. But like Arafat with the PLO, Republican insiders don't actually want to govern. The organization itself has become the cause -- not the purported goals of the organization. Just keep the donations rolling in.
A majority of elected Republicans, their advisers, conservative magazines and newspapers are nothing but junior partners to the left. They go on TV and repeat prepackaged conventional wisdom, hoping to get at least a small ovation. Trump is popular because we now live in a Kardashian nation and are one big cult of celebrity!
By mounting only impotent opposition, professional Republicans win the admiration of The New York Times, as they turn our country over to the left. All that matters is that they get to keep their offices, their salaries and their friends.
It's important for them to think of themselves as better than other people -- especially those yahoo proletarian conservatives.
Ironically, it's the Ivy League billionaire living a glamorous New York City life who has rocked the political world by speaking for ordinary Americans and insulting the powerful. Meanwhile, depressingly average Washington insiders insult ordinary Americans and suck up to the powerful.
When someone like Trump comes along and is actually serious about winning the very causes the GOP purportedly seeks to advance, he is seen as a disruptive force.
Most alarmingly, Trump brought up immigration. The Democrats thought they had this one in the bag -- they'd worked it all out with Republicans! Both sides had agreed: I won't talk about it if you won't.
The decision has already been made: We aren't going to ask the American people what they think. We're just going to do this because we think we're right, and at a certain point it will be impossible to reverse, because Republicans will never be able to win another national election.
The transformation of our country has been a deliberate, methodical process, carefully hidden from the public.
Until Trump started talking about immigration, most Americans had no idea that immigrants take more government assistance than natives, that we are allowing nearly half a million anchor babies a year to force their way into citizenship and a lifetime of welfare, and that we're bringing in rapists, murderers and terrorists.
Immigration is an easy argument to win. But if you talk about it, the media will cut your mike.
Once the Democrats get the voters they want through immigration, they will be like kids in a candy store. What will they do first? Ban private ownership of guns? Strip Christian churches of their tax exemptions for being "homophobic"? Release criminals from prison? Imprison the police? It will be the LBJ and Carter administrations rolled into one for all time, without end.
All the debates we have now on talk radio and cable news will be completely irrelevant. The most left-wing policies imaginable will be enacted, with no opposition -- as they are today in California.
You might think California would wake up even the utter mediocrities in the Republican Party. But their predictable little lives have been disrupted. That's why Trump has them in a panic.
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Coulter was all-in on the “Romney is the only one who can win” bandwagon when guys like Cain, Santorum etc.. were the flavor of the week. I had her figured for an establishment mouthpiece.
She’s certainly been on the Trump bandwagon since he became a candidate. I wonder why? Did the establishment cut off her funding or something?
Your belligerent and cretinous misstatement of my point serves to prove my point. Thanks for your unwitting assistance.
Thats exactly what she said.
The REST of what she said, in fact, the rest of her sage wisdom is what is and has been discussed but all us lesser educated proles for over a decade now.
Daily.
And if her white knights would stop for 2 seconds and think about it, they would see almost ALL her sage commentary comes DIRECTLY from things we discuss BEFORE here latest retirement vehicle hits the publisher.
I agree. She’s not an original thinker. Her writings all are knockoffs of our conversations in places like Free Republic. She is quick on her feet with a witty comment. She is not a dumb lady. Too bad she looks down on us. She could have been such a valuable tool in the hands of God.
I had several of her books. She does have talent. But Original she isn’t. I think a lot of her remaining fans just like hearing her hack up libs.
Which if you think about it, isn’t a real stretch on one’s intellect to accomplish. What stretched hers beyond the break point is articles like this with here sneering elitism.
She has tried to ingratiate herself to every ‘winner’ the GOP has fostered on voters. Romney. Christie. And her latest ‘no matter what’ love.
Except those people are all far from conservative stalwarts. So how does that square with her chest pounding conservatism?
It doesn’t. At all. She’s a televangelist in the Swaggart/Roberts mold. A fraud.
A nonsense point that discredits Ann. The past two presidents and the current one all went to "top schools". Only Reagan went to a non-top school of the past four presidents.
And graduates of "top schools" have populated our Supreme Court and top positions in all the bureaucracies for years. Have they achieved such a great result? We need far fewer from "top schools" in government, not more.
And Trump is an original, an individual, and what school he attended probably has little to do with the sort of person he is.
I like all the effing jews that I hangout with.
I like Ann Coulter too.
What I don’t like is PC nonsense and fake outrage.
Yet here you are, posting a 74-word screed in four paragraphs.
I get why you posted someone “hitting one out of the park”, but I’m uniformed about baseball. Who is that hitter in your post? Just curious.
To mention that Coulter DESTROYED herself with one extremely stupid twitter post.
She most certainly is Cornell.
Lots of Ann “F***ing Jews” Coulter supporters here.
SHOW ME where Ted Cruz, Allen West, Donald Trump, John Bolton
has ever used the term “F***ing Jews.”
Let's not forget "shagetz."
On most days she is a card carrying member of the useful idiot club.
I have no wish to offend either of you, but I believe what she was trying to point out was the media hypocrisy of demonstrably underinformed media pundits making judgements as if they are top-tier intellectuals.
We all decry the obvious lack of research among liberals every day here on FR. She did say there is nothing wrong with going to a "bush-league" school to qualify that her point was about the arrogance of the media. Please don't take her remark personally; it's not warranted.
And much as we are all tempted to judge who is in the hands of God, can we really do that with complete assurance that she is not? God works through all types of persons and situations to accomplish His Will.
See post 118.
Not a supporter per se, and certainly not an anti-Semite. Just a person who can separate ideas one from another and take what's valuable and leave the rest. I'll be the first to concede that she overdoes the sarcasm and obscure references, such as this one that was referring to a deplorable incident in which Hillary Clinton shouted those words at Bill back in the 90s.
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