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 Trump’s idiocy and the ordinariness of his supporters. I won’t be as nasty as they are, but wow! – people who went to bush league schools shouldn’t 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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The thing with AC is that she presents herself to be something she clearly isn’t. A conservative.
She talks the talk and then, when it matters most, election day, totally abandons everything she states for the other 23/47 months and screams ‘no matter what!”
She claims to be anti abortion and to this day pimps a man that profits from (stericycle), legislated for and gave personal money to, Planned Parenthood. That one single issue proves where her beliefs lie. You cannot be something and do it’s polar opposite if you are Ann Couler, Mitt Romney, Norm Lenhart or any human walking the earth. Words and actions mean things.
And lie she does. She outright lied about Romney. Christie and every other GOPe she has pimped over her career as a ‘conservative’. She did all in her power to trash Palin. And she continues to present long discussed topics here as original thinking.
The woman deserves scorn, not defense or praise. Not because Normie says so. Because her actual actions warrant it from anyone that believes in conservative values.
“Politically, Conservatives are probably dead already.”
Then explain how Republicans now control 26 states, while the rats only control 11. In a number of states, not a single rat holds state-wide office. In the mid-term elections, rats were annihilated.
He said Conservative, not Republican, big difference.
If office-holding is the goal, then “conservatives” are doing fine. If enacting policy is the goal, then liberals are running up the score.
The plans for the North American Union continues apace and the GOP is fully on board.
To what effect?
Pay attention, class. I’m referring to STATES, not the federal government.
On the state level, conservatives are expanding 2nd amendment rights, defunding Planned Parenthood, challeging the EPA’s illegal diktats and enacting other state laws to hinder the operation in their states of the criminal fascist syndicate occupying Washington.
And, as I said, Trump's school has little to do with what sort of person he is. He's a force of nature and those are born, not made.
Let me know when a state stops a single third world immigrant from taking up residence on its territory.
I like Trump despite Ann Coulter - with that said, Trump went to a military school before college because he was acting up as a teenager. The military school is still around but struggling financially. I am assuming the lessons learned helped make Donald successful in life. Discipline is not an easy thing to learn. The way Trump sleeps (seems to sleep early and wake up early) is a sign of that disciplined training he probably got at the school.
Republican insiders are the Washington Generals to the Democrats’ Harlem Globetrotters. They enjoy being good losers. That’s their job.
Yep. Nailed it.
I went back and read the original tweet story. Ann got upset that our candidates were voicing support for Israel. She thought that all Republicans support Israel, so what was the need to mention Israel.
She stated something to the effect how unnecessary that was, and asked, “How many ====ing Jews” did they think were in our nation.”
Ann may think all Republicans are pro Israel. I honestly don’t care. I do think a mention of Israel is appropriate these days because we have a lousy president who doesn’t support it.
Is support for Israel a litmus test. Frankly, for me, it most definitely is.
Israel is a speck of sanity in an ocean of insanity (regionally). It should be defended stridently, to avoid any adventurism against it.
Perhaps you could degrade this to extreme crassness rather than overt racism.
What you are then left with is a woman so clueless that she can’t understand the overt support for Israel. That in an of itself is questionable.
She can’t grasp why it’s important to voice support for Israel even though we all do?
What would it look like if none of us voiced support for Israel Ann?
Wouldn’t it look like open season on Israel? Wouldn’t it look like exactly what Obama wants?
Ann really doesn’t get it. That to me is as troubling as the terminology she uses.
I learned long ago that I was wasting my time by addressing anything of reason to the great ego of N.L.
I’ve seen people explain it. It was foreign concept to me as well. I don’t remember the thought process. It’s so foreign to me that it didn’t stick with me. Not saying it wasn’t reasoned. I just don’t think that way.
IMO, if there’s something you don’t want, or something you do, you do everything to support your position.
If you don’t want Israel abandoned, you don’t vote for anyone who doesn’t support it.
If you do what Israel supported, you only vote for people who do support it.
Side issues aside, isn’t survival your primary drive?
IMO< you are dead wrong there.
Israel is a spec of sanity in a sea of Middle Eastern insanity.
Is support for Israel a litmus test for me. You better believe it.
I asked this moments ago in another post.
“What would it look like if our candidates didn’t openly voice support for Israel?”
Think about that. It would look like Israel had been set adrift. Adventurism against it would be more likely. Frankly it would look a lot like Obama’s dream situation.
Don’t discount the good done when Israel is addressed by each candidate.
It sends a clear and loud message. I support that stridently.
My take as well. I'm betting she also shares your belief of how important Israel is geopolitically. IMHO, Her poorly worded point was referencing some transparent pandering to a demographic that overwhelming supports the other side.
Yes, I believe a large segment of that demographic in the U. S. votes against their own self-interest.
Being sincere in my beliefs, I will still support Israel and them, even if they are too misguided to.
As for mentioning support for Israel, it’s a necessary thing IMO.
I can’t defend Ann on this one. She left herself twisting in the wind IMO. There are several aspects to this, and she didn’t do herself any favors with her comments.
HA! I laugh at your ignorance! I’m Jewish and telling you that I’m not offended by Coulter’s comments because Coulter is absolutely correct. Restating Republican support for Israel is a waste of time. WE KNOW!
It’s pandering for money. That’s what politicians do.
More Jews voted for Romney more than any other US President. it’s enough with the pandering stuff. Daily I read on this site how stupid Jews are.
When inquiring to volunteer, I was told by a GOP campaign worker Jews would never be conservative. I would be wasting my time, blah blah blah.
Republicans are no different than Democrats on this issue. They pander to groups on divisive issues for money.
I want what is best for AMERICANS. I’m an AMERICAN CITIZEN. I want policy that is good for ALL AMERICANS regardless of race, religion, etc.
Try pandering to AMERICANS!
I’m surprised at you guys, guys I normally read and respect. You’re picking this Ann Coulter thing to death and going nowhere.
Ann is actually a more conservative conservative than most. Pundits and Freepers alike. She’s sharp and, come on, she’s original, even if she does say what’s been said sometime before here on our great Free Republic.
I hope someone will post a link to her original pottymouth tweet, so we can all gain perspective. It would be totally out of character for Ann to demean Jewsj.
I was under the impression she was somehow “aping” the adorable Hillary, notorious for her snarling wolf bitch language:
This from the WND article, “Hillary’s cursing ‘would make Howard Stern blush’ “:
In an interview shortly thereafter, Hillary Clinton assumed the role of champion of Senate high decorum, stating: “So far as I know, no colleague has ever used profanity of that sort on the Senate floor. For the vice president to use his position, as president of the Senate, to insult a senator and then be unapologetic about it introduces a level of discord into Senate procedure that is unfortunate.”
After Clinton’s high-toned remarks, however, her critics pointed to her own reputation for an explosive temper. In 2000, a book famously reported that she said, “You f—ing Jew bastard!” more than two decades ago to a campaign aide. Jerry Oppenheimer’s “State of a Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton” cites three sources who heard the remark.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2004/07/25454/#Cj5XyFwZX5oS7Z5Y.99
Someone put up the tweet remark link.
Meanwhile, you guys shape up. You are getting tiresome with your nitpicking.
Explain this please. The pro-amnesty Bush family refused to endorse Romney because of his immigration record and rhetoric.
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