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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Tariffs are a conservative idea. Every founder, conservative right?, were all protectionists, all of them. The FIRST law passed by the first congress was the tariff act.
I recognize your right to express your opinion. I don’t believe your expressed opinion reflects you not being a Conservative.
I disagree with you.
Take care.
Bye to Ann “F***ing Jew” Coulter.
You are welcome to her.
All the King’s horses and all the King’s men can’t put her together again.
How clever. Do you always waste space and bandwidth commenting on obvious typos?
I should also point out that I live in AZ ON the main illegal traffiking/drug route and covered these issues among others as a regional reporter for many years. I sorta understand the problem intimately. Along with pols actual positions.
Romney, caught multiply employing illegals in his own home was no opponent of illegal immigration.
Obviously.
Sorry I hurt your feelings.
Best description of the GOPe yet. Ann definitely cleared the bases with that one.
Thank you for your comments.
I’m sorry the counter-revolution is not going according to your schedule and timetable, general. Maybe you can show everyone how to do it.
You didn't hurt my feelings. You just showed how petty you can be when someone disagreed with you.
To be sure, there are truly anti-Semitic groups. It's a colossal stretch to claim Coulter wishes all Jews dead though. I'd add, most of the uber-sensitivity is not from Jewish people. It's kinda like the Washington Redskin deal. The lefty PC crowd get's all lathered up while the Native Americans don't much care. Plenty on our side are ready to jump on anything they deem as anti-Semitic or anti-Israel. Ann's comment was none too smart, not one of her finer moments, but as I said, she may be focused on the bigger domestic picture.
Ann Coulter is quite the useful idiot herself from time to time. She should shut up.
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.
In case you've missed it, this is exactly what this election is all about. Democrats and establishment Republicans are equally content to sell the country's citizenry down the river. Democrats are happy to be grifters in the leadership of a failing state and establishment Republicans are happy to sell out and move on to some foreign paradise retreat with their take.
Who knows, maybe you can convince people that some ephemeral statehouse gains are as important as importing a new nation into our homeland? Good luck!
I didn’t mean to imply I thought Ann was in that group. I don’t think anyone thought that, but if so they misread me or I accidentally implied something I didn’t and don’t believe.
I agree with your comments here.
Thank you.
When I advocate for someone I’m pretty much all in.
I don’t think Israel is perfect, and I’ll say so if I see a policy I don’t care for. That being said, my support for Israel is on the front porch for everyone to see.
When I have a special person in my life, I can guarantee you my radar is set on a higher setting than theirs is. Part of the reason for that, is that they know I’ll have their back and they can relax. I think this comparison moves into other areas as well.
I do find that I show more concern for policies at times than the Israeli government does. There’s nothing wrong with that. At times I may be much closer to the mark than they are. It would be absurd to say that in all instances. Once in a while...
Project much?
Most Republicans are playing a role. If they didn’t start out as the other side to the dimbulb coin, it won’t take long for either a Mitch or a John to set them straight on how things work in DC.
Then they have a choice:
Become what they used to despise and then turn to booze
Go along to get along, serve on committees, and survive to win again
Or get crushed by the establishment
Yes, any movement by the states to legally challenge the federal government or enhance the liberty of their citizens falls short because you’re a strategic and political genius and could do it better. Anoint us with your wisdom, general.
These are the same people who *come to a fork in the road, and take it*The problem is that when Yogi Berra actually did give directions to his home by saying, "If you come to a fork in the road, take it," what people don't realise is that there was a fork in the road and both ends led to his home!
(He had to sell it not long after his wife died and he was forced to assisted living. In case you're curious, the asking price---which was paid in full, incidentally---was $888,888, a tribute to his uniform number.)
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