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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Re: “Then explain how Republicans now control 26 states...”
Please note, I said “Conservatives,” not “Republicans.”
To my eye, “Republicans” have corrupted state government almost as thoroughly as they have corrupted Washington D.C.
Examples - Texas, where the Speaker of the House is a RINO despised by many Freepers.
Washington state - where my “Republican” state senator co-sponsored our gay marriage law and just voted for a new 12 cents a gallon gas tax because the price of oil has gone down.
Re: “In the mid-term elections, rats were annihilated.”
Rats are always getting annihilated in mid-terms. From memory - 1994, 2002, 2010.
Why?
Because they can’t motivate their Black and Hispanic voters to go to the polls.
Example - New Mexico, where almost 40% of voters are Hispanic. In 2010, 61% of Hispanics voted AGAINST Susana Martinez, the Mexican-American, Republican candidate for governor, but Martinez still won because Hispanic turn out was so low. If she had run in 2008, Obama’s first term, Martinez would have lost if 61% of Hispanics had voted against her.
Tariffs are for manufactured goods are good but IMO not on agricultural or mineral products.
As could you, FRiend. 'Bye!
Even bringing up tariffs on Mexico will start a conversation where people can get educated, so I do welcome it.
The debate may end up in a place I agree with. Bring on the national debate on tariffs!
Tariffs are laid out in the US Constitution. Tariffs were fundamental to a strong republic from the beginning.
Some key dates for study:
July 1, 1862
February 3, 1913
July 9, 1953
“Good grief. Ann Coulter can’t even use her twitter account without invoking “f***ing Jews”!Thanks for bringing reality to the surface with your post vette6387.Well, Marvin, I had dinner with a good friend who is an Israeli Jew on Monday. He emigrated here from Israel in 1980 and has built a successful business. When the conversation turned to politics, he said two interesting things: 1. He's convinced that Trump is the only answer to the need to save this country, and 2. He used that exact same term to describe the Jews in the entertainment business in Los Angeles. In fact, he said that the’d probably be happy to be “doormen” at Auschwitz! He further noted all the Jews that have “migrated” to the Obama Administration and specifically mentioned David Axelrod.
MarvinStinson, you over reacted but I understand.
Much more flack has gone Coulter's way then to the one who originally made the statement "f'n Jew bastard(s)" Hilliary Clinton who is actually racist and anti-Sematic as well as a conspirator along with her husband in the deaths of many of their enemies.
If that had actually been Monica Lewinsky that they had killed in that starbucks years ago (a woman with the same initials) they would have been successful in lying about Bill's multiple sexual acts with a subordinate.
Give it up.
Coulter destroyed herself.
Just any pole........or .... ‘‘Pesky’s Pole’?!? ;)Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh . . . .
CES in all it’s glory
You can’t shove your Ann “F***ing Jews” Coulter down anyone else’s throat
no matter how unhappy that makes you.
So you have no problem with Hilliary Clinton saying it?
” I won’t be as nasty as they are, but wow! – people who went to bush league schools shouldn’t throw stones. “
IIRC, Reagan went to a bush league school. Most children who are not born to wealth go to bush league schools.
And I don’t see any sign that the Kennedys or GWB possessed outstanding minds. J F’n Kerry went to Yale. Doesn’t seem to have helped his mind. Hillary went to Yale Law School. Obama went to Harvard Law School. How much good sense does Barack Obama have?
I agree with your comments.
I’ve also seen folks post what some of the exam questions were of our high school students from the early 1900s, and honestly they were probably getting a better education than our college graduates get now, at the least in some ways.
It would be interesting to read some of the books our kids are being taught from today.
Nixon, biggest crook ever.
Bill Clinton, probably one of the smartest and most effective presidents ever. (never mind the criminal acts and violent rape allegations)
There are generous scholarship for the ones they really want.
Um, Cornell?
Remember Don Rickles’s remark about Obama and the mop? Do you think he really thought Obama should be mopping the White House floors? Remarks humorous and semi-humorous sometimes miss their mark, as any comedian will assure you. It’s a work in progress and this one missed.
Thanks Firebrand. I agree.
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