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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Good one.
That is my tag line. I never thought how true that is for all these years. Then Trump said he was going to run, and I can now see the difference between a self funded candidate and all the rest depending on mega donors. If Trump wants to help middle class, and if that hurts the donor class, Trump does not care. He is not under their obligations. He is the only one who can go ahead and do it. The others must obey their rich donors who export middle class jobs and import H1-B visa cheap labor express. The writing is on the wall.
She shouldn’t talk about Fox News All Stars like that.
Pray America is waking
Her and Michelle Bachmann owe me a cold one after all the work done by me and other freepers to build a bridge to the Jewish Community and they Fubar it in one sentence. I can't speak for her and it is not an apology but perhaps her statement was out of frustration with the Jewish community and continued support for all things left and Obama in the face of what Obama is doing to Israel and how the Middle-East is being dis-assembled with his policies. It was stoopid of her and uncalled for use those words and do it off the cuff. Cogitate on it a few days before you blurb anything on social media.
You small little tiny puzzie. Your complaint is about something else, you are too cowardly, to mention.
"Good grief. Scott Walker can't even drop out of the presidential race without invoking Ronald Reagan!"
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I wrote:
Good grief. Ann Coulter can’t even use her twitter account without invoking “f***ing Jews”!
I guess they didn't teach you how to read at the bathhouse, pinkheel.
Ann is absolutely correct regarding illegal and legal immigration and I think Trump is the only one that can and will pull it off.
Thanks. You are the best- writer, reader and all around human being, ever matriculated from yourself.
She was quoting Hillary.
Oh there you go, you had to pick Detroit when they are loosing ;-). BTW, I have had the blessing of being on the field (twice now) at Tigers Stadium before the start of the game, thrill of a life time....
She was quoting Hillary.
A top performer at a mid-range institution is probably a good deal smarter than a low-range grad from a top school. Sometimes money means more about who gets into those top tier institutions than does intelligence. See: Obama.
She’s not an Ivy, so where does she get off?
A gnome in an industry that will remain nameless ( private reply later ) tells me tonight, recruiters are asking why did you choose Harvard @ 80k a year, explain it. The implied hook is are you paying for it and what do you really bring to our table as a recruiter. They are not so vaulted anymore and the Business world knows it and if it leaked to me a peon in fly over country, it maybe bigger than we realize...
I'd agree with that but for a couple of qualifications: A decent graduate from a top technical school such as Cal Tech, MIT, Harvey Mudd, or Case Western Reserve is probably a pretty serious performer.
Well, she is coming off that beating she took for a recent misunderstood tweet.
Seriuosly!
“Now I think it’s just wonderful that Ann Coulter wrote
‘f***ing Jews’ on her twtter account.”
It’s like Blacks and the “N” word. I guess it’s o.k. for a Jew to denigrate “his own,” but not the Gentiles, Is that it?
Coulter is mocking those in media that regularly demonstrate a humiliating disparity between their arrogance and academic achievements.
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