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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Too bad all the dem arse-kissing Republicans won’t read this and say “Good God! What useless idiots we’ve been!” And find the heart and soul to turn the Titanic enough to miss that socialist iceberg we all can see quite clearly. But that would require leadership.
Seriuosly!
That was absolutely poetic - Great line to use in a novel, which I hope you presently are busy writing the draft!
Re: “If we don’t solve illegal immigration we are done for.”
Incorrect.
If we don’t solve LEGAL immigration, we are done for.
750,000 new citizens each year.
80% vote for the Democrat Party.
Politically, Conservatives are probably dead already.
I am not going to stoop to repeating the last two words in your post. That is shameful language on your part and you owe the Jewish people an apology.
I’ve been trying to pound this in for 25 years....and people still don’t get it. LEGAL immigration is killing conservatism in the United States !
In all fairness, the 24 hour news programs were not in full swing in Reagan’s day. They didn’t have the ability to coordinate to almost destroy a candidate in hours.
You didn’t have a massive internet with Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.
We live in a different information age. Our candidate cannot allow the other team to conduct operations on these battle-grounds un-responded to.
To be honest, we’re very lucky we have a capable guy who can also take it to the other team in moments on Twitter.
Sure he’s a bit over the top. They aren’t? LOL
This is down and dirty war. It’s tit for tat.
That’s the way it has to be.
You think they’re going to play by Hoyle rules?
Rome2000, I saw other say the same thing. RedHeeler, I saw your comments too.
Let me explain where I’m coming from with Ann.
It takes decades to live down racism. We avoid it like the plague here because nothing will turn support off faster than racism.
One day Ann references the Jews in the U. S. as “F—king Jews”. You think that isn’t seen by the Left? You think they won’t exploit that? They do their best to color us as racists all the time.
They seen Ann use that language. They paint her for what she is for using that language. And then they point to Free Republican with her articles all over it.
You think that goes unnoticed?
I haven’t read this article by Ann. I won’t be reading it. I don’t approve of her article being printed here.
All that is going to do is advance the Leftist mantra that we are all racists.
One link and we’re a racist site in some people’s eyes.
I might agree with everything Ann said. It still wouldn’t reduce our exposure on a very destructive charge.
I don’t remember Michelle’s gaff. You could be right. I do agree with this comment otherwise, sans Bachmann for the moment.
“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.”
Exactly!!!!
BTW: if you feel too many Jewish people vote against their race, address it just like that.
It’s my observations that too many Jews vote for things that harm their cause.
There’s nothing racist about that.
Those “f-—ing Jews”? Really? Give the cause a break Ann.
You should hide, and then runaway. I can’t, where I live. You know inside myself, with God. The ghetto is closer than you know, my friend. Run.
I’m not worried about my own safety. I am worried about seeing a very valuable resource labeled a racist site.
Do you have any idea how many times people have posted garbage on our site, we have taken it down in a couple of minutes, and they have already copied it and said that it appeared here.
That’s the type of thing we’re dealing with. And Ann played into that. You know, some people do that sort of thing on purpose.
Not saying Ann did, but it’s not totally out of the question either.
I have similar conservative Jewish friends who also cannot stand what Liberal Jews do, both in business, media and politics.
If I knew ya, we’d go fishin’. The death defying truck ride, would calm you down, particularly when we stopped. Then, we would try catching fish. Ever caught an eagle lake trout? Regardless, of the world’s weary burden, gettin’ cool with a fish is alright.
I’ve been fishing a number of occasions in my life.
It’s been quite some time though.
Sounds good to me.
Her “f-——g Jews” blurt was obviously misunderstood by many, and led to butthurt.
Regardless of what else she may be wrong about, she's simply not an anti-Semite. That notion is not supported by her record.
That doesn’t mean she is not spot on in this article and about this subject.
There is absolutely no good way to use that term. NONE!
First of all, it’s a very racist comment. There’s just no getting around it.
Second, why would she use the “F” word when talking about a rather tight nit religious group?
It’s just insensitive and over the top ill advised.
Not trying to give you a hard time. This is all directed at her.
I'll grant you, it's politically incorrect, but I disagree. I simply don't believe Ann meant it in the way which some people took it.
In the admittedly un-PC way she used the comment, I simply didn't see it as racist. That adjective can be used in different ways, and those who were offended ascribed an intent which simply wasn't present, IMHO.
And my disagreeing with you doesn't make me an anti-Semite.
In all fairness to California’s predicament, a lot of conservatives (and their votes!) have moved out of the state and left it to the ever-growing base of liberals.
Sargon, “...the f—king Jews...”?
There is absolutely no way to use that term that isn’t racist.
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