Posted on 12/10/2015 10:18:49 AM PST by Kaslin
Any day now, Donald Trump may walk back hisMonday call for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on." If so, he won't change his mind because he regrets insulting Muslim Americans -- no small number of whom, unlike Trump, have served in the military -- or because his rhetoric threatens to isolate this country when it needs allies, especially in the Middle East. He'll change his mind because he never really means anything he says.
Trump doesn't even mean it when he gives his word in writing. Remember when The Donald signed a pledge in September not to run as an independent candidate if he fails to win the Republican nomination? The pledge did not equivocate. No worries. By November, the billionaire scion was inching away from that pledge and hinting that it would apply only if the party were to treat him "fairly."
His followers think it's just ducky that he will say anything and isn't constrained by such hindrances as accuracy. It's clear that Trump never saw thousands of New Jersey Muslims celebrating when the World Trade Center towers fell on 9/11 as he claimed last month. They revel in his cheek. There's some truth somewhere behind his lies -- and that is good enough for them.
I know that my reward for writing this column will be emails from Trump groupies who will call me a RINO -- a Republican in name only -- while extolling Trump as the real deal. They either do not know or do not care that over the past two decades, Trump has been registered as a Democrat, as a Republican and with the Independence Party. In 2009, when he was in his 60s, Trump switched his registration from the Democratic Party to the GOP.
It won't matter that unlike Trump, I never gave a dime to a Hillary Clinton campaign. I never gave a dime to the Clinton Foundation. Trump has given at least $100,000. In the 2006 election, Politico reported, Trump donated $5,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and $20,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The National Republican Senatorial Committee got a modest $1,000.
Only after The Washington Post did an analysis of Trump's campaign contributions -- and found that most of his donations had gone to Democrats -- did Trump start giving more money to GOP campaigns.
In 2011, Trump gave $5,000 to the campaign of California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who had been a fierce supporter of San Francisco's "sanctuary city" policy. In 2013, he gave her another $1,000. In
2015, he says that he wants to build a wall across the Mexican border and that Mexico will pay for it. The Islamic State group has triggered a diaspora from Iraq and Syria and ignited Islamic radicalism within the United States. Every minute that the news media focus on Trump's latest episode of verbal diarrhea is a minute not spent reporting on Syria and the San Bernardino, California, terrorist attack -- life-and-death stories.
GOP rivals have been slow to slam Trump for his scurrilous statements, lest they offend Trump's cultlike followers. Clinton, who attended Trump's 2005 wedding, will have no such qualms.
Any day now, Donald Trump may walk back his Monday call for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”
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Surely he will implode first, yes? No?
Debra J. Saunders reveals her true GOPe-RINO colors.
She’ll never be a has-been, that isn’t possible when you’re a “never was”.
Debra, Debra, Debra! We hardly knew you! Now we know that the decline and fall of the United States of America is just fine with you. You only wanted it to happen under a Republican administration.
LOL!! They’re bouncing off the walls in panic.
No Debra J Saunders for me.
A marvel, how he continually gets under these RINOs’ skins.
Debra J. Saunders is a conservative columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. Syndicated by Creators Syndicate, her thrice weekly column is also carried by newspapers throughout the country and on townhall.com
Yeah, Major Hasan served in the military.
He congress to get the work with 407! No one else. He is a true leader.
Trump is admirable in some ways and questionable in other ways. Character is an issue. To point that out has nothing to do with being a RINO.
The political class has been so manipulated and managed by a Leftist media machine for decades that they are brainwashed to run everything thru the standard PC filter before they speak. The average politician is so busy trying to figure out what the “right” thing to say is they end up sounding weak and doltish. Trump just says what is on his mind. I think a lot of Trump support comes from the novelty of having a political leader speak honestly and openly. To the Political class, this too is error. To them the “correct” way is their way of measure platitudes, empty slogans and balanced, passionless “tone” . Their reaction to hearing Trump is to get physically ill at his “incorrect” behavior.
It is interesting to note that Trump is being reacted to much the same way the DC Political class reacted to Rush Limbaugh when he started out. His “tone” was all wrong, his ideas “nutty”.
I cringe every time I hear Trump speak too. 35 years of political conditioning causes in me a physical reaction to the “incorrect” tone and style he uses. But if you work past that conditioning, the fundamental points Trump is making are sound.
We MUST, for the survival of our country, move past the “business as usual” political mindset and start fundamentally questioning all our knee jerk assumptions and conditioning. We must start asking “why are we doing this” “is this the right answer”?
The DC Political/media machine reaction to Trumps comments this week indicate that they are fundamentally incapable of thinking outside their PC mindset. Their arguments about “Freedom of Religion” and “Constitutionality” indicates both a pretty shocking ignorance and an inability to think beyond their PC conditioning and look for real solutions.
The Political Establishment is so busy having fits about Trumps “tone” they are missing the message his wide spread, growing support is sending them.
There must be deep, far reaching, fundamental change in the political class defiantly corrupt, inept, incompetent “Business as usual” performance.
IF the Political Class will not fix the problem, the voters will be sending people to DC who can do that for them.
Does anyone think that Trump is anywhere near being a conservative?
Conservative? She backs same-sex marriage. And, Trump will not walk back his Muslim embargo.
Yep, another hit piece. Yawn.
Obama promised to ‘fundamentally change America’ that is a promise he has kept....no one believed him or wanted to believe he is changing America to a Socialist-Marxist type of government....Trump as asked for fairness....the GOP had better listen to him. He keeps his word....he is 98% correct in his pronouncements...true he embroiders more than necessary, but fact/truth is there.
And somehow she thinks her words are actually worth something. Just another egotist posing as a journalist.
Any day now, Donald Trump may walk back his Monday call for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.â€
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Surely he will implode first, yes? No?
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