Posted on 02/29/2016 9:18:43 PM PST by Kaslin
The "Super Tuesday" primaries may be a turning point for America -- and quite possibly a turn for the worse. After seven long years of domestic disasters and increasing international dangers, the next President of the United States will need extraordinary wisdom, maturity, depth of knowledge and personal character to rescue America.
Instead, if the polls are an indication, what we may get is someone with the opposite of all these things, a glib egomaniac with a checkered record in business and no track record at all in government -- Donald Trump.
If so, the downward trajectory of America over the past seven years may well continue on into the future, to the point of no return.
Democrat Susan Estrich says that it is "fun" watching Donald Trump. She may be able to enjoy the spectacle because Trump is Hillary Clinton's best chance of winning the general election in November. Even if the FBI's investigation leads them to recommend an indictment, the Obama administration is not likely to indict Hillary.
No doubt "The Donald" is entertaining, and he has ridden a wave of Republican voter anger against the Republican establishment, which has repeatedly betrayed them, especially on illegal immigration.
But these political problems are a sideshow, in a world where Iran is guaranteed to get nuclear weapons and North Korea, which already has them, is developing long-range missiles that can reach American cities. Iran is also developing long-range missiles.
Then there are the international terrorist organizations from the Middle East -- many sponsored by Iran -- whose agents have had easy access to the United States across our open border with Mexico.
We will need the cooperation of nations around the world to keep us informed of these terrorist organizations' activities, and to help disrupt the international money flows to terrorists.
Those nations know that helping the United States makes them targets of terrorism. So they have to weigh how much they can rely on America, before they risk their own national survival by cooperating with us against the terrorists.
Is Donald Trump someone who would inspire such confidence among leaders of other countries? Already Trump's irresponsible rhetoric has caused a backlash in Mexico and there has also been an attempt in Britain to ban him from setting foot on British soil.
We need all the allies we can get, from countries around the world, including Muslim allies in the Middle East. The last thing we can afford, at this crucial juncture in history is a president who alienates allies we have to have in a war against international terrorists.
On the campaign trail, Donald Trump's theatrical talents, including his bluster and bombast, may be enough to conceal his shallow understanding of very deep problems. But that will not cut it in the White House, where you cannot clown or con your way out of problems, and where the stakes are matters of life and death.
Trump's acting like a bull in a china shop may appeal to some voters but, in the world as it is, he may well cost us our last chance to recover from the great dangers into which the Obama administration has gotten this nation.
We already have an ego-driven, know-it-all president who will not listen to military or intelligence agency experts. Do we need to tempt fate by having two in a row?
Despite Donald Trump's string of primary vote victories, he has not yet gotten a majority of the Republican votes anywhere. But although most Republican votes are being cast against him, the scattering of that vote among so many other candidates leaves Trump with a good chance to get the nomination.
Everyone understands that the best chance for stopping Trump is for that fractured majority vote to consolidate behind one candidate opposed to him. But who will step aside for the good of the country?
When we think of American military heroes who have fallen on enemy hand grenades to save those around them, at the cost of their own lives, is it really too much to ask candidates -- especially those who present themselves as patriots -- to give up their one political chance in a zillion this year for the sake of the country?
Voters have a responsibility too. They might well ask themselves: Do I plan to use my vote to vent my emotions or to try to help save this country?
The thesis (status quo) and the antithesis (Trump) will lead to the new thing, the synthesis.
That’s your dialectic in action. There’s no dialectic without a synthesis, and that is missing from your calculus.
Poor Tom aka Tom O'Bedlam [reduced to playing the fool in King Lear - that's a Shakespeare play] actually wrote:
Trump's irresponsible rhetoric has caused a backlash in Mexico and there has also been an attempt in Britain to ban him from setting foot on British soil. We need all the allies we can get, from countries around the world, including Muslim allies in the Middle East.
Mexico? Islamic leaders? The pusillanimous craven Eurocrats in what passes for Britain. They' don't like Trump.
That's not criticism. That's an endorsement.
It's almost as good as if Ryan took out adds against Trump's opposition to the Obama budget. Oh, wait, his puppet-masters did.
“If Trump actually answered questions like these in a consistent manner, that would be a formulated ideology. My guess is that, even so, Trump’s answers wouldn’t be a conservative ideology. “
Some of those are not “ideology” but only specific policy stances.
He’s a protectionist,and a nationalist, and while there some overlap, you’re right, he’s not a conservative.
Exactly!
Competence, Patriotism, dedication to the general welfare of the American people. Isn't that enough and refreshing enough for a change.
If there is one thing that I revel at it is the discomfiture of that incompetent class of individuals. The common theme among Trump supporters is that they are fed up with the betrayal by incompetent sell-out crony con artists. Only a pusillanimous soul would try to look for a deeper meaning than that.
Sowell would have us consider it the straw that broke the nation's back if Trump is elected and Greenfield says it's a win compared to the other choices and we'd be idiots not to vote for him if/when he reaches the General - I'm with Greenfield.
Thank you. I’ve just had it with our ‘betters’ in the media and politics scolding us like wayward children.
Seems that almost all of them have failed to see or comprehend the tectonic shift that’s happening in the minds and hearts of the people.
History is marching by their windows, and they act like it’s an annoying flash mob.
You have principle and are willing to stick by it and your principles are sound.
We will see where our republic speeds down this cliff of no return with an election doomed to allow us to vote for either or of two liberals.
As I have said in the past, elections will fix nothing but they sure can destroy a once great nation.
Anyone the pays income taxes every year has “experience” with government.
Do you think I would put a barf alert on an article by Dr Thomas Sowell? You really are a moron. If you don’t like the article than don’t read it. I did not ping you btw. the only one I pinged was jazusamo, because he has a ping list for Dr Sowell’s article.
Of course Dr Sowell is right. How doubt him?
Cruz pushed for TPA. TPP TPA or obamatrade is so bad for America (worst thing ever)
that just this 1 web page I link here proves that
1.TPP will be the end of America
2. Cruz is a total fraud, liar , charlatan
3.Only Trump can save us from TPP and total destruction
4. TPP allows 3rd world countries to send 100’s of millions of immigrant workers into the USA as immigrants
I’m sure that Cruzers will call me names etc. but try to do it after seeing the evidence at that link or web page I just posted(try to read all that web page). Then tell me how all that I say here is not true or why? it is true and just that one link proves all that. of course there’s even more evidence elsewhere but showing that 1 web page proves all that shows the threat we in America face.
This is a must read for every American. Cruz was so arrogant that he thought none of us would ever understand all his manipulations and they are totally evil, corrupt, heinous , manipulations.
Cruz wrote an article saying the most outrageous lies , saying that TPA was so great.
Why would a Constitutionalist want to give up the Senate’s Constitutional power to the most evil tyrant ever Obama? doesn’t make sense does it ? The only conclclusion that is rational is that Cruz is a liar.
Why would a constitutionalist even consider this? of course a real constituionalist wouldn't’t.
Also why would a constitutionalist even consider having TPP pas which subverts the Constitution and U.S. sovereignty?
TPA guarantees the passing of TPP as it lowers the threshold and Senate’s ability to check obama. but Cruz campaigned for this ,for TPA. so he’s no constitutionalist as a real constitutionalists would not even consider this TPA . .Cruz is liar, a con man . He’s out to make $ millions and he has fooling many Americans.Cruz has over a hundred million dollars in donations from rich globalist internationalist donors and will do their anti-American bidding. He lies and fools Americans into giving him even more smaller donations. You 've been conned ,played for fools.
By voting for the Corker bill this is what Cruz allowed
Iran to do to the USA , nuke US >
Also CRuz voted for the Corker bill which allows Iran to build nuclear weapons to nuke the USA >
Also CRuz voted for the Corker bill which allows Iran to build nuclear weapons to nuke the USA
Only Trump will build the wall, Stop China, stop the illegals invasion with his wall, and save America from falling into the abyss which Cruz , Obama and the politicians have us 1 inch from the edge of the dark abyss with a knife at our Throat.
They all want to inundate the USA with hundreds of millions of 3rd world socialist immigrants. TPP does this. If Trump is able to overcome the media lies and become president Trump will save the USA. Trump if he can pull it off will save America from Cruz, Rubio, Jebb or Hillary all of which would have produced the exact same results the destruction of the USA by not stopping the flood of illegals and immigrants.
Trump is the only one I trust out of those running or that ran. Truly Trump will do a heroic thing risking his fortune and success to literally save us from falling in the abyss. Trump is a modern day William Wallace of braveheart only 10 billion times better. if he can become president we will all owe him our freedom , and property and lives.
Definitely Obama had the USA at the tipping point and with TPP etc. they would have destroyed the USA sending it into the abyss. But at the last second Trump arrives , really the only person in the world that i see that could have done it, saved us, and the only person in Washington that is not corrupt or bought off by the globalists and marxists.
Trump is our last hope
Your fraud Cruz has had what 4 years as Senator to build the wall , he had his chance to build a wall and he nor any politician have not done it. This proves he’s a fraud.
Cruz has done nothing but harm America and Americans by voting for worst bills ever the Corker bill and TPA TPP.
Believe actions not the lies of a con man. Cruz has 100 million $ in donations from rich globalist donors and a wife that works for Goldman Sachs while Americans are struggling to survive economically. He’s laughing at you all the way to the bank
Politicians have done nothing good for America only destroyed the USA . Politicians are all either socliaists or corrupt lying con man owned by globalist rich donors, the most evil cretins of all time that voted with the Corker bill to have Iran nuke the very people that voted for them.
Shame on you for calling the great Dr Sowell by his first name. , but that has to be expected from a brain-less Trump bot like you.
Good column, as always. God bless indeed
“Shame on you for calling the great Dr Sowell by his first name. , but that has to be expected from a brain-less Trump bot like you.”
So sayeth Kaslin, clutching his pearls as he flutters to his fainting couch.
You’re ridiculous, you know that?
I know, and I really am disgusted by it. What has become of this forum? Unbelievable
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