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?
Ping
I’ll get back to you after the election, Tom.
Until then, you’re dead to me.
Might be amusing.
“and no track record at all in government”
And thank GOD. His only experience in government is its corruption, treason, and obstruction.
Extraordinary wisdom, maturity, depth of knowledge and personal character
See who the media is lying against Trump .
Trump is who we should support!
Trump will stop TPP!
Trump will stop China
Trump will stop illegals with the wall
The media , Rubio,the GOPe etc. all want trump out because Trump is for America and for freedom.
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
TPP : “The Trans-Pacific Partnership includes an entire chapter on immigration. It is a Trojan horse for Obama’s immigration agenda.”
I sure hope he’s wrong, but I suspect that he’s right, as usual.
Sowell is part of the “let’s lose again with the right candidate” crowd ...
Last dance, last chance for love
Yes it’s our last chance,
For romance, tonight
Kaslin
Political Inertia will not be over come with limp wristed intellectualism. We are too far down the rabbit hole, this sort of “political centrism” died when Bill Clinton took office.
Now Politics is a war of ideologies. It is no longer a game for gentlemen. The other side has no respect for gentlemen and their notions of “deceny and common intrets” and merely uses the gentelman’s polite fig leafs as a rags to wipe their bloody political blade on.
Kobach & Sessions endorsed Trump. They are brilliant rightwingers in and out of government.
It’s almost like when one of your friends starts drinking too much and saying stupid crap ... Dr. Sowell apparently is expecting Cruz/Rubio/Kasich/Clinton/Sanders to have the will and capacity to rectify his list of issues in a better fashion than Trump. I am not seeing it.
No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve. This is no time for ceremony. The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.
Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/patrick.asp
Again , no Barf alert ?
Tom, you’ve lost touch with your country, and now sound just like every other ivory tower pontificator out there.
None of them rub elbows with the common man any longer, and nearly all of them are aghast at the sudden departure from ‘business as usual’. They, and you, simply do not get it.
We know we’re taking a risk by electing Trump, but who on the stage at this time is better suited to tackle the life and death issues our country faces? Name anyone, and I’ll ask you why they didn’t take the responsibility to run, like Trump did. Their names, titles, and resumes, are meaningless now.
What galls me even more, is that you’re publishing such a wild eyed, pearl clutching, screed like this, on the very eve of Super Tuesday, when it’s already far too late for such howling and crying to make a damn bit of difference.
Look at the polls. Look at the votes. There is no question that the greater number of people voting in the Republican primary are choosing Trump.
And you have the temerity to complain? What are you - some gilt slippered prince, arrogantly eyeing the ignorant ‘little people’ with disdain, because they refuse to choose one of the establishment pols in this election?
How dare you.
And what is Donald Trump's ideology?
I’ll get back to you after the election, Tom.
Until then, you’re dead to me.
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Ditto! in fact, I think he’ll just STAY dead to me, right along with Levin, Rush, and all the rest..
They remain clueless. Brain dead. Ignorant.
Why is it so hard for people to see that Trump is the ONLY hope for America’s future? How brain dead are the ones who want to stay with the same old liars and corrupt politicians? GO TRUMP!
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