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A Dangerous Man (Interesting And Very Long Article)
The Weekly Standard ^
| April 18, 2016
| Geoffrey Norman
Posted on 04/15/2016 4:31:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
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posted on
04/15/2016 4:31:25 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
You are a known Trump hater on this board, but the GOP best beware that they do not make Cruz John Quincy Adams this go around.
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posted on
04/15/2016 4:34:49 AM PDT
by
usafa92
(Trump 2016 - Destroying the GOPe while Making America Great Again)
To: Kaslin
I shed no tears over the “Trail of Tears.” If the lying, thieving Indians were still running things, we’d all living in wigwams and scalping people.
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posted on
04/15/2016 4:35:42 AM PDT
by
heye2monn
To: Kaslin
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posted on
04/15/2016 4:37:02 AM PDT
by
palmer
(Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet over to foreign enemies)
To: Kaslin
The establishment of the day looked at Jackson much like today’s establishment looks at Trump.
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posted on
04/15/2016 4:37:41 AM PDT
by
Hugin
(Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
To: Kaslin
Interesting read. Seems a skosh familiar. Reminds me of that copy of an old newspaper floating around the 'net. Change the dates and it could have been yesterday's paper.
Humans never change.
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posted on
04/15/2016 4:47:51 AM PDT
by
CopperTop
To: usafa92
You nincomboob I don't write this article and get this: YOU DO NOT TELL ME WHAT I CAN POST!!!
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posted on
04/15/2016 4:52:36 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
(He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
To: CopperTop
How do you post more than 300 words?
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posted on
04/15/2016 4:53:01 AM PDT
by
Hojczyk
To: Kaslin
Very interesting history with current political slant woven in. Thanks for posting.
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posted on
04/15/2016 4:53:28 AM PDT
by
PGalt
To: CopperTop
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posted on
04/15/2016 4:53:40 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
(He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
To: Kaslin
My take from reading this? Apparently we’re about 25-30 years from CW2.
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posted on
04/15/2016 4:59:28 AM PDT
by
Axeslinger
(Trump: the Kaitlyn Jenner of conservatism. One's not a woman, one's not a conservative.)
To: Kaslin
The May 1780 battle became, in legend, a massacre of defenseless colonials by British redcoats under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton. Continentals who attempted to surrender were run through and slashed by the men under Tarleton, who was everything that Jackson was not. Vividly underscore the need, in the mind of the founders, for future commander's-in-chief to be born within the country of two citizen parents.
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posted on
04/15/2016 5:00:10 AM PDT
by
frog in a pot
(That an NBC could be born in a foreign country to a foreign parent delights the one-world crowd.)
To: Kaslin
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posted on
04/15/2016 5:00:20 AM PDT
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: Kaslin
Jefferson, iirc, called Jackson “that madman.” He was certainly a dramatic and polarizing figure.
His birthplace is claimed by both North Carolina and South Carolina. Following her husband’s death, his mother was staying with one of her sisters when Andrew was born, but it’s not known which one.
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posted on
04/15/2016 5:00:57 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("The world is full of wonder, but you see it only if you look." ~NicknamedBob)
To: Kaslin
Actually I think he was giving you a backhanded compliment. It was a very good article and has much to bear on the circumstances around us today.
Thank you for posting it.
To: Kaslin
Good article. Kasich would be today’s John Quincy Adams. Trump is very obviously in the role of Jackson. Cruz was left out back in 1828, but today’s sequel has added a new character.
Cruz and Trump are very different in style and are both imperfect, as Adams and Jackson were. Still, they agree far more than 80% of the time (see my tagline from Ronald Reagan). They should be friends and allies, and we should treat both of them as such.
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posted on
04/15/2016 5:04:25 AM PDT
by
Pollster1
(Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
To: Kaslin; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna; PROCON; Lil Flower
Martin Van Buren, then a congressman from New York and the most able of Jackson's supporters and lieutenants, assembled a coalition of "the planters of the South and the plain Republicans of the north." What this coalition became was a formidable political party. And Martin Van Buren, 8th president, went down in history as the inspiration for the Van Buren Boys.
To: Kaslin
What’s his point? Trump as Jackson? I came away from that article more stoked than ever that a brash, unpolished outsider is going to Washington to wage war with the effete.
If it was a comparison to Cruz the article would be about how some Canadian spaz with an odd shaped head, no lips and no chin is going to Washington to clean it up one stall at a time in his bathrobe.
Weakly Standard fail. They should change their name to that.
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posted on
04/15/2016 5:08:22 AM PDT
by
mindburglar
(When Superman and Batman fight, the only winner is crime.)
To: Pollster1
Trump is very obviously in the role of JacksonI like looking for the connections, but I wouldn't be so hasty to make that one. While Trump is definitely the populist, he is also the aristocrat in this race, having inherited the seed of his fortune. He has never had to scape-by on Campbell's soup. I wouldn't be surprised if he's never tasted it.
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posted on
04/15/2016 5:11:29 AM PDT
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: Kaslin
Enjoyed your post. Thanks.
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