-PJ
Posted on 05/04/2016 12:49:00 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration
AND THEN THERE WAS THE ONE
May 4, 2016
A guy just won the Republican nomination for president by spending no money, hiring no pollsters, running virtually no TV ads, and just saying what he truly believed no matter how many times people told him he couldn't say that.
I always hoped I'd see this once before I died. It's like to going to Mecca, for Americans. Pay attention, because it's the last time we're going to see it in our lifetimes.
For those of you not yet on the Trump Train, I know you don't want to vote for Hillary, but all the pundits have been trying to convince you that Trump's a complete fraud. (That was between their smug assurances that he wouldn't make it out of Iowa.)
It's odd. When Trump launched his campaign by talking about Mexican rapists and the wall, his critics hysterically denounced him, rushing to TV to say he did NOT represent the Republican Party! Only after it became resoundingly clear that large majorities of Americans agreed with Trump did his critics try a new tack: He doesn't believe it!
That's what my friend Andy McCarthy at the now-defunct National Review wrote recently. I had to spend the weekend figuring out how to attack a friend without saying, "This is the most retarded argument I've ever read."
Here goes: This was not Andy's best effort.
Of all the arguments that could be made against Trump, McCarthy settled on: I don't trust him on immigration. (I'd love to have been a fly on the wall at that pitch meeting.)
He bases this claim on a remark Trump made as a businessman four years ago in which he regurgitated the official GOP line about Romney -- and which was being stated as fact 1 million times a day on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News.
To wit, Trump told Newsmax that Mitt Romney "had a crazy policy of self-deportation which was maniacal," adding, "He lost all of the Latino vote ... he lost everybody who is inspired to come into this country."
It is strange that Trump would denounce "self-deportation," which is like a chocolate sundae compared to his own plans for illegals.
But to give you the tenor of the interview, Trump went on to promote "Celebrity Apprentice," note that he had just bought the Old Post Office building in Washington, D.C., and boast about his recently acquired Ritz-Carlton Golf Club and Spa in Jupiter, Fla. -- "which is a phenomenal area."
Also, a lot of people didn't like the phrase "self-deportation." Why not just say: "They'll go home the same way they came"?
So is Trump lying about his signature issue, immigration? The countervailing evidence to that 2012 pop-off is:
-- Nine months of Trump soaring to the top of the polls and slaying all comers by talking about how he's going to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it;
-- His never, ever, ever backing down on the wall, sanctuary cities, anchor babies, suspending Muslim immigration, etc., etc., despite unprecedented attacks from both the liberal and "conservative" media;
-- The fact that he talks about immigration at every single one of his massive rallies and always gets the biggest, most sustained standing ovations when he mentions the wall;
-- The blizzard of tweets he sent out in 2013 denouncing Rubio's amnesty bill as it was sailing through the Senate, supported by the entire liberal media, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, most of talk radio, and every other GOP candidate for president this year, including, for a while, Ted Cruz (whose job was to know about bills being voted on in the Senate, unlike a Manhattan developer);
-- Trump's one and only policy guy is the magnificent Stephen Miller, who was Sen. Jeff Sessions' main immigration guy.
And so on.
Maybe Trump is the Manchurian Candidate and contrary to his entire life's work he really just wants fancy people in Manhattan to like him.
Maybe the window into his soul is what he said four years ago about Romney's phrase "self-deportation."
Maybe 50 years of Trump's talking about the working class was all a clever ruse leading to this one shining moment when he would trick Americans into voting for him, so he could sell us out, like any other candidate would.
On the other hand, maybe he's changed his mind about that 2012 remark.
I'm bitter and cynical enough on immigration that I don't trust anyone not to betray us. But if there was ever a candidate we could believe will build a wall and stop the mass importation of the Third World, it's Trump.
COPYRIGHT 2016 ANN COULTER
OIC
Satan is not a Christian, but he has been committing blasphemy since before he was cast down from heaven to earth.
Try to restrain yourself a bit, your comment was quite offensive to Christians.
Thanks and thanks also for your commitment to vote for Trump.
“You don’t need to build an actual wall if we just strictly enforce the laws we already have.”
Yes you do, when you’ve told your country that that’s what you intend to do. This isn’t about money, or even the effectiveness of a wall, it’s about doing what you said you were going to do! Besides the Effing Mexicans are going to pay for the wall, and that is also because we’ve been told by Trump that that too is what he’s promised and hence what he will deliver. Besides, I’d love to see all the rich “white beaners” in Mexico City looking like they’ve just hoovered a turd!
The Pharisees, or teachers of the law, were trying to trick Jesus into going against Rome so they could have him arrested. Judea was part of the Roman Empire, yet they were the only province that was allowed to keep their own religion instead of worshipping Caesar as a god. However, they were required to pay huge taxes (much of which would go into the tax collector’s pocket) to support the Roman government that they resented.
The Jews hated - absolutely hated - having to pay taxes to a polytheistic conquering state. Throughout the history of Israel, being free meant that God was with them.
When the Jewish leaders cornered him in front of the people, they were asking him a loaded question. They asked him if it was right for them to give money and tribute to pagan overlords, since the Roman mythology did not honor God. If he said that they should, they could rouse the Jewish people against him as a Roman sympathizer. If he said that they shouldn’t, they could turn him in as a zealot (one fo the Jewish “fanatics” that was trying to overthrow Rome with guerilla warfare).
Jesus asked for a Roman coin and put it back in the Pharisees’ court. He asked them whose picture was on the coin - it was that of Caesar. He told them to give to Caesar what was his - the coin with his likeness - and to give to God what was His - their hearts, their obedience to His Word. He was not only answering the question to the satisfaction of everyone involved, he was slapping the Pharisees down in public by spotlighting the fact that while they obeyed the letter of the Mosaic law, their hearts were turned toward themselves. How they looked to others was more important than how they looked to God.
That is the meaning of the saying - give to your worldly authorities what belongs to them, but give to God what belongs to Him.
It is a much broader then the Social conservatives want it to be.
Thank you.
He might just be a great leader who does what he says he intends to do.
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You don’t need to build an actual wall if we just strictly enforce the laws we already have.”
At a minimum I want both,,then even STRICTER laws!
It’s going to be a beautiful wall.
The Kingdom of God is not a democracy, in part because if Jesus were to run for office rather than be the Lord of the Universe, no one would vote for Him, and He knows it, because as John tells us, He knows what is in the heart of men.
I always hoped I'd see this once before I died.
She's a better man than I am, it never crossed my wildest imagination as a possibility, so I didn't have the mental image to hope for!
Best laugh I have had all day! You have made the day for a Cruzer who is joining the Trump train. Thank you.
“... at the now-defunct National Review ....”
LOL.
Just because the other two have dropped out doesn’t mean there ain’t some shenanigans goin’ on behind the gopE curtains. Pretty sad when you no longer trust them. I’ve had doubts for a long time but this cycle has turned me off completely. Changing to “I” since we only have a meaningless caucus in NV anyway. Seemed like a waste of time to us.
Correct me if I’m wrong but he has spent about $30 million of his own money
I smell ozone
-PJ
will it have distinctive architectural appointments?
I think we realize by now that is not going to happen.
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