Posted on 11/11/2016 5:46:49 AM PST by libstripper
At dawn Tuesday in West Quoddy Head, Maine, America’s easternmost point, it was certain that by midnight in Cape Wrangell, Alaska, America’s westernmost fringe, there would be a loser who deserved to lose and a winner who did not deserve to win.
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Oh, I agree with you 100 percent and I can only imagine it gets worse from here on out.
“His whole point is we are becoming a non white nation. To the extent we allowed that through illegal immigrating is simply wrong. Perhaps Trump can reverse some of that.”
Ann Coulter was being interviewed by Hannity, and she had trouble making Hannity understand that it is LEGAL immigration that will be our undoing, not illegal. We take in over a million LEGAL immigrants per year. The 1965 immigration bill mandates that most immigrants have to come from non-white non-Christian countries. In 50 years, if the immigration act is not overturned and immigration is brought to a halt, whites will be a tiny minority of the population. Illegal immigration will only hasten it, but if illegal immigration only is stopped in its tracks, the end is still inevitable unless there is a time-out on immigration as there was from approximately 1925 to 1965.
George, pasture, go.
As long as the democrats have the fillibuster, the Republicans have nadda. You can bet your boots that they will fillibuster every last thing in the full
confidence that the MSM and lil Jonny McCain will provide cover. Getting nothing done will be blamed on Republicans.
Already we see the set up for it with the usual tactics of: 1) the Dems illegitimizimg the election (popular vote blah, blah, racism blah, blah); and 2) the usual elitist suspects telling us and defining for is why Trump won and going so far as to say that the electorate really wants more Obama policies or that Trump didn’t win, Hillary lost, etc. Thus, the fillibuster of a minority truly reflects the will of the people, not the actual election results.
Thank God we have a fighter now. We have someone who will not be shy about calling out the Senate Dems for abusing the filibuster or the likes of McCain for collaborating. He will take it directly to the American people.
Speaking of McCain, you watch. Reid used the nuke option to pack the courts. Rather than keeping that in place to allow Trump to at least even things out, McCain will push right away to restore the fillibuster allowing the Dems to block Trump’s nominees. He will do so in the name of tradition.
Here’s how I feel about that. I think our POTUS-elect is the first American to genuinely reach out to blacks and Hispanics and tell them he’ll actively fight for the causes they should care about - law & order, school choice, economic investment, illegal immigration. There were lipservice attempts before (W’s “compassionate conservative” ideas) but Trump was the first Republican presidential candidate that appealed directly at them. I hope it resonates. If he does enact these policies and they still vote robotically for Democrats, well then, f them.
Unfortunately, as this should be a high priority, but Trump can’t do it. It’ll take the states... meaning WE THE PEOPLE getting involved at the local levels.
Note, the federal government can dictate the date for national elections only - not state and local. If they want to make sure folks can actually get to the polls, move the date to the first Saturday and Sunday in November.
“except the points he made that Georgia, Texas, Arizona were much closer than they should be”
Arizona went Republican 53-45 in 2008. An 8 point lead, with Arizona senator John McCain at the top of the GOP ticket.
It was 53.4-44.5 in 2012, with a Mormon on the top of the GOP ticket and an already proven POS at the top of the Dem’s ticket - a 9 point spread. I’ll point out that Mormons are a huge part of Arizona’s GOP base. There are nearly 400,000 Mormons in Arizona, the 4rd largest at 5% of the total population.
It was 49-45 this year, so it looks like Trump had a 4 point margin. But Trump is not an Arizona senator, and not a Mormon.
And Arizona is not as Republican as some like to think. Janet Napolitano was our Governor before Obama pulled her to DC.
And something folks ought to remember is that Trump is not enthusiastically loved by all who voted for him! Evangelicals voted overwhelmingly for Trump...because of Hillary and the Supreme Court. That was, far and away, the most effective argument I had in talking to others. Even so, my sister refused to vote for Trump, saying he’d win Arizona anyways so she was free to refuse to vote for a man she finds repulsive.
We had a prayer service Wednesday in the AZ baptist church I go to. We prayed God would give Trump wisdom and guide him, and thanked God for sparing us from the rabid hatred of Hillary Clinton. I’m certain the huge evangelical vote this year was rooted in fear of Hillary, not devotion to Trump.
I expected Trump to win Arizona by 5-6 points. Without the Mormons united behind him, that was really the best he could hope for. And he won by 4%.
Was that minorities? Or was it people like my sister, who genuinely dislike many of the things Trump has said and done. I did everything I could to GOTV for Trump in Arizona, but a lot of evangelicals, Mormons and women were, shall I say, underwhelmed by Trump. I haven’t forgotten Trump’s praise of Hillary Clinton in 2008 and his enthusiasm for Obama in 2009.
If President Trump fights for a better business climate, fights for good Supreme Court nominees, fights for a stronger military used for America and not the UN - do those three things, and I’ll become a rabid pro-Trump guy.
I supported Ted Cruz. The day he lost the nomination, I switched to Trump. I’ve done my best to get people to vote Trump. I’ll pray for Trump. But the truth is I voted against Hillary. And most of the people I know voted the same way.
Don’t assume AZ’s vote was based in minorities taking over the state. I know a LOT of conservative Mexican-Americans. I have neighbors with a heavy accent who are more pro-Trump than I am. The weak showing by Trump in AZ wasn’t as weak as people think, and I doubt it was driven by minorities. The Mormon Church and folks like my sister probably account for most of it.
My guess is the better Mexican food (this is from personal experience of having been in AZ and New Mexico).
Will is an arrogant idiot.
And thus the NeverTrumper neo-cons have been transformed into concern trolls.
At a time, no less, when we all should be rejoicing at the expansion of the “big tent” they’ve been prattling on about since Bush 1 got bushwhacked.
American Enterprise Institute ^ | 11/08/2016 | Mark J. Perry
Posted on 11/9/2016, 5:56:07 AM by cll
With permission, I am sharing an email below that I received from an American friend who recently moved to Puerto Rico and participated in his first election there today:Relating to the discussion about voter ID laws on a recent CD post featuring a video by filmmaker Ami Horowitz that investigated the commonly held belief by liberals in America that voter ID laws are racist and discriminate against the poor and uneducated, let me describe my first experience voting in a Puerto Rican election today.
First, you have to obtain a voter ID card before you are allowed to vote in Puerto Rico. The voter ID is a laminated photo ID with holograms and a bar code. It is a completely separate ID from your driver’s license. To get a voter ID, you go to a voter registration office with your birth certificate and another photo ID or your passport, as well as proof of being a Puerto Rican resident (e.g. a lease, property deed, or maybe a utility bill). The voter registration office is staffed by three people, one from each of the three major political parties so that all can watch one another.
Once you have your voter ID card, you can legally vote at your designated voting place. Before voting, they inspect your voter ID card, check the holograms under a black-light to verify it’s legal, and they scan the bar code. Then they scan your hands with a black-light to make sure you haven’t already voted (see below), and then you go in to the voting area to get your ballot. Before you get a ballot though, they first find your name on a list of registered voters. On the list, your name has your picture next to it, and they match this photo with the photo on your voter ID card. Then they then dip your finger in black-light visible dye (hence the earlier black-light scan) and only then do they hand you your voting ballot. The voting process in Puerto Rico is much more stringent than anything even proposed in the US, and is also effective at pretty much eliminating voter fraud.
So, if there were any real truth to the narrative that “voter ID laws harm vulnerable groups like the poor, the uneducated, and minorities” you’d think you would see it here in Puerto Rico with all these time-consuming procedures to first obtain a voter ID and then be thoroughly checked each time before voting. The median household income of $18,626 in Puerto Rico was about 67% below the US median household income of nearly $56,000 in 2015 (Census data here, see chart above). The high school graduation rate in Puerto Rico is 60% (compared to 83.2% in the US) and only about 18.3% of residents have a post-secondary college degree (compared to 42% in the US). And yet Puerto Rico has the highest voter turnout in the Americas. From 1972 through 1984, island turnout exceeded 80% of the voting-age population, and at one point more than 95% were registered. Between 1972 and 2000, Puerto Rico averaged 79% turnout in its national elections; only eleven US states had voter turnouts higher than 60% during that time, while 14 were below 50%. In 2012, voter turnout in the US was only 53.6%.
I have yet to meet anyone in Puerto Rico who thinks that the voter registration rules here are a bad idea or an undue burden. In contrast, there seems be to universal agreement among Puerto Ricans that the process is well worth the extra trouble and time to ensure fair elections.
One can only conclude that: a) those opposing voter ID laws are subtly racist/classist/elitist toward those they (incorrectly) view to be inferior and without the means and wherewithal to get a voter ID (see Ami Horowitz’s video), or b) the issue is just a smokescreen and those who oppose stricter voter ID laws really ultimately want to facilitate voter fraud and voting by non-citizens because they believe it benefits them politically in terms of obtaining and retaining power.
Imagine how he and others once passed for right wing
Atheist
Pro abortion
Pro gun control
Opposed Magnus
Ridiculous
PR gets it right!
Here is the reason why we dont have it. White libs looking down on blacks!
Thumb suckers
George Will says “Hrumpf” to all peasants.
What a despicable POS!
bump
Thanks for the heads-up about the comments. I read about three paragraphs of the article and couldn’t see it going anywhere useful. But the comments were indeed stellar.
In particular, I agree with those that insisted that Trump must go to the people to cow the feckless congress into action. They won’t act out of courage.
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