Posted on 01/10/2018 1:20:09 PM PST by Hojczyk
In his first year as president, imagine this friend nominated a conservative to the Supreme Court and got him approved, aggressively cut regulations, established a National Security Strategy that has been widely praised, and successfully helped pass the largest tax cut in more than three decades for the American people.
Imagine as a result of all this, small business confidence, CEO confidence, and consumer confidence are through the roof, which has helped drive the stock market to a record high.
Now, consider how you would react if someone tried to convince you to ignore this track record and suggest that your incredibly successful friend had questionable mental capabilities.
Wouldn’t you instead be inclined to be curious about how your friend does so many different things competently – and be puzzled that anyone could reasonably suggest he was anything other than capable?
There is no need to imagine, of course, because the left and the news media have spent the past week making this scenario a reality. They’ve made erroneous, malicious claims that President Trump is somehow mentally unfit to lead our country – despite all evidence that he’s doing a fantastic job.
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To the contrary, who in their right mind would ever run any more? LOL! ;-)
The “mental” narrative is being pushed by Disney and Comcast.
Why does this get any air time at all? Even from Newt? To “counter” it gives credence to the premise, which is false. This is one of the oldest plays in the Dem playbook, they used it on Goldwater and Reagan. It means they don’t have anything else and that the person accused is doing a damned fine job! (Yes, I saw this “played” all those years ago).
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Trump needs help..and if he got it America would be greater than great.
It’s the Stalin MO ... if you disagree with me ,you MUST be crazy
When you’re rich it’s called “eccentric.”
“In his first year as president, imagine this friend nominated a conservative to the Supreme Court and got him approved, aggressively cut regulations, established a National Security Strategy that has been widely praised, and successfully helped pass the largest tax cut in more than three decades for the American people.”
Look, you have to be nuts if you want to be President. My wife called my crazy for wanting to sit on the local homeowners board. Actually, all my friends said it also.
Didn’t Clinton dust off the old Goldwater Daisy commercial to use against Trump
Can you please provide some details (of why he needs help, and how help would make America greater) to back up your claim?
Thanks.
Imagine what he could do it be only watched fifteen hours of The Gorilla Channel!
what’s it say about Democrats that a supposedly mentally ill mental midget beats them on a daily basis?
LOL
Trump had the empathy and perceptiveness to understand that more than half the country was hurting, the courage and compassion to abandon his life of wealth and comparative leisure to run for president to try to do something about it, and the self-confidence and clear-headedness to keep pursing his goals in spite of the venom and bizarre lies thrown at him every day by the likes of that academic psychiatrist from Yale, who probably doesn’t know a schizophrenic from an obstreperous adolescent, saying that he’s mentally unstable - she should have Trump’s mental health.....
With that said, the term "intellectuals" has been much overused in recent times, especially when referring to the crowd which dominated in the Obama Administration and in the "progressive" element of the Democrat Party.
So-called "progressives" of both Parties in recent times, portray themselves as the "intellectual" elite, although they may be totally bereft of any real knowledge or understanding of the great ideas which were the seedbed of Ameria's successful 200-year experiment in liberty.
Today's so-called "progressives," with all of their domination of academia and Far Left politics, seem to fit into a category described in an essay by T.S. Eliot on Virgil:
"In our time, when men seem more than ever to confuse wisdom with knowledge and knowledge with information and to try to solve the problems of life in terms of engineering, there is coming into existence a new kind of provincialism which perhaps deserves a new name. It is a provincialism not of space but of time--one for which history is merely a chronicle of human devices which have served their turn and have been scrapped, one for which the world is the property solely of the living, a property in which the dead hold no share."(Bold added for emphasis)
Without intellectual anchoring in the enduring ideas which provided the philosophical foundation of America's Declaration of Independence and Constitution, their vain imaginations of superiority only expose their limited world view.
Yet, the America which rose from obscurity to greatness, from crude hoes and axes to putting a man on the moon, and from oppression by King George to a symbol of liberty for millions all over the world--that America provides shelter for them, even as they attempt to "change" her into something unimagined by the Founders, and ungrounded in Constitutional principles.
If they are allowed to succeed in their own little provincial experiment, their posterity never will know the "blessings of Liberty" proclaimed by the Preamble to America's Constitution.
Now might be a good time for conservatives to read Dr. Russell Kirk's "The Conservative Mind, which can be read online, by the way.
In Kirk's last chapter he reviews the works of poets and writers, quoting lines which now seem to bear a striking resemblance to the players on stage in American politics today.
For instance, in Robert Frost's "A Case for Jefferson," Frost writes of the character Harrison:
"Harrison loves my country too
But wants it all made over new.
. . . .
He dotes on Saturday pork and beans.
But his mind is hardly out of his teens.
With him the love of country means
Blowing it all to smithereens
And having it made over new."
Yes, the pseudointellectuals who occupied the White House, the media, and much of Congress until recently fancied themselves "intellectuals."
By their words and actions, however, they displayed that provinciality Dr. Kirk recalls as having been described by T. S. Eliot (see above) as being one of time and place, having no intellectual grounding in ideas older than their own little experience in dabbling and discussing Mao, Marx, and other theoreticians.
America's written Constitution deserves protectors whose minds are out of their "teens" in terms of their understanding of civilization's long struggle for individual liberty.
It certainly deserves protectors who do not consider it a "flawed" document because that Constitution does not permit the government it structures to run rough shod over the rights of its "only KEEPERS, the People" (Justice Story).
Blasting it "all to smithereens" seems to be the goal of the Far Left and its power-hungry leaders.
Those who have found ways to bypass the Constitution's limits on their power rely on what they believe to be the ignorance of the American people when they assert extra-Constitutional powers. They have been outwitted, however, by an increasingly knowledgeable citizenry who are using the miracles of technology to study for themselves ancient and modern writings on the ideas of liberty versus those of tyranny. As Jefferson wisely observed:
"History, by apprising the people of the past, will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views."
I should have his mental problems.
Newt left out pulling out of the global warming scam, forcing Canada and Mexico to renegotiate NAFTA, and dumping TPP. More winning!
Trump is so mentally challenged and so unfit to be president, that he’s well on the way to becoming as unsuccessful and Ronald Reagan
Don’t forget his Big Macs and fries.
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