Posted on 07/15/2020 5:44:17 AM PDT by rintintin
True, except Barr isn’t in an elected office like Lindsey and Mitch.
Agreed .
No freaking way. I will never vote for her no matter who the Democrats nominate.
“The Republican Party has always been the free trade party.”
That’s wildly inaccurate.
The Republican Party, like the Whigs and Federalists before them, was the party of high tariffs and protectionism. Henry Clay’s American System.
The Democrats were the party of free trade from their beginning with Andrew Jackson. And continued to be so for about 100 years.
She was a Romney early-adopter in 2012. Sorry, no thanks.
“Wrong. The Chamber of Commerce has done this.”
Plus she’ll get the support of the global citizens and H1-bs of Silicon Valley. They have the same flimsy allegiance to historic America that she does.
Oh really? Maybe not! Here's part of the pre WWII GOP Party platform.
The Tariff
We reaffirm our belief in the protective tariff to extend needed protection to our productive industries. We believe in protection as a national policy, with due and equal regard to all sections and to all classes. It is only by adherence to such a policy that the well being of the consumers can be safeguarded that there can be assured to American agriculture, to American labor and to American manufacturers a return to perpetrate American standards of life. A protective tariff is designed to support the high American economic level of life for the average family and to prevent a lowering to the levels of economic life prevailing in other lands.
In the history of the nation the protective tariff system has ever justified itself by restoring confidence, promoting industrial activity and employment, enormously increasing our purchasing power and bringing increased prosperity to all our people. The tariff protection to our industry works for increased consumption of domestic agricultural products by an employed population instead of one unable to purchase the necessities of life. Without the strict maintenance of the tariff principle our farmers will need always to compete with cheap lands and cheap labor abroad and with lower standards of living.
The enormous value of the protective principle has once more been demonstrated by the emergency tariff act of 1921 and the tariff act of 1922. We assert our belief in the elastic provision adopted by congress in the tariff act of 1922 providing for a method of readjusting the tariff rates and the classifications in order to meet changing economic conditions when such changed conditions are brought to the attention of the president by complaint or application.
We believe that the power to increase or decrease any rate of duty provided in the tariff furnishes a safeguard on the one hand against excessive taxes and on the other hand against too high customs charges. The wise provisions of this section of the tariff act afford ample opportunity for tariff duties to be adjusted after a hearing in order that they may cover the actual differences in the cost of production in the United States and the principal competing countries of the world.
We also believe that the application of this provision of the tariff act will contribute to business stability by making unnecessary general disturbances which are usually incident to general tariff revisions.
Fixed it. Trump Republicans stand for America First.
Tariffs don't do that.
I would be hesitant on the idea of excluding candidates for past support. Many Trump supporters here thought W was a good candidate and president, and many never-Trumpers during the election have changed their opinions (i.e. Levin).
I am much more interested in how a candidate has come around since Trump’s election...
Starting in 1996, the Democrats weaponized the US government in national elections and came close to pulling it off in 2016. If they win again do you think they will not be even worse than the 2016 election criminality? Have they been punished, no. If Biteme wins even the chance of punishment is gone. The Bolsheviks are in charge in the Democrat party and they know how to deal with political opposition. There will never be another Republican elected nationally.
Never say never.
You always gotta look at history.
“Don’t forget that the the US is the second biggest exporter on the planet, accounting for a massive $1.6 Trillion in exports. Trade is a two way street.”
Which is great until you break down what we have been exporting since the gutting of American manufacturing and its wholesale replacement by China.
A condition facilitated by a financial and political class that are American in name only, but that paid off handsomely for Clinton/Obama Democrats and Bush Republicans. See John Solomon’s new book “Fallout”. See Rosemary Gibson’s “China Rx”.
Economists like Alan Tonelson and Clyde Prestowitz have pointed out that where we once exported high value added manufactured goods, we now have the raw material trade profile of a third world economy.
Our major exports to China have been cardboard, recycled. Timber and raw lumber. Coal. Soybeans. Pork. And a lot of that is from companies here in America that are now owned by China.
Haley is so weak she can’t even defend historical statues.
I agree on Pompeo. He’s about the only one I can see who would be capable of effectively carrying on after Trump. Tom Cotton would be a great VP. Cotton could then become POTUS after Pompeo.
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