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Post by avordvet on Dec 12, 2015 5:07:40 GMT -5
Donald Trump Isn't the Problem. Trump Derangement Syndrome Is.December 12, 2015, By Eugene Slaven My Facebook feed is inundated with indignant Republicans excoriating Donald Trump for his comments about Muslim immigrants. This has been a recurring theme since Trump announced his candidacy last spring: Republicans who don't like Trump express outrage over Trump's off-color or problematic remarks and spend the next six news cycles distancing themselves from Trump. What Trump's Republican detractors don't realize is that their Trump Derangement Syndrome is playing directly into the left's hands. That's because the Obama administration and the Clinton campaign, overwhelmed by the Islamic terrorist threat whose name they lack the moral courage to even utter, use the GOP's vociferous condemnation of Trump to distract Americans from the Democrats' abject failures. It's perfectly reasonable for Trump's rivals to voice their disagreements with Trump. But there's a fine line between disagreeing with and joining the Democrats and the media in obsessively denouncing a single candidate. www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/donald_trump_isnt_the_problem_trump_derangement_syndrome_is_.html
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 13, 2015 15:39:52 GMT -5
h/t Gunny G www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/12/trump-schools-pompous-saudi-prince-has-your-country-taken-any-of-the-syrian-refugees/Trump SCHOOLS Pompous Saudi Prince: “Has YOUR Country Taken ANY of the Syrian Refugees?”On Friday Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal slammed Donald Trump for proposing a ban on Muslim immigrants in the US until the government could alleviate security concerns. Prince Alwaleed called Donald Trump a “disgrace” for his popular plan. الوليد بن طلال @alwaleed_Talal .@realdonaldtrump You are a disgrace not only to the GOP but to all America. Withdraw from the U.S presidential race as you will never win. On Sunday Donald Trump responded to the Saudi Prince in epic fashion. Donald J. Trump ✔ @realdonaldtrump "@michael2014abc: @alwaleed_Talal @realdonaldtrump Has your country, Saudi Arabia, taken ANY of the Syrian refugees? If not, why not?" Of course, Trump is right. Saudi Arabia has banned Syrian immigrants from its country due to security concerns. Over one million migrants will relocate to Europe this year. But the wealthiest Muslim nations – Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Oman and Kuwait have accepted NO SYRIAN REFUGEES! ** The wealthiest Gulf nations argue that accepting large numbers of Syrian refugees is a serious threat to the safety of its citizens because terrorists could hide themselves among civilians. A Kuwaiti politician appeared on Middle East television and explained why the Gulf States won’t accept Syrian refugees- — They come from different cultures and won’t assimilate.
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 15, 2015 7:02:39 GMT -5
www.wnd.com/2015/12/limbaugh-2-things-raise-red-flags-for-trump/Limbaugh: 2 things raise red flags for TrumpWhile insisting he’s not throwing anyone under the bus in the presidential race, radio host Rush Limbaugh is raising red flags concerning statements by Donald Trump that he says could be “potentially huge errors” for the Republican front-runner. “If you’re a conservative voter in the Republican primary, these two things have gotta raise some red flags for you people, I would think,” Limbaugh said on his national broadcast Monday. The first concerns Trump’s answer to Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday” when the billionaire businessman was asked: “What do you think of Ted Cruz?” “I don’t think he has the right temperament. I don’t think he’s got the right judgment,” Trump responded. “You look at the way he’s dealt with the Senate where he goes in there like a … You know, frankly, like a little bit of a maniac. You’re never gonna get things done that way. You can’t walk into the Senate and scream and call people liars and not be able to cajole and get along with people. He’ll never get anything done, and that’s the problem with Ted.”
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Post by brocktownsend on Dec 15, 2015 15:38:45 GMT -5
The first concerns Trump’s answer to Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday” when the billionaire businessman was asked: “What do you think of Ted Cruz?”
“I don’t think he has the right temperament. I don’t think he’s got the right judgment,” Trump responded.
Wonder if this was after Cruz said he didn't want Trump's finger on the red button?
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 16, 2015 7:58:54 GMT -5
h/t N C Renegade www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-15/gop-debate-post-mortem-chaos-trump-full-vagina-fiorina-thug-life-cruz-vs-carpet-bombGOP Debate Post-Mortem: "Chaos" Trump, "Full Vagina" Fiorina, & "Thug-Life" CruzDespite the best efforts to "Le Pen" Trump out of the debate, he still managed to garner the highest votes among poll audiences with regard who 'won' the debate, focusing on killing ISIS family members, border walls, shutting down the internet, and fixing America's roads and bridges. Ben Carson's moment of silence was his first truthful statement in months. The comes the Cruz-Rubio-Paul-Kasich death-match of who can explain Sunni-Shia turmoil in the most confusing way (with 'coughing' Cruz calling himself the most determined "thug" and Rubio lashing out at Cruz's plans to carpet-bomb Syria). Jeb took a swing at Trump as the "chaos president" and missed. In sum, aside from an Iowa conservative radio host who endorsed Cruz proclaiming Fiorina went "full vagina," the GOP debate appeared more a dick-measuring competition as contestant after contestant lined up to seem more hawkish.
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 16, 2015 8:06:12 GMT -5
h/t BadBlue... www.vdare.com/posts/trump-the-unstumpable-has-best-night-yet-but-so-does-cruz-as-rubio-wounded-on-amnesty Trump the Unstumpable Has Best Night Yet, But So Does Cruz as Rubio Wounded on AmnestyThe Republican Establishment must be on the brink of a nervous breakdown. Donald Trump appeared positively presidential tonight, speaking in a more solemn and grave tone then we are used to and not giving an inch to anyone. Incredibly, Jeb Bush took repeated shots at Trump and the Donald blew him out of the water without breaking a sweat. When Jeb said, “You can’t insult your way to the presidency” not once but twice, Trump acidly replied, “I’m at 42%, you’re at 3%.” He then mocked how Jeb has gone from center stage to the margins, laughing, “Pretty soon you’re going to be off the stage.” One almost feels sorry for poor Jeb. The crowd was very anti-Trump but he didn’t even back down to them and he managed to bring them around. Interestingly, Trump won a great deal of applause when he said that “walls work – just ask the Israelis.” The biggest story of the night for Trump was his pledge not to leave the GOP at the tail end of the debate. He managed to sound magnanimous. He won a great deal of applause for this statement from a once hostile crowd. It was like the end of Rocky IV. It signifies two things. First, Trump is acting like a front runner and trying to unite the party around him. Second, Trump is disarming his critics by forcing them to associate with him as Republicans. Even Lindsey Graham, who spent most of the undercard debate taking shots at Trump, had to say he would support him if he was the nominee. What Trump is saying to the GOP is akin to Rorschach in Watchmen. “None of you seem to understand. I’m not locked in here with you, YOU’RE LOCKED IN HERE WITH ME.”
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 16, 2015 8:19:31 GMT -5
h/t Cold Fury www.nationalreview.com/article/428506/donald-trump-good-guyTrump Is the Good Guy It is time to look more seriously at the Donald Trump presidential candidacy. He continues to lead the polls among Republicans; his closest rivals seem now to be Senators Mario Rubio and Ted Cruz, easing ahead of Dr. Ben Carson. There does not seem to have been much effort to see the Trump candidacy in any sort of historic context. For the first time in its history, the United States has had four, and arguably five, consecutive terms of unsuccessful federal government, from administrations and Congresses of both parties. The last Clinton term under-reacted to the original terrorist incidents at the Khobar Towers (1996), the Nairobi and Dar es Salaam embassies (1998) and the USS Cole (in 2000); and stoked up the housing bubble through the Community Reinvestment Act and executive orders to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to invest massively in sub-prime mortgages. George W. Bush responded well to terrorism, and his economic countermeasures were adequate after the 9/11 attacks, but he did nothing to let the air gently out of the housing bubble, his response was contemptibly inept when the economic crisis erupted, and his intervention in Iraq was for unsubstantiated reasons and resulted in a major strategic victory for America’s Iranian enemies, a vast waste of lives and treasure, and an immense humanitarian crisis. President Obama has doubled the national debt accumulated in 233 years of American independence in eight years, not really produced an economic recovery, facilitated nuclear weapons for Iran after a great deal of purposeful braggadocio, and humiliated the United States by drawing and erasing a “red line” in Syria and being chased out of its air space by the Russians. Two-thirds of Americans, in all polls, feel the country is headed in the wrong direction, Obama does not get a positive job-performance rating even in the most leftish polls, and a majority consider Obamacare to have been a retrograde step. It is unlikely that the United States has been less respected in the world than it is now, at least since the time of Hoover, who was blamed for the worldwide Depression, if not since the prelude to and early days of the Civil War... Viewed from that perspective, the rise of Donald Trump is not so surprising, and he is not running as a spoiler, as Ross Perot did against George H. W. Bush did in 1992, nor as an aggrieved Theodore Roosevelt did in 1912 against William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson. He has the populist aptitudes of the old Progressive party because of his often outlandish Archie Bunker–esque political incorrectness, but he is more credible than Archie because his views emanate not from a blue-collar reactionary, but from an accomplished billionaire as well as a successful television personality. As he is financing himself, it is refreshing that he is not constantly seeking life support from controversial individual sources, or from a vast and aggressive fundraising organization, or from a coalition of sleazy and opinionated philistines in the entertainment industry But his rather iconoclastic techniques and his promises to effect radical change if elected — and even to be at the head of an angry movement of scores of millions of Americans who feel their country has been stolen and mismanaged and that there is no point merely to ejecting the incumbents — has a profound appeal: They have tried turning the rascals out many times in the last 30 years and they just get worse rascals. The liberal media establishment is frenzied in its animosity to Donald Trump, and their hysteria is becoming more vociferous and desperate as he utters clangorous violations of the normal parameters of political discourse. The echo chamber explodes, the commentariat foams at the mouth, but he seems to pay no penalty in the polls. I think there are two explanations for this: Donald doesn’t really say such outrageous things as his opponents spinningly impute to him; and vast sections of the population are more bitterly disappointed and angry at the deterioration of their country and the misinformation of the mainstream media than the subjects of that resentment can imagine.
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 16, 2015 20:40:39 GMT -5
www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/heres_the_rundown_on_last_nights_debate.htmlHere's the Rundown on Last Night's Republican DebateMan, I'm slap worn out. I realize that after the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, national security and foreign policy were the appropriate themes of this debate, but almost three hours of it made for root canal and repetitive TV. Normally in the so-called "foreign policy" debates, there is still a good bit of discussion about what always ultimately decides these elections – the economy – but not last night. It was all foreign policy all the time, and that played to the advantage of Donald Trump for a couple of reasons. One is that nothing in the race changed as a result, which is good when you are leading. It was almost an event without a storyline. If there was a main storyline, other than its endless nature, it was perhaps that Trump reinforced his pledge not to run outside the Republican Party. This was very disappointing to CNN. Another storyline is that Wolf Blitzer and Dana Bash were childishly obsessed with starting a Ted Cruz-Marco Rubio war. They got some of that, and a brief but heated battle between Jeb Bush and Trump as a bonus, but proved once again that Reince Priebus and the Republican National Committee are simply not competent in organizing and sanctioning these things. Charlie Brown has a better chance of actually kicking Lucy’s football than the RNC does of picking acceptable moderators. As for the Cruz-Rubio fisticuffs, it was a draw – but the tone of the questioning was still irritating. Time after time after time, Blitzer and Bash asked questions couched as schoolyard taunts and often ended these questions with "is he wrong?" Thank goodness numerous candidates took those opportunities to reinforce the idea that all nine adults on stage were infinitely more qualified than either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. On that, none of them was wrong. In fact, for the most part, it was a very serious discussion about very serious issues by very serious people. And speaking of serious, that was just about the only thing Jeb Bush could say – serious, serious, serious. Jeb remains in serious trouble. Charles Krauthammer used the phrase "muffed and missed" on The O'Reilly Factor in describing Bush's evening. Jeb is done, and has been for a long time. Meanwhile, the budding Cruz-Trump battle from this past weekend over ethanol and big oil, not to mention the "bit of a maniac in the Senate" comment, was put on hold for the most part. This was a tremendous boon to Trump, because either doubling down or backing down on these issues would have been problematic for him. Other than one very short and polite exchange, he was not forced to do either – and thus emerged as a leader who did not get hurt. He dodged three bullets. Who knows if Cruz can get those bullets flying again? I'm sure the American Petroleum Institute, who ironically sponsored debate coverage on both CNN and Fox, would at least like the ethanol versus oil debate restarted. And as a final theme, there was a concerted effort by all non-senators to disparage all of the senators on the stage, reigniting a meme Scott Walker was pushing hard months ago. I don't think it's working now, either, given that single-digit candidates named Kasich, Fiorina, and Christie are the chief propagators of this sentiment.
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Post by avordvet on Dec 19, 2015 6:51:31 GMT -5
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 21, 2015 18:43:21 GMT -5
h/t Gunny G www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/12/21/donald-trump-boasts-about-a-lot-of-things-this-time-he-is-100-right/Donald Trump boasts about a lot of things. This time, he is 100% right.THE MORNING PLUM: At last week’s GOP presidential debate, in a line that has gotten too little attention, Donald Trump boasted: “We’ve opened up a very big discussion that needed to be opened up.” What Trump meant is that, by calling for things like mass deportations and Muslim registries and temporarily banning non-citizen Muslims from entering the U.S., and claiming thousands of American Muslims celebrated 9/11, Trump has forced a discussion about the true causes of American decline that had previously been precluded or suppressed by politically correct niceties. New polling suggests that Trump may be justified in this boast: It shows that large numbers of Republican voters may be glad that Trump has forced this discussion out into the open. A CBS/You Gov poll released over the weekend asked GOP primary voters in the early states: “Whether or not you agree, do the things Donald Trump says generally make you glad someone says them,” because “they needed to be said and discussed?” Or, the poll asked, are these voters “unhappy that someone says them,” because “they don’t belong in a presidential campaign?” Huge majorities of GOP voters in the two early states — Iowa and New Hampshire — say they are glad Trump says the things he says because they need to be said and discussed:
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 26, 2015 20:55:55 GMT -5
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 27, 2015 19:16:28 GMT -5
directorblue.blogspot.com/2015/12/george-will-and-charles-krauthammer-don.htmlGEORGE WILL AND CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Don’t You Get It? You Fools Helped Create Donald Trump! Longtime "conservative" columnists George Will and Charles Krauthammer are apoplectic about the possibility that Donald Trump may become the Republican Party's nominee for President. Will's recent temper tantrum in print implied that the establishment should consider support for Hillary Clinton and asserted that the GOP may splinter because the party leadership didn't get its way. Similarly, Krauthammer has been a constant critic of Trump's run, calling him a "rodeo clown" and "deeply bigoted" for his proposal to suspend Muslim immigration* until the San Bernardino terror attack can be deconstructed. I believe that Will and Krauthammer, extraordinarily visible commentators due both to their syndicated columns and frequent appearances on mainstream television news shows, helped give birth to Donald Trump. They should be asked the following questions: One: Despite landmark victories in 2010 and 2014, Republican leaders have ceded their Constitutional powers, ignored the will of their constituents, and refused to offer budget bills using regular order. Why haven't you used your bully pulpits to insist that Republicans negotiate away some of Mr. Obama's most damaging programs using the power of the purse? Two: Americans overwhelmingly support (by a 14-point margin) construction of a border fence and aggressive deportations of illegal alien criminals. Why haven't you taken up the cause of border security and pilloried Republicans for failing to follow through on their promises? Three: The Obama-Kerry Iran deal, which could be the most damaging national security agreement in American history, could have been stopped in Congress but for Republican leadership. Why haven't you sounded the alarm, over and over again, calling out Mitch McConnell, Bob Corker, and their ilk for offering $150 billion to a terror state dedicated to the destruction of the United "Great Satan" States? Gentlemen: if you cared about the wellbeing of the American people -- versus, say, the Chamber of Commerce -- you might better understand their rage and frustration. Trump may not be a conservative, but he has given voice to Americans of every race, religion, color and creed who believe that the Republic, its Constitution and its tenets must be protected from invasion and usurpation at all costs. And they do not see the elites in Washington -- of either party -- lifting a finger to address their concerns. And because you have blithely ignored their increasing unease, you can be said to having helped give birth to the Trump phenomenon. You are reaping what you have sown
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Post by brocktownsend on Dec 27, 2015 20:01:36 GMT -5
Good one.
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Post by avordvet on Dec 28, 2015 13:01:33 GMT -5
The horned one makes a showing, babbles in tongues, and then returns to the bowels of hell... Soros: Trump and Cruz want you to be afraidBy Eliza Collins, 12/28/16 10:55 AM EST George Soros is calling on voters to “resist the siren song of the likes of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz” if the U.S. is to effectively fight terrorism. Soros, a prominent billionaire, Democratic donor, and founder of the Soros Fund Management LLC, wrote an op-ed in The Guardian titled, "The terrorists and demagogues want us to be scared. We mustn’t give in." www.politico.com/story/2015/12/george-soros-donald-trump-ted-cruz-fear-tactics-217164
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 28, 2015 19:25:05 GMT -5
theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/12/28/globalist-george-soros-fears-nationalist-donald-trump/Globalist George Soros Fears Nationalist Donald Trump…Evidence of the political pendulum swinging back to favor nationalists can be found amid the panic of globalists like George Soros. The godfather, and primary financier, of current global liberalism has penned an op-ed in the Guardian trying to convince Americans to vote against our own best interests. Soros is the most famous totalitarian globalist in the last two decades. Darth Soros despises freedom, hates individual liberty, and absolutely abhors the U.S. Constitution. Soros views candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz as members of a nationalist rebel alliance who must be stopped at all costs. … […] As 2016 gets underway, we must reaffirm our commitment to the principles of open society and resist the siren song of the likes of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, however hard that may be. ~ George Soros
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 28, 2015 19:31:46 GMT -5
therealrevo.com/blog/?p=139549Very interesting
It seems like there are a Thousand media angels dancing on the head of a pin, all trying to explain Trumpmania. It has made for interesting reading though it all seems quite incomplete. I think the reason for that is because among those who do support him, many don’t really like him. Politicians and and punditry are not equipped for that dynamic. They can’t gauge something they’ve never encountered before. During a family gathering Christmas day I asked a young lady what she thought about Trump and her response was; “He’s a Pig. I can’t stand him. Anytime he talks all I hear is Oink, Oink, Oink but I will vote for him all day long is he gets the party nomination. As bad as I dislike Donald Trump, I dislike Hillary many times more”. That is just one example of a reluctant Trump supporter and I know that she’s not alone. Anyway, I found the publication at the link below to be interesting. Even though some people there say stupid things, it’s still informative. I’m not down on the Trumpmaniacs. I understand why this is happening. It is a logical reaction to an illogical situation that has been allowed to exist for entirely too long. 27 Real People Explain Why They Want Donald Trump To Be President thoughtcatalog.com/jacob-geers/2015/12/27-real-people-explain-why-they-want-donald-trump-to-be-president/
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 29, 2015 18:19:30 GMT -5
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-donald-trump-is-destroying-the-republican-party/2015/12/28/747668f6-ad9e-11e5-9ab0-884d1cc4b33e_story.htmlHow Donald Trump destroyed the Republican Party in 2015History will remember 2015 as the year when The Republican Party As We Knew It was destroyed by Donald Trump. An entity called the GOP will survive — but can never be the same. Am I overstating Trump’s impact, given that not a single vote has been cast? Hardly. I’m not sure it’s possible to exaggerate how the Trump phenomenon has torn the party apart, revealing a chasm between establishment and base that is far too wide to bridge with stale Reagan-era rhetoric. Can you picture the Trump legions meekly falling in line behind Jeb Bush or Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.)? I can’t either. Trump didn’t blow up the party on his own. He had help from a field of presidential contenders that was touted as deep and talented but proved shallow and wanting. Bush raised shock-and-awe money but turns out to lack his father and brother’s skill at performing on the national stage; he seems to want to be crowned, not elected. Rubio is like the teacher’s pet who speaks eloquently in class but doesn’t do his homework. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was slow off the mark, perhaps having been stuck in traffic on the George Washington Bridge. Who else would be acceptable to the GOP establishment? Certainly not Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.). Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee and Ohio Gov. John Kasich all had their glory days in the last century. Carly Fiorina has never held elective office. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Rick Perry, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) have come and gone. At year’s end, the campaign is dominated by three candidates who appeal over the heads of the establishment and straight to the unruly base: Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.), who negates the fact that he is a sitting senator by waging all-out war against the party leadership; Ben Carson, a distinguished neurosurgeon who seems increasingly out of his depth; and Trump, the undeniable front-runner. What Trump has done is call out the establishment on years of dishonest rhetoric. Progressives often asked why so many working-class whites went against their own economic interests by supporting the GOP. The answer is that Republicans appealed to these voters on cultural grounds, subtly exploiting their resentments and fears.
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Post by avordvet on Dec 30, 2015 4:53:16 GMT -5
Trump didn't destroy the Republicans, the GOP destroyed themselves, Trump just highlighted the cancer within.
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 30, 2015 22:26:48 GMT -5
h/t WRSA thezman.com/wordpress/?p=6137The Odour of HoneysuckleThe problem for Conservative Inc is they conceded a critical principle a long time ago that puts them forever at odds with traditional American conservatism. That is, they surrendered on the fundamental right of association, which is the bedrock of American conservatism. Once the state can dictate to you with whom you can associate or disassociate, you are no longer a citizen. Every conceivable right depends on the ability to band together or walk away, as necessary. The remedy was to grasp about for ways to gain the ends that naturally flow from freedom of association, without upsetting the Left over the issue of race. The trouble is that it was always a matter of time before the Left could close the loop and make everything about race. They even made the weather a racial issue so anything of consequence was going to be easy pickings for the Cult. Long ago, the official Right came to an accommodation with the other side of the Yankee ruling class. A movement that fundamentally stands outside the traditions and instincts of Public Protestantism is forever trapped in that framework. Public intellectuals of the Right spend their lives trying to make their movement, their philosophy, comport with the ethics and aesthetics of the Progressives. Once the Right gave into the Left on association, equating it with racism and therefore off-limits, the Right stopped being an opposition movement and became a partner. One side wants to use the power of the state to compel certain behavior, while the other sides either counsels caution or argues for different goals. Whether or not the state herds the people around is no longer an issue up for debate. That’s what has the official Right in a panic over Trump and the growing resistance to immigration. If the people can debate who is and who is not allowed in for settlement, then freedom of association is back on the table. That means the average American can decide with whom he lives and, by extension, with whom he refuses to associate. More important, it calls into question the modern Right’s place in the ruling consensus. In the novel The Sound and the Fury, Quentin Compson is the son of a once prominent Southern family who is at school at Harvard. Quentin wishes to reject his father’s antiquated philosophy, but the world he lives in seems constantly to affirm that view of the world. Eventually, unable to reconcile his place in the cultural timeline with the world in which he lives, he throws himself off a bridge and drowns in the Charles River. The official Right finds itself in a similar dilemma. They desperately want to find some way to reject the past without succumbing to the present. The Bill Buckley experiment has been a generational attempt to accommodate traditional American conservatism with the dominant Public Protestantism that we now call Progressivism. For a long time they were sure they unridddled it, but now here they are facing what they see as the Snopes clan. They look at Trump and his supporters as vermin who threaten the great project. Instead of strolling the ivy covered walls of elite institutions, the official Right is about to drown in the odor of honeysuckle. Like Quenton Compson, they see no way to resolve the past with the present.
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Post by avordvet on Jan 1, 2016 6:22:53 GMT -5
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 6, 2016 19:13:18 GMT -5
h/t BadBlue... dailysurge.com/2016/01/24104/#New Poll Shows Democratic Party-Switchers Support Trump, May Win Blue States
Donald Trump declared on Fox News Tuesday night that he is confident he can win the blue state of New York. “ You have more support from Reagan Democrats in New York than anywhere else in the country,” host Sean Hannity pointed out. “Do you think that if you got this nomination that you could flip a state like New York, deeply blue, to red? Could that be possible?” “ I do. I think I’d do very well in New York,” Trump replied. “I think I will do fantastically in Pennsylvania. I think I will do fantastically in Ohio. I think I’m gonna win Florida. I think I’m going to win a lot of states that nobody else is. Says He Thinks He Can Win New York” The New York real estate tycoon may be right about his ability to turn blue states red. Trump has dominated the Republican nomination campaign for months — but his strongest support comes from Republicans who used to be Democrats, according to new polling analysis by Democrat data firm Civis Analytics. Disaffected Democrats now make up 10 percent of Republican primary voters. The Civis survey show Trump winning 40 percent support from these party-switching voters. If these once-registered Democrats actually vote in 2016, particularly in swing-states and mid-western states, Trump could transform the American political landscape.
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 8, 2016 7:48:41 GMT -5
coldfury.com/2016/01/07/hardball/Hardball Trump knows how to play it. And anybody planning to run against the Clinton machine and its Praetorian Media subdivision better figure it out quick. If Cruz is on the ticket, you can bet the farm that Democrats and the DC Media have already gamed out an October Surprise centered on creating a political storm over Cruz’s natural born status. Moreover, all it would take is one federal judge to hurl a massive monkey into that wrench. Exhibit A: The Clintons are the Original Birthers. If they went after Obama over this issue, who doesn’t believe they will go after Cruz? Exhibit B: High-profile Democrats are already vowing to sue over Cruz’s eligibility. Exhibit C: The White House proved yesterday that at the highest levels, Democrats are fully prepared to make this an issue. Exhibit D: We’re still waiting for independent verification that Cruz’s mother was indeed an American citizen. Wouldn’t now be a good time to drop that shoe, however it falls? Even if you side 100% with Levin on this issue, tell me how unrealistic it is to imagine a federal judge ruling on October 21, 2016, that Ted Cruz’s citizenship status is questionable. Cruz is running for president. We can’t just take his word on this. This may be cut and dried for Levin, but how does his opinion control the actions of Democrats and the media?
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Post by avordvet on Jan 9, 2016 6:43:44 GMT -5
Intent on destroying their party at all costs, the GOP comes up with another well laid trap for Trump... GOP Planning 'Firewall' to Stop Trump in South CarolinaBy David A. Patten, Friday, 08 Jan 2016 11:36 AM GOP leaders increasingly see South Carolina as their last best chance to stop Donald Trump's populist political juggernaut. On Wednesday, influential South Carolina Republican Katon Dawson issued a plea for former President George W. Bush to step into the ring in the Palmetto State's Feb. 20 primary. Bush is quite popular among South Carolina Republicans, and Dawson called his involvement a potential "game changer." www.newsmax.com/Headline/GOP-Firewall-South-Carolina-Donald-Trump/2016/01/08/id/708708/
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 11, 2016 18:20:10 GMT -5
h/t WRSA www.thisblogisdangerous.com/trump-borders-masculinity/#more-1131Trump, Borders and MasculinityA man in America makes the sensible suggestion that a nation should control who lives within its borders. Leftists around the world cry, shake and audibly fill their delicate underwear. Although I am thoroughly anti-democratic, watching the Trump Train gather up a head of steam is a lot of fun to watch. Trump isn’t the answer, because the answer does not lie in democracy. Trump alone won’t save America even if he were to become President of the United States, but he should at least cause a wry smile on the face of Reactionaries. Not least because of the tearful and terrified reactions he has brought out in leftists, but also because he has proven that it is possible to nudge the Overton Window rightward, despite the conservatives’ consistent failure to do so for at least the last hundred years. More pointedly, he’s also managed to wrinkle the noses of many who wrongfully consider themselves conservative, even on this side of the Atlantic. After Trump mentioned that parts of London were lost to radical Islam, Mayor of London Boris Johnson weighed in with his typical cuckservative buffoonery, confirming himself and the rest of the UK Conservative party’s role as false opposition to leftism. Like most mainstream conservatives, in reality deracinated classic liberals, instead of stopping or reversing leftism, they stand at the right hand edge of the Overton Window and say, ‘no farther right than this.’ When Europeans finally learn to throw out conservatism we’ll solve leftism.
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 12, 2016 20:46:16 GMT -5
www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/10/phyllis-schlafly-makes-the-case-for-president-trump/Exclusive–Phyllis Schlafly Makes the Case for President Trump: ‘Only Hope to Defeat the Kingmakers’In an exclusive hour-long sit down interview with Breitbart News, 91-year-old conservative icon and living legend Phyllis Schlafly declared that Donald Trump “is the only hope to defeat the Kingmakers,” and detailed why she believes Trump alone will return the government to the people. She warned that if immigration is not stopped: “we’re not going to be America anymore.” Schlafly, born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1924, has been active in politics for more than one-quarter of all American history. She helped launch the conservative movement, create the pro-family agenda, and has led the fight against open borders trade and immigration policies. Thus, Schlafly’s proclamation to Breitbart News that front-runner Trump “represents everything the grassroots want” is certain to reverberate across the 2016 electorate.
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 12, 2016 20:51:41 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Jan 27, 2016 5:54:28 GMT -5
Still, I hope this absolutely destroys the GOP for what they have done to the country, they have given the leftists every penny and every tool they needed to destroy what was left of our great country. The GOP could've put the brakes on at any time... JUST LIKE THEY PROMISED US THEY WOULD DO! F-em and I hope they all begin rotting in hell... Soon. A Time for ChoosingJanuary 27, 2016, By Steve McCann I can also appreciate the anger and pent up frustration so many people now feel after eight years of Barack Obama, the Democrats and a feckless Republican Party. I, as an immigrant and refugee, am also livid that the nation’s borders are deliberately unprotected in an age of global terrorism. That this is being done for political and economic reasons, thus allowing millions of uneducated and unskilled illegal immigrants to undermine wages and be granted unfettered access to many social programs, is criminal. I have watched over the years as an avalanche of laws, taxes and regulations have torpedoed job creation eventuating in a declining standard of living for the vast majority of Americans. I am angry that the middle class, the backbone of the nation, is rapidly disappearing as the wealth of the elites continues to skyrocket. I am furious that despite two overwhelming victories in the mid-term elections, the Republicans in Congress have done nothing to stop the Obama agenda despite their assurances to the contrary. However, I am also acutely aware of the pitfalls of anger and frustration evolving into deep seated passion where reason is too often a casualty. These are emotions that can be easily manipulated and taken advantage of by the unscrupulous and charismatic. www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/a_time_for_choosing.html
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 27, 2016 12:21:31 GMT -5
via N C Renegade
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Post by avordvet on Jan 27, 2016 14:22:59 GMT -5
The GOP machine continues imploding...
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 27, 2016 20:50:07 GMT -5
Here's a thought. Donald Trump thinks he has pretty much won the nomination. He thinks he will carry Iowa but also knows that Iowa historically doesn't have a good track record in picking the nominee and has as much said so in rallies there. He has made his brand as a candidate by proving over and over that if you strike out at him he will come back at you hard and it has worked for him. So Fox took some hits at him and even has an illegal alien represented at the debate. Even more important to the Donald is controlling the narrative going forward. He thinks he will win and knowing that he wants to control the narrative in any debate schedule in the final election. If in the final he wanted to have as much control over the debates how better to do it than in the primary take a stand, say he won't show up for a debate and then not do it and instead hold a benefit for veterans. There would be no doubt in the general election then if Trumpf said "no we will do the debate this way or I will not show." Buchanan: Trump Right To Drop Out — Fox Taunted, Baited, Disrespected HimWednesday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” conservative commentator Pat Buchanan said Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was right to boycott Thursday night’s Fox News debate. Buchanan said, “He’s got a perfect right to drop out of the debate. They baited him, they taunted him and they disrespected him in a mock news release and he simply decided—look if that’s the way you are going to treat me go ahead have your debate and I’m not attending. I mean you got a perfect right to do that. CNBC I think has been dropped out of a debate because of the handling by the moderators. National Review has been dropped out of a debate after it launched an all out attack on Trump. And so Trump responds and says I’m not going to be in the debate. I think he’s made the right decision from his standpoint and I hope he stands by it.”
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