An interesting article from www.alipac.us about John McCain's senate primary. This follows this post about the presidential candidate's stance on immigration issues. Remember, “Amnesty” means ANY non-enforcement of existing immigration laws! This follows this comment and this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! Also, you can read two very interesting books HERE.
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PAC Responds To Controversy Over "Stupid Suckers" Ad Against McCain
(Raleigh, NC) Americans for Legal Immigration PAC is issuing the following statement in response to the controversy regarding the group's new ad against John McCain that is currently being broadcast to Arizona voters via automated calls, online ads, and internet and phone based volunteers.
The new ad was released yesterday on Saturday, August 27, 2016, in the hope of reminding Arizona voters that John McCain lied to them during his 2010 campaign when he promised not to run for office again and not to support amnesty for illegal immigrants anymore. ALIPAC is asking for volunteers and donors to help reach as many voters as possible with the new ad titled John McCain's Arizona Suckers for Lies & Amnesty.
McCain's lies are well documented by the fact he is on the ballot facing a strong GOP challenger named Dr. Kelli Ward this Tuesday, August 30, and he voted for the Gang of Eight Amnesty bill (S. 744) in 2013!
ALIPAC's Controversial Ad
John McCain's Arizona Suckers for Lies & Amnesty
https://youtu.be/NHa37TrHxCs
"While some Arizona voters feel my use of the term "stupid suckers" is too harsh, the real problem is John McCain and all of the Americans who have lost their jobs, communities, homes, and very lives to the illegal aliens he supports with Amnesty legislation!" said William Gheen, President of ALIPAC, in response to the criticisms. "People can say that me and my message are the problem, but I'm not the one that lied to them, John McCain is. They can shoot the messenger if they want, but the truth is that every voter that voted to reelect McCain in the GOP primary of 2010 due to his promises to not run again and stop supporting amnesty got suckered! Whether they are stupid enough to reelect him again in 48 hours remains to be determined."
Some voters receiving the automated call from William Gheen of ALIPAC are choosing to interpret the message as Gheen calling Arizona voters "Stupid Suckers" while the ad attempts to be clear that John McCain is treating them like "Stupid Suckers" and are airing their complaints via phone calls, messages, and online posts.
William Gheen and ALIPAC volunteers plan to double down and stick to this controversial message until polls close on Tuesday August 30!
For more information about how John McCain is treating Arizona voters like "Stupid Suckers," the emerging controversy over ALIPAC's new anti-McCain ad, or to schedule interviews, please visit www.ALIPAC.us.
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Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Ann Coulter’s IN TRUMP WE TRUST: Immigration, Not Charisma, Explains Trump’s Appeal
An interesting article from http://www.vdare.com/about Donald Trump's appeal. This follows this post about the REAL reason there is a "broken immigration system." Remember, “Amnesty” means ANY non-enforcement of existing immigration laws! This follows this comment and this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! Also, you can read two very interesting books HERE.
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See also: David Frum On Ann Coulter’s ADIOS AMERICA!—And Peter Brimelow’s ALIEN NATION
Speculation that columnist Ann Coulter might not be disinclined to Donald Trump’s candidacy began
when she characterized her attitude toward him as “blind worship…like
the North Korean people with their dear, dear leader.” Her description
of him as “my hero, our savior” and “the greatest candidate for
president ever” did little to dispel the rumors. But her declaration that Trump’s policy paper on immigration was “the greatest political document since the Magna Carta” and that she “totally would” marry him if he were single may have been the broadest hints yet that an outright endorsement might be in the offing.
Today she places him in the company of the Almighty with the release of her book In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!
The clarity with which Miss Coulter makes her preferences known is rivaled only by that of Trump’s own message. As she reminds us, he announced his candidacy “in a speech talking about
Mexican rapists, pledging to deport illegal aliens and build a wall.” All hell broke loose and within a week, he had lost tens of millions of dollars: Univision dumped Trump’s Miss USA pageant; NBC dumped both the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants; Macy’s dumped his ties; and ESPN dumped his Trump National Golf Club.
Any other Republican would have issued a clarification that “what he meant was that Mexico was sending us its Albert Einsteins and Niels Bohrs to do the jobs Americans won’t do.” Trump instead barred Univision employees from his properties and dismissed the neckties as made in China anyway. He shot to the top of the polls, and it turned out that the Establishment had no back up plan for dealing with resistance. They had never needed one before.
It was just the same as when ABC Hispanic correspondent Tom Llamas [Tweet him] told Trump the term “anchor babies” was offensive
and Trump responded that it was a perfectly good expression which he
intended to go right on using. Every other Republican was cowering
before the beast of Political Correctness—until Donald Trump calmly revealed it as nothing but a paper tiger.
Coulter understands the psychology involved:
Others claimed voters were merely responding to Trump’s colorful personality. But Coulter notes that “the one thing voters weren’t wild about was his personality.” Admittedly, he can be coarse and vulgar. But “the problem with trying to find an old-school WASPy, understated, dry, less-is-more, antique leather, sturdy wood and brass type to take Trump’s positions” is that such a person couldn’t endure the sort of abuse such positions would evoke, much less fight back.
If Arianna Huffington’s Huffington Post had put coverage of Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign in its entertainment section, can anyone imagine him tweeting: “I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man—he made a good decision”?
And just how much gravitas do we have a right to expect of a presidential candidate in contemporary America? As Coulter points out, “Our current president was a community organizer, the last guy was a president’s son, and the one before that was a rapist.”
Hard as it may be for journalists to understand why American voters would care more about protecting their livelihoods than about stirring up a war with Putin, we are forced to consider the possibility that Trump is popular because of the positions he has taken. And although there are a number of these, “they all come down to taking America’s side—on trade, on war, on outsourcing, on NAFTA, on NATO, on our borders, on terrorism.” Strange to say, this has proven very popular with Americans.
As Coulter points out, the Republican Party has been dominated for
many years by bankers and corporatists who only really agree with
Republican voters on one issue—keeping their taxes low. By facilitating
globalization, the GOP has benefited them at the expense of everyone
else, guaranteeing them “a much bigger share of a much smaller pie.”
We have imported millions of peasants and destroyed the middle class in order to make the very rich much richer. It was an alliance between the super-rich in search of cheap labor and old-fashioned socialists in search of a proletariat more amenable to their plans. Coulter writes:
Donald Trump foiled this diversionary strategy with a single speech.
Main Stream Media coverage of Donald Trump is itself one of the biggest stories of this campaign. In one of her most effective chapters, Coulter cites forty-two nearly identical MSM complaints that Trump has not offered enough “policy specifics”—over a period in which he released no fewer than six policy papers on subjects such as immigration, taxation, trade, veterans’ affairs and health care, all loaded with concrete proposals.
How paranoid do you have to be to see a conspiracy in a pattern of dishonesty this extensive and consistent?
Personal agency is another concept with which journalists covering Trump’s campaign have had difficulty. When Leftist thugs attacked Americans peacefully attending Trump’s rallies, journalists told us that “fists flew,” as though it were normal for fists to fly about unattached to anyone in particular. Such violence only occurred at Trump’s rallies, they solemnly intoned—as though the failure of conservatives to beat up Hillary’s supporters were proof of Trump’s lawlessness.
Millions of Americans still believe that Donald Trump made fun of a handicapped reporter. This is a 100% MSM fabrication intended to distract from the correctness of Trump’s earlier observation that many Muslims in America celebrated the 9/11 attacks (although his claim that “thousands” did so may have been hyperbole). Coulter tracked down “more than two dozen people reporting separate instances of between a dozen and forty Muslims celebrating the 9/11 attacks in the New York vicinity at a minimum of six different locations.” Yet the entire media establishment rose up as one to deny that any such thing had happened.
One reporter, the Washington Post’s Serge Kovaleski, even disavowed his own story written one week after the attacks [Northern New Jersey Draws Probers’ Eyes
By Serge F. Kovaleski and Fredrick Kunkle ,September 18, 2001]. Trump
responded with a funny impression of a flustered man trying to deny his
own words, and the MSM claimed he was mocking a physical handicap Trump had no way of knowing the journalist had.
Americans who lived near our southern border were being murdered, shot, raped, their livestock slaughtered, their homes broken into, and their property destroyed. John McCain called them “crazies” for objecting. “We have a very extreme element within our Republican Party,” he told The New Yorker, criticizing Trump for having “galvanized” them.[John McCain Has a Few Things to Say About Donald Trump By Ryan Lizza , July 16, 2015 ]
When Trump sided with his own long-suffering Arizona supporters against McCain, Frank Luntz “interrupt[ed] him with the monumentally irrelevant ‘But he’s a war hero!’” Trump pointed out that getting captured does not make one a hero. This entirely correct and reasonable remark was construed as “an attack on McCain’s war record,” and a week of frenetic denunciations followed.
But at the end of it, polls showed that Trump’s favorability among Republicans had nearly doubled, while he was more popular with vets and those currently serving than McCain himself!
Studies have demonstrated that media attacks can backfire, resulting in increased support for causes such as gun rights. The outcome of the present election may depend on whether or not the public grasps the full extent of journalistic dishonesty in contemporary America.
They will if they read In Trump We Trust—order it here.
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Ann Coulter’s IN TRUMP WE TRUST: Immigration, Not Charisma, Explains Trump’s Appeal
See also: David Frum On Ann Coulter’s ADIOS AMERICA!—And Peter Brimelow’s ALIEN NATION
Speculation that columnist Ann Coulter might not be disinclined to Donald Trump’s candidacy began
when she characterized her attitude toward him as “blind worship…like
the North Korean people with their dear, dear leader.” Her description
of him as “my hero, our savior” and “the greatest candidate for
president ever” did little to dispel the rumors. But her declaration that Trump’s policy paper on immigration was “the greatest political document since the Magna Carta” and that she “totally would” marry him if he were single may have been the broadest hints yet that an outright endorsement might be in the offing.Today she places him in the company of the Almighty with the release of her book In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!
The clarity with which Miss Coulter makes her preferences known is rivaled only by that of Trump’s own message. As she reminds us, he announced his candidacy “in a speech talking about
Mexican rapists, pledging to deport illegal aliens and build a wall.” All hell broke loose and within a week, he had lost tens of millions of dollars: Univision dumped Trump’s Miss USA pageant; NBC dumped both the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants; Macy’s dumped his ties; and ESPN dumped his Trump National Golf Club.Any other Republican would have issued a clarification that “what he meant was that Mexico was sending us its Albert Einsteins and Niels Bohrs to do the jobs Americans won’t do.” Trump instead barred Univision employees from his properties and dismissed the neckties as made in China anyway. He shot to the top of the polls, and it turned out that the Establishment had no back up plan for dealing with resistance. They had never needed one before.
It was just the same as when ABC Hispanic correspondent Tom Llamas [Tweet him] told Trump the term “anchor babies” was offensive
and Trump responded that it was a perfectly good expression which he
intended to go right on using. Every other Republican was cowering
before the beast of Political Correctness—until Donald Trump calmly revealed it as nothing but a paper tiger.Coulter understands the psychology involved:
It’s extremely rare for people to take positions that will hurt them with their friends. Trump lived among fancy Manhattanites. What he was saying on immigration was going to cost him friends. The standard response to someone who wants to restrict immigration is: You don’t understand—your positions are very gauche, very déclassé. These are the opinions of ethnics in the outer boroughs. Other people would say, “Oh, my gosh—did anyone see?” Trump said, Yeah, I think I still want to build a wall. The sophisticates didn’t have a comeback.Journalists hastened to attribute Trump’s success to a vague “anger” among voters, without going into why they might be angry or what they might be angry about. But as Coulter points out, “if it was just tough talk the voters were hungering for, why didn’t Governor Chris Christie go anywhere?”
Others claimed voters were merely responding to Trump’s colorful personality. But Coulter notes that “the one thing voters weren’t wild about was his personality.” Admittedly, he can be coarse and vulgar. But “the problem with trying to find an old-school WASPy, understated, dry, less-is-more, antique leather, sturdy wood and brass type to take Trump’s positions” is that such a person couldn’t endure the sort of abuse such positions would evoke, much less fight back.
If Arianna Huffington’s Huffington Post had put coverage of Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign in its entertainment section, can anyone imagine him tweeting: “I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man—he made a good decision”?
And just how much gravitas do we have a right to expect of a presidential candidate in contemporary America? As Coulter points out, “Our current president was a community organizer, the last guy was a president’s son, and the one before that was a rapist.”
Hard as it may be for journalists to understand why American voters would care more about protecting their livelihoods than about stirring up a war with Putin, we are forced to consider the possibility that Trump is popular because of the positions he has taken. And although there are a number of these, “they all come down to taking America’s side—on trade, on war, on outsourcing, on NAFTA, on NATO, on our borders, on terrorism.” Strange to say, this has proven very popular with Americans.
We have imported millions of peasants and destroyed the middle class in order to make the very rich much richer. It was an alliance between the super-rich in search of cheap labor and old-fashioned socialists in search of a proletariat more amenable to their plans. Coulter writes:
It’s not in the Anglo-Saxon character either to take orders or to give them. That’s why the socialist left finally gave up on traditional Americans and pinned their hopes on immigrants, who bring their socialism with them. If you want a conservative country, you need a conservative populace. Immigration is changing the country, and there will be no changing it back. If you don’t understand that, you are the enemy of any conservative undertaking.Before Trump’s announcement, the Republican Party had always successfully prevented the voters from being given a choice on the issues which affected their own lives by distracting them with secondary issues or events happening on the other side of the world. As Coulter puts it, “If your elected representative is talking to you about ISIS, he’s planning to outsource your job and move Syrian refugees into your neighborhood.”
Donald Trump foiled this diversionary strategy with a single speech.
Main Stream Media coverage of Donald Trump is itself one of the biggest stories of this campaign. In one of her most effective chapters, Coulter cites forty-two nearly identical MSM complaints that Trump has not offered enough “policy specifics”—over a period in which he released no fewer than six policy papers on subjects such as immigration, taxation, trade, veterans’ affairs and health care, all loaded with concrete proposals.
How paranoid do you have to be to see a conspiracy in a pattern of dishonesty this extensive and consistent?
Personal agency is another concept with which journalists covering Trump’s campaign have had difficulty. When Leftist thugs attacked Americans peacefully attending Trump’s rallies, journalists told us that “fists flew,” as though it were normal for fists to fly about unattached to anyone in particular. Such violence only occurred at Trump’s rallies, they solemnly intoned—as though the failure of conservatives to beat up Hillary’s supporters were proof of Trump’s lawlessness.
Millions of Americans still believe that Donald Trump made fun of a handicapped reporter. This is a 100% MSM fabrication intended to distract from the correctness of Trump’s earlier observation that many Muslims in America celebrated the 9/11 attacks (although his claim that “thousands” did so may have been hyperbole). Coulter tracked down “more than two dozen people reporting separate instances of between a dozen and forty Muslims celebrating the 9/11 attacks in the New York vicinity at a minimum of six different locations.” Yet the entire media establishment rose up as one to deny that any such thing had happened.
One reporter, the Washington Post’s Serge Kovaleski, even disavowed his own story written one week after the attacks [Northern New Jersey Draws Probers’ Eyes
By Serge F. Kovaleski and Fredrick Kunkle ,September 18, 2001]. Trump
responded with a funny impression of a flustered man trying to deny his
own words, and the MSM claimed he was mocking a physical handicap Trump had no way of knowing the journalist had.Americans who lived near our southern border were being murdered, shot, raped, their livestock slaughtered, their homes broken into, and their property destroyed. John McCain called them “crazies” for objecting. “We have a very extreme element within our Republican Party,” he told The New Yorker, criticizing Trump for having “galvanized” them.[John McCain Has a Few Things to Say About Donald Trump By Ryan Lizza , July 16, 2015 ]
When Trump sided with his own long-suffering Arizona supporters against McCain, Frank Luntz “interrupt[ed] him with the monumentally irrelevant ‘But he’s a war hero!’” Trump pointed out that getting captured does not make one a hero. This entirely correct and reasonable remark was construed as “an attack on McCain’s war record,” and a week of frenetic denunciations followed.
But at the end of it, polls showed that Trump’s favorability among Republicans had nearly doubled, while he was more popular with vets and those currently serving than McCain himself!
Studies have demonstrated that media attacks can backfire, resulting in increased support for causes such as gun rights. The outcome of the present election may depend on whether or not the public grasps the full extent of journalistic dishonesty in contemporary America.
They will if they read In Trump We Trust—order it here.
Martin Witkerk [Email him] is an independent philosopher.
Monday, August 8, 2016
Editorial: Donald Trump's recent endorsements
Editorial
The interesting thing about Mr. Trump's endorsements is that he is doing his endorsing DURING the primaries of Mr. Ryan and Mr. McCain, while Mr. Trump himself has NOT been endorsed by Mr. McCain for the GENERAL election and Mr. Ryan has only given a "hold your nose" endorsement for the same GENERAL election.
This all does show that Mr. Trump is the peace-maker, willing to extend an olive branch to others who might not reciprocate. Will they, we shall see!
http://www.vdare.com/posts/ann-coulters-two-fine-philippics-against-paul-ryan-yesterday-videos
http://www.vdare.com/posts/pictures-from-paul-nehlen-ann-coulter-rally-dump-paul-ryan-is-the-cry
The interesting thing about Mr. Trump's endorsements is that he is doing his endorsing DURING the primaries of Mr. Ryan and Mr. McCain, while Mr. Trump himself has NOT been endorsed by Mr. McCain for the GENERAL election and Mr. Ryan has only given a "hold your nose" endorsement for the same GENERAL election.
This all does show that Mr. Trump is the peace-maker, willing to extend an olive branch to others who might not reciprocate. Will they, we shall see!
http://www.vdare.com/posts/ann-coulters-two-fine-philippics-against-paul-ryan-yesterday-videos
http://www.vdare.com/posts/pictures-from-paul-nehlen-ann-coulter-rally-dump-paul-ryan-is-the-cry
Trump Endorses RATs—So They’ll Support Him Now, Right? RIGHT?
An interesting article from http://www.vdare.com about Donald Trump's recent endorsements. This follows this post about Donald Trump and other Republicans. Remember, “Amnesty” means ANY non-enforcement of existing immigration laws! This follows this comment and this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! Also, you can read two very interesting books HERE.
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Trump Endorses RATs—So They’ll Support Him Now, Right? RIGHT?
Donald Trump disappointed many of his most fervent supporters when he recently endorsed John McCain, Paul Ryan, and Kelly Ayotte, all of whom cucked and denounced him after the Main Stream Media created Khizr Khantroversy.
But the real problem are Republicans like McCain and Ryan who work with in the frame set for them by their enemies.
The phony Khan story was just like the phony Trump-kicked-out-a-baby
story. That’s why Trump’s non-endorsement of these weaklings was so exhilarating and that’s why his endorsement was so disappointing.
At the same time, Trump does have to unite the party. He’s the de facto leader and that means sometimes taking one for the team. Trump’s recent dip in the polls is largely due to “conservatives” backing away from home, after briefly coming home after the Mike Pence VP announcement and the Republican convention. One could argue this endorsement is a necessary step.
Paul Nehlen had a gracious response to Trump’s endorsement of his opponent.
Nehlen understands the transformation of the Republican Party from a “true conservative” party of useless goobers interested in pointless wars and cheap labor into a populist, nationalist party which can actually confront the problems facing the American people will be a gradual process. Trump can’t simply continue to wage war on his own party. His endorsement, undoubtedly something pushed on him by campaign manager Paul Manafort and RNC head Reince Priebus, smothers the controversy and allows Trump to finally, finally pivot away from the chaos of the past week.
And there are rumors a big hack of Hillary emails is on the way…
However, there’s a counter to this. Trump’s own party is waging war on him. From Ted Cruz’s selfish refusal to endorse the winner of the Republican Party to the continued opposition of “conservative” publications like National Review, one of the many truths being revealed by the 2016 election is that Conservatism Inc. has absolutely no stake in victory.
If Hillary Clinton is president, what do they care? They can continue to shill for donations. If Hillary and Tim Kaine immediately push through a nation-breaking mass Amnesty (assisted, no doubt, by Speaker Paul Ryan), what difference does it make to the “true conservatives?” Their can continue to pretend their ill-defined by oft-cited “principles” will be somehow transferred to hordes of Third World migrants via the magical properties of American dirt.
And if mass Hispanic immigration turns Texas blue, what does Ted Cruz care? The process won’t be complete until after his political career is over.
Of course, the American people actually have to live with the consequences of the decisions of those who rule us. For us, after 2016, there is no “next time.”
Trump is not giving his foes within the GOP or the conservative movement any excuse for their continued stabs in the back. He’s doing what he needs to do.
But that doesn’t mean these constant betrayals won’t continue. For many supposed “conservatives,” a Trump victory poses far more dangers to their own position than a Trump defeat.
Donald J. Trump belatedly endorsed the re-elections of Speaker Paul D. Ryan and Senators John McCain and Kelly Ayotte on Friday, moving to heal a deepening rift within the Republican Party touched off by Mr. Trump’s feud with the parents of a slain American soldier…It’s interesting that Trump mentioned the baby. The “Trump kicked out a baby” story is why we call them the “Lying Press,” not just the deceptive press. Trump did no such thing.
The endorsement on Friday, in Mr. Ryan’s home state, Wisconsin, had the rollout of a carefully crafted campaign event. A fund-raising email was sent to supporters immediately after Mr. Trump’s announcement. Moments later, subscribers to Trump campaign texts received an alert that said, “Party unity will help Make America Great Again.”He read the endorsement from a script. But before he got to those words, he spent several minutes in the off-the-cuff mode he is known for. He predicted that the Green Bay Packers would have a strong season, excoriated Hillary Clinton and argued that the news media had misconstrued his suggestion at a previous event that a crying baby be escorted out.“The baby that had a voice that was superior to Pavarotti,” he said, adding, “I want to sponsor that baby.”[Donald Trump Endorses Paul Ryan and John McCain in bid for GOP Unity, by Nick Corasanti, New York Times, August 5, 2016]
But now, the mother of that baby says the incident did not happen the way the media presented it, writing “I am in no way offended and I again reiterate, Mr. Trump NEVER kicked me or my child out of the Briar Woods High School, Trump rally.”Now, none of the innumerable media outlets who reported on this phony controversy are going to withdraw their charges and apologize. Most reporters are simply far-Left activists, quite willing to lie in service of their agenda. Why would such scum have any interest in truth? They know exactly what they are doing.
“The media has severely blown this out of proportion and made it out to be something that it wasn’t and is clearly using this as political gain for the Democratic Party. I hope this message sheds light to what really happened,” the mother wrote on social media.
You have our vote. Trump 2016
[Trump never kicked me out! Mom of crying baby sets record straight after media runs with false story, by John Binder, BizPacReview, August 5, 2016]
At the same time, Trump does have to unite the party. He’s the de facto leader and that means sometimes taking one for the team. Trump’s recent dip in the polls is largely due to “conservatives” backing away from home, after briefly coming home after the Mike Pence VP announcement and the Republican convention. One could argue this endorsement is a necessary step.
Paul Nehlen had a gracious response to Trump’s endorsement of his opponent.
Nehlen understands the transformation of the Republican Party from a “true conservative” party of useless goobers interested in pointless wars and cheap labor into a populist, nationalist party which can actually confront the problems facing the American people will be a gradual process. Trump can’t simply continue to wage war on his own party. His endorsement, undoubtedly something pushed on him by campaign manager Paul Manafort and RNC head Reince Priebus, smothers the controversy and allows Trump to finally, finally pivot away from the chaos of the past week.
And there are rumors a big hack of Hillary emails is on the way…
However, there’s a counter to this. Trump’s own party is waging war on him. From Ted Cruz’s selfish refusal to endorse the winner of the Republican Party to the continued opposition of “conservative” publications like National Review, one of the many truths being revealed by the 2016 election is that Conservatism Inc. has absolutely no stake in victory.
If Hillary Clinton is president, what do they care? They can continue to shill for donations. If Hillary and Tim Kaine immediately push through a nation-breaking mass Amnesty (assisted, no doubt, by Speaker Paul Ryan), what difference does it make to the “true conservatives?” Their can continue to pretend their ill-defined by oft-cited “principles” will be somehow transferred to hordes of Third World migrants via the magical properties of American dirt.
And if mass Hispanic immigration turns Texas blue, what does Ted Cruz care? The process won’t be complete until after his political career is over.
Of course, the American people actually have to live with the consequences of the decisions of those who rule us. For us, after 2016, there is no “next time.”
Trump is not giving his foes within the GOP or the conservative movement any excuse for their continued stabs in the back. He’s doing what he needs to do.
But that doesn’t mean these constant betrayals won’t continue. For many supposed “conservatives,” a Trump victory poses far more dangers to their own position than a Trump defeat.
Friday, August 5, 2016
Trump’s Road to Victory Still Open
A timely post from http://www.vdare.com about Donald Trump's campaign. This follows this post about VP candidate Kaine and about Candidate Clinton. This follows this post about rap songs referencing Donald Trump.
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Trump’s Road Still Open
At stake in 2016 is the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate and, possibly, control of the House of Representatives.
Hence, Republicans have a decision to make.
Will they set aside political and personal feuds and come together to win in November, after which they can fight over the future of the party, and the country?
Or will they split apart, settling scores now, lose it all, and, then, after November, begin a battle to allocate blame for a historic defeat that will leave wounds that will never heal.
Republicans have been here before.
After the crushing defeat of 1964, Govs. Nelson Rockefeller, George Romney and William Scranton, whose principles required them to abandon Barry Goldwater, discovered that, when the cheering of the press stopped, they carried the mark of Cain.
As national leaders, they were finished.
Richard
Nixon, who had lost to JFK, lost to Gov. Pat Brown, quit politics and
moved to New York to practice law, took off two months in 1964 to
campaign for Barry Goldwater.
Four years later, with Barry’s backing, Nixon was rewarded with the party’s nomination, and the presidency.
Now between Goldwater and Trump there are great differences. A relevant one is this: Trump still has a chance of becoming president.
In August 1964, Barry was 36 points behind LBJ. As of today, Trump is 10 points behind Clinton. From Harry Truman to George H. W. Bush, many presidential candidates have been able to close a 10-point gap and win.
What does Trump need to do? In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, “Keep your eyes on the prize”—the presidency. And between Trump and the presidency today stands not Paul Ryan, but Hillary Clinton.
The Donald, his campaign, and party need to cease attacking one another to the elation of a hostile media, and redirect all their fire on the sole obstacle between them and a Republican sweep.
Nor is it all that complex or difficult a task.
For, as secretary of state, Clinton made a compelling case for her being ranked as about the worst in American history.
She began her tenure by breaking State Department rules and setting up a private email server in
her home. She compromised U.S. national security, setting off a
criminal investigation that ended with the director of the FBI virtually
accusing her of lying about everything she told the country about her
misconduct.
As of mid-July, 56 percent of Americans thought the Democratic nominee should have been indicted.
She is a compulsive fabricator, telling a harrowing story about running under sniper fire across the tarmac of some Balkan airfield, until TV footage showed her accepting a bouquet from a little girl.
Her
“reset” with Russia was brushed aside by Vladimir Putin. Spurned, she
now compares him to Hitler. Is this the temperament America wants in the
First Diplomat, in dealing with nuclear powers?
She was a cheerleader for a war in Libya that left that nation a hellhole of terrorism, requiring another war to clean up.
“Benghazi” has today become a synonym both for the selfless heroism of American warriors, and for the squalid mendacity of politicians desperate to cover their fannies. Clinton is in there with the latter, accused of misleading families of the fallen about why their sons died.
Twenty years ago, The New York Times‘ William Safire called Clinton a “congenital liar.” Has her subsequent career disproven or validated that judgment?
Trump, though, needs not only to make the case against her, but for himself, and for the ideas that vaulted him to victory in the primaries that brought out millions of new voters.
What are they?
Trump will secure the Southern border and halt the invasion of illegal immigrants.
He will throw out the Obama tax and trade policies that have betrayed American workers and bled us of our manufacturing power. In all future trade deals, Americanism will replace globalism as our guiding light.
Where Clinton regards Ruth Bader Ginsburg as her model Supreme Court justice, Trump’s nominees will be in the tradition of Justice Antonin Scalia.
“America First” will be the polestar in foreign policy. Cold War commitments dating to the 1950s, to fight wars for freeloader nations, will all be reviewed. Allies will start standing on their own feet and paying their fair share of the cost of their own defense.
As for the defense of the United States, Peace through Strength, the Eisenhower policy, will be the Trump policy. And as our strength is restored, Trump will, like Ike, Nixon, Reagan and Bush I, negotiate with enemies and adversaries from a position of strength. But we will negotiate.
America’s era of endless wars—is coming to an end.
Where Clinton will continue all of the policies that produced the unacceptable present, we will change Washington as it has not been changed since Ronald Reagan rode in from the West.
As for the renegade and cut-and-run Republicans who just won’t come home, as they say at Motel 6, “We’ll leave the light on for you.”
Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his books State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, and Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? are available from Amazon.com. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of the new book “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority
Hence, Republicans have a decision to make.
Will they set aside political and personal feuds and come together to win in November, after which they can fight over the future of the party, and the country?
Or will they split apart, settling scores now, lose it all, and, then, after November, begin a battle to allocate blame for a historic defeat that will leave wounds that will never heal.
Republicans have been here before.
After the crushing defeat of 1964, Govs. Nelson Rockefeller, George Romney and William Scranton, whose principles required them to abandon Barry Goldwater, discovered that, when the cheering of the press stopped, they carried the mark of Cain.
As national leaders, they were finished.
Richard
Nixon, who had lost to JFK, lost to Gov. Pat Brown, quit politics and
moved to New York to practice law, took off two months in 1964 to
campaign for Barry Goldwater.Four years later, with Barry’s backing, Nixon was rewarded with the party’s nomination, and the presidency.
Now between Goldwater and Trump there are great differences. A relevant one is this: Trump still has a chance of becoming president.
In August 1964, Barry was 36 points behind LBJ. As of today, Trump is 10 points behind Clinton. From Harry Truman to George H. W. Bush, many presidential candidates have been able to close a 10-point gap and win.
What does Trump need to do? In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, “Keep your eyes on the prize”—the presidency. And between Trump and the presidency today stands not Paul Ryan, but Hillary Clinton.
The Donald, his campaign, and party need to cease attacking one another to the elation of a hostile media, and redirect all their fire on the sole obstacle between them and a Republican sweep.
Nor is it all that complex or difficult a task.
For, as secretary of state, Clinton made a compelling case for her being ranked as about the worst in American history.
She began her tenure by breaking State Department rules and setting up a private email server in
her home. She compromised U.S. national security, setting off a
criminal investigation that ended with the director of the FBI virtually
accusing her of lying about everything she told the country about her
misconduct.As of mid-July, 56 percent of Americans thought the Democratic nominee should have been indicted.
She is a compulsive fabricator, telling a harrowing story about running under sniper fire across the tarmac of some Balkan airfield, until TV footage showed her accepting a bouquet from a little girl.
Her
“reset” with Russia was brushed aside by Vladimir Putin. Spurned, she
now compares him to Hitler. Is this the temperament America wants in the
First Diplomat, in dealing with nuclear powers?“Benghazi” has today become a synonym both for the selfless heroism of American warriors, and for the squalid mendacity of politicians desperate to cover their fannies. Clinton is in there with the latter, accused of misleading families of the fallen about why their sons died.
Twenty years ago, The New York Times‘ William Safire called Clinton a “congenital liar.” Has her subsequent career disproven or validated that judgment?
Trump, though, needs not only to make the case against her, but for himself, and for the ideas that vaulted him to victory in the primaries that brought out millions of new voters.
What are they?
Trump will secure the Southern border and halt the invasion of illegal immigrants.
He will throw out the Obama tax and trade policies that have betrayed American workers and bled us of our manufacturing power. In all future trade deals, Americanism will replace globalism as our guiding light.
Where Clinton regards Ruth Bader Ginsburg as her model Supreme Court justice, Trump’s nominees will be in the tradition of Justice Antonin Scalia.
“America First” will be the polestar in foreign policy. Cold War commitments dating to the 1950s, to fight wars for freeloader nations, will all be reviewed. Allies will start standing on their own feet and paying their fair share of the cost of their own defense.
As for the defense of the United States, Peace through Strength, the Eisenhower policy, will be the Trump policy. And as our strength is restored, Trump will, like Ike, Nixon, Reagan and Bush I, negotiate with enemies and adversaries from a position of strength. But we will negotiate.
America’s era of endless wars—is coming to an end.
Where Clinton will continue all of the policies that produced the unacceptable present, we will change Washington as it has not been changed since Ronald Reagan rode in from the West.
As for the renegade and cut-and-run Republicans who just won’t come home, as they say at Motel 6, “We’ll leave the light on for you.”
Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his books State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, and Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? are available from Amazon.com. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of the new book “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority
Thursday, August 4, 2016
McCain, Ryan, Ayotte: Trump Confronts The RATs
An interesting article from http://www.vdare.com about Donald Trump and other Republicans. This follows this post about sanctuary cities. Remember, “Amnesty” means ANY non-enforcement of existing immigration laws! This follows this comment and this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! Also, you can read two very interesting books HERE.
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McCain, Ryan, Ayotte: Trump Confronts The RATs
Even his most
stalwart critics have to admit Donald Trump is a masterful troll. So it
was nothing short of glorious to see what he said about not backing
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan in his Wisconsin primary against populist challenger Paul Nehlen.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
It wasn’t just Ryan. Trump also said he would not endorse John McCain. And he condemned New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte, a notorious ex-immigration patriot turncoat, for giving him “zero support.”
Trump’s strike against the RATs (Republicans Against Trump) is the latest reverberation of the apparently never-ending Main Stream Media-created controversy over immigration lawyer Khizr Khan, whose son was killed serving in the U.S. Army in Iraq.
After Khan attacked Trump at the Democratic National Convention, Trump offered condolences but also fired back, wondering aloud why Khan’s wife simply stood there awkwardly rather than saying anything. This set off an MSM frenzy about how Trump “attacked” the family of a dead American soldier. The implicit Narrative that there is some huge bloc of patriotic
Muslim-Americans is especially laughable given that more Americans have been killed by Muslims in American uniform than the small number of Muslim servicemen that have been killed in our Middle Eastern Wars.
Of course, Trump had nothing whatever to do with Captain Khan’s death. Indeed, as his former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski pointed out, if Donald Trump had been president, Khan would still be alive—because America would not have entered the Iraq War. For some reason, this accurate statement was also greeted with more MSM outrage. [Corey Lewandowski berates Muslim dad: ‘Capt Khan would still be alive’ if Trump was president, by David Edwards, Raw Story, August 1, 2016]
Needless to say, there was no similar reaction about Hillary Clinton implicitly calling the families of the victims of the Benghazi attacks liars by giving their families a false story of why their loved ones died. And, in contrast to Trump, Hillary’s incompetence as Secretary of State is arguably the direct reason why Americans died in Benghazi, both because of her disastrous policies which created the environment and because of her specific decisions (or lack thereof) that night.
In fact, the anger against Trump seems mostly motivated by fury he won’t bow his head in shame just because the Main Stream Media tells him to.
As Scott Greer noted acidly at The Daily Caller:
And Paul Ryan, never missing a chance to preen, issued a statement:
Nehlen said, entirely accurately: “The problem with Paul Ryan is his constant knee-jerk reactions to anything controversial Donald Trump might say without completely understanding the issue” [Trump thanks Paul Ryan’s primary challenger for ‘kind words,’ by Sean Sullivan, Washington Post, August 1, 2016]
And Kelli Ward said in part:
If there’s one thing we have learned about Donald Trump, it’s that with him the personal really is political. So he thanked Nehlen publicly on Twitter. It seems likely his own outraged sense of honor is what is driving his non-endorsements.
Trump is a wrecking ball smashing through the Establishment and expanding the Overton Window. No one should have any illusions that he has a fully developed ideology or that he isn’t primarily driven by his own personal ambition. However, contrary to MSM smearing, Trump does a well-defined sense of the national interest when it comes to trade, a record which goes back to the 1980s , and on immigration. At CPAC in 2013, he talked about ending the de facto discrimination against immigrant from Europe. This got him denounced by TalkingPointsMemo [Trump: Let In More (White) Immigrants, March 15, 2013,] and the head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, who called it “racist rhetoric.” He clearly identifies with the American nation-state, which he says he wants to “conserve”—something which cannot be said of a Conservatism Inc. apparatchik like Paul Ryan.
Not for the first time, what Trump has done is dramatically raise the stakes. If Ryan, McCain or both can be successfully primaried, it would show the transformation of the GOP into a nationalist party will last beyond Trump. What’s more, it will show GOP voters are not willing to outsource their sense of morality to Leftist reporters who despise them.
The fact that President Obama picked this day to call on Republican to disown Trump makes the choice clear – Republican voters are either siding with Trump or with Obama and his RAT friends like McCain and Ryan [Republican leaders should withdraw endorsement of Trump, Obama says, by Gregory Korte, USA Today, August 2, 2016].
It’s startling how irrelevant Hillary Clinton already is to this election. It’s really between Donald Trump and the Lying Press. Trump says he’s going to “punch through” the dishonest media.
But in order to defeat the MSM, he first has to defeat the traitors in his own party, who obey the orders of his most stalwart enemies.
Luckily, today, Donald Trump took steps to do just that.
“I like Paul, but these are horrible times for our country,” Trump said. “We need very strong leadership. We need very, very strong leadership. And I’m just not quite there yet. I’m not quite there yet.”Of course, this was an echo of Speaker Ryan’s saying he was “not ready to do that” and “not there right now” when he was asked to endorse Trump after The Donald secured the Republican nomination.
[Trump refuses to support Paul Ryan, John McCain in upcoming Republican primaries, by Philip Rucker, Washington Post, August 2, 2016]
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
It wasn’t just Ryan. Trump also said he would not endorse John McCain. And he condemned New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte, a notorious ex-immigration patriot turncoat, for giving him “zero support.”
Trump’s strike against the RATs (Republicans Against Trump) is the latest reverberation of the apparently never-ending Main Stream Media-created controversy over immigration lawyer Khizr Khan, whose son was killed serving in the U.S. Army in Iraq.
After Khan attacked Trump at the Democratic National Convention, Trump offered condolences but also fired back, wondering aloud why Khan’s wife simply stood there awkwardly rather than saying anything. This set off an MSM frenzy about how Trump “attacked” the family of a dead American soldier. The implicit Narrative that there is some huge bloc of patriotic
Muslim-Americans is especially laughable given that more Americans have been killed by Muslims in American uniform than the small number of Muslim servicemen that have been killed in our Middle Eastern Wars.Of course, Trump had nothing whatever to do with Captain Khan’s death. Indeed, as his former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski pointed out, if Donald Trump had been president, Khan would still be alive—because America would not have entered the Iraq War. For some reason, this accurate statement was also greeted with more MSM outrage. [Corey Lewandowski berates Muslim dad: ‘Capt Khan would still be alive’ if Trump was president, by David Edwards, Raw Story, August 1, 2016]
Needless to say, there was no similar reaction about Hillary Clinton implicitly calling the families of the victims of the Benghazi attacks liars by giving their families a false story of why their loved ones died. And, in contrast to Trump, Hillary’s incompetence as Secretary of State is arguably the direct reason why Americans died in Benghazi, both because of her disastrous policies which created the environment and because of her specific decisions (or lack thereof) that night.
In fact, the anger against Trump seems mostly motivated by fury he won’t bow his head in shame just because the Main Stream Media tells him to.
As Scott Greer noted acidly at The Daily Caller:
[I]t’s 100 percent certain the mainstream media is an unofficial arm of the Clinton campaign. After a whole week of trying to downplay the Wikileaks DNC scandal and cheering on every moment of the [DNC] convention, they created a top-down outrage story for the sole purpose of shaming Trump and his supporters.It’s not like elected Republican congresscritters had actually to do much in response to this phony controversy. VP nominee Mike Pence initially panicked, of course, issuing a statement about how Khan was a hero who must be “cherished,” seemingly an implicit criticism of Trump. However, he later calmly swatted away complaints against Trump when they were brought up at a campaign rally by a “military mom” who just so happened served on the Democratic state central committee in Nevada:
[The Disingenuous Outrage Over Khan-Gate, July 31, 2016]
“I have never been around someone more devoted to the armed forces of this country, more devoted to the families of our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marine and Coast Guard and no one more devoted to the veterans in this country,” Pence said.In contrast, Ayotte, McCain and Ryan went out of their way to condemn Trump. Ayotte said she was “appalled” that Trump “disparaged” the family [Ayotte, Horn blast Trump’s blast of Khizir, Ghazala Khan, by John DiStaso, WMUR, August 1, 2016]. John McCain trotted out the old line that Trump did not “represent the GOP” and said Trump’s remarks “do not represent the views of our Republican Party, its officers or candidates” [McCain: Trump defamed Khan, does not represent GOP, by Tom LoBiacno, CNN, August 1, 2016].
[Air Force Mother Confronts Mike Pence Over Donald Trump’s ‘Disrespect’ – Gets Booed, by Vaughn Hillyard, NBC News, August 2, 2016]
And Paul Ryan, never missing a chance to preen, issued a statement:
As Congress is out of session, all these useless figures had to do is shut up. But they couldn’t do it. Interestingly, however, both Ryan’s primary challenger Paul Nehlen and John McCain’s primary challenger Dr. Kelli Ward stepped up to defy the MSM frenzy.Many Muslim Americans have served valiantly in our military, and made the ultimate sacrifice. Captain Khan was one such example. His sacrifice – and that of Khizr and Ghazala Khan – should always be honored. Period.[House Speaker Ryan: Khan family sacrifice should be honored, by Mike Segar, Reuters, July 31, 2016].
Nehlen said, entirely accurately: “The problem with Paul Ryan is his constant knee-jerk reactions to anything controversial Donald Trump might say without completely understanding the issue” [Trump thanks Paul Ryan’s primary challenger for ‘kind words,’ by Sean Sullivan, Washington Post, August 1, 2016]
And Kelli Ward said in part:
The Khan controversy is a cynical political stunt cooked up by the Clinton Establishment, and, sadly, John McCain has fallen right into it. McCain’s statement today makes clear that he really wants Hillary Clinton in the White House, and his tepid “support” for Trump is only disingenuous pandering”Significantly, Dr. Ward, a military wife, also slammed Clinton for backing an “unnecessary war” which led to the death of Captain Khan.
[Dr. Kelli Ward Slams John McCain for comments about Khizr Khan, by Jen Lawrence, Breitbart, August 1, 2016].
If there’s one thing we have learned about Donald Trump, it’s that with him the personal really is political. So he thanked Nehlen publicly on Twitter. It seems likely his own outraged sense of honor is what is driving his non-endorsements.
Trump is a wrecking ball smashing through the Establishment and expanding the Overton Window. No one should have any illusions that he has a fully developed ideology or that he isn’t primarily driven by his own personal ambition. However, contrary to MSM smearing, Trump does a well-defined sense of the national interest when it comes to trade, a record which goes back to the 1980s , and on immigration. At CPAC in 2013, he talked about ending the de facto discrimination against immigrant from Europe. This got him denounced by TalkingPointsMemo [Trump: Let In More (White) Immigrants, March 15, 2013,] and the head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, who called it “racist rhetoric.” He clearly identifies with the American nation-state, which he says he wants to “conserve”—something which cannot be said of a Conservatism Inc. apparatchik like Paul Ryan.
Not for the first time, what Trump has done is dramatically raise the stakes. If Ryan, McCain or both can be successfully primaried, it would show the transformation of the GOP into a nationalist party will last beyond Trump. What’s more, it will show GOP voters are not willing to outsource their sense of morality to Leftist reporters who despise them.
The fact that President Obama picked this day to call on Republican to disown Trump makes the choice clear – Republican voters are either siding with Trump or with Obama and his RAT friends like McCain and Ryan [Republican leaders should withdraw endorsement of Trump, Obama says, by Gregory Korte, USA Today, August 2, 2016].
It’s startling how irrelevant Hillary Clinton already is to this election. It’s really between Donald Trump and the Lying Press. Trump says he’s going to “punch through” the dishonest media.
But in order to defeat the MSM, he first has to defeat the traitors in his own party, who obey the orders of his most stalwart enemies.
Luckily, today, Donald Trump took steps to do just that.
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