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Originally posted by colomtn:
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Those bitches really said that? There's a good reason to support Trump.

Trump has banned the Des Moines Register from attending his Iowa campaign event because they trashed him in their editorial.
I wonder what their next editorial will be? The lib media would be smart to just ignore the guy.
Stop giving him the attention no matter how bombastic he gets and he goes away.
Hey at least he didn't throw a rope around them and make them suffer that humiliation!

The White House after Trump is elected...

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Originally posted by Ackks:
Cruz can hold his own with reporters.

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After a young staffer told Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz how “nice” a member of the media is, Cruz said he actually stopped the young man with a harsh reminder about the intentions of most reporters.

“I actually stopped him and I said, ‘You know what? No, she’s not [nice]. She wants to destroy you. Nothing would make her happier than to take your life and filet you on the front pages. And don’t think for a minute that because she smiles and is friendly to you, that it’s anything else,’”

100% spot-on advice.

I once made the mistake of speaking honestly and forthrightly to a cute young girl reporter. Got misquoted (taken out of context, actually) for the shock value. My G/F, at the time, an ex-journalist, chided me: "What were you thinking? Don't ever talk to reporters. They never have the truth, much less your best interests, at heart." Now, whenever approached by a "reporter," I respond "Sorry: I don't speak to reporters."

I love what Trump is doing.

But let's not lose sight of two Republicans who would actually make GREAT presidents, not just exciting candidates: Scott Walker and Ted Cruz. Cruz is one of the flat-out smartest men ever to run for president. Walker has shown his worth in Wisconsin, amply. Cruz has brass ones as big as Trump's, as evidenced by his recent speech on the Senate floor calling out Mitch McConnell and, in effect, all the corrupt establishment Republicans. Rove is pulling all the strings to try to rig the primaries so that Jeb Bush is the nominee. I suspect, for example, that he got Rick Perry out of mothballs to split the Texas vote with Cruz. This is the kind of game "the architect" plays. He is also using Rubio in a similar way.

I'm cheering on the Donald to be the spoiler of Rove's plans, something he did not anticipate and can't, even with all the money he controls, and all the connected power-- he can't control this maniac, Donald Trump.

When the dust settles that Trump is kicking up, let's focus on Walker and Cruz to become-- one of them, or both of them-- the Republican candidates. That is, the non-corrupt, non-establishment, non-RINO candidates.

^^^ +1

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Scott Walker and Ted Cruz.

Spot on.
Rove the RINO king-maker must be defeated.

Why Obama and Hillary Must Stop Donald Trump at All Costs -

By Wayne Allyn Root

Someone is getting very nervous. Obama. Valerie Jarrett. Eric Holder. Hillary Clinton. Jon Corzine…to name just a few. And I know why.

I wrote a book entitled, “The Murder of the Middle Class”

about the unholy conspiracy between big government, big business and big media. They all benefit by the billions from this partnership and it’s in all of their interests to protect one another. It’s one for all, and all for one.

It’s a heck of a filthy relationship that makes everyone filthy rich. Everyone except the American people. We get ripped off. We’re the patsies.

But for once, the powerful socialist cabal and the corrupt crony capitalists are scared. I’ve never seen them this outraged…this vicious…this motivated…this coordinated. NEVER in all my years in politics, have I seen anything like the way the mad dogs of hell have been unleashed on Donald Trump.

When white extremist David Dukes ran for Governor of Louisiana even he wasn’t treated with this kind of outrage, vitriol and disrespect. When a known fraud, scam artist and tax cheat like Al Sharpton ran for President, I never saw anything remotely close to this. The over-the-top reaction to Trump by politicians of both parties, the media and the biggest corporations of America has been so swift and insanely angry that it suggests they are all threatened and frightened like never before.

Why? Because David Duke was never going to win. Al Sharpton was never going to win. Ron Paul was never going to win. Ross Perot was never going to win as a third party candidate. None of those candidates had the billion dollars it takes to win the presidency. But Donald Trump can self fund that amount tomorrow…and still have another billion left over to pour into the last two week stretch run before election day.

No matter how much they say to the contrary, the media, business and political elite understand that Donald Trump is no joke and could actually win and upset their nice cozy apple cart.

It’s no coincidence that everyone has gotten together to destroy Donald. No this is a coordinated conspiracy led by President Barack Obama himself. Obama himself is making the phone calls and giving the orders- the ultimate intimidator who plays by the rules of Chicago thug politics.

Why is this so important to Obama? Because most of the other politicians are part of the “old boys club.” They talk big, but in the end they won’t change a thing. Why? Because they are all beholden to big money donors. They are all owned by lobbyists, unions, lawyers, gigantic environmental organizations, multi-national corporations like Big Pharma or Big Oil. Or they are owned lock stock and barrel by foreigners- like George Soros owns Obama, or foreign governments own Hillary with their Clinton Foundation donations.

These run-of-the-mill establishment politicians are all puppets owned by big money. But one man- and only one man- isn’t beholden to anyone. One man doesn’t need foreigners, or foreign governments, or George Soros, or the United Autoworkers, or the Teachers Union, or the SEIU, or the Bar Association to fund his campaign.

Billionaire tycoon and maverick Donald Trump doesn’t need anyone’s help. That means he doesn’t care what the media says. He doesn’t care what the corporate elites think. That makes him very dangerous to the entrenched interests. That makes Trump a huge threat. Trump can ruin everything for the bribed politicians and their spoiled slavemasters.

Don’t you ever wonder why the GOP has never tried to impeach Obama? Don’t you wonder why Boehner and McConnell talk a big game, but never actually try to stop Obama? Don’t you wonder why Congress holds the purse strings, yet they’ve never tried to defund Obamacare or Obama’s clearly illegal Executive Action on amnesty for illegal aliens? Bizarre, right? It defies logic, right?

Well first, I’d guess many key Republicans are being bribed. Secondly, I believe many key Republicans are being blackmailed. Whether they are having affairs…or secretly gay…or stealing taxpayer money…the NSA knows everything.

Ask former House Speaker Dennis Hastert about that. The government even knew he was withdrawing large sums of his own money, from his own bank account. Trust me- the NSA, SEC, IRS and all the other 3-letter government agencies are watching every Republican political leader. They know everything.

Thirdly, many Republicans are petrified of being called “racists.” So they are scared to ever criticize Obama, or call out his crimes, let alone demand his impeachment.

Fourth, why rock the boat? After defeat or retirement, if you’re a “good boy” you’ve got a $5 million dollar per year lobbying job waiting.

The big money interests have the system gamed. Win or lose…they win.

But Donald Trump doesn’t play by any of these rules. Trump breaks up this nice cozy relationship between big government, big media and big business. All the rules are out the window if Donald wins the presidency. The other politicians will protect Obama and his aides. But not Donald.

Remember Trump is the guy who publicly questioned Obama’s birth certificate. He questioned Obama’s college records and how a mediocre student got into an Ivy League university.

Now he’s doing something no Republican has the chutzpah to do- question our relationship with Mexico …question why the border is wide open…questioning why no wall has been built across the border…questioning if allowing millions of illegal aliens into America is in our best interests…questioning why so many illegal aliens commit violent crimes yet are not deported…questioning why our trade deals with Mexico, Russia and China are so bad.

Donald Trump has the audacity to ask out loud why American workers always get the short end of the stick? Good question.

I’m certain Trump will question what happened to the almost billion dollars given in a rigged no-bid contract to college friends of Michele Obama at foreign companies to build the defective Obamacare web sites. By the way that tab is now up to $5 billion.

Trump will ask if Obamacare’s architects can be charged with fraud for selling it by lying. He will ask if Obama himself committed fraud when he said, “If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it.”

Trump will investigate Obama’s widespread IRS conspiracy, not to mention Obama’s college records.

Trump will prosecute Hillary Clinton and Obama for fraud committed to cover-up Benghazi before the election.

How about the fraud committed by employees of the Labor Department when they made up dramatic job numbers in the last jobs report before the 2012 election.

Obama, the multi-national corporations and the media need to stop this. They recognize this could get out of control. If left unchecked telling the raw truth and asking questions everyone else is afraid to ask, Donald could wake a sleeping giant.

Trump’s election would be a nightmare. Obama has committed many crimes. No one else but Donald would dare to prosecute. Donald Trump will not hesitate. Once Donald gets in and gets a look at “the cooked books” and Obama’s records, the game is over. The gig is up. The goose is cooked.

Eric Holder could wind up in prison. Valerie Jarrett could wind up in prison. Obama bundler Jon Corzine could wind up in prison for losing $1.5 billion of customer money.

Hillary Clinton could wind up in jail for deleting 32,000 emails …or accepting bribes from foreign governments while Secretary of State …or for “misplacing” $6 billion as head of State Department …or for lying about Benghazi.

The entire upper level management of the IRS could wind up in prison. Obamacare will be defunded and dismantled. The Obama Crime Family will be prosecuted for crimes against the American people. And Obama himself could wind up ruined, his legacy in tatters.

Trump will investigate. Trump will prosecute. Trump will go after everyone involved…just for fun. That will all happen on Trump’s first day in the White House.

Who knows what Donald will do on day #2?

That’s why the dogs of hell have been unleashed on Donald Trump. That’s why we must all support Donald. This may be our only shot at saving America, uncovering the crimes committed against our nation and prosecuting all of those involved.

- See more at: http://www.rootforamerica.com/...sthash.LvE9RAg6.dpuf

I like what Trump is saying and doing. It's about time someone curb stomps PC groupthink and idiotic talking heads on CNN.

Could he win? Probably not but then again I didn't exactly predict the outcome correctly in 2008 or 2012 so who knows. Americans are REALLY pissed off at this current administration so anything is possible. A lot of my liberal leaning friends are FURIOUS at Obama over the healthcare clusterfuck.

Cruz is awesome and if he and Trump joined together they would have my support 100%! It seems that they get along. I'm so sick of PC moderate Republicans losing elections, I think it's time for a serious change.

While there is a lot of truth in this thread, there is one other truth that will swamp out anything Trump might want to do:
The demographics in America really have changed. And it is not just "race", although that may be related, but the majority of Americans really do think that getting rich is evil and that the government should act as the dispenser of all equality and justice.
"Give me my free cell phone and my legal doobie and tell those old angry White men to shut up. "

It is a combination of 1984 and Brave New World that has simply come true. Those books were prophetic genius because they saw the inevitability of those things happening in spite of our full recognition that they would and in spite of our horror at recognizing that they might.. " We are now just "savages" and "oldthinkers".

What make Trump even more interesting isn't any whacko thing he might say. It's the fact that "both" sides, including the media, are trying to tear him down. Neither side wastes their energy on non-threats; they are expending a ton of energy on Trump... Far more than they ever did on Perot. As Shakespeare wrote, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks". Seems to me there is something to be truly feared from Trump by the establishment.

"...the majority of Americans really do think that getting rich is evil and that the government should act as the dispenser of all equality and justice."


I disagree that it is the majority. Not even close. Those who think this way are vocal, they carry signs, they start shit, but I believe they are still a small minority. (Is it a growing minority is a good question. It is, especially as more and more illegals are let into the country, and granted more and more "rights." The Democrats know that masses of ignorant, unskilled voters are their only hope to remain in power.)

Forget terrorism, healthcare-- all the other serious crises the country truly faces. The number one crisis is the open border, flooding the country with Mexico, Guatemala, etc. If the USA does indeed go belly up, historians in 100 years will see the open border-- supported by both parties for their own corrupt reasons-- as the single major cause of our demise.


XerO: "What make Trump even more interesting isn't any whacko thing he might say. It's the fact that "both" sides, including the media, are trying to tear him down. Neither side wastes their energy on non-threats; they are expending a ton of energy on Trump... Far more than they ever did on Perot. As Shakespeare wrote, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks". Seems to me there is something to be truly feared from Trump by the establishment."

Yes, the corrupt elites in BOTH parties want the border open. There is a tangled web of corporations, the Chamber of Commerce, the Democrat National Committee, individual fat cats, lobbyists of all kinds-- all working to keep the illegals flooding in.

They are happy to see some phony politician promise solemnly to close the border. But Trump? That sonofabitch is making it a real friggin' issue!!

They want to control completely who becomes a R candidate and a D candidate, and he is screwing everything up!

Yes, they are beside themselves, foaming at the mouth, they literally don't know what to do. That's why I say, Go, Donald!!

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Originally posted by justjoe:

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the majority of Americans really do think that getting rich is evil and that the government should act as the dispenser of all equality and justice.

I disagree that it is the majority. Not even close. Those who think this way are vocal, they carry signs, they start shit, but I believe they are still a small minority. (Is it a growing minority is a good question. It is, especially as more and more illegals are let into the country, and granted more and more "rights." The Democrats know that masses of ignorant, unskilled voters are their only hope to remain in power.)

Forget terrorism, healthcare-- all the other serious crises the country truly faces. The number one crisis is the open border, flooding the country with Mexico, Guatemala, etc. If the USA does indeed go belly up, historians in 100 years will see the open border-- supported by both parties for their own corrupt reasons-- as the single major cause of our demise.

Barbarians at the gate?

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Originally posted by chellim1:
^^^ +1

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Scott Walker and Ted Cruz.

Spot on.
Rove the RINO king-maker must be defeated .

Word.

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Originally posted by justjoe:
"...the majority of Americans really do think that getting rich is evil and that the government should act as the dispenser of all equality and justice."

I disagree that it is the majority. Not even close.

I really hope I am wrong. I am just looking at the sharply downward trajectory indicated by the two-time election of BHO, the recent SCOTUS decisions, and the comments I see on discussion boards (other than this one).

Rove's scam has become obvious. It was not always so, and until even just a few years ago many conservatives respected him.

Rove needs RINOs. Like Boehner and McConnell. Because Rove is a deal maker. He makes deals between Republicans and Democrats, and these deals are the source of his power and wealth. No Child Left Behind, for example. Or, the Medicare Drug Benefit. Well, Cruz or Walker would never deal this way. Cruz just violated all precedent and got on the Senate floor to call out McConnell for his deceit and corruption. --See, you just can't deal with people like Cruz. You need to do everything you can to crush them, and you can be sure that Rove will be working overtime to defeat Cruz by any means necessary.

No Republican presidential candidate is safe from Donald Trump.
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The billionaire businessman set his sights on another contender for the White House Saturday in Iowa, aiming to knock Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker down a peg after reports surfaced of a Walker fundraiser calling Trump a "DumbDumb."

"I've been nice to Scott Walker. You know, he's a nice guy," Trump told a crowd of supporters Saturday in Oskaloosa, Iowa. "And then today I read this horrible statement from his fundraiser about Trump. I said, 'Oh, finally I can attack. Finally. Finally.'"

Donald Trump faces backlash over exaggerations
The Republican presidential candidate criticized Walker's handling of the Wisconsin budget, saying the state is "doing terribly" and "in turmoil."

"The roads are a disaster because they don't have any money to rebuild them. They're borrowing money like crazy," Trump said. "They projected a one billion dollar surplus and it turns out to be a deficit of 2.2 billion dollars. And money all over the place."

Trump's figures -- which are accurate -- also led him to charge that when it comes to the interest accrued on those debts, Wisconsin "borrowed so much money that a big portion of their budget now is paying for it." What Walker was doing with the financial pitfalls in Wisconsin, Trump said, was "kicking it down the road."

The real estate mogul also attacked that the state of Wisconsin schools, calling them a "disaster" and saying that "they're fighting like crazy because there's no money for the schools." He additionally accused Walker of flip-flopping on his disapproval of Common Core education standards "when he saw he was getting creamed."

Trump targets GOP rivals in feisty South Carolina speech
Walker is just the latest Republican to face Trump's wrath. In recent weeks he has issued blustering attacks against South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham ("He's a stiff"), former Texas Gov. Rick Perry ("He put on glasses so people will think he's smart, and it just doesn't work"), even Arizona Sen. John McCain ("He's not a war hero").

In Iowa, Trump stuck with his usual criticisms on the U.S. handling of illegal immigration and the rise of sanctuary cities -- a concept which, he said, "if it wasn't for me, you'd still never have heard of sanctuary cities."

Of the Iran nuclear deal, he slammed the lifting of economic sanctions on the country and warned that the move would make Iran a financial superpower.

"If they were a stock, I would buy so much of Iran right now," Trump said.

In a separate press conference in Oskaloosa, Trump responded to questions about his campaign's recent ban of the Des Moines Register from his events. After Iowa's largest newspaper published a heavily critical editorial urging Trump to drop his presidential bid, the Trump campaign refused to issue press credentials to Register reporters, who operate independently of the editorial board.

The White House contender called the Register "a very liberal newspaper" and added that "when they start writing accurately, they're welcome."

Though he's threatened a third-party run, Trump confirmed that he will continue to run as a Republican candidate.

"I want to run as a Republican," Trump said. "The best chance we have of winning is if I run as a Republican."

He needs to stay off the camera and release the same information, he responds to questions like a pitchman at a county fair.

He is doing schtick and bits , like stiller and mera used to do .

As Ass clown like as you can get.
Hell, Brian Williams need to become his press secretary, HE would be less clown like

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(CNN)In the first national telephone poll since Donald Trump earned rebukes from Republican leaders over his comments about Senator John McCain's military service, the real estate mogul has increased his support among GOP voters and now stands atop the race for the party's nomination.

The new CNN/ORC Poll finds Trump at 18% support among Republicans, with former Florida governor Jeb Bush just behind at 15%, within the poll's margin of error.

They are joined at the top of the pack by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, with 10% support among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who are registered to vote. Trump's backing has climbed 6 points since a late-June poll, while support for Bush and Walker has not changed significantly.

RELATED: Trump takes aim at Walker in Iowa

None of the other 14 candidates tested in the new CNN/ORC survey earned double-digit support.

Though Trump currently tops the race for the nomination, his advantage is by no means firm. A majority of Republican voters, 51%, say they see the field as wide open, and that it's too soon to say which candidate they will ultimately get behind. Among that group that see the contest as wide open, Bush has 14% support, while Trump has the backing of 13% and Walker stands at 9%.

Trump does much better among those Republicans who say they've narrowed it down to one or two candidates, 24% of that group backs him, 16% Bush and 12% Walker.

READ: Full poll data

Trump's popularity among Republican voters does not translate to the broader pool of registered voters. When tested in hypothetical general election matchups against top Democrats, he trails both frontrunner Hillary Clinton and upstart Senator Bernie Sanders by wide margins. Bush and Walker run just behind Clinton and about even with Sanders.

Trump's unfavorability rating is sky high. Overall, 59% of all registered voters have an unfavorable opinion of Trump, though that dips to 42% among GOP voters.

None of the other Republicans landing near the top of the field have such a negative image nationwide, though many remain little known.

Clinton is the only candidate who is about as well-known as Trump, and while she is more well-liked than the developer, her favorability rating is net negative among registered voters nationally: 49% have an unfavorable view while 44% have a positive impression.

RELATED: Clinton campaign, Republicans clash over Benghazi

Still, the poll suggests Republican voters haven't yet had their fill of Trump. A majority (52%) say they'd like to see Trump continue his run for the GOP nomination, including nearly six in 10 conservatives, tea party supporters and white evangelicals. Even among those Republican voters who support someone other than Trump, 42% say they'd like him to remain in the field.

The Republican electorate is more enthusiastic about next year's vote than the Democrats are. The poll finds 46% of Democratic voters say they are extremely or very enthusiastic about voting for president next year, compared with 55% of Republican voters. But enthusiasm is down in both parties compared with June of 2011, when 61% of Republican registered voters and 55% of Democratic registered voters were that enthusiastic.

In another positive sign for Trump's candidacy, among those Republicans who are enthusiastic about voting next year, Trump holds a larger edge over his competition: 22% say they would back him for their party's nomination, compared with 14% who back Bush and 12% behind Walker.

Overall, about three-quarters of Republicans are satisfied with their choices, more so than in 2011 at this time (about two-thirds were satisfied then), but still, just 23% say they are "very satisfied" with the field.

Meanwhile, an NBC News/Marist poll on Sunday showed Trump leading among New Hampshire GOP primary voters and narrowly trailing Walker in Iowa.

Trump took 21% of the New Hampshire GOP primary vote, with Bush running second at 14%, while in Iowa Trump was at 17% and Walker at 19%, according to the NBC/Marist survey.

On the Democratic side, the CNN poll found Clinton remains the clear frontrunner, though Sanders has increased his support slightly since last month's poll. Clinton is backed by 56% of registered Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters, while Sanders has inched up to 19% from 15% in June. The rest of the field is about even with where they were before.

The CNN/ORC International Poll was conducted July 22-25 among a random national sample of 1,017 adults, including 898 registered voters. Results for all registered voters have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. The registered voter sample included 419 Republicans and Republican-leaning independents as well as 392 Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents.

July 28, 2015
Trump's Trump
By G. Murphy Donovan

Donald Trump is a piece of work even by New York standards: tall, white, loud, brash, entrepreneurial, successful, rich, ruthlessly candid, well-dressed, and fond of heterosexual women. He has married at least three delicious ladies in fact. Trump has five children and seven grandchildren. Indeed, his progeny are well above average too, smartly groomed, photogenic, and successful to boot.


Trump Clan on Oprah

As far as we know, Donald does not have any tattoos, piercings, unpaid taxes, or under-aged bimbo interns. He is not a drunk or a junkie either. Trump projects and enterprises probably employ more folks than the NYC school system -- or the United Nations.

You could say that Trump is living the life, not the life of Riley, but more like Daddy Warbucks with a comb over. “The Donald,” as one ex-wife calls him, is not just living the American dream. Trump is the dream -- and proud of it.

You could do worse than think of Trump as upwardly mobile blue collar. He is the grandson of immigrants and the product of Long island, a Queens household, and a Bronx education. The Donald survived the Jesuits of Fordham University for two years before migrating to finish his baccalaureate at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

When readers of the New York Times, The New Yorker, and the New York Review of Books speak of “the city”, they are not talking about the Queens or the Bronx. Growing and schooling in the blue-collar boroughs gives Trump a curb level perspective, something seldom found in Manhattan. Or as any “D” Train alumnus might put it, Trump has “a pretty good Bravo Sierra detector.”

So what’s not to like about Donald Trump? He doesn’t just stay in four-star hotels; he builds them. He doesn’t just own luxury condominiums; he makes them. He doesn’t just own historic buildings; he restores them. He doesn’t just eat at the best restaurants; ke creates them. He just doesn’t belong to the best country clubs; he builds those, too.

And Donald Trump, unlike the Manhattan/Washington fantasy Press and every Beltway political pimp, doesn’t just pay lip service to a bigger and better economy, he creates micro-economies every day.

The only thing we don’t know about Donald Trump is why he would like to immigrate to the District of Columbia.

In any case, the merits of entrepreneurs like Trump might best be defined by the character or motives of his critics. Trump detractors are for the most part “B” list politicians, ambulance chasers, and a left-leaning Press corps that lionizes the likes of Nina Totenberg, Dan Rather, Chris Matthews, Andrea Mitchell, and Brian Williams.

If the truth were told, most of Trump’s critics are jealous, envious of his wealth -e- and they loath his candor. Donald might also be hated for what he is not. Trump is not a lawyer, nor is he a career politician who lives on the taxpayer dime. Trump is paying for his own campaign. Bernie, Barack, McCain, and Kerry could take enterprise lessons from a chap like Trump.

Unlike most government barnacles, Trump can walk and chew gum at the same time. He knows how to close a deal and build something. He is a net creator, not consumer, of a kind of wealth that provides “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” for Americans -- real jobs not feather merchants.

Today, Trump has nothing left to prove. Yet, success has allowed him the rarest of public privileges, an electoral pulpit and the courage to speak his mind. Alas, truth is not necessarily a political asset in a socialized democracy.

Indeed, the erstwhile presidential candidate stepped on his crank recently by suggesting that Mexico, already exporting dangerous drugs, cheap tomatoes, and even cheaper labor, was also exporting violent felons to the US.

Truth hurts! Trump’s rude candor is underwritten by nearly half a million illegal felons in American jails. Coincidently, events have conspired to support Trump’s take on Mexican dystopia with the El Chapo Guzman jailbreak and the murder of Kathryn Steinle by Francisco Sanchez.

Senor Sanchez sported a lengthy criminal record and had been deported on four previous occasions. San Francisco, a “sanctuary” city, failed to honor existing warrants and released Sanchez from jail just before he blew Kathy Steinle away

Sanchez, repeat offender extrordinaire

As serendipity would have it, Trump then went to Phoenix on 12 July and gave a stem winder to a sell-out crowd on the subject of illegal immigration. Senator John McCain was not pleased to have The Donald on Arizona’s front lawn and intemperately called Trump supporters “crazies.” Trump returned fire saying that McCain was no hero.

Here again Trump cut to the quick, pointing out that no one qualifies as a hero because he was shot down or captured. Indeed, being a hostage in North Vietnam is not necessarily heroic either. McCain is thought by some to be a heroic because he refused to accept an early release.

In fact, the Hanoi parole offer was a ruse, a Hobson’s choice, designed to embarrass McCain and his father at CINCPAC.

If McCain took the parole and abandoned his fellow POWs, he would have shamed his father and been ostracized by shipmates. Indeed, had John McCain not been the son and grandson of famous nd victorious, Pacific Command flag officers, no one would have noticed him then or now.

Few of the demagogues who have come to John McCain’s defense could name any of the 600 Vietnam-era POWs other than McCain. McCain is famous today because he, like John Kerry, has parlayed a very average Vietnam military service into a three-decade political sinecure.

We know of 50,000 Vietnam veterans that might be more deserving than John McCain. Unfortunately, they died in a war that generals couldn’t win and politicians couldn’t abide. A body bag seldom gets to play the “hero.”

McCain is no political hero either.

He is famously ambiguous on domestic issues like immigration. He is also a Johnny-come-lately to Veterans Administration rot, which has metastasized as long as McCain has been in office. On foreign policy, McCain is a Victoria Nuland era crackpot, supporting East European coups, playing cold warrior, and posturing with neo-Nazis in Kiev. McCain pecks at Putin too because the Senate, like the Obama crew, hasn’t a clue about genuine threats like the ISIS jihad or the latest Islam bomb.

To date, Trump has run a clever campaign. He is chumming, throwing red meat and blood into campaign waters and all the usual suspects are in a feeding frenzy. McCain, the Press, the Left, and the Republican establishment all have something to say about “the Donald.” It is truly amazing how cleverly Trump manages to manipulate the establishment.

If you are trying to sell an idea or a candidacy, there’s no such thing as bad publicity.

Who knows where the Trump campaign goes? For the moment, he has scored direct hits on Mexico and McCain. With El Capo on the loose again, every time a toilet flushes in Sinaloa, Mexican garbage is likely spill out in Los Angeles, Hollywood, San Francisco, Portland, or Seattle. Indeed, it’s hard to believe that the Left Coast could survive without cheap labor, pistileros, meth, coke, heroin, or weed. Necrotic immigration and its byproducts are ready made targets for a gunslinger like Trump.

Trump is no bigot. He probably employs more Latinos and Blacks than Enrique Peña Nieto or Barack Obama. In his own way, Donald Trump is both immigrant and POW, a refugee from Queens and still a prisoner of Wharton. The Donald is The Dude, the guy with babes and a role of Benjamins that would choke a shark. He is the wildly successful capitalist that some of us love to hate.

Before democratic socialism, success and effectiveness were measures of merit. It doesn’t take much insight to compare Trump’s various enterprises with federal programs. Public education, banking oversight, public housing slums, poverty doles, veterans fiascos, Internal Revenue hijinks, and even some Defense Department procurement programs are consensus failures. The F-35 “Lightning” fighter is an illustration, arguably the most expensive single DOD boondoggle in history. Pentagon progressives seldom win a catfight these days, but they still spend like sailors.

If and when Trump fails, he is out of business.

In Trump’s world, failure has consequences. In contrast, Washington rewards failure with better funding. Indeed, generational program failure is now a kind of perverse incentive for Beltway politicians and apparatchiks to throw good money after failed programs.

The difference between Trump and McCain should be obvious to any fair observer; Trump has done something with his talents. McCain, in contrast, is coasting on a military myth and resting on the laurels of Senatorial tenure.

Any way you look at it, Donald Trump is good for national politics, good for democracy, good for America, and especially good for candor. If nothing else, The Donald may help Republicans to pull their heads out of that place where the sun seldom shines.

The author had two tours in Vietnam as a junior officer and subsequently served as command Intelligence briefer in Hawaii where he updated CINCPAC, John McCain’s father, on POW matters.

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