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| Stop Talking, Start Doing |
That cobwebbed witch is in for it when it's debate time. She's going to attack him on everything that doesn't matter. Her agenda will only be to try and steer less votes his way. There's no way she can talk people into more votes for her -- just less votes for him, is the goal. He holds the upper hand here -- he's got nothing to lose and millions of voters to gain. And they're all waiting to jump on the Trump Train - I have a feeling he'll win them over. _______________ Mind. Over. Matter. | |||
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| Edge seeking Sharp blade! |
I loved that Pennsylvania deferred and let NY cast the votes that put him over the threshold. Letting delegate from NP Donald Jr announce the votes was a great moment. | |||
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| The Unknown Stuntman  |
What I look forward to is all the liberals - in office and the media - whining and crying for a debate without "hateful rhetoric". This after they've called Trump a misogynist, a racist, a Nazi, and everything else but a successful American male. Constantly spewing their hate and talking about how he's basically the anti-Christ in the flesh; but you watch before the debates. It will be all about being "moderate" and avoiding the "hateful rhetoric" and blah blah blah. Matt - lil' bitch - Lauer today was just the beginning. | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
Yeah, per tradition, his home state, New York, was permitted to vote out of sequence to be the one who put him over. Now that the voting is over, his total was 1725. ETA: Alaska has just requested their delegation be polled. Probably will make an adjustment to the totals. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Alaska is making a scene. Come on, Alaska. Really? ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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Now in Florida |
Now it's more or less official. Trump is the nominee and has a better shot than Para's cat of winning the White House. Whoever thought back in the middle of last year that we would be here. I too was a non-believer, but now I'm 100% on board. We cannot let Obama hand the keys to the White House to Hillary. | |||
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A Grateful American |
 "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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| hello darkness my old friend  |
Trump Jr there was damned impressive. Best speech of the convention so far? maybe... | |||
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| Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
No doubt. I'm expecting Ivanka to take the crown however. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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| Leatherneck |
Oh yeah he did great. I am forced to be watching CNN right now and even every commentator on CNN said it was an amazing speech. There were almost no negative comments. “Everybody wants a Sig in the sheets but a Glock on the streets.” -bionic218 04-02-2014 | |||
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| hello darkness my old friend |
Wow, the CNN folks liked him too? Who would have thunk it? | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
For sure. Hillary has not had a live, unscripted press conference in something like 250 days now. Trump is on TV EVERY DAY, unscripted. She's screwed and can only hope to rely on sympathetic debate moderators to do a Candy Crowley for her. | |||
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| Leatherneck |
It shocked me. They also liked his daughter. The biggest negative they have had about his speech is that it was not last because it would have ended the night on a higher note. One guy is on now saying it was more about the timing, hitting people at the ten o'clock hour as they are maybe tuning in for the first time. I can see both sides. “Everybody wants a Sig in the sheets but a Glock on the streets.” -bionic218 04-02-2014 | |||
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Essayons |
Pertinent: http://observer.com/2016/07/to...ptain-crook-clinton/
Thanks, Sap | |||
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| Knows too little about too much  |
Excellent! Thank you for posting. RMD TL Davis: “The Second Amendment is special, not because it protects guns, but because its violation signals a government with the intention to oppress its people…” Remember: After the first one, the rest are free. | |||
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| Member |
Thanks for posting this. The last five paragraphs are spot on! | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
Trump's Nomination Is a Response to Elites' Failure By Jeffrey H. Anderson July 20, 2016 Donald Trump’s acceptance of the Republican presidential nomination is being accompanied by a great deal of handwringing on the part of many center-right elites. But if Trump’s nomination is really the disaster that such elites claim—which is hardly a self-evident truth—they don’t need to look far for its cause. For Trump’s nomination is the result of elites’ failure in four key ways. 1. Failure to listen to the citizenry For years, the Republican electorate has been frustrated by the party’s refusal to fight for much of anything. Worse, the GOP’s elected representatives sometimes choose to fight against their own constituents, ignoring voters’ concerns in the apparent interest of being well-received at D.C. cocktail parties. Just last week, in the wake of a crime uptick and the brazen murder of Dallas police, House Republicans inexplicably announced their intention to put “criminal-justice reform” legislation up for a vote after the August recess. This soft-on-crime “reform” is a key item on President Obama’s 2016 wish list, and the Republican House’s willingness to be accommodating is the kind of political and policy calculation that leaves one’s head spinning. But when it comes to failure to listen to the electorate, nothing—or at least nothing this side of Obamacare—compares to efforts to pass open-borders immigration “reform.” After Obama’s re-election, essentially all of the Democratic Party and much of the Republican Party tried to ram “comprehensive reform” down the throats of an unwilling citizenry. At a time when the percentage of the U.S. population that is foreign-born has actually surpassed (see table 2) the percentage during the great waves of immigration in 1880 or 1920—and amid deliberate efforts to minimize the importance of assimilation—elites continue to deny the problem of illegal immigration and claim that anyone who opposes it is racist, xenophobic, and generally unenlightened. And voters—especially Republican voters—have had enough. 2. Failure to heed the Founders’ warnings about direct democracy More than four decades ago, the Republican Party adopted a presidential-selection process that was conceived of by the left-wing of the Democratic Party. That process is essentially direct democracy in action. There is no effort to “refine and enlarge” public opinion. There is no filtering process. There is no opportunity to reach consensus. Indeed, the candidate who was probably the closest to a consensus candidate in this year’s GOP field, Scott Walker, was the first one out under this horribly flawed system. It is no surprise that a process that was adopted with very little forethought and that relies on direct democracy hasn’t served the party, or the country, well. Jay Cost and I have proposed a nomination system based on the process that was used to ratify the Constitution. It would empower the grassroots, reinstitute a meaningful convention, promote consensus, and cure many of the other ills of the current selection process. But until the GOP adopts such an overhaul, or something in that spirit, its presidential-selection system will continue to produce the sort of dissatisfying results that the Founders would have expected from a process that relies on direct democracy. As James Madison wrote in “Federalist No. 10,” such a process “can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction.” 3. Failure to make the big-picture case Of the 17 candidates who sought the Republican presidential nomination, none made the case on big-picture issues—with the exception of Trump. The eventual victor emphasized the need to secure our borders against illegal immigration, while arguing in favor of trade deals that focus more on the well-being of American workers. What big-picture issues did any of the other candidates run on? The governors mostly looked in the rearview mirror and talked about their records in their states. Sen. Marco Rubio ran on electability. Sen. Ted Cruz ran on conservative purity. (If Cruz had run on Obamacare, championing a conservative alternative, he might well have won.) Indeed, aside from Rubio’s efforts to advance Obama’s immigration agenda, what big-picture issues can easily be associated with any of Trump’s opponents? Whose campaign really emphasized Obamacare, the national debt, or fidelity to the Constitution? 4. Failure to back the viable challenger Most of the NeverTrumpers were supporters of Rubio or, to a lesser extent, Jeb Bush (both of whom were among the leaders in not listening to the American people on immigration—see point No. 1). Even when it was painfully obvious that Cruz was the only candidate who could potentially stop Trump, they refused to throw meaningful support behind the challenger. To be sure, there were a few exceptions, most notably Bush himself and Lindsey Graham (both of whom endorsed Cruz), but the general refusal to boost the Texas senator was clear. After Cruz won in Wisconsin and seemed poised to likely wrestle the nomination from Trump, the NeverTrumpers either stayed on the sidelines or else backed the hapless John Kasich campaign, to Trump’s benefit. In truth, the NeverTrumpers were really #NeverTrump, #NeverCruz, #AlwaysRubio. When they likely could have stopped Trump, they didn’t even try. Summing up elites’ failures In each of these four ways, center-right elites enabled Trump’s win. If they don’t like the result, they should look in the mirror. Republican representatives failed to listen to voters. Republican National Committee members adopted a direct-democracy-based nomination system inspired by the left wing of the Democratic Party and then failed to scrap it across decades of mostly mediocre nominees. Republican presidential candidates failed to focus on big-picture issues. And Republican pundits and influence-peddlers didn’t back the chief challenger when he was potentially poised to take the lead. As all of this suggests, the problems in our politics lie more with the elites than with the citizenry. Among everyday Americans, there is a refreshingly strong sentiment—fueled by eight years of Obama and the statist disaster that is Obamacare—in favor of our founding principles. This sentiment was most evident in the rise of the Tea Party. But conservative-leaning elites have generally failed to channel these salutary sentiments toward productive ends. To be sure, conventional wisdom holds that the Tea Party isn’t having much effect on this election. But consider this: The three eventual presidential candidates who spoke at the January 2015 South Carolina Tea Party Convention, perhaps the nation’s largest, were Ben Carson, Cruz, and Trump. Collectively, these three won almost three-quarters—72.5 percent—of the GOP primary vote. A clearer rebuke of insider elites is hardly imaginable—and the rebuke is well-deserved. Anderson, author of “An Alternative to Obamacare” and “The Main Street Tax Plan,” is a Hudson Institute senior fellow. http://www.realclearpolitics.c..._failure_131241.html "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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Rule #1: Use enough gun |
Cruz is all in..............................for Cruz. What a surprise.  http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/s...=2016-07-20-08-29-05 Sen. Ted Cruz's Texas-size political ambitions will be on full display Wednesday as the primary runner-up delivers a prime-time convention speech, but holds off on a full-throated endorsement of Republican nominee Donald Trump. The conservative senator repeatedly clashed with Trump during a bitter primary fight, with the New York businessman mocking the lawmaker as "Lyin' Ted." With an eye toward 2020, Cruz's team drafted a convention speech focusing on adherence to the Constitution, a calling card for conservatives and a perceived contrast with Trump. Cruz has not endorsed Trump despite pleas for party unity from the campaign and senior GOP officials, and there was no sign he would change his position. Texas fundraiser Mica Mosbacher said Wednesday that Cruz has taken a "quantum leap" with his convention speech after a rough primary, but based on conversations with his advisers the senator and his team are not ready to fully back Trump. "I think they're about 80 percent there," said Mosbacher, who expects Cruz to make overtures toward unity in his remarks. Paul Manafort, Trump's top campaign adviser, said Wednesday that it will be clear from Cruz's speech that he's supporting Trump, though "how he says it, I don't know." In a brief interview with The Associated Press, Manafort dismissed the importance of Cruz using the word endorse. "No, it doesn't at all. The point is the same... If he's voting that's the signal," he said. Before Trump even accepts the nomination, Cruz's supporters as well as critics say undercurrents in Cleveland are emboldening the senator's band of believers and stoking his 2020 prospects, should Trump lose in November. Cruz is eager to be seen as the face of the modern conservative movement should Trump lose in November and create an open GOP field in four years. So what Cruz says Wednesday during his prime-time convention speech will be closely watched for clues about his presidential aspirations. "I'm hopeful it's a speech that rings so true and so motivating that we think of 1976 and Ronald Reagan," said Iowa Rep. Steve King, a Cruz supporter. King was referring to Reagan's words after losing the nomination to Gerald Ford only to win the presidency four years later. Should Trump lose, King said of Cruz, the speech will be "the marker for him as front-runner" for 2020. Cruz halted his campaign two months ago, having outlasted all but Trump in a field that once numbered 17 candidates. He finished a distant second in the delegate accumulation during the Republican nominating campaign. His supporters clung to hope that that the convention would adopt rules that would free delegates to disregard the results of state contests and swing behind Cruz at the 11th hour. That hope was quickly dashed in opening-day proceedings. Easily spotted in their cowboy hats and Lone Star flag shirts, dozens of Texas delegates shouted their objection when the push to change the rules was declared defeated in a voice vote that sounded close to those in the hall. An effort to have the vote recorded also failed, leaving anti-Trump Republicans feeling mistreated. "There isn't a Band-Aid big enough" to heal the hurt that erupted Monday, said Cruz supporter Ivette Lozano of Dallas. But she was looking ahead. "The plan is 2020, and we have an opportunity to do that," said Lozano, a family practice physician. Besides his prime-time speech, Cruz plans to hold a delegate appreciation event Wednesday, and address the Texas delegation Thursday. Ron Kaufman, a Republican national committeeman from Massachusetts, said the flare-up over rules was choreographed to demonstrate public support for Cruz and preserve his future. "These votes had nothing to do with Trump," he said. "This is all about Ted Cruz trying to make the party smaller." By smaller, he meant that Cruz supporters were pushing for primaries where only registered Republicans can participate. Cruz was more successful in such contests than in ones also open to voters who aren't registered Republicans. When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are undisturbed. Luke 11:21 "Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." -- George W. Bush | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
Cry me a freakin' river. | |||
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E tan e epi tas |
How bout' we worry about battlefield surgery of feelings AFTER we handle getting the Supreme Court justice issue handled. Trump is the nominee. Time to Ranger up and move on and have a good cry about how it later. Hell I don't like trump but I sure ain't gonna do ANYTHING that helps Hillary. Take Care, Shoot Safe, Chris | |||
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