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Trump and the Fate of the GOP
By Jared Peterson

Thanks for posting that.
I was already disappointed in George Will but now I can add David Harsanyi.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Oh. Lindsey, I apologize; I forgot you were there.

I'm afraid the strain was more than he could bear.

Democrats understand that continuing mass immigration spells the end of small-government conservatism. Eliseo Medina, who is, along with Frances Fox Piven and others, a top functionary in the Democratic Socialists of America and a former official in the Service Employees International Union, has acknowledged that mass immigration “will solidify and expand the progressive coalition for the future.”

Most immigration is legal immigration, and that’s where change is most needed.

All this makes perfect sense. The problem is not that immigrants suffer from some kind of moral failing; plenty of native-born Americans hold these same views. Rather, they tend to come from countries where government plays a larger role than here; they tend to settle in urban areas with left-wing political cultures; and they disproportionately benefit from liberal policies such as expansive welfare and affirmative action. It’s actually surprising that there are immigrants who are not left-wing — and there are a lot, just not enough to prevent mass immigration from undermining conservatism’s prospects as a national force.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/...trump-mark-krikorian

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watching the crowds, listening to the media call it unexplainable, hearing Trump blame the foreigners, reminds me of Germany in 1932.

Oh, you don't have to hide your dislike for Trump in a pile of horse shit. You're not fooling anyone around here with that stuff.

Yeah, Germany, 1932. You bet, sport.

Just be honest, mmkay? Don't come around here with this kind of shit when our country is being murdered by communists and PC white apologists.

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Originally posted by 46and2:
it's as though posters like Ogie think the rest of us see Trump through some gilded lens. no, there's no worship happening, no missing of his negatives nor do we not notice how he's changed, and there are no illusions about his capabilities...

...he's simply the most promising, least douchey, least full of shit asshole out there campaigning, and the degree to which the rest of the field are monumental assholes simply has the unintended consequence of making Trump look stellar by comparison.

Trump's political success is almost entirely an inverse reflection of the abject failure of those he competes against and those who occupy other political offices. Trump himself is but 10% of the equation, you might say. the ineffectual and pathetic nature of the Establishment is the other 90%.

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Indeed.

Nailed it. Now how do you get that on a bumper sticker?

When Trump was just getting spooled up, I thought he would be interesting, perhaps refreshing, but that I'd be looking at the more conservative candidates for my primary vote. It is becoming more and more apparent that unless something happens, he may be our best shot.

I remind myself of Maryland's gubernatorial race in 2014. There were several GOP candidates. Some more conservative, some less. In the primary, I voted for our current governor, Larry Hogan, even though he wasn't my favorite GOP option. I did so for two simple reasons: 1) he had a significant advantage over the other candidates financially and could easily afford to mount an effective campaign, and 2) as a businessman first and foremost, he campaigned exclusively on fiduciary responsibility, which is precisely what Maryland needed more than anything else. Gov. Hogan won in a decisive victory. No small feat for a GOP candidate in Maryland.

I'm feeling the same way about Trump. He can afford to run and he'll campaign on the most important issues we face today, forcing the discussion his way. He may just be the right guy at the right time for the right reasons.

-Rob

Trump: I’m winning because Americans are 'tired of being the patsies'

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump says he is leading the GOP race because he represents Americans who have had it with their nation coming up short.

“People in this country are smart,” he told listeners at the National Federation of Republican Assemblies’ 2015 conference in Nashville on Saturday.

“We’re tired of being the patsies for everyone,” Trump said.

“There is a big, big, growing-by-leaps-and-bounds silent majority out there. [The 2016 race] is going to be an election based on competence.”

Trump argued he is surging in national polls because he represents the Tea Party supporters ignored by Democrats and betrayed by Republicans.

“I love the Tea Party,” Trump said. “You people have not been treated fairly. These are people who work hard and love their country, and then get beat up by the media. It’s disgusting.

“At least I have a microphone and can fight back,” the outspoken billionaire added.

Trump indicated he envisions a much wider base for his campaign than traditional Republican voters next election cycle.

“You don’t know how big you are,” he told listeners. “The Tea Party has tremendous power. It’s Democrats, it is evangelicals, it is everybody.”

The New York business mogul also vowed he would not succumb to the prestige and power of Washington’s political establishment if he wins in 2016.

“They go to Washington and they get weak,” Trump said of Democrats and Republicans alike. “They get there and they see these beautiful, vaulted ceilings and they say, ‘Honey, I’ve made it.’ That won’t happen to me, I promise.”

Trump also said he intends on saving taxpayer dollars by focusing his energy on the nation’s capital if elected next year.

“I think I’d maybe never leave,” Trump quipped of the Oval Office. “I’d do the fundraisers in the White House. Whoever the [interview] host is would like it better — ‘Hey, we’re live from the White House.’

“Do you know how much it costs to fuel those things?” he joked of jets such as Air Force One.

“We have so many things to do to straighten out our country,” Trump added. “We can’t waste time.”

Trump’s address at the NFRA’s 2015 conference Saturday was attended by many notable figures from the original Tea Party movement.

The organization’s president is Sharron Angle, who unsuccessfully challenged Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in 2010. Its executive vice president is Ken Blackwell, a challenger for Ohio’s gubernatorial office who came up short against former Gov. Ted Strickland (D) in 2006.

The group is — despite its name — a grassroots network unaffiliated with the Republican Party that counts on Tea Party voters for its membership.

Trump is currently leading the race for the GOP presidential nomination across national polls.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballo...e-tired-of-being-the

And now in Iowa....

Well we seem to have a tiny little rebellion against the Establishment/political class on our hands.

Ben Carson, Donald Trump at 23% each show “most Iowa Republicans prefer someone without a traditional political pedigree,” according to Monmouth University Poll.

Results mark first time since July 26 that poll in first four nominating states has shown Trump without nominal lead
Carly Fiorina 10%, Ted Cruz 9%, Scott Walker 7%, Jeb Bush 5%
John Kasich, Marco Rubio 4%, Rand Paul 3%, Mike Huckabee,Rick Santorum 2%
NOTE: Aug. 27-30 phone poll of 405 Iowans likely to attend Republican presidential caucuses has error margin of +/-4.9ppts

http://www.bloomberg.com/polit...outh-university-poll

and it's not just immigration either...

fools like Jeb seek to advance the surveillance state, and seek to compel technology companies to allow them access...; they have shown they don't care about privacy for us little people at all.

how another Bush, following all that's happened in recent years - namely the NSA and Snowden, could even think for an instant that most Americans actually support such things is staggering.

there are many ways in which various candidates demonstrate how woefully out of touch they are, and this is one where Jeb's foolishness outshines the sun by orders of magnitude.

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Instead, Walker, who entered the campaign as the candidate most likely to receive the "guts and vision" award for successfully taking on the public employee unions, has allowed someone to transform him into a political eunuch. Perhaps he should take another look at his advisors.

Thank you for posting this article. This is why I walked away from Walker.

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Trump argued he is surging in national polls because he represents the Tea Party supporters ignored by Democrats and betrayed by Republicans.

“I love the Tea Party,” Trump said. “You people have not been treated fairly. These are people who work hard and love their country, and then get beat up by the media. It’s disgusting.

“At least I have a microphone and can fight back,” the outspoken billionaire added.

Trump indicated he envisions a much wider base for his campaign than traditional Republican voters next election cycle.

“You don’t know how big you are,” he told listeners. “The Tea Party has tremendous power. It’s Democrats, it is evangelicals, it is everybody.”

Thank you also for posting this article!

While reading the post from JSW, I was thinking how what DT is saying works for the Tea Party. Then, you posted this. Great !

I seem to recall reading that those supported by the Tea Party did proportionally better in elections...

From reading both of the above, it doesn't look like DT is going to fade away, anytime soon.

I'm fine with that.

We have been scr*w*d over too many times and it seems folks might actually be starting to wake up.

If DT has to go third party, then so be it. At least it gets him away from the repug establishment.

If DT has to use a "phone and pen" to get things sorted out and back on track, undoing as much of the damage done by stinky and gang as possible, then "let's roll."

We owe a debt of gratitude to John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, because these two mealy-mouthed, traitorous sacks of shit opened the door for a Donald Trump. They made Donald Trump, or someone like him, not only possible but inevitable, right now or down the road a bit. And a tip of the hat to all the RINOs. And the MSM, especially Megyn Kelly.

President Trump thanks you. And gives you all a swift kick in the ass.

http://pjmedia.com/victordavis...lic/?singlepage=true

Long article. Worth a read.

The Obama-age progressive political narrative was that an old, too-white America was changing largely due to immigration and that this was a much-needed antidote to oppressive white privilege.

Activists proudly pointed to California and New Mexico’s suddenly solidly blue politics and promised that Texas, Colorado and Nevada were soon to follow.

In 2008 and 2012 the so-called “Latino vote” went nationally at about 70% for Democratic candidates.

It is alleged that Donald Trump is a demagogue who whips the ignorant up. Perhaps.

But on matters of immigration he came late and often in antithesis to his own former positions. The truth is that the illegal-immigration lobby was its own worst enemy, its message couched in racism, illegality, untruth — and finally incoherence.

People tired of being called racists by racial chauvinists, of being dubbed insensitive by unfeeling opportunists, and of being called politically naive by political manipulators.

If there were not a Donald Trump, he would likely have had to have been invented.

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there are many ways in which various candidates demonstrate how woefully out of touch they are, and this is one where Jeb's foolishness outshines the sun by orders of magnitude.

Jeb should just change into his tennis whites and GTHO

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Perfect!

Three Florida-based fundraisers quit Jeb Bush's presidential campaign on Friday, with inside sources saying personality conflicts and other internal issues led to the decision.

Kris Money, Trey McCarley, and Debbie Alexander said they quit voluntarily, but will remain with Bush's Right to Rise super PAC, reports Politico. However, other sources reported that the three had been let go because they were no longer needed with the campaign.

Bush spokesman Tim Miller commented that longtime aide Ann Herberger will continue to lead the Florida fundraising team, based in Miami.

But one source, speaking anonymously, told Politico that the three were "glad to go" and their departures weren't "a shock to anybody."

“There were just some personality problems," the source said. "It happens when you have a big organization like this, a big campaign. Some of the national people are tough to work for.”

Alexander, Money, and McCarley, though, are deeply tied with the Republican party in Florida. Alexander has been part of Bush's operation since he was the state's governor, Money has ties with former House Speaker Will Weatherford, and McCarley serves on the political team for Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam,

Bush donors last week said they are not worried that the former governor's rankings in national polls has slipped to third place, mostly behind frontrunner Donald Trump and second-place candidate Ben Carson.

Bush earlier this month was unapologetic about the $120 million war chest he's raised for his 2016 campaign, and he told the Koch Brothers' Freedom Partners that he hopes to raise even more.

But he's also spending more money than other candidates, reports Politico, because of the size of his political operation.

"Jeb has a big army, and that army needs to be fed," a campaign consultant told the website. "Jeb might not have a fundraiser problem. He might have a spending problem."



http://www.newsmax.com/Politic...015/08/29/id/672565/

*the* most honorable and patriotic thing Jeb Bush could do would be to give away that $120 million that he neither earned nor needs nor will use in a way that benefits anyone other than himself (and his sponsors/minions).

that any professional politician can amass such a fortune yet deliver so little is *crazy* and as good an example of what's wrong with the Establishment as anything else. it should not be possible to get rich as a politician, especially one with questionable success and utility.

$120 million, just for campaigning and such, and having that last name...

unreal.

Put it toward the border fence.

Jeb called Donald Trump "a jerk." Trump burst into tears. No, wait, that was John Boehner. Boehner burst into tears when he was told that somebody just called somebody else a jerk. Anyway, the best part of the article reporting this is the beginning of the first sentence: "Jeb Bush fired back at Donald Trump at a Hamptons fund-raiser...."

Hahahahahahaha!

"At a Hamptons fund raiser!" During the mango sorbet intermezzo, Jeb loaded an ice cube into his dessert spoon and fired it in the general direction of Trump Tower.

Truly, Marie Antoinette was a woman of the people compared with this effete shit heel.

http://pagesix.com/2015/08/30/...403891598.1408189010

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"At a Hamptons fund raiser!"

Just out rubbing elbows with the regular Joe's, you know, the serfs... er, commoners.

I just don't buy Trump's authenticity. I think he's plenty calculating enough to say exactly what he wants people to hear. I'm not sure he believes any of it.

I also have doubts of his ability to garner any support to accomplish anything. He's used to rule by decree, where his word is law. He's good for a sound bite, but what actual leadership qualities does he possess? Much like bernie, he has a lot of "I'm gonna do [blank]!" moments, but is completely unable to articulate HOW. I don't think he has a clue how.