Wednesday, December 30, 2015
In the Donald Trump vs Bill Clinton Main Event....Put Your Money on Trump
Last week, GOP frontrunner Donald Trump said former President Bill Clinton's past with women is "fair game" in the 2016 presidential race where his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is the presumptive Democratic candidate. Then, on a Fox Sunday TV show, Trump said : "I think he is fair game because his presidency was really considered to be very troubled, to put it mildly, because of all the things she's talking to me about. I mean, she's actually mentioning sexism." ~~~~~ The skirmish began when Trump used a Yiddish word to describe her 2008 defeat by Obama. The media accused Trump of using a vulgar word for a part of the male anatomy, but Trump has since said the word means a bad defeat or loss and is not vulgar. Hillary hit out at Trump for using the word, saying he has a "penchant for sexism." Trump responded on Twitter, warning Clinton not to play the "woman card, saying he might have something to say about Bill Clinton's past with women if she did. ~~~~~ Things heated up even more after Hillary announced she is letting her husband out to campaign. Trump tweeted : "HE'S DEMONSTRATED A PENCHANT FOR SEXISM, so inappropriate! I turned her words against her from that standpoint. And she's got to be careful. You know, it's got to be fair!" ~~~~~ His assault on Bill Clinton continued Tuesday. Trump insisted he wasn't calling Bill Clinton a racist in a tweet attacking him, but that it was the 2008 Obama campaign that called him racist. "He was called that by the Obama campaign, he was called it loud and clear," Trump told NBC's Savannah Guthrie. In the earlier tweet, Trump had said : "Remember that Bill Clinton was brought in to help Hillary against Obama in 2008. He was terrible, failed badly, and was called a racist!" Guthrie pressed Trump, asking why he would have posted the tweet if he didn't believe it. Trump replied : "They said it. I didn't say it. I didn't call him a racist." Guthrie said : "You circulated it to 5.4 million followers, so that would suggest you approve of it." But Trump had the last word : "All I said was what they said, Savannah. That's what they said -- called him a racist. I don't believe he is a racist, if you want to know the truth, but they called him a racist. It was a miserable campaign. They did very poorly, and they are bringing him out again. He's being wheeled out, and we're going to see what happens, but frankly he did very, very poorly. He was not good for her, and obviously she lost to Obama, and that was the end of that." Then, Trump brought up the former President's scandals with women, telling Guthrie "there was certainly a lot of abuse of women, and you look at whether it's Monica Lewinsky or Paula Jones or many of them, and that certainly will be fair game, certainly if they play the woman's card with respect to me." Wednesday, Trump raised the stakes, calling former President Bill Clinton “one of the great abusers of the world." Trump said he had “no choice” but to attack the Clintons : “You can’t let people push you around. You can’t let people tell lies...nobody respects women more than Donald Trump. She’s hitting me really hard with the women card....She’s not going to win.” Trump then turned to Hillary's female base : “Women don’t like Hillary. I see it all the time,” saying she bullied Bill Clinton’s accusers into silence. ~~~~~ Dear readers, Donald Trump's attacks on the Clintons, including reports of Bill Clinton’s adulterous relationships, show he is looking toward the general election. Trump's theme is clearly one he thinks will undermine Hillary Clinton’s support with women while hurting the image of Bill Clinton, who is her most powerful campaign surrogate. We can also expect Trump, a businessman who understands financial matters, to raise the issue of the Clinton Foundation's alleged international influence peddling while Hillary was Secretary of State. It always pays to let your opponents believe you are less capable than you really are. Donald Trump is a past master at the art, and so far, his opponents just keep taking his plain-talk bait.
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I am surprised that Hillary Clinton has the gull to daily face the people with all tghe question marks of propriety in her history.
ReplyDeleteBut for Bill Clinton to start a ruckus with Donald
Trump is just unimaginable. If you were to look up in a dictionary the words like Leech, Slime, Vulgarity, Violator, Fraudulent, Scandalous, hedonism, etc. - up pops Bill Clinton's picture.
Bill Clinton stands for everything that is wrong in American politics,
If one cannot find another reason to vote for Donald Trump and/or Ted Cruz - remember George Soros wants you not to vote for either one, but instead Hillary Clinton.
ReplyDeleteThe Progressive Socialists Left (Like Soros & Clinton) doesn’t understand the attraction that many Americans have to Trump and Cruz. And that lack of understanding will lead them to their self-concluded perfectness, which may just help elect either Trump or Cruz.
I sit here thinking about the 1964 election where Barry Goldwater stood NO chance of winning. He was to loose not because of his conservatism, but because it was less than one year after JFK was assassinated and the democratic ran an ad of a little girl holding a Daisy with a nuclear mushroom cloud forming behind her. That’s why Goldwater lost.
ReplyDeleteThe problem with both the media and the Establishment in Washington have is that they, like other people, only relate to those who look and sound like them. The conservatives on the campaign trail sound a lot like American voters right now. They gravitate to the issues Americans are concerned about. They talk about the issues like more and more Americans talk to each other about those issues.
In Washington, they do not talk about those issues or talk in those ways. They find it distasteful. As a result, they look at men like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz and find him unlikeable, while polls show the electorate finds them likable and Washington neither likable nor relatable. Charles de Gaulle once said that Paris was not really France. Then Washington is also not America – was but no longer and never will again be.. The values and institutions are different, and presently Washington relates less and less to the American people.
Barry Goldwater was not going to win in 1964, but this year it seems voters want to make sure Washington will not win, which means a Goldwater probably will.
Donald Trump is a well-meaning “populists” not a conservative with the heart, mind , and soul of a John Locke, Edmund Burke, Hamilton, Russel Kirk, William Buckley, Goldwater, Cato the Elder, and so on throughout the ages.
ReplyDeleteMention “conservative” today and the image of William Buckley appears for most uninformed voters.
Today Richard Nixon “silent majority” is in the heartland and they are ready to vote into office either Donald Trump or Ted Cruz (or both perhaps) and there is really not much that the elite Washington crowd or the far-left media can seemingly do about it. Because neither the elites or the press or George Soros money can make them see what is in front of them.