Friday, January 22, 2016
Saturday Politics : Hillary All-Stars, Hanoi Jane and the National Review -- Presidential Politics Can Be Amusing
Saturday politics. Sometimes, politics is downright amusing. ~~~~~ Republican leaders are standing in line to drive a stake through the heart of the Republican presidential candidate who's leading by wide margins in every poll in every state, and nationally. We might think Donald Trump is Dracula in Disguise when Senator Lindsey Graham says the choice between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz is “like being shot or poisoned.” And obviously hankering for the good ole 1964 days when they lost the White House by temper-tantruming their way to the nomination of Barry Goldwater, an ideologically pure mistake that Ronald Reagan needed 16 years to correct -- the venerable conservative journal National Review, founded by William F. Buckley, published a special issue Friday opposing Donald Trump's presidential bid. The entire issue is devoted to calling Trump a threat to conservatism. Essays by 22 prominent conservative thinkers tear apart the candidate their party's voters greatly prefer. The editorial stated : "Donald Trump is a menace to American conservatism who would take the work of generations and trample it underfoot on behalf of a populism as heedless and crude as The Donald himself." (Really, fellows? I thought that was your specialty.) The last word went to the Republican National Committee, which dropped National Review from debate sponsorship because of its attack on Trump. National Review was to have participated in a February 25 debate. RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, as is his custom, hasn't said anything yet. But, we will : "Way to go, Reince. To the self-cannibalism of the National Review, your RNC has added a touch of press censorship." ~~~~~ The GOP pillow fight is nothing compared to the full-frontal food fight now underway in the Democratic Party. Hillary Clinton is so panicked about losing the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries to Senator Bernie Sanders that Clintonworld has dispatched her fabulous team of all-star surrogates to canvas the two states, looking for pockets of voters they might appeal to. Her all-star team includes left-leaning African American Senator Cory Booker, left-leaning millennial celebrity Lena Dunham of “Girls” fame, pop singer Katy Perry, soccer hero Abby Wambach, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former President Bill Clinton and first daughter Chelsea. But, polls show Sanders rising, 27 points ahead in New Hampshire and 8 points ahead in Iowa. Analysts say people don’t care about surrogates. That must be especially true when leftist celebrities and politicians go into two states that are more than 90% white conservative farmers and small-town business people and employees. We have to ask if Hillary knows anything at all about Iowa or New Hampshire. At least Albright can look voters in the eye and say she never violated classified email rules. ~~~~~ Saving the biggest laugh for last -- Jane Fonda is organizing a 'Dump Trump' Campaign. Hanoi Jane can only help him. She was accused of "aiding and abetting" the enemy, North Vietnam, when she went to Hanoi in July 1972 to be photographed with North Vietnamese at an anti-aircraft gun a few hundred yards from the "Hanoi Hilton" where American POWs were being tortured. Fonda called returning POWs "hypocrites and liars....These were not men who had been tortured. These were not men who had been starved. These were not men who had been brainwashed....Pilots were saying it was the policy of the Vietnamese and that it was systematic. I believe that's a lie." Years later, under enormous pressure, Fonda admitted to former American POWs and their families that she regretted the pain she caused them. Few have ever accepted her apology. In 2005, Fonda confirmed to CBS she did not regret her 1972 trip to North Vietnam : "There are hundreds of American delegations that had met with the POWs. Both sides were using the POWs for propaganda... It's not something that I will apologize for." ~~~~~ Dear readers, it is the Democratic Party that is a menace to America. It can't even run a campaign without making us laugh all the way to the White House.
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At the World Economic Forum, keynoter Joe Biden warned global elites that the unraveling of the middle class in America and Europe has provided “fertile terrain for reactionary politicians, demagogues peddling xenophobia, anti-immigration, nationalist, isolationist views.”
ReplyDeleteBut who caused this crisis of political legitimacy now gripping the nations of the West? Was it Donald Trump, who gives voice to the anger of those who believe themselves to have been betrayed, or was it the elites who betrayed them?
in 1996, Sam Francis, a paleo conservative and proud son of the South, wrote … “Sooner or later, as the globalist elites seek to drag the country into conflicts and global commitments, preside over the economic pastoralization of the United States, manage the delegitimization of our own culture, and the dispossession of our people, and disregard or diminish our national interest and national sovereignty, a nationalist reaction is almost inevitable and will probably assume populist form when it arrives. The sooner it comes, the better.”
Georges Bernanos wrote, when Europe was caught between Bolshevism and fascism …’ to be a reactionary means simply to be alive, because only a corpse does not react any more — against the maggots teeming on it.”
On one side of the GOP anti-conservative agenda you have establishment Republicans trying to take out Ted Cruz by sidling up with Donald Trump. On the others side you have the conservative brain trust, the intellectual leading light of conservatism of which National Review in a leader, trying to take out Trump. The GOP establishment, which National Review has been plenty supportive of in recent years, is trying to take out Cruz, sidling up to Trump, while National Review is trying to take Trump out.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever seen anything like this before? And it’s all for the continuation of the GOP leadership that’s had this mentality for years. It started with Goldwater, then on to Nixon, certainly they hated Reagan, and now they have two to try to destroy and their party along with them.
When the GOP took control of Congress in the first Clinton Mid-term election and Newt Gingrich activated his “Contract with America” the GOPO has not been able to successfully use their political power for the betterment of the people or the country.
Just last week the Republicans agreed to approving a federal Judgeship to an extremely ‘left-wing/socialist’ already sitting judge. And now the word is out that the republican leadership will again vote for yet another lifetime judgeship appointment to a MORE socialist/activist lower court judge.
All along the GOP has the votes to table these appointments – but don’t. Ask yourself why friends?
The light from this candle called the United States of America has been being burnt at both ends now almost continuously since WW I. It may not last forever, most democratic, rule of law countries never do – but that’s a discussion as to why for another of Casey Pops ‘postings’.
ReplyDeleteAnd it seemed that the candle would burn forever, lately though our candle has been flickering much more than normal under the care of one Barrack Obama. We must find a way to hang on until a new president is elected.
Amusing and entertainment but so SERIOUS
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