Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Trump Did It....Look Out, Hillary...We Are Coming After You
Trump won decisively in Indiana Tuesday. Then, Ted Cruz quickly suspended his campaign and Trump has no more viable competition as he gears up to take on Hillarygate. In West Virginia, ABC News reported : "Clinton kicked off a two-day tour...by saying she was ‘sad’ and ‘sorry’ about the reaction to her saying in a CNN town hall in March, ‘we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.’....in Williamson, West Virginia, on Monday, Bo Copley, who identified himself as an out-of-work coal miner, poignantly asked Clinton ‘how you can say you’re going to put a lot of coal miners out of -- out of jobs and then come in here and tell us how you’re going to be our friend. Because those people out there don’t see you as a friend,’ Copley said, referring to protesters who had gathered outside...” Across the street, Trump supporters held signs reading 'Coal' and 'Vote for Trump.'" ~~~~~ Indiana was pitched as the reliable Midwest state that would vote Cruz and deny Trump the delegates needed to take the GOP nomination. 'Never Trump' groups went all-out for Cruz -- the Club for Growth Action poured in $1.7 million for anti-Trump ads. Our Principles PAC spent $1 million. But, as Trump campaigned Monday in Indiana, with energized crowds at every stop, he emphasized his poll leads and endorsements from local celebrities, saying, “If we win Indiana, it’s over.” In a foretaste of the Indiana result, Cruz ran into a Trump buzzsaw at a campaign stop in Marion, where Trump supporters heckled him from across the street. As Cruz engaged the Trump crowd, one of them told him : "‘Indiana don’t want you.’ Cruz replied : ‘Sir, America is a better country...‘ at which point the man interrupted : ‘Without you.’” ~~~~~ Summing up Trump's Indiana and GOP juggernaut, one long time GOP leader, said : "I think Indiana is a very plain-speaking state and Trump is the consummate plain-speaker." But, nothing compared with the adrenalin of Trump's endorsement by legendary former Indiana University basketball coach Bobby Knight -- and four other key endorsements Monday : Fred “The Hammer” Williamson, a black actor and former NFL defensive back; Lou Holtz, legendary football player and Notre Dame coach; Gene Keady, for 25 years head basketball coach at Purdue University in Indiana; and Digger Phelps, a beloved former basketball coach at Notre Dame. ~~~~~ What's next? On Monday, the New York Times outlined the dilemma for which Cruz had no answer : "The Indiana vote has emerged as a decisive and perhaps final test for Senator Ted Cruz, who has abandoned hope of overtaking Mr. Trump....Mr. Cruz...spent part of the weekend campaigning in California [where he trails Trump by 34%]...and collected the endorsement of former Governor Pete Wilson, who warned...'the first thing he needs to do is win in Indiana.'" It didn't happen. Donald Trump and Republican voters prevailed. ~~~~~ Dear readers, The RNC tonight said Trump is the presumptive nominee and called on the Party to rally behind him to defeat Hillary Clinton. The Democrats get it. Geoff Garin, a Clinton 2008 campaign strategist who now works with pro-Clinton super PAC Priorities USA said : "Given the anti-status quo environment in the country, Democrats need to prepare for a close and competitive general election...it would be a mistake to underestimate Trump or presume he cannot win in November." Trump is called a fascist by those who know little about Mussolini or Franco. He is called a tyrant by leftist Andrew Sullivan who misquotes Plato to denigrate American democracy. He is called a buffoon by Democrats who have supported the real buffoon since 2008. But, Trump is none of those things. Donald Trump fought a remarkable fight to open up the GOP both to its angry loyal members and to millions of disaffected Americans who distrust all politicians. Trump won and he deserves our support. Now, our only goal should be to defeat the odious Hillary Clinton.
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To fix what’s broken in America requires some knowledge of what has worked in the past. I think Donald Trump may be the last person standing (on either side) that understands that question.
ReplyDeleteHe may be completely ignorant to how things work inside the Washington D.C. beltway, and that is his greatest asset to America. We keep giving the opportunity to straighten out American to the same people (most all with like backgrounds) – Why not Donald Trump? We once gave the job to a man who was a hat salesman for a while (Truman), and he didn’t set the lands a blaze.
People think early European immigrants to America were seeking religious freedom. In fact, they sought escape from religious persecution. Not quite the same thing. And the American system of government proclaimed freedom of religion a right – a right endowed not by those wielding political power but by the Creator. This was a revolutionary idea - n most of the world, it’s still a revolutionary idea.
ReplyDeletePeople think the founders were idealists. In fact, they were realists. They recognized that the citizens of the new nation they were establishing would have as much dividing as uniting them. They didn’t expect that to change. So they built a structure within which Americans might live and work most successfully. Conflicts would be managed. A utopia in which conflicts would be abolished was not envisioned.
My point is that change and almost insurmountable obstacles has been the rule for America. Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Reagan our greatest presidents have all been something other than professional politicians.
Trump has changed American politics forever. That will be evident as time goes on. We will get people qualified to lead – not just people with pedigrees and lineage of no accomplishments at all.
So as ‘A Tool 4 Freedom” asked – “Why not Trump?” Exactly why not?
Western values and views are changing. There is no basis for the assumption that change brings improvement – or should inspire hope. A new national poll of America’s 18- to 29-year-olds by Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP), found that 62 percent do not identify as “patriots.” Perhaps these young people are so ignorant as to not understand the meaning of that word. If they do, however, they are saying they do not love their country and are not prepared to defend it
ReplyDeleteLess than 15 years after 9/11/01, at a time when a proliferating number of groups – and one or two nation-states – are openly and rather fanatically committed to America’s destruction that should be setting off alarms.
This is a major problem that a new respectful president will have to grapple with.
The people that Donald Trump (should he win) brings into government many problems of reinstalling faith and belief in the American system. Trump is certainly up to the task of bring the best once again into government.
OK, if you’re a republican you have your presidential candidate in Donald Trump. A good choice – but getting to this point has caused some long lasting ‘hurt feelings’ in the GOP.
ReplyDeleteBut if you’re a progressive socialists of at least left of center in political believes, whose your candidate? Do you really want to go to the big dance on November 8th with Hillary Clinton? She should really be starving down the barrel of an FBI/Justice Department over a multiple of possible charges that Obama is protecting her from.
Or do you favor Bernie Sanders - another lifelong socialist? Old Bernie has accomplished NOTHING in his years in the Senate, and would continue that marvelous career if elected president.
But lurking in the background, ready to pounce on the nomination is Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren as President & Vice President. But here’s the catch with these two – they are both Progressive Socialists. Well Warren is anyhow. Does Joe even have any real politics in is blood?
If your anti almost everything that the United States stands for (and that most hard working, self-providing citizens believe in), if your strongly pro-abortion, higher taxes to keep the welfare system growing, if you like the idea of Iran having Nuclear weapons to wipe out Israel. If your just someone who loves being told what you can do, and what you can’t by big government, you’re in luck. Even if Hillary is charged with treason (or something equally as severe) you have more socialists in the wings just waiting to be your candidate.
If not vote for Donald Trump.