Posted on 12/22/2015 7:13:42 AM PST by SJackson
I have to confess that of late I have become increasingly pessimistic about the future of our country. For awhile I was hopeful that the electorate would finally cut through the fog of political correctness: the racist, collectivist, America-and-white people-are-guilty party line of the Democratic Party. Not so any more. Both the conservative punditry (with a few notable exceptions) and the Republican establishment are proving as feckless in resisting the left's attacks, and as unfocused on the Democratic adversary as the Republican congress. The Democrats are at it full bore. Having gotten away with disarming the nation in the face of its enemies, and with promoting systematic racial discrimination, along with racist lynch mobs in the streets, the Democrats are busy on the attack. In their election campaign year, they are accusing Republican candidates of being racist and recruiters for ISIS. The only serious - i.e., bloody-minded - fire coming from the Republican side is directed at Donald Trump. (Think about it - all the Democrats need is a damaged Trump. Then they can condemn Republicans for merely associating with him.) If Republicans want to join Democrats and match their viciousness in taking down the Republican front-runner, Hillary Clinton is going to be our next president.
The most recent explosion of outrage at Trump is his proposal for a temporary moratorium on Muslim immigration "until we figure it out" - i.e., figure out how to vet Muslim immigrants so that we don't allow anymore Tashfeen Malik's into the country where they are determined to kill innocent Americans. Otherwise perfectly intelligent conservatives have joined the Democrat smear squad in denouncing Trump's suggestion as unconstitutional, illegal, and un-American. In fact, as a cursory Internet search should convince anyone free of anti-Republican bigotry, Trump's proposal is not only constitutional (foreigners seeking entry into the country have no rights under the US Constitution - only US citizens do. It is also perfectly legal. There is an actual U.S. code that says the president has the authority to ban "any class" of individuals he deems a threat to the American citizens.
Moreover, Trump's proposal is obviously sensible - i.e., is justified by a realistic confrontation with the facts. According to a Pew Poll, 64% of Muslims in Egypt and Pakistan believe that leaving the Muslim faith should be punished by death. In Afghanistan the figure is 78%. While 64% of Muslims are not active terrorists, there was not a single member of the Muslim community in San Bernardino willing to alert authorities to the hateful, indeed murderous ideas of the shooter couple. Punishing apostasy by death is only a crystallization of the jihadists' belief that all non-Muslims who refuse to submit to the Islamic faith should be killed. That is what the war that Islamists have declared on us is about. Donald Trump has done the country a service by putting this issue - previously unmentionable - before the American public. Thus far he is the only candidate with the guts to do this, and that is why he is leading in the polls by a wide margin.
According to a 2009 "World Opinion Poll" conducted by the University of Maryland, between 30% and 50% of Muslims in Muslim countries approve of the terrorist attacks on America. If 64% of Muslims think that infidels deserve death - and an impressive percentage approve of the attacks on America and the West - that amounts to between 500 million and 800 million sworn enemies of our country and our culture. Say it's only a tenth of those numbers. That's 50 million or more potential killers for Allah, and supporters of killers for Allah. Keep in mind that these terrorists already have chemical and biological weapons. Is there any person not blinded by leftwing ideas that doesn't think this presents a vetting problem for us in dealing with Muslim immigrants and visitors? Moreover, a vetting problem that we obviously haven't begun to solve? However, perhaps Trump's blanket ban, though constitutional, legal and temporary - is also impractical. The details as Trump himself would be the first to admit are still negotiable. A practical plan even one of reduced scope is better than none.
. So why are conservatives treating Trump as a pariah? Clinton and Obama have the blood of hundreds of thousands of Christians and non-ISIS Muslims on their hands not to mention the American victims of their rules of engagement. It is they and their party who have undermined the war on radical Islamists for 22 years since Bill Clinton refused to visit the thousand victims of the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. Democrats have fought to try terrorist soldiers in civil courts where they would be given the rights of American citizens; they have fought to close Guantanamo, and have deliberately released terrorist generals to return to the battlefield and kill more Americans; Democrats have fought to abandon our military presence in Iraq, surrendering a hard won victory to ISIS and Iran; Obama and Hillary overthrew - illegally, immorally and unconstitutionally - the anti-al Qaeda government of Libya and turned that country into a terrorist hunting ground. Where are the Republican litanies high-lighting these betrayals?
In the meantime, jihadist mosques protected by Democrats continue to function - including the one attended by the San Bernardino shooters - the city of New York continues to bar first responders from monitoring mosques to see what they are preaching, 350 Sanctuary cities still refuse to cooperate with Homeland Security. All under the enemy-friendly doctrine that all Muslims belong to a protected species that cannot be scrutinized about their commitment to a religion that preaches hatred of non-Muslims, particularly Jews, and whose avowed goal is the political submission of the entire world to the Islamic faith. On the other side, a Republican/conservative chorus has so tarred and feathered the Republican front-runner who is doing by default the work that they should be doing, that they have made it virtually impossible for him to win a general election. And make no mistake, they have also made it virtually impossible for any Republican candidate to speak frankly about the Democrats' perfidy and the danger it poses to our country.
How much innocent blood do Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have on their hands? How much innocent blood will be spilled in the next four years if Clinton is elected? These are the questions Republicans should be asking, not whether Donald Trump is a bigot. He obviously is not. Impolitic yes. Racist no. Donald Trump has many faults but lack of political courage is not one of them. He seems motivated by concern for the pit into which this country has fallen under an administration with catastrophic priorities and uncertain loyalties. That is what Republicans need to think about when framing their next attacks. Otherwise the future is dim indeed.
David Horowitz. Bookmark for later
Hmmmm. Weren’t we just “warned” by mitchee mcconnel that nominating a NON traditional candidate will NOT be tolerated and the gopE will not support anyone for a senate race or any outsiders like Trump or Cruz running for president? Geez. I guess we better straighten up and fly right huh? Looks like we may have to take a ride to the courthouse and drop the party choice on our voter registration. Except we have closed primaries.
Yes, and how many freepers agree with this article on the “quin-a pee act” poll about being embarrassed?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3375522/posts?page=33
Some people believe we have to become Muslims and adopt their ideas to defeat Muslims. I wonder how that will work out.
Confusing headline....Republican front runner Donald Trump is wide awake, focused on our common enemy, and has been for quite a while.
I am for Trump and not at all embarrassed. Cruz is tolerable and preferable to the establishment because he is a politician familiar with the “Potomac Two-Step”. He knows how to play the game, and will play the game if enough pressure is brought to bear. His anti-amnesty position is a recent development and he voted for TPA before he voted against it. Trump is the only non-politician who has the chance of a snow-ball in hell of beating Hillary.
that they have made it virtually impossible for him to win a general election.
I disagree David, I think Trump has played this rather well, and when he teams up with Ted Cruz next month. the game will be over!
Donald Trump has many faults but lack of political courage is not one of them.
Amen!!
And this....
If Republicans want to join Democrats and match their viciousness in taking down the Republican front-runner, Hillary Clinton is going to be our next president.
Horowitz is spot on.
I see a Trump/Cruz ticket as a good possibility, but March or May would be the earliest that might happen.
I’m not so sure they will hold out that long. Trump always like to call the shots and force everyone to play his game. They just might pull a hat trick on the establishment. One thing for sure, if they announced before the Primaries, it would completely decimate all other candidates and tweak the establishment like never before!.
For establishment Republicans the enemy is whoever threatens their control over the party. Trump does, the Democrats don't.
“Donald Trump has many faults but lack of political courage is not one of them. He seems motivated by concern for the pit into which this country has fallen under an administration with catastrophic priorities and uncertain loyalties. That is what Republicans need to think about when framing their next attacks. Otherwise the future is dim indeed.”
The world is changing fast! The old beliefs and norms do not reflect the real world. The PC world was constucted on Hippie Pot Smoke and Hope and Change ideals—it really didn’t exist. The truth, like the chickens, are coming home to roost. A new reality is coming and Trumps words ring true with the masses. Even if Trump is never president, he has changed this forever. The old 99% and Black Lives Matter are at the end of the liberal rope. The world is lurching toward a new phase and, I hope, a better one. The coming year fills me with dread. Things could become very violent (I hope I am wrong) and bloody fast. War looks possiblle and I am not talking about some 3rd world conflict but a real World War. Economic failure is also possible as too many are on the dole (not working for one reason or another). World Economy has made a few uber rich and a lot so so much. This leads to social unheaval and a New form of Communism. We see it all around us. The Anti-Colonnialism of the 20th Century spawned the Muslim Brothers and ISIS—it will force a neo-Imperialism to emerge to dominate and control the 3rd world (to Bring Peace). These are times to try men’s souls.
Thanks for the sunny outlook. LOL! Be prepared and be vigilant. Very vigilant.
Well said. Thanks.
Don't look now, but I see a LOT of very serious attacks on Hillary, Obama and other Demoncrats coming from Cruz, Christie, Fiorina, Rubio and even from Bush and Huckabee. I also see a lot of fire coming from Trump to every other Republican nominee whom he perceives as any kind of a threat (and even some who are not a threat, like Paul).
David Horowitz had better wake up and hope Trump remembers who the enemy is, too. I would rather have a President Gilmore (or even Bush) than a President Hillary.
Well said
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