The False Comparison Of Trump To Hillary

Frontpagemag.com ^ | June 7, 2016 | Bruce Thornton

[Biggirl]

A lot of Republicans still upset over Donald Trump winning the nomination resort to a false equivalence between Trump and Clinton in order to justify sitting the election out or even voting for Hillary. Take a recent example by the National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru. First he lists Hillary’s manifold sins that Trump is innocent of: lying to the parents of the Benghazi victims, promising to nominate hard-left jurists to the Supreme Court, and supporting Obamas’ high-tax economics and unconstitutional amnesty of illegal aliens.

[glock rocks]

Not to mention her hatred of the Constitution, especially 2a.

[2banana]

Does Trump have a billion dollar slush fund charity with donations from mostly foreigners buying influence on a sitting secretary of state and possible future president?

[exDemMom]

He is a businessman in a world where decorum and class often aren’t as important as sharp elbows and tough negotiating skills, where making a profit is more important than consistency or sparing people’s feelings.

We need someone who is tough and unafraid to speak up. What this article failed to point out is that the "decorum and class" only apply to Republicans, never to Democrats. Democrats can be as rude, rough, and mean as they want, and they never get called on it. Let a Republican speak up against something, and all of a sudden, the media and Democrats are calling him public enemy #1 and relentlessly smearing him. That has to change. No doubt, a lot of Trump's appeal is that he seems to be a guy who can stand up to Democrat/media smears.

Perhaps Trump’s flaws would make him a bad president. But other presidents who had flaws equally distasteful––such as Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, or Bill Clinton––managed to do some good things as president regardless. With Trump there’s at least a chance he could turn out to be a better president than his bluster and insults suggest.

There is nothing distasteful about someone standing up to the leftist cabal. Of course there is a chance he will be a better president than his "bluster and insults" suggest. In fact, there is every reason to believe he'll be a great president--very successful businessman, not afraid to stand up and speak the truth, will not back down when the media/Democrats try to smear him for speaking the truth. That is how a Republican president should be. That is actually how Democrat politicians are--they show toughness in pushing anti-American agendas. If conservative Republican politicians would be as tough, this country wouldn't be swirling down the drain right now.

[Travis McGee]

[Pontiac]

Perhaps Trump’s flaws would make him a bad president. But other presidents who had flaws equally distasteful––such as Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, or Bill Clinton––managed to do some good things as president regardless.

Maybe I haven’t studied the Johnson presidency enough but I am having a hard time coming up with anything good that he accomplished as president.

[Flick Lives]

Maybe I haven’t studied the Johnson presidency enough but I am having a hard time coming up with anything good that he accomplished as president.

The only good thing he did was not run for a second term.

[trebb]

Not to mention her hatred of the Constitution, especially 2a.

And she thinks that refusing to answer a yes/no question, about whether the Constitution empowers the People to keep and bear arms, cannot be taken as a "Hell No! The guns must go!"

She and Willie are so used to getting away via obfuscation that she still has not measure of what's coming....

[glock rocks]

Hammer. Nail. Head.

BZ

[miss marmelstein]

Hillary has insane eyes.

[Pelham]

“Take a recent example by the National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru.”

National Review- strike one

Ramesh Ponnuru- strike two

[Western Phil]

He realized that he couldn’t clean up the mess he made and quit after 1 term.