Posted on 08/13/2015 2:34:41 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Let me see if I’ve got his straight:
There’s a man who is a pure product of the City of New York, one of the great urban cesspools of our time, a borderline third-world metropolis run as a combination nanny state and dictatorship.He is the epitome of all that is hated about that city: he is brash,loud,boastful,vulgar,insincere,and only as honest as he has to be. Furthermore,he has few of the city’s virtues.Where the typical New Yorker is hot-blooded,he is cold, where generous,he is close-handed,where magnanimous,he is vicious. You could look long and hard for a more impressive illustration as to why NYC is feared and hated, and you would find little or nothing.
He is also a product of the city’s political culture. He has spent the past forty years soul-kissing the Democratic establishment,taking advantage of a crippled,corrupt city government to line his own pockets. He has been awarded hundreds of millions in contracts while slipping back millions in “contributions” to the party coffers--a process of “clean graft” developed into a science since the days of Tammany. Worse than that,he is closely involved with the epicenter of corruption in our time. He consults regularly with none other than the Clintons--Hillary,in fact,attended one of his weddings. It can be said without exaggeration that he is major factor in maintaining liberal dominance over the New York metropolitan area.
He was born to the Purple Chamber,a member of the elite that has been taking form in this country over the past half-century,and is even now fastening its chains over American society as a whole. Heir to a vast fortune, he has expanded it, and claims to have an 11-figure fortune(though this is unlikely.) He virtually personifies the iron triangle of wealth, politics,and media that has been undermining this country’s institutions as long as I’ve been alive.
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When someone says something negative about Trump all you have to do is ask yourself what have our politicians accomplished in the last 30 years?
We have lost almost every issue along the way. Including Amnesty, Education, Taxes, Health Insurance, Gay Marriage...on and on.
Here we are again and its same formula. Bush is already the presumptive candidate. Which is fine by the MSM because they know he is weak. And then there is the conservative candidate, who for whatever reason, is unable to take the lead.
That is about the time folks start telling us we must vote the GOPe candidate or else.
However, the major difference this time is Trump who has the money. While the conservative candidate has the organization and infrastructure in place. Cruz is probably one of the smartest candidates in a long time.
I would feel a lot better if Bush, and the rest of the schlumps, would stay under 5% the rest of his run.
We are still nearly half a year away from the voting. No need to beat each other up for the "choice" we have today, as it is totally meaningless until the caucuses and primaries. Many of these candidates (including Trump) may not even be still in the race when the voting starts.
This happens every election cycle. Just four years ago, this place was a Sarah Palin cult. Then when she decided not to run it turned into a Herman Cain cult. Then after Herman was run out of the race, Newt Gingrich was the second coming for a month or so.
For now, Donald Trump is doing a good thing. 24 million Americans tuned into a meaningless GOP debate in the middle of summer largely because of Trump. Many of those people were independents and Democrats and got to see conservatives like Ted Cruz and Ben Carson for the first time. This is a good thing! Let it ride and see where it goes.
I am a dyed-in-the- wool Southern girl.....and even I get Donald Trump.....
....and I think America would be fortunate to get Donald Trump....
...a Trump/ Cruz ticket sounds good!
There's no analogy there whatsoever to be drawn between Hitler and Donald Trump. Does Trump have brownshirts out in the street smashing shop windows and terrorizing citizens? Did he write a book threatening to take over the world and exterminate certain types of people? Also, political correctness did not exist in 1930s Germany. Politics at the time was nasty business. Many parties and pressure groups had their own "street armies" intimidating citizens. The Nazis weren't even the worst of them.
I like the way you see it...Great post!!!!
Yep! still a long way to go and things need to play their course. it’s amusing to me how so few of the candidates are a) not playing the long game b) trying to show points with the media.
For whatever good points candidates like Rick Perry or Rand Paul have, they’re showing how amateur they are when it comes to gauging the base and understanding what Republicans want in 2016. “Trump should drop out over his opinions”, uh, no, imbecile. It’s called the first amendment. I’m not even a Trump supporter, but the man has every right to run. Republicans needn’t fight each other. The 11th commandment, look it up. Cruz gets it. The media also wants these candidates to fight amongst themselves because a) 90% of the media are liberal that hate all of these people equally b) they want the ratings.
Quit pandering to the media. This is a long process. Quit trying to look like the “adult” in the room when everyone knows better than that. You’re not scoring any points by doing what the media wants you to do. Stand up for this country! I mean, wow, it’s so easy to address Trump. Here, look, Fiorina, this is what you say when the media asks you about Trump, “Well, we disagree on some important issues. Here’s why I’m better...” If they keep pressing, then you say this isn’t about attacking other Republicans; It’s about attacking Hillary. Period. Done. That’s all a smart candidate does.
Cruz seems to be the only one who gets that.
It's a puzzle to me why the city is so politically liberal (though they have elected Republicans in the past, such as Guiliani). But walking the streets of Manhattan, I don't feel oppressed under the government's heel at all. It is certainly not the "cesspool" that people who probably have never been here like to call it.
Even the boroughs are nice. I have a satellite office in Long Island City (part of Queens) and that area is gentrifying in a big way, as are huge parts of Brooklyn and Bronx. It will take me years to fully explore this place, all the museums, theaters, restaurants, parks, etc.
It's a thriving city and alive with activity. Skyscrapers are constantly going up all around me. Now I know why Ayn Rand loved the city so much. This is the center of capitalism.
When was the last time you were in NYC? Or are you relying on the NYC tabloids for your information? I don't even see dog poop on the streets in Manhattan (and a lot of people walk their dogs). It's a clean city, considering the millions upon millions of people that come in and out of here every single day.
I'm a Cruz guy, and I'm supporting Cruz fully. That includes his approach of NOT attacking Trump. When all of the usual suspects (Libs, RINOs, GOPe, etc) are attacking him, and the most conservative one is not, does this not make you pause to look at the bigger picture?
Why would you take sides with the sorry, mushy lot when you could be taking the Cruz position?
Trump seems to be that Man on Horseback that appears in times like these. Napoleon was one.
Yes, it’s a wonderful city. I’m jumping on a train in an hour to explore. I’m trying to talk my husband into going over to Trump Tower. I’ve haven’t been in it in years.
If Cruz were the brawler that Trump is and still had his Constitutional sensibilities we would have a perfect candidate. Second best is somehow Cruz winning the primaries overwhelmingly and taking Trump for VP. I am not terribly optimistic on that score.
No, of course not. The demagogic appeals of Huey P. Long and Barack H. Obama are much more à propos.
“There’s a man who is a pure product of the City of New York, one of the great urban cesspools of our time,..” For those old enough we remember the New York Daily News headline, “Ford to New York: Drop Dead”
So now we have this attempt to say, “Hey Forget about the fact that Trump is unafraid of the media the GOPe and the Democrats, don’t vote for him because he is from New York City” Please try and get a bit more creative. This type of lame pedestrian crap just shows how teflon Trump really is. This guy’s editor should have sent this steaming pile of crap back.
If you go to Trump tower, they have a nice place for lunch in an atrium on the Madison Ave side of the building - Obica I think it’s called. I walked through it just last week. There are two “Trump” stores in the main lobby and people were lining up to buy Trump merchandise.
You can learn more if you read the whole piece.
>> FDR was the last candidate from New York to win a presidential race <<
Yes, but he wasn’t a streetwise “New Yorker” from the city. The last one of those was his cousin TR — whose mistaken and “progressive” policies still haunt the USA today.
I don't think he's really the ass. IMO, he's the whole thing!
I’m for Cruz also, Agree.
>>The German people felt the same way about the Weimar Republic, so they were ripe for the rise of a man who told them what they wanted to hear, a loud, politically-incorrect man who got things done.
>>The Cuban people felt the same way about Batista, so they were ready to follow anyone to overthrow him, and fell in love with Castro because he told them what they wanted to hear. And for a long time people insisted he was not a communist, and even elevated his pet mass murderer Che to godlike status.
I agree. Obama was that man for the people in our country that consider themselves to be marginalized and disenfranchised, even though they are actually coddled and given importance that far outweighs their contributions to society. Hillary will try to plug into that same populism among the victim classes.
So, if we are to be a nation led by a populist who appeals to our base urges, isn’t it far better to choose the nationalist who appeals to the productive people than the anti-nationalist who appeals to the non-producers.
The difference between and American Nationalist leader and a European Nationalist leader is that we ALREADY have “living space”, except for that which has been stolen from us by foreign invaders from the south. We don’t have to invade other nations and start a World War to take what we feel is rightfully ours. We just have to put up a fence and secure what we already have. That is the thing that makes all the difference when drawing parallels to nationalist leaders from small nations that are not self-sufficient.
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