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Notes After New Hampshire ... Mark Steyn
Steyn Online ^ | 11 Feb 2016 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 02/11/2016 6:56:00 AM PST by Rummyfan

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~Long, long ago - August 12th last year, in fact - I wrote:

The integrity of a nation's borders and the privilege of its citizenship is certainly a "truly conservative" principle. More practically for this election, it may be the one on which all the others depend... And, as Ann Coulter says to the other candidates, if you don't like Trump, steal his issue.

According to exit polls, in New Hampshire on Tuesday night, two out of three GOP voters favor Trump's proposed temporary ban on all Muslim immigration - despite the universal reaction from the massed ranks of the politico-media class that this time he'd really gone too far. In other words, as I said all those months ago, it's the old Broadway saw: Nobody likes it but the public.

The only reason any pollster is even asking this question is because Donald Trump proposed it. As those numbers suggest, any of Trump's rivals could have helped themselves by "stealing his issue". And yet no other candidate has gone anywhere near it - or anything like it. Perhaps one reason why American elections have the lowest voter participation rate of almost any developed nation is because the political class mostly seems to be talking about its own peculiar preoccupations. Consider this astute observation by Steve Sailer:

American citizens have turned in large numbers to old-white-guy candidates like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. For all their differences, both give the impression that they are running for president of the United States, not president of Davos.

(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...


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To: AppyPappy

It should be obvious to you even though you are trying to ignore the fact that Donald Trump is for SEALING and PROTECTING our BORDERS. He is ALSO for BRINGING JOBS back to America.Somehow that sounds to me like a NATIONALIST, the ABSOLUTE OPPOSITE of a Globalist.


21 posted on 02/11/2016 7:13:10 AM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Rummyfan

22 posted on 02/11/2016 7:13:59 AM PST by jpsb (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismark)
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To: jpsb

What he says he is going to do and what he will do are two different things. He’s got the marks all excited because he is telling them what they want to hear. He can say anything he wants because he doesn’t have a voting record to run on.

He’s got the puppets dancing on his strings.


23 posted on 02/11/2016 7:16:28 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: WTFOVR

Where is Boies Penrose when we need him?


24 posted on 02/11/2016 7:18:05 AM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Don Corleone

People in AZ may be the most clueless of all, but the competition is stiff for that designation.


25 posted on 02/11/2016 7:19:37 AM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Mollypitcher1

What’s his voting record on those issues? What has he actually done?
Oh and the Trump companies have sought to bring in at least 850 H-2B visa workers.


26 posted on 02/11/2016 7:20:32 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: Rummyfan

“John Kasich wants to bring everyone together; Ted Cruz says he can bring back “Reagan Democrats”..; and Trump is promising to blow up the party. In New Hampshire, it’s not hard to see why that last option won.”

Let the explosions begin.


27 posted on 02/11/2016 7:23:28 AM PST by Pelham (Mullah Barack Obama and the Jihad against America)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I’m voting for you.


28 posted on 02/11/2016 7:24:19 AM PST by Pelham (Mullah Barack Obama and the Jihad against America)
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To: AppyPappy

“What he says he is going to do and what he will do are two different things.”

Thank you.

I hope he does mean it and that he doesn’t pull a Ross Perot when it’s too late to do anything about it.


29 posted on 02/11/2016 7:25:18 AM PST by Let's Roll (So much left-wing thought is playing with fire by those who don't even know fire is hot - Orwell)
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To: AppyPappy

He’s certainly got you dancing.


30 posted on 02/11/2016 7:25:45 AM PST by Pelham (Mullah Barack Obama and the Jihad against America)
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To: AppyPappy

“What he says he is going to do and what he will do are two different things.”

Thank you.

I hope he does mean it and that he doesn’t pull a Ross Perot when it’s too late to do anything about it.


31 posted on 02/11/2016 7:26:05 AM PST by Let's Roll (So much left-wing thought is playing with fire by those who don't even know fire is hot - Orwell)
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To: Theodore R.

“I believe in the division of labor. You send us to Congress; we pass laws under which you make money...and out of your profits, you further contribute to our campaign funds to send us back again to pass more laws to enable you to make more money.” - Senator Boies Penrose (R-Pa.), 1896, citing the relationship between his politics and big business.


32 posted on 02/11/2016 7:29:10 AM PST by Pelham (Mullah Barack Obama and the Jihad against America)
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To: Rummyfan; Roscoe Karns; dead; monkapotamus
The Republican leadership has, to cite Glenn Reynolds, chosen the form of its destructor.

The Choice Is Made. The Traveler Has Come.


33 posted on 02/11/2016 7:30:15 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Rummyfan

Steyn understands why we need Trump. Why doesn’t Rush or Levin or Hannity or anyone else? What other conservative “spokesmen” or women understand that only Trump is offering border sovereignty, a better economy by bringing manufacturing home, doing away with Obamacare and allowing states the right to run their own schools?

Is anyone else out there getting it?


34 posted on 02/11/2016 7:30:32 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: AppyPappy

Trump brings in hot babes from eastern Europe to work in his hotels. You got something against hot babes?


35 posted on 02/11/2016 7:31:31 AM PST by jpsb (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismark)
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To: Rummyfan

Also, Steyn and I are on the same page RE Hillary having absolutely NOTHING to offer voters. I wrote this last night on another thread:

February 10, 2016 at 10:46:54 PM PST · 42 of 44
Yaelle to Zakeet
My Message to the Voters by Hillary Clinton

You need to vote for me because:

1. I really really want this more than ANYTHING
2. I feel I deserve it
3. I’ve taken a bunch of crappy jobs I never wanted just to get this
4. I have a vagina, no other President actually owned one before
5. You don’t know the crap I’ve been through.
6. I did most of the stuff Bill got credit for
7. I did the behind the scenes stuff so he could get elected and do well
8. I would have anyone killed who stood in my way
9. You just HAVE TO
10. That vagina thing again


36 posted on 02/11/2016 7:33:31 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: jpsb

I think that sentence about Bern and Trump not running for President of Davos is sheer genius. No one else can say these things as well as Steyn.

(I apologize to Davos, my favorite place to ski when I lived there... It’s not the Parsennbahn’s fault these globalist a come to town each year.)


37 posted on 02/11/2016 7:35:21 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: AppyPappy

You mean all those righteous, upstanding conservative republicans we’ve been voting for and screaming at, having said one thing and then gone and done something different once they reach DC?

You been living in a cave for the last 20 years?

Let me guess, this time, your preferred candidate really, really means it. Really!

If you want to keep on being Charlie Brown to the politico-media establishment’s Lucy, be my guest.

I’m sick of it, and THEM!


38 posted on 02/11/2016 7:35:54 AM PST by AFreeBird
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To: rusty schucklefurd

It could even be that reading Mark Steyn prevents Alzheimers.


39 posted on 02/11/2016 7:36:13 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Rummyfan
For your consideration, a few bumpersticker ideas:

Bernie Sanders -- "From each according to his ability to each according to his needs"

Hillary Clinton -- "Vote for me -- I have a vagina"

Jeb Bush -- "My mom said it's my turn to be president"

Marco Rubio -- "A fresh face: AMerica NEeds STYling"

Ted Cruz -- "Superman"

Donald Trump -- "Superduperman"

40 posted on 02/11/2016 7:37:22 AM PST by glennaro
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