Notes After New Hampshire ... Mark Steyn

Steyn Online ^ | 11 Feb 2016 | Mark Steyn

[Rummyfan]

Trump won because he put real-world issues on the table. Nobody needs to be told that he "isn't a real Republican". That's the point of Trump. The Republican base loathes the Republican leadership far more than they love the vessel they've chosen to express their loathing.

The Republican leadership has, to cite Glenn Reynolds, chosen the form of its destructor.

[jpsb]

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.

Exactly true, Only Trump is not owned by globalists intent on turning the American public into serfs.

[Rummyfan]

Hillary's real problem is that she's running on biography, and no one gives a crap. The consultants always say candidates need a "compelling personal story". Really? Trump doesn't have one, nor does Sanders, aside from occasional glimpses of his Soviet honeymoon, etc. No one cares about Kasich being the son of a mailman or Rubio being the son of a bartender. But whatever the opposite of a "compelling personal story" is, Hillary is it. Everything she has "accomplished" derives from the two central facts of her life:

1) She got married...

2) ...to a serial adulterer.

[AppyPappy]

Trump is a globalist and you have no idea how he will act if he gets into office. He might decide he likes being king.

[Mr. K]

Reading Mark Steyn increases your IQ

[Rummyfan]

Hillary is nothing but "I'll never stop fighting for you". She has no platform. Nothing. Its vapidity is encapsulated by her pledge to the young voters who have abandoned her all but totally - that even though they aren't there for her she will always be there for them. You can almost hear the snorts of derision in response.

She'll always be there: That's the problem.

[MNJohnnie]

They are running for president of the United States, not president of Davo

Lot of truth to that.

[WTFOVR]

“The Republican leadership has, to cite Glenn Reynolds, chosen the form of its destructor.”

And, this time, the “destructor” is not the Stay-Puff marshmallow man! The establishment is going to get its corrupt clock cleaned and its arrogant elitist ass handed to it. No one organization has so richly earned the status of pariah, nor the ass-whooping it is about to receive in spades. I can barely contain my enthusiasm to finally witness the utter annihilation of the GOP.

[Grampa Dave]

Great oped.

The integrity of a nation 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.

Enforcing the integrity of our borders is driving the Trump haters insane. We are talking about a $ life support for so many Trump haters, including the GOPE's, DC Pundits down to the so called main street merchants dependent on illegals for votes and whatever.

[rusty schucklefurd]

Great lines:
Afterwards, she joined her husband in massively enriching herself by giving six- and seven-figure speeches to those who understand that, while you can never really own a Clinton, you can put down a deposit for services to be rendered.

She became a senator, a presidential candidate, a secretary of state because she was Mrs William Jefferson Clinton - and her sense of entitlement was such that she never felt obligated to make anything of the job other than using it as a springboard for personal enrichment.

[Don Corleone]

I recently got a letter from Sen. McCain (Bless his heart, southerners understand) wherein he also says, surprise surprise, he is in favor of a stop on the Muzzie influx until the mess is sorted out. The same people who poo pooed Trump for his remarks are now jumping aboard. Is re-election a reason?

[Kenny]

Mark is brilliant, love his biting humor.

[rusty schucklefurd]

re: Reading Mark Steyn increases your IQ

I agree.

[jpsb]

Trump is a globalist

You win dumbest post on this treat thus far.
Trump wants to build the wall, a globalist would not do that.
Trump wants to enforce immigration laws a globalist would not do that.
Trump will send the rapefugees back. A globalist would not do that.
Trump will renegotiate bad trade deals and use tariffs if necessary. A globalist would not do that.

[Gay State Conservative]

I'd support a temporary ban on *all* immigration and a permanent ban (accompanied by a 30 foot tall wall from Texas to California) on illegal immigration.And then we can repeal the automatic citizenship clause and start deporting the 30 million wet...ooops,sorry,can't use that word...30 million undocumented democrats already here.

[moehoward]

Steyn ! BUMP

[Grampa Dave]

$crew the Trump Haters/GOPe pundits owned by the Open Borders Elite.

Many of us are looking forward to seeing the broken bones, drying blood and entrails of the Lying GOP Open Borders Elite, their DC faux conservative pundits, their mediots, their phony pollsters and focus groups, their hired tv and radio hacks strewn across the primary states as much as our victories in those states.

[TexasFreeper2009]

yep.

I have started wondering why none of the other candidates have jumped on the deportation bandwagon and just stolen the issue.

Trump has no copywrite on the issue.

Anyone else can say.. you know what... I was wrong about this issue and move HARD right, even further to the right than Trump on this and undercut him.

But they wont.

They are too controlled by the cheap labor corporations.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Trump is a globalist and you have no idea how he will act if he gets into office. He might decide he likes being king.

Then again, he might act like Reagan!