“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!
Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
This is the best election evah. Donald Trump has changed the entire landscape of America and exposed all of the hidden institutions turning them on their heads. This has never happened before and the movers and shakers of this country do not know how to react.
Old Media of course is lining up to protect Bernie for the upcoming General election, but they have a tough time going after another one of their own. Here is a capitalist of the highest level who dealt Real Estate in the hundreds of billions to become one of the top celebrities in New York. Some say he built Wall Street and then followed it up with the number one TV show and now they have to destroy him.
Of course the bimbos in Hollywierd have to make their snarky remarks, but the usual suspects pull their punches for now out of fear and respect. They have been put in a box where only the most strident leftists will go after him like the normal hatred for Repubs, but the SNL, ABCNNBS crowd know he will come on their show and battle them into defeat. They also know he is a ratings plus so they are hard pressed to savage him like they do most Repubs. He is showing how to fight these bullies who are the number one defense of their Marxist agenda.
The more interesting fight is between Trump and the Conservative media. From the day he declared his candidacy and said he was going to build a wall with Mexico paying for it, the commentators and Fox decided he was a Rodeo Clown and needed to be eliminated from the race. The stodgy old ruminators on Fox declared him unworthy of running for their presidency. His added statements about the need to stop sanctuary cities and deporting Mexicans lit their toups on fire and the war was on.
Meanwhile on the conservative talk radio squad he was being cheered for finally saying things that needed to be said about immigration. He was adored as he made statements about Mooselimbs need to be kept over in Europe and Africa and not brought here until we had a way to find out which ones were Islamic terrorists and which were not. All of them except Beck were applauding him for his candor and freshness with a megaphone nobody has seen before.
Then came the famous debate with Meg Kelly and her promoting The War on Women and his spat with Rosie O’Donnell. The spat started when Rosie bullied someone and Donald stood up for the guy and then made a comment which denigrated into Donald calling her a fat pig, which Meg said was proof he hated women. He figured it out during the question, mentioned Rosie with his perfect timing which had the entire crowd laughing at the question setting off the war between him and Fox.
As an observer of politics this is such a unique phenomenon and is actually cowards hiding in fear behind their bluster. You have the people who usually fight liberalism are running from Conservatism and the liberals are fascinated in this person who is larger than life spouting things they hate but are drawn to it like moths to a flame. This is when Talk Radio turned on him.
Talk Radio has decided Ted Cruz is their guy and has passed their purity test which Donald failed. Since Trump has not been a lifelong Conservative and Cruz has, then he does not pass Talk Radio purity. Never mind he is Anti-Abortion now. Never mind he has had a recent conversion to most all of the standards of Conservatism now. Never mind Talk Radio claims to want to convert people from Marxism to Conservatism or that Trump may have been a closet Conservative most of his life, he cannot prove beyond a shadow of a doubt he is and always has been one so he is not one now. They then declared him impure and needed to be destroyed.
They are actually cowards, they do not want to fight and would rather debate. To actually win the so called debate means you have to get ugly and call people names you are not comfortable with. They would rather support someone like Cruz or Rubio who will debate the Constitution or Budget and wonkish fiscal theory to really get their juices flowing, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Trump has it figured out and he brings up a black man who had his beautiful son who had a Stanford football scholarship gunned down in front of his house and talk about real life. Trump would rather talk about the girl in San Francisco who got shot in the back or the woman beaten by a hammer than the Constitution. He would rather talk about building a wall rather than some budget item nobody cares about, that is ugly and not where talk radio wants to go, so he fails the purity test and they can ignore those issues to wow people on their intellect.
Trump talks off the cuff like everyone who sits in their group at the job or bar tawk. Sure he has a high IQ but he is not a DC wonk who talks about how bills go through congress and that makes him ignorant to the pundiots.
They love wonk talk and this takes them out of their comfort zone so they talk about fellow wonks like Cruz and Rubio staying safe and away from those thin branches. They have become the echo chamber they made fun of their entire lives and are the Conservative Establishmedia and Trump is their Anti-Establishment. The entire world has been turned upside down.
Whether Trump wins or loses is not as important as what he has already done to expose the entire media. He has forced every voice to take a side whether they wanted to or not. The biggest irony may be the Conservative media and their denying him into their club. Whether it was from lack of purity or fear, you would think they would have a curiosity of why so many of their followers are supporting Trump. You would expect them to not want to insult and lose their listeners, but they believe they are the gatekeepers of Conservatism which is far more important than their careers. They are doing the very thing that destroyed the NYT and liberal media which is amazing to watch their blindness.
This is the most amazing election we have ever seen. Love him or hate we have never seen anything like this in our lives. My take is it is not so much a moral or purity test is it is easier to say no than to get in there and fight. The only other potential fighter is Cruz, but he will debate rather than roll in the mud like the Dems.
Trump fights until the other guy backs down and that is not where the conservative Punditocracy wants or knows how to go. In the end they are the snooty Conservative Country Club and he is the Billionaire hardhat and the hardhat is winning. The best election evah!
Pray America wakes
Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.
Well done, Bray. Nailed it! Although now I have that image of Rodney Dangerfield (Al Czervik) confronting Ted Knight (Judge Smails) floating in my mind.
Evidently Trump remembers what really happened on 5/8/70 (not the wikiversion) and is building a similar coalition.
This is the most amazing election we have ever seen. Love him or hate we have never seen anything like this in our lives. My take is it is not so much a moral or purity test is it is easier to say no than to get in there and fight. The only other potential fighter is Cruz, but he will debate rather than roll in the mud like the Dems.
Trump fights until the other guy backs down and that is not where the conservative Punditocracy wants or knows how to go. In the end they are the snooty Conservative Country Club and he is the Billionaire hardhat and the hardhat is winning. The best election evah!
For me the Donald secured the election when he took on the fiercest competitor in the world; the new communist pope. Not only did he defeat the pope in no time at all he backed the guy down!! Being the bigger man of the two he also backed off some of his rhetoric as well.
I'll take a guy who can best a communist pope any ol' day. Truth is most people still don't understand "The Donald". I was glad to hear Newt earlier this morning on Hannity deducing what he thought and what I have been saying here is the essence of Trump.
the Donald is not yet full formed. He is a work in process and two weeks from now he will be more politically formed than he is now. Newt and I agree on that and it's key to understanding Donald.
Those who really want to understand him should read his book. "The Art of the Deal."
I usually catch the beginning of Limbaugh's 2nd hour on my way home from the gym. Curious to see how he'll spin the results of the SC primary.
What an apt description! Trump would be the one I'd like to sit down and have a drink, or two, with. Unfortunately, he doesn't drink.
Wonderful post all of it but yes I have found the intensity against Trump maybe not all in a mean way from Michael Medved, Sean Hannity, Hugh Hewitt, Dennis Prager, Ben Shapiro, Allisia Kraus,Mark Levin, I haven't really listened to Rush (really don't want to dislike the original).
I call them the pimps of punditry.
Levin tries to undermine the whole purity thing you mention by mocking playing the martyr with all sorts of straw man rhetoricals.
I'm going with Phyllis Schafley get it done type of conservative. This make tons of money off of me while I listen to the same crappy commericals has gotten tiresome.
The comments at the end of articles we all spend way more time than we dare admit has largely replaced talk radio.
Promote a book, join my web site, come on my cruise, subscibe to my news letter and I'll give the inside scope and show what it is to be conservative.
Memo to the pimps many of us loyal listeners on the best nation on God's green earth from sea to shining sea aren't letting their hearts be troubled anymore, we are turning off the radio/shutting down the connection with our leader in some bunker.
We are done with the talkers- the phony thought leaders
We want action. We want Trump
Turn off your radio go outside and make America great again
Once again great post. Keep up the wonderful freepage!
they believe they are the gatekeepers of Conservatism which is far more important than their careers. They are doing the very thing that destroyed the NYT and liberal media which is amazing to watch their blindness.
Did Rush's debunking this week of "hypocrisy" as an effective political weapon for "conservatives" have a hidden agenda?