Posted on 05/31/2016 4:04:46 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
One remarkable element of American politics is the extent to which unthinkable developments become commonplace once they happen. Consider simply the men who have become president by defying the conventional wisdom that said they could never reach that office, because they weren’t right for the times and the times weren’t right for them. They include Abraham Lincoln, considered a western bumpkin with only a single congressional term under his belt and no discernible sophistication about him. Or Ronald Reagan, considered a failed actor, a man whose detractors felt he was simply too dumb to be president. And let’s not forget Barack Obama, clearly an accomplished and polished politician whose race, it was believed by many, would constitute a barrier because the country wasn’t yet ready for a black president. But when these men actually reached the White House it seemed entirely natural. The country casually absorbed the reality of something that previously had seemed impossible.
Now we have Donald Trump emerging as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, a development utterly unthinkable until it happened. When he first announced his candidacy, it was considered a joke. When he emerged as the leader in polls, it was said he would falter as soon as actual voting commenced. When he began winning primaries, we were assured it wouldn’t last. When he kept winning, the party elites mounted plans to outmaneuver him through convention manipulations, because this simply couldn’t happen....
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Good, but a dollar late and eight months short.
I pointed out every one of these things last JUNE when I started my Trump book.
Also, I am not convinced Obama is a “skilled politician.” He was, and shall always be, the “Magic Negro” who posed no seeming threat to whites and who wasn’t George Bush.
Since Al Franken(stein)began running for office I have said that,”Al Franken is not a comedian, he is the joke.”
Coarsening? I don’t think so. Is it “coarser” to shoot someone in a duel for calling you a name, or to GUT someone on the floor of the Arkansas House of Representatives over whether wolf pelts should receive bounties, or to call Clinton “Crooked Hillary?”
Considering that politics is influencing the actions of the government, evidently you can.
Anti-PC is #1. Every single one of his opponents and every media figger attacked Trump for his “tone” with blather about how vulgar and racist and sexist he was, yet he won more than anyone. This says the American people are fed up with this BS and stand with Trump. No one from the media or punditry had the guts to say “Trump is right”.
Yes, you can. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiJ9fy1qSFI
sad in that one would dis Trump
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