Posted on 07/08/2016 7:45:26 PM PDT by MaxistheBest
Where is Donald Trump? Some of us really want to know. It seems that he has missed some really golden opportunities to make his case in the past couple of weeks. Does he really want the job of President? Is there some kind of deal between him and the GOP? I do not like what I am thinking.
After weeks of saying Trump campaign has no money, now it is why isn’t he spending the money he doesn’t have to attack Hillary.
Trump is biding his time, letting Hillary say stupid stuff and the Bernbots ramp up for the convention. Post convention, he will line up his artillery wheel to wheel like Zhukov and lay down an awesome and continuous barrage on the hag.
No sense letter her get her feet back under her by blowing the main wad early.
Wake up Molly, I think I’ve got something to say to you…
When will the federalists go after the Federalists? The last eight years have been an absolute gift from the electoral gods. /s
The most important question that was ever proposed to your decision, or to the decision of any people under heaven, is before you, and you are to decide upon it by men of your own election, chosen specially for this purpose. If the constitution, offered to your acceptance, be a wise one, calculated to preserve the invaluable blessings of liberty, to secure the inestimable rights of mankind, and promote human happiness, then, if you accept it, you will lay a lasting foundation of happiness for millions yet unborn; generations to come will rise up and call you blessed. You may rejoice in the prospects of this vast extended continent becoming filled with freemen, who will assert the dignity of human nature. You may solace yourselves with the idea, that society, in this favoured land, will fast advance to the highest point of perfection; the human mind will expand in knowledge and virtue, and the golden age be, in some measure, realised. But if, on the other hand, this form of government contains principles that will lead to the subversion of liberty — if it tends to establish a despotism, or, what is worse, a tyrannic aristocracy; then, if you adopt it, this only remaining assylum for liberty will be shut up, and posterity will execrate your memory.
Momentous then is the question you have to determine, and you are called upon by every motive which should influence a noble and virtuous mind, to examine it well, and to make up a wise judgment. It is insisted, indeed, that this constitution must be received, be it ever so imperfect. If it has its defects, it is said, they can be best amended when they are experienced. But remember, when the people once part with power, they can seldom or never resume it again but by force. Many instances can be produced in which the people have voluntarily increased the powers of their rulers; but few, if any, in which rulers have willingly abridged their authority. This is a sufficient reason to induce you to be careful, in the first instance, how you deposit the powers of government.
So far therefore as its powers reach, all ideas of confederation are given up and lost. It is true this government is limited to certain objects, or to speak more properly, some small degree of power is still left to the states, but a little attention to the powers vested in the general government, will convince every candid man, that if it is capable of being executed, all that is reserved for the individual states must very soon be annihilated, except so far as they are barely necessary to the organization of the general government. The powers of the general legislature extend to every case that is of the least importance — there is nothing valuable to human nature, nothing dear to freemen, but what is within its power. It has authority to make laws which will affect the lives, the liberty, and property of every man in the United States; nor can the constitution or laws of any state, in any way prevent or impede the full and complete execution of every power given. The legislative power is competent to lay taxes, duties, imposts, and excises; — there is no limitation to this power…
And are by this clause invested with the power of making all laws, proper and necessary, for carrying all these into execution; and they may so exercise this power as entirely to annihilate all the state governments, and reduce this country to one single government. And if they may do it, it is pretty certain they will; for it will be found that the power retained by individual states, small as it is, will be a clog upon the wheels of the government of the United States; the latter therefore will be naturally inclined to remove it out of the way. Besides, it is a truth confirmed by the unerring experience of ages, that every man, and every body of men, invested with power, are ever disposed to increase it, and to acquire a superiority over every thing that stands in their way. This disposition, which is implanted in human nature, will operate in the federal legislature to lessen and ultimately to subvert the state authority, and having such advantages, will most certainly succeed, if the federal government succeeds at all.
In a free republic…
Brutus #1 - Anti-federalist
Just waiting for her to stick her hoof in her mouth again...
Why should he take the incoming to nail her when she, the FBI Director, the media and now the State Department are basically doing it for him? They’ll be plenty of time before Nov.
Hillary is doing a fine job of disqualifying herself right now. Trump knows the meaning of timing. Breathe into a paper bag.
But Comey gives him a gift with the refusal to indict and it's just kind of lain there. He hasn't taken as much advantage of it as he could have. Opportunities like that don't come around every day.
If I were advising Trump...the time to respond to Killery is during the demcoRAT convention. and then ramp it up in spades, after labor day
When your enemy is destroying herself...
I think after he officially is named nominee and the convention is over.
Yes.....
Till the end of August or thereabouts, the heavy campaign accomplishes little or nothing.
The most important event in the Trump campaign will be a stem winding key note at the Republican Convention. The events of the last few days will provide tons of thoughts to raise the moderate rabble into paroxysms of revenge against the tyrants.
I just can’t come up with a name of the speaker that will deliver the speech. He (she) will be an unexpected star.
Honestly, this rag doesn’t think Trump has been going after Hillary?
Good grief are they out of touch with reality.
Ditto. As in “it’s tiny bit too early”. [for me]
Molly: Cool your jets, wait till after the nomination, and then if he don’t satisfy your thirst for action, jump his butt.
He is saving things for the Convention—then they will treat Hillary like a pinata. Then things will blast off! More scandals are coming folks—Putin has yet to publish the Hillary E-mails that may well sink her.
I hope that’s it. Hoping he doesn’t choke under all the pressure. He is only human. The negative pressure is unprecedented in ‘wattage’ and is coming from both parties.
Actually, this temporary lull in media activity probably give Donald and his team a chance to catch their breaths for a few weeks. I expect Donald’s vanity and ambition will compel him to start another round of Sunday Show interviews fairly soon.
I also expect Corey Lewendowski (sp) to remain a good spokesperson for the Trump team, but from a distance, like Mike Stone. He wants to protect his status as one who shows loyalty. Just in case Trump becomes president.
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