Posted on 03/03/2016 2:18:02 PM PST by Jeff Head
| Wonderful statement of what I also believe! Trump will get the job done -- because he's proven he can do it throughout his career. We need a CEO, not a politician. POTUS is an executive post, not a legislative post. I analyzed the elements of Trump's action-oriented approach in a FR column in January entitled From Art of the Deal to Art of the Campaign. |
Ya know...I read the statement and I have to laugh at his giving his superiors such wiggle room when an emergency arose. I relate it to the Army when i was in ...the only REAL good officers were those that were former enlisted. I never met a bad E-8 (master sergeant)..THEY ran the show , butter bars (1st louies’) would try like hell with there college pablum but the E-8’s knew what to do and we the lower ranks knew this . Anyway I digress , Mitt just gave Trump 5-15% more of our voting population. When you allow yourself to just be in circles that consider themselves to good or “educated” to be bothered you end up like these rino’s gaming the system that they set the rules for....will be fun to watch the carnage in D.C. when “The Donald” arrives.
Trump has also promised to end Common Core on the federal level.
Give me a specific example of a 'lie"
You are the one spreading lies
I think Romney did not need to create a public spectacle.
I think he could have and should have gone to Trump and made his case in private and tried to work it out.
Trump endorsed him four years ago and said he was honored to do so.
Romney accepted that endorsement and said glowing things about it.
Both men could settle this.
If Romney was really this concerned...if he felt it was THIS bad, then:
1) His acceptance of the Trump’s endorsement was a sham.
2) He would have gotten in the race to stop it.
3) He would have spoken out far sooner.
He did not do any of those things.
Any reasonable person can and should ask why.
Trump has been successful. Trump has spoken up and out about numerous things that need to be on the table.
Trump is profane...he is crass...but he is also taking the bull by the horns himself precisely because the establishment types have not been addressing the real problems.
In the end...if Trump brings the number of people to the table with his message and his written and documented plans...and if in doing that he wins as big as he is...then he is the person the people are choosing.
I am happy to let that process unfold.
I had to laugh when Romney said ‘all we got was the hat.’
I thought, that is more than we go from Romney in 2012.
5.56mm
Exceptional post, and you’ve always set the bar high.
You worked with a couple of rednecks, though you didn’t use the word.
Mark my words. Rednecks built America and they’ll rebuild America.
It’s almost as though Mitt got lassoed into being a mercenary for the GOPe.
Whatever Donald Trump is... Donald Trump isn’t a GOPe mercenary. Or a Democrat mercenary.
He’s probably do about as well as the Jebster.
I wouldn’t rely on rule 40 - the rules committee meets the week before the convention. If it looks like rule 40 will be a problem, it will be changed. They did the same thing last cycle, so it would not be unprecedented.
Excellent.
I have two open letters..F...U...
To Romney that is
https://www.facebook.com/philliprjohnson/posts/10156601201210472
Phil Johnson
11 hrs · Santa Clarita, CA, United States ·
Please allow me to expand on something I posted (below) in reply to some questions that came up in an earlier comment-thread. Here is my answer to friends who wonder if there’s a contradiction between my sounding an alarm during an election year regarding Donald Trump’s character vs. my own frequently-expressed opinion that churches and pastors should keep partisan politics at arm’s length, and Christians should not be deluded into thinking that the machinery of the American Electoral College can be commandeered for the advancement of Christ’s kingdom.
This isn’t about politics. My concerns about Donald Trump have nothing to do with his political convictions. Even if I agreed with every position he took on both foreign and domestic policy, it would still be my firm belief that he does not qualify to lead this or any other nation. It’s frightening to think that such an irascible and capricious man, severely lacking in both self-control and moral boundaries—a man whom we have repeatedly seen fight like a 7-year-old schoolgirl—might have the power to invoke war or take other executive actions.
Of course Trump is by no means the only Presidential candidate (including certain current office-holders) who is morally, spiritually, and ethically stunted. He’s surely the *worst,* but he’s neither the first nor the only scoundrel who doesn’t deserve anyone’s votes. American politicians for years have seemed to be trying to outdo each other to see who can be more arrogant, more narcissistic, more ostentatious, more wantonly driven by the flesh, and more cleverly deceitful—while being less accountable, less open to instruction or admonition, and above all, less modest. But Trump has greatly upped the ante, and he is certain to be the hands-down winner by an incredible margin in the contest to see who can be the mouthiest and most unsavory political candidate ever. I can’t imagine how anyone could ever surpass him for sheer carnal chutzpah.
I’m especially annoyed by the ridiculous pretense (put forward and fostered by Trump himself) that he is a faithful Christian who “reads the Bible more than anyone else”—even though he claims he can’t remember ever asking God for forgiveness or even needing to. This man is not a Christian, and as long as he insists he is—and (evidently) manages to get lots of people to believe it,—my conscience is continually telling me I have a duty to warn my friends and members of my flock not to be duped by this swaggering loudmouth falsely masquerading as a messiah.
I’m appalled by the pathetic gullibility of hundreds of thousands who self-identify as “evangelicals” (presumably people who would say they believe the Bible is true) who nevertheless are quite willing to believe that this arrogant adulterer represents hope, or promise, or an improvement of some kind.
Americans already voted an overweening narcissist into office eight years ago. Why would anyone think an even more egomaniacal blowhard is going to make things better for our nation?
Yes, I know God is sovereign, and that the king’s heart is in His hands (Proverbs 21:1), and I DO rest in the knowledge that His truth will ultimately triumph, and He will use all things for our good and His glory.
But I’ve never viewed my Calvinist convictions as an excuse for indifference or inaction. I needed to say something.
Nice job, but too long.
I can name that tune in four notes.
F-U-M-R !!
You, sir, are fantastic.
I only wish all the so called conservatives in congress could read your words.
Would they understand our frustration and anger?
I voted for Jeff Flake only to watch him turn into a McCain clone.
So disappointing, needs to get home to AZ and really listen to the people.
Can’t vote for anyone who is only in it for themselves, I’m done!!!
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