Did you know there’s a presidential primary going on?
I hadn’t heard.
An interesting read on how the left created Donald Trump. Well, so did the GOP establishment. I mean, they told us to put them in charge and they’d stop Obama. And then nothing.
And this cracked me right up:
We’re building a great handbasket, @iowahawkblog, the fastest handbasket ever. It’ll be *yuge*!
And for Hillary, well, this is interesting news:
Justice Dept. grants immunity to staffer who set up Clinton email server
Quick, somebody check to see if Al Gore shaved his beard and lost some weight.
March 3rd, 2016 at 6:55 pm
I think it depends on how much Hillary has on Barack. If Obama allows indictment, it may be that he said, just relax Joe, you won’t have to do those messy primaries.
As for the Republican Party bosses, they SAY they want a conservative, but since they were OK with Romney, McCain, Bush and their Congressional leaders have rollec over for Obama….they still support their feckless and globalist sellout policies.
March 3rd, 2016 at 7:20 pm
Barack will slow roll the indictment until after the election. If she wins, a few token staffers will go to jail. If she loses, all guilt and blame will be dumped on her hear, and all the O acolytes will refuse to believe he has any faults in the loss.
As for T, lets see his positions:
Pro-bailouts.
Pro-em domain.
Was vociferously anti-gun until he started running as an R, at which point he suddenly bought the obligatory NRA lifetime membership.
He wants to replace Obamacare with an individual mandate (wtf?), and havethe govt will pay for all healthcare.
He was pro-amnesty at the same time Rubio was.
He suddenly says he’s pro-life, after years of saying the opposite, and thinks PP does something besides abortions
Wants to redo libel laws to outlaw criticism of himself
Wants to invade Iraq to “take their oil”
Is endorsed by Bob Dole and Trent Lott
People do realize that he is he establishment candidate in this race, right?
March 3rd, 2016 at 7:36 pm
That staffer better get some real good protection. People who go up against the Clinton’s have a tendency to cease fully functioning as a biological entity. They don’t call it Arkancide for nothing.
March 3rd, 2016 at 8:24 pm
@Michael, That seems to be a plausible theory with Obama and Clinton. And the other sounds like you’re describing that arch conservative, Mitt Romney, and others which the Republican establishment has countenanced.
March 3rd, 2016 at 8:34 pm
Ron W,
That’s the bizarre thing about Trump, that is 100% his positions. Trump is the RINO in is race, and he is knocking out Tea Party types like Perry, Jindal, Walker, Cruz and Rubio.
March 3rd, 2016 at 8:50 pm
And the establishment reaction to Trump is bizarre since they’ve previuously tolerated RINO’s as presidential candidates and in current Republican Conressional leadership.
March 3rd, 2016 at 10:10 pm
An alternate theory on the possible Hillary indictment, what if Obama is still sore about her starting the Birther and crypto-Muslim rumors?
I thought he might shield her if Bernie beat her, figuring that that humiliation would be enough, but that he might want to keep her from the nomination if she looked poised to win it. Yesterday, the day after she won on Super Tuesday, we get news that her staffer got immunity. And then today we get unconfirmed leaks regarding indictments. Things may get really interesting in the coming days.
March 3rd, 2016 at 11:14 pm
@ Michael “…(Trump)is the establishment candidate…”
Tell that Romney, McCain, and the list of suits at National Review.
If Trump does nothing else but honor his commitment to stop the immigrant onslaught, his presidency will be a yuge success. Because if it’s not stopped, nothing else will matter.
Ask the euros…like those in what was formerly the Greek Isles, about that.
March 4th, 2016 at 7:26 am
If Hillary had any dirt on Barak, none of this would have ever gotten off the ground.
March 4th, 2016 at 10:29 am
Michael, how are those positions different from THE LAST TWO Republican Presidential candidates? Or, as I pointed out earlier, the positions of the Republican caucus in Congress?
March 4th, 2016 at 1:03 pm
What were Reagan’s positions back in the 50s? Or do you cast the same aspersions upon him as you do to The Donald?
When China, Mexico, Lyin’ Ryan, Mittens, Trudeau, and the EU Elite are AGAINST him, he must be doing something right.
And for those of you who say Hillary has nothing on the Muslim in Chief, what do you think she was doing all that time she was SoS? Do you REALLY think that she was NOT in the room when decisions were made? Do you think her memory is so bad that she can’t give details? My bet is that she even has audio recordings of all the dirt.
She understands that a mere FBI investigation means nothing to her voters. An indictment, on the other hand, poses a problem. But then she’s surely such a good soldier that she “will go quietly into the night” and “take one for the team“. Or not…
March 4th, 2016 at 1:08 pm
And by the way, what the DoJ has done is given that staffer a means to cover for Her Holiness, without having to face any serious consequences. “McDougal” is a name that comes to mind as a precedent…
March 4th, 2016 at 2:40 pm
I can’t wait: Both parties have white knights riding to their rescue as we get to pick between Mitt Romney and Al Gore.
Isn’t “yuge” a one man downhill sport practiced in N.Y and N.J.?
March 4th, 2016 at 4:13 pm
@Billll, it seems that the Republican “white knight”, Romney, in not endorsing one candidate, but three, would like a deadlocked convention, which may allow him to have a “free ride” to the nomination. Hey, isn’t that what he said of Trump. Trump, Rubio, Cruz and Kasich should get together and agree that only one of them will be the nominee…not some empty-suit, non-participate loser.
March 4th, 2016 at 5:03 pm
“…how the left created Donald Trump…”
I’ll accept that the Left is that devious, but they are no where NEAR that clever or competent.
March 4th, 2016 at 7:40 pm
DJT, I got news for ya, NRO are the good guys. Not the crypto-socialist Trump. Just because they oppose the short fingered vulgarian doesn’t make them “establishment”, they have principles for their opposition.
DaveP, we aren’t electing Romney nor McCain this cycle, so they got nothing to do with that idiot. He’s knocked out accomplished, effective comservatives like Perry, Jindal and Walker. Meanwhile, we still have both Cruz and Rubio, with 90+% conservative voting records. He only RINO here is The Donald. Look at his list of actual position, above.
March 4th, 2016 at 7:49 pm
The frustrating this cycle is that the Republicans have been very effective at purging a fair share of the Establishment Republicans from the party over the past six years. So, we’re now poised to walk through an easy general election with a wide slate of actual Conservative candidates, about to close the deal kicking out the Establishment, and here comes that left-wing blowhard to knock everything off track. He’s the only guy who the polls show will lose to Hillary, and that’s who we’re about to nominate. He’s gonna put Hillary into the WH.
March 4th, 2016 at 8:48 pm
I hope Karl Rove really tastes that good, Michael.
March 4th, 2016 at 10:36 pm
Mark,
Honestly, which of the facts that I’ve posted are you disputing? I’ve posted a fair list of T’s actual positions. You don’t define a person by what (or who) they’re against, you define them by what they’re for. And he is for a lot of left wing policies.
March 4th, 2016 at 11:14 pm
@Michael, how cute of you to parrot the finger thing; wonder where you picked that up today, and be honest, because I guarantee you everybody else here knows.
And “I got news for ya”, those “conservatives” and company men haven’t been “knocked out” by DT, they were eliminated by the same “we” who “aren’t electing Romney or McCain this cycle.” But give your “good guys” a chance to broker it, and that or another empty establishment suit is what they will elect for you…handing the big chair to the beast, which I am convinced is their actual goal.
March 5th, 2016 at 12:18 am
Hell, even the frickin’ NYT gets it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/05/us/politics/donald-trump-republican-party.html?_r=0
March 5th, 2016 at 12:32 am
JTC,
No comments on his policies? Can we all agree now that T is really a crypto-leftist?
And seriously, you’re quoting the NYT as a true reflection of conservatism?
March 5th, 2016 at 1:12 am
Toe the GOPe line, Michael, I’m sure they’ll make good choices for you…McCain, Romney, Rubio? I don’t know what that’s a reflection of, but it ain’t conservatism.
March 5th, 2016 at 3:00 am
JTC,
I’m not toeing anyone’s line but my own. Now, please, reread my first post above, and tell me how somebody with those beliefs reflect conservatism?
T’s position on immigration is the same as Rubio’s, and on every single other issue-with the exception of the whole ordering the US military to commit war crimes thing-Perry, Walker, Jindal, Walker and Rubio are to the right of your boy on every single issue.
What one candidate in this race has explicitly promised to “cut deals” with Pelosi and Harry Reid??? The establishment candidate, that’s who.
March 5th, 2016 at 6:22 am
Michael, if you’re gonna complain about Trump’s positions you’ve pretty much opened up the positions of McAmnesty and Romneycare for discussion. And don’t forget that the last two Republican Presidents were just okay with gun bans (remember when Bush II said he’d sign the AWB extension if it was placed in front of him?). Otherwise you’re just living in a dream land.
Also, as I said: When was the last time Congressional Republicans did something POSITIVE for gun rights, right-to-life, religious freedom? Not Kabuki theater, “oh ah we can’t pass anything because Obama is scaaary”, but something real, like the Dems managed to do under every previous Republican administration? Do you have to go back more than ten years?
March 5th, 2016 at 11:44 am
@DaveP, thanks for rehearsing recent history to point out the hypocrisy of current political posturing by establishment Republicans, many of whom must be recent conservative converts, since they seemed satisfied to support the likes of Romney, McCain and the Bush’s, not to mention McConnell, Boehner and Ryan.
March 5th, 2016 at 1:29 pm
DaveP,
What do any of those people have to do with the current election? McCain and Romney aren’t running. Thank God. A whole host of actual conservatives are. How about you explain what is wrong with them, instead of discussing irrelevant things.
March 5th, 2016 at 1:44 pm
And, as for “McAmnesty”, T’s position is the same as Rubio:
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/373145053482319872
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd2Q1CyVyDE
http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/trump-tape#.jpjpznLn
http://goo.gl/lGxQrM
You all are still ignoring my original question, what about all his other wildly left wing positions?
March 5th, 2016 at 2:24 pm
Michael, if McCain and Romeny (and Rubio, and Ryan, and Kaisch, and Boehhner, and McConnell, and El Jeb, and ad nauseum) are “conservative” or “conservative enough”, THE WORD MEANS NOTHING. If Trump’s positions are NOT to the left of the positions the last two Republican presidents have taken, either HE isn’t “not conservative” or THEY are.
Rubio called for exporting illegals and building a wall? WOW. Or did Trump put his vote on record, in Congress assembled, with Chuck Schumer standing right behind him with a can of KY Jelly, to amnesty every single illegal immigrant in America? Or was this yet another Rubio Special, where he says one thing in front of Univision and another completely in front of ABC?
Hell, even Cruz didn’t bring up Immigration until weeks after Trump did- and even then, even when running to Trump’s right on illegals would’ve been a great vote-getter and taken the wind out of Trump’s sails, he didn’t.
So yeah,. just the same- except not.
March 5th, 2016 at 11:50 pm
DaveP,
Please, go over the list of T’s positions from my first post and explain again to me how each one is “conservative”.
Please explain to me how Cruz, Jindal, Walker and Perry are all even vaguely to the left of your boy. I could care less about those RINOs Jeb and Kasich, and even less about past presidents or candidates. Focus yourself on the actual choices before us today.
Be specific. Please.
March 6th, 2016 at 2:55 am
“Michael, if McCain and Romeny (and Rubio, and Ryan, and Kaisch, and Boehhner, and McConnell, and El Jeb, and ad nauseum) are “conservative” or “conservative enough”, THE WORD MEANS NOTHING.”
If I say
“Blah” means black
then
“Blah means white”
that’s a contradiction. The two claims mutually annihilate, leaving “blah” as meaning nothing. Or, to be specific, it means whatever I want it to mean.
Keep that in mind as Jonah Goldberg asks “What is a Conservative?”
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/214416/what-conservative-jonah-goldberg
March 6th, 2016 at 3:10 am
“An interesting read on how the left created Donald Trump. Well, so did the GOP establishment.”
We all have a left leg and a right leg – and yet, they nevertheless take us in specific directions.
That’s because they’re complementary, two sides of the same thing, not “opposites”.
Trump is the sum of the two. He is neither right nor left leg, but what hangs in the middle.
March 6th, 2016 at 10:59 am
“(Trump)is neither right nor left leg, but what hangs in the middle.”
Yup. He’s a prag. http://mychal-massie.com/premium/trump-is-not-conservative-hes-a-pragmatist/
Oh, you meant that he’s a dick. Yeah, that too. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
And if you read that linked article, read further into the Daily Rant, commentary by the smartest black dude on the planet ever since Sowell sold out.
March 7th, 2016 at 4:27 pm
What’s hilarious is to see folks who snark the fuck out of conspiracy theorists latch onto one when it suits their preconceived biases. Slick bribed Trump to wreck the GOPe? It is to laugh, they wrecked it theirownselves with Mac, Mitts, and Jeb/Rube. Though I guess you could make the case that a conspiracy to keep the opposition to elites other elites so as to keep their tenured feed-trough.
Saying Donald Trump destroyed the Republican party is akin to saying the Founders destroyed the king. It had/has nothing to do with sheep finally having enough of being fatted for slaughter and rising up with pitchforks, muskets, or Trump.
Sometimes smart people can be so clueless to their own fucking irony, or think everyone else is.
March 10th, 2016 at 11:48 am
I find it astonishing the degree to which the Trumpkins ignore his actual positions. Then they dump on conservatives who hold positions nowhere near as leftwing as him.
Single payer, here we come!