This is exactly why the "outsiders" are on top of the polls this year. Most everybody knows campaigns do not spend hundreds of millions of dollars because they want to help the downtrodden. Or they want to help the poor earn more. Or to increase middle class pay checks. Most educated people will reject the politicians this election cycle. The only people that will vote for the politicians will be the low information voters, the takers and the fanatic's.

 

Those that are on top in the GOP this election cycle, are all anti establishment . . . . THAT SPEAKS VOLUMES.

 

There is the problem (the takers)....may be so many of them we are screwed and no reformer wins.....

When we are 25 trillion in debt (6 trillion away) and
the interest on the debt eats up 40% of the revenue.....stick a fork in it.......we are done...shit will hit the fan and all bets are off....

 

Can you imagine any other man in the RNC taking the gloves off on Hillary Clinton? I can't. They are too wussified, too emasculated. All of them. Trump will step right into the mud wrestling pit with Hillary. Yes, it will be extreme, and people will have to decide.

Then again... Trump could end up being paired off against Sanders. If that happens, Trump will hit Sanders like a cement mixer. Again, people will have to decide.

To vote for a strong, independent, populist firebrand who says exactly what is on his mind. Or to vote for... what? Either Hillary with all her baggage, or socialist milquetoast from Vermont?

Trump himself has expressed dismissive contempt for both of them. In an interview on 60 Minutes (which followed a football game, which is why I happened to see it on TV), Trump said he hoped for the opportunity to run against Biden. That was back in September. Now it is January, and he has to be thinking the same thing. I would guess he is hoping that Hillary will crash and burn under her legal problems, forcing a brokered DNC convention and Joe Biden coming to the rescue of the party. I don't have a source for that. It's just speculation. Based on the fact that he has zero respect for the people currently leading the DNC primary race.

 

I took this out of comments, because comments don't work for me with Javascript off...

Not at all. I have Sanders in there as an alternative. And unlike most of my friends, I do think Sanders has a real shot. Here in Massachusetts, Sanders appears to be far more popular, judging by the signs and buzz.

I guess what I am saying is that if Bernie wins the DNC primaries, even the DNC will realize he doesn't stand a chance in the general election. I am betting that if Bernie wins the primaries, the DNC will go to a brokered convention and we'll see something like Joe Biden/Liz Warren, coming to the "rescue."

 

Sanders is more vocal on bringing down the rich and giving to the poor.....

democrat voters are very populated by the welfare crowd.....

 

What the fuck are you even talking about?

 

If Obama could manage it twice, Trump can do it.

 

Fucking idiot!

 

How eloquent and mature. Do you need a time out?

 

She may be calculated with her rhetoric, but I think she sorely miscalculated how much she could get away with when it comes to her Leona Helmsley attitude toward the law.

Good! Can she stand in the middle of the Henry Hudson during the morning commute?

 

She'll have to run that through focus groups first.

 

Yeah, but it's those super delegates that can really take it in another direction.

 

Like I always say, "Gotta love Howie!"

RINO's bible a joke

Howie Carr Sunday, January 24, 2016

What do you say to an employee who sabotages every project he undertakes, lies to you about what he can accomplish, begs for forgiveness and just one more chance, then stabs you in the back yet again while actively conniving with your rivals to destroy the organization?

You tell him, “You’re fired!”


That’s what is happening here. The GOP electorate is telling the Washington cartel, “You’re fired.” Bush, Rove, Ryan, McConnell, Boehner, Lott et al. — you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.

How out of touch is the National Review magazine that it cannot understand Donald Trump’s appeal? He’s HR, delivering the “You’re fired!” message to Obama’s fellow travelers in the GOP. Grounds for dismissal: the mis-, mal- and nonfeasance of the Republican In Name Only (RINO) governing class.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and there’s a vacuum at the top of the Republican party — in ethics, courage and commitment to anything except their own perks. And now the RINOs house organ, the National Review — is it a nonprofit, or just plain unprofitable? — demands that the great unwashed put down their pitchforks and follow orders, as in days of yore.

For their fatwah, the NR’s Beautiful People canvassed the exclusive clubs, think tanks and doorman-protected high rises of the 202 and 212 area codes. They beseeched 22 “paralyzing snoremongers,” as Tom Wolfe used to call them, to put down their snifters of brandy long enough to issue a collective “Tut tut!” against this dreadful parvenu, Donald Trump.

After all these months, these cossetted grandees and coupon-clippers still don’t get it. It’s the wall, stupid!

Immigration is the sine qua non for Donald Trump — and Ted Cruz, for that matter — but mostly Trump. The GOP has collaborated with Obama in the fundamental transformation of America. The country is coming apart, and what Cruz calls the Washington cartel and its cheerleaders at NR refuse to even try to slow it down.

Even NR, irrelevant as it has become, dimly recognizes the problem its paymasters on Capitol Hill have created for themselves.

“If responsible men irresponsibly ignore an issue as important as immigration, it will be taken up by the reckless.”

Did it ever occur to NR that acting “irresponsibly” means that you are not, in fact, responsible?

“If they cannot explain their Beltway maneuvers — worse, if their maneuvering is indefensible — they will be rejected by their own voters.”

No need for the future tense, college boys. They have been rejected by their own voters — Bush, Kasich, Christie, Rubio. They’re fired!

“We sympathize with many of the complaints of Trump supporters about the GOP.”

Wow! They “sympathize” with what one of the signatories describes as the “celebrity-focused mobocracy” backing Trump. The egghead who slammed the mobocracy is someone named Russell Moore, who has quite the conservative pedigree, as I learned Friday on NR’s own website. This Moore, according to NR Online, is a part of the Evangelical Immigration Table, which NRO’s writer described as “a (George) Soros front group pushing for Obama’s immigration agenda.”

Another signatory I’d never heard of was one Ben Domenech. Google him and the first headline comes back from the New York Times in 2006: “Washington Post Blogger Quits After Plagiarism Accusations.”

Domenech said he never “purposefully” plagiarized. Now he says that Trump is “purposefully deceptive.” He seems to have an adverb problem on top of his ethical shortcomings — typical RINO, in other words.

All 22 of the “conservative” pooh-bahs wrote their own little foot-stomping screeds. Batting leadoff for the RINO AllStars was … Glenn Beck.

Not only do the editors of National Review apparently never venture outside their gated communities, I guess they can’t be bothered turning on the radio.

Two years ago, I went to a cocktail party/fundraiser for National Review in Palm Beach. Veddy, veddy tasteful. Glasses were raised, cigars lit. Self-congratulations all around.

Can you guess where the grand soiree took place? At Mar-A-Lago, a posh resort owned by National Review’s Great Satan. And there was not one mention of the evil that is Donald Trump.

Hey, NR — you’re fired!

 

The NR has discredited many true conservatives. Even the original conservative. They say Mr Trump isn't a real conservative, yet he is the only one with the courage to talk about what most others are afraid to.

 

I am enjoying the deep divisions in the Republican Party. Donald Trump is not so much causing these divisions as he is exposing them.

Beginning with the presidential election of 1972 America's white working class has become a Republican constituency. I think that is a bizarre anomaly. I also think the Democrat party is largely responsible. Democrat leaders were too tolerant of the black ghetto riots that happened from 1964 to 1968. They contributed to the doubling of the crime rate during the 1960's by reducing the prison population. Affirmative action reduced opportunities for white blue collar workers. Forced school busing reduced the quality of education for their children. The same white liberal Democrats who were responsible for busing managed to send their children to white private schools when the alternative was public schools with large black populations.

President Nixon's Southern Strategy would not have worked if blacks had responded to the civil rights legislation and the war on poverty by improving their academic performance and behavior.

I give the Republican Party credit for the tripling of the prison population which since 1980 has reduced the crime rate by one third.

Unfortunately, white blue collar workers have not benefited from Republican economic policies. They have certainly not benefited from tax cuts for the rich. They have not benefited from Republican efforts to weaken labor unions. They would not benefit from cuts to middle class entitlement programs.

The Immigration Reform Act of 1965 made it easier for employers to import cheap labor. NAFTA made it easier for employers to export good jobs. Republicans and Democrats share complicity for these.

I like the sound of much that Donald Trump says. However, like 69magpie, I am not sure how he will pay for it. He advocates a wall with Mexico, a more vigorous war with ISIS, and the deportation of illegal immigrants. This will cost money. Nevertheless, his tax policy will not increase tax receipts sufficiently to pay for these policies. By cutting taxes for all income groups, Trump's tax policy may reduce tax receipts.

 

That alone doesn't make him a conservative, it does make him a non-politician.

 

You're confused at looking at this backwards.

Leftist policies have created the entitlement society that we have today, tax cuts do in fact work and do in fact create a better economy, it has been proven historically.

Tax cuts have always created more revenue, another historic fact that you tend to traditionally ignore.

When the 'black society' realize that if they get out of the victim class that the leftist have placed them in, and start to be individuals rather than the typical 'class/victim' and stop being a member of the affirmative action bullshit, they can start to be all they can be.

Republican economic policies tend to create incentive measure for a better economy, by eliminating federal fucking government hindrances and regulations.

Trumps 'political promises' are far cheaper than any potential leftist candidate has placed on the table this election season. So, dont be your typical hypocritical self and claim that Trump will be the sole factor in bankrupting this Nation, you need to take that fight to your cherished leftist candidates.

 

Non-politician? Seriously, you think that The Donald doesn't know how the game is played?

 

Really? How many jobs did the Bush tax cuts create?