There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
Brendan Behan
Good lord, have conservatives learned nothing from our past emotional reactions to any number of rude, whacky or deliberately misinterpreted comments that ends up as playing by the Left’s rules
Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”
Yet, here we are again. The Donald makes an ostensibly off the cuff remark about Megyn Kelly …
Atlanta (CNN)Donald Trump’s feud with Megyn Kelly escalated Friday night when he said the Fox News host had “blood coming out of her wherever” at this week’s Republican debate, resulting in swift condemnation from conservatives and a major political event pulling its invitation to him.
… and some immediately give Trump what he wants …
I have rescinded my invitation to Mr.Trump. While I have tried to give him great latitude, his remark about Megyn Kelly was a bridge too far
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) August 8, 2015
Make no mistake, an open stage is not Trump’s strength. His lousy performance at the debate demonstrated that quite clearly. Post-debate buzz centered on Carly Fiorina’s owning of the earlier debate and the performances of Cruz, Rubio and others who did better than Trump.
Trump’s calculated and very public hissy fit over what he saw has “unfair” treatment by Kelly got exactly what he wanted. He is now dominating the news cycle.
Again.
Democrats are also gleefully excoriating Erickson’s “hypocrisy” on Twitter since he, himself, has engaged in “rude” comments in the past.
It would have been better to have let Trump appear and look as lousy in his bloviating as he did in the debate. Stop giving Trump the hot air he needs to keep his blowhard balloon aloft.
But I guess I’m asking too much of The Stupid Party.
Dear cons: you want Trump votes to go toward Cruz or Carson, not to leave the party. You've created a martyr for some cheap, easy grace.
— proteinwisdom (@proteinwisdom) August 8, 2015
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UPDATE: Smitty disagrees
The Presidential election is what amounts to the world’s most painful job interview. For a Chief Executive. Name another Chief Executive whom you’d expect to hear making even oblique menstrual remarks in any context. That CEO would be gonzo in a New York second, and the firm’s stock would be thrashed as every Social Justice Warrior in the Racism Industrial Complex arsenal arrived in a simultaneous time-on-top strike.
And that is exactly why Erickson got it spectacular wrong.
Why should we be emulating SJWs?
Trump is a boorish turd. Give him the rope water to flush himself away.
Mark Levin torched Fox and Kelly’s handling of the debate on last night’s show.
The podcast.
1. Trump isn’t really running for president; he’s running as a spoiler, to suck the oxygen out of one of the best Republican fields of recent election cycles. Yes, the Establicans are to blame for the fact so many like what Trump is saying about certain issues and are willing to pretend he’s for real just to watch the fur fly, but you can only play with live hand grenades so long before getting hurt.
2. I imagine the person putting on a private event has sole discretion to decide who’s invited, and gets to reap whatever consequences may result. Since I have no investment in RSG15, any more than in Trump or Fox News Channel, I’m okay with that. If this is an issue of freedom, it cuts both ways.
3. Trump is a boor but he’s no fool (hence my certainty about Item #1, above). Given a platform, he will continue to do as much damage for as long as he can, until he gets bored and goes away on his own. Thanks to the Mass Stupidity Media, of course, he will always have a platform — but people staging candidate forums don’t have to provide one.
McGehee
the RedState thing hadn’t even registered on my attention meter until the flood of publicity Erickson made about dumping Trump.
What a tool. Both of ’em.
I trust Mark Levin’s read on things political more than any other “talking head” media pundit, for good reason. He nails it time after time.
(Recall his two Gaysbook posts on that littlest LA ADA Weinergangster fellow? Anybody save links to those?)
trump is vile manhattantrash through and through and he’s wasting my time and it’s not like i’m gonna watch every stupid team r debate especially now where you have so so so many goof-asses still in the race
and megyn kelly is a no-account propaganda whore if she didn’t have a job on fox she’d probably be in pron or doing tampon commercials
you can’t overstate enough how awesome it is that carly fiorina is flying high in the wake of the “megyn kelly fluffers up a buncha phony-assed war on women memes debate”
i’m hungry i think i’m a go get a falafel wrap
I’m with Levin, Kelly turned the event into low class boorishness, not Trump.
Of all the questions to ask! I wanna hear about his immigration plans beyond the time honored “build a fence”. Even hitting him up on his statements about giving money to politicians for favor would be fair. But yellow journalism at an important debate? Total horseshit.
Here’s what is attracting the people to Trump; he’s REAL. He’s been in public life for a long time and everyone pretty much knows who he is, like him or not. People feel his frusteration as a proud American watching his country go down the drain is genuine, and he is a guy uniquely positioned outside either party, beholden to neither party, competent and speaking boldly and plainly in great contrast to the mealy mouthed, media trained barking seals forced on us by an unAmerican political class.
I’m starting to think a Reagan like landslide could happen…
Oh yeah, as far as the “blood coming out of her eyes or whatever” comment, the people that that thought menstruation need to quit watching Sex in the City reruns. Maybe read a little more classic literature or something.
The Donald is going to crash, better now than later. Megyn is Megyn, the kind of journalist we need for. the lefty media. Why do we want kiss asses on Fox ?
People who tuned in were not lefties, it was people who needed a look at who was going to be the next president, the good lord willing and the creek doesn’t rise.
News for you, they’re all going to crash except the one brings the most money to the GOP.
It will be nice to have Trump as a scapegoat for another Bush presidency though, I’m sure.
Ahh, now here’s an article that pretty much says what I think:
http://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2015/08/07/whats-the-secret-to-donald-trumps-appeal-nationalism/
You got it, LBascom. The elements of the GOP who are goo-goo-for-globalism are out of touch.
>Name another Chief Executive whom you’d expect to hear making even oblique menstrual remarks in any context. <
did someone yell for "boy" for their dog near ben carson?
>That CEO would be gonzo in a New York second, and the firm’s stock would be thrashed as every Social Justice Warrior in the Racism Industrial Complex arsenal arrived in a simultaneous time-on-top strike.<
mr. military man smitty bows down to bullies. eff u mr military man smitty. we be needing fighters not wimps mr military man smitty.
mr military man smitty won’t fight a minor skirmish about “intent”. tru gope warrior.
trump has exposed the “cuckservatives”
And once again, like with the McCain OUTRAGE®, my man Cruz, of all the candidates, takes the high road.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/08/gop-candidates-jump-on-bandwagon-to-criticize-trump/
> takes the high road. <
takes the easy road about "intent" and "meaning"
Not his battle. He’s not for Trump…
> takes the high road. <
Public Image Ltd – Rise
>Not his battle. He’s not for Trump<
small problem
A Time for Truth: Reigniting the Promise of America Hardcover – June 30, 2015
by Ted Cruz
“small problem” ?
newrouter,
Cruz is running for President; not Middle School Guidance counselor.
He’s better off staying focused on convincing Americans that he’s the right guy to Lead the Country.
And btw, which element of the communication chain creates intent? (hint check Jeff’s archives)
Small problem?
Cruz isn’t Trumps campaign spokesman, he’s a competitor. Don’t be a dunce.
>And btw, which element of the communication chain creates intent<
eric ericsson and the media no?
>Cruz isn’t Trumps campaign spokesman, he’s a competitor. Don’t be a dunce.<
is cruz an HONEST broker?
how much of this is bullshit?
A Time for Truth: Reigniting the Promise of America Hardcover – June 30, 2015
by Ted Cruz
>“small problem” ?
newrouter, }Obviously the greengrocer . . . does not put the slogan in his window from any personal desire to acquaint the public with the ideal it expresses. This, of course, does not mean that his action has no motive or significance at all, or that the slogan communicates nothing to anyone. The slogan is really a sign, and as such it contains a subliminal but very definite message. Verbally, it might be expressed this way: “I, the greengrocer XY, live here and I know what I must do. I behave in the manner expected of me. I can be depended upon and am beyond reproach. I am obedient and therefore I have the right to be left in peace.” This message, of course, has an addressee: it is directed above, to the greengrocer’s superior, and at the same time it is a shield that protects the greengrocer from potential informers. The slogan’s real meaning, therefore, is rooted firmly in the greengrocer’s existence. It reflects his vital interests. But what are those vital interests?
{7}Let us take note: if the greengrocer had been instructed to display the slogan “I am afraid and therefore unquestioningly obedient;’ he would not be nearly as indifferent to its semantics, even though the statement would reflect the truth. The greengrocer would be embarrassed and ashamed to put such an unequivocal statement of his own degradation in the shop window, and quite naturally so, for he is a human being and thus has a sense of his own dignity. To overcome this complication, his expression of loyalty must take the form of a sign which, at least on its textual surface, indicates a level of disinterested conviction. It must allow the greengrocer to say, “What’s wrong with the workers of the world uniting?” Thus the sign helps the greengrocer to conceal from himself the low foundations of his obedience, at the same time concealing the low foundations of power. It hides them behind the facade of something high. And that something is ideology.
{8}Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them. As the repository of something suprapersonal and objective, it enables people to deceive their conscience and conceal their true position and their inglorious modus vivendi, both from the world and from themselves. It is a very pragmatic but, at the same time, an apparently dignified way of legitimizing what is above, below, and on either side. It is directed toward people and toward God. It is a veil behind which human beings can hide their own fallen existence, their trivialization, and their adaptation to the status quo. It is an excuse that everyone can use, from the greengrocer, who conceals his fear of losing his job behind an alleged interest in the unification of the workers of the world, to the highest functionary, whose interest in staying in power can be cloaked in phrases about service to the working class. The primary excusatory function of ideology, therefore, is to provide people, both as victims and pillars of the post-totalitarian system, with the illusion that the system is in harmony with the human order and the order of the universe. . . .
{9}The post-totalitarian system touches people at every step, but it does so with its ideological gloves on. This is why life in the system is so thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies: government by bureaucracy is called popular government; the working class is enslaved in the name of the working class; the complete degradation of the individual is presented as his ultimate liberation; depriving people of information is called making it available; the use of power to manipulate is called the public control of power, and the arbitrary abuse of power is called observing the legal code; the repression of culture is called its development; the expansion of imperial influence is presented as support for the oppressed; the lack of free expression becomes the highest form of freedom; farcical elections become the highest form of democracy; banning independent thought becomes the most scientific of world views; military occupation becomes fraternal assistance. Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to persecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.
{10}Individuals need not believe all these mystifications, but they must behave as though they did, or they must at least tolerate them in silence, or get along well with those who work with them. For this reason, however, they must live within a lie. They need not accept the lie. It is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it. For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system. <
“eric ericsson and the media no?”
NO
“is cruz an HONEST broker? ”
About himself? Or are you suggesting that getting ahead by stepping on the backs of others is the Promise of America?
>>And btw, which element of the communication chain creates intent<
"come here boy" says white boy to dog overheard by black guy
>NO<
so "whatever" means "menstruating vagina now"? thanks for the language update.
>About himself? Or are you suggesting that getting ahead by stepping on the backs of others is the Promise of America? <
ask a coherent ?
Newrouter, I’m disappointed in many of the candidates for jumping on the outrage bandwagon as well. Most I expected, but a few really disappointed. Cruz however, you’re condemning for not actively defending Trump, even though they are competing for the same job. What you’re asking isn’t for an ‘honest broker’, you’re saying he should be sacrificing his own agenda for Trump’s.
Don’t be asinine.
Pro tip: when competing for a leadership role, do not appear to be serving your competitor. Makes the choice too obvious.
“so “whatever” means “menstruating vagina now”? thanks for the language update.”
Says the guy incapable of writing a complete sentence or apparently of understanding one.
My argument was the Ted Cruz (or Eric Erickson and the media) DO NOT form the intent of Donald Trumps message DONALD TRUMP DOES.
He very well could be lying about his original intent but it is not Ted Cruz’s responsibility to stand in Judgment over Donald Trumps honesty.
>Cruz however, you’re condemning for not actively defending Trump<
cruz published a book "time for truth" . here is his opportunity to push back at the gope and and tell their sjw to go fuck themselves. otherwise we are moving on to a different venue.
>My argument was the Ted Cruz (or Eric Erickson and the media) DO NOT form the intent of Donald Trumps message DONALD TRUMP DOES <
that's a really stupid opinion as the "high school" gang all "thought" the sex angle. whatever vs tampons: you go grrl!
He called Mitch McConnell a liar on the Senate floor. Your gonna find icewater in Hell before you find a venue with more pushback.
>He called Mitch McConnell a liar on the Senate floor <
he is part of the "ruining class"
Following the Money – Campaign Moves, The CoC/Wall Street Roadmap, and Candidate Expectations…
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/08/08/following-the-money-campaign-moves-the-cocwall-street-roadmap-and-candidate-expectations/
that’s a really stupid opinion as the “high school” gang all “thought” the sex angle. whatever vs tampons: you go grrl!
So what? I don’t answer for Eric Erickson or the “high school gang” and neither does Ted Cruz
>So what? I don’t answer for Eric Erickson or the “high school gang” and neither does Ted Cruz <
megyn kelly and her vagina could have ask a ? about" planned abortions"
but no gotta fit in with the nyc crowd. eff the proggtarded.
How very Alinsky of you nr, holding Cruz to your severe interpitation of his book.
Again, what you are asking is for Cruz give up his presidential aspirations and serve Trump. For crying out loud, let Trump fight his own battles! Or does he need Cruz to explain his words?
I’m begging you, don’t be a moron…
cutting up babies is “no big deal” with the nyc ruining class. effin nazis.
>Again, what you are asking is for Cruz give up his presidential aspirations and serve Trump<
don't be silly. really l. cruz and his goldman sacks wife are ok. not part of the problem. oh noes. carry on peeps nothing going on.
“megyn kelly and her vagina could have ask a ? about” planned abortions”
Yes, she could have but again, SO WHAT? Does Ted Cruz answer for Megyn Kelley too?
>How very Alinsky of you nr, holding Cruz to your severe interpitation of his book. <
take a man at his "word" is severe. whatever – menstrual blood
Fine. Disregard all my requests then.
“don’t be silly. really l. cruz and his goldman sacks wife are ok. not part of the problem. oh noes. carry on peeps nothing going on.:
So who do you and Mrs. newrouter work for? Any of your real estate dealings connected to Fortune 500 companies?
> Does Ted Cruz answer for Megyn Kelley too?<
no it is a stupid game with folks with "ivy league degrees" effin high school shit. ted and mygyn can go eff themselves.
I want a quote. When did Cruz commit to defending all media mischaractorizations of his presidential opponents?
Seriously, cite or shut the hell up.
>So who do you and Mrs. newrouter work for?<
so ted cruz cannot be asked about his funding? all these a holes need VETTING
>I want a quote. When did Cruz commit to defending all media mischaractorizations of his presidential opponents?
Seriously, cite or shut the hell up.
<
good allan stop smoking pot/lsd/meth PLEASE! do recovery ok?
Funding? Don’t be moving the goal posts. You said Cruz should defend Trump based on what he wrote in his book. I want the quote you base your assertion on.
“no it is a stupid game with folks with “ivy league degrees” effin high school shit. ted and mygyn can go eff themselves.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump
“Trump attended Fordham University in the Bronx for two years, before transferring to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania”
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League university located in Philadelphia.
I guess you’re gonna have to expand your condemnation then
>I guess you’re gonna have to expand your condemnation then “no it is a stupid game with folks with “ivy league degrees” effin high school shit. ted and mygyn can go eff themselves.” <
high school shit on the acela corridor from boston to dc.
>. You said Cruz should defend Trump based on what he wrote in his book. <
dude you be proggtarded: i posted:
A Time for Truth: Reigniting the Promise of America Hardcover – June 30, 2015
by Ted Cruz
>You said Cruz should defend Trump <
the menstrual megyn
Praise You In This Storm – Casting Crowns
“high school shit on the acela corridor from boston to dc.”
I guess that leaves Donald Trump out. (Sarcasm alert for the intent challenged)
Ok, maybe it’s the heart of Saturday night, and I’m not strictly sober. So tell me, what were you saying here:
newrouter says August 8, 2015 at 10:24 pm:
the easy road about “intent” and “meaning”
If not that Cruz was somehow lacking?
Then you brought up his book like that was compelling.
This has to do with his wife and funding?
I don’t think Im high enough for this conversation…
>I guess that leaves Donald Trump out. (Sarcasm alert for the intent challenged) <
really obtuse. i'd say eff u to nyc "culture" some time ago.
Who Am I – Casting Crowns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBcqria2wmg
I tell you what newrouter, you identify Jesus Christ upon his return and I’ll jump on his bandwagon.
Till then I’ll try to find the best Anti-Hillary, Anti-Fascist I can.
>I don’t think Im high enough for this conversation<
ted cruz and his wife are a product of the controlling paradigm of this so called "free market/enterprise" system. all of what you see as far as the "president" primary is bullshit. money is changing hands.
>Till then I’ll try to find the best Anti-Hillary, Anti-Fascist I can<
i need help. we need to go state side. Art V term limits(all fed peeps)/no debt limit raise w/o 2/3 states!
I can’t believe a conservative constitutionalist would be against Cruz. While supporting Trump.
Talk about straining a gnat and swallowing a camel!
“ted cruz and his wife are a product of the controlling paradigm of this so called “free market/enterprise” system.”
And you’re not?
“money is changing hands”
It’s always changing hands. That’s what money does.
You find the candidate cleaner than new-fallen snow and I’ll vote for him/her. Until then perhaps you should go back to whatever activity you get high on.
>I can’t believe a conservative constitutionalist would be against Cruz. While supporting Trump. <
that's a fine sentiment. oh my:
Cruz, Trump had ‘a delightful conversation’
By Jeremy Diamond and Theodore Schleifer, CNN
Updated 8:31 PM ET, Wed July 15, 2015
i need help. we need to go state side. Art V term limits(all fed peeps)/no debt limit raise w/o 2/3 states!
Sure, I’m for that but if you think that’ll eliminate all corruption you’re wrong (in the near term it’s likely to get worse). There’s a tsunami coming and we don’t have years to respond.
> Until then perhaps you should go back to whatever activity you get high on. <
because 17 candidates are alot of fun to manipulate to get to jeb. you be dumb. hrc 2016!
So a CNN link and a brietbart post that uses the Washington Post as it’s source is what you call credible and persuasive evidence?
I just prey to Christ we get the president we need, not the one we deserve.
I’m not fearful of a Trump presidency nearly as much as another establishment pick. I would prefer Cruz, Walker, or Carson, but there’s lots worse choices for president that Trump IMHO.
Seriously, if Bush, Christie or Graham are the candidate Im writing in Buggs Bunny.
> There’s a tsunami coming and we don’t have years to respond<
that's why we do the art v now at state level. term limits of all fed gov't employees(louis lerner) and debt ceiling limit controlled by 2/3 of states
This is fun to do if you want to?
>Sure, I’m for that but if you think that’ll eliminate all corruption you’re wrong (in the near term it’s likely to get worse). There’s a tsunami coming and we don’t have years to respond<
Praise You In This Storm – Casting Crowns (with lyrics)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCpP0mFD9F0
because 17 candidates are alot of fun to manipulate to get to jeb. you be dumb. hrc 2016!
Wow, you got me. I thought I’d get away with voting for someone other than Jeb so that I could enable Jeb to lose to Hillary.
It’s been so great being a pawn in military with a Democratic CIC.
stupid east coast cunt news
Megyn Kelly Plays ‘F, Marry, Kill’ with Howard Stern
http://www.zimbio.com/Megyn+Kelly/articles/pDUwAuy6bo1/Megyn+Kelly+Plays+F+Marry+Kill+Howard+Stern
eff the nyc media
“that’s why we do the art v now at state level. term limits of all fed gov’t employees(louis lerner) and debt ceiling limit controlled by 2/3 of states”
Great; in theory, but someone still has to stare down Putin and the Mullahs and they better start soon.
“A Time for Choosing” by Ronald Reagan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBswFfh6AY
“but someone still has to stare down Putin and the Mullahs and they better start soon. ”
Too late I think Danger. The great Middle East nuclear arms race has already been set in motion. I wouldn’t expect the next president to be able to do much about it. You know, being as we are become a broke dick banana republic.
You’re probably right Lee.
Though, it’d be nice to let the Israelis take a crack at preempting the race.
Night all,
And Keep Firing!
(just try to aim down range, please)
I heart nowruder!
He’s got spork!
he for sure definitely adds value i think what with all the links and comments and the slammin xtian rock youtubes
Like a miner: he goes down, descending into the earth, tunneling.
Down into the dark, leaving the sun drenched earth behind; down where the illumination must be provided artificially. By torches. By lamps. By bonfires. Down into the city under the earth, where politics is the rule. Down where the shadows are cast. Down where all the people who have never seen the sun remain. Down where the media — who likewise have never seen the sun — are employed carrying their shadow puppets back and forth to entertain the craving eyes.
It’s a cave, remember? Images there are queerly uncertain. What was that one? A god? A hart? An eagle? A boar? Look how it flitters on the wall there. Surely, a savior.
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Was off watching grandbabies last night so catching up
but let’s be clear, Trump first said “wherever” not “whatever.”
And I don’t give a rip about Kelly and if she first brought the “boorishness”. Trump is going to face worse than that from any left-lib debate.
And I don’t believe for one second he was really put off by Kelly. He needs to keep his face front-and-center and making crude female-oriented comments against Kelly assured him of yanking the focus of the post-debate brought to him
Then stupid bints like Erickson give Trump exactly what he wants.
Ted Cruz is the real deal – he is WYSIWYG. Trump is as genuine as his toupe.
Amidst the general discussion of one taking an opportunity to shove another aside (or not, as the case may be), I find myself increasingly curious to find out how Sen. Dick Durbin chooses to go regarding Sen. Chuck Schumer. Will he, or won’t he? This is the main chance, Sen. Dick. Whatchagonnado?
Greetings:
I was a bit disappointed that Ms. Fiorina decided to go dunking for Mr. Trump’s apples.
Ms. Kelly seemed to me to be laying an estrogen trap for Mr. Trump and the latter waddled into it. Mr. Trump’s history is much more about making love on women than making war, so daddy’s brightest baby could still use some more rearing. Too cute by far, the question was.
Something to offend everyone.
.
*** “Of course I didn’t! Jake, who would say that?” Trump said. “Hey Jake, I went to the Wharton School of Finance, I was an excellent student, I’m a smart person. I built a tremendous company. I had a show called “The Apprentice” that NBC desperately wanted me to do another season!” ***
“. . . I’m a smart person.” Of course. Exactly.
One who just could not recall the word nose when he needed it. Everybody, even the smart, the best, the most superlative ones of all time have those unfortunate experiences to forget the word nose. Happens all the time.
Steven Hayward, with some thoughts from Richard Voegelin on American common sense.
Tocqueville, I think said somewhere in his DiA that the Americans were the most Cartesian sorts never to have read Descartes, but in his judgment were not philosophically smitten in the least. That, evidently, was a kind of good thing, politically, or at least contextually.
Common sense, if it can be found, could play a mighty role in this candidate winnowing process. That is, it doesn’t have to end like the Weimar Republic. Nope. Not at all.
What we really need to turn things around is a proud crony capitalist/eminent domain abusing Democrat with a big red
faceface, floppyshoesgums and crazyorangeyellow hair.Maybe Bill Clinton knows where we can find one of those.
It seems obvious to me Trump was going for “blood IN her eye”, meaning anger or hatred toward him. He muffed it but moved on with a “where ever”. He said the same thing about Chris Wallace too. People insisting he was actually making a crude PMS joke are revealing their own crudeness if you ask me.
The more this outrage bullshit happens the more I think this country NEEDS Trump. He’s a walking talking giant neon sign blinking out the ridiculousness of the self imposed politically correct speech codes we all must live in fear of.
Honey Badger don’t give it shit, and it’s delicious watching the PC crowd endlessly demanding apology for their own calculated OUTRAGE® go insane in their impotence, never realizing they are the ones driving his popularity.
Taj
. . . not another Ivy leaguer, he went to U. Mass.
Now, be the fish.
Spence
. . . out on the rollin’ sea with Jonah.
More like Taj Mah8r.
Any ostensible Republican that pisses off NRO, Fox News, the US CoC (presumably), Erick Erickson, Peggy Noonan, Gabe Malor, and dozens of other Respectable Conservative Pundits… can’t be all bad.
At this point, what difference does it make? If Zombie Reagan rose from the grave (with Zombie Coolidge as his veep) and got elected (and even more improbably, got the GOP nomination), AND had 60 votes in the Senate and a sizeable majority in the House… maybe they could back off the throttle and lower the rate of acceleration, but this sucker is still going Thelma-and-Louise.
We no longer have a populace suited for, or even desiring, self-governance.
America deserves a President Trump – whatever that entails. Might as well sit back and have an entertaining end of the West.
Hear, Hear Mr Bradley
The Palinization of Trump, or what do you do with a problem like the Donald?
[…] From Left to Right: Sister Priebus, Sister Goldberg, Sister Kelly, Mother Superior Krauthammer, Sister Erickson, and Sister Jeb! I did my post appreciating DaTechGuy’s post about treating women as equals (obviously Megyn Kelly is fully capable of defending herself from comments by Donald Trump). Peter was not impressed with Donald latest tweet about Megyn Kelly. I thought Trump’s tweet was stupid, because how does tweeting something like that help Donald Trump? It was not funny, even if he did not mean in as it was taken–it just seemed petty. (Here is how I think Donald Trump should have answered Megyn Kelly: “You know something Kelly, sometimes I am rude, but I do not discriminate in my attacks. I also treat women in my organization as equals and pay them accordingly, unlike Hillary Clinton. And you know what is really sexist? Bill Clinton using his position to sexually abuse an intern and then Hillary Clinton helping him to destroy that girl. You should be more offended by that than my occasional outbursts…” Smitty supports Erickson Kicking Trump Out Of RSG. It is Erickson’s event, it is his call not mine–but there is something to be said for basic manners. Ronald Reagan did not act like a boar for good reason. You need to win votes every place you can get them and if you manage to alienate enough people you will not win. This is a side show. I do not see Donald Trump as the enemy. I see him as Donald Trump. Anyone who has paid attention to Trump over the past few decades knows this is what he is like. Trump’s rise in the polls is mostly due to dissatisfaction with how the GOP operates and ignores its own base and conservative principles. If that does not change, the GOP is doomed. Nate Silver: Why Trump won’t win a war with FoxNews and Watch Trump’s Favorability Numbers. Well Nate’s first story is sort of interesting, except FoxNews sure seemed to be setting Donald Trump up in that debate. Guess who also does not like Donald Trump? Instapundit: Trump is the symptom, lousy GOP leadership is the disease (yes, a thousand times yes), Roger Stone: Quit or Fired?, Roger Simon on Donald Trump on Foreign Affairs, and Classiest Campaign Ever Twitchy: Ok, Jonah Goldberg having second thoughts about Trump EBL: This early election cycle is about as much fun as a barrel full of… Mark Steyn: Party Pooper Regular Right Guy: Fox News dominates first debate AoSHQ: Ace is not a fan of dumping Trump (read the whole thing) Lem’s Levity/Trooper York: I’ve grown accustomed to your face Darlene Click/Protein Wisdom: Breitbart and The Stupid Party […]
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Cue coronation music: “Processional and Maria”
Very late to the party.
The Trump/Kelly affair has injected identity politics into the GOP race. It has also set up a defense for Hillary, or Warren, in the general against attacks by the GOP nominee, any that are effective will be said to be misogynist and bullying the girl. Remember she did it before.
Now not to agree with nr but this below was written July 30th a week before the “debate.”
At the rate things are going, by election time 2016, we will deserve a President Trump and be grateful we don’t have a President Clinton/Sanders/Emperor for life Obama instead.
Addendum to above.