God help me, I’m gonna defend Donald Trump here, because he has won more than a mere plurality of his party’s moron voters. In fact, he’s on the verge of breaking the all-time record for primary votes in that party. HMMPH! ‘TIS A MERE PIFFLE! As if having a protracted process somehow invalidates the whole thing. WHOA, HEY, THESE PEOPLE VOTED IN CAREFULLY SCHEDULED STAGES IN WHICH THEY HAD AMPLE TIME TO VET EACH CANDIDATE! We can’t have that! By God, some of these voters wear JEANS, Martha!
‘Tis a thing of beauty. (Language advisory).
GWIAHD
And that is on a good day.
loved it. I wait in anticipation for the flood of idiocy condemning Trump. much like the press in Canada and the crusade against harper we ain’t seen nothin yet.
I take the point, but it pains me no end to see Mr Harper’s name coupled with Mr Trump’s. Stephen Harper is a serious, thoughtful, and civil man, who brought a measured and rational plan for reform to Canada. Not that this earned him any respect from the press and the rest of our “moral and intellectual superiors”.
“they cut against the deeper wisdom of the American political tradition”
Nothing wrong with that statement, unless you don’t want more of the same nonsense.
ABC gives George Will a voice because he is full of Shit…Then the MSM serves up Lindsey Graham, followed by John McCain.. The three clowns who “Think” like petrified dog shit….
Might get rid of John McCain RINO also..
“If Donald Trump is at the top of the ticket [with McCain], here in Arizona, with over 30 percent of the vote being the Hispanic vote,
No doubt that this may be the race of my life,” McCain said, according to a recording of the event obtained by POLITICO.
“If you listen or watch Hispanic media in the state and in the country, you will see that it is all anti-Trump. The Hispanic community is roused and angry in a way that I’ve never seen in 30 years.”
All his love for Illegals has come home to bite him in the @ss..
Ditto here. The article was rather crude indeed, but the writer sure got the point across. I previously had a lot of respect for Wills et al, but have lost pretty much all of it. They seemingly have absolutely no regard for what the people want and are nothing but shills for the establishment. Just like here in Canada, almost all of the media are part and parcel of the Liberal Party of Canada and plan their next duping of Canadians from their cottages in the Laurentians.
They all, the US ones and the Canadian ones, know what is best for us.
Dipshit?
I much prefer douchbag.
Oh, and today the elder and younger Bushes have publicly announced they are going to “sit out” this year’s elections.
Two more douchbags we don’t need anymore.
And in today’s SALON, Camille Paglia RIPS Hillary Rodham Clinton a new one. And more specifically RIPS the ossified political ELITES who have run their course and are getting kicked to the curb … on both sides of the aisle. She has a special disdain for Hillary, and admiration (if not insightful lineage) for Trump. The George Wills and Hillary Clinton’s of the world are DONE ! Which is exactly why Trump wins in a Reagan-v- Carter type landslide.
sr AND jr? whatever happened to all the fawning and fart catching at SDA during *their* terms in office?
oh the pendulum does swing . . . .
Political parties are NOT a part of the US government; they are private clubs in which the members choose which candidates they wish to back. The “party elites” are the folks who run the club, and they have a great deal of freedom in choosing how they operate. If you do not like what they do, start your own club.
The third largest party in the US, the Libertarian party, does not participate in primaries at all. There is no “voice of the people” in picking candidates to back.
The US is not a democracy and was never intended to be. The founders understood that democracies devolve to mob rule and the masses voting themselves money from the public purse. The president is selected by the electoral college, and originally senators were selected by state governments. The “constitutional” part of “constitutional republic” was intended to be the mechanism that protected those who didn’t have a voice in government.
Originally, the individual states decided who was eligible to vote. Voting was mostly limited to white landowners, thus creating an aristocracy.
Samsam von Virginia
The enemy of your enemy is not your friend. Like george will or not, the author is a douchebag and I am remorseful at having given him traffic.
There is a Trump poll in the London Free Press today.
There is a Trump poll in the London Free Press today. So, I thought I’d add the URL.
http://www.lfpress.com
I understand where y’all are coming from Rosemary; but “when in Rome—–and what Donald Trump has acomplished; so far, is His far superior understanding of the “silent majority” which No-Charisma; No-Money” Richard Nixon tried to win over. Always thought this is why the Wash-Poo put so much effort into having a thinking Politician pilloried and thrown aside.
It was to protect the Feckless JourOlists and the Progressive Meme being set-up by the Democrat infantalizing the inner city Black Population as a Special Voting Block. Cheers.
the absolute total rock bottom truth (whatever that is) about Richard Nixon is this:
if *IF* he did not have that ummm, insecurity and inferiority complex stuff going on (rooted in his early real experiences incl that in the Republican realm) he may have proven to be a great president. it was the personal flaws that drove him to the coverup and all that crapola. he normalized relations with communist China which in the long term led to the final ouster of the gang-of-four type cliques, he FINALLY ‘clued in’ to the unwinnable vietnam war and FINALLY halted the death toll, etc etc.
and as usual, there was the MSM in a feeding frenzy thru the whole thing.
Perhaps.
However by North American standards Donald Trump is an accomplished person.
While it is trendy to mock his persona, his achievements are measurable.
very few politicians can match that.
As for his political possibilities … he just did what every “expert” claimed was impossible.
In this era of celebrity wisdom, Trump may win.. Harper Lost.
I miss him, nobody in the CPC comes close.
But he did not accomplish many lasting results for the producers of Canada.
Other that rub it in, the Kleptocracy is beyond reform.
Something Trump is campaigning on.
Makers versus Takers.
Takers have won,they are revolting most of the remaining makers, even the ones sitting on their hands.
As has become obvious,it is no longer a parasitic load we can live with.
Like the Klingons say. “The enemy of my enemy is the one I kill last”
People like Harper pushed the political pendulum to the right. As usual it never got enough momentum because the public elitist institutions put a stop to it their all in with phony scenarios like corrupt PMs, recessions/deficits and middle class crises. Had reality prevailed – Harper would have won.
Trudeau got in under the wire of dissatisfaction with the political class. The only way they could pull it off was to project that onto Harper, happy to insult anyone supporting him, with a free ride from the mediocracy and their Toronto-centric pundits Olivier, Laphlegm and Barney. I speak of them insultingly because I believe they deserve it, having ditched their ethics, indeed what was left of their professionalism, for party affiliation.
We can look forward to the same in the US, and the Dems have a better than even chance to pull it off imho. Trump has managed to close the gap, but has a lot of work to do with women and Hispanics (so just make nice with McCain Mr Trump). He is the only thing left to stop the pendulum from gaining leftward momentum and fruition of ruin, before bedlam makes it change direction again. For reference: see Greece & Venezuela.
But, it will take an immense effort from Trump to win. If ideological purists ditch the GOP, the ones who fantasize the GOP is truly “conservative,” then it’s lights out, despite new voter injection for Trump. How he attacks Hillary while trying to gain the women’s vote should be something.
Uniting the party, attacking Hillary but not losing women voters, and many other things will be necessary to assure GOP victory in POTUS & Congressional elections. I hope they realize the gravity of what this means.
No doubt a Clinton presidency would hasten the great leap leftward begun by Obama, with obvious and inevitable decline. Her judgment, now proven in Libya/Benghazi, will make the earth a more dangerous place, though I sense a bit of a hawk (maybe just for political opponents).
What’s Bubba’s DNC story going to be this time – we can’t go back to Obama, er Bush – oh hi Monika.
The great question for society should be why do we let narcissistic idiots lead us into decline and loss of freedom. We are not “part of government,” we are civil society that creates government for the benefit of our people within evolving, spontaneous order, or ordered liberty as some call it.
Since everybody is so mad at the establishment, why not have a debate the size & scope of the establishment? Hillary & Donald should talk about that.
With respect, I tend to see things much differently. Under Harper’s watch, the CPC was evolving into something more or less equivalent to the Romneyesque or McCain-ish RINO establishment party, albeit with a Canadian twist. I would not say that it was all the way there by 2015, but it continues to drift in that direction. The template could now be very similar in that the RINO establishment more or less reflects the supremacy of the liberal governing establishment, and presents nothing much more than a superficially less marxist alternative to that.
While Ms Ambrose may have established a good tone and handled some issues well, the overall impression is that the party is in the thrall of Prince Justin in the same way that the RINO establishment fails to question the absolute legitimacy of Usurper Obama. This is polite talk that could more easily be rendered “we are so fooked.”
Now, was this all Harper’s fault? No, I suspect he was driven along by forces behind the scenes, but he certainly became a much different sort of conservative than he posed as in 2004 and in earlier times, and so did the clique of powerful men and women around him. Basically, they were asleep at the switch on important questions of civil liberties in Canada and for libertarian conservatives, this was unforgivable. They were also very reluctant to take on the p.c. cultural and academic powers — we were always told it was necessary to be incrementalist and gradual, but clearly in the 20-20 vision of hindsight that was a very poor response to what has turned out to be a largely successful socialist revolution in Canada.
Sorry to intrude with this realism, back to your discussions now. George Will, by the way, was always regarded as a bit of a prat even in the high holy days of anti-communism where he proclaimed himself to be a holy relic. He was more or less a monarchist stranded in a republic. I suppose I am the exact opposite, which is something I should try to fix.
I am left scratching my head, trying to figure out WHAT you are saying. Yeah, I think we all “get it” re: political CLUBS. However the realpolitik is that there are only TWO parties in America. Which is why we Trump voters said … ‘sorry baby, but we HAD to CRASH that party’ (apologies to Tarantino). No, sorry, but we are SMART enough to KNOW that “starting our own party” is a non-starter in America. TRUMP was SMART-ENOUGH to have that original meeting with the GOPe … and got their PROMISE to treat him as a VIABLE Rep. Candidate, win or lose. The MORONIC GOPers didn’t give him a snowballs chance in hell to gain the nomination, so they “played along” with him (but then had to spend about $ 250 million trying to defeat him). Well, they calculated … poorly.
So, try as you may to call us Trumppydodahs … a MOB … or worse. Face it, you were OUTSMARTED by the lowly man in the street. Ohhhh … wahhh … the “ANGRY” man in the street. Trump READ the unhappiness in the street, harnessed our disenchantment … and has TAKEN OVER the GOP. The GOPe had taken advantage of us lowly voters for so long that they took us for FOOLS. Well, who is looking FOOLISH now ?
Can’t agree with this one. George Will is one of the good guys. I don’t think it makes much sense to elect someone who claims Ted Cruz’s father assassinated JFK. Krauthammer and Will (and I) have some trouble with electing lunatics. Say what you want about George Will, but he’s no dope and he is right that what we get from Trump will not resemble conservatism or libertarianism in any way, shape or form. I’ll take George Will over that moron’s web site any day.
Agreed, but let’s not forget the argument that had Harper and Tories moved even more towards limited government they would have been crushed by the mediocracy, and their intelligentsia hangers on in the courts, bureaucracy and universities, so derailing Harper’s vision. The fact that exact thing happened anyway shouldn’t counter too much the view Harper truly tried to restore the Canadian political culture at least back to centre.
Harper tried to bring government into line with reality, to the statists his most unforgiveable sacrilege. No fake catastrophe for government to regulate us? Say it ain’t so Josef. So he had to go; voters allowed themselves to be ordered how to think and here we are today, with a selfies PM, already $40b wasted and fake Syrian refugees rescued from hotels, except for the ones brought in by Harper’s administration. Oh there’s that nasty realism again.
Did he tire out or lose his nerve? Even if so it’s easy to say now, for example, he should have shut down the CBC; but 20/20 hindsight is seldom useful.
Unfortunately, Harper’s pragmatism got caught up in the disgust with the Liberal establishment and their excesses, not within the millennial memory so easily malleable, which was then repackaged as change, with the mediocracy willfully oblivious to the contradiction of arguing for the status quo.
The Grits and the seditious mediocracy projected their political failings and ethical lapses on Harper. It took a fraud to be visited on voters but they put it all on the line in a final struggle. Now the MSM circles the bowl, while our PM confabs with the beautiful people; all a swoon, removed from reality.
Harper’s fusion of libertarianism and conservatism is his great legacy. It would be a terrible mistake for the present leadership to throw that away, to help Grits wipe the great record of our former PMO, who will soon look good compared to the present bunch of political welfare bums sporting false narratives.
The blindness here, it burns.
Trump is epically trolling you. Will has been standing up for cuckservatives for years. That’s why the Party of Cucks won’t fight back or have standards: they think they know better than you and, to quote Jewel Kilcher, you agree.
I’ll say one thing about Trump, he flushed out a hell of a lot of pretend conservatives. Brooks and Frum and Coren are now joined by a flock of other tut-tut-tutters.
Too bad I was half asleep and missed a good deal of it, because last evening on Charlie Rose, Mark Halperin mentioned another fact about Trump’s impressive rise that is also some kind of record, he even said it has never been done by someone with NO experience in politics such as Trump, which makes it MORE impressive.
Trump is one impressive man, even some on the left are starting to wake up to this fact.
George Will is in danger of “going native” — taking on the coloration of the Beltway establishment. It happens to them all, sooner or later.
Our rulers and media types who spend decades in Washington are like the revolutionaries in “Animal Farm”: We outsiders “looked from pig to man, and from man to pig… but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
I got to meet Milton Friedman a number of years ago at a Fraser Institute event honouring him and when someone asked him what his proudest achievement was he replied that “convincing Nixon to end the Draft”. That was another one of his milestones.
It is true that Brooks and Frum and Coren are not true conservatives. Neither is Trump. Will is a conservative.
Speak English.
You and Shamrock wrote a great analysis of the Harper years. Now I’m afraid we are in for not only a rough ride but a return to more openly a CINO leadership in the Conservative Party. In which case I will be on hiatus. Better the burn comes quicker and then the reset. The Americans have a chance to reset this November or sink into the morass of Venezuela.
hmmm. seems the SDA filter objects to the word Conservatyst or sumptin.
or Harpppoon aka Harper.
something to do with missing the mark on mail delivery for the common folk, changes in lending laws that favour the money boyz visa vie rental income from rooming houses no longer allowed in the equation for calculating said mortgage renewals. sets up a situation allowing banques to foreclose and use OUR money to sit on the properties until the exalted market condishuns are optimum. they can afford to do that you know. twas done in the name of stability and bubble prevention.
etc etc
Grow up, Magary. Conservatives do not, and should not, all think alike.
This is giving me a serious case of schadenfreude! Number 1, it has done
more to identify the establishment types in the media than I could ever imagine.
The problem began with decades of establishment jack-holes ignoring the
will of the people. While I have been predicting a voter rebellion
for decades, I did not see it coming in the form of Donald Trump. This
“Push back” theory of mine was mostly partisan. I believed the Democrat
party would push the nation so far in one direction, the people would
push back in the opposite direction.
This has been happening for some time. 2 out of the last 3 election cycles
the electorate has beaten the Democrat party like a Narc at a biker rally
with the loss of about 1,800 seats. I could not understand how someone
who broke records for GOP turnout in a primary (And it’s still not over)
could also be as “Unelectable” as the pundits are saying.
Look at a Trump rally. He is filling the seats at sports arenas. The lesbian
in the Mao jacket cannot draw flies even if she took off her Depends. There
is no passion, no vision. It’s “Vote for me, I have a Vagina.” The electorate
is punishing the Democrats, but they have done so much more than that. They
wised up to the fact they have two enemies; the Democrat party and the GOP
establishment. Among the first of the 16 opponents Trump vanquished, were
the single digit establishment types. I LOVE it when the electorate
wakes up!
P.J. O’Rourke woke up in a hotel in Managua the morning after a presidential
election. He was shocked to discover that Violeta Chamorro had beaten
Daniel Ortega. The polls had the commie winning in a landslide. It was
then that he realized he missed two important clues. First, he trusted
the opinion polls in a country where opinions were outlawed. Second, he
failed to connect the extremely high voter turnout. If people were walking
10 miles to the polling places by the millions, they are not voting for the
status quo.
This November will be another tsunami for the Democrats and Hillary Clinton
is going to be beaten like a baby Harp Seal!
Ken; Agree that O’Donnell and Shamrock did a great job.
The CPC continues their relentless ‘ask’ for more money. It makes no dif what my comments are to them. Zero communication at the riding level since the election. My add to comments above would be that the CPC under Harper had a residual goodwill from the Reform movement as they went east to talk ‘reason’ to the country. Where they that naïve that they did not realize that the east really never did listen. If Canada is to stay united it will be because the West unites under a common ideology and a common game plan to defend western interests. IMHO during the 10 years of CPC government the real issues of the country were never seriously addressed.
Who does Trump or even Sanders represent? To me their similarities are more common than differences. It is the method of change that are different. The middle class in America has been under attack economically for over 20 years. Governments whether GOP or Demo have corrupted fiscal management. They regularly understate inflation. Estimates are that in the last 15 years inflation has grown 20% more than stated and family income has not grown to keep up. People feel threatened and generally become open to radical change as a result.
The question this fall will be whether Trump can reassure the people enough to still enough Independent and Demo voters away from Clinton. IMHO Clinton is susceptible as she might be viewed as the status quo in a media driven campaign. Trump is media savvy and could count coup or be shot down in flames. It is funny as Ryan creates a strategy for saving the GOP majority in the Houses and Trump goes for the DEMO jugular.
What is the worst case scenario? Clinton wins and we get more of the same. The crash is predictable but when? Does anyone really think that Trump can fix the world economy? I doubt that very much but he can limit the harm to the USA in the coming collapse. He could easily quicken the global debt collapse. Did everyone know that the Japanese government owns 10% of the stock on the Japanese stock market. Nothing surprises me anymore.