The Republican establishment believes it has a divine right to pick the party’s nominees. Ford, Dole, McCain, and Romney -- the elite has an unerring instinct for disaster....... The difference between the Republican elite and its Democrat counterpart is mostly rhetorical. Republican insiders are comfortable with big government -- as long as they get to distribute the largesse. They view social issues as stuff to stick in a platform to keep activists happy, and promptly forget once in office.
Trump Nation’s Capitulation,
Trump Nation’s rejection of the political market -- and its psychological surrender -- looks and feels just like a financial market capitulation. Embracing Donald Trump is the equivalent of flight from capital into cash, despite the pain of accepting big chunks of realized losses. At least raising cash, in a financial crash, has a floor. It can’t get any worse. Voting for Donald Trump is the desperation farm bankruptcy auction. Raise whatever cash you can and then walk away from the stubble, from the overleveraged machinery, from the scourges of bovine TB, from perennially crappy milk prices, and nasty chores like cleaning up mastitis, and shoveling out the calves’ pens… not to mention decades without a day off. At least a few hard dollars remain to start over. All else is hopeless.
The Hope and the Danger of Electing Trump,
If Donald Trump is a true conservative, then there is no danger at all in electing him to be president. Trump might, in fact, introduce a new and dynamic electoral element to conservatism, as he noted when observing that he might carry New York and other traditionally leftist states in the northeast part of our nation. If Trump is a true conservative, then he could be the best thing that happened to conservatives in America since Reagan. His dealing-making prowess, his willingness to tweak the delicate noses of political correctness, his willingness to take on the Republican Establishment – all these are great advantages that Trump would have over most Republican nominees or Republican presidents...if Trump is a true conservative. We all ought to hope that Donald Trump is just that – a conservative who cherishes the values of conservatives and wants to restore the moral greatness of America (the other so-called "greatness" of wealth and power don't really matter).
What, though, if Donald Trump is not just a RINO, but a CINO – a "conservative in name only"?
We’ve seen this movie before, David Baker
You think he’s Teflon Don because nothing sticks to him?
Every presidential cycle, the mainstream media select our candidate for us. Dole was the sane candidate, superior to the crazies. McCain was the “maverick”, whose adoration was sung by all the liberals. Romney was the class of the field, otherwise dominated by ideological purists.
Romney’s Sour Grapes, Whether Republicans support Donald Trump, Senator Ted Cruz, or Senator Marco Rubio, they should be aghast at what Mitt Romney did last Wednesday. He fed right into the Democrats’ hands as he denounced Trump, calling him a "phony" and exhorting fellow Republicans to shun him for the good of the country and party. This is coming from the person that lost horribly in the 2012 Presidential campaign. Who appointed him the leader of the Republican Party? A line comes to mind, right out of General Douglas MacArthur’s speech, “Old soldiers never die, they just fade away,” but “politicians” should be substituted for soldiers.
Who Is Framing the Narrative in the Political Debate?
Everyone acknowledges that this is not an ordinary election cycle. Almost as confusing as the campaign events are the explanations of those trying to explain why so many bizarre things are happening. Everyone has a take on the political carnival. Everything seems to be a confused mess. However, if one observes closely, a narrative has emerged both on the right and the left that is now dominating the debate. The narrative builds upon the all too apparent fact that there is great discontent and polarization inside the country. No one contests this conclusion. However, the framing of the narrative is turning everything upside down.
Marx comes to the American Presidential Elections,
No one could have expected that the current presidential campaign would feature not one but two candidates who resemble in some ways and might be considered Marxists, one of a traditional kind, the other a more modern version. The traditional one, Bernie Sanders, is a self-described democratic socialist but all his emotional rhetoric and compassionate indignation at the inequities in American society is related to what Karl Marx wrote regarding the concentration of capital and the banking system and the contradictions in the capitalist mode of production. That indignation was evident as a young man when Sanders spent a few months in a left-wing Israeli kibbutz as the guest of the Hashomer Hatzair youth, normally regarded as a progressive Zionist movement...... “I don’t care what they have to say. It makes no difference anyway. I’m against it.”
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