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Why Trump?

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Like most man made disasters, the question “Why Trump?” has several answers:

1.  Out of Touch-The Republican Establishment has long been out of touch with its base, most notably on immigration.  Trump opportunistically and mendaciously played upon such legitimate grievances.

2.  Too Many Conservatives-This was a crowded field.  At one time 17 people were running, almost all conservatives.  This gave Trump a chance to stand out from the crowd early.

3.  Trump the Clown-Early in the race, Trump was regarded as the clown of the race, a freak show attraction.  Trump was ignored or condescendingly complimented by other candidates who assumed he would be out of the race soon in any case.

4.  Not PC-Trump is a vulgar low brow.  However, to his audience he came across as politically incorrect, and not as a rich man aping the manner of how he perceives blue collars, like my late sainted parents, behave and think.  His performance I always found insulting, but it resonated with a lot of people.

5.  Truth-Any lie is effective only if it contains some truth, and among the endless lies that Trump spewed were several truths:  “America doesn’t win anymore”  “Nothing gets done anymore”  “It is time to win again”.  Truisms and bromides, but they went to the core of the people who believe the country has been on the wrong track for quite a long while.

6.  Attack Politics-Trump pioneered the art of the most outrageous insults, going into areas, including the looks of a rival candidate’s wife, that even the most brutal politicians before him have stopped short of.  Politics has never been a gentle art, but I don’t think we have had a candidate before attacking a rival’s father as being involved in the assassination of a president with no shred of evidence to support the contention.

7.  Empty Promises-One might say that this is a politician’s stock in trade, but Trump’s were simply breathtaking:  “I’ll build a wall and make Mexico pay for it.”

8.  Celebrity-Trump has been a celebrity virtually his entire life.  With his show “The Apprentice” his celebrity went nationwide.  With Trump, the thin line between politics and entertainment was erased.

9.  Lies-Ted Cruz said yesterday that Trump is a pathological liar and he was absolutely correct.  Trump lies all the time and he does it with perfect conviction, which indicates to me that he is a sociopath, has only a tenuous grasp on reality or is simply snake oil salesman supreme of the ages.

10. Shake Things Up-I had a client in my office a few weeks ago, an articulate, thoughtful man who has fallen on hard times.  In our discussions he brought up Trump.  He cussed Trump for several minutes and regarded him basically as a lying crook.  He said however that he planned to vote for him.  He thought that the leadership of the nation had failed, and that Trump was an opportunity to shake things up, although he thought Trump would likely be a bad president.

Combine these all together and Trump is the nominee of the Republican Party, the head of a growing cult, and may well be the next President of these United States, God help us all.

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Don L
Wednesday, May 4, AD 2016 4:32am

Trump merely created new ways to shout “Hope and change.” Slogans and feelings always trump (pun intended) logic and reason in politics.

.Anzlyne
.Anzlyne
Wednesday, May 4, AD 2016 5:56am

Why Trump? because of our own moral and physical weakness. making us susceptible to bombast -which els pretty intoxicating for people who are not brave spiritually or physically.
Big sunglasses on the trump supporter protesting Cruz hid a weak frightened man shouting borrowed words out of a Borrowed Bravado. Frightened frustrated small men identifying with the big plane and the helicopter and the magazine covers — the glamour. If teaching and preaching and exhortation has ever been important it is now.
We will need moral strength under the increasingly frenetic attack of the Marxist and diabolical hydra of of Obama Clinton Sanders who will not let a crisis go to waste.
God can turn things around overnight as he did in the book of 2 Kings 7 – we are not down yet to the complete misery of sodom, with not enough righteous men left to change and turn to God.
Darkest before the dawn they say. I live in South Dakota and have not had my primary yet. I still plan to vote for Marco Rubio whose campaign is also suspended.
We do have good moral leaders in this country and in this world- and we can not give up.

Brian
Brian
Wednesday, May 4, AD 2016 6:09am

I agree with everything you said above, tactically speaking all true. Big picture, strategically, Trump is America’s judgement from God. We have greatly sinned, and God will not be mocked. We will get exactly what we deserve. Trump is the perfect President for an unrepentant, sinful nation who has forgotten God and persecutes the Faithful.

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Wednesday, May 4, AD 2016 6:31am

10 – Bingo!
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The debacle is more about the corrupt, incompetent oligarchs than about (fallen) Donald Trump.
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bill bannon
bill bannon
Wednesday, May 4, AD 2016 6:31am

The upside if he beats Hillary might be his deferring Supreme Court Justices to the Heritage Foundation if…if he keeps his word on that …but he didn’t keep his word to his original wife. However, he knows he’s over his head in the Supreme Court matter so deferring to experts from the conservative side is in his image interest…ego wise. He’ll defer to the Pentagon likewise as to ISIS. I’m curious as to whether he’ll pull out of Afghanistan where our military get in trouble if they oppose boy rape by our ” allies”….as a Green Beret just did via beating an ally Afghan leader who had chained a boy to a bed as a sex slave. Billions have gone down that hopeless hole. Bipartisanly…we just told Pakistan she not us actually has to pay for jets ordered from us. But Pope Francis complained of Bishops who live like princes but did zilch about it. Will Trump do something about his many complaints or will he be tangoing in Argentina like Obama after Brussels. Pope Alexander VI held parties in the Vatican. Will Trump do likewise or become a worker rather than a player? That’s presuming he wins at all on a much bigger playing field than 10 million.

Phillip
Phillip
Wednesday, May 4, AD 2016 7:07am
William P. Walsh
William P. Walsh
Wednesday, May 4, AD 2016 7:13am

How to explain the Trump phenomena? I pretend to no special insight but let me put to one side my pile of books, set down my latest copy of the National Review, and try to describe what my eyes behold. I see my children, relatives, friends, neighbors, and their like among the long neglected working classes of our country for whom even the possibility of prosperity seems a lost hope. These are the people largely ignored by the elites of both parties. A lot of these seldom vote, some never. This year a great many have come out and voted for a bull in a china shop out of pent up frustration and personal pain. So now what? I’ll follow my conscience which tells me to do my civic duty, and vote against the candidate of the Party of Death, against the cynical Caesars who would supplant the prerogatives of the altar, natural law and revealed truth, with their sickly substitutes of political correctness and the party line.

Murray
Murray
Wednesday, May 4, AD 2016 8:30am

Or this could be a sign that our old political alignments are dead and buried. When both party mainstreams are fervent adherents to liberalism (in the broad philosophical sense), the old liberal/conservative categories no longer apply.
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The new political alignments look like breaking down instead along nationalist/globalist lines. Our elites–whether liberal or “conservative”–are monolithically globalist, concerned with international agreements, free-trade treaties, and open borders to allow the free movement of labor. Across all the western world, the transnational elite has far more in common with each other than they do with their own non-elite countrymen, whom they largely despise.
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The non-elites have finally realized that there’s no point in electing “conservatives” if all you get is a few sops to conservative principles while the distinct historical character of the nation continues to be eaten away by immigration, international agreements, cultural propaganda, and off-shoring. They reason that you can argue about political principles once they get their country back.
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I’ve said before, Trump and Sanders are merely the harbingers of this realignment. They command the allegiance of those who no longer trust our current elite class to govern in the best interests of the people. Watch for the globalists of both liberal and conservative stripes to unite around their shared interests, while the nationalists do the same.

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Wednesday, May 4, AD 2016 9:10am

Excellent post. Good comments. Am voting 3rd party except that an intervening miracle happens. Will do my civic duty, but will not support either Trump or any Democrat. All are equally evil albeit in sometimes different ways.

Suz
Suz
Wednesday, May 4, AD 2016 9:45am

#10 for the win. Frustration has driven Trump’s rise, and frustration might be enough to replace the current clown with this new clown. The attacks on Trump, however applicable, only seem to harden support for him.

William P. Walsh
William P. Walsh
Wednesday, May 4, AD 2016 10:51am

I wish there were a viable third party choice but alas that would be the longest shot. I cannot contemplate any vote or non-vote which would turn the country over to Hillary.

Don the Kiwi
Wednesday, May 4, AD 2016 4:06pm

From the fringes of civilisation at the bottom of the south west Pacific, 😉
I can understand why many conseravtive Americans intensely dislike Trump, and can understand the sentiment of a non-vote for him. This would hand the presidency over to la Hillary, who is the most duplicitous and lying (*****) woman I have ever seen in any political arena – she’s worse than Helen Clark (ex NZ prime minister, and head of UNHDC and a Fabian socialist) – and that is really saying something.
One has to consider the team that Trump will put around him – he is not an idiot, and will probably gather a team of very capable people to advise him, so I wouldn’t write him off yet. IMO, if you don’t want the USA totally destroyed into a leftist socialist shambles, you’d be better off to really clamp your nose real tight, and however unwillingly, put your vote for Trump. Otherwise the chaos that has grown under Obama will get so much worse.

Brian
Brian
Wednesday, May 4, AD 2016 4:24pm

Don the Kiwi, New Zealand, my favorite nation on the planet.

I totally get what you are saying. Makes sense from one perspective. Especially from yours, considering how this will affect the rest of the world.

The problem, however, is that all the evidence points to Trump being a carbon copy of Hillary, including the dishonesty, immoral public policy and theft of public funds for self and cronies. EXCEPT …. he has more talent to bring it off and has flamboozled conservatives to participate in his schemes. He also has a very aggressive, ugly, violent side to him I fear will combine with absolute power to produce a very dangerous government for us Yanks and the rest of the world.

Sorry, but Imthink Hillary is indeed the lesser two evils in this case. Never thought I’d say it. I’m sitting this one out. I will not pull a lever for either one. They both suck. Trump sucks a lot more.

Again, all the best to you down there in paradise.

Pinky
Pinky
Wednesday, May 4, AD 2016 5:52pm

Why Trump?

1) The Best – lack all conviction
2) The Worst – full of passionate intensity

Mary De Voe
Wednesday, May 4, AD 2016 6:56pm

“I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.” The “somebody” Trump shot will not vote for him.

William P. Walsh
William P. Walsh
Wednesday, May 4, AD 2016 8:14pm

I don’t know if Trump is a recently converted conservative or he just plays one on television. We shall see, when he selects a running mate. The worst case scenario is Hillary. Heaven forbid. I am too old to move to Ireland.

Jack
Jack
Wednesday, May 4, AD 2016 8:53pm

Why Trump? Because we voters have been taken for suckers for so many years, we no longer believe what bought-and-paid-for politicians tell us any more.

As for The Wall? Let me ask a hypothetical: How many of the world’s 6.7-billion non-Americans do you think should be allowed to cross our Southern border at will? And STAY in the United States?

Catholic teaching is that migrants need to respect the laws of the country that they enter. Well, let’s start with this: Obey the LAW that says that LEGAL immigration is allowed, but ILLEGAL is not! What part of “illegal” don’t people understand?… the “il-” part, apparently.

We are FED UP and WE are NOT going to take it any more — that is WHY TRUMP!

Alice
Alice
Wednesday, May 4, AD 2016 9:08pm

The globalist/nationalist political alignment isn’t new. The Communists were the internationalists and the Nazis were the nationalists. It’s the same now. Both evil. Both parties of death.

Trump didn’t defend HB2. He doesn’t defend babies in the womb. He doesn’t defend marriage. He won’t defend limited government that includes citizens rights to propety or speech or religious freedom.

We are being prepared to be tested by fire. Time to make our children ready to grow to be martyrs and saints.

ExNOAAman
ExNOAAman
Wednesday, May 4, AD 2016 9:10pm

Celebrity first; Novelty second; Ability last. This is modernist thinking.
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Celebrity=Trump
Novelty= the only spouse of a past president to be elected, AND they are both impeached. Hillary.
Ability= Calvin Coolidge

Don’t doubt me

ExNOAAman
ExNOAAman
Wednesday, May 4, AD 2016 9:18pm

Pres. Trump has been smart about the global warming hoax for years now

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/05/donald-trump-global-warming

At least there’s that.

.Anzlyne
.Anzlyne
Wednesday, May 4, AD 2016 9:31pm

I only disagree that too many conservatives ran. Instead of there just being too many good guys, the problem is there are just too few supporters in the vocal active public. Supporters who are true believers and thus can take action. Rubio and Santorum were two great Catholic leaders but there were none to co-respond to them in media or to lead the media or the public.
It’s too bad if conservatives take the self-limiting mentality of defining themselves down. That hopeless and helpless self image is governing their play. It is also seen now in our bishop concerning the vocation crisis — just believing it is inevitable and just managing decline.
Trump subscribes to norman vincent peale thinking.
It is a mistake, this outlook from scarcity not from confidence in the wealth and power of having God on our side – may God open our eyes to the present and powerful help that is there for us.
2 Kings 6:15 When an attendant of the man of God rose early in the morning and went out, an army with horses and chariots was all around the city. His servant said, ‘Alas, master! What shall we do?’ 16He replied, ‘Do not be afraid, for there are more with us than there are with them.’ 17Then Elisha prayed: ‘O Lord, please open his eyes that he may see.’ So the Lord opened the eyes of the servant, and he saw; the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

Philip
Philip
Thursday, May 5, AD 2016 4:07am

Why Trump?

Cause and effect.

After 8 years of presidential edicts.
After 20+ years of media that is slanted beyond belief.
After 40 + years of judge’s who manipulate and fabricate laws that are ludicrous.

You get this; Liar A or Liar B.

Your choice America.

Trump is ripe for the picking because America is a sick Nation. Soul sick.

A baby in the womb to many mothers is a problem. Indeed. They, the power hungry feminist movement, view pre 1973 as the ” dark ages,” with coat hanger abortions.
Never again is their War Cry.

Legalized abortion will eventually usher in a new Dark Age.

Our political reality today is a shadow.

Those who propagated death will struggle to find light. They will find it with your help.

Why Trump?

Because we’ve earned him!

Elaine Krewer
Admin
Thursday, May 5, AD 2016 5:13am

“Trump is America’s judgement from God.”

More precisely, the fact that our next president will in all probability be either The Donald or Hillary is America’s judgment from God. Bad leadership — not natural disasters, plagues, or fire and brimstone — is IMO the usual means by which God chastises nations and societies for their sins.

That said, whether you plan to hold your nose and vote for Trump or don’t plan to vote for either candidate (at this time, I don’t), please don’t neglect the downballot races for Congress and for state and local offices. As all-powerful as the federal government seems to be (and wants people to think it is), your governor, state legislators, mayors, aldermen, county boards/commissions and school boards are can have just as much, maybe more, impact on your daily life as the President and Congress do. It is the state and local governments, after all, who determine how much sales and property tax you pay, how easy or difficult it is to open a business, the quality of the public schools your children or your neighbor’s children attend, your ability to own or carry firearms, hold a driver’s license, etc.

Dan Curry
Dan Curry
Thursday, May 5, AD 2016 8:02am

It boils down to this fellow CATHOLICS !! You want an administration with a pro abortion agenda? Hillary says she is NOT pro life. Its all about USSCourt and other Federal JUDGES ! They create our society with rulings. Another Sotomayor and Kagan and you will have unlimited abortions. NO state restrictions. Unlimited illegal immigration. More Obama – like PC race crap. Just eliminate the Western Civilization history of our country ! This page needs to man up (or woman up) and weigh what conservatives will get with either. Its clear….Trump will do something about jobs and illegals ! Clinton gives unlimited jobs going out of here to other countries! And Clinton HATES the veteran, Trump doesnt. Why did conservative Catholic icon Phyllis Schlafley, Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter endorse Trump ? Because like most things in life….we get a choice. We get nothing with Hillary or most (YES MOST) with Donald and a Republican House and Senate !! Thats a winner !!!!! Get real and vote Trump

Dave Griffey
Dave Griffey
Thursday, May 5, AD 2016 8:58am

I think you’re spot on, except one thing. You say he ‘pioneered’ the art of the most outrageous insults. Not really. We all know politics has produced its share of vitriol and personal attacks over the ages. For a while, in the television age, that sort of went by the wayside, since seeing a personal insult played on TV over and over could be damaging to your political health. That’s where PC in America came from: The idea that, for fear of looking bad or offending, politicians told it like it wasn’t. In our era, the first chinks in that wall came from the infamous War Room of Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign. It seems tame by Trump standards, but in the day, things said by the old Ragin’ Cajun seemed pretty jaw dropping, and even some of Clinton’s attacks on Bush raised a few eyebrows. It’s gotten steadily worse over the years to be sure. But rather than pioneered, I think Trump merely shoved it up and over the next level.

Steve Phoenix
Steve Phoenix
Thursday, May 5, AD 2016 9:14am

The best short analysis that I have found on why Trump won and Cruz miscalculated and lost seems to be this one by Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/what-went-wrong-for-ted-cruz/article/2002227

If brevity is the soul of wit, Fred Barnes could have hugely saved Cruz a ton of money spent on useless consultants.

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Thursday, May 5, AD 2016 10:03am

The ages of the SCOTUS justices are such that at the end of eight years, Hillary likely will have packed the court with a 1984-ish/liberal majority of 7 – 2. So, vent your spleen. Vote for anyone not Trump. And, turn over more of the country to, and hand more power to, people that hate us and our way of life.
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Here is my opinion on the Trump phenomenon. I think the last Republican was President Reagan. Because the Republicans since have done nothing that we elected them to do.
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I’ll happily vote Trump, thank you kindly.
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And, quoted: 4 May 2016, “Bookroom Room”: “Thomas Lifson, one of the smartest men I know, is on to something more profound when he says that Trump represents a sledgehammer that voters have taken to an irredeemably corrupt political system:”
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PS Ted Cruz is the best GOP has had since Reagan. The GOP bosses hate him, too. Too bad he couldn’t pull it off.

Murray
Murray
Thursday, May 5, AD 2016 11:04am

The globalist/nationalist political alignment isn’t new. The Communists were the internationalists and the Nazis were the nationalists. It’s the same now. Both evil. Both parties of death.
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Alice, as Catholics, we should probably strive to have a historical frame of reference longer than the past seventy years or so. Nationalism (even if not called as such) has been the default setting of most civilizations throughout history. There’s nothing evil whatsoever about love of one’s own, reverence for one’s ancestors and the institutions and traditions they formed, and a desire to preserve these things against the depredations of those who wish them harm. Even today, it’s safe to say that a large proportion of the world’s population naturally subscribes to some form of nationalism. It is we modern Westerners who are the freakish outliers in our moralistic repudiation of national piety in favor of self-destructive universalism. As for the Nazis, abusus non tollit usum,/i>.
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Globalism is likewise inherently morally neutral, but as practiced by our trans-national elite class, it may well end up in slaughters that will make the Nazis look tame. Obama is Merkel is Cameron is Bush is Soros is Trudeau is Clinton is Ban Ki-Moon. For all their superficial differences, this class has far more in common with each other than they do with the people whose interests they ostensibly represent. They seek to destroy all intermediary institutions that exist between the individual and the state, and the combination of open borders, unfettered capitalism, and cultural propoganda is lethal to organic human communities and associations.
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Where is “conservatism” in this battle? Well, if it’s not dead, it’s probably being true to form, writing up some thinkpiece about how gender-neutral bathrooms are really a “conservative value.” No thanks. Make mine nationalism.

Murray
Murray
Thursday, May 5, AD 2016 11:06am

Whoops. Do I need to close the italics tag? Sorry about that.

Dave Griffey
Dave Griffey
Thursday, May 5, AD 2016 12:21pm

“Except for accusations of incest and cannibalism Dave, I don’t think there is any more to be done in regard to outrageous insults after Trump.”

Hold that thought. I wouldn’t have believed the things I’ve heard.

Jack
Jack
Thursday, May 5, AD 2016 1:51pm

Mr. McClarey: You call me a “chump” in response to my comment about The Wall that Trump has said he will build, yourself calling it “boob bait”.

Well, let me ask you answer my question, Mr. McClarey: How many of the world’s 6.7-billion non-Americans do you think should be allowed to cross our Southern Border and STAY in America, whether at taxpayer expense or not? You don’t answer!

Then, this: How many decades have “chumps” like me voted for pro-life politicians who do NOTHING when in Washington against abortion?

Look, I did my duty as according to my conscience and voted for the bravest pro-life politician this go-round: Marco Rubio; this, in spite of his advocacy for seemingly limitless amnesty for people who BROKE the LAW just to GET HERE! I did this DESPITE my cynicism that has developed regarding politicians who know only how to mouth pro life rhetoric but never lift a finger in office. I did this despite the fact that Rubio while in the U.S. Senate didn’t seem actually to DO anything for the pro-life cause. Why did I vote for him? Because last August he stated in an interview that abortion should not have rape or incest exceptions — that is, indeed, a very brave statement by a politician. Think of how Todd Akin in Missouri was crucified by the Establishment for saying the same thing when he lost to McCaskill.

So… we are left wondering this too: If Hispanics vote 70 to 80% Democrat, and we legalize the tens of millions here, we end up with pro-abort DEMOCRATS running America infinitely into the future and we will NEVER get rid of abortion!

I blame HISPANICS who vote DEMOCRAT — dumb-o-crat — for keeping pro-death Democrats in office.

So… either we have a BORDER, or WE ARE NOT A NATION AT ALL!

William P. Walsh
William P. Walsh
Thursday, May 5, AD 2016 3:24pm

Gentlemen. If we don’t hang together, we shall all hang separately. I have voted for losing conservative candidates from Cruz all the way back to Goldwater. I regret none of those votes and will always support the most conservative candidate who can win which we may recall is the advice given by my favorite conservative, the quite likely sainted William F. Buckley Jr.. Over the years, we have been dealt a good many lousy hands in the games political but we simply have no choice but to play the hand we’re dealt as best we can. Like it or not, the most or at least ostensibly conservative candidate at the card table is Trump. Folding and sitting out the game is not an option. The stakes are high, nothing less than a Supreme Court that will undo our Constitution and impose diabolical unnatural law to the loss of many lives and souls here at home. It will solidify the destructive global governance policy of the current feckless resident rather than effective President in the White House, and allow the unabated genocide of the Christian population of the Middle East and elsewhere. Trump may be what he claims or not but we must use him as the Lord used Cyrus.

Steve Phoenix
Steve Phoenix
Thursday, May 5, AD 2016 4:19pm

To add a mordant stroke to William P Walsh’s comment, news developments today reveal that the late Navy SEAL shot in Iraq yesterday, Charles Keating IV (from Arizona: he was 4 years ahead of my daughter at the same high school Arcadia High), was in a “quick-reaction” force that was trying to extricate American military advisers assisting the Kurdish Peshmerga forces: but due to the genius of the Obama-Kerry-Hillary administration, the Americans “are to use [firearms] only for self-defense—not for offensive combat operations,” according to the Wall St Journal report 5/4/16.
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Really. Wait until shot, or in this case, surrounded by a motorized force of about 20 vehicles. And then? The two Blackhawk helo’s that evacuated the force and the dying Keating were hit by small-arms fire, including the crafts’ all-important rear-rotor, and the episode thus could have been even worse. Col. Steve Warren, a spokesman, stated, “.. It isn’t always possible to anticipate such operations. Enemy fighters can spread out their trucks, park them in garages, then quickly assemble before there is adequate time to respond.” Col. Warren, I am sure your job is made well-nigh impossible by the present rules of engagement, that you have to wait until the enemy is massed for an attack and bearing down on US forces before they can unholster a shot.
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So, will these rules of engagement be expected to change under a Hillary administration? How bout under Trump?

Meanwhile, another brave outstanding warrior is dead, a former all-state athlete in track and field (1600-meter run). And we wonder why.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2016/05/03/navy-seal-charlie-keating-arcadia-grad-and-grandson-charles-keating-killed-iraq/83891350/

Steve Phoenix
Steve Phoenix
Thursday, May 5, AD 2016 4:27pm

By the way, the ISIS breakout through the Peshmurga lines penetrated over 2 miles into a supposed “safe area” where the US advisers were concentrated. The official position is that the ISIS forces “didn’t know” the US advisers were where they were. Really? Just a lucky offensive? Death spasms of a dying foe? No security lapses, like in Afghanistant by supposed “friendlies” that end up compromising our personnel?

Or, if Guccifer is correct, is Hillary still communicating with Kerry on her private server and e-mail address?

William P. Walsh
William P. Walsh
Thursday, May 5, AD 2016 5:10pm

Steve: Calls to mind a book entitled, “None Dare Call it Treason”. A link here: http://www.aim.org/aim-column/none-dare-call-it-treason-50-years-later/

Who and what is Obama? This is a question unanswered.

Pinky
Pinky
Thursday, May 5, AD 2016 5:57pm

It seems to me that Donald Trump is the point of everything the Church has ever said about weighing issues and prudential judgment. I don’t believe that I’m obligated to vote for a childish war criminal wannabe on the basis of possible SCOTUS appointments. I don’t think I have to be an active participant in the destruction of the pro-life party in the US based on odds-making about which pro-choicer will nominate whom.

Steve Phoenix
Steve Phoenix
Friday, May 6, AD 2016 9:55am

William P. Walsh, thank you, I need to read again “None Dare Call It Treason” (it has been so long since that I wouldn’t have to answer an objective exam on its contents): except that a more recent read echoes how Stalin’s agents deeply penetrated the post-WW2 federal government: “Stalin’s Secret Agents: The subversion of Roosevelt’s Government.” (M. Stanton Evans & Herbert Romerstein, 2012; Threshold Publishing).

In the same way, the lax and actively complacent response by high-level administration personnel is beyond incompetent, but obviously deliberate.

It is interesting that biographer/historian John A. Stormer (author of “None Dare..”) asks, and then bluntly answers, the question regarding Obama: “He is two things: Is he Muslim or is he Communist? He’s both those things. He’s anti-American.”

Couple Stormer’s frank observation with Paul Kengor’s book, “The Communist” (i.e. a biography of Obama’s putative [true biological?] father, Frank Marshall Davis [to whom Obama bears an uncanny resemblance—tall, imposing, same face features, nothing like his supposed short, stocky Kenyan father]), and how he met other Chicago communist party figures, like Valerie Jarrett’s father—well, why should Hillary, a fellow-Chicago Alinsky-ite not fit right in. The Dynasty continues.

Now, if you really want a political horror movie—see Dr. Andrew G. Hodges’, MD’s., forensic analysis of what Obama will do in the future to the America, whom he feels always rejected him, never accepted him, in coming months:
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIHEzOnd0gtmP-hXTHmWBJvDbDvnsjX5

There is no doubt that the quasi-psychotic Obama is operating on a script like a fatal drumbeat: the mass immigration invasion, the destruction and internal divison of our military, the constant racial strife and division that he foments, truly his legacy of rejection of America, his “dismissive father.”

Steve Phoenix
Steve Phoenix
Friday, May 6, AD 2016 12:26pm

As if on cue—this story by Aaron Klein at Breitbart News today, about how Valerie Jarrett and Ben Rhodes rhapsodize about Obama’s Muslim upbringing fundamentally shaping his worldview:

http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2016/05/06/top-obama-aides-childhood-muslim-nation-influenced-worldview/

As the article later relates, school records show “Barry Soetoro” was listed as Muslim at the two grade schools he attended.

William P. Walsh
William P. Walsh
Friday, May 6, AD 2016 2:48pm

Steve Phoenix, thank you right back. Throughout Obama’s terms I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt (Never my vote) and to avoid making rash judgments. In retrospect, I cannot think of any significant decision of his that accrues to the benefit of this country. I can easily recall too many of his decisions that have harmed our country and many people here and abroad. The worst suffering is endured by the Christian population of the Middle East. The only candidate who really addressed the matter with clarity is Senator Lindsey Graham. How sad must those who suffer there must be to behold the chaos prevailing in this American political season, and how little hope they have of assistance from this formerly great nation.

William P. Walsh
William P. Walsh
Friday, May 6, AD 2016 4:57pm

Thomas Sowell has suggested a possible third party candidate to throw the election into the House of Representatives. Just maybe!

Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Friday, May 6, AD 2016 10:00pm

That only happens if the third party candidate can win one or more of the big (i.e. electoral vote rich) blue states.

Maybe somebody who’s really popular in Florida, assuming that everything else holds from ’12. (At least, flipping Florida Blue is what I keep hearing about for Hillary Clinton’s road to 270+)

And there’s been a lot of talk about how Trump is weak in Arizona and Utah.

So… Do we really want somebody like Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio throwing the election into the House?

Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Friday, May 6, AD 2016 10:12pm

Also keep in mind that the Republicans will need to control (i.e. comprise a majority of a given state’s elected representatives) 26 state delegations at a minimum. And that an indeterminate but likely substantial number of them would have to be willing to sacrifice their careers to vote for somebody other than Clinton or Trump.
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And the Republican Congress isn’t exactly renowned throughout the land as being recklessly indifferent to the perquisites of elective office.

William P. Walsh
William P. Walsh
Saturday, May 7, AD 2016 8:32am

Just grasping at straws, Ernst. “Grasping at straws”. That’s an interesting phrase, calling to mind a near-death experience from my youth and a mid-winter hike to the top of a ridge from which a waterfall fell sixty feet down a cliff in the Shawangunk Mountains of New York State. The falls were frozen into a spectacular icicle which attracted me to proceed cautiously closer down the snow and ice covered slope above and to one side of the site. In spite of my cautious approach, I slipped and fell immediately sliding slowly down toward the precipice while grasping at straws and twigs to arrest my otherwise inexorable progress to certain death. May Our Lord so save this Republic.

Steve Phoenix
Steve Phoenix
Saturday, May 7, AD 2016 12:01pm

Fred Barnes at The Weekly Standard, not himself exactly a Trump fan, has a very good short article 5/4/16 deftly dissecting why Cruz lost, and we may conclude why Hillary should be very concerned:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/what-went-wrong-for-ted-cruz/article/2002227

First, as far as strategy, Trump refused to concede any state—fighting for support in all of them, even Wisconsin where he was outgunned completely. After the NY sweep, he furiously campaigned in the 5-state NE primaries, both of which Cruz abandoned. As Barnes points out, at that point when Indiana was next on the schedule, momentum completely took over, and the waters ran over Cruz’ gunwales.

Two other things Barnes notes: Cruz attacking Trump as a liberal proved to most voters not to be credible. Also, Cruz emphasized “process” and was on the defensive about the Colorado delegate-“stealing” episode (I know, I know, it’s not stealing, but Trump turned the byzantine rules to his advantage as “an outsider”). Cruz’ efforts to justify the party-rules wrangling ended up making him look like just another conniving insider.

However, I want to add two other things that happened right before Indiana that were very pertinent to the campaign. One was the despicable Bernie-Sanders paid-protestors who literally laid siege to the California Republican Convention meeting Apr. 29th at the Hyatt Burlingame, and tried to prevent Trump from speaking.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/trump-speech-gop-convention-burlingame-expected-draw-large-protests/


Their signs, especially, “Make America Mexico Again”, their foulness, their brutality (at least one Trump supporter was roughed up, and prior to that, a day or so prior in Costa Mesa, two children who were with a Trump supporter were sprayed with pepper spray by a Hillary-Bernie supporter).

Another was the prominently displayed protest by apparently Latino children, with their parents, who were spewing 4-letter words at the start of a Trump rally in Indiana May 2nd:

http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/05/02/kids-shout-f-word-flip-middle-finger-donald-trump-rally-bernie-and-trump-supporter-clash

Blame Fox News, but the optic of the paid protestors in CA and their vileness, coupled with filthy minded children, did wonderfully concentrate the mind of many, in my opinion. The radical Bernie-Hillary supporters likely cant control themselves, and if anyone does so, they will hand the election to Trump by their own antics.

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