2016 Presidential Election – Page 2

Patriot’s Side

It only took a few minutes in the latest Fox News Channel “debate” for the four remaining Republican Party presidential contenders to descend into a pigpen.

Last Thursday’s exhibition in Detroit was yet another exercise in mud slinging instead of a discussion on issues and a real debate of positions regarding those issues.

Once more, fourth place runner-up Ohio Governor John Kasich attempted to do his best to stay out of the mire. The Fox News moderators, however, were again only interested in the “outsiders” (Donald Trump and Senator Ted Cruz) and their juvenile battles with “insider” Senator Marco Rubio.

The moderators did their best to multiply the sleaze and heighten the tensions for effect. Media-driven debates are no longer about educating the public to make intelligent decisions concerning candidate selections on Election Day. It turns out they’re all about personal attacks and destroying a field of candidates. So it’s more of a “duh-bate.” The intention is for the media to steer the election where they wish it to go, away from informed discussion and toward vulgar verbal personal assaults. After all, that’s what ratchets up the ratings. Citizen voters are expected to follow the advice of the network pundits, after the insults and the next commercial break.

This “show” degenerated into a Trump Rubio food fight, very little debris hitting Cruz and virtually none touching Kasich. It was obvious that Rubio’s debate coaches told him to verbally attack Trump, which he did, embarrassing himself and looking desperate. Trump punched back, as expected.

The media-driven debate circus is getting awfully tiresome and worthless to voters, aside from the TV entertainment aspect. As crème pies were thrown at the contestants by the moderators, they didn’t seem to do any appreciable damage to Trump.

There has to be a way to stop the circus.

If only more of the contenders for the presidency would use the same response John Kasich did, when a leading question was tossed his way: “I’m not biting.”

Repeating that response to ego-driven, “celebrity” moderators would be quite satisfactory… until the next debate.

Originally published March 7, 2016

Panic Attack

The RNC grasps at straws… calls Mitt

“The Democrat Party, led by President Obama and his administration, is out to destroy the Republican Party. They are out to make the GOP insignificant; to move them away from their traditional, conservative base, force them to moderate, and therefore divorce them from any chance of success at winning future elections. All efforts by the Democrats point to this.” Hoosier Patriots Monday Morning Newswire,2013

In 2016, it seems that the new Socialist-Democrat Party will achieve their goal: Completely marginalize the GOP by separating it from its conservative base.

Republican leadership continues to refuse to expose the Socialist-Democrats for who they are and acknowledge what they are trying to accomplish. Reince and Company, in denial, stubbornly attempt to once again moderate their party, despite the Will of the People, in the RNC quest to be the “Party of Nice.” It’s all about the donors.

That’s what their friends on the Left recommend they do to win; scrub the base.

Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are threats to the status quo the RNC has maintained with their Socialist-Democrat “partners in governing” so they’re out to do all they can to deny either of them nomination as the Republican Party’s presidential candidate. Instead of backing Trump’s new, really broad base, they will attack it because they can’t control it, don’t own it.

So panicked is the RNC that they’ve dusted off their weapon of last resort, Mitt Romney. (His father, George Romney, did substantial damage to conservative Barry Goldwater in 1964 so why won’t it work with Mitt in 2016?)

“Let me put it very plainly: If we Republicans choose Donald Trump as our nominee the prospects for a safe and prosperous future are greatly diminished,” former governor and presidential candidate Mitt Romney declared to a crowd at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City last week, as reported by World Net Daily.

“Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud; his promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He’s playing the members of the American public for suckers.” But Americans have been suckered enough.

Is the Republican Party leadership at the RNC this desperate, to bring out the loser of two presidential contests (2008 and 2012) to tell the party “base” how to win?

Yes; as with Mitt Romney, the RNC is clueless as to what their failure to stop Barack Obama has done to the country… and the people who voted for the GOP. They have no understanding of “who” the enemy of our nation really is. The RNC actually thinks that the “Trump thing” is a temporary political condition!

People are not flocking to Donald Trump due to his love of compromise or his legendary ability to “deal.” They’re pledging their loyalty and votes to Trump because fights the state-run media, refusing to cower before their accusations, and Trump unabashedly stands for America – first – no excuses. He places Americans above citizens of foreign nations, legal or illegal, and he does not view himself as a “global citizen.” His supporters, blue-collar Reagan Democrats, Independents, and conservative Republicans, know it, drawn to him because he is out to win, not to settle.

Trump is a product of American ingenuity that GOP leadership doesn’t understand. So they’re in a panic over the loss of their power structure that’s taken decades to build. “Insider” Marco Rubio is failing and Mitt only drives more voters to Trump. If the RNC rigs it for the donors, they’re done.

Why not let the people decide?

WeThePeople

Originally published March 7, 2016

Partiot’s Side

One certainly cannot “fix stupid” so, in order to lend the appearance of some sort of intelligence to the RNC and Republican Party leadership, I shall term their current situation as simply desperation.

They are completely clueless that the reason Barack Obama sits in the White House for two terms is the RNC. The reason that Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid controlled Congress for so long is the RNC. And the reason Donald Trump is bowling over candidates and attracting ‘yuuge’ crowds (in Bernie Sanders Speak) is the RNC.

And now they are desperate; JEB! is gone; Christie is gone; Graham is gone; Kasich is on life-support… they hate Trump and detest Cruz more. There’s only Marco Rubio. (He isn’t afraid of compromising with the Democrats, so the Status Quo can still be preserved; booty and power shared.)

So the “desperation syndrome” the RNC has acquired sets in, where no stupid idea goes untried… or unexcused.

Enter Mitt Romney on the Fox News Channel last week, suggesting that there’s a “problem” with Donald Trump’s taxes… or, as Mitt described it, “back taxes.” (Doesn’t that imply taxes not paid, as in “owed”?) Anyway, according to Mitt, it’s a “bombshell.”

Isn’t this latest RNC ploy ironic? After Senator Harry Reid’s blanket assertions and unfounded questions concerning his taxes in the 2012 presidential elections, Mitt Romney now plays the Harry Reid card? Amazing.

Then, on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace presses Donald Trump to give the viewers his gross income, effective tax rate, and how much he gave to charity?

Does the RNC not grasp that this type of desperation ploy will drive more voters toward Trump and NOT “take him out”?

The unbridled surrender of the GOP leadership to Obama’s agenda, wrecking the economy, killing fossil fuels, opening borders, outlawing First Amendment freedoms, Balkanizing the nation, shredding the law… that’s what people are worried about.

Pursuing side issues will not move voters from Trump to an “establishment” candidate.

The RNC still doesn’t get it and Fox pundits harassing Trump won’t help.