I rarely make public endorsements of political candidates. I am endorsing GOP front-runner Donald Trump for our party’s nomination. Here’s why:
This is not some vague election about the future. It’s an election about what is happening to our country – and its people – at this very moment.
Every day, innocent Americans are being maimed and murdered by criminal aliens roaming free across this country. Violent gangs like MS-13 are spreading poverty, violence and ruin. The streets are painted red with the blood of innocent Americans killed by those who should never have been allowed into the country to begin with. But the Washington Republican Party elites do worse than nothing. They join in the mayhem, pushing legislation like Marco Rubio’s Gang of Eight bill to legalize sex offenders and gang members, and to give our jobs, our tax dollars and our voting booths to those who illegally entered our country.
Our schools are overcrowded. Our resources are stretched to the breaking point. Our educators indoctrinate our children to believe their own American culture is inferior. Yet, our Washington Republican Party elites do worse than nothing. They push to make the congestion worse, giving precious school slots and dwindling dollars to ever-growing waves of newcomers who have not contributed a cent to our taxes or to our local treasuries.
Our workers are struggling to get raises, promotions, and job security. 17 million more US-born workers in their working-age years were without jobs in 2014 than in 2000. Our working class has been laid to waste economically. Yet, our Washington Republican Party elites do worse than nothing.
They conspire with corporate lobbyists and cheap labor seeking donors to bring in more H-1B workers, H-2B workers, refugees, green-card holders, and foreign students and on and on to fill available jobs at lower wages. In the meantime welfare rolls surge, food stamps explode, community confidence saps, and assimilation grinds to a halt.
There is one man in this race who will bring us back to sanity: Donald J. Trump.
His immigration platform – outlined in detail on his website — puts the needs of American workers first. He’ll reduce immigration, build the border wall, and protect our jobs.
In the midst of growing national security threats, Trump is the only candidate who will pause Muslim immigration until our country can be made safe. We have admitted more Muslim immigrants since 9/11 than the population of Iowa; a pause is the moderate, sensible thing to do.
Perhaps people forget that we had zero immigration growth in America for an entire half a century, after Calvin Coolidge hit the pause button. The immigrant population shrank to less than 10 million by 1970. On our current trend-line it will be 80 million by 2065.
Meanwhile, our manufacturing sector has been destroyed. An entire way of life has been hollowed out. Working-class Americans are dying off – figuratively and literally. Middle class America is circling the drain. Yet, our Washington Republican Party elites do worse than nothing.
They join with Obama to Fast Track his extremist soul-crushing trade agenda. Marco Rubio cast the deciding vote to Fast Track Obamatrade. Paul Ryan did everything in his power to shove it through. Rubio running the White House and Ryan running the People’s House would be like giving Obama four more years to finish his legacy – and finish off our working class. Donald Trump is the only candidate who has consistently led the fight against fast-track and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. He alone has a trade plan to get back our jobs, our manufacturing, and our middle class existence.
We can also count on Trump to create a tax code, a regulatory system, and a budget that keep tax dollars in our pockets, good paying jobs in our communities, energy in our homes and businesses in business. Trump will put the special interests on a level playing field and reign in the EPA. A President Trump would be beholden only to one entity: the American people.
Trump also has a rational foreign policy. Some want to nation-build and police across the globe – with our sons’ and daughters’ blood and our money – all while importing the world’s displaced refugees into our communities. It is time to stop nation-building and instead start building alliances based on our national interest.
It’s time for all of us to accept some uncomfortable truths. Our current crop of D.C. GOP elite leaders are working against us, not for us. Whereas the Democrat leaders are loyal to their base and will defend it at every turn, the D.C. GOP elites often loathe their base. Have you ever heard a Democrat say Nancy Pelosi isn’t liberal enough? Yet we are stuck with the D.C. GOP elite open borders crowd – led by Speaker Paul Ryan – who wants to work with Obama to free criminals from jail, pass Obama’s TPP trade pact, and complete Obama’s immigration legacy.
Voting Republican in national elections has become a form of ritualized self-abuse. We keep voting, we keep believing, we keep electing national Republicans — and they keep betraying us. Rinse, wash, repeat.
The painful truth is that the establishment Washington Republican Party leadership class has become a for-profit business model. They appear to regard their shareholders not as average folks but as the members of the professional political class. The retread consultants who appear relentlessly on television, on campaigns, in the Congressional offices – it’s all one big revolving door. And everyone is profiting — but us. Like a large tone-deaf monopoly, the D.C. GOP elites are interested only in protecting their market share, their power, their windowed corner offices and their corporate officers. They work for their big donors who pull the strings.
Trump has no donors. He will work for us.
The D.C. GOP elites view dissent from voters, radio talk show hosts, activists and conservative thinkers as annoyances to be quashed. That is precisely why the Republican Party of Virginia has created a nefarious loyalty oath to intimidate new voters Trump has brought to the Party – including Trump’s many Independents and black supporters – from coming to the polls.
When is the last time you turned on the T.V. and heard a Republican pundit or politician defend the American worker and our wages? When is the last time the D.C. GOP fought as hard to protect your family from mass immigration as they fought to pass Obamatrade, or an awful omnibus budget deal, or another meaningless show vote? When is the last time your D.C. GOP elites spoke in your defense, instead of lecturing you about how you need to get with their program?
When have you ever heard a Republican State of the Union response where the GOP speaker fought as hard for your family as the President fights for the families of illegal immigrants? When have you ever heard a Republican State of the Union response where the speaker spends half her time bashing a Presidential candidate – in her own Party?
When have you ever even heard a Republican leader – any Republican leader – say they agree with the overwhelming majority of GOP voters who think immigration numbers are too high? When Disney workers were replaced with foreign H-1B workers, the D.C. GOP elites did not lift a finger on their behalf. Only Donald Trump demanded that Disney hire them back.
When terrorists attacked San Bernadino, the D.C. GOP elites went out of their way to tell us how America has a duty to let in as many Muslim immigrants as wish to come here, no matter what they believe about America. Only Donald Trump said it was time to hit pause.
When Obama tried to ram through his Fast Track for TPP, the Washington Republican Party elites laughed at your pleas, mocked us as “Neanderthals” and shoved it through. Only Trump said hell no. Only one person in the race cannot be bought, cannot be corrupted. Only one person in this race can smash that revolving door to pieces.
The fact that the professional class so hates the idea of Trump winning is the proof – the only reliable proof – that Donald Trump is the one man who can give us our country back and put the people who have betrayed us out of business.
This is our moment of truth. This is our moment of justice. This is our moment of redemption. This is our moment to show the media elites, the professional political consultant cabal, the open border slave-traders, the banksters, the Tarpists and the crony capitalists that this is still our country.
Together, we can take our country back, and Make America Great Again.
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Mr. Trump will be speaking Monday Jan. 18 at Liberty University Lynchburg , Va. Take a Tour C’Mon see how Republicans deal with illegal immigration in this Republican stronghold.
Come out to support him and while you are in town see for yourselves illegal immigration in it’s most illegal form ;
Cornerstone subdivision where illegal aliens are employeed as unlicensed contractors { in violation of Statutes 54.1-1100 } .
These are the Bush / Obama illegals and the McDonnell / Cuccinelli illegal contractors , illegal employers.
This is right across the street from the American Legion , just up the street is Brookville High School, around the back you will see students building a shed while being taught building trades.
I often wonder why the Campbell County BOS Republicans {4 out of 7 } still allow Building Trades to be ” expensed ” and taught at Campbell County Schools when this is the direct area that caused the story written by Kenric Ward ; Illegal Aliens Undermine Virginia’s Legal Workforce http://watchdog.org/202012/subcontractors-shadow-economy- We should be teaching courses for success in the real world , not teaching trades that you do not enforce the Professional and Occupational laws on . Isn’t this teaching and enginerring failure in our publics schools. As Trump says; ” stupid politicians ” making ” stupid deals “.
Now in Lynchburg the DEMOCRAT City Council changed the Building Permit application to have the General contractor add the Framing Contractor along with the electrician , plumber , and heating and air contractors to help stop this area from this illegal commerce and illegal employment. In Campbell County a different outlook the Republicans refuse to add the framing contractor and the masonry contractor , yes these are the Rick Boyer Republicans, go figure and Boyer was a drywall contractor , and BOS Member Zher { a Boyer cronie } is a licensed contractor.
Neighboring Bedford County also made the permit change. You will be able to speak with Bedford County Sheriff Mike Brown he will be able to confirm the existance of this. This has effected BC also from this
Illegal commerce at Smith Mountain Lake to Huddleston, ask about the case wher the illegal hid in the woods untill the man of the home left and then the illegal whent into the home and dragged the woman naked from the shower by her hair outside to steal her car , later Deputies shot him dead.
This has been happening for some time now starting with the arrest of Illeal alien Santos Guzman in July of 2007 when he was in the Goodwillstore fondling a little girl , he was a Bricklayer working in Wyndhurst subdivision .
Don’t let the reality tour of illegal commerce stop there go to Farmington subdivision , Perrorwville Rd. Forest , VA. Bedford County.
A illegal alien fell through a stairway hole and died about 2008 yet the licensed contractor who conspiring with an unlicensed contractor in the delivery of contracting services { a prohibited act under 54.1-1100 }was and still is violating 54.1-1100 and the VECA .
The realtors claimed on the news that ” he was a hired walking up on the job “.
To use this illegal labor creates a unlevel playing field in commerce , this mom and pop realty company layer sold to a national chain realtor. I bet the numbers looked good being that they were selling homes cheaper than the ones that legal law abiding contractors and employers build. Yes illegal immigration is used in realestate to place cheaper and inferrior built homes on the market.
All of this is done without a finger being lifted these Republicans in the area { the sex police } ;
Delegate Kathy Byron
Delegate Scott Garrett
Senator Steve Newman
Congressman Bob Goodlatte
and the quitting Congressman Robert Hurt { support Jim McKelvey Licensed Contractor and employer from Moneta }.
Don’t stop the tour of complicity stop there the icing on the cake of immigration activism needs to be finalized with a visit to ODD Fellows Rd. VEC { Virginia Employment Commission } talk with Audit officer Jim Greer and ask why did you not refer the cases of unlicensed contractors that you were detecting in you audits of these building contractors to DPOR or the Dept. of Commerce Commissioner Cheng.
If there were 200 violations issued to unlicensed contractors in 2012 , how come he did not pick up on any?
He does not use the IRS check list or the DPOR website to validate subcontractors. I expect The VEC as a whole in Virginia is lost { training is prior 9/11/2001 .
Yes with this inaction the VEC causes unemployment.
For the VEC to classify unlicensed contractors as ” bona-fide ” independent contractors they are giving a ” Green Light ” for Building Contractors to use exploitated slave labor at the expense of legal employers , contractors , and the public with our debt and safety net programs.
Yea Republicans import poverty , teach for a trade that ain’t there , and don’t enforce the law this is the local elected Republican values at it’s best.
This is why the Country longs for an honest Republican not a complicit one.
This is why Trump is the only choice !
American Jobs
Defending the American Dream
Trump in 2016
Now will Virginia bring forth a Republican Candidate for Governor in 2017 that wants to do for Virginian’s with the loyal spirt {always }seen in Trump ?
The recipe for success is to be a pillar of the community , something long forgotten or at least displayed in their actions of who or what to represent.
an interveiw with Trump ; Fox Anchor ask ; Mr. Trump you have done alot of building in the Northeast how do you work with the Unions ?
Trump ; I love those guys , they work so hard frankly I could not do it without them.
Anchor; I mean labor is costly and keeps rising , is there a point that it is too much ?
Trump ; yes
Anchor ; What do you do when you reach that point ?
Trump; You buy that worker a new pickup truck , you buy him a Dodge Pickup made right here in America , do you know how proud and appreciative he will be .
Now that is a leader who knows the effects of his employment practices ,
one willing to go out of his way to create an opportunity for all Americans.
Are ther any other Republicans running who intentenionally look to employ Americans in their bussinesses , do they even have bussinesses other than a law office?
You cannot believe how illegal immigration is surging again thanks to Obama and his GOPe Chamber of Commerce Beltway Crapweasel supporters. If you believe the lies that illegal immigration has stopped, or Obama deported more people than ever, or the border is secure
You qualify as retarded intellectually.
This is not an issue for someone who is conservative… IT IS THE ISSUE. Look, our current immigration disaster is importing poverty and people who are natural democrats… you could say natural socialists. Conservatism is DEAD soon… DEAD. Do you think the Democrats don’t know a voting block? NOT ONE OF THEM oppose illegal immigration now… NOT ONE.
When you get the schmaltzy nonsense about how immigrants are natural conservatives from Beltway Crapweasels like Ryan or go read Bearing Drift… go look at California. Does the GOP win there except in a few House Districts? California now leads the country in poverty too… it is the highest level of immigration in the country…
Virginia is a surge site for illegal immigration because of its proximity to the Beltway Wonderland of Federal Spending… Fairfax county is drowning in the cost of education for all the little bundles of Bearing Drift Joy and Obama Joy.
There is no soft pedaling a solution at this point. You can’t have four more years of a Yeb! style Bush illegal immigration panderer.
That is why if you are conservative, you cannot support anyone down the ticket beyond Trump and Cruz.
I am tired of lawyers, I am tired of career politicians, and tired of GOPE’s, that leaves Trump.
At least Trump will be different, and if he ends up being a terrible president then so be it, at least I will have tried to break the cycle of abuse that has gone on in this country for years. The Uniparty must go.
I find it so odd that Trump is offering up everything the so-called conservatives want, and yet they hate him. I find the passion of hatred for the man tells me he is doing something right and scares the living daylights out of very people that has destroyed our country. Speaks volumes.
Maybe because people want to keep big government inc. the way it is. Especially in northern Virginia? A lot of people republicans included living well due to the fed govnt. Trump can’t be bought so he can’t be controlled. Makes people uneasy.
He can’t be controlled, exactly, and the Uniparty knows if Trump wins their days are numbered. It also doesn’t help that the media and politicians continue to call Trump supporters names, as well as calling them low information voters w/out a college education. Bad move. I know a broad spectrum of people, everything from A-Z that are supporting Trump, and insulting us only makes the #ColdAnger worse.
I rarely see a sweeps stunt being pulled in a non-sweeps rating period.
Right on Brother! Let’s make America Great.
Sanity is such a fragile thing in a world going insane.
Everyone is sane in their own eyes.
Vote for the billionaire who has never had to worry about money in his life because he understands the problems of working class folks.
Vote for the guy who has flip-flopped on every major issue in the campaign, because he is the guy who we can trust.
Sorry. Not buyin’ it.
Vote for Paul Ryano Vote for Eric Cantor… McConnell.. Boehner.. Graham… McCain… W Bush, Jeb Bush, Harpo Bush…
Don’t talk about flip flopping when the GOPe lies its butt off and funds Obama’s agenda.
Who said I support them?
Vote for Ted Cruz. The man who stands up for conservative values and means what he says.
I can support Cruz, but stop attacking Trump. At this point in the GOP, there is not one bloody one of them that won’t flip flop on you. NOT ONE and even Cruz has supported some establishment positions on immigration like the baloney need for H1B visas…
There IS NO shorttage of STEM workers…
Do you have kids Mick? You are going to pay out the nose in Virginia to educate them, and then these companies will use that H1B visas system to employ labor from overseas in white collar jobs that will ensure they won’t get jobs.
It is truly time for another party… or the GOPe Slimedogs can just go join the crony capitalism party of the Democrats.
Why vote for Cruz when he was endorsed by previous Virginia Attorney General {R} Ken Cuccinelli . Ken Cuccinelli allowed illegal aliens to opperate illegal unlicensed construction companies with illegal alien employees , nor did these illegal bussinesses have Virginia VEC accounts for deductions required under the Virginia Employment Compensation Act.
In Texas { home state of Ted Cruz } they had an oppotunity to address the same issue and sucessfully shafted the Texas citizens and legal employers .
Being that { democrat } McAuliffe is our Governor we now have a policy change implemented on July , 01 2015 referring all detection of unlicensed contrasctors to DPOR for investegation , something Cuccinelli refused to do . http://watchdog.org/202012/subcontractors-shadow-economy-
Yes Democrat Terry McAuliffe is doing more on this issue he is even having Virginia’s Employee Misclassification Task Force working with North Carolina Republican Governor McCroy.
We can’t allow Republicans to say I’m against illegal immigration and then foster then conceive and foster the enviroment for them to prosper and commit crimes in their states .
Yes the inaction of Ken Cuccinelli validates the American need for a President Trump , maybe he can’t send 12 million illegals home but the invitation to come here and break or laws will finally be retracted .
Bravo!! YES!
I look at New York City, where the Donald has lived all his life, and I don’t see where he’s put up a fight against the established liberal powers. Neither do I see evidence he’s ever put himself in front of a conservative cause and fought for it with his rhetoric or his billions. Not as much as a quixotic Bill Buckley run as a conservative for major. Nothing. Seven – 7 – years since Obama was elected, and Donald has been very little in evidence opposing him until 2015.
Michael Bloomberg has used his billions to create a national anti-gun organization. The Koch brothers have used theirs to create Americans For Prosperity and other support other libertarian and conservative activities.
But Donald hasn’t left that kind of footprint. He’s thrown the occasional rhetorical bomb about trade over the years, but that’s about it. What has The Donald done with his time and money to influence politics in a conservative way? Why has he made no dedicated effort to fight? We do know he gave over $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation. $50,000 to Rahm, etc, etc. We know he’s schmoozed with the Clintons, Bloomberg and many other good liberals. We know he’s supported universal health care and abortion.
Why not vote for someone who’s done just the opposite — visibly dedicated his life and career to the Constitution and liberty? Someone who was speaking out on these issues 20 years ago and has a consistent record on behalf of conservative values?
I certainly don’t disagree with your assessment of Trump’s past conservative history but I’m a little confused on whom among the front runners you are touting as the twenty year conservative devotee to the Constitution and liberty? Cruz, Rubio, Paul all first term US senators with a paper thin track record on anything beside self promotional media events and rousing speech making. Jeb Bush or John Kasich who have been around long enough to qualify but are conservatives only in the sense of it as a self described word rather then any set of actual actions. I’m at a loss as to who this mystery candidate might be, can you help me out?
Lawrence — it’s my understanding that Cruz has been supporting conservative causes since working on NRA cases at his first private law job in 1997, and before that as a clerk for conservative judges — on the 4th Circuit and then Rehnquist on the SC. While later Solicitor General of Texas he wrote amicus briefs and argued before SCOTUS on religious freedom issues, gun rights issues and other causes important to conservatives. Heck, even in high school the guy was giving speeches to clubs on economic freedom, etc.
You seem like a man who makes up his own mind on matters like this, however, so I’d recommend you to Cruz’s autobiography and other sources. Much better than what you can get from some guy already typing on the internet in his pajamas (I’ve pulled a groin muscle).
Cheers,
Cogent comments on both sides. As a retired analyst, I will only add this: 1. Woodrow Wilson was hired, not elected. 2. When the candidates do not speak to the major issue of the American people– they have lost. Wilkie lost because of this, Dewey as well.
While I am not committed, who has spoken to the issues— I would say to you, as you have noted – Go to Trumps site and become educated. Then find the book: A Choice not an echo. It is not pretty. Who will kill the Tax Exempt Foundations? gut the State Department? and it goes on.
Illegal immigration is the greatest challenge, and who has said what is critical.
We must have a Winston Churchill, who was brought in to conduct the war. Britain was Socialist by 1930.
Who comes close to approaching that power? with respect–
By the way, pulled groin muscle is a bitch, keep patient & mend.
Raven6 65-93 E & E Alumni
Oh Lord, David. You cannot be serious? Can you? Are you? Well, it is clear to me you know nothing about New York City and the people who live there. First, I am a native New Yorker, who grew up in lower Manhattan, in the very heart of Liberal Mordor. New Yorkers, particularly my fellow Jewish New Yorkers, think conservatives are meshugganah who, if given the chance, would force school children to kneel in front of The Virgin Mary and make them cite the Lord’s Prayer. And I am not exaggerating. Second, given this milieu and mindset, for Trump to navigate as effectively in the New York City real estate market as he did, he had to conceal any strands of conservatism he may have harbored. You have heard about the scores of undercover conservative actors in Hollywood, who go along to get along, in order to get parts in TV shows and movies, haven’t you? Likely the same thing with Trump. New York was tailor made for Bloomberg – but not for Trump. I don’t know what you do for a living, but I am certain you are not a political analyst. It is easy to be a conservative in Texas or in the Deep South, but try being a conservative in New York City, and see how far you will go. Get a grip of reality, fellah.
I understand what you are saying, mark, but what you’ve written supports my point — there’s very little evidence of what Trump’s real opinions and politics are. If he’s a conservative who’s been afraid to voice his opinions — despite being a well-connected billionaire — that doesn’t speak in his favor. Clint Eastwood, Pat Sajack, Kelsey Grammar, etc, all work in a hostile environment in Hollywood, but they get by.
Oh yeah, I understand NYC is a different animal. First time I went there, I asked a friend from the Bronx for tips. He said, “Two things — don’t make eye contact with anyone on the street, and second, if anyone you don’t know speaks to you say, ‘Get the f*ck out of my face!'”
Fine, but I think saying that a man with Trump’s social skills and money and power has been humbled by NYC to the point where he’s afraid to fund conservative organizations, events and push conservative causes doesn’t make sense.
Cheers,
Your examples of Hollywood’s bravest coming out as conservatives occurred after they reached some level of success with the general public. And as far as Trump speaking his opinion, maybe he did not give these issues much thought. Maybe business was his business during the past four decades. We political junkies tend to forget that most people are not like us – and don’t give politics much thought. Maybe Trump has seen enough stupidity in the last two presidential administrations to last a lifetime, and was pushed to the brink. All I know is that I will support ANY Republican (except Bush) over Hillary, so I do not get this Trump bashing from “our” side. I don’t like Trump either, personally. But he likely will give me 80% of what I want, as opposed to Hillary giving me 18%.
I’ll certainly vote for him if he’s the nominee, but with sadness that we lost an opportunity to nominate a proven conservative who’s fought our cause in the open, against overwhelming odds, with an intricate knowledge of the Constitution and our country’s best founding principles.
I only lived in NYC a few years but you are correct conservatives were few and far between and while Trump may not have self identified himself as one he clearly also was never a part of the cities’ liberal political or social scene as far as I can recall. I often think that a part of Trump’s so called “style” issues is that the typical American doesn’t have a clue what someone born and bred in one of the 5 boroughs is typical like interpersonally. I always found them refreshing in how straight forward they tend to be in everyday life.
You are so right, Lawrence. If someone or some group (e.g., the GOP Establishment Elite) is BS-ing us, we will let them know right away and to their face that we are not some fools to be bamboozled.
Maybe because he wasn’t a politician then?
What a deal. We get our country back, but get a modern day Idi Amin running it.
Idi Amin? I thought that was your nickname for Albertson…?
It seems like Trump you Mr.Fredericks are well aware of the folks at dinner tables, basketball and wrestling practice and many more tonight . Thank you for speaking up and out !
And the Trump immigration plan is reasonable compred to Bush and Obama.
I LOVE this. Thank you!!!!