If you would have asked me in April, what the top 5 issues of the Republican Primary would be, I’d have said, without blinking, “Obamacare, Spending, Debt, a sputtering economy, and ISIS”. I would have been wrong on all counts. The Republican Primary isn’t about any of those things. It’s about Donald Trump, The Donald, Trump, China, and illegal immigration.
I’ve got to be honest, I didn’t see this coming. The grassroots, having fought ferocious battles with the Republican Establishment for six long years, seemed primed for the fight of their lifetime. But who would be their standard-bearer? Would it be Ted Cruz? Rand Paul? Scott Walker? Marco Rubio? Or would Bobby Jindal or Rick Perry improve upon their national popularity and unify the Republican Party? They all began positioning themselves to lead, touting their records, their conservative bonafides. Ted Cruz kept reminding voters about the importance of a consistent record of Conservatism, and for the briefest of moments, conservatives were attentive.
Then, Donald Trump stepped out of an airplane and told illegal immigrants, the federal government, and the media to go screw themselves – and all hell broke loose. Conservatives, no longer interested in the long hard battle, lined up to throw fruit and garbage at all those elites that have always spat upon them from atop the towers of establishment hegemony. If only Rand Paul would have just come out and said, “Federal Government, Go F Yourself!”. He’d be leading in the polls. Conservatives would yell, “Somebody finally said it!”.
And I guess at the end of the day, that’s really where we are… ready to burn the whole damn thing to the ground. And why not? What’s left? As Mark Levin has said, it really doesn’t matter if we win one election. This is a century long battle staring us in the face and a century is a very long time. And sure, we’ve complained about all of Obama’s illegal executive orders, but what if, in the style of a South American Big Man, we elected a powerful American tycoon, to issue a couple illegal executive orders of his own and to use the depth and breadth of the Oval Office to lay waste to everything these corrupt Republicans and Democrats have built since FDR?
We don’t think Ted Cruz or Rand Paul can do it, but we think that Trump can. Why? Because he’s The Donald! He’s rich and powerful and he looks down on these lifetime politicians that he’s purchased for pennies on the dollar. See, we can trust Trump, because he knows how corrupt these establishment politicians really are. When Trump wants to take somebody’s land, he just buys the right politicians, and then, like magic, through eminent domain, the government just gives him the rights to the land and the plebes are shaken off. He knows how this system works! He can change it!
I don’t know folks. Maybe I’m reading this all wrong, but I don’t think Donald Trump is bread and circuses. I think he’s Caesar. I mean, Trump is killing everyone in the polls. He’s more popular with African Americans and Hispanics than almost any other Republican candidate. He probably could win if he sticks it out. I just don’t feel comfortable putting my liberty and my constitutional rights in his hands. My greatest fear is that under such a President, we would no longer be citizens, but employees; and yes, his employees love him, right up and to the point he squints his eyes, extends his finger, and says, “You’re Fired!”.
Originally published at VARight.com
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I don’t know the author, but I found his analysis shallow. I am a big fan of Ann Coulter because as rude and crass and volatile as she can be, she looks at the intimidating mental prison guards of PC, and spits at them. And make no mistake, it is PC that is destroying this country by preventing the citizenry from speaking the truth. Because if, as Ann warns, the illegals get a pathway to citizenship, you can kiss the country goodbye. Most of these “undocumented Democrats” are drawing (or their kids are drawing) federal benefits. 75% of Hispanics want big government – why? Because they are the beneficiaries of big government. Mexican and Central American immigrants have turned a once reliably Republican state, California, totally blue. And the same is ongoing in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, and even our own state of Virginia. With a CERTAIN total lock on the Electoral College, the Democrats will be able to elect one president after another and TOTALLY pack the Supreme Court. When that happens you can kiss the 1st and 2nd Amendments goodbye. Demographics, welfare, and ethnic bloc voting are unpleasant realities that heretofore have been lost on ALL of the GOP candidates…and I mean ALL. Except El Donaldo. So, Trump did indeed shout out “ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION” because none of the others had the guts to, because they were all listening to their consultants. Screw them. For that reason, I will gamble on Donald Trump, who at least offers a hope in halting this trend of “Democrats, Diversity, Dependency, Dictatorship”.
Trump is the only one fighting against our open border? That’s an astonishing assumption. Ted Cruz has been trying desperately to fix this mess.
All right. All right. I was wrong. Cruz is up there, too. I am sorry. I had forgotten about Cruz – and for a silly reason. I must admit I am very much prejudiced against the Senator from Texas ever since (IMO) his government shutdown cost us the election in 2013. Had the focus in early October been on the disastrous Obamacare rollout and not the stupid and futile government shutdown, we would probably have Governor Cooch and AG Obenshain. But that is my opinion, and sometime opinions can cloud assessments.
Trump knows how to be effective with a pen and a phone in the board room; can he curtail that urge sitting in the Oval Office?
There is NO unifying the republican party! We just need to throw out those democrats in the party. Stop talking about unity it’s a joke. THERE IS NO BIG TENT!
The kicker is in how totally stupid it is to believe that we should/will build walls thousands of miles long to stop the flow of the elite’s cheap slave labor into this country? Make Mexico pay for it? I got a better idea, make the elite pay for the wall!
What we have here is an elitist, Trump, telling us that we need to wall in our country to stop the flow of Trump and his elite billionaire buddies source of cheap labor into this country.
If you did build those walls, they would have doors with locks. And guess who would have the keys? Well, the elite, of course.
Ben Carson said in Phoenix that we should make it illegal to hire illegal’s. Sound familiar? I agree. Just how is he going to get that through the Congress?
Any blog writer can write anything to get you to read what they write. Any candidate can say anything. Or, better yet, any candidate will say anything to get your vote.
I don’t believe any of them.
In the end, when a candidate says that he/she will do something if elected, someone should call Boehner and McConnell and see if Congress will support what that candidate said.
Boehner and McConnell must be rolling on the floor laughing at these candidates! Because they are all writing comedy.
I’d prefer not to have Trump as President, and I think your fears of yet another autocratic ruler are well-grounded. Thing is, none of you guys and gals attacking Trump offer any real solutions to the present impasse where a bi-party elite rules against the interests of the American middle class. It’s almost as if you don’t really have any solutions.
My guess is you’re afraid of admitting Trump has any good ideas, at all, because you’re afraid that will strengthen him. But you better start doing that if you want any influence with his part of the base after 2016. You better start exposing all the Virginia Congressional Republicans who lied about how they were going to repeal ObamaCare and oppose Executive Amnesty, instead of touting their wonderful records. I was almost physically ill when this site ran that puff piece on Bob Goodlatte a couple of weeks ago, the guy who’s turned a blind eye to illegal immigration for years.
And now not a single Virginia Republican has signed on to de-fund Planned Parenthood, and then Steve writes a column asking if a Planned Parenthood is going to defend the sale of baby parts? Really? Why the heck would they bother to defend the program if Republicans aren’t even going to hint they might defund it? She’s getting a free ride, no need to pay a fare.
You asked — “We don’t think Ted Cruz or Rand Paul can do it, but we think that Trump can. Why?”
Why, instead of attacking Trump, aren’t you laying out a vision of how Ted Cruz wins and forces Congress to grow a pair? Because you don’t think Cruz can win, because of FORCES AND PEOPLE THAT EXIST RIGHT HERE IN THE VIRGINIA REPUBLICAN PARTY. See the problem?
I have written dozens of such articles. Just saying. 🙂
Trump 2016!! Why? http://consciouslyenlightened.com/listen-and-watch-breaking-the-new-trump-fight-song-trump-for-president-2016/
Trump and his supporters want to Make America Great Again. These conspiratorial theories are Disney channel material. We went with your candidates: Bush, McCain, Dole, Romney. How did that work out? John
My candidates are Ted Cruz and Rand Paul and they’ve been fighting these establishment guys for years, while Trump has been funding them.
Well… election after election you vote for establishment Republicans as represented by the boys over at Virginia’s “Conservative” Voice… Ha what a joke that is… and then what happened? Did the wave of GOP elected in the last Congressional elections stop Obama’s illegal amnesty? NOOO… heck go read Bearing Drift… those boys are for it! Did they reign in the budget? Nope little Paul Ryan passed everything the Dems wanted and then some. Obamacare… nope…
So do you vote for a guy who unabashedly says he is going to enforce immigration laws… or the guys who will sign off on an amnesty and then another and then another… and another? Or insider politicians in the GOP who heck… like big government spending. Some of it will rain on them.
So enough of Bushes Kasiches, Ryans Boehners… etc. And a special adios to Lindsay Graham!
OK, but Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Bobby Jindal, and Ben Carson are all way more conservative than Bush and Boehner ad McConnell. So why Trump?
Steven, Marco Rubio was one of the sponsors of the Gang of 8 Comprehensive Amnesty bill. He’s out. I like Cruz on your list. Paul is squishy on illegal immigration as is Walker… He was for it before he was against it.
Yes you are going to tell me it is only one issue. It is THE issue Steven. If you read National Review today Mark Krikorian has an article about how illegal immigration is the end of conservatism.
You aren’t wrong about the importance of this issue, but it isn’t going to change by one election of one president. We’ve got to oust Boehner and McConnell. But what about Trumps support of NSA spying, increased taxes, wishy washy on abortion, pro-tariffs. Cruz is every bit as strong as Trump on immigration without the baggage.
The one thing is though, Steven, Trump has sent this issue to the front of the line without the usual PC mincy little nonsense attendant with it. None of this nation of immigrants baloney and he has forced Bearing Drift’s boys into single digits because of this issue. They cannot hide behind false pretenses like McCain’s build the wall when he needed conservatives to help re elect him. And as usual he stabs them in the back.
How you going to do that? McConnell has over 5 more years, and Boehner has a lock on his district for as long as he wants. So how?
I see an American Idi Amin.
Do we want to put our Liberty and our Constitutional rights in the hands of Donald Trump? YES! And not just YES, but HELL YES!!!
You have a way with words, Connie!
Like handing over your daughter to Bill Clinton. 😉
I could be excited about some of Trump’s ideas if I thought he actually believed in something. I really, really have a problem with a guy who has an ego so big that he would actually give money to someone who does evil in the world so he can invite them to his wedding. Why would he even want Hillary or Pelosi at his wedding??