For the sake of winnowing out distractions, let's not dwell on the tense problems with the construction of the first sentence. (Has he been president before? Is this a post he holds with some frequency?)
What he's doing is admitting that he turns different tones and types of rhetoric on and off at will.
. He’s aggressive and anti-PC on the trail, in a knife fight with 15 other candidates, because that’s what it takes to win, but if winning at the job of the presidency requires a different tone, then that’s the tone he’ll take. This must be the first time in American history where it’s impossible to predict not only what a major-party frontrunner would do as president — given Trump’s volatile political history, all we can count on is that there’ll be “deals” — but how he would sound.Pray hard that something stops his campaign dead in its tracks.
WTF? Pray? Pray to be rid of the monster your ilk created? It is said God helps those who helps themselves. It is also said that you made your bed, now lie in it. Like a dog returneth to his vomit, so doth the conservative return to his essential basic meanness and hypocrisy. All have fallen short of the glory of the Lord. Including you conservatives.
ReplyDeleteA monster the GOP could’ve avoided: The conservative establishment created Trump—and now they can’t destroy him
As right-wing apparatchiks scramble for a way to get rid of the GOP frontrunner, the irony becomes overwhelming
Read more at http://www.salon.com/2016/01/25/a_monster_the_gop_couldve_avoided_the_conservative_establishment_created_trump_and_now_they_cant_destroy_him/
In the first few paragraphs, Cesca seems to be setting the table for some valid points, but winds up ruining his own chances to appear to know what the hell he is talking about.
ReplyDeleteYes, conservatives got very excited when McCain chose Palin. At that point, all anybody outside of Alaska knew about her was that she was adamant about getting the federal government out of the way in her state so oil could be drilled, which impressed me, for one, greatly. In the campaign that fall, she did nothing to diminish her conservative bona fides and in fact has a style that looked like a breath of fresh air. She has since become a parody of herself, there is no doubt, and there is indeed a lesson to be learned, one I am hammering home a lot these days: Don't get so excited over personalities that you lose sight of the core principles, the three pillars.
With regard to Kristol and the attempt to make him look like a scheming political political operative who ushered in the win-at-all-cost mentality that Trump embodies, it becomes clear that the author of this Salon piece is guilty of what so many pundits are doing these days: overlooking the actual record of what the accused person has actually said and written over the years.
Cesca is also doing this with regard to Lowry. To somehow link Lowry's 2008 enthusiasm for Palin to the split in the movement over Trump is to engage in a non sequitur of considerable magnitude. For one thing, Palin circa 2008, as I say above, had shown us nothing but solid conservatism and personal character, traits Trump is totally lacking.
Some individual conservatives - indeed, some organizations (Breitbart, for instance) have swallowed the Trump Kool-Aid, but many of us have not and will sound the warning bell tirelessly for the rest of this campaign season, and even in the grim chance that he becomes president.
And with your characterization of conservatives as "mean," it's obvious that for all the conservative punditry you've read and listened to, you quite willfully refused to make any attempt to understand it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/opinion/campaign-stops/what-donald-trump-owes-george-wallace.html?_r=0
ReplyDeleteWhat both share is the demagogue’s instinctive ability to tap into the fear and anger that regularly erupts in American politics.
I've always thought conservatives are mean, gleaned from the likes of Rush and Mark Levin et al. They are quite often angry and mean. My wife comes in when I am half listening to Levin rage as I multitask and she always forgets who it is but asks me what's wrong with that guy and then she asks me to turn it down, preferably off. You can tell by their tones of voice. Trump is the prototypical New York asshole who apparently sends orgasmic shivers of joy up the spines of the whining masses of conservative asses.
ReplyDeleteTrump so reminds this boomer of another hateful pol from back in da day so he googled it and lo, behold a NYT article about this very same observation:
ReplyDelete"Both George Wallace and Donald Trump are part of a long national history of scapegoating minorities: from the Irish, Catholics, Asians, Eastern European immigrants and Jews to Muslims and Latino immigrants. During times of insecurity, a sizable minority of Americans has been drawn to forceful figures who confidently promise the destruction of all enemies, real and imagined, allowing Americans to return to a past that never existed. At the same time, the rejection of the euphemisms of polite political rhetoric is part of the great appeal of such figures. As one of Mr. Trump’s supporters at a Dallas rally told a Slate reporter: “I love that he’s talking in everybody else’s language. He’s not trying to be politically correct."
It's your ilk that buys the largely fear-driven crap advertised on the right wing shows and your ilk that keeps them on the air. It seems some of you want to wear white hats now, but your underclothing is still the blackest black and I'm sure you wear it because it's so the right thing to do.
Read more at http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/opinion/campaign-stops/what-donald-trump-owes-george-wallace.html?_r=0